Do we need more that SOA for a modern application architecture?

Do we need more that SOA for a modern application architecture? By Eric Roch (Chief Technologist)

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There is more involved in building a modern architecture than just Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). While SOA is certainly a big part of the solution, a total modern architecture also includes leveraging business process management (BPM), data management and Web 2.0 technologies.

SOA alone does not implicitly improve governance, IT strategy or business alignment, and top-down, strategic SOA has been largely disappointing. Join us as this month’s Perficient Perspectives looks at how you can leverage your existing IT investments to create a truly modern architecture.

Discussion topics include:

• The promise, hype and reality of SOA
• SOA and data management
• SOA and BPM
• SOA and Web 2.0
• Putting it all together
• Case Study: Architecture modernization
• Case Study: SOA, BPM, and data service
• Maximizing SOA benefits and ROI

Speaker Eric Roch is Principal, SOA/Integration Solutions and GM of Perficient's national TIBCO EAI practice. He has more than 20 years' experience in IT and has been working extensively with SOA technologies for 10 years. Eric has designed and managed SOA projects in excess of 500 services and with budgets over $10M. He is a regular speaker at IT industry events maintains the popular Business Integration and SOA blog.

As Chief Technologist and National Practice Director for SOA with Perficient, Inc., I get the opportunity to work with a lot of customers implementing SOA. See my bio page for my contact information or just post a comment if you want to talk about your SOA projects.

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