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The Future of SOA

By Ronald Schmelzer ⋅ October 23, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

ZapForum Podcast for October 12, 2009: The Future of SOA: Does the Cloud Have a SOA Lining?

With guest experts

Jason Armstrong, Practice Manager for Strategic Solutions, Summa Techologies

Ed Horst, Chief Marketing Officer, AmberPoint

Brad Wright, Data Services Product Manger, Progress DataDirect

JP Morgenthal, Senior Principal Architect, QinetiQ

David Linthicum, Author, Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise: A Step-by-Step Guide

James Kobielus, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research.

Legacy, Data, and the Cloud

By Jason Bloomberg ⋅ October 7, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Presentation for Practical SOA event, October 2009, sponsored by DataDirect.

How the concept of the Service abstraction unifies the issues of legacy, data, and Cloud Computing.

35-slide PowerPoint in pdf format.

ZapThink Hosts Practical Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Architecture (EA) event in Washington, DC

By admin ⋅ August 13, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

ZapThink Hosts Practical Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Architecture (EA) event in Washington, DC
Focus on Cost-Effective Legacy Modernization & Data Management

BALTIMORE, MD, August 11, 2009 — ZapThink announces today the availability of its upcoming Practical Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Architecture (EA) morning seminar event, running on October 2, 2009 in Washington, DC. The event features speakers, best practices, case studies, and lessons learned on how to implement cost-effective legacy modernization and data management strategies in the context of the latest enterprise architecture initiatives. The Practical SOA event series is targeted at companies and individuals looking for practical business case studies and value propositions for SOA, those who want to learn the latest best practices for making SOA a success, those looking to hear from successful architects about their SOA efforts, want to learn from peers about what it takes to put together a successful SOA, and/or want to take their SOA efforts to the next level.

“Companies are looking for practical solutions to their SOA and EA challenges,” said Ronald Schmelzer, Managing Partner with ZapThink, LLC. “Practical SOA events give Enterprise Architecture practitioners, consulting firms, and vendors, the best practices and practical implementation knowledge they are seeking by hearing from other architects and getting hands-on instruction on particular SOA and EA challenges.”

Sponsors and presenters at the upcoming Practical SOA & EA event in Washington, DC on October 2, 2009 include:

Dan Finerty, DataDirect
Jason Bloomberg, ZapThink

At the morning event, which runs from 8AM to 12noon PT, attendees will hear about the following topics:

Make SOA work in the context of legacy systems
Learn how to involve the mainframe in the context of SOA
Learn about methods for dealing with “legacy” data and composing heterogeneous data in a SOA environment
Returning Value with a Data Service Layer
Legacy, Data, and the Cloud

For more information and to register for this Practical SOA event, visit http://bit.ly/2Ty0ZU. Cost is just $29 to attend. Seats are limited and ZapThink expects Practical SOA events to sell out.

DataDirect Technologies Announces Expert Series Architect Tutorials 2008 and Celebrates 10 Years of Design Previews

By admin ⋅ September 23, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

DataDirect Technologies, a leader in data connectivity and mainframe integration and an operating company of Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), today announced the schedule and agenda for its bi-annual Expert Series Architect Tutorial events. Co-sponsored by the service-oriented architecture (SOA) research and advisory firm ZapThink LLC, the free seminar series is designed to provide software architects and software developers with thought-provoking information and actionable best practices for optimizing data access within SOA and virtualized environments.

Practical SOA: Insurance

By Jason Bloomberg ⋅ May 23, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Presentations from ZapThink’s Practical SOA for Insurance event on May 16, 2008. Presented as a 232-slide PowerPoint in pdf format (large file). Agenda as follows:

