D75426 – SOA Adoption and Architecture Fundamentals

IT Strategies from Oracle (ITSO) and Oracle Reference Architecture (ORA) Overview

• Introducing ITSO and ORA
• Describing Oracle Reference Architecture
• Describing Enterprise Technology Strategies
• Describing Enterprise Solution Designs

Oracle’s Approach to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

• Defining Service-Oriented Architecture
• Discussing Fundamentals of SOA Adoption
• Introducing SOA Methodology Approach: Road Map Creation
• Introducing SOA Methodology Approach: Strategy and Planning
• Introducing SOA Execution

Creating an SOA Road Map

• Introducing SOA Road Map Creation
• Exploring the SOA Maturity Model
• Describing the SOA Road Map Creation Process

Service Terms and Concepts

• Defining a Service
• Exploring a Service Model
• Explaining the Importance of Service Versioning

SOA Reference Architecture

• Explaining the Importance of a Reference Architecture
• Describing the Conceptual View
• Describing the Logical View
• Describing the Product Mapping View
• Describing the Deployment View
• Describing Web Service Security

Software Engineering in a SOA Environment – Requirements Management

• Introducing Oracle Service Engineering Framework
• Explaining the Business Function Model, its Benefits and Construction
• Explaining Functional Requirements Decomposition
• Explaining Business Process Decomposition
• Explaining Application Decomposition
• Using Results of Decompositions to Expand a Business Function Model
• Explaining Data Requirements Decomposition
• Describing What Kinds of SOA Assets are Derived from these Activities

Service Identification and Discovery

• Naming the 4 Actions Related to Service Identification
• Performing Functional Activity Analysis toUpdate a Business Function Model
• Describing the Characteristics of Shared Project, and Partially Shared Requirements
• Performing Business Entity Analysis
• Explaining How a Service Candidate is Justified
• Explaining How a Prescription for Reuse is Validated

Service Delivery

• Explaining and Performing Boundary Analysis of a Service by Scope
• Explaining and Performing Boundary Analysis of a Service by Architectural Classification
• Describing a Service Contract by Characteristic and by Content
• Explaining the Importance of Service Interface Design
• Describing the SOA Assets Generated as a Result of these Activities

Service-Oriented Integration

• Explaining How Service-Oriented Integration Differs from Traditional Integration Approaches
• Describing Principles that Should be Met by Any Architecture that Supports a Service-Oriented Approach to Integration
• Describing the Development, Process, and Deployment Views of Service-Oriented Integration
• Using Service-Oriented Integration Patterns and Message Exchange Patterns to Identify Best Approaches for Integration Scenarios

SOA Governance

• Naming the Governance Disciplines and Describing Their Relationships
• Naming and Describing the Constituent Parts of the ITSO Unified Governance Reference Model
• Explaining the Reasons for, and Benefits of, SOA Governance
• Mapping SOA Governance to the ITSO Unified Governance Reference Model
• Applying SOA to the ITSO Unified Governance Continuous Improvement Loop
• Describing the Challenges of, SOA Organization Governance and the Importance of People to Addressing those Challenges