TRACK: SOA Tutorials
Wednesday, 2:00 - 5:30

2:00 - 2:45 Assessing Your Service Integration Maturity This is the second of a series of five tutorials on SOA prepared by The Open Group's SOA Work Group. It explains:     * The concept of service integration maturity     * How different maturity levels can give different business benefits     * The Open Group's Service Integration Maturity Model (OSIMM), and     * How to assess an enterprise's maturity level using the OSIMM This tutorial is designed for Business Executives, Business Managers, Business Strategists, Business Consultants, Business Analysts, Business Process Engineers, System Analysts, Enterprise Architects, IT Directors, IT Strategists, IT Operations Managers, IT Architects, IT Project Managers, System Designers, Software Architects, Software Engineers, and System Administrators. It assumes that the attendee has been to and understood the first tutorial, on the Business Impact of SOA. The SOA conference stream will include three other tutorials in the series, which build on the first two tutorials: SOA Governance, SOA Architecture, and Using TOGAF for SOA. Presenter: Andras Szakal

2:45 - 3:30 SOA Governance This is the third of the series of five tutorials on SOA prepared by The Open Group's SOA Work Group. It builds on the first three tutorials: The Impact of SOA on Business, Assessing Your Service Integration Maturity, and SOA Governance. It explains: What SOA governance is How it relates to other governance structures in the business What high-level governance structures and procedures need to be put into place. This tutorial is designed for Business Executives, Business Managers, Business Strategists, Business Consultants, Business Analysts, Business Process Engineers, System Analysts, Enterprise Architects, IT Directors, IT Strategists, IT Operations Managers, IT Architects, IT Project Managers, System Designers, Software Architects, Software Engineers, and System Administrators. The SOA conference stream will include a further tutorial from the series, which builds on this one: Using TOGAF for SOA. Presenter: Heather Kreger, IBM

3:30 - 4:00 Break

4:00 - 4:45 SOA Architecture This is the fourth of the series of five tutorials on SOA prepared by The Open Group's SOA Work Group. It builds on the first two tutorials: The Impact of SOA on Business, and SOA Governance. It explains: The Open Group's SOA Reference Architecture How The Open Group's SOA Reference Architecture relates to enterprise SOA reference architectures How enterprise SOA reference architectures in turn relate to SOA business solutions and infrastructure. This tutorial is designed for Business Process Engineers, System Analysts, Enterprise Architects, IT Directors, IT Strategists, IT Operations Managers, IT Architects, IT Project Managers, System Designers, Software Architects, Software Engineers, and System Administrators. The SOA conference stream will include a further two tutorials from the series, which build on this one: Using TOGAF for SOA, and Implementing SOA. Presenters: Ali Arsanjani, IBM Nikhil Kumar, President Applied Technology Solutions, Inc. (ApTSi ™); Co-Chair: SOA Reference Architecture Project, The Open Group

4:45 - 5:30 Using TOGAF for SOA This is the last of the series of five tutorials on SOA prepared by The Open Group's SOA Work Group. It builds on the first four tutorials: The Impact of SOA on Business, Assessing Your Service Integration Maturity, SOA Governance, and SOA Architecture. It explains: How TOGAF can be used to develop a Service Oriented Architecture Where the decisions are made to use SOA as opposed to any other architecture style Where in the TOGAF cycle specific knowledge of SOA impacts the TOGAF Processes. This tutorial is designed for Business Process Engineers, System Analysts, Enterprise Architects, IT Strategists, IT Operations Managers, IT Architects, IT Project Managers, System Designers, Software Architects, Software Engineers, and System Administrators. Presenter: Dave Hornford, Hornford Associates Dave Hornford has eighteen years continuous experience in information technology. His focus is aligning information technology strategy and architecture with business goals. Dave started a strategy & architecture consultancy in 2003, adopting TOGAF in 2004. Previously Dave worked as a Principal Consultant & Solution Architect for Digital, Compaq & Hewlett Packard, grew a boutique development shop & solution integrator He started aligning technology with business value working with Apple. Dave lives with his wife & two sons within sight of the Canadian Rocky Mountains.

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