Next month, ebizQ will be offering what has to be the most compelling conference to date on the topic of SOA governance. The upcoming one-day virtual conference, titled SOA Governance, will be held right here at the ebizQ site on September 24th.
The event will kick off with a real powerhouse duo in the SOA governance world: Gartner's Frank Kenney and Software AG's Miko Matsumura will discuss the impact of and the opportunities offered by becoming more service centric and by leveraging SOA.
Actually, the title of the keynote says it all -- "No SOA Governance Strategy? No Problem -- Prepare for Failure!" Frank and Miko will discuss how many SOA projects are not succeeding due to the lack of a solid governance strategy (one that's led by the business!) and due to the lack of proper technologies to enforce those governance polices and processes.
Frank and Miko will demonstrate how to quickly organize for SOA governance. (Hint... you need a high level business sponsor!); how to pick the right governance technologies for your project and company. (Hint... don't throw away that spreadsheet just yet!); and why both smaller vendors and larger platform providers BOTH dominate the market. (Hint... best of breed still makes sense).
Following this powerful keynote, yours truly will be moderating a panel discussion comprised of some of the biggest names in SOA governance thought-leadership these days (outside of Frank Kenney and Miko Matsumura) -- the roster includes Ann Thomas Manes of Burton Group, Jason Bloomberg of ZapThink, Dan Foody of Progress Software, Frank Martinez of SOA Software, John Michelsen of iTKO, and Ed Horst of AmberPoint.
Now, with all these experts in on one session, THIS ought to be one rousing discussion! Topics to be discussion include the question of whether SOA governance is a part of overall IT governance, and who in the organization should be responsible for SOA governance? We will also tackle the role of ITIL, and what is working for successful organizations implementing SOA.
To wrap up the event, Forrester's Larry Fulton will explore issues and opportunities around service lifecycle management, the domain of so-called design time SOA repositories. Larry will discuss Forrester's latest insights in service lifecycle management, and provide an overview of the lifecycle management process, the technologies available today to automate this process, and effective strategies for bringing this important process into your organization.
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