Agile Architectures with Web Services & REST One-Day Course Thursday, April 5, 2012 7918 Jones Branch Dr Suite 110 McLean VA 22102 Price: $995.00 per person / $895 per person for 3 or more people / $8,995 to run course in your organization. Agile Architectures with Web Services & REST   Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) promises greater business agility by leveraging reusable Services. However, for many organizations, their SOA initiatives haven’t lived up to this promise. One of the primary contributors to this lack of success has been the challenge of leveraging Web Services, a complex, verbose set of open standards that vendors have adopted in an often piecemeal fashion. To help address the shortcomings of Web Services, Representational State Transfer (REST) has arisen as a Web-centric, lightweight alternative. However, REST presents its own challenges as well. This course explains both the myths and realities of REST. Understand REST’s four architectural constraints, with an in-depth look at HATEOAS: Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State. Learn about the architectural context of REST, including intermediaries and compositions with REST and the differences between REST-Based SOA and Web Services-Based SOA.   Attend ZapThink’s Agile Architectures with Web Services & REST to gain a balanced understanding of Web Services & REST without falling into “religious” arguments. This course is appropriate for architects, system engineers, developers, and other technologists who must make sense out of modern architectural approaches. Join your peers for this relaxed, informative, and thought provoking full-day course. REGISTER Agile Architectures with Web Services & REST One-Day Course Cost: $995.00 per person / $895 per person for 3 or more people / $8,995 to run course in your organization. Dates: April 5, 2012 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM Address: 7918 Jones Branch Drive Suite 110 McLean VA 20170   For more information: info@zapthink.com or 703-288-5300

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Presented by Jason Bloomberg President, ZapThink, a Dovèl Technologies Company

Jason Bloomberg is President of ZapThink, a Dovèl Technologies Company. He is a thought leader in the areas of Enterprise Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture, and Cloud Computing, and helps organizations around the world better leverage their IT resources to meet changing business needs. He is a frequent speaker, prolific writer, and pundit.

 

Mr. Bloomberg is one of the original Managing Partners of ZapThink LLC, the leading SOA advisory and analysis firm, which was acquired by Dovèl Technologies in August 2011. His book, Service Orient or Be Doomed! How Service Orientation Will Change Your Business (John Wiley & Sons, 2006, coauthored with Ron Schmelzer), is recognized as the leading business book on Service Orientation.

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7918 Jones Branch Dr
Suite 110
McLean VA 22102

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Modern & Emerging Technologies Half-Day Executive Seminar Monday, April 2, 2012 7918 Jones Branch Dr Suite 110 McLean VA 22102 Price: $595.00 per person / $495 per person for 3 or more people / $4,995 to run course in your organization. Modern & Emerging Technologies   Today’s enterprise IT world is a confusing combination of trends, from architectural approaches like Service-Oriented Architecture to mobile computing to the Cloud and more. Yet, these trends cannot be considered separately, as they all interrelate. In this seminar, ZapThink lays out its vision for enterprise IT over the next decade. Gain critical insight into today’s IT trends, with no vendor hype. Understand which trends are mostly noise and which ones you must understand and incorporate into your IT strategy today. Attend ZapThink’s Modern & Emerging Technologies Executive Seminar to rise above the confusion and obtain a clear, coherent overview of the state of Enterprise IT over the next decade.   This course is appropriate for IT executives, IT managers, procurement managers, and other decision makers who must make sense out of the complex, interrelated trends in IT today. Join your peers for this relaxed, informative, and thought provoking half-day seminar. REGISTER Modern & Emerging Technologies Half-Day Executive Seminar Cost: $595 per person / $495 per person for 3 or more people / $4,995 to run course in your organization. Dates: April 2, 2012 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM Address: 7918 Jones Branch Drive Suite 110 McLean VA 20170   For more information: info@zapthink.com or 703-288-5300

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Presented by Jason Bloomberg President, ZapThink, a Dovèl Technologies Company

Jason Bloomberg is President of ZapThink, a Dovèl Technologies Company. He is a thought leader in the areas of Enterprise Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture, and Cloud Computing, and helps organizations around the world better leverage their IT resources to meet changing business needs. He is a frequent speaker, prolific writer, and pundit.

 

Mr. Bloomberg is one of the original Managing Partners of ZapThink LLC, the leading SOA advisory and analysis firm, which was acquired by Dovèl Technologies in August 2011. His book, Service Orient or Be Doomed! How Service Orientation Will Change Your Business (John Wiley & Sons, 2006, coauthored with Ron Schmelzer), is recognized as the leading business book on Service Orientation.

Venue:

 

7918 Jones Branch Dr
Suite 110
McLean VA 22102

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Cloud Computing Half-Day Executive Seminar: Cutting Thru the Hype Wednesday, April 4, 2012 7918 Jones Branch Dr Suite 110 McLean VA 22102 Price: $595.00 per person / $495 per person for 3 or more people / $4,995 to run course in your organization. Cloud Computing: Cutting Thru the Hype   Vendors and analysts alike are touting the cost benefits of Cloud Computing. Moving to the Cloud promises lower costs, better performance, and the ability to defer capital expenditures. But on the other hand, there is also talk about Cloud’s inherent risks, from possible attacks to auditing regulations to data confidentiality issues. Attend ZapThink’s Cloud Computing Executive Seminar to cut through vendor hype with a clear, coherent definition of Cloud Computing. Learn enough about the three Cloud service models (Software-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service), as well as the four Cloud deployment models (public, private, community, and hybrid) to make informed decisions about vendor selection, procurement, risk mitigation, and project control.   This course is appropriate for IT executives, IT managers, procurement managers, and other decision makers who must make sense out of the benefits and risks of Cloud Computing. Join your peers for this relaxed, informative, and thought provoking half-day seminar. REGISTER Cloud Computing Half-Day Executive Seminar: Cutting Thru the Hype Cost: $595 per person / $495 per person for 3 or more people / $4,995 to run course in your organization. Date: April 4, 2012 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM Address: 7918 Jones Branch Drive Suite 110 McLean VA 20170   For more information: info@zapthink.com or 703-288-5300

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Presented by Jason Bloomberg President, ZapThink, a Dovèl Technologies Company

Jason Bloomberg is President of ZapThink, a Dovèl Technologies Company. He is a thought leader in the areas of Enterprise Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture, and Cloud Computing, and helps organizations around the world better leverage their IT resources to meet changing business needs. He is a frequent speaker, prolific writer, and pundit.

 

Mr. Bloomberg is one of the original Managing Partners of ZapThink LLC, the leading SOA advisory and analysis firm, which was acquired by Dovèl Technologies in August 2011. His book, Service Orient or Be Doomed! How Service Orientation Will Change Your Business (John Wiley & Sons, 2006, coauthored with Ron Schmelzer), is recognized as the leading business book on Service Orientation.

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7918 Jones Branch Dr
Suite 110
McLean VA 22102

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ZapThink ZapCourse: REST-Based SOA

Online, Self-Paced, Computer-Based Training Course.

Cost: US $297

Representational State Transfer, or REST, is an HTTP-centric approach to addressing resources on a network. Heralded as simpler and less verbose than Web Services, REST has engendered a near-religious fervor among architects and integration engineers in enterprises around the globe. In spite of its supposed simplicity, however, REST as an architectural style still confuses many people. In the context of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), REST provides several alternative implementation approaches to Web Services. When architected properly, REST-based SOA is more lightweight, flexible, and user-centric than “traditional” Web Services-based SOA — but as with all architectural approaches, the devil is in the details.

Course length: 76 1/2 minutes.

Note: if you have already registered for this course, you can return to the login page for our online courses at http://learn.zapthink.com.

