ZapThink’s ZapForum Podcast for July 25,2006 features

Guest Experts: Dr. Prabhakar Malireddy, Information Architect, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, and Frank Grossman, Chief Technology Officer from Mindreef.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Hear a first-hand account of building the justification for SOA as well as embarking on a SOA initiative
• Understand how a government organization built Services to eliminate redundancy and migrate off of aging legacy systems
• Gain insight into how to leverage tools like Mindreef SOAPscope and Infravio X-Registry to deal with quality issues
• Tie together the concepts of SOA testing, quality, and governance in a real-world situation

Setting the Stage: ZapThink Analysts

ZapThink analysts Jason Bloomberg and Ron Schmelzer set the stage by discussing the challenges of SOA quality.

Next, Dr. Prabhakar Malireddy provides a first-hand account of how his organization built the business case for SOA, planned, and then implemented Services as part of their SOA initiative. Dr. Malireddy also discusses how they maintained quality throughout their SOA implementation.

Next, Frank Grossman discuss SOA quality in the context of the Service lifecycle. He also explains how Service teams should collaborate on designing, implementing, testing, and deploying Services in a managed, governed manner.

The Podcast is presented as a 15.1 megabyte MP3 file that you are welcome to download to your favorite MP3 player or listen to via your browser’s player or any other MP3 application. The running time for the Podcast is 33:06.

Featured Guest Expert: Dr. Prabhakar Malireddy

Information Architect

Texas Health and Human Services Commission

Prabhakar Malireddy serves as president and CEO for SourcePulse, an SOA consulting and systems integration company. Before cofounding SourcePulse, he worked as a director of engineering at Commerce One, where he was responsible for the development of their Web Services registry and composite application development platform. He is currently consulting with Texas Health and Human Services as a chief information architect and leading the SOA development and the data standardization efforts.

Prabhakar holds a Ph. D. in computer science and developed a comprehensive methodology for integrating semantically heterogeneous databases as part his doctoral work. Later, he joined Sloan School of Management at MIT and published several research papers in the areas of data quality management and semantic interoperability.

Featured Guest Expert: Frank Grossman

President and CTO
Mindreef

Frank Grossman serves as Mindreef’s president and technology leader. Grossman helped found Mindreef on the belief that the evolving migration to highly distributed applications and SOA will require collaborative tools at the XML software layer. Grossman and Jim Moskun previously founded of NuMega Technologies, Inc., the developer of the award winning Soft-Ice, BoundsChecker and DevPartner products and leaders in the Windows error detection and debugging market. NuMega was successfully sold to Compuware Corporation. Prior to co-founding NuMega, Frank worked at Wang Laboratories where he worked with Jim Moskun. Frank Grossman brings more than 20 years of intense technical expertise in the development of software tools. Grossman holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Bowling Green University.