At last, it's here -- the "SOA in Action" virtual conference kicks off this week, Tuesday and Wednesday, October 30 and 31st! The folks at ebizQ have assembled an incredible schedule of top-flight speakers and compelling topics:
Gartner's Roy Schulte -- who shaped much of today's enterprise SOA thinking -- will kick off the event with a discussion of the progress (or lack thereof) with SOA and Web services standards; the rise of Event Driven Architecture, and the latest developments around Business Activity Monitoring.
Following Roy Schulte's keynote, Dave Chappell, chief SOA technologist for Oracle, will be describing new thinking and developments around service-level grid enablement -- which promises to bring extraordinary power to enterprise SOA deployments. Dave literally and figuratively wrote the book on the rise of enterprise service bus as a force multiplier in SOA.
Dennis Byron, our resident open source guru, will then lead a session that connects the dots between open source software and SOA. The session will present new ebizQ research into the various ways that open source software (OSS) enables SOA.
Anyone with a legacy system at their site will want to tune into the next session. Thomas O'Connell, VP at Blue Phoenix will explain how mainframe and midrange-class systems can be service-oriented, without breaking your budget.
Then, yours truly will wrap up Tuesday's sessions with a panel discussion on the convergence (or lack thereof) between SOA and Web 2.0 approaches. Fellow ZDNet blogging community activitists Dana Gardner and Phil Wainewright will be there, with some more to be announced.
Forrester's Randy Heffner keynotes Day Two of the conference, with a discussion of the major categories of SOA infrastructure products, as well as providing guidance on how to construct a workable plan for evolving into a strategic SOA platform.
My ebizQ colleague and partner-in-crime Gian Trotta recently chatted with Randy Heffner of Forrester Research to talk about some of the misconceptions around service-oriented architecture these days.
Dave Linthicum -- a very informative and engaging speaker and writer who practices what he preaches -- follows up with an overview of SOA security strategies -- something we need more of.
Brenda Michelson and ebizQ's own Beth Gold-Bernstein -- two of the top thinkers in SOA today -- collaborate on a joint presentation on business driven design, which is a method for creating right-sized business services that can be traced back to business requirements. This is sorely needed in today's enterprises, many of which are struggling to strengthen the link between technology and business value using SOA.
Then to wrap it all up, Beth will return to moderate a panel that will look at the converging trends of BI, BPM, and EDA as they tie into SOA.
A full SOA in Action Conference agenda can be found here.
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