Session title	Time	Details
Welcome &SOA Adoption Trends in Insurance	08:30-09:30	Presenter: Jason Bloomberg, ZapThink, LLC What are current, worldwide SOA adoption trends? How is SOA impacting the Insurance industry? As Insurance companies face significant market-shaping challenges, how will IT be able to respond to those challenges through SOA? How can Insurance companies learn from other sectors with regards to SOA adoption? What is a practical SOA roadmap for the Insurance industry?
Industry Standards Based SOA: Using Standards to Jump Start SOA Projects	09:30-10:00	Presenter: Frank Neugebauer, Sr. Enterprise Architect, ACORD The ACORD Corporation is embarking on a new way of developing standards that incorporates a model-driven approach based on five facets; business dictionary, component model, service maps, information model, and capability model. Each facet builds and leverages the other but more importantly, each can be used to provide a foundation of SOA projects. This session outlines how ACORD standards – specifically the ACORD Standards Framework – can be used to jump start SOA projects. Learn how ACORD standards can jump start SOA component design. Learn how ACORD standards can jump start SOA process design. Learn how ACORD standards can serve as the foundation for insurance Web Services.
Coffee Break	10:00-10:15
Case Study in SOA: Insurance Industry	10:15-11:00	Presenter: Benjamin Moreland, Director, Foundation Services, The Hartford The Hartford, through their SOA Maturity Model, created a long-term SOA strategy as part of the EA program in 2003. This has allowed them to build a strong foundation, implement effective SOA governance and continue to leverage successful deployments of platforms, services and standards. This presentation will describe the Maturity Model used, lessons learned and benefits that The Hartford has experienced the last 5+ years. Think strategically, act tactically SOA must be planned SOA without governance will fail
The 3 C’s of SOA and Integration Quality: Complete, Collaborative, Continuous	11:00-12:00	Presenter: Chris Kraus, iTKO LISA Product Manager Enterprises are rapidly reaching the Tipping Point of increased change and complexity in IT. While the industry has developed agile tools for integrating and leveraging new and existing technologies — our ability to ensure quality must keep up with the pace of change that business drives. Quality must be baked into the entire lifecycle of the application, from design time, to change time and runtime, and not relegated to a pre-production “acceptance” phase. This presentation will provide practical examples for how developers and QA teams can work together to test and validate SOA workflows that span multiple application tiers, from the web UI, to services protocols, messaging/ESB frameworks, and implementation layers. Ensuring complete, collaborative and continuous quality to support SOA design, development and governance Identifying points of Risk in SOA and integration projects Methods for implementing testing processes at every phase of the application lifecycle Gaining participation and buy-in for quality across the extended organization
Lunch Break	12:00-13:00	Enjoy a gourmet lunch and network with your peers
Leveraging Pre-Built Services to Accelerate Your SOA and Deliver Value to Your Business	13:00-14:00	Presenter: Chris Connell, SVP Services, SEEC Learn how leading insurance carriers are taking a practical approach to SOA by leveraging pre-built SOA components to accelerate their SOA through the creation of shared services layer to rapidly meet the needs of their business. Hear how services common to Agent Enablement, Customer Self Service and CSR Enablement can be used – and re-used and how a number of carriers are delivering on the promise of SOA in less time and with less cost. Pre-built, standard based components are accelerating SOA initiatives across insurance and delivering significant value to the business. A shared service layer of common and industry specific components rapidly enables carriers to break down the silo’s associated with legacy systems and achieve interoperability. Leveraging pre-built services takes costs out of IT initiatives and provides a consistent, lower total cost alternative – enabling carriers to do more with less.
Changing Mainframe SOA Economics	14:00-15:00	Presenter: Dan Finerty, Director, Product Marketing, DataDirect Shadow Survey the broad expanse of the insurance industry and change is everywhere. Mergers, consolidations, new markets, new competition – issues that demand organizations increase their business agility or face obsolescence. Once dominant with superior mainframe technologies, insurance carriers are increasingly turning to SOA and Web services to expand the interoperability of their legacy infrastructures. This presentation tackles the economics of mainframe SOA and how new technologies can dramatically impact how the Insurance industry exploits mainframe technologies as an enabler for future growth. Find out about the latest SOA Methodologies and Best Practices Improving architectural skills and methods for SOA Moving SOA past the Web Services stage Determining, calculating, and realizing a Return on Investment for SOA
Coffee Break	15:00-15:15
The role of Identity in SOA deployments	15:15-16:00	Presenter: K. Scott Morrison, Layer 7 Technologies Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the new deployment model for Enterprise Architecture. SOA however extends the enterprise and its transactions beyond traditional security boundaries. This has the unintended effect of bringing the issues of identity, privacy, and governance to the fore. Technologies such as WS-Trust, WS-Policy, XACML and SAML, have been developed to solve the technical aspects of these issues. In order to properly manage them, however, SOA deployments need to implement a policy layer that decouples the business logic from the rest of the infrastructure. This talk will introduce the problem in the context of a case study for distributed data management, and will present the concepts of a Policy management layer, along with an introduction to the various technologies involved.
SOA Infrastructure: Laying the Foundation for IT Productivity	16:00-16:45	Presenter: Franco Castaldini – Director, SOA Product Marketing, Software AG Laying an enterprise-class foundation provides your enterprise with a structured and scalable platform to grow your SOA. With so many architectural and technological options to consider, what is the right infrastructure required for successful SOA adoption. You’ll hear how leading companies have implemented their SOA infrastructure, what did they implement to provide IT with greater productivity and responsiveness. Architectural Do’s and Don’ts for SOA What’s critical to a successful SOA implementation Case studies on successful SOA deployments