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Event Agenda REST-Based SOA Online Course Pros & Cons of Web Services Architectural Styles Definition of REST Dogmatic REST REST Myths Essential REST Terminology What is a Resource? Uniform Interface PUT vs. POST: Initializing a Resource What is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)? RESTful vs. RPC-based URIs What is a Representation? Negotiating Representation Type Content Negotiation What is Hypermedia? Four Architectural Constraints Separation of Resource from Representation Manipulation of Resources by Representations Self-Descriptive Messages Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State HATEOAS Example HATEOAS and URIs State Transitions in REST Custom Media Types Contracted Services Contract Metadata for REST Intermediaries & REST REST Starting Point Caching Options Proxy Pattern Gateway (Reverse Proxy) Pattern Asynchronous REST REST Compositions REST-Based Orchestration REST-Based Choreography Choreographing Orchestrations Composite Representations vs. Composite RESTful Services Everything is a Resource Examples of Process Representations Example of REST Choreography Follow Links to Learn About Processes Some Benefits of REST-Based BPM REST-Based SOA Essential REST-Based SOA Policies Differences Between Web Services-Based SOA & REST-Based SOA

 

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ZapThink Licensed ZapThink Architect Renewal Course Version 9.0

Online, Self-Paced, Computer-Based Training Course.

Cost: US $595, which includes the REST-Based SOA online ZapCourse and the Cloud Security Fundamentals online ZapCourse at no additional charge.

This online course is for all Licensed ZapThink Architects who took the LZA course before October, 2011.

Completing this course extends your LZA certification until a year after completion of the renewal course or a year after completion of your original LZA course, whichever is later.

For the first time, the LZA Renewal Course comes in three parts: the core Renewal Course, the REST-Based SOA online ZapCourse and the Cloud Security Fundamentals online ZapCourse. Register below and you will automatically be enrolled in all three courses.

Note: if you have already registered for this course, you can return to the login page for our online courses at http://learn.zapthink.com.

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Event Agenda LZA Renewal Course 9.0 Online Course The Enterprise Context for SOA Information Sharing: FAA Semantic Integration: Maritime Information Exchange Model (MIEM) MIEM Business Case Industry-Specific Semantic Standards Principal Features of MIEM MyFoodAlerts.com Semantic Web: Key to Solving Business Challenges Semantic text processing Semantic Web Technology Future More About the Cloud Transactions in the Cloud Partition Tolerance BASE instead of ACID Thread-Based Execution Queue-Based Execution Legal Issues US Department of Defense OneStop Simplified Policy, Access & Registration Control (SPARC) OAuth is a Key Technology in SPARC REST-based Web Service Examples LZA Renewal Course 9.0 also includes Cloud Security Fundamentals ZapCourse and REST-Based SOA ZapCourse.

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LZA SOA & Cloud Training & Certification: DC – April 9-12, 2012
Monday April 9, 2012-Thursday April 12, 2012
Dovèl Technologies, Inc.
7918 Jones Branch Drive
Suite 100
McLean, VA 22102

Price: $1,995.00 (including $500 early discount) [converted to 1995.00 USD]

 

ZapThink SOA Training & Certification: The Leading Vendor Independent, Architect-Focused SOA Training

ZapThink’s Licensed ZapThink Architect (LZA) SOA Training & Certification Boot Camp is recognized around the world as the best single Service-Oriented Architecture training course available anywhere.

The LZA SOA Boot Camp is an intensive, four day “fire hose” of information that prepares you to succeed with your SOA efforts, whether you’re just beginning them or are well down the road with SOA. ZapThink’s LZA SOA Training is the only public course that ZapThink offers, reflecting the best thinking and research that ZapThink produces.

 

 

What makes the LZA SOA Boot Camp so special?

• Vendor independent – We discuss vendors in context, both good and bad. You get a balanced perspective on each vendor we discuss.
• Architect focused – The course concentrates on what architects have to do to be successful with SOA in their own organizations. We balance technology details with organizational approaches. If you’re not an architect you’ll learn how to think like one in this class!
• Practical – we connect theory to practice with what really works in organizations like yours.
• Current – we refresh the course on a regular basis to reflect the latest SOA best practices, as well as how SOA relates to other architectural challenges in the enterprise.
• Enterprise context – SOA is an approach to organizing enterprise IT resources to meet changing business needs. We place SOA into the context of large organizations, with complex, heterogeneous IT environments and all the politics and bureaucracy that every large organization faces.
• Globally recognized certification – Everybody who completes the LZA SOA Boot Camp obtains a certificate representing their LZA credential, giving you the right to call yourself a Licensed ZapThink Architect with all the privileges that come along with this exclusive credential.
• Led by globally recognized SOA thought leader – All ZapThink’s courses are developed and led by Jason Bloomberg, ZapThink Managing Partner. Jason has been an analyst with ZapThink since 2001 and is the co-author of Service Orient or Be Doomed!
• Not too technical, not too high-level – Unlike courses offered by others, we cover the technology without getting lost in the details. We discuss the big picture but connect it to the day-to-day reality of the IT shop.
• Available around the world – See the event schedule on this page for all the locations we’re offering the LZA SOA Boot Camp!

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LZA SOA Boot Camp Version 9.0
Day 1
Registration: 8:00 to 8:30 AM
LZA Introduction
Module 1: The Enterprise Context for SOA
Business Constant: Change We’ve had IT challenges for years If you are in a Hole, Stop Digging! The Voice of Doom? Business Agility What is SOA? Services: Lego “Ilities” Composability & Business Services Why SOA? SOA by Any Name SOA = Best Practices Iconoclastic vs. Dogmatic Architecture Thinking Outside the SOA Box Business Drivers for SOA When Not to Apply SOA The Wrong Question! The Distributed Computing Pendulum SOA: Paradigm Shift? So, How to Implement SOA? There’s No Such Thing as a SOA Wizard! Is SOA New? XML to the Rescue! What about Web Services? Pros & Cons of Web Services What about REST? Architectural Styles What is Architecture?		Architecture is not About the Technology Architecting SOA: Beyond Use Cases SOA Implementation as Complex System Examples of Complex Systems The Focus of CSE CSE: Overall Coherence Governance: Architecting People Achieving Business Agility Quality & Complex Systems The SOA Quality Star Best Effort SOA SOA as Enterprise Architecture The Zachman Framework Pros & Cons of Zachman The Enterprise Context for SOA   Cloud Computing: Old Wine in New Bottles Formal Definition of Cloud Computing Relationship between Cloud & SOA   Services Thinking Why is SOA Difficult? Case Studies: Mini-Studies on SOA Use Information Sharing: FAA Reducing Integration Costs: Aeroplan Compliance & Volume: Wells Fargo Bank Meeting Client Needs: MITRE
Module 2: SOA Design Principles
Design Principle #1: Abstraction What’s a Service? Levels of Service Abstraction Service as Interface & Implementation Consumers & Providers What are Services? (Technically, Service interfaces) Interoperability vs. Portability Service Interfaces Aren’t Good Enough! Abstractions: Simple on the Outside Abstraction = Working Illusion Building a Working Illusion The Fundamental Technical Challenge of SOA   SOA Design Principle #2: Standardized Service Contract What’s a Service Contract? Service Contract vs. Service Description Design Principle #3: Encapsulation What’s NOT in the Contract Design Principle #4: Discoverability What are Metadata? Metadata for SOA SOA Registry as “Discovery Agency” Location Independence Design Principle #5: Reusability Reusability vs. Usability Achieving Reusability: Service Agnosticism Designing for Reuse: Agnostic Context Reuse over Time		Design Principle #6: Granularity Key Service Abstraction Enabler: Proper Granularity Granularity Example Achieving Proper Granularity Zeroing in on Proper Granularity Example: Too Fine Grained vs. Too Coarse Grained Service Refactoring Design Principle #7: Autonomy Autonomy Issue: Overlapping Functional Control Autonomy Issue: Concurrency Autonomy Issue: Dependency Design Principle #8: Loose Coupling What about Coupling? Full Decoupling? Loose Coupling: Separation of Concerns Levels of Coupling Loose Coupling and Context Design Principle #9: Statelessness Maintaining Process Instance State “Stateful Services” Design Principle #10: Composability Metadata-Driven Applications Programmatic vs. Declarative Challenges with Declarative Approach Case Study: ABN Amro

