Saltmarch's Summit on SOA/Web Services, SaaS/PaaS,
Virtualisation & ECM. Early Bird Discounts Close August 22.

Dr.
Chris Harding is Forum Director for SOA and Semantic Interoperability
at The Open Group. He has been with The Open Group for ten years and
is currently responsible for managing and supporting its work on
semantic interoperability and SOA. Before joining The Open Group, he
was a consultant, and a designer and development manager of
communications software. Chris is a certified TOGAF
practitioner.
Chris will conduct a workshop on 'Using TOGAF
for SOA' at the SOA Conference at Business Technology Summit 2008,
held in Bangalore from 22-24 September. This workshop will explore in
depth how to develop a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) using The
Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF). SOA is the architecture
style of choice for enterprises looking for agility in their IT
systems. But it is not a "one size fits all" approach. It
can be applied in different ways to meet the needs of different
enterprises. To do this successfully, an architect must have
knowledge, skill, and good judgement. TOGAF is an industry standard
architecture framework that has been developed and continuously
evolved since the mid-90’s by representatives of some of the
world’s leading IT customer and vendor organizations, working in
The Open Group's Architecture Forum. No framework can take the place
of skill and judgement, but TOGAF gives an architect knowledge that
has been accumulated by others working in many different
architectural styles. Over the last two years, members of The Open
Group have been working on how to apply TOGAF to SOA. Workshop
participants will gain an understanding of SOA features and building
blocks, of the TOGAF architecture development method, and of how to
use TOGAF to create SOAs for their enterprises.

As
traditional views of IT get supplanted by an overarching business
technology trend, companies are investing in gaining the benefits of
the next generation of computing, where resources are maximized,
integrated and used to deliver business results. Saltmarch Media's
Business Technology Summit (www.btsummit.com) features a convergence
of intelligence on the hottest technologies on India’s business
technology radar -- the ones that are not only exhibiting attributes
such as cost savings, flexibility, application re-use, and faster
response times, but also the ones that are charting pronounced
inflection points in their evolution.

The
industry's premier business technology event, held in Mumbai and
Bangalore Sept. 22-26, will host sessions by Peter Coffee of
Salesforce.com, Dr. Alan-Pelz Sharp of CMS Watch, Dr. Chris Harding
of The Open Group, Ismael Ghalimi of Intalio, Hans De Groot of SDL
Tridion, Morris Panner of OpenAir, Dr. Robert Marcus of NCOIC.org,
Ravi Gururaj of VMLogix. On tap at Business Technology Summit 2008
are deep dives in SOA & Web Services, SaaS, Virtualisation and
ECM, and the Expo. Early bird discounts on registration end August 22

(http://www.btsummit.com/registration.html#register); register for a
single-day main conference for INR 4999. Intalio, SDL Tridion,
Progress Software and OpenAir among others are sponsors at the
summit. For discounts on group bookings, contact P. Sharma (T: +91
99020 77327, E: info@btsummit.com).