About

Service-Orientation as a guiding concept provides an infrastructure to establish, manage and stream line IT systems. It provides the disciple to manage process flows between systems.

Based on established standards, Service-Orientation is set to fundamentally create a new breed of information technology assets and will change the nature of IT investment and benefit realization.

Realising Service-Orientation has been designed with a well-rounded overview of the current industry and marketplace, covering concepts, models, relevant NZ case studies and pitfalls associated with implementing SOA. Prescriptive guidance and lots of interactive discussions have been weaved into the course to ensure your learning experience enables you to apply and develop your new understanding.

EIGHT GREAT REASONS TO ATTEND
1. Understanding of the fundamental service orientation principles and tenets
2. Understand how to apply process driven thinking
3. Understand why service-orientation is fundamental to your cloud computing initiative
4. Explore how SOA affects your IT teams
5. Gain useful insights and lessons from several relevant NZ SOA case studies
6. Get understanding on current and emerging SOA standards
7. Align architecture management and governance to realise service-orientation
8. Instructor is a leading SOA architect specialist who has relevant and hands-on experiences in various SOA implementation projects

Outline

Day One

Introduction to SOA
• Industry trends over the last five years
• Fundamental service orientation principles and tenets
• The relation of service-orientation and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• The definition of SOA from multiple viewpoints
• SOA as an IT investment philosophy
• Definition of services and related artefacts

SOA Standards
• Implementing SOA with web services
• Web services standards - current and emerging
• Knowing when to apply the right standards

Process-Driven SOA
• Understanding process-based SOA
• Understanding model based development 
• What is contract-first development?
• Using Enterprise Architecture and Process tools to drive SOA implementation

How SOA Affects your IT Team
• How analysts, developers and architects need to think differently
• Training, personal development and SOA skills training
• Gaining buy-in from your IT team

Day Two

The Microsoft SOA Technology Stack
• Microsoft SOA philosophy
• Practical guidance

The Open Source Technology Stack
• Opensource technologies and trends
• Practical guidance

The Java Technology Stack
• Java stack for building SOAs
• Practical guidance

Cloud Computing/SaaS and SOA
• Understanding the links between SOA and Cloud Computing/SaaS
• Practical guidance and avoiding pitfalls you didn’t know existed

SOA Case Studies: Objectives, Obstacles & Solutions
• Review of several NZ SOA case studies
• Issues and challenges
• Lessons learned: What went right? What went wrong?
• Identifying patterns which will work for you

Aligning Architecture, Management and Governance
• Service Oriented Management (SOM)
• How does SOM affect your current IT operation?
• What is SOG (Service-Oriented Governance)?
• Realising service-orientation - Architecture, Management and Governance

Facilitator

Lukas Svoboda, Enterprise Architecture Manager, Mighty River Power

Lukas has been in IT architect and management roles for the last fifteen years working his way up from systems development and solution architecture into the position he holds today as Enterprise Architecture Manager for Mighty River Power.

Lukas is at heart a strategist, an architect, a problem solver and creative thinker. He is driven by an entrepreneurial spirit to be innovative, pragmatic and investment focus.

Lukas is extremely passionate about managing, coaching and mentoring people in an outcome focused environment to produce outstanding results.

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