Exercise: SOA Return on Investment

Module 3: The SOA Reference Architecture

• What is a Reference Architecture?
• Recommended SOA Reference Architecture Structure
• What’s Different about a SOA Reference Architecture?
• End-to-End Architecture: The SOA Metamodel
  • SOA Foundation: Model-Driven Architecture
  • SOA Foundation: The 4+1 View Model

   

• The Agility Model
• Service Architecture
  • Building the Service Model
  • Introducing “ZapElectric”
  • ZapElectric Service Model

• Service Types
  • Entity Services
  • Task Services
  • Utility (IS) Services

   

• Service Relationships Example
• Process Isomorphism
• Service Layers
  • Typical Service Layers
  • ZapElectric Service Layer Model

   

• Component & Implementation Models
• ZapElectric Logical Architecture Model

Homework: Service ModelClass Ends at 5:00 PM

Day Two

Class Begins at 8:30 AM

Module 4: Intermediaries & Integration

• SOA Infrastructure Starting Point: The Intermediary
• Some Intermediary Roles
• Intermediaries and Service Façades
• SOA “Magicians’ Tricks”
  • Multiple Interfaces per Implementation
  • Multiple Implementations per Interface
  • Multiple Interfaces per Business Service

   

• Actualizing the Business Service Abstraction
• Intermediaries & Messaging
• Buying an Intermediary?
• The Great ESB/SOA Middleware Boondoggle
  • Buy More Middleware for SOA?
  • ESB Federation?
  • Compounding the Problem: No Clear ESB Definition
  • The ESB Pattern
  • Do You need an ESB for Service Mediation?

   

• Intermediary-Based Service Abstraction
• Another Approach: XML Appliances
• Building Intermediary-Based SOA Infrastructure
• SOA Message Exchange Patterns
• SOA Tenet: Asynchrony
• Messages vs. Events
• Business Driver: Visibility
• Visibility & Heterogeneity
• SOA, Integration & Legacy
• Exposing Existing Capabilities
• The Continued Value of Legacy
  • Legacy Migration
  • Legacy Enablement
  • Legacy Rejuvenation
  • Migration vs. Rejuvenation
  • Business Driver: Cost Savings
  • Reducing Integration Cost

   

• Case Study: SOA at The Hartford

Module 5: The Role of Data & Semantics

• The Role of Data
• Data: Foundation for SOA
• The Data Services Layer
• Application Services vs. Data Services
• Designing Data Services
• Performance vs. Flexibility
• Supporting Data Services with Data Integration
• Leveraging Data Services Layer

• Semantics and SOA
• Semantic Level Understanding
• Role of Application Semantics
• Semantics: The Greatest Integration Challenge of SOA
• Still a Manual Process
• Resolving Semantic Issues
• Semantic Model Example: Maritime Information Exchange Model
• MIEM Business Case
• Best Practices in Industry
• Industry-Specific Semantic Standards
• Principal Features of MIEM
• Vessel State & Event Relationships (XML)
• Semantic Web: Key to Solving Business Challenges
• Case Study: MyFoodAlerts.com

Module 6: Service Composition & Business Process

• What is a Business Process?
• The Automation Paradox
• Problems with Traditional BPM Tooling
• Business Process the Enterprise Application Way
• Business Process the Service-Oriented Way
• Service-Oriented Process
• Process Definitions
• Example: Orchestration vs. Choreography
• What is the Sweet Spot for Service Composition?

• SOA Composite Application Example
• Enterprise Applications and Process
• Example: SAP NetWeaver
• Transactions and SOA
  • Compensating Transactions
  • Transactions in the Cloud
  • Partition Tolerance
  • BASE instead of ACID

   

• Case Study: SOA Journey at BP

Module 7: Web Services-Based SOA

• Confusing SOA & Web Services
• If not Web Services, Then What?
• WSDL: Service Contract Starting Point
  • WSDL Basics
  • Concrete Description
  • Abstract Description
  • RPC vs. Document Style
  • Vendor Bozo Filter

   

• Contract Metadata Beyond WSDL
• What’s Missing from WSDL?
• Sample Service Contract Template
• OASIS Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I)
• SOAP: Verbose Message Transport
• What is a Policy?
  • Policy “Math”
  • Computing Effective Policy
  • WS-Policy Example

• WS-PolicyAttachment
• Policy Attachment to WSDL 1.1
• Some Policy Standards
• WS-SecurityPolicy Example (Policy & Conforming Message)

 

• Physical Service Architecture
• Three Approaches to State
• Web Services Orchestration
  • BPEL Example
  • Limitations of BPEL
  • Thread-Based Execution
  • Queue-Based Execution
  • BPMN to the Rescue?
  • BPMN Example
  • Limitations of BPMN
  • How SOA Fills the Gap
  • What about Workflow?
  • Workflow & Web Services

   

• What’s the Deal with UDDI?

Exercise: Service ContractHomework: Service CompositionsClass Ends at 5:00 PM

Day Three

Class Begins at 8:30 AM

Module 8: REST-Based SOA

• Definition of REST
• Dogmatic REST
• REST Myths
• Essential REST Terminology
  • What is a Resource?
  • Uniform Interface
  • PUT vs. POST: Initializing a Resource
  • What is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)?
  • RESTful vs. RPC-based URIs
  • What is a Representation?
  • Negotiating Representation Type
  • Content Negotiation
  • What is Hypermedia?

   

• Four Architectural Constraints
  • Separation of Resource from Representation
  • Manipulation of Resources by Representations
  • Self-Descriptive Messages
  • Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State
  • HATEOAS Example
  • HATEOAS and URIs

   

• State Transitions in REST
• Custom Media Types

• Contracted Services
• Contract Metadata for REST
• Intermediaries & REST
  • REST Starting Point
  • Caching Options
  • Proxy Pattern
  • Gateway (Reverse Proxy) Pattern
  • Asynchronous REST

   

• REST Compositions
  • REST-Based Orchestration
  • REST-Based Choreography
  • Choreographing Orchestrations
  • Composite Representations vs. Composite RESTful Services
  • Everything is a Resource
  • Examples of Process Representations
  • Example of REST Choreography
  • Follow Links to Learn About Processes
  • Some Benefits of REST-Based BPM

   

• REST-Based SOA
  • Essential REST-Based SOA Policies
  • Differences Between Web Services-Based SOA & REST-Based SOA

Module 9: Architecting with the Cloud

• Essential Cloud Characteristics
• Cloud Service Models
• Cloud Deployment Models
• Managed Hosting vs. Cloud Computing
• Vendor Spin
  • Oracle’s Shopping List
  • IBM’s Shopping List
  • Cutting Through the Hype

• Cloud Computing Roadmap
• EA Cloud Strategy
• Cloud Deployment Choices
• Case Study: reddit Conde Nast

