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(SYS-CON Media) - David Linthicum, an internationally known application integration and service oriented architecture (SOA) expert, announced the availability of “SOA Practitioner’s Crash Course” – a three-day, custom-designed fast-paced seminar/workshop geared toward getting a corporate or government SOA team up-and-running in just three days.

“While many may understand the notion of SOA, very few have any idea how to get there, “states David Linthicum, CEO of The Linthicum Group, LLC, and author of this course. “Truth-be-told, there is no hard and fast rule as to how one builds an SOA in their organization. However, some common patterns are emerging that provide a step-by-step guide toward implementing an SOA, either in the fast track (revolutionary) or the slow track (evolutionary) – as long as you’re on the right track.”

The purpose of this seminar/workshop is to provide a step-by-step guide for those who design and build SOAs, designed for the particular organization’s needs. This seminar will walk the perspective SOA team through all of the logical steps, including defining key artifacts and providing examples of those artifacts (e.g., design documents). Moreover, it will look at the vast array of SOA technology currently on the market, and show how to make sense of it beyond the hype, selecting the right technology the first time. In essence, this seminar serves as a meta-methodology of sorts, taking the mystery and risk out of moving an organization to SOA.

You can find additional information about this offering at http://www.davidlinthicum.com/SOA_Practitioners_Crash_Course.pdf

About David Linthicum
David Linthicum is an internationally known application integration and service-oriented architecture (SOA) expert. In his career he has formed many of the ideas for modern distributed computing, including EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) and B2B application integration, and service-oriented architecture (SOA) approaches and technology, in wide use today.

David began the Linthicum Group (www.linthicumgroup.com) to provide world-class SOA consulting to major corporations and government agencies, as well as select SOA product companies. He is the former CEO of BRIDGEWERX, and has held key technology management roles with a number of organizations including CTO of Mercator Software, CTO of SAGA Software, Mobil Oil, EDS, AT&T, and Ernst and Young. In addition he was an associate professor of computer science for eight years, and continues to lecture at major technical colleges and universities. David keynotes at many technology conferences.