Tuesday, 5/22/2007
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Level: Technical - Intermediate

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an IT strategy that takes the discrete business functions contained in enterprise applications and organizes them into interoperable, standards-based services. These services can be combined and reused in composite applications and processes to more quickly meet business needs. The emergence of SOA as a strategy within the Defense and Intelligence communities has accelerated because of the ability to plan strategically but implement tactically.

• What role does semantics have in an SOA?
• What tools exist today to solve this problem?
• What are customers saying about semantic-enabling their SOA environment?
• What pragmatic steps can be taken today?

As the Deputy CTO of BEA Systems, Mr. Ceccola is responsible for providing technical and architectural guidance to BEA’s customers, partners and employees. Prior to working for the Office of the CTO, Mr.Ceccola played similar role as Federal CTO/Chief Federal Architect for BEA’s US Government business. Mr. Ceccola has over 17 years of experience in delivering information technology systems for business and government focused primarily in distributed architectures that include Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). Prior to joining BEA in September 2004, Mr. Ceccola was in charge of the High Availability practice for Hewlett-Packard Managed Services. In that role, Mr. Ceccola provided High Availability end-to-end services for HP's largest global customers, which included responsibility for Architecture, Implementation and Governance of those customers’ most critical business. Prior to HP, Mr. Ceccola led the J2EE Architects for Bluestone Software. During the 1990s, Mr. Ceccola was the Information Technology Manager/Lead Consultant for a mid-size Pennsylvania based Systems Integrator and then was the CEO and founder of a small services company for seven years.