Module 10: SOA & Cloud Security

• Critical SOA Challenge: Security
• Security Fundamentals
• The Context of IT Security
• XML Threat Prevention
• Mitigating XML Threats
• Web Services Security
• WS-Security Tokens
  • Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
  • SAML Assertions
  • Federated Security

   

• Message-Level Security: Is SSL Sufficient?
• Core Requirements for Securing Services

• Cloud Security
  • The Three Core Cloud Access Control Concerns
  • Cloud Authentication: Federated Identity Management
  • oAuth as Federated Authentication Mechanism
  • Cloud Security: Authorization
  • Cloud Security: Policy
  • Cloud Security: Provisioning
  • The Big Picture: Retaining Control
  • Cloud Security: Data Confidentiality
  • Data Confidentiality in Motion
  • Key Management is “Key”
  • Alternative Approaches to Data Confidentiality
  • Know Your Data: Data Lineage & Provenance
  • Data Remanence
  • Cloud Security: Data Availability

   

• Case Study: US Department of Defense OneStop

Module 11: SOA Governance

• The Need for Governance
• What is Organizational Governance?
• How to Tackle Governance
• The Cornerstone of IT Governance is Architecture
• Elements of IT Governance Strategy
• What is SOA Governance?
  • SOA Governance “in the Narrow”
  • SOA Governance “In the Broad”
  • SOA Governance Activities

   

• Policies
  • Policy: Business vs. Technical Examples
  • Design Time Policy Examples
  • Run Time Policy Examples
  • Change Time Policy Examples

• The Challenge of Policy Automation
  • Steps for Automating Policies
  • Supporting Policy Changes
  • Decoupling Policies from Services
  • Policy Management & Enforcement
• Creating the Governance Framework
• Governance Challenges
  • Governance Challenge: Reuse = Sharing
  • Publishing & Discovery Governance
  • Is Reuse a Real SOA Benefit?
  • Governance Pitfall: Versioning
  • Handling Service Versioning
  • Versioning Concepts
  • Versioning Strategies
  • Strict Versioning
  • Flexible Versioning
  • Loose Versioning
  • Versioning Policy Issues
  • Challenge: The Right Amount of Governance

Exercise: Governance FrameworkHomework: SOA Business CaseClass Ends at 5:00 PM

Day Four

Class Begins at 8:30 AM

Module 12: Cloud Governance & SOA Governance Infrastructure

• Cloud Governance
  • Some Cloud Realities
  • Cloud Governance Challenges
  • Governance-Related Cloud Issues
  • Extending SOA Governance to the Cloud
  • Dealing with Cloud Reliability Example: Amazon EC2
  • Cloud Governance as VM Governance
  • Rogue Clouds
  • Cloud Governance: Auditing
  • Strategies for Dealing with Cloud Audit
  • More Cloud Governance Pitfalls
  • Cloud Governance: Run Time Considerations
  • Legal Issues
  • Cloud Availability & Failover
  • Cloud Governance Checklist

• SOA Governance Infrastructure
  • Complexities of SOA Governance Marketplace
  • What is a Registry?
  • What is a Repository?
  • The Registry/Repository
  • Management & Loose Coupling
  • SOA Management: Many Facets
  • The Problem with SOA Management
  • The SOA Management Conundrum
  • SOA Monitoring & Management
  • Continuous Quality Activities
  • The First Rule of SOA Management
  • ZapElectric Physical Architecture Model
• Case Study: SOA Organizational Change & Funding @ Novartis

Module 13: Planning & Running the SOA Initiative

• How Do You Eat an Elephant?
• Iterative: More than Step-by-Step
• Iterate your Architecture?
• Project Management for a SOA Project
• Defining SOA Roadmap
• Initial Assessments
• Building Support for SOA
• Building the SOA Business Case
• Milestone / KPI Plan
• The SOA Roadmap
  • The ZapThink SOA Roadmap
  • ZapElectric SOA Roadmap

   

• SOA Maturity Models
  • Analogous to CMMI
  • SOA Maturity Model Pointers
  • Using a SOA Maturity Model
  • SOA Maturity Model: HP
  • SOA Maturity Model: Wipro
  • Open Group Service Integration Maturity Model (OSIMM), from IBM
  • “SOA” Maturity Model: Sonic/Systinet
  • SOA Maturity Model: Oracle
  • SOA Maturity Model: Software AG

• Define Initial Iteration
• SOA Pilots
• Implementation Planning
• Service Identification: Top Down vs. Bottom Up
• Defining Services
  • Performance: Chasing the Bottleneck
  • Implementing Services: Methodologies for change
  • The Dual Lifecycle
  • The Service Lifecycle
  • Advanced Vision for Application Assembly
  • Where’s the code?
  • The Agile SOA Lifecycle

   

• Top-Down: Analyze Processes
  • Process Analysis
  • Process Optimization
  • Discovering Existing Processes
  • Service Identification: Process Decomposition

   

• Implementing Services
• Defining New Compositions
• Technology Selection
  • ZapElectric Component Model
  • Purchasing SOA Technology
  • Technology Selection: Choices

Exercise: SOA RoadmapFinal Exam: SOA Jeopardy!Class Ends at 3:00 PM

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7918 Jones Branch Drive
Suite 100
McLean, VA 22102

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LZA CBT Online Course
Online

Price: US $1,995.00

The online version of ZapThink’s highly regarded Licensed ZapThink Architect Bootcamp is exactly the same as the in-person version, except that it’s an older version. Course is hosted by DigitalChalk, and features video with synchronized slides, multiple choice exercises, and written exercises that are the same as the ones in the in-person course.

Successful students will receive the same credential they would if they took the in-person course.

 

ZapThink SOA Training & Certification: The Leading Vendor Independent, Architect-Focused SOA Training

ZapThink’s Licensed ZapThink Architect (LZA) SOA Training & Certification Boot Camp is recognized around the world as the best single Service-Oriented Architecture training course available anywhere.

The LZA SOA Boot Camp is an intensive  “fire hose” of information that prepares you to succeed with your SOA efforts, whether you’re just beginning them or are well down the road with SOA. ZapThink’s LZA CBT SOA Training is the online version of the Licensed ZapThink Architect course, reflecting the best thinking and research that ZapThink produces.

 

 

What makes the LZA SOA Boot Camp so special?

• Vendor independent – We discuss vendors in context, both good and bad. You get a balanced perspective on each vendor we discuss.
• Architect focused – The course concentrates on what architects have to do to be successful with SOA in their own organizations. We balance technology details with organizational approaches. If you’re not an architect you’ll learn how to think like one in this class!
• Practical – we connect theory to practice with what really works in organizations like yours.
• Enterprise context – SOA is an approach to organizing enterprise IT resources to meet changing business needs. We place SOA into the context of large organizations, with complex, heterogeneous IT environments and all the politics and bureaucracy that every large organization faces.
• Globally recognized certification – Everybody who completes the LZA SOA Boot Camp obtains a certificate representing their LZA credential, giving you the right to call yourself a Licensed ZapThink Architect with all the privileges that come along with this exclusive credential.
• Led by globally recognized SOA thought leader – All ZapThink’s courses are developed and led by Jason Bloomberg, ZapThink Managing Partner. Jason has been an analyst with ZapThink since 2001 and is the co-author of Service Orient or Be Doomed!
• Not too technical, not too high-level – Unlike courses offered by others, we cover the technology without getting lost in the details. We discuss the big picture but connect it to the day-to-day reality of the IT shop.
• Available online – Take the course at your desk!

