SOA Alchemy: Transforming Legacy Systems into Agile Services
DATE: October 30, 2007
TIME: 2:00pm - 2:45pm EST
Presenter:
Thomas O'Connell, VP Research and Development, Blue Phoenix
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Putting into place a solid foundation for service oriented architecture (SOA) is critical for enabling flexibility and maximizing IT investments. Mainframe and midrange systems can play a major role in the new architecture. This webinar will discuss the first step in building the solid foundation needed to ensure that the processes being wrapped and extended are based on viable cost-effective, supportable and maintainable systems.
    Why You Should Attend:

  • Learn the steps required to ensure a solid SOA foundation around your mainframe or midrange system
  • Understand how to identify candidate legacy processes that should be included in the project
  • Examine the viability of extending legacy processes and the benefits of modernizing before wrapping
  • Learn to identify the risk elements in advance and how to mitigate these risks
  • Discover modernization alternatives including the use of automated migration tools
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SPEAKER BIOS:

Thomas O'Connell - VP Research and Development
Thomas is responsible for giving oversight to all aspects of research and development in the BluePhoenix family of software tools and products. He has over 12 years of experience with enterprise-level software development and support. His expertise has been in the banking and financial sectors where his primary role has been to help the customer understand their complex enterprise software environments and to assist them in moving mission-critical applications to newer technologies. His technical specialty is enterprise architecture and the development of enterprise software for the PC, Mid-tier platforms, and the mainframe.


Prior to his current role, Thomas was the Director of R&D; for the BluePhoenix Redevelopment product line. Before this, he served as the Director for Software Development and Support in BluePhoenix. Prior to BluePhoenix, Thomas was the Manager of Development and Support for Level 8 Systems. Prior to Level 8, Thomas was the Software Development Manager for Seer Technologies. He had worked for Seer as an on-site consultant, working with several large multinational organizations such as IBM-Japan, LBS-IT (Germany), and Credit Suisse First Boston. Thomas received a BS in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh.


 

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