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SOA Business Process Modeling

This solution helps clients define, understand, document, analyze and improve business processes using visual Process Map Diagrams.  In the workshop component of this solution, participants learn a simple approach for developing process maps that present the activities of the process and how they interrelate throughout the workflow.

Objectives:

• Understand and be able to apply various approaches to specifying information requirements
• Apply techniques to effectively model a business
• How to analyze business processes and workflows
• How to identify and define shared services
• How to identify business data needs
• How to integrate multiple business models
• How to transform business models into architected designs

Target Audience:
Key IT staff of organizations new to SOA

Execution: Workshop: Two days in conjunction with ongoing consulting and coaching

SOA Application Patterns and Service Design

This solution establishes the steps for identifying, analyzing and validating the business advisability and technical feasibility of exposing business processes as business services.

Objective:

• Identification of the motivators for a SOA initiative; Re-use, Agility, Integration
• Identification and modeling of business processes, including the current (as is) and potential re-engineered (can be) states
• Identification of patterns and service candidates
• Identification of priorities, limitations and constraints of service candidates
• Determine if service candidate can be sufficiently generalized
• Determine technical feasibility of service candidate
• Determine whether service candidate can be successfully deployed within the technical architecture

Target Audience:
Key IT staff of organizations new to SOA

Execution: Workshop: Two days in conjunction with consulting and coaching

Symantec Reconciliation

This solution is a working session that establishes processes that resolve definition, meaning and relationship issues associated with sharing digital content and business processes among different parties participating in a SOA.

Objective/Deliverable:
Processes to reconcile definition, meaning and relationships of digital content and business processes across organization and political boundaries.

Target Audience:
Key business and technical leaders for SOA projects that cross organizational and political boundaries

Execution: Working session: One day, in conjunction with consulting and coaching

Java SOA/Web Services Development

This solution includes training, coaching and consulting in the development of Java/J2EE Web Services. This hands-on, lab-based training can be from a 3-day to a comprehensive 5-day class that teaches how to build portable J2EE services aimed for deployment on either open-source, IBM WebSphere or BEA WebLogic application servers.

Objective/Deliverable:
Content of workshop depends upon client needs: Contact us to have faculty discuss your requirements.

Target Audience:
IT technical staff

Execution: Workshop: Three to five days in conjunction with consulting and coaching

.NET SOA/Web Services Development

This solution includes training, coaching and consulting in the development of Web Services hosted on the Microsoft .NET platform. The hands-on lab-based training trains developers on how to construct Web Services using either C# or VB.NET. Tailored training solutions range from 4-day core classes for experienced .NET developers to 5-day boot camps that provide basic Web Service development skills to programmers with no previous .NET development experience.

Objectives:
Content of workshop depends upon client needs: Contact us to have faculty discuss your requirements.

Target Audience:
IT technical staff.

Execution: Workshop: Four to five days in conjunction with consulting and coaching.

How to Design SOA Business Processes and Workflows

This solution defines an approach and the techniques for analyzing and redesigning an already modeled business process to prepare it for participation in a SOA initiative while improving the performance of the business process. This solution combines the business, analysis and technical components required for successful SOA application.

Objectives:

• Understanding of business process models and supporting artifacts
• Understanding of 'defined services' in a SOA
• Evaluation of the process activities for improvement opportunities
• Mapping portions of business process to specific Services
• Re-factoring (dividing/combining) process activities to align with Service boundaries
• Identification of events and conditions that affect process workflows
• Definition of potential exceptions and how each must be handled
• Reconciliation of information needs between business processes and Services
• Evaluate and define security handling for new business processes

Target Audience:
SOA Project Leaders, Managers and technical staff

Execution: Workshop: Three days in conjunction with ongoing consulting

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