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Event Agenda LZA SOA Boot Camp CBT Version Module 1: Fundamentals of SOA Business Constant: Change The Business Inflexibility Trap Business Agility Service Orientation: A Business Approach What is SOA? Is SOA New? One Difference is Web Services SOA vs. Web Services Confusing SOA & Web Services If not Web Services, Then What? The Distributed Computing Pendulum Service orientation — the next big thing? Business Drivers for SOA When Not to Apply SOA SOA: Paradigm Shift? So, How to Implement SOA? There’s No Such Thing as a SOA Wizard! What’s a Service? Levels of Service Abstraction Consumers & Providers The Rise of the Service Consumer Interoperability vs. Portability Service Interfaces Aren’t Good Enough! The Difference is the Abstraction Abstraction = Working Illusion The Fundamental Technical Challenge of SOA Building a Working Illusion Multiple Interfaces per Implementation Multiple Implementations per Interface Multiple Interfaces per Business Service Actualizing the Business Service Abstraction The Secret Sauce: Metadata Programmatic vs. Declarative What are Metadata? Metadata for SOA What’s a Service Contract? What’s in a Contract? What’s NOT in the Contract WSDL: Service Contract Starting Point Contract Metadata Beyond WSDL Sample Service Contract Template How to Think Service-Oriented Case Studies: Mini-Studies on SOA Use Shared Services: US PTO Reducing Integration Costs: Aeroplan Compliance & Volume: Wells Fargo Bank Meeting Client Needs: MITRE Exercise: Service Contract Module 2: SOA as Architecture What is Architecture? Architecture is not About the Technology SOA Views: Many Perspectives on SOA SOA: A Technology View SOA: Infrastructure Service View SOA: A Business Service View SOA as Enterprise Architecture The Zachman Framework Pros & Cons of Zachman SOA & Zachman Iterative: More than Step-by-Step Iterating SOA Initiatives Iterate your Architecture? The SOA Metamodel Building the Service Model SOA Foundation: Model-Driven Architecture The Service Model: Building Business Services The IBM Component Business Model SOA Models SOA Foundation: The 4+1 View Model Beyond Use Cases The 4+1 View Model & The SOA Metamodel How does SOA help Build Agility? Achieving Business Agility SOA Implementation as Complex System The Agility Model You Can’t Afford Not to Innovate Defining Services Validating Service Assumptions Key Service Abstraction Enabler: Proper Granularity Granularity Example Achieving Proper Granularity Zeroing in on Proper Granularity Example: Too Fine Grained vs. Too Coarse Grained Service Identification: Top Down vs. Bottom Up Service Identification: Process Decomposition Services & the Process Model Loose Coupling: Separation of Concerns The Web: Loose Coupling in Action Service Contracts: The Key to Loose Coupling Levels of Coupling RPC vs. Document Style Loose Coupling and Context Exercise: Service Model Exercise: Business Case Module 3: SOA Intermediaries & Integration SOA Infrastructure Starting Point: The Intermediary Some Intermediary Roles Intermediary Processing Challenges Intermediaries & Messaging Buying an Intermediary? Don’t we just mean an Enterprise Service Bus? The Great ESB/SOA Middleware Boondoggle Buy More Middleware for SOA? ESB Federation? Compounding the Problem: No Clear ESB Definition Do You need an ESB for Service Mediation? Intermediary-Based Service Abstraction Building Intermediary-Based SOA Infrastructure SOA Message Exchange Patterns SOA Tenet: Asynchrony Messages vs. Events Complex Event Processing & SOA Business Driver: Visibility Visibility & Heterogeneity SOA, Integration & Legacy Exposing Existing Capabilities The Continued Value of Legacy SOA and Legacy Legacy Migration Legacy Enablement Legacy Rejuvenation Business Driver: Cost Savings Reducing Integration Cost SOA & Data SOA & “Legacy” Heterogeneous Data & Data Stores The Data Services Layer Designing Data Services Data Integration & the Data Services Layer Supporting Data Services with Data Integration Leveraging Existing Data SOA & MDM Leveraging Data Services Layer The Data Services Layer Abstraction Semantic Level Understanding Role of Application Semantics Semantics Challenges Semantics: The Greatest Integration Challenge of SOA Resolving Semantic Issues  Case Study: SOA at The Hartford Module 4: XML Infrastructure & Security Purchasing SOA Technology Technology Selection: Choices Technology Selection: Challenges Levels of SOA Infrastructure Challenges at the Content Level Is XML Required for SOA? What about REST? XML: Foundation for Web Services The XML Processing Problem The XML Performance Crisis Solution: XML Appliances Hardware vs. Software Approaches to Improve XML Performance Distributed XML Processing Critical XML Processing Challenge: Security The Context of IT Security XML Threat Prevention Web Services Security The SOA Security Challenge The Security Context Challenge Security Context Kludges Solving the Security Context Challenge The Role of Entitlement Management 21st Century Network Security Federated Security  Case Study: SOA Security in the Real World — BP Module 5: SOA Governance & Management Corporate Governance Governance & Regulatory Compliance The Business Motivation for Governance How to Tackle Governance? Governance Relationships The Cornerstone of IT Governance is Architecture Elements of IT Governance Strategy Architectural Governance Processes SOA Governance “in the Narrow” SOA Governance Activities What is a Policy? Policy: Business vs. Technical Examples Governance/Security Model The Challenge of Policy Automation “Automatable” Policy Examples Steps for Automating Policies Supporting Policy Changes Creating the Governance Framework Business Driver: Reuse Reuse over Time Challenge: Reuse = Sharing SOA Reuse Governance Reuse Challenges Is Reuse a Real SOA Benefit? Governance Pitfall: Versioning Handling Service Versioning Business Driver: Business Empowerment Business Empowerment vs. IT Control SOA Governance Infrastructure Management & Loose Coupling SOA Management: Many Facets Complexities of SOA Governance Marketplace What is a Registry? SOA Registry: The Original SOA Intermediary What is a Repository? The Registry/Repository The Problem with SOA Management The First Rule of SOA Management The SOA Management Conundrum Exception Management & SOA SOA & ITIL  Case Study: SOA Project Management & Governance at T-Mobile Exercise: Governance Framework Module 6: Planning & Running the SOA Initiative SOA Project Approach Initial Assessments Building Support for SOA Defining SOA Roadmap Building the SOA Business Case Challenges in Calculating ROI Architecture Planning Milestone / KPI Plan The SOA Roadmap The ZapThink SOA Roadmap Define Initial Iteration SOA Pilots Implementation Planning Sequence of Steps (Iterative!) Implementation Notes Project Management for a SOA Project The Relationship with Program Management Methodologies for ongoing change The Dual Lifecycle The Service Lifecycle Building Applications the New Way Where’s the code? Implementing Services The Agile SOA Lifecycle The SOA Quality Star Best Effort SOA SOA & Change Management Key Change Management Tool: Measuring SOA Maturity SOA Maturity Model: Wipro SOA Maturity Model: HP Service Integration Maturity Model: IBM “SOA” Maturity Model: Sonic/Systinet SOA Maturity Model: Oracle SOA Maturity Model: Software AG Change Management: Multiple Levels Dealing with Service Implementation Change Service Contract Change Policy and Service Metadata Change Supporting Policy Changes Data Layer Change Service Infrastructure Change Semantic Change Business Process Change  Case Study: Retail Bank ROI Exercise: SOA Roadmap Module 7: Addressing SOA Organizational Challenges Common SOA Pitfalls SOA Growing Pains The Wrong Question! The Problems with Vendor-Driven Architecture Organizational Issues Challenge: The Right Amount of Governance SOA by Any Name SOA = Best Practices Thinking Outside the SOA Box Dealing with SOA Hype — and Anti-Hype Is there an Architect in the House? Hiring Architects EA Challenges: The Role of the EA Enterprise Architecture Challenges EA Challenges: The Risk of SOA Questions to Ask Your EA Good Money after Bad IT Governance Feedback Loop Interaction Challenges The “Ivory Tower” Problem Are “SOA” Consultants Qualified? The Power of the SOA Center of Excellence Convincing Technical Specialists Working with IT Middle Management Enabling Service Domains Service Domain Roles Funding & Budgeting Traditional IT Funding: Project Based Initial SOA Funding Funding SOA Rollouts SOA during Economic Downturn SOA on the Roadmap? SOA in Progress? Budgeting SOA Projects Calculating your SOA Project Budget The Real Challenge: People, Change and Fear Building the right SOA team SOA Project Staffing Project Leader Data Specialists Security Specialists Legacy Systems Specialists Service Development Specialists BPM/Composition Specialists Governance Specialists Testing & Deployment Specialists Project Archivists External Services Specialists  Case Study: SOA Organizational Change & Funding at Novartis Exercise: SOA ROI Module 8: SOA Quality The GQM Loop Service Lifecycle Governance and Quality SOA Quality = Testing Web Services? SOA Quality = Testing Architecture? SOA Testing Key Points SOA Implementation Testing Service Testing Principles: Testing Use Cases Service Testing Principles: Granularity Test for Reusability Test for Heterogeneity Test for Abstraction Testing Compositions Testing Compositions as Integrations Integration Testing Questions Security Level Testing Governance Level Testing The Long-Term Challenge of SOA Testing Testing in Production?? Exercise: SOA Test Plan Module 9: Service Composition, Business Process, & SOBAs What is a Business Process? The Role of Business Process Reengineering The Automation Paradox Problems with Traditional BPM Tooling Business Process the Old Way Business Process the Service-Oriented Way Service-Oriented Process Service Composition: Supporting Business Process with Services Process Definitions Example: Orchestration vs. Choreography WS-* Standards for Orchestration & Choreography Limitations of BPEL Composition & No-ESB SOA Maintaining Process Instance State Process Analysis Discovering Existing Processes Shared vs. Private Processes Defining New SOBAs New Process Configuration & Design Process Optimization Varieties of Business Processes Business Logic at the Composition Level Enterprise Applications and Process Example: SAP NetWeaver Transactions and SOA Transactions the Loosely-Coupled Way Compensating Transactions What about Workflow? BPEL4People Scenarios Portals as Gateway to Workflow  Case Study: SOA Journey at BP Exercise: Service-Oriented Business Applications Module 10: SOA Futures Outside the SOA Box What can we expect as SOA becomes ubiquitous? SOA vs. not SOA? Software-as-a-Service & SOA Virtualization & SOA Cloud Computing & SOA Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA) & SOA WOA extends the Web to SOA? Web 2.0 & SOA Empower Business Users? What’s New about Mashups? Data Mashups as Situational Applications Process Mashup in Action Process vs. Data? Visualization: the overlap between process & data The Long Tail: Applications The Enterprise 2.0 Long Tail

