SOA Best Practices: Concrete Examples, Working Implementations

Jun. 5, 2006 11:00 AM

In planning and building SOA, concrete examples often are useful: SOA designers, vendors and users can reference a wealth of abstract guidelines, descriptions of functional layers and sets of specific standards, or software that fulfill SOA requirements. However, often there is a shortage of clear, demonstrable examples of working implementations, based on real needs and requirements, that can be used as best practices reference to kickstart implementation projects and to compare implementations. One way to encourage these examples is to supply an archetypal "blueprint" set of business requirements and functions that can be fulfilled by SOA methods.

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About Miko Matsumura
As Vice President and Chief Strategist at Software AG, Miko Matsumura is responsible for the technology strategy. He holds 12 years of experience in Enterprise Software and Middleware technologies. Prior to his current role, Matsumura served as vice president of SOA product marketing at webMethods and vice president of worldwide marketing at Infravio. He emerged as an industry thought leader while at The Middleware Company, where he was a co-creator responsible for building the partner program for SOA Blueprints, the first complete vendor-neutral specification of a SOA. He holds an MBA from San Francisco State University and a Masters Degree in Neuroscience from Yale University.

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