• - Exactly what is SOA? ... "Subroutines on steroids" perhaps?
• - The value of SOA to the business and how to discuss SOA with the business side of a company.
• - Is SOA only for large enterprises?
• - The increasing rate of change and why today's environments can't keep up.
• - How do most customers get started with SOA.
• - IBM's recommended approach to successfully execute an SOA project.
• - SOA Governance - Defining a governance approach, governance at design/build time, and at run time. This also includes items such as funding models, meeting service level agreements, allowing partners to access your services, etc.
• - What are the typical mistakes, the areas to watch out for (that cause customers difficulty when implementing SOA)? This includes governance, systems management, and involving both business and IT from the beginning.
• - SOA Connectivity value scenarios - mergers and acquisitions, multi-channel or supplier integration, working with existing applications, etc.
• - Moving to more advanced stages of SOA.
• - Scaling up and moving to production including the intersection of SOA with virtualization and cloud computing.
• - The mainframe is dead. Distributed commodity servers now rule the roost (or so some people say). ... True?

Here's a link to the IBM SOA site and one to the IBM developerWorks SOA and Web Services site.

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