Telebriefing Replay & Podcast

The Changing Role of
Service-Oriented Architecture

Solution Approaches and Differentiators

Brad Shimmin
Principal Analyst, Application Infrastructure

October 24, 2007

While the notion of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been around since the early days of client/server computing, it is undergoing significant evolution and investment to address the constant push and pull of enterprise requirements for sustainable agility based upon a loosely coupled infrastructure that is at once manageable, scalable, auditable and governable.

In this telebriefing, Brad Shimmin, Principal Analyst in Application Infrastructure at Current Analysis, examines the market drivers and technological trends shaping the best practices employed by enterprise customers in deploying SOA solutions and how vendors are addressing constantly shifting - and expanding - market opportunities. The telebriefing addresses these trends and more:

• Applications, integration and infrastructure - Differing approaches to the SOA market.
• Optimizing the enterprise - The convergence of business process management and SOA.
• Working outside the box - Enabling software-as-a-service and powering integration-as-a-service.
• The business model revolution - Open source, driving more than geeks and developers.
• Consumers and Collaboration - Web 2.0 as a bridge between IT and business.
• Going Vertical - Productized knowledge opening individual markets.
• What's next - Defining the next battlefield for SOA dominance and how vendors stay relevant amid rapid change?

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