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ZapCourse: Cloud Security Fundamentals

Online, Computer Based Training Course

Cost: US $297.00

This one hour online course covers the fundamentals of Cloud security, including topics of:

• Cloud authorization and authentication
• Cloud data protection and privacy
• Cloud Governance
• Cloud infrastructure availability and reliability
• The latest best practices and standards that apply to Cloud security

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Event Agenda Online Course Security: How is the Cloud different? Cloud Authentication & Authorization Authentication Authorization Cloud Data Protection Data Encryption Data Privacy Data Reliability Cloud Governance Policy enforcement Auditing & Visibility

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ZapCourse – Architecting with the Cloud: Strategy & Planning

Online Computer-Based Training Course

Cost:  US $297.00

Most of the information about Cloud Computing today comes from vendors. As a result, it skews toward purchasing software and hardware, and away from making balanced decisions in the enterprise. The Enterprise Architect must counterbalance vendor spin and place Cloud Computing into the proper context: among the many deployment options available, with its own unique advantages and disadvantages. This ZapCourse outlines the primary issues an EA must consider in order to make appropriate decisions about various Cloud-based options, how to put together a Cloud roadmap, and how best to communicate the position the Cloud should take in the greater context of agile Enterprise Architecture. Includes a case study from Conde Nast, publisher of magazines including GQ, Vogue, and Wired.

Course length: 69 minutes of recorded video and slides, self-paced.

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Event Agenda Architecting with the Cloud: Strategy & Planning Online, Computer-Based, Self-Paced Course Course Overview Architecting with the Cloud: Strategy & Planning Course Goals Cloud Computing: Old Wine in New Bottles Essential Cloud Characteristics Cloud Service Models Cloud Deployment Models Managed Hosting vs. Cloud Computing Vendor Spin Oracle’s Shopping List IBM’s Shopping List Cloud Service Lifecycle Cutting Through the Hype Cloud Computing Roadmap EA Cloud Strategy Relationship between Cloud & SOA Cloud Deployment Choices Services as a Service Some Cloud Realities Cloud Governance Challenges Governance-Related Cloud Issues Extending SOA Governance to the Cloud Dealing with Cloud ReliabilityExample: Amazon EC2 Cloud Governance as VM Governance Rogue Clouds More Cloud Governance Pitfalls Cloud Governance: Run Time Considerations Cloud Availability & Failover Cloud Governance Checklist Governance solution should make use of Cloud Services Case Study: redditConde Nast Moving to EC2 Best Practices Conclusion

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ZapThink SOA Training & Certification: The Leading Vendor Independent, Architect-Focused SOA Training

ZapThink’s Licensed ZapThink Architect (LZA) SOA Training & Certification Boot Camp is recognized around the world as the best single Service-Oriented Architecture training course available anywhere.

The LZA SOA Boot Camp is an intensive, four day “fire hose” of information that prepares you to succeed with your SOA efforts, whether you’re just beginning them or are well down the road with SOA. ZapThink’s LZA SOA Training is the only public course that ZapThink offers, reflecting the best thinking and research that ZapThink produces.

ZapThink’s LZA SOA training & certification has no prerequisites, and is designed for architects, but appropriate for people with different roles and levels of expertise. This course is valuable for anyone who wants in-depth knowledge about how to succeed with SOA.

 

What makes the LZA SOA Boot Camp so special?

• Vendor independent – We discuss vendors in context, both good and bad. You get a balanced perspective on each vendor we discuss.
• Architect focused – The course concentrates on what architects have to do to be successful with SOA in their own organizations. We balance technology details with organizational approaches. If you’re not an architect you’ll learn how to think like one in this class!
• Practical – we connect theory to practice with what really works in organizations like yours.
• Current – we refresh the course on a regular basis to reflect the latest SOA best practices, as well as how SOA relates to other architectural challenges in the enterprise.
• Enterprise context – SOA is an approach to organizing enterprise IT resources to meet changing business needs. We place SOA into the context of large organizations, with complex, heterogeneous IT environments and all the politics and bureaucracy that every large organization faces.
• Globally recognized certification – Everybody who completes the LZA SOA Boot Camp obtains a certificate representing their LZA credential, giving you the right to call yourself a Licensed ZapThink Architect with all the privileges that come along with this exclusive credential.
• Led by globally recognized SOA thought leader – All ZapThink’s courses are developed and led by Jason Bloomberg, ZapThink Managing Partner. Jason has been an analyst with ZapThink since 2001 and is the co-author of Service Orient or Be Doomed!
• Not too technical, not too high-level – Unlike courses offered by others, we cover the technology without getting lost in the details. We discuss the big picture but connect it to the day-to-day reality of the IT shop.
• Available around the world – See the event schedule on this page for all the locations we’re offering the LZA SOA Boot Camp!

