Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• learn what an enterprise mashup is
• understand what it means for a mashup to be enterprise-ready
• Learn why location and visualizations are important for mashups
• Get an understanding of why Microsoft SharePoint makes for a good mashup platform.

Jason Bloomberg, Managing Partner, ZapThink

Nicolas Farges, Technical Architect, GE Capital Solutions Europe

Roy Varughese, Chief Architect, ABN AMRO (Global Clients)

Francois Lascelles, Director of Client Solutions, Layer 7 Technologies

Rix Groenboom, Parasoft

Peter Steel, EMEA Technology Manager, DataDirect

Listen to this Podcast and you will get a "Sneak Peek" at what all the presenters will be speaking about at our Practical SOA: London, UK event on April 25, 2008.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Learn about how runtime governance is impacting Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementations
• Understand why runtime governance is an important consideration for all SOA implementations
• Learn about the relationship among SOA governance, policy management, and security.

Ron Schmelzer, Managing Partner, ZapThink

Ben Moreland, Director, Foundation Services, The Hartford

Kush Mishra, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Boehringer Ingelheim

Mike Kavis, Executive Director, Architecture, Catalina Marketing

Jim Mackay, CMO, iTKO

Al Aghili, CTO and Founder, Managed Methods

Martin Milani, CTO, Tidal Software

Dan Finerty, Director, Product Marketing, DataDirect

Listen to this Podcast and you will get a "Sneak Peek" at what all the presenters will be speaking about at our Practical SOA: New York / New Jersey - Finance, Pharma, Media, Governance, Quality, and Management event in Newark, New Jersey, on March 25, 2008.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Understand what a user interface (UI) Service is
• Learn about situational applications and fit-for-purpose applications and their relationship to composite applications
• Compare UI Services to mashups, portlets, and widgets, and place them in the SOA context

James Jones, Director, Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), BP

Rusty Foreman, DCT Enterprise Architecture, BP

Patrick Bhirdo, Endigo Energy

Richard Green, Principal Analyst, DTE Energy

David Anderson, Solution Architect, BEA Systems, Inc

John Michelsen, Founder & Chief Architect, iTKO

Dan Finerty, Director, Product Marketing, DataDirect Shadow

Jason Bloomberg, Managing Partner, ZapThink

Listen to this Podcast and you will get a "Sneak Peek" at what all the presenters will be speaking about at our Practical SOA: Energy and Utilities event in Houston, TX on February 5, 2008.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Learn about the role of documents in SOA
• Get an idea of the role XML has in the creation of content
• Understand how dynamic documents that display application functionality can help implement document-centric business processes in the context of SOA

Ron Schmelzer, Managing Partner, ZapThink

Ingo Arnold, Enterprise Systems Architect, Novartis Pharma AG

Wolfgang Otto, Principal Systems Engineer, BEA Systems

Florian Mösch, Vice President Enterprise Integration & Architecture, T-Mobile Deutschland GmbH

Jason English, iTKO, iTKO

Dr. Waldemar Lohrer, Senior Berater, Swiss Life

Tim Hall, SOA Center Product Management, Hewlett-Packard

Lars Drexler, VP Sales Enablement, Software AG

Listen to this Podcast and you will get a "Sneak Peek" at what all the presenters will be speaking about at our Practical SOA event in Frankfurt, Germany, on January 15, 2008.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Understand the issues and activities that are relevant to the management side of SOA as opposed to the technical side
• Learn why the business issues are so important when implementing SOA
• Get an idea which areas of the business can benefit the most from SOA

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Learn how a "Selective SOA" approach can reduce the risk of a SOA initiative
• Understand how a limited scope SOA project should handle infrastructure and governance issues
• Learn about how to train SOA architects as well as details on the ZapThink/Web Age Solutions partnership for delivering Licensed ZapThink Architect credentialing sessions

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Get an introduction to the OpenAjax Alliance, what its role is, and who its members are
• Understand the challenges facing interoperability among Ajax toolkits
• Learn the distinction between Ajax components and Ajax applications

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Gain an understanding as to the technical challenges behind corporate mergers and acquisitions
• Learn how SOA can help organizations during mergers
• Understand the role of SOA governance in mergers and acquisition

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Identify the various roles that people must play to form an effective SOA team
• Understand the various relationships that SOA fosters, for example, between architects and quality assurance personnel
• Learn to recognize and avoid the pitfalls that diverse SOA teams can introduce

Featured are Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions, and Jason Bloomberg, Managing Partner with ZapThink. Both bring deep knowledge and unique perspectives about application management SOA, web services, and the relevant technologies and standards to this debate.

