Microsoft Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) webcasts...

Check the upcoming Microsoft webcasts on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) -

SOA Overview
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
8:00am (GMT-8) Pacific Time (US & Canada),
Language: English-American

Learn how the Microsoft Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) vision and technology can help you realize a more agile and connected enterprise by using an IT infrastructure that can help streamline business processes, increase customer responsiveness, and improve interactions with key partners.

Presenters: Kris Horrocks and Yumay Chang, Microsoft Corporation

To register and join this webcast:

1. Click on (or enter in your browser) the address of the registration page:
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6818538


Messaging & Communications
Friday, June 15, 2007
8:00am (GMT-8) Pacific Time (US & Canada),
Language: English-American

Applications commonly communicate with other applications, both inside and outside the organization. Modern applications also must often fit into a service-oriented architecture (SOA), exposing some of their functionality as interoperable services accessible by other software. Achieving these goals requires support for service-oriented applications to communicate with other services.

In this session we’ll share with you the technology Microsoft provides to build web services that support the latest WS-* standards endorsed by all major vendors. In addition, we’ll tie it in with the previous discussion around Software Factories and show how Microsoft supports rapid development of these services through tooling support.

Presenters: Steve Swartz and Don Smith, Microsoft Corporation

To register and join this webcast:

1. Click on (or enter in your browser) the address of the registration page:
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6818539


Business Process & Workflow
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
8:00am (GMT-8) Pacific Time (US & Canada),
Language: English-American

In this session we will discuss the Business Process and Workflow capabilities necessary in service oriented architecture and provide guidance for selecting the most appropriate technology from Microsoft’s portfolio. We will discuss the requirements for service composition in client applications, composite services, service intermediaries, and line of business applications. In addition, we will examine the differences between general purpose workflow platforms, domain specific workflow products, and cross organization business process concerns.

Presenters: Kris Horrocks, Microsoft Corporation

To register and join this webcast:
1. Click on (or enter in your browser) the address of the registration page:
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6818540

Tools & Modelling
Friday, June 22, 2007
8:00am (GMT-8) Pacific Time (US & Canada),
Language: English-American

The advance in tooling has allowed business to drive down the cost of development by over 100% in the last 10 years. However, in the same period of time the number of successful projects has not increased significantly. In fact it has consistently run at right around 30% of projects are deemed successful. Software development, as currently practiced, is slow, expensive and error prone, often yielding products with large numbers of defects, causing serious problems of usability, reliability, performance, security and other qualities of service.


This talk addresses how to identify typical customer pains in software development and shows how Microsoft tools offer a solution that enables collaboration across the extended team of project managers, architects, developers, testers, and business stakeholders and allows new solutions to be developed faster, cheaper and better though industrialization of software development.

Presenters: Erik Gunvaldson, Don Smith, Microsoft Corporation

To register and join this webcast:

1. Click on (or enter in your browser) the address of the registration page:
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6818541


SOA Workshop Series: Enterprise Service Bus
Friday, June 29, 2007
8:00am (GMT-8) Pacific Time (US & Canada),
Language: English-American

This webcast explores the service oriented capabilities necessary to support mediated service communication and our guidance for implementing an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) on the Microsoft platform. In addition, we will discuss the increasing need for broadly available service bus capabilities beyond the edges of the enterprise.

Presenter: Kris Horrocks, Microsoft Corporation

To register and join this webcast:

1. Click on (or enter in your browser) the address of the registration page:
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6834394

SOA Workshop for Architects: Identity and Access
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
8:00am (GMT-8) Pacific Time (US & Canada),
Language: English-American

The main reason that identity is now such a hot topic is based upon the fact that there is more opportunity to connect. High bandwidth communications via the Internet are now almost ubiquitous and span a broad range of scenario within organizations, between organizations, at home and elsewhere This has resulted in a rapid increase in the adoption of products and services available via the internet, and many of these services require some form of user authentication, but with the proliferation of phishing schemes there is no safe way to say who you are on the internet.

In this session we will show you Microsoft’s solution on identity and access can addresses these common concerns presented by the web, and how through identity federation a user can access services that require a different set of credentials in a transparent fashion.

Presenter: Kim Cameron, Microsoft Corporation

To register and join this webcast:
1. Click on (or enter in your browser) the address of the registration page:
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6834536

SOA Workshop for Architects: Governance and Management
Friday, July 13, 2007
8:00am (GMT-8) Pacific Time (US & Canada),
Language: English-American

As companies grow, their IT infrastructures grow along with them. But more often than not, the pace of that growth is uneven. As applications, functionalities and people are added across the board at various points in time, the complexity of the enterprise multiplies and the harder it can be to manage and, more importantly, to keep secure.

A dynamic system is Microsoft’s vision for what an agile business looks like—where IT works closely with business in order to meet the demands of a rapidly changing and adaptable environment. Come hear about Microsoft’s technology strategy for products and solutions that help businesses enhance the dynamic capability of its people, process, and IT infrastructure using technology.

Presenter: Jeff Johnson, Microsoft Corporation

To register and join this webcast:

1. Click on (or enter in your browser) the address of the registration page:
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6834551

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