workshop
detailed program
The workshop is
organized as a satellite workshop of the Montreal
Conference on e-Technologies MCETECH 2008. The workshop will take place on
January 23rd,
The service-oriented
architecture (SOA) brings a new perspective not only to software architecture
but also to enterprises as it promotes the use of loosely coupled services to
automate intra- and inter-enterprise business processes. Several IT and
business architects believe that the adoption of Web Services technology is the
only requirement for a right implementation of SOA. This comes from the
misunderstanding of what SOA really is. Indeed, a number of them have only
concentrated on the fact that SOA enables interoperability in a heterogeneous
environment. In practice, the adoption of SOA has arisen several challenges
such as the scope of services (fine- vs. coarse-grained services) and
governance.
The workshop aims at bringing
together researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and experiences about
challenges and potential benefits for an effective intra and inter-enterprise
architecture.
Ismaïl Khriss, Université de Québec à Rimouski,
Rimouski (QC), Canada
Éric Lefebvre,
École de technologie supérieure, Montréal (QC), Canada
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09:00 - 09:45 |
Wesley McGregor |
CGI |
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09:45 - 10:30 |
Robert Weisman |
CGI |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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11:00 - 11:45 |
David Paré |
CGI |
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11:45 - 12:30 |
Joël Quimper |
Microsoft |
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12:30 - 14:00 |
Buffet Lunch |
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14:00 - 14:45 |
Sylvie Dufour |
IBM |
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14:45 - 15:30 |
Enterprise
SOA Governance - Ensuring the success of enterprise SOA projects |
Alain Awad |
SAP LABS |
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15:30 - 15:45 |
Coffee Break |
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15:45 - 16:30 |
Wesley McGregor |
CGI |
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16:30 - 17:30 |
Discussion panel |
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17:30 - 19:00 |
Cocktail reception |
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Wesley McGregor, CGI Inc.
This short presentation will
introduce where SOA fits in the
Speaker biography
Wesley McGregor, is Senior
Advisor at CGI Inc., former Senior Advisor to the Federal CTO, Government of
Canada, brings over 23 years of experience in the public and private sectors to
lead the Government of Canada’s strategic efforts in the areas of Service
Orientation and Application Design. His current focus is on formulating the
Agile Vision and Design Framework for the public sector based on his recently
published work, The Government of Canada Service Oriented Architecture (GC SOA)
and his participation in the OASIS SOA Reference Model Technical Committee.
Previous to his engagement at
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, Mr. McGregor founded several consulting
companies specializing in Web Technologies and Network Management. Prior to his
foray into the consulting world, Mr. McGregor was employed at Cognos Inc and
Bell-Northern Research.
Mr. McGregor received his
Bachelor of Science in Computer Mathematics at
SOA and
Robert Weisman, Canadian Federal Government
Implementing Service Oriented
Architecture is more than just a new technical paradigm, but has the potential
to be a way of providing revolutionary and profitable change for many
organizations; the CIO shop as well as Business Operations. The creation of an
SOA that will scale to accommodate more and more of the business will require the
structure provided by Enterprise Architecture (EA) accompanied by a flexible
migration and implementation approach. If EA is not used then the SOA will tend
to bog down with both redundant services and unnecessary integration
services/interfaces; thereby invalidating the SOA value proposition, impacting
the CIO's credibility and leaving the enterprise maintaining an expensive
heterogeneous IM/IT infrastructure. This presentation will provide an overview
of Enterprise Architecture, using The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)
and describe how it can be used to introduce and incrementally implement an
SOA.
Speaker biography
Robert Weisman BEng, MSc,
PMP, PEng, CD has more than 30 years of work experience in disparate
engineering environments in all capacities within the service delivery chain.
He is a well-known CGI thought leader in the domain of Enterprise Architecture
and is an active member of the Open Group Architecture Forum where he is a
co-author of the current and next version of The Open Group Architecture
Framework. Currently he is working with the Canadian Federal Government
providing strategic direction for the incremental delivery of a Shared Services
Environment using a service oriented approach.
David Paré, CGI
There is a lot of hype around
SOA as there is around BPM. Confusingly enough, vendors are blurring the line
between the two in their tool offering. This presentation will help you shed
some light and put the SOA and BPM paradigm into perspective. Can we do SOA
without BPM or vice-versa? Are the two related? These questions, and more, will
be answered throughout this presentation.
