Allan has over 20 years of experience in delivering architectures and production ready systems incorporating best practices in Object Oriented design, J2EE and more recently SOA. He has delivered real-life software used in financial, telco and pulp and paper industry including an AI - OO based system in 1993 that was selected as one of the best applications of the year by the AAAI committee and written up in the Fall 1993 issue of AI magazine.

Presentation
SOA and the Telco Industry - A True Revolution
While SOA is very much in vogue its application to the Telco industry, although receiving much press, has been accepted at a much slower pace than by other verticals. This talk will explore some of the underlying reasons for this, an examine of how SOA in Telco is dramatically different from both a technical and business perspective, and propose some strategies to address these issues.

Audience: Both technical and managerial members who are looking to apply or sell SOA to the Telco vertical.

Key takeaways:-
1. Why Telco's view SOA so differently than other industries.
2. Some of the key barriers to its widespread use in Telco
3. Some ways to reduce and eliminate those barriers.

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