Whether you are simply deploying web services or building out a complete service-oriented architecture, come hear these analysts’ views on tough questions such as:

• What should management look like in the world of service based applications?
• How does SOA change the landscape of application and systems management?
• Can traditional monitoring tools be effective managing tomorrow’s SOA deployments or is something new needed?
• What standards are needed to make SOA adoption a success, or do they already exist? What role do they play and what are the alternatives?
• As enterprises increasingly deploy SOA-based applications and infrastructure, the lingering question remains: how do current plans and approaches to application management stack up to managing these mission-critical deployments?

This Podcast was produced by Tidal Software and is presented as a 13.8 MB mp3 file. Running time 1:00.21. Recorded on September 14, 2007 at the Harvard Club, Boston.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Get a real-world sense as to how a midsize bank is leveraging Web Services
• Understand how mainframes play in a Microsoft environment
• Gain insight into how reusable Web Services can reduce costs and provide agility

Jason Bloomberg, Managing Partner, ZapThink

Michael Poulin, Head of Business Analysis & Web Delivery, Fidelity Investment International

Jim Mackay, Chief Marketing Officer, iTKO

David Davies, Vice President, Products, Corizon

William Morgan, Lead Technical Architect for Financial Services in the UK, LogicaCMG

David Wright, Director, Global Financial Services Software AG webMethods

Listen to this Podcast and you will get a "Sneak Peek" at what all the presenters spoke about at our Practical SOA for Financial Services event in London, England, on September 27, 2007.

Hear from these speakers on the following topics:

• Jason Bloomberg -- SOA Adoption Trends for Financial Services and the World
• Michael Poulin -- Case Study in SOA: The Next Steps in the Organically Growing SOA
• Jim Mackay -- SOA Quality and the Financial Services Industry
• David Davies -- Agility at the User Interface
• William Morgan -- SOA Case Study: Homeserve GB - Composite applications for insurance customer care
• David Wright -- Real Value from SOA and BPM: How Financial Institutions can transform their Businesses and Get There Faster

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Learn what collaborative development means
• Understand the connection among modeling, methodology, and development
• Grasp the role of Model-Driven Development in the context of SOA

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Learn what identity is and how it fits into SOA
• Understand the relationships between identity and governance and between identity and policy
• Grasp the nature of federated identity, and the standards that support it

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Understand how to support changing business processes with a model-driven approach
• Learn what a business Service is in the context of business processes
• Grasp the relationship between business process and SOA

Setting the Stage: ZapThink Analysts
ZapThink analysts Jason Bloomberg and Ron Schmelzer set the stage by discussing the challenge IT organizations face when they implement SOA to support business change.

Next, Barbara Saxby explains the model-driven approach to SOA, and takes a business process-centric perspective on business Services. She then delineates the Service-oriented approach to business process that supports ongoing business change. She also discusses the granularity of business Services as well as the requirements for an agile Service composition environment.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Learn what a business analyst does and how SOA is changing the role of the business analyst
• Understand the skills a business analyst needs within organizations implementing SOA
• Discover the prerequisites for becoming a Service-oriented business analyst.

and Bradley Falk, Chief Architect, Western Region, Online Business Systems.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Define semantic integration, semantic models, and ontologies
• Understand the relationship between semantic integration and SOA
• Learn about the limitations of semantic integration

