Speaker

Ruud Grotens
Compuware

Ruud Grotens is Product Manager of Compuware's Application Development and Integration products. Grotens joined Compuware in 1996. His key responsibility is to conduct market research and analysis to support the strategic and technical direction of Compuware's application development and integration products, including OptimalJ. Grotens is also responsible for ensuring knowledge transfer to Compuware's local technical and field sales teams. Prior to joining Product Management he held technical and sales support roles in Compuware's Dutch organization. Grotens also worked for Origin, a Dutch-based Systems Integrator, in a variety of positions but primarily in the telecommunications branch. He holds a degree in computer science.

Presentation: "SOA-based Integration with OptimalJ: The Framework to Meet Changing Business Requirements"

Tuesday 16:15 - 17:00, Tutorial Room

SOA needs to be adopted as part of the migration to Web Services. SOA is important for enterprise IT because it provides the framework that unites the business model with the applications that provide the functionality required for efficient business. Without SOA IT systems become a disjointed collection of packages, functions and screens that consume ever-increasing resources to maintain and evolve. The SOA concept includes some structural features that go deeper into the corporate IT system than Web Services. Where Web Services address the interoperability mechanisms to allow functions to be made public, SOA addresses the layering and structure of software. This presentation/demonstration will explain the benefits of SOA and why MDA is important for SOA. The focus, however, will be on demonstrating SOA-based integration with OptimalJ.

SOA-based Integration with OptimalJ: The Framework to Meet Changing Business Requirements - (slides)

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