Dennis Nadler

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• Dennis Nadler
• Chief Technology Officer
• Merlin Technical Solutions

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SOA How Does It Support My Business Processes?

• Product Landscape
• Business/Organizational Strategy
• Case Study
• Lessons Learned

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SOA Product Landscape
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SOA Strategy

• Business Assessment
• Services Identification
• Mission Thread Pilot
• Enterprise Governance
• Enterprise SOA Foundation

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Case Study

• USTRANSCOM Enterprise Architecture Transformation
• Continuous Business Process Reengineering
• Detailed Cataloging of System Architectural
  Artifacts
• Solid Technical Reference Model
• SOA Strategy
• SOA Enterprise Foundation
• SOA Governance/Policies and How-to Guides

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Goal Networked Value Chain (Plug-n-Play)
Governance Ownership
Business Process Model
Applications Landscape
Physical Hardware Site and Network Plan

• Process Architecture
• Governance Architecture
• Integration Architecture
• Application Architecture
• Physical Architecture

• detailed closedloop process flows,
  responsibilities, cycle time, workflows
• ownership and influence of decisions, policies,
  decision flows, objects
• roles, responsibilities, organization,
  control-system, performance metrics
• applications, functionality, data and flows,
  interfaces, middleware
• servers, drives, firewalls, network, scalability,
  reliability, security, management

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IT Capabilities as Composeable Services
Composeable Services
Stovepipes
Weapon Systems Management
Materiel Supply Systems
Personnel Systems

• Best of Breed
• EAI
• TCO
• Complexity
• Numerous Special
• System-to-System
• Interfaces

Stovepipe Systems Approach Cost Efficiency -
Flexibility
Service-Oriented Architecture Cost Efficiency
Flexibility Lower TCO Lower Complexity
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USTRANSCOM/DPO Services Platform
New Users Reach knowledge workers and management
processes New Solutions Combine transactions,
analytics, and collaboration New
Opportunities Integrate with engineering
and embedded systems
Analytics
Composites
Enterprise SOA Foundation
Calling Application
Composite Enterprise Services Framework
DPO UDDI Services Repository
Web Service Security
Application Platform
UDDI Registry
Partner Web Services
Legacy 3rd Party Services
Objects, Web Services, and Components
Web Service Management
Web Service Proxy
Bus. Process Platform
Web Service Metrics
Web Service
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Lessons Learned

• Start By Examining Your Business Or Agency
  Processes
• Must Have Buy-In From Management And User
  Community
• Dont Focus On SOA Products.
• Think Big, Start Smart, Scale Fast

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Dennis Nadler Chief Technology Officer Merlin
Technical Solutions 8 Executive Dr, Suite
150 Fairview Heights, IL 62208 Tel
618-622-9192 Cell 618-531-4007 dennis_at_merlints.co
m www.merlints.com