Service Oriented Integration - Live Online - begins April 9, 2012

April 9 & 10 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)
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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.

Course 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.

Target Audience / Who Should Attend:

  • Architects
  • Designers

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Principal Consultant, Software Renovation Consulting
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