While SOA can deliver dramatic cost reduction of an organization's business operations, it is a complex, multidisciplinary undertaking, and therefore introduces significant risk. This article presents a list of the most important risk factors and ways to mitigate them BEFORE it is too late. The paper will be of interest to anyone planning an SOA initative, primarily CIOs, Technical Managers, Project Directors and Technical Architects.

Speaker Bio: Jacek Kruszelnicki is the founder and President of Numatica Corporation. Mr. Kruszelnicki’s holistic approach stresses planned software ecosystem design, risk minimization, usability and interoperability to provide outstanding value to clients. His approach and interest in the business and IT alignment correspond well with the service oriented architecture (SOA) high-level objectives.

Mr. Kruszelnicki co-authored several patent-pending solutions and published numerous technical and business papers and articles ("ISource Business", "JavaWorld"). His work in the area of high-end transactional environments was acknowledged in the book "Transaction Processing" by J. Gray, A. Reuter. Jacek enjoys mentoring and public speaking (MIT, ACM WebTech Chapter, numerous client seminars). Mr. Kruszelnicki earned his Master’s Degree in computer science from Northeastern University in Boston, MA and is an Adjunct Professor at Northeastern. Jacek is member of the MIT Enterprise Forum, Association for Computing Machinery and the founder and past president of the New England BEA WebLogic User Group.

Mr. Kruszelnicki co-authored several patent-pending solutions and published numerous technical and business papers and articles ("ISource Business", "JavaWorld"). His work in the area of high-end transactional environments was acknowledged in the book "Transaction Processing" by J. Gray, A. Reuter. Jacek enjoys mentoring and public speaking (MIT, ACM WebTech Chapter, numerous client seminars). Mr. Kruszelnicki earned his Master’s Degree in computer science from Northeastern University in Boston, MA and is an Adjunct Professor at Northeastern. Jacek is member of the MIT Enterprise Forum, Association for Computing Machinery and the founder and past president of the New England BEA WebLogic User Group.

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Service-oriented architectures have evolved over the past few years out of the original vision of loosely coupled Web services replacing constrained, stovepiped applications throughout enterprise IT. Every major enterprise technology vendor today has developed its own SOA strategy, supported by innumerable mid-size companies and start-ups offering specific SOA aspects or entire solutions.

Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) have evolved over the past few years out of the original vision of loosely coupled web services replacing constrained, stovepiped applications throughout enterprise IT. Every major enterprise technology vendor today has developed its own SOA strategy, supported by innumerable mid-size companies and start-ups offering specific SOA aspects or entire solutions. This explosive growth in SOA technology is in response to a global demand--IDC estimates that spending on SOA services alone will grow from $8.6 billion to more than $33 billion by 2010.

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