SOA and Enterprise Architecture: Integration That Works
Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA) do not exist in isolation. Rather, they are important threads woven into the fabric of the IT environment. The goals of services — agility and interoperability — can only be achieved when developed and managed within architectural guidelines. We'll explore real-world experiences and best practices for integrating SOA with enterprise architecture, including inventory, visibility, in-place versioning, provisioning, security, reuse, feedback, and communication.

For a service to be trusted and reused, knowledge of who is using it and how well it is performing is needed. The EA captures this knowledge as a service of the Realtime EA. We'll illustrate these ideas using the US Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA).

Charles Stack is CEO of Flashline
Peter Herzum is president of Herzum Software

Model-Driven Development: Process Improvements and Software Factories
Examine the use of the Microsoft-proposed approach to model-driven development — Software Factories — in the real world. Explore the promise of model-driven development and how Software Factories address some of the problems we face in today's software development. Examine the state of Software Factories and show how and what parts of this new methodology Siemens is using and planning to use to stay ahead of the competition. Then examine what MDA is (a practical implementation of abstraction levels and meta-data usage) and isn't (a rigid adherence to form over function). Ensuring construction consistency with an agile workforce requires managing a delicate balance between control and flexibility. We'll dive into the real-world benefits, less all the hype, behind the MDA. Get a clearer understanding of MDA benefits and how to set expectations when implementing MDA styled processes

Gunther Lenz is program manager for software platform technologies at Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.
Mike Sawicki is software product manager at Compuware

Enterprise Architecture in SOA: Models and Methodologies
To support implementation of service-oriented architectures (SOA), an EA needs to be more than simply a pure management-centered IT portfolio and business alignment activity. In addition, an EA needs to become a runtime consultable model. We advocate a capability-based approach. A service needs to be "knowable" in the context of what it will do for the business. This knowledge is provided by the enterprise architecture. For a service to be trusted and reused, knowledge of who is using it and how well it is performing is needed. The EA captures this knowledge as a service of the Realtime EA. The talk will illustrate these ideas using the US Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA). The FEA model comprises five models: the Business Reference Model (BRM), Performance Reference Model (PRM), Services Reference Model (SRM), Technology References Model (TRM) and the Data Reference Model (DRM). A Capabilities Manager using OWL ontologies for FEA and agency extensions to FEA will be demonstrated.

Andy Norris is director of enterprise architecture at Planet Technologies
Ralph Hodgson is executive partner at TopQuadrant, Inc.

Panel: SOA Migration—What, When, and How to Move to it – User Experiences and Best Practices
Learn how to approach service oriented architecture (SOA) management from a project-based level while still allowing room for future expansion and incremental growth to an enterprise-wide SOA. Get valuable insight into how SOA management can help organizations ease the complexity of moving toward a loosely coupled environment. Learn how to move from project-based Web services to an enterprise-wide SOA; real customer challenges and solutions for SOA and Web service deployments; and more.

Next, take an in-depth look at the services network approach to SOA and identify the myriad other approaches chief architects are faced with for building out their enterprise SOAs, highlighting both their capabilities and downfalls.

Moderator: Chris Haddad, practice manager of the Burton Group's application platform strategies service
Frank Martinez is CTO of Blue Titan
Peter Herzum is president of Herzum Software
Paul Roth is CTO of CommerceQuest
Roger Sippl is chairman of the Board at Above All Software

Panel: Issues Facing Architects—How Business Processes Can Manage the IT/Line of Business Interface
The concept of enterprise architecture relies on the idea of aligning the IT infrastructure to an organization’s business needs. Evaluating and implementing this alignment means creating agile business processes that can respond to a changing competitive and legislative environment. How can this best be achieved?

Moderator: Jeff Hadfield, FTP. Inc.
Steve Davis is vice president of IT at Walt Disney Co.
Ted Farrell is chief architect of the application development tools division at Oracle Corp.
Chris Haddad is practice manager of the Burton Group's application platform strategies service
Dave Welsh is an architect for the architectural strategy team at Microsoft

Practical Security and Management in a Service-Oriented Enterprise
Management and security are a common concern today and this session provides the necessary background and perspective on both the business and the technical aspects of both – using mobile technology to illustrate important points that pertain to the entire enterprise. We will discuss how management and security are the complimentary sides of an essential framework for SOA success, while focusing more on the operations management issues, which are generally less understood today.

How do you comply with service-level agreements and fulfill partner expectations? Are there special issues and challenges when dealing with mobile technology in a Service-Oriented enterprise? We will examine important principles and make concrete recommendations using real-world examples. We will discuss best practices, trends, and the evolution of key standards as part of a comprehensive introduction to making a successful SOA.

Scott Boehmer is general manager or Customer Solutions at Sprint
Paul Lipton, Sr. Architect, Web Services Team and Strategist, Office of the CTO, Computer Associates

Facilitating Agility in Enterprises for Real World Business Problems
Learn about facilitators and barriers to bringing agility to organizations through the use of enterprise integration architectures and best practices. Agile enterprises are successful enterprises, but achieving agility in the real world may require a multifaceted approach. Find out how your company can realize the benefits of agility with enterprise integration architectures such as MDA, SOA, and EDA, as well as messaging, which serves as the glue used to integrated disparate systems in an asynchronous manner. Become acquainted with the point-to-point and publish-subscribe messaging models and the Messaging Oriented Middleware (MOM) solutions available today. We'll include real-world business scenarios that are ideal for a messaging based solution. See how messaging can be used to accomplish technical software needs as well as cover industry needs such as overcoming the transition pains of a bank merger. Security considerations around messaging will be addressed, including the application of SSL and topic-based authentication/authorization. Leave knowing how to determine if a messaging solution architecture is applicable for your business needs.

Kulvir Singh Bhogal and Kwang Kang are e-business consultants for IBM Software Services for WebSphere
Ramani Vaidyanathan is executive director at Eclipse Foundation

Two Case Studies: Making SOA Work in the Real World
We'll address significant benefits that are achievable through a service-oriented architecture, such as the ability to more rapidly implement new business solutions and change these solutions to meet the competitive pressures that dictate continuous process improvement. Next, we'll look at a case study on Thomson Prometric, a worldwide academic testing company that needed to rapidly deploy and maintain secure XML Web services connections internally to their global testing centers and to their customers and partners. Listen to how Thomson was able to accelerate provisioning of new testing centers, ensure tester privacy, test integrity, and transaction confidentiality, and cost-effectively integrate with five disparate back-end systems required for processing testing registration.

Paul Roth is CTO at CommerceQuest
Andrew Nash is CTO at Reactivity