ZapForum Webcast: Implementing a Reliable SOA Lifecycle

Guest Experts: Michael Morris, CTO, MW2 Consulting, and Avrami Tzur, Senior Director SOA Strategy, Mercury

Topics:

    Audience will learn:

    • Learn how to identify points of reliability and assess your SOA using new best practices and approaches.
    • Learn an SOA Blueprint that might help you quickly implement SOA solutions that deliver business value.
    • Understand SOA reliability in the context of the SOA lifecycle (decide, define, create, test, deploy, maintain, and retire)
    • Learn how to reduce risk for SOA implementations through dashboards and scorecards
    • Overview of disciplines required for each stage and the tools to help IT enforce those disciplines (governance, quality and performance, SLA)

Setting the Stage: ZapThink Analysts
Just what does it take to make an SOA reliable? And what do we mean by reliable? It’s not just about runtime reliability in making sure that a message gets from point A to point B — we’ve been doing that for decades now. Reliability means that the architecture works as planned, that design happens as we intend, and that unplanned changes don’t wreck the architecture. Learn from two very experienced guest experts about how to insure reliability in your SOA!

Guest Expert: Michael Morris, CTO, MW2 Consulting,
Michael will explain how to manage the proliferation of web services by understanding the Web Services Management lifecycle, risks, and common misunderstandings. Michael will outline how to create visibility and business value that ensure the measurement of your SOA investment so that you have obtainable ROI.
From this webinar attendees will learn how to reduce the risk of their SOA initiatives by:

  • using a proven methodology which allows you to assess all aspects of your SOA initiatives with any vendor.
  • using products and tools to help you quickly implement SOA solutions that deliver business value.
  • generating visibility to measure the value gained with dashboards and scorecards, giving you real return on your investments.

Guest Expert: Avrami Tzur, Senior Director SOA Strategy, Mercury
IT organizations are turning to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to enable business process reconfiguration, accelerate new product introductions and streamline operations. A successful SOA transformation, however, cannot happen in isolation within IT. Service Oriented Enterprises (SOEs) must adopt the SOA paradigm not only as a means for integrating and delivering systems but also as a business principle for achieving business goals and objectives. Avrami Tzur will show how SOA initiatives require a cohesive set of diciplines that are aligned with business strategy and SOA best practices

What the Audience Will Learn

  • An illustration of an SOA lifecycle (decide, define, create, test, deploy, maintain, and retire)
  • Overview of disciplines required for each stage and the tools to help IT enforce those disciplines (governance, quality and performance, SLA).

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