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August 14, 2009 - ZapThink announces today the availability of its upcoming Practical Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Architecture (EA) morning seminar event, running on October 2, 2009 in Washington, DC.
The event features speakers, best practices, case studies, and lessons learned on how to implement cost-effective legacy modernization and data management strategies in the context of the latest enterprise architecture initiatives. The Practical SOA event series is targeted at companies and individuals looking for practical business case studies and value propositions for SOA, those who want to learn the latest best practices for making SOA a success, those looking to hear from successful architects about their SOA efforts, want to learn from peers about what it takes to put together a successful SOA, and/or want to take their SOA efforts to the next level.
"Companies are looking for practical solutions to their SOA and EA challenges," said Ronald Schmelzer, Managing Partner with ZapThink, LLC. "Practical SOA events give Enterprise Architecture practitioners, consulting firms, and vendors, the best practices and practical implementation knowledge they are seeking by hearing from other architects and getting hands-on instruction on particular SOA and EA challenges."
Sponsors and presenters at the upcoming Practical SOA & EA event in Washington, DC on October 2, 2009 include:
* Dan Finerty, DataDirect
* Jason Bloomberg, ZapThink
At the morning event, which runs from 8AM to 12noon PT, attendees will hear about the following topics:
* Make SOA work in the context of legacy systems
* Learn how to involve the mainframe in the context of SOA
* Learn about methods for dealing with "legacy" data and composing heterogeneous data in a SOA environment
* Returning Value with a Data Service Layer
* Legacy, Data, and the Cloud
For more information and to register for this Practical SOA event, visit http://bit.ly/2Ty0ZU. Cost is just $29 to attend. Seats are limited and ZapThink expects Practical SOA events to sell out.
About ZapThink, LLC
Founded in October 2000, ZapThink, LLC (http://www.zapthink.com) is an Enterprise Architecture (EA), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Enterprise Web 2.0 (EW2.0) strategic advisory, analysis, and influence firm. As a recognized authority and master SOA and EA, ZapThink provides its audience of IT practitioners, consultants, and technology vendors with practical advice, guidance, education, and mentorship solutions that assist companies in leveraging SOA to meet their business needs and presenting viable SOA solutions to the market, as well as provides this audience a clear roadmap for standards-based, loosely coupled distributed computing ñ a vision of IT meeting the needs of the agile business. ZapThink is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. Its customers include Global 1000 firms and emerging businesses.
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