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Messaging and Infrastructure Needs for Mission Critical SOA

Featured Speaker: Larry Fulton, Senior Analyst at Forrester
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As companies implement more mission-critical applications on SOA, the requirements for flexibility, quality-of-service, application support and the ability to deliver in heterogeneous platforms become essential in building a good SOA infrastructure. Systems need to be designed to handle synchronous and asynchronous communication, transactional integrity, guaranteed delivery, scalability, and above all, the ability to support change and enhancements as new business needs emerge. In this session, Larry Fulton, Senior Analyst from Forrester, will examine the steps required to build a modern SOA infrastructure and will discuss how to integrate all of your assets with the right Quality of Service to match business needs while addressing scalability, transactional integrity, low latency, Web 2.0 technology, and much more.

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Larry Fulton is a Senior Analyst at Forrester and primarily contributes to Forrester's offerings for the Enterprise Architecture professional. He is a leading expert in service-oriented architecture (SOA), SOA governance, enterprise architecture, and enterprise middleware. Larry's primary research areas are SOA governance, SOA repositories, and enterprise service bus (ESB).

Larry spent 14 years at United Parcel Service, most recently as a principal enterprise architect, where he was involved in a broad range of application design, architecture, and infrastructure efforts. He piloted and chaired the company's internal "Architecture Summit" forum and was instrumental in the development of its enterprise architecture program. Larry was a key evangelist and designer in the creation of much of the middleware and related infrastructure supporting the company's package handling, tracking, and delivery.

Earlier in his career, Larry developed custom laboratory robotic systems and factory-floor monitoring applications at Hudson Controls Group, and was a systems integrator at Identification and Security Systems.

Larry has a B.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in computer and systems engineering.