Help your enterprise reap it true benefits by strengthening your awareness of Service-Oriented Governance.  Learn the key responsibilities of an IT governance body and how you can effectively implement Service-Oriented governance.  Learn how to identify opportunities to align business needs with IT investments through the adoption of a service-oriented architecture.

A service-oriented architecture works by abstracting business processes from the underlying application and IT systems to create services.  This allows IT departments to keep pace with changing business imperatives as it automates these business processes.  Separating automated processes from any specific application infrastructure or hardware platform creates enormous business flexibility, allowing you to evolve systems without having to "rip and replace" hardware or software.

An SOA also allows developers to dynamically build application portfolios assembling compound application solutions that use Web services modules both internals and external to the enterprise -- and change these portfolios when necessary.  This enables you to develop new products and enter new markets more quickly and easily.  SOA also provides greater control of how business is transacted within your enterprise and with partners, suppliers, and customers.

Separating business processes from the underlying technology allows you to build a more responsive organization.  Whether it is through rapid application development, the ability to dynamically grow application portfolios or the development of personalized applications that improve communication across your extended enterprise, SOA allows you to better align IT investments with your business goals -- both today and tomorrow.

Process Adoption Framework
Speaker - Saif Islam

To improve software capability of an organization by introducing new process and tools, it important to provide project focus mentoring services to the teams so that they can learn the process and tools with minimal impact to the project progress. Teams must continue working productively while process changes are being implemented, which is rather like trying to change a tire of a moving car.

Process improvement requires organizational and behavioral changes -- changes in the way people communicate and collaborate as they do their work. Bringing about such changes requires a proven strategy, careful planning, flexibility and creativity in executing plans, and insight into issues surrounding organizational change.