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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:

• Introduction to Service Oriented Architecture
• From Client/Server SOA to Event and Service Oriented Architecture (e-SOA)
• Guiding Principles for Service Oriented Integration
  • Integration requirements: connectivity, transformation, routing, process flow, business and atomic transactions, security, legacy encapsulation / mainframe integration, B2B Integration requirements, etc.
    Application styles: Multi-step Process vs. Composite Application
    Loosely coupled architectures
    The message data architecture
    Leveraging and migrating legacy systems using SOA
    Application styles: Multi-step Process vs. Composite Application
    Loosely coupled architectures
    The message data architecture
    Leveraging and migrating legacy systems using SOA
• Utilizing core Web Services technologies for integration
  Schemas, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, BPEL/BPMN
• Utilizing extended Web Services technologies for integration
  • Notification, Reliable Messaging, Security, Transactions
• Overview of the Key SOA Integration Platforms
  • Integration Brokers
  • Enterprise Service Buses (ESB)
  • J2EE Application Servers
  • Microsoft BizTalk
  • Open Source Software (OSS)
• How to select SOA Integration Middleware
• Best practices and case study
• Summary and Conclusions

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.

Instructor Biography:

Max Dolgicer is an internationally recognized expert and Managing Director at International System Group (ISG), Inc (www.isg-inc.com), a leading consulting firm that specializes in IT Strategy, development and integration of large-scale distributed applications using Service-Oriented Architectures.

Mr. Dolgicer has been involved in leading management and technical roles in many of the major engagements for ISG’s clients including 3M, Carey International, United States Patent Office (USPT), New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), CSFB, Federal Reserve, Allstate Insurance, Financial Times Interactive, MetLife, Principal Financial Group, Cigna, CitiGroup, Morgan Stanley, Delta Airlines and Goldman Sachs.

Mr. Dolgicer has more than 24 years of management and technical experience in development and support of mission-critical business applications and software products.

Target Audience/Who Should Attend:

• Architects
• Designers

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 how apply a practical and proven architecture driven approach to service oriented integration.