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Industry Roundtable: SOA Value is Unreachable Without Governance

Date: October 28, 2009

Time: 12:00 pm US Eastern

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Featured Speakers:

Joe McKendrick, Contributing Editor and Analyst, ebizQ (bio)
John Favazza, Vice President of Research and Development, WebLayers, Inc. (bio)
Miko Matsumura, Vice President and Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Software AG (bio)

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Moderator:

Joe McKendrick

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Many professionals have a misconception that SOA Governance is something "extra" that they can't afford in today's economic environment. On the contrary, SOA Governance is the only way to stay on track and achieve measurable value and alignment with the business.

Without this, SOA suffers from a "Governance Deficiency Disorder," in which SOA efforts and results are delivered in scattergun fashion and not effectively linked to business requirements. As a result of this disorder, many SOA initiatives in recent years have delivered questionable or lukewarm results. SOA Governance ensures that services are managed across their lifecycles, and that they meet the requirements laid out by the business. In this informative roundtable discussion, a panel of experts will discuss how SOA Governance can help deliver an impressive ROI for SOA, and how this ROI can be documented and measured. In addition, the panel will explore other issues encountered when getting businesses to sign on to SOA projects, and how these obstacles can be overcome.

In this session, you will learn:

• How Governance could have prevented many of the mistakes made in SOA deployments in recent years
• How to establish metrics and measurements to track your SOA success
• How SOA helps to achieve a competitive edge in the "new" economy emerging from the 2008-2009 downturn

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Featured Speaker Bios:

Joe McKendrick: Author and consultant Joe McKendrick is ebizQ's Community Manager for Enabling Business Agility and Reuse. This community focuses on SOA,EDA/CEP, ESB, Open Source, Event Processing, Web Services, Application and Web Servers, and Legacy Integration, among other topics.

As Community Manager, McKendrick will blog and podcast on the latest news and breakthroughs relevant to agility and reuse. He will also publish press releases, cover briefings, write feature articles and source content from other analysts, industry associations and vendors for publication on ebizQ. McKendrick will also compile the most important news and views in a weekly e-mail newsletter for ebizQ's ever-growing business agility and reuse community.

With his deep knowledge regarding trends and developments in the technology industry, McKendrick is more than qualified for the job of Community Manager. 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., authoring their highly regarded bi-annual SOA/Web Services and Web 2.0 surveys.

McKendrick tracks the impact of information technology on management and markets, frequently speaking on Enterprise 2.0 and SOA topics at industry events and Webcasts. He has authored numerous research reports in partnership with Unisphere Research for user groups such as SHARE, Oracle Applications Users Group, and International DB2 Users Group. Previously, McKendrick served as director of the Administrative Management Society (AMS), an international professional association dedicated to advancing knowledge within the IT and business management fields.

John Favazza is vice president of research and development at WebLayers. Prior to WebLayers, Favazza held senior management positions spanning engineering, research and development for leading enterprise software vendors focused on SOA, web services security, and management and threat prevention products.

Miko Matsumura is Vice President and Deputy Chief Technology Officer at Software AG. He is co-author of the book “SOA Adoption for Dummies” by John Wiley and Sons. He served as founding chair of the SOA Adoption Blueprints Technical Committee at Oasis and is the organizer of the SOA Link Interoperability Initiative. Mr. Matsumura blogs at www.SOAcenter.com. Prior to his current role, he served as Vice President of marketing and technology standards at Infravio. Mr. Matsumura emerged as an industry thought leader at The Middleware Company, where he was a co-creator responsible for building the partner program for SOA Blueprints, the first complete vendor-neutral specification of an SOA application set, supported by BEA, Borland, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Veritas and others. He has worked extensively with software startup companies, raising more than $12 million in capital for Java startups. Mr. Matsumura holds an MBA from San Francisco State University and a Master’s Degree in Neuroscience from Yale University.

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