ZapThink Hosting Practical SOA Summit focused on Energy & Utilities Industries
(PRLEAP.COM) BALTIMORE, MD, January 11, 2008 - ZapThink announces today the full agenda for its upcoming Practical Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) conference focused on the energy and utilities industry in Houston, Texas on February 5, 2008. The Practical SOA event series is targeted at companies and individuals in the energy and utilities industries looking for usable business case studies and value propositions for SOA, those who want to learn the latest best practices for making SOA a success, those looking to hear from successful architects about their SOA efforts, want to learn from peers about what it takes to put together a successful SOA, and/or want to take their SOA efforts to the next level.“Companies are tired of all the hype surrounding Web Services and SOA, and are finding it difficult to learn what they really need to know from vendor-centric conferences and training,” said Ronald Schmelzer, Managing Partner with ZapThink, LLC. “Practical SOA events give Enterprise Architecture practitioners, consulting firms, and vendors, the best practices and practical implementation knowledge they are seeking.”
Presenters at the upcoming Practical SOA for Energy and Utilities event on February 5, 2008 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Houston, Texas include:
• James Jones, Director, Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), BP
• Rusty Foreman, DCT Enterprise Architecture, BP
• Patrick Bhirdo, Endigo Energy
• Richard Green, Principal Analyst, DTE Energy
• David Anderson, Solution Architect, BEA Systems, Inc.
• Dan Finerty, Director, Product Marketing, DataDirect Shadow
• John Michelsen, Founder & Chief Architect, iTKO
• Ronald Schmelzer, Managing Partner, ZapThink
Sponsors include BEA (NASDAQ:BEAS), DataDirect, an operating company of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS), and Interactive TKO, Inc. (iTKO).
At our upcoming Practical SOA for Energ y and Utilities event in Houston, TX on February 5, 2008, attendees will learn:
• What are current, worldwide SOA adoption trends?
• How is SOA impacting the Energy and Utilities industries?
• As the energy industries face significant market-shaping challenges, how will IT be able to respond to those challenges through SOA?
• How can Energy and Utilities industries learn from other sectors with regards to SOA adoption?
• What is a practical SOA roadmap for the Energy and Utilities industries?
For more information and to register for this Practical SOA event, visit http://www.zapthink.com/eventreg.html. Early bird discounts are available for a limited time. Seats are limited and ZapThink expects certain PSOA events and locations to sell out.
About ZapThink, LLC
Founded in October 2000, ZapThink, LLC (http://www.zapthink.com) is an Enterprise Architecture (EA), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Enterprise Web 2.0 (EW2.0) strategic advisory, analysis, and influence firm. As a recognized authority and master SOA and EA, ZapThink provides its audience of IT practitioners, consultants, and technology vendors with practical advice, guidance, education, and mentorship solutions that assist companies in leveraging SOA to meet their business needs and presenting viable SOA solutions to the market, as well as provides this audience a clear roadmap for standards-based, loosely coupled distributed computing – a vision of IT meeting the needs of the agile business. ZapThink is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. Its customers include Global 1000 firms and emerging businesses.
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