During the live and interactive webinar Thomas will be talking through the principles embodied in his book, and will describe how SOA can make a significant strategic difference to businesses. Thomas, who has been the world's top-selling SOA author for over three years, commented, "SOA is rapidly being adopted worldwide, yet many organizations do not fully understand the essential concepts and principles required to fully realize the strategic goals and benefits of service-oriented computing. It is my hope that this webinar sponsored by IPL will prove an effective means for us to jointly introduce the key aspects of SOA and service-orientation to a wider audience."
The book, which has been widely acclaimed in the US and has already been formally endorsed by members of IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Sun, BEA, Intel, SAP, and HP is due to be published in the UK on 28th August 2007.
As part of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl series this book is designed to help turn IT professionals into "true" SOA professionals through practical, comprehensive, and in-depth coverage of service engineering and the service-orientation design paradigm. The title provides numerous service design techniques and strategies and further includes a comparative analysis between service-orientation and object-orientation.
Greg McBride, Business Development Consultant at IPL, commented, "IPL is one of the UK's leading systems integration companies and so it is great for us to be sharing this event with Thomas who is the world's foremost 'thought leader' in the field of SOA. We hope to inform and educate those attending as to the benefits that can be achieved with professional SOA."
