SOA: Preparing Your Business & IT Products - Session 1

Concepts for Service Oriented Architecture Overview

This series of podcasts, entitled Service Oriented Architecture (SOA): Preparing Your Business & IT Products is aimed at two types of organization. The first type will be about to investigate how SOA could be used to improve the range of the systems and services offered to their user base. For example, by making it easier to integrate established services and so simplify the way in which they are used. The second is product development companies who will be about to consider how SOA could be used to improve their product range. For such companies there are several ways in which the use of SOA could be used to either renovate established products or to create a new range of products. Both the business opportunities and technical considerations for SOA are addressed in this series of podcast. The overall aim is to help you, the listener, to decide if SOA is a potential business solution.

This is the first session and addresses the Concepts for Service oriented Architecture. The other five sessions look at the Business Perspective and Opportunities, the SoA Maturity Model, Enterprise Integration, three Cases Studies and, finally, the Core Technology. Each of the sessions is self contained but the full benefits of the narrative can be obtained by listening to the six sessions in order.