SOA is taking the IT industry by storm. It is a vastly complex and challenging variation of distributed computing that deserves a great deal of attention and study in order to fully understand and appreciate its complexities. One of the greatest challenges organizations are facing is how business logic and rules relate to and can be expressed through services.

Join Thomas Erl, the world's top-selling SOA author, for a discussion of business-centric SOA. Drawing from his second SOA book, "Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design", Thomas will discuss service-oriented analysis, service modeling, and the process of building business-centric services as part of a business service abstraction layer.

SOA provides a powerful means of achieving highly adaptive and reusable automation logic. Understanding how to model services to accurately express an organization's business intelligence is a key step toward creating successful service-oriented enterprise.