Recognizing the importance of giving enterprises quality information
at the point of use, Dr. Chris Harding sees information
interoperability as the next major challenge. He leads the SOA Working
Group at The Open Group - an open forum of customers and suppliers of
IT products and services. In addition, he is a Director of UDEF Forum,
and manages The Open Group's work on semantic interoperability. At
Business Technology Summit 2010, to be held 11-12 November 2010 in
Bangalore (www.btsummit.com), Dr. Harding will speak about Using Cloud
in Your Enterprise Architecture, Managing Cloud Risks, SOA for
Interoperability, and SOA Governance:
* Using Cloud in Your Enterprise Architecture (11 Nov): cloud
computing presents enterprises with major opportunities, not only for
cost savings but, more importantly, to improve their service delivery,
and to enter new markets with innovative service offerings. But it is
not possible to do this just by waving a magic wand. How cloud should
be used needs careful consideration. Will it replace existing IT, and,
if so, how will the enterprise manage the transition? Will it be added
to and complement in-house IT and, if so, how should they be
integrated? It is the business of enterprise architects to resolve
such questions. The Open Group has produced the industry standard
framework, TOGAF, which is used by many enterprise architects to guide
their decisions. Participants will learn: the architectural
considerations involved in using Cloud Computing within the
enterprise, and the approaches that can be taken by enterprise
architects to use Cloud effectively.
* Managing Cloud Risks (11 Nov): cloud Computing has significant
benefits, but can also carry significant risks. Many enterprises, for
example, are concerned about risks associated with security, data
protection, and cost control. If they are to use cloud computing, they
need to understand these risks, and understand how to manage them.
This presentation will describe an approach, based on scorecards, to
identifying, monitoring, and managing the main risks associated with
cloud computing. Attendees will learn: what the main risks are, how to
monitor them, and how to mitigate their effects.
* SOA for Interoperability: integrating applications - and now
Cloud services - is a major challenge for enterprise architects. Each
of these components is designed to deliver a particular set of
functionality, and probably does this very well. But different
applications and services are designed separately and generally do not
inter-operate with each other. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has
become established as an architectural style within which different
components can inter-operate so that applications and external
services can be integrated within an overall enterprise architecture.
This presentation will describe the latest state-of-the-art of SOA,
and explain how enterprise architects can use it to achieve
interoperability, following best-practice methods developed by The
Open Group based on the experience of its members. Participants will
learn: how SOA delivers interoperability, a standard reference
architecture for SOA, and how to use the Open Group's standard
architecture framework TOGAF to develop a service-oriented enterprise
architecture.
* SOA Governance: from the earliest days of SOA, it has been
widely recognized that good governance is crucial for successful
deployment. It has also been recognized that SOA governance is
difficult. In the first place, this was partly just because SOA was
new. Secondly, it is also because SOA requires a different way of
working to traditional architectural styles, with different roles and
responsibilities. Thirdly, and perhaps most significantly, enterprises
using SOA learn as they go, and change the way they do things as they
learn, which means that their governance must be adaptable and
flexible. This presentation will describe the Open Group SOA
Governance Framework. This is a standard governance framework
developed by The Open Group using the experience of its member
companies. It includes a standard SOA governance reference model, and
a vitality method by which you can create a flexible and adaptive SOA
governance regimen for your enterprise. Participants will learn: the
importance of SOA governance, the Open Group SOA Governance Reference
Model, and how to develop an enterprise SOA governance regimen using
the SOA Governance Vitality Method.
Dr. Harding has a Ph.D in mathematical logic, and is a member of the
British Computer Society (BCS) and of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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