SEBRF - SOA Executive Briefing

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Overview
Defining a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the current challenge of many businesses and their enterprise IT organizations. The emergent popularity of Web Services and its ease of implementation has muddied the waters as many have adopted an incremental approach to SOA via Web Services without considering the larger architectural issues or the potential business ramifications.

This executive briefing sets the context for describing an SOA from an executive perspective, coming to grips with the reality of this emerging technology, and providing a detailed understanding of the elements that comprise SOA, as well as techniques and practices for creating organization-wide software integration solutions using SOA concepts.

Objectives

Understand the basic concepts of SOA
Learn how SOA creates opportunities for collaboration
Understand how SOA enables application integration
Recognize new opportunities enabled by exposing business capabilities as services.

Topics Covered

What is the big idea behind the Service Oriented Enterprise?
How do services affect the IT groups' ability to build and integrate software?
How does service oriented enable business innovation?
What are the benefits?
What are the costs?
Who is doing it and what kind of results are they seeing?
What does a typical roadmap look like?

Audience
This briefing is designed for business executives, CIOs, and IT Leadership.

Prerequisites
None

Duration
½ Day

More Information
For more information about this course, please submit an inquiry and we will contact you to discuss your needs.

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