Although there are compelling reasons for pursuing SOA initiatives, the road to enterprise-scale SOA is not easy and can be loaded with potholes. Even large IT organizations with environments that center around their SAP applications must nevertheless deal with heterogeneous and other legacy assets, deploy new services across these disparate platforms, as well as governing and managing these services. Planning for scalability and performance is another issue that needs to be addressed if real-time business is to be achieved. In addition BPM and Complex Event Processing (CEP) are other value-added technologies that can play a vital role which can move an organization beyond real-time and into the realm of predictive business. This webinar will review SOA best practices in SAP-centric environments and provide guidelines to help you avoid common mistakes as well as plan a more dynamic SOA roadmap.

• Understand the inherent benefits -- and risks -- of pursuing an enterprise-scale SOA initiative
• Avoid the landmines that can cause delays and increase costs
• Learn best-practices for integrating SAP with other heterogeneous IT assets
• See how a platform independent approach to SOA can improve developer productivity, reduce costs and accelerate time-to-market
• Learn how CEP and an event-driven SOA can help you become more predictive in the way you manage your business

Everyone who attend this webinar will receive a copy of the book "Succeeding with SOA: Realizing Business Value Through Total Architecture" by Paul C. Brown.

In his book Dr. Brown shows how SOAs provide the best structure for designing business processes and IT systems as part of a total architecture to help collaborating entities realize their enterprise goals. Drawing on decades of experience, he explains what business managers and IT architects absolutely need to know: how to understand critical success factors and avoid common failures.