ebizQ in Action

The Future of SOA Governance

Larry Fulton, Senior Analyst, Forrester
view Larry's bio

New User Register here

ebizQ Members Click here

With many organizations just beginning their SOA journey, SOA governance is not often top of the agenda, but it could nevertheless make the difference between failure and success. Some organizations struggle through on their own, ignoring established best practices in many areas of SOA governance that could jump-start the effort. In this keynote, Forrester Senior Analyst Larry Fulton will take a look at key SOA governance topics, touch on the current state of the art, and offer a glimpse of what practices and products are likely to emerge in the future.

What you will learn:

• How does an effective SOA Governance program enable effective SOA?
• What best practices are well established today?
• What are the near- and longer-term frontiers in SOA Governance?
• Where should you focus your SOA governance investments today and in the future?

Featured Speaker

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.