Gartner Application Architecture,
Development & Integration Summit

Track C: Succeeding with SOA: Creating Value Today and Options for Tomorrow

Service Oriented Architecture is the key to deriving value from current applications, and migrating them into the future. SOA enables existing applications to become more dynamic and flexible, through the use of new designs and techniques, such as Event Driven and Web Oriented Architectures. In addition, SOA is the model by which cloud-based capabilities will be integrated into the application portfolio. This track will focus on how your organization can maximize SOA value today, as well as use it as the foundation for advanced event-oriented and cloud based techniques which will offer new capabilities in the future.

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Sessions

From Isolated Buzzwords to Integrated Results: SOA, BPM, BI, Rules, Events and Cloud

IT advances are typically promoted as if they were separate topics, but gaining their full value requires using two or more of them together. This session discusses how to maximize the effects of six related technology trends.

5 things you need to do this week about SOA

SOA brings up many complex issues; technology complexity, organizational challenges, architectural and design obstacles. This presentation focuses on 5 practical recommendations that can streamline the path to SOA success, and realizing the business value of SOA.

Rapid Fire: What's wrong with Your SOA governance?

Do you think your SOA project needs more governance? Too little governance can dilute SOA benefits, but too much governance can cripple a SOA project. Join this highly interactive session to learn what mistakes have been done by some of your peers in the SOA Governance space, and how to avoid them.

Understanding and Measuring the Business Value of SOA

SOA is often presented as the intersection of technology and “the business”; where services represent tangible, real-world outcomes that are understandable and meaningful to the Line of Business managers. However, a discussion of SOA involves more than building large-grained components that produce real-world outcomes. SOA is also important because it can generate operational benefits for the organization – both to IT and to lines of Business. But to be meaningful, operational benefits must be identified, measured and optimized.

Beyond Common Sense: “Next Practices” in Service-Oriented Architecture

After many years of adoption, SOA best practices have become well understood and widely applied. As this common sense approach to SOA is no longer a differentiating factor, leading-edge users looking for competitive advantage are endorsing advanced patterns such as situation awareness, federation and integration with cloud computing. This session examines:

Rapid Fire: How Do Application Architects Enable SOA?

It is nearly impossible to successfully build a portfolio of SOA applications without defining and leveraging various architecture and design patterns, practices and frameworks. In this session we will discuss the scope of the discipline of application architecture and focus on the role of the application architect – the chief designer of the common componentry . What is the role of the application architect and how does it relate to other roles such as solution architects and system, data and business analysts?

Case Study: TBD

New Approaches to Enterprise Architecture: The Adaptive Renewal Cycle for Complex Adaptive IT Systems

Adopting SOA, information sharing , social networks, and other advanced IT system means our overall systems can no longer be viewed in isolation. These complex adaptive systems (CAS’s) require a different approach to managing their lifecycle. Based on models from ecological science, the adaptive renewal cycle is fundamentally different from the lifecycle of a merely complicated system. Architects must account for this when designing and coordinating adaptive cycles to create resilient systems.

Maturing SOA Governance in complex organizations

Technology always moves faster than the ability of organizations to change. SOA and other initiatives require substantial changes in organizational responsibilities as well as in the infrastructure. Complex organizations, with multiple business units, lines of business, and geographies often struggle to extend appropriate governance across these boundaries,They also struggle to find the appropriate balance of interdisciplinary control, when SOA is compared to BPM, MDM and other initiatives.

Operationalizing SOA: Making services work

SOA has been adopted by the application organization as a means of creating new IT capabilities. But putting shared services into production and managing them effectively requires new approaches to manageability, service levels, and lifecycle control. This presentation focuses on the practices adopted by successful organizations for bringing services into production and managing them over time.

Case Study: TBD

Web Services, REST, and Web-Oriented Architecture: Using Standards and Technologies to Build Web-Friendly Service

The World Wide Web is driving innovation in the way we look at SOA. Increasingly, the technologies and design principles that have made the Web successful are being applied to the development of enterprise software and services. This presentation clarifies the confusion about how SOA and Web technologies intersect, and examines the best practices for combing SOA and the Web.

Service Oriented Architecture is the key to deriving value from current applications, and migrating them into the future. SOA enables existing applications to become more dynamic and flexible, through the use of new designs and techniques, such as Event Driven and Web Oriented Architectures. In addition, SOA is the model by which cloud-based capabilities will be integrated into the application portfolio.

This track will focus on how your organization can maximize SOA value today, as well as use it as the foundation for advanced event-oriented and cloud based techniques which will offer new capabilities in the future.