In this one day course students are introduced to Service Oriented Architecture, its terminology, concepts, motivation, benefits, pitfalls and techniques. It provides a solid grounding in the terminology, concepts behind SOA, and moreover, practical guidance taken from real-world experience is also embedded within the course, so that students understand the practical consequences of implementing an SOA within an organization. This course is suitable for all backgrounds, from C-level executives down to Analysts and Developers. Although there is some technical content around Web Services, the course focus is squarely on design and conceptual aspects, including the important and often neglected topic of SOA governance.
Audience:
Everyone (Managers, executives, project leads, technical staff)
Prerequisites
None
Course duration
1 day
Course outline
1. Introduction
- Agenda
- Goals
- Expectations
2. SOA Overview
- SOA Design Principles
- Strategic goals of SOA
- SOA Triangle of Truth
- The Case for SOA
3. Designing SOA
- Service design
- Web service design
- Business process design
- Designing the business data
- SOA architectural layers
- Design Approaches
- SOA run-time architecture
4. The ROI of SOA
- Introduction
- Reducing Integration Expense
- Increasing Asset Reuse
- Increasing Business Agility
- Reducing Business Risk and Exposure
5. The ESB
- Introduction to the ESB
- Run-time Functionality
- Implementation aspects
6. SOA Challenges and Pitfalls
- Introduction
- Technical challenges
- Human challenges
- Common adoption pitfalls
- Common design mistakes
- Common implementation mistakes
7. SOA Governance
- The Need for SOA Governance
- IT Governance
- SOA Governance
8. Products for SOA
- Run-time products
- Design-time tooling
