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Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture

 

 

Where

Collaboration Lab (1st floor) CS&T Building, DePaul University LOOP Compus
243 S Wabash Avenue

Chicago, IL, 60604

When
Thursday, April 21, 2005
What

The web browser is a ubiquitous product for accessing documents and web content without prior knowledge of the web provider’s technical infrastructure.  The industry’s move towards an Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture (ESOA) holds the same promise for ubiquitous access of business services with “point and click” ease of finding and invoking these services.  Is an ESOA the technical buzzword of the day and simply one more of a series of silver bullets missing their mark?  Or is an ESOA the technical foundation for a new approach for streamlining business processes, reducing IT maintenance costs, and an important step in moving to a Component Oriented Software Manufacturing (COSM) approach to software development. 

This seminar is designed for IT and Business management and technical professionals and will cover both Business and Technical aspects of an Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture (ESOA)

The following business and technical topics will be covered:

Business:

  • How can an ESOA help enable the real-time enterprise
  • Is an ESOA a business or IT concern
  • Building the business case for an ESOA
  • Why is an ESOA important to your company
  • What are the ROI elements in an ESOA strategy
  • Common Business Services - Aligning the Common Business Vision
  • ESOA - Building towards an IT Product Cost Model

Technical

  • Architectural Reference Models - Key to the ESOA Strategy
  • The Interoperability Reference Model - Past, Present & Future
  • Using an ESOA to Unify Disparate Enterprise Information
  • Semantic Integration in the ESOA Strategy
  • Service Decomposition - From the General to the Specific
  • Ontologies and other semantic aspects
  • Understanding the value of the ESOA Reuse Stack
  • Legacy Applications - Friend or Foe? Taming the Monolithic Application
  • Securing your ESOA - Business & Architectural Guidelines

Who

Bill Nadal, Chief Technology Officer, Herzum Software

Bill Nadal, CTO of Herzum Software, brings over twenty-five years of consulting with clients in the financial, insurance, engineering, and logistics industries.  Mr. Nadal has architected and directed the implementation of large-scale Internet-based distributed systems in the US and Canadian insurance industries.  He is experienced in service-oriented architectures and model driven approaches as key pieces of an agile IT portfolio of business services, components, and inter-enterprise business integration. 

Mr. Nadal’s responsibilities include technical oversight and direction for the various Herzum Software Practices.  Working with startups through Fortune 100 companies, Herzum Software is unifying customers’ enterprise business and IT integration strategies and roadmaps to optimize the introduction and use of Enterprise Service Oriented Architectures and related technologies.

Mr. Nadal was founder (1992) and CTO of GCS Inc., a company delivering consulting services and component-based systems in North America and the Middle East.  He is co-author of the book on n-tier transactional processing approaches, “VisualAge and Transaction Processing”.  Mr. Nadal obtained his BA and MBA from California State University, Los Angeles, where he taught a graduate-level course in corporate planning, strategy and goal analysis.  Mr. Nadal actively participates in numerous conferences. Recent presentations at 2005 industry conferences include “SOA in the Large:  Lessons from the Edge”; “Architectural Reference Models in SOA Middleware Solutions:”; “Security Designs in SOA Architectures”; and “Model Driven Architecture Frameworks in Eclipse for Agile Development”

 

Last Updated: April 8, 2005