SE001 - SOA for Managers

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Overview
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a leading technology direction for an increasing number of IT organizations. The approach supports IT's need to respond more rapidly to business changes, integrate systems internally and externally, modernize their architecture, and rationalize application portfolios. To take advantage of SOA, managers need to understand how the approach can be used to positively impact the business, the basic technology involved, the process changes that a shift to SOA implies, and how to create a roadmap for the broad adoption of SOA. Organizations most successful in implementing SOA and Web services will be those that understand the technology fundamentally, but more importantly, understand the new decision matrix that it creates and how these decisions ultimately impact long term planning. This brief course is targeted to IT Managers desiring conversational familiarity with SOA concepts and strategies. A concise presentation of the key SOA ideas will allow time for discussion amongst attendees and the SOA consultant to make the content relevant to the enterprise's current situation and goals.

Objectives
Understand the basic concepts of SOA and Web services
Understand the benefits, costs, and risks of the SOA approach
Understand the skills, practices, and processes related to creating service oriented architectures
Understand why to use Web services with SOA
Understand issues related to SOA operations

Audience
This course is designed for IT managers who are interested in understanding what SOA is and the practical implications of its implementation.

Prerequisites
None

Duration
1 Day

Outline

1. What is service oriented architecture
• SOA definition and brief explanation
• Loose coupling
• Principles of service orientation
• The relationship between SOA and web services
• SOA myths
• SOA risks
2. The business impact of SOA
• IT/Business alignment
• Process driven applications
• Composite applications
• Enterprise-wide integration
• Faster channel/partner integration
• Lower costs through reuse
• Extend legacy lifetime
• Improved 3rd party package integration
• Measuring SOA ROI
3. SOA concepts for managers
• Core Web services standards
• Web services extensions
• Policies
• Contracts
• ESB and Application Networking
• Service types
4. SOA activities and process
• Service oriented analysis
• Service oriented design
• Development and change management of SOA
• Role by role impacts and skill requirements
• SOA tool categories and functions
• Educating the team
• SOA governance and practices

Service identification lab (:30)

5. Becoming a Service Oriented Enterprise
• Adoption challenges
• Success stories
• SOA strategy and roadmap
• High level impacts on people, process, and technology

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