5th International SOA, Cloud + Service Technology Symposium - London - September 24-25, 2012 The World’s Largest Conference Dedicated to SOA, Cloud Computing & Service Technology is Now Arriving in London

SPEAKERS

Manas Deb, Oracle
Dr. Manas Deb is a Senior Director in the Fusion Middleware/SOA+BPM+Governance Suites Group at Oracle HQ. He currently leads strategic engagement initiatives for Oracle's service-oriented integration and BPM solutions worldwide. He is also responsible for Oracle's SOA methodology initiatives. Manas has worked in the software industry for over 20 years, most of which was spent in software product management/marketing and on architecting and leading a wide variety of enterprise-level application development and business integrations projects in a wide variety of industries. He attended post-graduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He has a PhD in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, as well as an MBA.
 
The Successful Execution of the SOA and BPM Vision Using a Business Capability Framework: Concepts and Examples
Speaker: Clemens Utschig, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & CoKG and Manas Deb, Oracle
Day 1: BPM, Service Modeling & Analysis Techniques
At a basic level, SOA advocates software development using self-sustaining packages of IT assets, aka "services". Each of these services typically represents a unit of business functionality. Similarly, Business Process Management (BPM) focuses on the comprehensive discipline of creating, managing and improving "business processes" which are articulations of (business) activities that help a business function.
A business process often needs services for its execution; a service can sometime include one or more business processes. Thus, relevance of SOA and BPM to the success of a business is immediate and obvious. In fact, over the last decade, a great amount of attention and effort have been dedicated by businesses and technologists to derive substantial benefit from SOA + BPM vision. However, the yield has been quite uneven across companies attempting this combined adoption. Some are enjoying superior competitive advantages, while others have only garnered modest ROIs.
In this fast-paced presentation, author Clemens Utschig and Manas Deb explain how ne of the key reasons for low returns from combined SOA and BPM adoption has been the lack of focus on "business capabilities". Strategies are conceived in order to achieve the goals and objectives of a business; for successful execution of a strategy a set of accurate and well-defined business capabilities is necessary. Using conceptual discussions and examples from the industry, this presentation will explain how business capabilities are related to business strategy execution, and in turn how SOA and BPM adoption can build upon and improve such business capabilities.
September 24, 2012 - 14:50
Room: LT 311, Huxley Building
 
SOA is Mainstream: Are Business and IT Now Better Aligned?
Day 1: Expert Panel
It's been over three years since Gartner declared that SOA entered the "Slope of Enlightenment", a reflection of SOA's maturity in both technology and practice. So, has it truly helped organizations better align business operations with the technology used to them? Have organizations successfully carried through SOA adoption and governance efforts to ensure that this alignment has been maintained? This panel will address these and other topics pertaining to one of the most important and ambitious overarching goals behind SOA.
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September 24, 2012 - 18:30
Room: Queen's Tower Room, Sherfield Building