SOA: the Business View

What is service oriented architecture?

* Creating a common understanding of SOA
* The evolution of SOA
* Introduce the concepts of services and SOA
* Why businesses need to innovate
* SOA is not about web services
* How SOA enables innovation

The Business Impact of SOA

* The benefits of employing SOA
* Review of common business goals
* The risks associated with the SOA approach
* Evaluating trade off strategies

SOA Roadmap

* SOA maturity model
* The SOA adoption roadmap
* SOA expansion stages
* Start with the business
* Defining a business component model
* Identifying differentiators and commodity

The different Service types

* Categorizing services
* Enterprise services and Process centric services
* Data centric services and Logic centric services
* Intermediary services and application front ends
* Basic services

Modelling SOA building blocks

* Using UML to analyse service requirements
* Generating a domain model
* Service oriented analysis and design overview
* Identifying basic services
* Usage of sequence and activity diagrams
* The need for a structured analysis process

SOA Governance

* Aligning IT and Business through governance
* The importance of a repository
* Dependencies between services and business components
* Governance is not management
* Metrics, KPI's and continuous improvement
* Who sits on the SOA Board?

A Service Oriented Reference Model

* Reference models and reference architectures
* The OASIS reference model and architecture
* SOA vendors and their relationship with SOA
* SOA support in .NET and J2EE platforms

Case Studies

* A telecommunications firm
* The Vision, the strategy
* Choosing a Pilot project -setting expectations
* Setting up the SOA board
* Establishing a business component model
* Evaluating the Pilot's results and KPI's

Next Steps

* Avoiding the 'big bang' situation
* A phased approach with incremental improvements
* Understanding the SOA maturity model