ZapForum Podcast: Mergers & Acquisitions Made Easy with SOA

ZapForum Podcast for October 30, 2007 features

Guest Experts Richard Sides, Senior Vice President, Global Services, and Raghuram Devalla, Chief Technology Officer, Ramco Systems.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Gain an understanding as to the technical challenges behind corporate mergers and acquisitions
• Learn how SOA can help organizations during mergers
• Understand the role of SOA governance in mergers and acquisition

ZapForum Podcast: Supporting Business Change with a Model-Driven Approach to SOA

ZapForum Podcast for June 26, 2007 features

Guest Expert Barbara Angius Saxby, Chief Marketing Officer, Ramco Systems.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Understand how to support changing business processes with a model-driven approach
• Learn what a business Service is in the context of business processes
• Grasp the relationship between business process and SOA

Setting the Stage: ZapThink Analysts

ZapThink analysts Jason Bloomberg and Ron Schmelzer set the stage by discussing the challenge IT organizations face when they implement SOA to support business change.

Next, Barbara Saxby explains the model-driven approach to SOA, and takes a business process-centric perspective on business Services. She then delineates the Service-oriented approach to business process that supports ongoing business change. She also discusses the granularity of business Services as well as the requirements for an agile Service composition environment.

Ramco Systems: Service-Oriented Business Process Delivery

A primary reason many enterprises seek to implement Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is to enable flexible business processes that respond to changing business needs. One category of emerging software solutions that companies need to achieve this goal is a Business Process Platform that provides an environment for users to create business Services and compose them into Service-Oriented Business Applications (SOBAs).

Ramco Systems, a new entrant in the SOA marketplace, has recently announced such a solution as part of their Business Process Delivery System which enables organizations to take a model-driven approach to Service creation and composition. The Business Process Delivery System provides over one thousand pre-configured business Services, business intelligence capabilities, and SOBAs for vertical industries offer flexibility and agility with respect to both infrastructure choices as well as processes.