Architecture Workshop for SOA

The Architecture Workshop is designed to address the SOA architecture as it relates specifically to your environment. Design to work in conjunction with SOA Assessment and Roadmap and Impact Analysis offerings, this offering helps many levels of the organization understand the technologies around SOA and the deployment strategies. 

Crescent’s Architecture Workshop for SOA provides customized training on SOA concepts tailored to an organization’s needs.  The workshop is initiated with a pre-engagement questionnaire.  Based on the questionnaire feedback, SOA architects will analyze the customer’s business environment and current technology capabilities, thereby enabling personalization of the workshop with respect to the customer’s needs.  The audience for the workshop ranges from senior-level business executives to lead architects and software developers. The core goals are as follows:

• Educate the customer on the key business and technical aspects of SOAs and Web services
• Educate the customer on Crescent’s SOA and Web service strategies
• Demonstrate to the customer the business value of SOAs and how Web services is used as an enabling technology in building them
• Provide the customer with adoption strategies that address the business and technology concerns faced when using this technology
• Provide a brief overview of the components of Web services technology and the associated key architectural principles
• Discuss how the technology is maturing, and what this may mean with respect to its use now and in the future
• Discuss the architecture, design, and development of Web services, providing a holistic view and addressing application development (for example, Java Web Services Developer Pack and Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) technology), data modeling and management, and infrastructure
• Discuss the principal challenges surrounding the deployment, provisioning, management, and maintenance (for example, versioning) of Web services

Crescent believes in a pragmatic approach to SOA adoption. Based on this belief Crescent has identified and developed a set of SOA-based solutions that are designed to deliver immediate business value while setting the stage for developing the building blocks for a long-term SOA strategy. These solutions include:

• Single Customer View
• Secure B2B
• Business Integration