Dr. Willi Urban is an IBM Senior IT Architect working in the SOA Advanced Technologies group. He has over a twenty years background in IT, architecting IBM program products during most of this time. Mr. Urban has architectural and technical expertise with SOA on distributed platforms as well as on IBM mainframe. He has experiences in different industries, including Banking, Telecommunications and Insurance as well as deep technical skills on major IBM SOA products.
 
Dr. Matthias Gruetzner is SOA Lead Architect in EMEA, where his role is to provide consultancy on the execution of SOA projects as Solution Architect. In his 20 years in IBM SWG he has been working successfully as architect in several industries, including banking, financial markets and government. Mr. Gruetzner is managing architect of a team of 8 architects, all in support of the SOA mission. 
 

Presentation

An Approach to SOA Adoption

This presentation introduces an approach to SOA adoption, starting with an SOA Pilot workshop to assess how a company can benefit from SOA, followed by an SOA Pilot which is a guided first-of-the-kind SOA project. In this presentation we will introduce artifacts of the start-up workshop and show a successful implementation, which was lead by the authors. The project integrated applications of police services with applications of the justice department and agencies. Initial thoughts and results of SOA governance for this project are covered as well. At the end, we will discuss what needs to be done to finally establish SOA in the enterprise.

The presentation describes work by IBM's SOA Advanced Technologies group, which helps clients with their first steps towards SOA architecture and implementation.

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