Speaker biography
With almost 15 years in IT,
David Paré (PMP) has comprehensive experience in distributed architecture on
large scale projects across the globe. Cumulating many years of hands on
experiences in service oriented architecture (SOA), Business Process Management
(BPM) and Enterprise Architecture environment, he is also the CGI SOA/BPM
Practice lead for
Orientation services et
interopérabilité
Joël Quimper,
Microsoft
On parle de plus en plus de
SOA, le terme est devenu tellement surchargé qu’on en perd de vue sa nature
fondamentale. On oublie qu’à la base, l’orientation services se voulait
un ensemble de rôles de design permettant un meilleur découpage des systèmes
informatiques afin d’optimiser l’agilités affaires. Dans cette session
nous discuterons de l’interopérabilité de quatre principaux tenants derrière
l’orientation services.
Speaker
biography
Joël Quimper est conseiller
en architecture pour MSDN Canada, son rôle est d’aider les clients à avoir du
succès dans l’implantation de solutions utilisant notre plateforme en
interopérabilité avec d’autre systèmes. Avant de rejoindre Microsoft, monsieur
Quimper a travaillé chez IBM comme architecte d’intégration J2EE pendant
plusieurs années.
Alain
Awad, SAP Labs
Enterprise SOA has gained
considerable momentum in the industry. The world's best-run, forward-looking
businesses are increasingly relying upon enterprise SOA for its potential to
reduce operational costs, adapt the business, strategically differentiate the
company, and accelerate profitable growth. Enterprise SOA promises to unleash
considerable potential, enabling companies to implement and adapt business
processes with unprecedented speed and ease. But to make enterprise SOA deliver
on this promise, companies need to adopt a holistic approach to good governance
for their SOA initiatives.
This presentation explains
the fundamentals of enterprise SOA and discusses good governance practices that
are imperative to the sustained success of enterprise SOA initiatives. It also
assesses the most common reasons why enterprise SOA projects may fail to
deliver on expectations and suggests effective remedies, and it explains how
SAP supports enterprise SOA.
Speaker biography
Alain
Awad is a project lead within SAP's Montreal Trade Industries Engineering team
currently working on delivering services in the area of ERP. He is also an
integration expert working closely with business and technical experts to
achieve the delivery of best of breed services, business objects and end to end
implementation scenarios.
SOA – Respond effectively to change
Sylvie Dufour, IBM
SOA supporting the
organization's adaptability and agility - IBM views SOA as a business
architecture supported by IT and, first and foremost, as key to help businesses
innovate by providing flexibility that makes change easier and faster.
Implementation approaches to
SOA - IBM is a leader in the domain of service oriented architecture and has
helped customers realized over 3000 SOA implementation worldwide. Different
approaches to SOA, based and supported by usage of industry standards, will be
presented and discussed in this part of the presentation.
IBM’s SOA services offering
and supporting methodologies - IBM SOA Implementation services offering are
supported by methodologies such as “CBM - Component Business Modeling” and “SOMA
- Service Oriented Modeling Architecture”. These services and methodologies are
presented and discussed and we show how these are key to an efficient
transition to the target service-oriented architecture and SOA states
(business, organization, method, application, architecture and infrastructure);
IBM’s leadership in SOA
solutions - IBM offers a powerful portfolio of standards-based
tools/solutions, materials, reference architecture/framework and governance
model to support and accelerate the various SOA related initiatives,
development, application integration and different phases of the service and
SOA lifecycle. This includes tools that IBM has developed to support legacy
applications modernization using SOA principles
Speaker biography
Sylvie Dufour is a solution
architect in GBS within IBM and currently SOA & Modernization Practice Lead
for the Québec Region. She has over 20 years of experience in IT which has
spanned IT Architecture, Enterprise Application and System Integration
Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and IT project management.
A specialist in application
and system integration, she has provided consulting services, education, and
mentoring on integration and service-oriented architecture, services
enablement, business-IT alignment, IT governance, integration solution
implementation as well use of supporting methodologies. She has been involved,
since 1995 with the architecture, implementation and management of several
major integration and SOA related initiatives both locally and internationally.
Government
of
Wesley McGregor, CGI Inc
This presentation will focus on the Service Oriented direction the
Government of Canada is taking for business and IT. It will highlight some of
the conceptual work done with respect to an SOA Framework and briefly describe
the GC SOA Ontological Framework initiative currently underway.