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LZA SOA Boot Camp Version 9.0
Day 1
Registration: 8:00 to 8:30 AM
LZA Introduction
Module 1: The Enterprise Context for SOA
Business Constant: Change We’ve had IT challenges for years If you are in a Hole, Stop Digging! The Voice of Doom? Business Agility What is SOA? Services: Lego “Ilities” Composability & Business Services Why SOA? SOA by Any Name SOA = Best Practices Iconoclastic vs. Dogmatic Architecture Thinking Outside the SOA Box Business Drivers for SOA When Not to Apply SOA The Wrong Question! The Distributed Computing Pendulum SOA: Paradigm Shift? So, How to Implement SOA? There’s No Such Thing as a SOA Wizard! Is SOA New? XML to the Rescue! What about Web Services? Pros & Cons of Web Services What about REST? Architectural Styles What is Architecture?		Architecture is not About the Technology Architecting SOA: Beyond Use Cases SOA Implementation as Complex System Examples of Complex Systems The Focus of CSE CSE: Overall Coherence Governance: Architecting People Achieving Business Agility Quality & Complex Systems The SOA Quality Star Best Effort SOA SOA as Enterprise Architecture The Zachman Framework Pros & Cons of Zachman The Enterprise Context for SOA   Cloud Computing: Old Wine in New Bottles Formal Definition of Cloud Computing Relationship between Cloud & SOA   Services Thinking Why is SOA Difficult?  Case Studies: Mini-Studies on SOA Use Information Sharing: FAA Reducing Integration Costs: Aeroplan Compliance & Volume: Wells Fargo Bank Meeting Client Needs: MITRE
Module 2: SOA Design Principles
Design Principle #1: Abstraction What’s a Service? Levels of Service Abstraction Service as Interface & Implementation Consumers & Providers What are Services? (Technically, Service interfaces) Interoperability vs. Portability Service Interfaces Aren’t Good Enough! Abstractions: Simple on the Outside Abstraction = Working Illusion Building a Working Illusion The Fundamental Technical Challenge of SOA   SOA Design Principle #2: Standardized Service Contract What’s a Service Contract? Service Contract vs. Service Description  Design Principle #3: Encapsulation What’s NOT in the Contract  Design Principle #4: Discoverability What are Metadata? Metadata for SOA SOA Registry as “Discovery Agency” Location Independence  Design Principle #5: Reusability Reusability vs. Usability Achieving Reusability: Service Agnosticism Designing for Reuse: Agnostic Context Reuse over Time		Design Principle #6: Granularity Key Service Abstraction Enabler: Proper Granularity Granularity Example Achieving Proper Granularity Zeroing in on Proper Granularity Example: Too Fine Grained vs. Too Coarse Grained Service Refactoring  Design Principle #7: Autonomy Autonomy Issue: Overlapping Functional Control Autonomy Issue: Concurrency Autonomy Issue: Dependency  Design Principle #8: Loose Coupling What about Coupling? Full Decoupling? Loose Coupling: Separation of Concerns Levels of Coupling Loose Coupling and Context  Design Principle #9: Statelessness Maintaining Process Instance State “Stateful Services”  Design Principle #10: Composability Metadata-Driven Applications Programmatic vs. Declarative Challenges with Declarative Approach  Case Study: ABN Amro

Exercise: SOA Return on Investment

Module 3: The SOA Reference Architecture

• What is a Reference Architecture?
• Recommended SOA Reference Architecture Structure
• What’s Different about a SOA Reference Architecture?
• End-to-End Architecture: The SOA Metamodel
  • SOA Foundation: Model-Driven Architecture
  • SOA Foundation: The 4+1 View Model

   

• The Agility Model
• Service Architecture
  • Building the Service Model
  • Introducing “ZapElectric”
  • ZapElectric Service Model

• Service Types
  • Entity Services
  • Task Services
  • Utility (IS) Services

   

• Service Relationships Example
• Process Isomorphism
• Service Layers
  • Typical Service Layers
  • ZapElectric Service Layer Model

   

• Component & Implementation Models
• ZapElectric Logical Architecture Model

Homework: Service ModelClass Ends at 5:00 PM

Day Two

Class Begins at 8:30 AM

Module 4: Intermediaries & Integration

• SOA Infrastructure Starting Point: The Intermediary
• Some Intermediary Roles
• Intermediaries and Service Façades
• SOA “Magicians’ Tricks”
  • Multiple Interfaces per Implementation
  • Multiple Implementations per Interface
  • Multiple Interfaces per Business Service

   

• Actualizing the Business Service Abstraction
• Intermediaries & Messaging
• Buying an Intermediary?
• The Great ESB/SOA Middleware Boondoggle
  • Buy More Middleware for SOA?
  • ESB Federation?
  • Compounding the Problem: No Clear ESB Definition
  • The ESB Pattern
  • Do You need an ESB for Service Mediation?

   

• Intermediary-Based Service Abstraction
• Another Approach: XML Appliances
• Building Intermediary-Based SOA Infrastructure
• SOA Message Exchange Patterns
• SOA Tenet: Asynchrony
• Messages vs. Events
• Business Driver: Visibility
• Visibility & Heterogeneity
• SOA, Integration & Legacy
• Exposing Existing Capabilities
• The Continued Value of Legacy
  • Legacy Migration
  • Legacy Enablement
  • Legacy Rejuvenation
  • Migration vs. Rejuvenation
  • Business Driver: Cost Savings
  • Reducing Integration Cost

   

• Case Study: SOA at The Hartford

Module 5: The Role of Data & Semantics

• The Role of Data
• Data: Foundation for SOA
• The Data Services Layer
• Application Services vs. Data Services
• Designing Data Services
• Performance vs. Flexibility
• Supporting Data Services with Data Integration
• Leveraging Data Services Layer

• Semantics and SOA
• Semantic Level Understanding
• Role of Application Semantics
• Semantics: The Greatest Integration Challenge of SOA
• Still a Manual Process
• Resolving Semantic Issues
• Semantic Model Example: Maritime Information Exchange Model
• MIEM Business Case
• Best Practices in Industry
• Industry-Specific Semantic Standards
• Principal Features of MIEM
• Vessel State & Event Relationships (XML)
• Semantic Web: Key to Solving Business Challenges 
• Case Study: MyFoodAlerts.com

Module 6: Service Composition & Business Process

• What is a Business Process?
• The Automation Paradox
• Problems with Traditional BPM Tooling
• Business Process the Enterprise Application Way
• Business Process the Service-Oriented Way
• Service-Oriented Process
• Process Definitions
• Example: Orchestration vs. Choreography
• What is the Sweet Spot for Service Composition?

• SOA Composite Application Example
• Enterprise Applications and Process
• Example: SAP NetWeaver
• Transactions and SOA
  • Compensating Transactions
  • Transactions in the Cloud
  • Partition Tolerance
  • BASE instead of ACID

   

• Case Study: SOA Journey at BP

Module 7: Web Services-Based SOA

• Confusing SOA & Web Services
• If not Web Services, Then What?
• WSDL: Service Contract Starting Point
  • WSDL Basics
  • Concrete Description
  • Abstract Description
  • RPC vs. Document Style
  • Vendor Bozo Filter

   

• Contract Metadata Beyond WSDL
• What’s Missing from WSDL?
• Sample Service Contract Template
• OASIS Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I)
• SOAP: Verbose Message Transport
• What is a Policy?
  • Policy “Math”
  • Computing Effective Policy
  • WS-Policy Example

• WS-PolicyAttachment
• Policy Attachment to WSDL 1.1
• Some Policy Standards
• WS-SecurityPolicy Example (Policy & Conforming Message)

 

• Physical Service Architecture
• Three Approaches to State
• Web Services Orchestration
  • BPEL Example
  • Limitations of BPEL
  • Thread-Based Execution
  • Queue-Based Execution
  • BPMN to the Rescue?
  • BPMN Example
  • Limitations of BPMN
  • How SOA Fills the Gap
  • What about Workflow?
  • Workflow & Web Services

   

• What’s the Deal with UDDI?

