SOA Training

Merrimack College Professional Education now offers SOA training both on campus and on-site for all audiences.

Service Oriented Architecture

Exactly what is service orientation and why should business owners, IT managers, and programmers care?

This course will cover everything you want to know about service orientation. We will slice and dice each and every aspect of service orientation to help you understand this emerging paradigm, which is sweeping the information industry. This class will help you obtain both a business as well as a technical perspective on service orientation. Service Oriented Architecture is a new approach in professional business dealings. Each party or participant in service orientation sees themselves as a service provider as well as a service consumer, in an increasingly well connected global economy. Organizations are realizing better productivity could be achieved if they focus on serving the needs of their customers, as well as the needs of their customers' employees, trading partners, shareholders, as well as government, and community needs. There is an essential cultural shift that focuses on and serves various target communities. SOA helps the enterprise realize the full potential of the underlying service oriented infrastructures and technologies.

Building primarily upon the success of the Internet as well as a much better understanding of how business policies and processes could be automated, today we are witnessing the emergence of robust service oriented platforms, with business process management at the core of the SOA strategy. These platforms are reflected in three essential layers: an enterprise performance layer, a business process management layer, and the underlying service oriented architecture infrastructure. The enterprise performance management is the closest to the business and helps the business monitor and improve its key performance integrators. The course will cover the synergistic relationship between these three layers: Business Performance and Continuous Improvement, Business Process Management, and underlying Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

The course will cover the following:

• Service Oriented Analysis and Design, including Maturity Models
• Service Definition, Discovery and Exchange
• Service Oriented Architectures, especially Enterprise Service Bus
• Business Process Management Suites
• Quality of Service: especially security and reliability
• Business Performance Management
• Continuous Improvement of Service Applications, including Six Sigma methodologies

For further information, please call:

978-837-5154

Dorothy Zanni
Director IT Programs
dorothy.zanni@merrimack.edu