Service Oriented Integration - BrainStorm San Francisco 2012

BrainStorm San Francisco

June 25th thru 28th, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport

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Service Oriented Integration - BrainStorm San Francisco 2012

06/27/2012 - 09:00 From 9AM to 5PM

Standards, Technologies, and Best Practices

IT managers have been under increasing pressure to migrate a portfolio of independent "stovepipe" applications to an integrated set of business services that can be aligned with changing business requirements and support new business processes faster and with reduced cost. Today, corporations have to choose from a number of integration products such as Integration Brokers, J2EE Application Servers, and Web Services tools – that have quite different capabilities, never mind different architectures and standards. However, these tools address only partially the challenges that corporate IT is facing: how to systematically and efficiently build and integrate applications using a unified approach, unified architecture and - where feasible – a single platform for application development and integration.

Service Oriented Architectures promise to improve every aspect of integration. Seamless B2B interactions, allowing companies to establish new business relationships and processes without the tedious grunt work that is usually involved when incompatible applications need to exchange information. The same should be true for integration behind the firewall, where legacy systems and packaged applications can now interoperate using standardized interfaces and protocols.

This seminar starts with an overview of the concepts of SOA and its relationship to event based architectures. It then outlines the key issues and guidelines that architects should consider when defining an integration architecture based on services. This seminar will then provide you with an in-depth understanding how the concepts of Service Oriented Architectures relate to Web Service technologies, and how SOA can be applied to integration initiatives within your company and across business partners.

XML and Web Services provide a standards-based approach to implementing a SOA, but it should not be overlooked that a complete B2B Integration or Enterprise Application Integration solution requires a platform that provides a host of integration capabilities.. You will also get an overview of today's predominant platforms for service oriented integration and see how the concepts taught in the seminar have been applied in a real world project.

Course Outline:

Drivers for Service Oriented Integration (SOI)
- Business velocity is increasing
- Enabling increased business velocity through SOI
Characteristics of typical integration scenarios
- Opportunistic (project oriented)
- Systematic (governance oriented)
Integration use case examples
- Acceleration of business processes
- B2B integration
- Reducing application portfolio complexity
- Implementing Composite Applications
Services defined
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) defined
- The changing notion of applications
- The Service Layer Model
SOA vs. Event Drive Architecture (EDA)
From Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) to SOA/EDA to Service Oriented Integration (SOI)
- Evolution of integration solutions
- Applying SOA to integration
  - Interfaces: WSDL
  - Data formats: XML vs. JSON
  - Communication: SOAP
The need for mediation
- Decoupling service consumer and service provider through an intermediary
Basic mediation functions
- Data transformation
- Routing
- Message validation
- Protocol switching
- Versioning
Beyond basic mediation
- Security
- Governance
Integrating legacy systems
B2B integration
Web Services Interoperability (WS-I)
The Enterprise Service Bus
- ESB Container Services
- How standards could enable plug-and-play integration
- Java Business Integration (JBI)
- ESB architectures
- ESB challenges
Open Source Software (OSS) for SOI
- Enterprise-grade OSS
- Product examples
Case study: Chauffeured Services Company
- Project Overview
- Three Dimensions of Business Partner Integration
- Service Oriented Integration Architecture
- Definition Of Service Layering
- Logical architecture
- Verifying SOA Principles
- Designing Service Interfaces
- Designing The Schemas
- Interface Consolidation
- Conclusions

Unique Value of Course:

There has been a great deal of confusion between concepts, standards, and technologies (SOA, Web Services, ESB, etc). This seminar helps you to clearly distinguish between the hype and the reality and teaches you on how apply a practical and proven architecture driven approach to service oriented integration.

Objectives:

Understand how to employ a Service-Oriented Architecture for integration of your application portfolio.
Be able to define practical guidelines that can help different project teams make the best architecture and technology choices.
Learn how services can enable and facilitate integration of applications within your enterprise and across a B2B value chain.
Distinguish between hype and reality so that you can put the technology to its optimal use in your organization.

Who Should Attend:

Architects
Designers

Prerequisites:

SOA for Architects

About our Innovation Workshop series

Half-Day Innovation Workshops allow practitioners the opportunity to experience leading-edge advancements in process improvement technologies and techniques in an educational setting.

Our curriculum is designed to be a highly interactive, hands-on learning experience covering a range of topics to help you best evaluate and incorporate state-of-the-art tools and techniques into your specific business environment.

Half-Day Innovation Workshops feature:

Hands-on exercises
Software Tool demos
Best practices
Panels
Audience participation
Customer case studies

This event will feature the following Half-Day Innovation Workshops:

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Achieve Success With BPM

How To Break Through The Barriers To BPM Companies worldwide have for generations sought to better manage their key business processes to improve efficiency, insight into their impact, and to achieve greater business flexibility. The introduction...

From 9AM to 12PM

Applying BPM to Transform your Business

BPM can deliver levels of transparency, productivity and accountability across your business. To achieve this, you must start with understanding the actionable, practical and proven steps for process improvement success. Join us as we discuss...

From 2PM to 5PM

Executive Luncheon: Reflections From 2011, Outlook for 2012

From 12PM to 1PM

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Managing Processes and Decisions for Better Business Outcomes

Process improvement is about achieving better business outcomes. Technology is providing powerful capabilities that organizations are using now to quickly and continuously improve customer-facing and back-end operations. The challenge, of course, is that...

From 9AM to 12PM

Birds-of-a-Feather Luncheon: Topical Peer To Peer Discussions

From 12PM to 1PM

Using Business Decision Management to Revolutionize Business Requirements and Processes

The Decision Model is a new Business Logic Framework that impacts not just technology trends but also business management practices. It brings to the world of business rules a well-defined structure based on the inherent nature of logic, extended with...

From 2PM to 5PM

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Capability Mapping

Leveraging a Foundational Business Discipline Capability mapping is commonly recognized as a business-oriented foundation for communication and collaboration, issue analysis and resolution, and prioritization and roadmap creation. Capability mapping...

From 9AM to 12PM

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