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Learn how is SOA changing the composite application landscape
• Understand the role of legacy in the SOA/composite application world
• Relate composite applications and Enterprise Mashups to Rich Internet Applications, Ajax, and Web 2.0.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Get an in-depth understanding of Service contracts
• Understand Model-Driven Design and how it can apply to Service contract creation
• Learn about the business impact of model-driven Service design

and Dan Finerty, Director of Product Marketing, Shadow, DataDirect Technologies.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Learn what SOA enablement is and how to SOA enable the mainframe
• Understand which mainframe assets should be exposed as Services
• Get pointers on how companies should leverage current skills and current mainframe technologies in the context of SOA

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Gain perspective on the current state of the job market for Architects with SOA experience
• Learn which industries are experiencing the greatest demand for Enterprise Architects (EAs)
• Understand the current "speed bumps" affecting the EA marketplace

Interviewees for this podcast include:

• Sally White, Vice President, Business Development, Tenfold Corporation - Discussing the need for higher level tooling for non-developers, the role of composition and metadata, and declarative, model-driven approaches to Service-Oriented Business Application development.
  
• Dimitri Sirota - VP Marketing and Alliances, Layer 7 Technologies. Dimitri explores the area of network-aware applications and application-aware networking, its relevance to SOA, Web Services, and XML in general, how Service-oriented architects need to concern themselves with the network, why enterprise architects need to broaden their skills and the role of the Open Group in fostering this broadening.
  
• Miko Matsumura - Vice President, SOA Product Marketing - Miko explains the lack of skilled enterprise architects, critical human factors impacting SOA advancement, the SOAMasterClass.com site that provides needed education, credentialing and certification opportunities for EAs, and the role of the Open Group.

In this first episode, Schmelzer interviews the following key Open Group individuals:

• Allen Brown, President and CEO, The Open Group
• Interview with Andras Szakal, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect, IBM Federal Software Group (still awaiting confirmation)
• Interview with Jason Uppal, Chief Architect, QRS (founding member of first AOGEA chapter)

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Understand the terms Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, and Ajax
• Learn how Ajax is the key to the Rich Enterprise Application
• Explore the close relationship between Ajax and SOA

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Learn how XML data management is different from ordinary data management
• Understand the technical and management issues surrounding native XML data management
• Position XML data management in the context of Service-Oriented Architecture

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Gain clear definitions of Web 2.0, Enterprise Web 2.0, as well as Mashups and Enterprise Mashups
• Understand the business value of Rich Internet Applications
• Learn how Ajax and other technologies enable organizations to use the Web as a platform for application creation

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Learn how the major enterprise application vendors, SAP and Oracle, are leveraging SOA in their product lines
• Familiarize yourself with the SOA roadmaps of the leading enterprise application vendors
• Explore how companies are implementing Service-oriented integration in the context of their enterprise applications

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Understand the relationship between Web Services Management and Runtime Governance of Web Services
• Learn about transaction management and its relevance to SOA
• Understand the importance of visibility across long-running transactions

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Understand the context for Web Services security, and security in a SOA environment
• Learn about XML threat prevention and its relationship to SOA
• Get an understanding of the role of security appliances in a SOA implementation

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Get a clear picture of the pros and cons of both top-down and bottom-up approaches to SOA
• Understand how to build the right Services at the right level of granularity
• Learn about the relationship between IT governance and SOA governance, as well as the cultural aspects of governance
• Understand why some organizations believe that they should buy a product to implement SOA, and why that's not generally a good approach

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Hear a first-hand account of building the justification for SOA as well as embarking on a SOA initiative
• Understand how a government organization built Services to eliminate redundancy and migrate off of aging legacy systems
• Gain insight into how to leverage tools like Mindreef SOAPscope and Infravio X-Registry to deal with quality issues
• Tie together the concepts of SOA testing, quality, and governance in a real-world situation

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Learn what it means to be a "Service provider" in the context of SOA
• Understand the difference between product management and project management approaches to SOA
• Get a clear picture of the role of a SOA Competency Center in the enterprise
• Receive useful advice on how to resolve many of the organizational issues SOA presents

