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What's MIA in SOA!

Jun. 5, 2006 09:00 AM

The promise of SOA is clear — Increased agility, reduced costs, tighter alignment between the business and the application logic that runs the business. What’s missing however is the process to get from your existing enterprise application architecture to the promise of SOA, and the ability to ensure that once you get there, you stay there. Mapping existing business services to the logic that actually executes these services within existing applications provides organizations with the ability to promote service candidates from within existing applications and databases, while deprecating duplicative or redundant logic. Additionally once a stable of services exists, active governance alerts organizations to the creation of newly developed duplicative logic or services. This session will outline the 5 step process to adopt SOA and to ensure governance with enterprise objectives once you are there.

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About Guy Hoffman
Guy Hoffman is a successful strategist for emerging markets, with over 20 years of executive and venture capital experience. Prior to joining Metallect, Guy served as a Venture Partner for TL Ventures, a leading venture capital firm with $1.4 billion under management. At TL Ventures, Guy sourced and managed investments in information technology and communications and served as a board member of several software companies including b-there.com (acquired by StarCite), DigitalWork, Factory Logic, and Participate Systems. He also assumed interim CEO positions in multiple portfolio companies.

Previously, Guy held CEO positions at Deja News, Inc., and iSong.com, as well as senior management positions at OpenConnect Systems and Eicon Technology Corporation. At OpenConnect, Guy was responsible for developing a turnaround strategy that ultimately resulted in achieving market leadership in web-enabled legacy systems. At Eicon, Guy helped grow the company from inception to a $600 million public market capitalization. Guy holds a BA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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