"The promise of SOA is clear," according to Metallect's Guy Hoffman (pictured), "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

Hoffman will speak on the topic "What's Missing in SOA' at Web Services Edge in New York in June. "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," he says, "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."