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Forrester Keynote — SOA: Business Foundation for the Digital Age

Randy Heffner, VP and Analyst, Forrester Research

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Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has moved into the mainstream. Forrester's SOA adoption data argues that, in large measure, the truth has lived up to the hype. SOA extends the life of legacy systems, improves application flexibility, and delivers business agility. However, to avoid major pitfalls and actually achieve these benefits, one must understand key best practices for SOA based on business-focused design models for SOA. Business design models also set the foundation for the future of business and IT beyond SOA. This keynote session will show how SOA provides the right foundation for the future of your business in the digital age, and recommend next steps for both SOA novices and SOA specialists.

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Randy Heffner is a vice president and analyst at Forrester Research, where he writes primarily for Enterprise Architecture professionals. He is a leading expert on architectures and design approaches for building enterprise applications that are secure and resilient in the face of continuous business and technology change. This makes service-oriented architecture (SOA) one of Randy's primary focus areas. Since enterprise applications need much more than SOA, Randy led the development of Forrester's Digital Business Architecture, which provides a broad architectural context around SOA. Randy's research include general application architecture and design issues, overall SOA strategy, SOA platform and infrastructure strategy, core SOA design concepts, Web services architecture and standards, SOA security, SOA and Web services management, as well as continuing analysis of the longer term evolution toward Digital Business Architecture. Randy has over 25 years of IT experience, ranging from big five consulting and telecommunications to retail and litigation support.