March 7, 2007

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM

Level: Intermediate

Organizations in the early stages of SOA development face many challenges—governance is one of the most important. In order for SOAs to realize their intended business objectives—improved agility and reduced IT cost—organizations must always be in control of the services that are created, and then used and re-used. Governance that is implemented at design-time prevents an SOA from becoming simply ABOS—A Bunch of Services. Without proper design-time governance, services will be project-specific and redundant with other services. This will result in gaps across the business architecture, which increase IT costs and complexity without bringing any of the promised business benefits of SOA.

Brent Carlson, co-founder and vice president of technology at LogicLibrary, will explain how to initiate governance at the design and development phase and carry it through operations.

Carlson will

• discuss the role of an integrated registry/repository in keeping IT properly aligned with high-level business processes
• walk attendees through real-world success stories
• address the return on investment many companies are now seeing – up to twenty-times their original investment – by properly managing software development metadata.
  

Brent Carlson drives the development and delivery of LogicLibrary's products. He and his experienced team have developed software, Logidex, which allows companies to capture, leverage, understand and manage their software development assets for faster, better application development. Brent was recognized by InfoWorld magazine as one of the Top 25 CTOs of 2005. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from Iowa State University.