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Understand SOA governance and why it's important
• Learn about business policies and technical policies
• Understand the various roles people take when implementing SOA governance
• Get a brass tacks view of how to implement SOA governance

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Understand what a registry/repository is
• Learn who should use a registry/repository
• Understand what should be placed into a registry/repository
• Get a good idea what processes companies should use to leverage the assets in their registry/repository

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Be able to deal with the inherent complexity of IT
• Understand how to organize your enterprise architecture initiative to meet business needs
• Learn how to avoid the pitfalls with enterprise architecture
• Learn about three core patterns for SOA
• Understand the relationship between governance and architecture

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Understand what a business policy is, and how policies relate to Services
• How to translate business policies to IT policies
• What the relationship is between policies and Service contracts
• The relevance of policies to compliance a
• What end-to-end policy management is, and how it differs from compliance management

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Understand what the Service lifecycle is and how it's different from a traditional software development lifecycle
• Identify the parts of the Service lifecycle
• Explore the problems that companies are having today when implementing, testing, deploying, and supporting Services
• Learn how teams can best collaborate when implementing SOA

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Learn about XQuery and current data integration challenges
• Understand why SOA doesn't solve the semantic challenge
• Learn about new approaches for data integration in the context of SOA
• Dive into a deep discussion of the data integration "shell game"
• Get a deep understanding of the hard work that's still necessary for successful data integration

Guest Experts: Andrew Nash, CTO, Reactivity and Sean Kline, Director of Product Marketing, Systinet

Topics:

• The process to define and aggregate policies across infrastructures
• The options to create an SOA system of record that centrally aggregates service characteristics
• The short- and long-term architecture requirements to enforce security, routing and integration policies
• The mechanism through which services, connections and policies will be iterated
• The best evidence that SOA governance pays off for your enterprise

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Guest Experts: Michael Morris, CTO, MW2 Consulting, and Avrami Tzur, Senior Director SOA Strategy, Mercury

Topics: Audience will learn:

• Learn how to identify points of reliability and assess your SOA using new best practices and approaches.
• Learn an SOA Blueprint that might help you quickly implement SOA solutions that deliver business value.
• Understand SOA reliability in the context of the SOA lifecycle (decide, define, create, test, deploy, maintain, and retire)
• Learn how to reduce risk for SOA implementations through dashboards and scorecards
• Overview of disciplines required for each stage and the tools to help IT enforce those disciplines (governance, quality and performance, SLA)

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Guest Experts: Michael Leventhal, Sr. Director, XML Products, Tarari and Tim Triemstra, VP, Product Strategy, Rogue Wave Software

Topics:

Learn about software, hardware, and other means for optimizing performance

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Guest Experts: Jeff Browning, Product Manager, iControl (SOAP/XML API for network devices) and Steve Orrin, Chief Technology Officer, Sarvega

Topics:

How can application folks and network admins get along in the new world of SOA?

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Guest Experts: Nash Palaniswamy, Director of System Architecture, Conformative Systems and Arvind Sinha, VP Business Development, Xambala

Topics:

What are the keys to enabling efficient semantic processing and transformation?

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Guest Experts: Steve Field, Vice President, Enterprise Integration Consulting, Tier1 Innovation and Adil Soofi, Managing Consultant, Adea Solutions

Topics:

What real ROI are companies realizing from their SOA implementations?

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Guest Experts: Ardy Franssen, Product Management, Seagull Software and Arjen Westerink, Product Marketing, Cordys

Topics:

How are SOA-based composite applications different?

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Guest Experts: Miko Matsumura, VP Marketing, Infravio and Brent Carlson, CTO, Logic Library

Topics:

Leverage Service and software development assets across the enterprise

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Guest Experts: Gordon Van Huizen, CTO, Sonic Software and Frank Martinez, Chairman and Chief Architect, Blue Titan

Topics:

Learn how an SOA Fabric can be used to create integrated Services networks that are adaptable, scalable and resilient

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Guest Experts: Dan Foody, CTO, Actional and John Derrick, CEO, Conformative Systems

Topics:

Control over the performance and business return of SOA

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