Welcome
Speaker Qualification's
There is a definition of SOA
IT spend is on the old, not the new
What this means for SOA
IT is changing
SOA is about how you think about IT
Delivering clear Business Service Architecture
Understand what your IT is worth
Move from projects to programs
Apply SOA to support
Summary
Additional reading
The vast majority of SOA works focuses on the upfront challenges and opportunities of new projects and transformational work starting from the very highest parts of the organisation. As with many new technology initiatives however the overall lifecycle challenges are often relegated to being secondary concerns. This presentation argues that some of the most immediate benefits are actually in these post delivery elements and that the correct application of business SOA to existing IT estates can make them easier to manage and become an integral part of the transformation exercise, rather than being a problem to be "wrapped".
Steve Jones is currently CTO for Application Development Transformation at Capgemini and working within the Outsourcing
business to understand how SOA will transform the way that Capgemini work within Outsourcing contracts. One of Capgemini's leading SOA practitioners and the author of the SOA methodology contributed to OASIS, the recent book "Enterprise SOA Adoption Strategies" and the IEEE Software article "Toward an acceptable definition of service".
His current focus is on how using SOA as a business driven exercise, rather than a technology one, can help organisations create IT estates that better represent the business. A member of several standards bodies including the OASIS SOA Reference Model, Java SE 6 and Java Business Integration (JBI), Steve is Capgemini's sponsor of their membership of both the OASIS and Java Community Process groups.
Steve is a regular presenter at industry events, including technical specialisation conferences from the IEEE, technology vendor events and in 2006 was part of the keynote presentation at JavaOne.