This seminar starts with examples of key business strategies that drive SOA and explains how SOA can enable them. It then discusses the progression of a SOA through three phases: we will talk about the typical elements that comprise a basic SOA, followed by the second phase where services are being virtualized and middleware technology is introduced as an intermediary, and finally moving SOA into the cloud in the third phase.

The seminar then outlines the important aspects that have to be addressed when defining an architecture blueprint, which is the cornerstone of a successful SOA. This includes defining a loosely coupled architecture and proper separation into service layers (i.e. orchestration, application, and infrastructure services), as well as a comparison of traditional, Web Services based and RESTful architectures. The seminar also shows how SOA enables Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and discusses the key standards that one should consider when implementing services.
Next, the seminar gives you insight into the organizational challenges that IT managers face with the adoption of SOA, and how to increase the maturity level of the IT organization in order to evolve SOA to a large (enterprise) scale. It shows how to master the full service lifecycle - including design, implementation, deployment, and management - through a service oriented development methodology.
The seminar then examines open source tools in terms of their support for SOA and concludes with two case studies that exemplify how service oriented analysis, modeling, and design principles have been applied in a real world project, and how RIA, REST, SOAP-based services and legacy encapsulation were used to modernize a large-scale business system that has a multitude of interdependencies on other systems.

Complete Seminar Outline

 Main Topics

• Business strategies that drive SOA
• Defining the architecture blueprint following SOA Best Practices
• SOA vs. Event Driven Architecture (EDA)
• Traditional Web Services vs. REST
• How SOA enables new types of clients
• Which standards are important for SOA?
• SOA Governance and the role of a Center of Excellence
• Service Virtualization and the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
• Virtual services on virtual servers - the move into the Cloud
• Integration - one of the main reasons to go SOA
• Building a SOA with Open Source Software
• Developing the game plan: SOA Maturity Model and Roadmap
• Case Study