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Anne Thomas Manes
Anne Thomas Manes is the Vice President and research director for Burton Group Application Platform Strategies. She covers service-oriented architecture (SOA), web services, XML, governance, Java, application servers, superplatforms, and application security. Prior to joining Burton Group, Anne was former chief technology officer at Systinet, a SOA governance vendor (now part of HP) and director of market innovation in Sun Microsystems's software group. With 28 years of experience, Anne was named one of the 50 most powerful people in networking 2002 by Network World and among the "Power 100 IT Leaders," by Enterprise Systems Journal. Anne has authored "Web Services: A Manager's Guide," published by Addison-Wesley, 2003 and participated in Web services standards development efforts at W3C, OASIS, WS-I, and JCP. |
"From Rich Internet Applications to Layer 2: Delivering Maintainable User Experience"
Speaker: Anne Thomas Manes
Track: SOA & Web 2.0
User experience is a major driver of SOA initiatives. As companies strive to improve customer service and worker productivity, they come face-to-face with the inadequacies of their infrastructure and applications. External users expect sophisticated interactions with information, using multiple devices and channels. Internal users bring those expectations with them to work, often to be frustrated with 'last generation' systems. Architects are faced with the challenge of facilitating those users without rewriting the underlying systems. Meanwhile, innovations throughout the technology stack offer a multitude of design choices. SOA design principles work hand in hand with those innovations to help architects meet the needs of modern users in an evolutionary way.
In this session, we will discuss:
- Web 2.0 and new ways of work
- An overview of Rich Internet Application patterns
- Complexity, innovation and separation of concerns
- The value of good user experience
- Easing the chokehold of legacy systems
- Things that make your network engineers nervous
"The SOA Report Card"
Speaker: Anne Thomas Manes
Track: SOA & Business
Everyone seems to be doing SOA, but how many organizations are doing it well? Is anyone making a passing grade? Burton Group has been conducting intensive research into real-world SOA initiatives. The research is focused on SOA planning and execution. It compares and contrasts top-down and bottom-up approaches. It explores organizational and cultural impediments. It examines governance strategies. It also looks at business models and metrics.
We will present findings from this research in this session. Learn what works and what doesn't:
- Where do you start?
- How do you identify, model, and describe services?
- Is an ESB a prerequisite? What about WS-* versus REST?
- When do you really need to establish governance?
- How much governance is required?
- What changes are required to the organization, funding models, development practices, etc?
- How do you measure success?
"Addressing SOA Fatigue"
Speaker: Anne Thomas Manes
Track: SOA Governance
SOA. It used to be that those three letters grabbed the attention of technologists and executives. They seemed to offer a solution to almost every problem in the enterprise. Stilted efforts to implement SOA over the past few years, however, have led to increasing SOA fatigue. If we believe that SOA is fundamentally correct, how do we establish and maintain momentum? If we are wrong, what then? The success of SOA is dependent on effective executive leadership and governance. To counter SOA fatigue, however, a change in conversation is required: one which shifts the emphasis from technology to business issues.
In this session, I will discuss the forces of inertia surrounding many SOA initiatives, and suggest ways to forge ahead. Topics to be covered include:
- The role of enterprise architecture
- SOA as a disruptive force
- Organizational dynamics and resistance to change
- Real benefits of SOA that your executives care about
