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Panel Discussion: Avoiding SOA Disillusionment

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Joe McKendrick, ZDNet
Phil Wainewright, ZDNet
Dr. Chris Harding, The Open Group
Jignesh Shah, Software AG
David Bressler, Progress Software
Chris Kraus, ITKO

It is probably an inevitability that as more and more organizations adopt SOA, many are falling into the trough of SOA disillusionment. They are finding their SOA solutions do not perform well, or are not secure, or services are not being reused, or they are being reused in unintentional ways. Defining who is responsible for paying for service maintenance when services become a shared resource is becoming a real issue for many organizations. This panel presentation will look at the issues many organizations are encountering on their SOA journey, and best practices for avoiding common pitfalls.

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Joe McKendrick is ebizQ's SOA in Action Blogger, and is a frequent contributor to ebizQ reports, podcasts, and virtual conferences. His enormously popular SOA in Action blog is several years in the running.

Joe is a nationally published author and consultant with deep knowledge and insights regarding trends and developments in the technology industry. He is a contributing editor to a number of national and international publications and Websites including Database Trends & Applications, ZDNet, and Webservices.Org He also serves as analyst for Evans Data Corp., and is lead analyst for Evans' Web services and enterprise development management issues surveys.

Phil Wainewright is an influential commentator and strategist on emerging software industry trends. He first spotted the significance of on-demand software services in 1998, when he set up ASPnews.com, which rapidly became a standard-bearer for the nascent industry. He sold ASPnews in January 2000 and went on to found Loosely Coupled, a specialist website covering enterprise adoption of web services and business process automation. He recently completed a series of analyst reports for Summit Strategies on current trends in software-as-services.

Dr. Chris Harding is Forum Director for SOA and Semantic Interoperability at The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium focused on open standards within and between enterprises. He is responsible for managing and supporting the organization's work on SOA and semantic interoperability. Dr. Harding has been with The Open Group for ten years and holds a Ph.D. in mathematical logic.

Jignesh Shah is Product Line Director of SOA Governance products at Software AG. He works closely with customers on real-life SOA projects to guide the direction of Software AGs products. Prior to joining Software AG, Jignesh was a founding member of Paradigm's OpsPlanner business – a SaaS emergency management solution. Prior to Paradigm, Jignesh was a Solutions Architect at BearingPoint. He led the design and implementation of several large IT solutions for Fortune 500 clients in industries like High Tech, Consumer Products, Pharmaceuticals, Health Care, Industrial Manufacturing and Federal Government Services.

As SOA Evangelist for the Actional products, David Bressler provides Progress' customers and field teams with the expertise and experience required to deliver an enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA). David also helps steer technology partnerships to provide pragmatic value to customer deployments. From his 15+ year career in enterprise software and data networking, David brings to customer engagements a deep knowledge of application integration and data networking, blended with an ability to leverage emerging technology to create business value. David joined Progress in 2006 with the acquisition of Actional. Prior to joining Actional, David drove TIBCO's IP multicast adoption and designed many of the first IP multicast trading floors on Wall Street, and around the world. He went on to become Vice President of Strategic Technology development at Aether Systems, and then on to manage the delivery of shared middleware networks at Radianz (now BT Radianz). David received his MBA in International Business from New York University Stern School of Business where he graduated with distinction.

Chris Kraus is an expert testing and architecture strategist, with a 17 year background in computer software development, product management, and sales support for enterprise software. As Product Manager for iTKO's LISA SOA Testing software suite, Chris applies both project management and development experience to refine LISA features to best suit customer quality needs throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

Chris was previously a Retail and Manufacturing Industry Manager at the enterprise software platform firm webMethods, overseeing requirements, customer presales and training for the $16M annual group. At supply chain software provider i2 Technologies he worked in i2's infrastructure group, with responsibility for the release of business process, workflow and monitoring engines. Prior to i2 at Software AG, Chris specialized in cross platform product installation and administration. As a software engineer, project manager, and solution architect, Chris has a great breath of industry knowledge from working with companies like Citi, TD Ameritrade, Lenovo, Tandy, Rubbermaid, TI, and TxDoT.