"Learn how a SOA can give you the often sought-after competitive edge."

SOA for Managers and Architects

Course contents

What you will learn:

What is service oriented architecture? 

• Creating a common understanding of SOA
  
• The evolution of SOA
  
• Introduce the concepts of services and SOA
  
• Why businesses need to innovate
  
• SOA is not about web services
  
• How SOA enables innovation
  

The Business Impact of SOA

• The benefits of employing SOA
  
• Review of common business goals
  
• The risks associated with the SOA approach
  
• Evaluating tradeoff strategies
  

SOA Roadmap

• SOA maturity model
  
• The SOA adoption roadmap
  
• SOA expansion stages
  
• Start with the business
  
• Defining a business component model
  
• Identifying differentiators and commodity

The different Service types 

• Categorizing services
  
• Enterprise services and Process centric services
  
• Data centric services and Logic centric services
  
• Intermediary services and application frontends
  
• Basic services
  

Modeling SOA building blocks

• Using UML to analyse service requirements
  
• Generating a domain model
  
• Service oriented analysis and design overview
  
• Identifying basic services
  
• Usage of sequence and activity diagrams
  
• The need for a structured analysis process          

SOA Governance

• Aligning IT and Business through governance
  
• The importance of a repository
  
• Dependencies between services and business components
  
• Governance is not management
  
• Metrics, KPI's and continuous improvement
  
• Who sits on the SOA Board?
  

A Service Oriented Reference Model 

• Reference models and reference architectures
  
• The OASIS reference model and architecture
  
• SOA vendors and their relationship with SOA
  
• SOA support in .NET and J2EE platforms

Case Studies

• A telecommunications firm
  
• The Vision, the strategy
  
• Choosing a Pilot project -setting expectations
  
• Setting up the SOA board
  
• Establishing a business component model
  
• Evaluating the Pilot's results and KPI's

Next Steps      

• Avoiding the 'big bang' situation
  
• A phased approach with incremental improvements
  
• Understanding the SOA maturity model