Ron Schuldt is a Senior Staff Systems Architect within the Systems Design and Integration – Service Oriented Architecture organization of Lockheed Martin Enterprise Information Systems. Currently, he is the Co-Chairman of the Aerospace Industry Association’s Electronic Enterprise Integration Committee and Chairman of The Open Group UDEF Project. Since 1987, he has been involved in multiple data interchange standards activities and is recognized as a corporate expert on ebusiness data standards. He is involved in Lockheed Martin’s effort to establish a corporate-wide Information Architecture Strategy. Prior to joining Martin Marietta (now Lockheed Martin) in 1981, he served for nine years as an officer within the United States Air Force. Ron received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nebraska in 1972 and a Master of Science in Facilities Management from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1978.

Presentation
A SOA Controlled Vocabulary Case Study
For organizations with a large number of legacy back-office applications, migration to a Service Oriented Architecture is very difficult. A key enabler for that migration is an enterprise-wide controlled vocabulary. During 2007, Lockheed Martin launched a two-phased program to define the requirements, conduct a proof-of-concept, and then implement a controlled vocabulary based on The Open Group UDEF standard. This presentation provides a summary of the project and some example use cases for a centrally controlled vocabulary based on a global standard.

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