OTN Architect Day - By Architects, For Architects

The struggle to bridge the gap between Business and IT continues. SOA can help, offering the promise of reduced costs and increased business agility. But the fulfillment of that promise is far from automatic. This presentation will identify both the problems facing organizations as they attempt to adopt SOA, and the ecosystem for building industrial-strength SOA. It will also explore Oracle's SOA Methodology, a mature set of practices and techniques that can help your organization successfully execute an enterprise-class SOA initiative.

In a time of economic uncertainty, the ability for any organization to be adaptive and responsive is of paramount importance to its on-going evolution and survival. Organizational agility lies at the heart of the service-oriented computing vision. Emerging service technology innovations, combined with the maturation of the service-orientation paradigm and the availability of proven patterns and practices, have steadily increased the potential for realizing this vision. More so than ever before, organizations are in a position to transform their business domains by leveraging these advancements to build highly effective service-oriented solutions with true strategic value and the inherent ability to adapt to changing times.

• Getting Started with Application Grid: The Next Generation Middleware Infrastructure
  
  Presenter: Andrew Kastulin
  
  Application Grid is an emerging architectural approach for middleware infrastructure that leverages existing technologies and new innovations to make infrastructure more flexible and efficient by pooling, sharing, and dynamically adjusting the supply of hardware and infrastructure software resources. Join BEA Architects along with your peers for a discussion of how customers are using Application Grid to significantly improve the outcome of SOA, consolidation, and modernization projects, and to address the XTP (eXtreme Transaction Processing) needs of web-based applications.
  
  
• Creating a Fact-Based SOA Roadmap
  
  Presenter: Bob Hensle
  
  SOA adoption is increasing, yet many organizations report results that fall short of expectations. Why do some programs fail to deliver measurable value? What lessons can be learned? What can an organization do to improve its chances for SOA success? This session discusses a comprehensive approach to measuring your SOA program. You'll learn how to identify missing or lagging capabilities essential to successful SOA adoption, how to analyze projects for SOA suitability, and how to use that information to develop a fact-based SOA roadmap.

• Beyond Extreme: One million messages per second, 24/7
  
  Presenter: Robin Smith
  
  The performance demands placed on today's IT systems and applications are staggering, well beyond the limitations of most containers, JVMs, and traditional J2EE applications. This session will focus on how Oracle customers -- real organizations -- are overcoming those limitations and meeting those demands by architecting for linear scalability. We'll look beyond the horizon to explore why and how these organizations are using OSGI, deterministic garbage collection and the scalability of distributed data-grids to go beyond the extreme.
  
  
• Breaking Tradition: Service Modeling and Engineering
  
  Presenter: Anbu Krishnaswamy
  
  Simply put, traditional delivery methodologies are incompatible with SOA's nature and purpose. SOA's enterprise-wide potential requires the application of repeatable processes and sound engineering disciplines throughout delivery cycles -- especially if external or offshore resources are to be used. This session will present an engineering methodology that can be applied across the organization to the development, deployment, and management of SOA services. Attendees will gain an understanding of the various phases of the SOA Service Lifecycle and the nuances SOA introduces to traditional engineering approaches.

• Beyond ETL: Next Generation Data Integration and Management
  
  Presenter: Bennett Hirschhorn
  
  What if you could consolidate data for improved scalability and performance? Ensure clean, consistent data? Transform data into reusable services? Leverage IT infrastructure to make better use of what's already in place? In this session you'll learn how companies around the world have gone beyond convention to accomplish these things, and what you can do to address the critical data integration issues that architects face every day.
  
  
• Governing Your SOA Initiative
  
  Presenter: Dave Chappelle
  
  Analysts and experts agree: There can be no SOA success without effective SOA Governance. But SOA Governance models vary, and what works at one organization may actually threaten SOA success at another. This session will explore why no single model fits all organizations by looking at the interconnected, interdependent roles people, process, and technology play in SOA Governance. It will examine the differences between various governance disciplines, and offer tips to help you determine which model is right for your organization.