Service-oriented Architecture

This podcast features a panel discussion from the 2007 Seminars on Academic Computing. The topic is Service Oriented Architecture and panel participants include:

• Jens Haeusser, Director, Strategy, The University of British Columbia
• Charles F. Leonhardt, Principal Technologist, Georgetown University
• Piet Niederhausen, Web & Data Architect, Georgetown University

The abstract from this session:

This is a review of service oriented architecture from a number of perspectives. The panel will define SOA, discuss its value to higher education, and present use cases on how it can enhance our scholarly and enterprise systems. Challenges in organizing for and implementing SOA will be highlighted including a discussion of using SOA in enterprise open source development as well as distributed environments.

Planning and delivering service-oriented architecture will be the topic of discussion at the free October 30 EDUCAUSE Live! Web seminar with Margaret Backer and Christoper De Rosa of the University of California, San Diego. Register now.