SOA Master Class Online Goes Live with Expanded Resources for Accelerating SOA Mastery
May 22 2007 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Having demonstrated its value to a global user community over the
past three months, SOA Master Class Online emerged from beta
service today. The site has been enhanced with an expanded array of
content, sponsors, and SOA Masters. �SOA Master Class Online was
established as a comprehensive educational resource that promotes
mastery of SOA concepts, techniques and skills,� said Miko
Matsumura, vice president, webMethods, Inc. �Since its launch, SOA
Master Class Online has grown significantly as practitioners have
demonstrated a continuing appetite for more factual information and
self-paced learning. By drawing a clear line between vendor-neutral
and sponsored content, we�ve also made it possible for members to
more fully immerse themselves in the many services that the site
has to offer.� �The biggest force preventing adoption of SOA is not
the technical complexity of SOA projects, but the organizational,
architectural, and employee skill gaps in most companies," said
Ronald Schmelzer, senior analyst at ZapThink, LLC. "The SOA Master
Class Online is precisely focused on addressing that problem. In
its beta stage, it has already made a significant impact on the
space, helping SOA practitioners become SOA Masters.� Highlights of
the site�s recent growth include: ebizQ sponsorship. ebizQ, the
definitive portal for enterprise infrastructure and business
integration specialists, joins leading SOA analyst firm ZapThink,
iTKO, a provider of complete testing solutions for SOA
(service-oriented architecture) software, and webMethods as a site
sponsor. Double the content. New content includes MWDAdvisors�
curriculum on Business/IT alignment, a new ebizQ Library, and a
business track on Funding SOA from webMethods� Lance Hill. New
quality and testing curriculum. The new SOA Testing curriculum from
iTKO includes both key concepts and hands-on training. In support
of these efforts, iTKO has also contributed SOA testing
whitepapers, podcasts, and educational blogs. More SOA Masters. The
list of SOA Masters contributing to the community continues to
expand with the additions of Jeff Adkins, Tim Vibbert, and Beth
Gold-Bernstein. Additional free tools. iTKO is offering a free
download of its LISA WS-Testing� WSDL/SOAP testing tool. In
addition, members can also continue to take advantage of the SOA
Master Class Edition of the webMethods Infravio X-Registry as a
free download. �While SOA has long been a known architectural best
practice, most companies are just starting out on their SOA
journey,� said ebizQ�s Gold-Bernstein. �SOA Master Class Online
offers an interactive forum to engage with many of the
practitioners that are creating tomorrow�s best practices for
sustainable implementations. I�m excited to be a member of this
community.� More on SOA Master Class Online SOA Master Class Online
establishes a social network that gives SOA practitioners,
architects, and evaluators a wide range of vendor-neutral curricula
and content as well as clearly-labeled vendor information,
including product demonstrations and downloadable evaluations. The
site includes webinars and video content, syndicated blogs and
discussion forums, and interactions with SOA Masters. Every topic
on the site has integrated functions such as social book-marking,
RSS feeds, and inline SOA glossary. The curriculum provides
user-driven insight into creating the business case for SOA
adoption, establishing an organizational structure for success with
SOA, and defining the technology requirements for building an
incremental path to SOA. Specific topics covered by the current
coursework include: SOA Adoption � Driving your enterprise to
broadly adopt a sustainable SOA framework SOA Funding � Insight
into some of the pragmatic aspects of getting SOA projects funded
SOA Governance � Detailed walkthrough of SOA-specific governance
concepts, practices, and implementations SOA Quality � Team
strategies for baking quality into every aspect of designing,
building and maintaining SOA applications Additional resources
available to the SOA Master Class Online community include white
papers, analyst research, case studies, live events, reviews,
blueprints, ROI calculators, evaluation guides, wiki�s, FAQs, and
more. About ebizQ ebizQ (http://www.ebizq.net) communicates with
its audience through the ebizQ Web site, the Virtual Integration
Conference, and the Integration Insider magazine. All of ebizQ's
content through each of its channels is freely available to
subscribers. ebizQ is the definitive venue for business and IT
professionals, vendors, and industry analysts with the need to
exchange information on business integration technologies,
problems, and solutions. We are singularly focused on business
integration, providing the most comprehensive and timely
information available on vendors, products, market directions, best
practices, and any other industry element that comes into play.
About iTKO iTKO, Inc. offers the most complete software framework
for testing Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications,
allowing multiple business technology layers to be exercised within
a single test case. iTKO's mission is to allow everyone involved in
IT to own Complete, Collaborative, and Continuous� software
quality, from development, to QA and business analysts. iTKO LISA
Complete SOA Testing Framework performs unit, functional,
regression, load and performance tests, without requiring test
coding or script maintenance, saving up to 80% of the cost of
testing over the course of six months. For dynamic web
applications, web services, J2EE, .NET, Java objects,
JMS/messaging, databases, and many more technologies, LISA provides
live interaction with every layer, and gives everyone the
"Freedom-to-Test" applications exactly as they will be deployed.
Founded in 1999, the Dallas-based company's customers include Sun,
Citi, Capgemini, AMD, TIBCO and i2. http://www.itko.com About
webMethods, Inc. webMethods (Nasdaq:WEBM) provides business
integration software to integrate, assemble and optimize available
IT assets to drive business process productivity. webMethods
delivers an innovative, enterprise-class business integration
platform that incorporates proven integration technology with next
generation capabilities into one interoperable set of tools that
delivers a unique combination of efficiency, agility and control.
webMethods combines industry leadership with a zealous commitment
to customers to deliver tangible business value to more than 1,500
global customers. webMethods is headquartered in Fairfax, Va., with
offices throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East
& Japan. More information about the company can be found at
www.webMethods.com. About ZapThink, LLC Founded in October 2000,
ZapThink, LLC (http://www.zapthink.com) is an IT advisory and
analysis firm that provides trusted advice and critical insight
into the architectural and organizational changes brought about by
the movement to XML, Web Services and Service Orientation. We
provide our three target audiences of IT vendors, service providers
and end-users a clear roadmap for standards-based, loosely coupled
distributed computing -- 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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