Building Data-Rich SOBAs in a Heterogeneous Environment

By linthicum@att.net ⋅ April 29, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The importance of the Data Services Layer for SOA, Service-Oriented Business Applications (SOBAs), and Service Consumers. Also explores the notion of Enterprise Mashups from the data perspective.

Delivered at DataDirect’s Architect Tutorial series in April – May, 2008.

34-slide PowerPoint in pdf format.

Practical SOA London

By Jason Bloomberg ⋅ April 29, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

All of the presentations from ZapThink’s Practical SOA event in London, UK on April 25, 2008.

The presentations include the following:

Welcome & World-Wide SOA Adoption Trends in 2008, Presenter: Jason Bloomberg, Managing Partner, ZapThink, LLC

Case Study in SOA: GE Capital Solutions, Presenter: Nicolas Farges, Technical Architect, GE Capital Solutions Europe.

Case Study in SOA: ABN Amro – Achieving Enterprise Scale SOA, Presenter: Roy Varughese, Chief Architect, ABN AMRO (Global Clients)

Enterprise SOA patterns, Presenter: Francois Lascelles, Director of Client Solutions, Layer 7 Technologies

A Complete Strategy for Testing Web services, Presenter: Rix Groenboom, Parasoft

Redefining the Economics of Mainframe SOA, Presenter: David Little, Senior Technical Consultant (Shadow Products), DataDirect

Recession-Proofing your Company with SOA, Presenter: Jason Bloomberg, Managing Partner, Zapthink

251-slide PowerPoint in pdf format (large file).

ZapThink Podcast: Practical SOA: London, UK – April 25, 2008 – Sneak Peek

By Ronald Schmelzer ⋅ April 14, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Special ZapThink “Sneak Preview” of Practical SOA: London, UK event on April 25, 2008 features:

Jason Bloomberg, Managing Partner, ZapThink

Nicolas Farges, Technical Architect, GE Capital Solutions Europe

Roy Varughese, Chief Architect, ABN AMRO (Global Clients)

Francois Lascelles, Director of Client Solutions, Layer 7 Technologies

Rix Groenboom, Parasoft

Peter Steel, EMEA Technology Manager, DataDirect

Listen to this Podcast and you will get a “Sneak Peek” at what all the presenters will be speaking about at our Practical SOA: London, UK event on April 25, 2008.

DataDirect Technologies Announces Expert Series Architect Tutorials 2008 and New XQuery Workshops

By admin ⋅ March 25, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The Expert Series seminars provide useful information for architects designing for Java(TM), .NET and other development platforms. Presentations address how best to handle a heterogeneous mix of data within the enterprise – whether relational, XML, EDI or proprietary data formats that reside on a combination of different platforms including Windows, Unix, Linux and the mainframe. The program agenda follows:

– Data Services Update with Industry Experts David Linthicum and Jason Bloomberg of ZapThink

ZapThink Podcast: Practical SOA : New York / New Jersey – Finance, Pharma, Media, Governance, Quality, and Management Sneak Peek

By Ronald Schmelzer ⋅ March 3, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Special ZapThink “Sneak Preview” Podcast for January 8, 2008 features:

Ron Schmelzer, Managing Partner, ZapThink

Ben Moreland, Director, Foundation Services, The Hartford

Mike Kavis, Executive Director, Architecture, Catalina Marketing

Jim Mackay, CMO, iTKO

Al Aghili, CTO and Founder, Managed Methods

Martin Milani, CTO, Tidal Software

Dan Finerty, Director, Product Marketing, DataDirect

Listen to this Podcast and you will get a “Sneak Peek” at what all the presenters will be speaking about at our Practical SOA: New York / New Jersey – Finance, Pharma, Media, Governance, Quality, and Management event in Newark, New Jersey, on March 25, 2008.

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