ZapForum Podcast for May 25, 2007 features

Guest Expert Kyle Gabhart, SOA Practice Lead, Web Age Solutions.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Learn what a business analyst does and how SOA is changing the role of the business analyst
• Understand the skills a business analyst needs within organizations implementing SOA
• Discover the prerequisites for becoming a Service-oriented business analyst.

Setting the Stage: ZapThink Analysts

ZapThink analysts Jason Bloomberg and Ron Schmelzer set the stage by discussing the “missing link” between business and technology on many SOA teams, namely the business analyst.

Next, Kyle Gabart defines the role of the business analyst and explains how the movement to SOA impacts the duties of this person. Kyle then details how a business analyst must be a business process architect, even though they don’t fit squarely into either the business or technology camps. Finally, Kyle reviews the skills business analysts require, the prerequisites for becoming one, and the training people should get in order to become successful Service-oriented business analysts.

Featured Guest Expert: Kyle Gabhart

SOA Practice Lead, Web Age Solutions.

Kyle Gabhart is a subject matter expert specializing in Service-Oriented technologies enabled by Java, .NET, and XML. He has served in a variety of technical and business-focused roles across a broad range of industries, including Defense, E-commerce, Finance, Semiconductor, and Telecom, to name a few. Kyle’s current post is as the SOA Practice Lead for Web Age Solutions, a premier provider of technology education and mentoring.

Kyle is a popular public speaker recognized for his enthusiasm and dynamic analysis and presentation of emerging technologies. He has written articles for The Web Services Developer’s Journal, served as the Java Pro for DevX.com for two years, and published close to two dozen articles on IBM developerWorks, including the J2EE Pathfinder series. In addition to writing over 50 technical articles both online and in print, he has contributed to two books, Professional Java and XML and Professional EJB Development, both by Wrox Press.

Kyle is the original contributor of the kXML-RPC library (the first J2ME client implementation of the XML-RPC protocol), the founder of the Web Services Java Users Group based in Dallas, TX, and a Founding Member of the Worldwide Institute of Software Architects where he has served as the Subject Chair for Architectural Patterns.

This ZapForum Podcast is presented as a 13.5 MB mp3 file. Running time: 29:33.