I'm running my SOA Course tomorrow at my company as a 1 day deep dive on Service Oriented Architecture. Should be interesting, have a diverse bunch of people from my own team of EAs to other architects to infrastructure people.

As part of Seâd's "Latest in IT" Seminar Series 2010, I'm doing a talk on Service Oriented Architecture as follows:

Service Oriented Architecture - Friend or Foe?
 
Service Oriented Architecture (or "SOA") is a concept that has been around a while - several years ago it was the big buzz word before "the cloud". Some organisations have embraced the concept and used it to drive significant IT change - especially around introducing flexibility and decreasing the total cost of IT. Meanwhile, many other organisations have struggled to use SOA and see any real benefit.

This session will help to dispel the myths and legends of SOA and will concentrate on explaining why SOA can make a significant difference to legacy IT environments. This session will further drill into the relation between "the cloud" and SOA as well as examining why the premise of SOA is still important today.

Date: Wednesday, 23 June 2010
Time: 5.30pm to 7.30pm (5:30pm – Drinks and Networking, 6:00pm - Speaker starts)
Where:  The Auckland Club, Dorchester Building, 34 Shortland Street, Auckland.
RSVP to Norma Lum at events@sead.co.nz by Friday, 18 June 2010.

As per my recent blog post I have just run my course on Service Oriented Architecture twice in Novemeber. The feedback was extremely positive and it was a really enjoyable experience spending quality time on a topic I am very passionate about. I must thank all the participants on the course for making it a great experience for me. In that vein I've posted the overview section from the course book for others to look at it. If anyone is interested in having this course run for them, please don't hesitate to drop me a line on lukas AT svoboda DOT co DOT nz.

RealisingServiceOrientation-Overview.pdf (187.37 kb)

As part of my ongoing collaboration with Brightstar, we are putting on a course around Service Orientated Architecture. I ran this course out of Auckland and Wellington 3 years ago and got extremely positive results and feedback.

The marketing blurb is as follows:

"What is Service-Orientation (or “Service Oriented Architecture”) and how does create value out of your IT Investment?

Although many aspects of Service-Orientation are not new idea in themselves, Service-Orientation is a new way to organise and manage your information systems whether in-sourced, cloud based or using a combination of deployment models.  Service-Orientation as a guiding concept provides an infrastructure to establish, manage and stream line IT systems. It provides the disciple to manage process flows between systems.

Based on established standards, Service-Orientation is set to fundamentally create a new breed of information technology assets and will change the nature of IT investment and benefit realization.

Realising Service-Orientation has been designed with a well-rounded overview of the current industry and marketplace, covering concepts, models, relevant NZ case studies and pitfalls associated with implementing SOA. Prescriptive guidance and lots of interactive discussions have been weaved into the course to ensure your learning experience enables you to apply and develop your new understanding."

For more information and to look at registering, please go to the Brightstar Website. If you want to know more from me personal please contact me on lukas AT svoboda dot co dot nz.