Webcast
A Smarter way to Successful SOA – Information as a trusted strategic asset
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Developed for: CIO, IT Managers, Architects, Integration Developers
Technical level: Beginner – Intermediate
With Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) maturing and being top of mind with many IT execs, expectations for successful outcomes are higher than ever. One of the key success factors that is often over looked is how data and information is managed as part of the solution. Many SOA projects focus on the integration aspects – enabling business functions and applications to be represented as a set of well defined reusable services. Without open easy access to the necessary data, developers and integration architects continue to struggle to know where best to source that data from, what data to use, how to abstract the complexity of the data and whether it is of the right context and quality. The consequences are that some SOA projects miss deadlines, go over budget, and deliver less business value than expected. Please join David Linthicum and Mark Simmonds for this webcast and learn about Data Services, Data Abstraction and Information as a Service and how the IBM Information Management portfolio deliver these to further enhance IBM’s SOA leadership – helping to deliver the business benefits and ROI you expect from your SOA project.
In this webcast, you’ll learn how Data Services, Data Abstraction and information as a Service can deliver the business benefits and ROI you expect from you SOA project and, further:
- How to ensure your SOA implementation has easy access to the right information to maximize your ROI
- How to enable processes and applications to consume accurate information and support the decision making process
- How to optimize processes using the right information
Speakers:
Mark Simmonds – Product Marketing Manager for the IBM Information Management division
Mark Simmonds is a senior product marketing manager within the IBM Software Group Information Management division focused on SOA and Data Governance for the System z® portfolio. He previously spent 10 years in WebSphere® Product Marketing and 3 years as an IBM systems architect responsible for infrastructure design and corporate technical architecture.
David Linthicum – Independent consultant
David Linthicum is an internationally known Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) expert. In his career, Dave has formed or enhanced many of the ideas behind modern distributed computing including EAI, B2B Application Integration, and SOA, approaches and technologies in wide use today. Dave is the founder of David S. Linthicum, LLC, a consulting organization dedicated to excellence in SOA product development, SOA implementation, corporate SOA strategy, and leveraging the next generation Web with SOA.
Join us after the webcast for a live question-and-answer session.