Awel Dico, Ph. D., is an enterprise architecture consultant currently working in the financial sector. He is a lead architect in implementing web services and SOA for the bank, and has consulted on various projects and worked with many teams across the bank. He has developed architectural patterns and guidelines, and has led many technology proof-of-concepts to help with SOA adoption and implementation. He is a frequent speaker at various conferences including Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference and Professional excellence symposiums. He also gave lecture on "SOA in the real-world" to Computer Science Graduate students at the University of Toronto.

Awel is currently co-chairing a SOA/TOGAF practical guide project at the Open Group and contributes to various SOA related projects. Prior to this, Awel worked in the telecommunication sector for Nortel Networks in their Research & Development team.

Experience:-

1. Frequest speaker at Enterprise Architecture Practitioners conference
2. Frequent speaker at Professional excellence symposiums
3. Lecturer at University of Toronto

Presentation
Delvering SOA with TOGAF
TOGAF is one of the mature EA framework widely used today for doing overall enterprise architecture - business, data, application and technology architectures. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural style that organizes business, data, application and technology as services thereby enabling business agility for enterprise. In order to benefit from the strength of both TOGAF and SOA, TOGAF must be enhanced to support SOA style. This presentation identifies enhancement points and discusses a practical guide to delivering SOA using TOGAF.

Audience:-
Anyone interested in SOA and TOGAF

Key takeaways:-

1. The need for enhancing TOGAF for SOA
2. Key changes that must be made
3. How to incorporate those changes in practice

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