M5 SOA governance

Overview

Service Oriented Architectures bring together best practices and technology for a better information system agility. By following these rules, you will improve flexibility, reusability and interoperability of your infrastructure. This is called SOA governance.

Main topics

This training encompasses various topics related to SOA governance: after a brief reminder on SOA concepts, attendees are teached various design and architecture patterns, then the governance principles and best practices. This module conclude with an overview of available solutions and technologies.

Main attendees

This training is aimed at chiefs of information systems, architects and project managers, to allow them to design an efficient SOA governance model, adequate to their company and infrastructure characteristics.

Objectives

Synthetize SOA benefits and risks.
Learn SOA governance related best practices, how to set up your governance while minimizing impact on infrastructure's organisation and development lifecycle.
Evaluate available technologies and solutions, their respective assets and drawbacks.

Thanks to this training, attendees will gain all necessary knowledge to build an efficient SOA governance model for their infrastructure.

Outline

Day 1: SOA concepts

Introducing SOA main concepts
- What is and what isn't SOA?
- What is a service?
- OASIS model
Processes Oriented infrastructure design (BPM)
- Why use processes modelling?
- BPMN notation, published by OMG
Orchestration and choregraphy
- Processes composition
- BPEL and WS-CDL standards.
ESB services infrastructures
Impact on software lifecycle
SOA governance principles
Detailed analysis of SOA models
- the "Layered" model
SOA governance
- Benefits
- Governance framework and context
- Urbanisation
- Service lifecycle
- Users roles

Day 2: SOA Best practices

Choosing the right model
- Design patterns
- Performances, load balancing and security
- Users interactions
- Anti-patterns
Runtime governance
- Quality of Service, « policy » et SLA (Software Level Agreement)
- WS-Policy standard
SOA administration
- Monitoring
- Errors management / Audit and reporting
SOA governance tools
- Services Registry
  - UDDI and ebXML standards
- Modelling tools
  - Processus method
  - Mashup method
Governance market: solutions overview
How to choose the right governance tool

General informations

Duration: 2 days.

Teaching method: 100 % theory.

Attendees: Chiefs of information system / "Business" and "Technical" architects / Projects managers.

Prerequisites: Experience in architecture design and project management.

Organisation: Inter-entreprise training (multimedia and documentaries supports are provided) or intra-entreprise (on-demand).

Services

References

The Social Security Central Agency (L'ACOSS) is France's chief agency for collecting social security payments. ACOSS uses Petals ESB as the heart for its infrastructure, to expose data and services to external partners.

Akerys, leader of french real estate rental, chose Petals ESB as a base for its information system.

Almerys, software editor for professionals and health insurance, chooses Petals ESB to integrate SOA capabilities in the next major version of its flaship product.

Cegedim activ, french leader of medical CRM market, uses Petals as a medium for its applications.

The Conseil général de la Gironde chooses Petals for its citizen portal.

DGA and Magellium choose Petals ESB to connect graphics processing chains.

The "Direction Générale de la Modernisation de l'Etat" chooses Petals ESB as core infrastrcuture software for managing data exchange on the "Monservicepublic.fr" webportal.