Exercise: Service ContractHomework: Service CompositionsClass Ends at 5:00 PM

Day Three

Class Begins at 8:30 AM

Module 8: REST-Based SOA

• Definition of REST
• Dogmatic REST
• REST Myths
• Essential REST Terminology
  • What is a Resource?
  • Uniform Interface
  • PUT vs. POST: Initializing a Resource
  • What is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)?
  • RESTful vs. RPC-based URIs
  • What is a Representation?
  • Negotiating Representation Type
  • Content Negotiation
  • What is Hypermedia?

   

• Four Architectural Constraints
  • Separation of Resource from Representation
  • Manipulation of Resources by Representations
  • Self-Descriptive Messages
  • Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State
  • HATEOAS Example
  • HATEOAS and URIs

   

• State Transitions in REST
• Custom Media Types

• Contracted Services
• Contract Metadata for REST
• Intermediaries & REST
  • REST Starting Point
  • Caching Options
  • Proxy Pattern
  • Gateway (Reverse Proxy) Pattern
  • Asynchronous REST

   

• REST Compositions
  • REST-Based Orchestration
  • REST-Based Choreography
  • Choreographing Orchestrations
  • Composite Representations vs. Composite RESTful Services
  • Everything is a Resource
  • Examples of Process Representations
  • Example of REST Choreography
  • Follow Links to Learn About Processes
  • Some Benefits of REST-Based BPM

   

• REST-Based SOA
  • Essential REST-Based SOA Policies
  • Differences Between Web Services-Based SOA & REST-Based SOA

Module 9: Architecting with the Cloud

• Essential Cloud Characteristics
• Cloud Service Models
• Cloud Deployment Models
• Managed Hosting vs. Cloud Computing
• Vendor Spin
  • Oracle’s Shopping List
  • IBM’s Shopping List
  • Cutting Through the Hype

• Cloud Computing Roadmap
• EA Cloud Strategy
• Cloud Deployment Choices 
• Case Study: reddit Conde Nast

Module 10: SOA & Cloud Security

• Critical SOA Challenge: Security
• Security Fundamentals
• The Context of IT Security
• XML Threat Prevention
• Mitigating XML Threats
• Web Services Security
• WS-Security Tokens
  • Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
  • SAML Assertions
  • Federated Security

   

• Message-Level Security: Is SSL Sufficient?
• Core Requirements for Securing Services

• Cloud Security
  • The Three Core Cloud Access Control Concerns
  • Cloud Authentication: Federated Identity Management
  • oAuth as Federated Authentication Mechanism
  • Cloud Security: Authorization
  • Cloud Security: Policy
  • Cloud Security: Provisioning
  • The Big Picture: Retaining Control
  • Cloud Security: Data Confidentiality
  • Data Confidentiality in Motion
  • Key Management is “Key”
  • Alternative Approaches to Data Confidentiality
  • Know Your Data: Data Lineage & Provenance
  • Data Remanence
  • Cloud Security: Data Availability

   

• Case Study: US Department of Defense OneStop

Module 11: SOA Governance

• The Need for Governance
• What is Organizational Governance?
• How to Tackle Governance
• The Cornerstone of IT Governance is Architecture
• Elements of IT Governance Strategy
• What is SOA Governance?
  • SOA Governance “in the Narrow”
  • SOA Governance “In the Broad”
  • SOA Governance Activities

   

• Policies
  • Policy: Business vs. Technical Examples
  • Design Time Policy Examples
  • Run Time Policy Examples
  • Change Time Policy Examples

• The Challenge of Policy Automation
  • Steps for Automating Policies
  • Supporting Policy Changes
  • Decoupling Policies from Services
  • Policy Management & Enforcement
• Creating the Governance Framework
• Governance Challenges
  • Governance Challenge: Reuse = Sharing
  • Publishing & Discovery Governance
  • Is Reuse a Real SOA Benefit?
  • Governance Pitfall: Versioning
  • Handling Service Versioning
  • Versioning Concepts
  • Versioning Strategies
  • Strict Versioning
  • Flexible Versioning
  • Loose Versioning
  • Versioning Policy Issues
  • Challenge: The Right Amount of Governance

Exercise: Governance FrameworkHomework: SOA Business CaseClass Ends at 5:00 PM

Day Four

Class Begins at 8:30 AM

Module 12: Cloud Governance & SOA Governance Infrastructure

• Cloud Governance
  • Some Cloud Realities
  • Cloud Governance Challenges
  • Governance-Related Cloud Issues
  • Extending SOA Governance to the Cloud
  • Dealing with Cloud Reliability Example: Amazon EC2
  • Cloud Governance as VM Governance
  • Rogue Clouds
  • Cloud Governance: Auditing
  • Strategies for Dealing with Cloud Audit
  • More Cloud Governance Pitfalls
  • Cloud Governance: Run Time Considerations
  • Legal Issues
  • Cloud Availability & Failover
  • Cloud Governance Checklist

• SOA Governance Infrastructure
  • Complexities of SOA Governance Marketplace
  • What is a Registry?
  • What is a Repository?
  • The Registry/Repository
  • Management & Loose Coupling
  • SOA Management: Many Facets
  • The Problem with SOA Management
  • The SOA Management Conundrum
  • SOA Monitoring & Management
  • Continuous Quality Activities
  • The First Rule of SOA Management
  • ZapElectric Physical Architecture Model
• Case Study: SOA Organizational Change & Funding @ Novartis

Module 13: Planning & Running the SOA Initiative

• How Do You Eat an Elephant?
• Iterative: More than Step-by-Step
• Iterate your Architecture?
• Project Management for a SOA Project
• Defining SOA Roadmap
• Initial Assessments
• Building Support for SOA
• Building the SOA Business Case
• Milestone / KPI Plan
• The SOA Roadmap
  • The ZapThink SOA Roadmap
  • ZapElectric SOA Roadmap

   

• SOA Maturity Models
  • Analogous to CMMI
  • SOA Maturity Model Pointers
  • Using a SOA Maturity Model
  • SOA Maturity Model: HP
  • SOA Maturity Model: Wipro
  • Open Group Service Integration Maturity Model (OSIMM), from IBM
  • “SOA” Maturity Model: Sonic/Systinet
  • SOA Maturity Model: Oracle
  • SOA Maturity Model: Software AG

• Define Initial Iteration
• SOA Pilots
• Implementation Planning
• Service Identification: Top Down vs. Bottom Up
• Defining Services
  • Performance: Chasing the Bottleneck
  • Implementing Services: Methodologies for change
  • The Dual Lifecycle
  • The Service Lifecycle
  • Advanced Vision for Application Assembly
  • Where’s the code?
  • The Agile SOA Lifecycle

   

• Top-Down: Analyze Processes
  • Process Analysis
  • Process Optimization
  • Discovering Existing Processes
  • Service Identification: Process Decomposition

   

• Implementing Services
• Defining New Compositions
• Technology Selection
  • ZapElectric Component Model
  • Purchasing SOA Technology
  • Technology Selection: Choices

Exercise: SOA RoadmapFinal Exam: SOA Jeopardy!Class Ends at 3:00 PM

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