SOA Consortium Releases New Podcast Featuring Professor Gregor Engels on
“Service Oriented Design, a Key Competency for SOA Success”

Needham, MA, USA – February 3, 2009 – The SOA Consortium™ today announced that a podcast and slide deck of the presentation by Professor Gregor Engels, Capgemini sd&m AG, and University of Paderborn, on “Service Oriented Design, a Key Competency for SOA Success,” recorded at the SOA Consortium meeting in Santa Clara in December 2008 are now available. To access the podcast, visit http://www.soa-consortium.org/pr-ge. 

Professor Engels presented an overview of Quasar Enterprise, a concrete method for defining services and SOA based solutions. Quasar Enterprise, based on Capgemini’s Integrated Architecture Framework (IAF), consists of five main steps. Each main step is comprised of several methodical building blocks; every building block has concrete rules, patterns and reference architectures derived from real-world best practices.

During his presentation, Professor Engels focused on the business architecture and ideal application landscape steps. Using a fictional travel company example, he walked through the methodical building blocks to derive business services from business goals and then transition to software realization, including application and information services, domains, components, operations, interfaces and degrees of coupling.

Throughout his presentation, Professor Engels took questions from attendees on applying the method, including the role of business personnel in service identification, the iterative nature of Quasar, differences between functional decomposition and object-oriented design techniques, and managing business change across an evolving application landscape.

To hear Professor Engels’ entire presentation, download the 47-minute podcast and accompanying slide presentation at http://www.soa-consortium.org/pr-ge. To read more about this podcast or to share your views, visit the SOA Consortium’s SOA Insights blog at http://blog.soa-consortium.org. 

The next SOA Consortium meeting is in Washington, D.C., USA on March 25-26, 2009. Organizations interested in joining the SOA Consortium and attending the meeting should visit the website, http://www.soa-consortium.org or email info@soa-consortium.org for more information.

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The SOA Consortium is an advocacy group of end users, service providers and technology vendors committed to helping the Global 1000, major government agencies, and mid-market businesses successfully adopt Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) by 2010. SOA Consortium founding enterprise members include Fortune 200 companies in Financial Services, Travel, Manufacturing, Retail and Telecommunications. Sponsors are Cisco, HP, IBM Corporation, Layer 7 Technologies, NEC Sphere, Savant, Sparx Systems and Sun Microsystems, Inc. Participants include Fortune 1000 corporations, major government agencies and non-governmental organizations. Any organization may join the SOA Consortium. The SOA Consortium is managed by OMG.

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