The proliferation of information about Web services is overwhelming. The evolution to Web services is powerful, after all it enables the creation of services that can be accessed from any kind of computer, regardless of its physical location, programming languages, and platform. More importantly, organizations are interested in this evolution because it is intended to simplify business processes

The exponential growth and promise of Web services is coupled with an exponential confusion in the industry. Many organizations think that by moving to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and by implementing Web services that their data challenges will disappear. Many organizations think that by making their data visible and accessible that they will achieve interoperability. Without proper understanding of the fundamentals of Web services, SOA and their relationships to data, the confusion will continue to compound. This presentation is aimed to de-mystify those relationships in hope that the audience will gain some understanding that will enable them think differently when solving their Information Technology (IT) challenges.

• De-mystifying the relationship between Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web services
• The core components of Web services and how they work together to provide a service
• De-mystifying the relationship between Web services and data
• Real industry case regarding Web services and data
• Federal example of data sharing implemented in Web services

Ms. Moretto is currently employed as a Senior IT advisor and Software Engineer with the MITRE Corporation, Mclean, Virginia. The MITRE Corporation is a Federally Funded Research Corporation (FFRDC), a not-for-profit company. Ms. Moretto supports the Department of Defense (DOD) FFRDC within MITRE.

Ms. Moretto has over fifteen years of experience throughout the entire software engineering lifecycle development. She has directed, managed, consulted, and assisted projects in a wide variety of roles covering data modeling, data base administration, Requirements analysis, and strategic management. Currently, Ms. Moretto is supporting the Army CIO office in their Enterprise Net Centric Data Strategy. Prior to this assignment, she supported the Information Infrastructure Modernization Division. In her role as an IT advisor, Ms. Moretto examined enterprise initiatives that could be implemented across the Army and made recommendations accordingly. Before that, Ms. Moretto supported the Defense Systems Information Agency (DISA) Global Combat Support System (GCSS) program where she provided data engineering and data management support.

Ms. Moretto had served a VP of Publicity for the Data Management Association National Capitol Region (DAMA-NCR). She is currently a strategic advisor to the Board. . Ms. Moretto served as voting member of Oasis Business Centric Methodology (BCM) Technical Committee (TC). She also served as the program chair for the Business to Government Committee at the Northern Virginia Technology Council. Along side her professional experience, Ms. Moretto proudly served as Engineering Army officer in the Reserves. Her most recent assignment with the Army was as a security manager managing over 350 personnel.

Most recently, Ms. Moretto completed her qualification for the CIO certification with Carnegie Mellon CIO Institute. She has earned a Masters degree in Information Technology from Virginia Tech and a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems from the University of Texas at Arlington.