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Demonstrating Business Value in EA and SOA
A case study of a large, highly scalable architecture shows how you can use EA concepts to support business strategy implementation.

Enterprise Architect Summit, May 23, 2005

Watch the video of the session! (Running time: 1 hour, 1 minute)

Greggory Garrett Enterprise Architect, Strategy Consulting Services Group gedas USA (Volkswagen Group)

Ben Bratt Enterprise Architect, Strategy Consulting Services Group gedas USA (Volkswagen Group)

Toufic Boubez CTO, Layer 7 Technologies

Explore how you can use the concepts of EA to support business strategy implementation through a case study of a large, highly scalable architecture built on the .NET platform. You'll hear about integration between J2EE and .NET applications using Web services; integration with mainframes through HIS and MQSeries; version and release management for integrated applications; design, estimation, and project management techniques; using frameworks in application development; and managing asynchronous communication in an integration scenario with multiple applications. You'll also explore how a successful EA program depends on understanding how humans fit into the enterprise's architecture.

About the Speakers
Greggory R. Garrett is responsible for gedas USA's EA methodology development and enterprise architect–based solution delivery. gedas has applied an EA approach to help shape business and IT strategies at VW group companies. Greggory is also the founding chairman of the Enterprise Architecture Interest Group (EAIG).

Ben Bratt is responsible for the gedas USA's HCM support of client technology implementations and global practice development. Ben has 11 years of experience in helping organizations realize and integrate systems and process changes in technical and manufacturing environments.

Before cofounding Layer 7 Technologies, Toufic Boubez was the Chief Web Services Architect for IBM's Software Group and drove its early XML and Web services strategies. He worked as IBM's technical representative to the UDDI Web services consortium and participated on several standards bodies including the UN/CEFACT/OASIS ebXML initiative.