The urgency for process improvements has never been greater and the demands made on today’s CIO to enable these improvements can no longer be ignored. The market environment is forcing enterprises to evolve into modular agile entities, necessitating that each LOB or Department has the ability to rapidly respond to process changes, introducing new services at a rate and cost never before realized. 

In this HP sponsored SOA E.D.G.E Workshop, you and a select group of senior IT decision makers will address issues such as:

• What are the key drivers and inhibitors in deploying an SOA project?
• What are the key questions that IT decision makers need to ask to ensure that an SOA strategy delivers the desired results?
• How do you monitor progress and which benchmarks are most applicable to your needs?
• What are the benefits of an SOA and what are the various offerings in the market?

This module includes snapshots insights from IDC SOA 2006/2007 study, which covers the following:

• IT and Business Priorities
  Identifying priorities and objectives over the next 12 months
• SOA Adoption
  Identifies the stage of SOA deployment the companies are in
• Resources Management
  Discusses the implementation approach and management aspects of SOA deployment
• Project Objectives
• Defines the drivers and objectives of deploying SOA in the organizations
• Project Challenges
  Highlights the key challenges faced during implementation and operation
• Vendor Selection CriteriaProvides an understanding on the importance of criteria when selecting vendor solution

Many end-users have revealed that introduction, planning and execution of SOA projects can be profoundly difficult.  As such, IDC has been asked to help illuminate the concept of SOA and Enterprise Architecture with focus on aiding the end-users who are embarking on SOA projects to align current best practices like EA.  Templates and questions will be provided throughout the presentation to help participants assess their current maturity level in their process improvement and to improve their thought processes with regards to planning for SOA services and processes.  Issues with service-oriented methodologies will be discussed in detail.  In  addition, participants will be given an oversight of what and how current emerging trends and technologies are changing the SOA landscape.

This rich interactive session will shed lights on existing Asia Pacific implementations and let the participants achieve the “shortest path to enlightenment” in their constant pursuit for business optimization with SOA strategies.  It also allows the participants to voice their concerns and issues alongside with sharing their experiences with each other.  These sessions will focus on the current landscape of business issues that awaits SOA solutions. They also have the options of their concerns mediated across various vendors offering through IDC.