Symposium Overview

The Enterprise SOA Symposium is focused around two main themes:

• Day One Theme: Enterprise SOA Foundation: Key Information to Improve Your Enterprise SOA Knowledge
  
• Day Two Theme: Enterprise SOA in Action: Focus on Experiences in Building the Case, Implementing and Supporting

Session Details

Day One Sessions

• Overview of Enterprise SOA: Meeting Business Requirements
  Andrew LeBlanc, SAP Americas, Inc. 
  This session includes definitions of the key terminology and concepts surrounding SOA and Enterprise SOA.   The presenter describes the differences between SOA and Enterprise SOA and puts Enterprise SOA in the context of Enterprise Architecture.
  
  
• Extend SAP with Enterprise SOA: Customer and Partner Case Studies
  Dipak Chopra, SAP Americas, Inc.
  The presenter explains how customers leveraging Enterprise SOA can benefit from the ecosystem of SAP Partners and communities.  He/she also provides examples from SAP’s new Co-Innovation Lab to reveal how SAP Partners and customers can collaborate to deliver new options, as well as optimize technology infrastructure for Enterprise SOA.
  
  
• Developing and Leveraging Enterprise Services (ES)
  Dipak Chopra, SAP America Americas, Inc.
  

  Do you ever wonder when it’s best to use Enterprise Services versus traditional APIs?  This session provides the answers, as well as a summary of the tools used to develop Enterprise Services and recorded demonstrations of a few key tools.

  
  Discover Enterprise Services using the ES Workplace. This presentation provides a demonstration of how the ES Wiki can be used to learn about scenarios that may leverage a set of Enterprise Services.  The speaker illustrates how a selected Enterprise Service can be tested before use, as well as how it can be consumed in an application or business process using the SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment (CE) application.
  
  
• Driving Successful Enterprise SOA Adoption
  Andrew LeBlanc, SAP Americas, Inc.
  

  This presentation features potential approaches for beginning to work with Enterprise SOA and scaling it at any organization.  The speaker discusses Enterprise SOA topics such as the governance organization, technologies, business case outline, potential timeline and risks.
  
  

• Securing Resources and Assistance for an Enterprise SOA Program/Project 
  Andrew LeBlanc, SAP Americas, Inc.  
  

  This presentation features a panel of experts answering questions from attendees about moving forward with Enterprise SOA.  Members of the ASUG Enterprise SOA SIG Community are on hand to share their knowledge and experiences and let attendees know about upcoming activities and key resources available.

Day Two Sessions

• The Business Case for Service-Oriented Architecture 
  Amit Sinha, SAP Americas, Inc.
  As the pace of change accelerates and businesses become more connected, the ability to orchestrate and coordinate processes across an entire business network is a new source of competitive advantage for organizations. The transformation to a dynamic business network in which each entity is focused on its key differentiator while also collaborating with others in its network to deliver higher shared customer value, speed of innovation and cost benefits is a necessity.  Enterprise SOA provides a flexible architecture that lowers the cost of change and simplifies integration and the composition of processes across the business network. Based on data from 134 customer interviews and empirical analysis of 175 Enterprise SOA roadmaps, this session provides common business-driven paths for Enterprise SOA deployments, which are focused on business strategies that IT is called on to deliver. The presenter showcases examples from leading SOA practitioners such as Whirlpool, Burda, Endress+Hauser and Valero. This presentation is useful for business leaders who are trying to tie IT transformation to business priorities and want to justify the business benefit of SOA projects.
  
  
• Making SOA Real and Tangible for Your Enterprise
  Sam Ceccola and Dale Young, Capgemini
  

  As SAP customers move forward with the evolution of their enterprise solutions and architecture, many of them are still faced with basic questions surrounding SOA. This session helps you understand the what, why and how of SOA. Ceccola and Young demonstrate examples of "SOA in action" that help attendees understand why it is important for their organizations. Learn from practical discussion about SOA and see real-world examples of how organizations deliver business value using SAP and SOA.
  

   

• Extending SAP with Enterprise SOA: A View from the Tower and the Trenches
  Steve Benner, ESRI, Inc.
  

  In this session, the presenter discusses and demonstrates how SAP functionality has been extended into the location intelligence arena using a SOA-ready Geographic Information System (GIS).   The presenter highlights examples from Imperial Irrigation District, NNWW, AES Sul, and ESRI to illustrate the business pain points resolved, alternatives considered, solution implemented, and benefits delivered.  The session ends with lessons learned from both the technical and managerial perspectives.
  
  

• The Evolution of Enterprise SOA: Three Key Success Factors
  Peter Gibbels, HP Software
  SOA governance, quality and management are evolutions of existing IT best practices that can be successfully extended to SAP applications. In this session, the presenter provides an example of a manufacturing company moving to a SOA architecture. Learn how to ensure visibility, trust and control of SAP Enterprise SOA services, as well as quality assurance best practices and effective operational management techniques for SAP production applications.
  
  
• Defining an Organization-Wide Services Meta Model Across Heterogeneous Landscapes
  Badrinath Parthasarathi, WiPro
  Creating an enterprise-wide services meta model is a challenge that most organizations seem to be grappling with today. With the landscape driven by multiple platforms, primarily from a strategic fit, the challenges multiply. The ways of approaching SOA are different and multiple schools of thought exist towards making it a reality. However, most of the strategies miss the mark regarding the drivers of the decision-making process. A heightened sense of vendor-centricity makes a neutral judgment nearly impossible. There needs to be a new way of looking at things with a move towards a business process platform. Every new merger and acquisition brings with it a multitude of such applications which turn the laundry list into a huge list of unmanageable process applications that support processes across the value-chain. In the changing world of Web 2.0 and mash-up corporations, there has to be a new approach to solving this perpetual nightmare in a multi-platform environment.

The program also includes:

• Meet the Speakers: Face-to-face dialogue with SAP, customer and Partner speakers
  
• One-on-One Sessions: The chance to discuss Enterprise SOA directly with SAP