Service Oriented Architecture Training and Courseware

Skills Development

Adapting to the world of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) requires different skills development and knowledge transfer depending upon one's role within the enterprise.

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WA1657 Application Modernization and SOA Concepts (2 days)

 
  This 2-day course will explore the trend around ‘application modernization’ and introduce you to a wide range of techniques and strategies for modernizing legacy systems including Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Process Management (BPM), Web services, Message Oriented Middleware (MOM), and Web 2.0. Special emphasis will be giving to SOA and service-based solutions for modernizing legacy systems. Service Oriented Architecture provides a more agile and comprehensive way to integrate information systems and businesses processes than more traditional approaches. Students will be exposed to a broad range risks, opportunities, and challenges that exist in modernizing legacy assets such as mainframes, database stored procedures, flat-file systems, customized vendor packages, and other home-grown solutions. Finally, attention will be given to the subject of skills modernization, how to bridge the education gap, and acquire the needed skills for supporting and enabling modern enterprise systems.
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WA1564 SOA Foundation Workshop (3 days)

 
  This 3-day course will introduce you to SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), one of the most popular business initiatives among corporations and government organizations today. Service Oriented Architecture provides a more agile and comprehensive way to integrate information systems and businesses processes than more traditional approaches. Students will be exposed to a broad range of enterprise SOA subjects, providing a solid foundational understanding of both business and technology elements of SOA.
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WA1508 Implementing SOA Governance (3 days)

 
  This course will teach the students the value and purpose of IT and SOA governance. The course will help you establish a governance process from scratch.
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WA1405 Introduction to SOA (1 day)

This course provides an introduction to the concepts of Service Oriented Architecture. This course discusses some of the key issues facing many organizations, especially dealing with integration among disparate systems. Participants will learn how SOA addresses these issues and it’s many other benefits.

The course also discusses related technologies such as Enterprise Service Bus and it’s relationship with SOA. The participants then look at the various SOA patterns that can be used as a basis for developing SOA applications. Participants also go through case studies to better visualize the role of SOA.
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WA1075 Overview of XML and Web Services (1 day)

 
This one-day seminar introduces the students to the fundamental technologies that enable their shift to SOA. We explore the XML data format, the communication protocol, the definition of a service and the concept of a service registry.
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Administrators

WA1570 WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) v6.0 Administration (4 days)

 
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This course teaches the basics of the administration and deployment of service-based applications and message mediations in IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) v6.0. It provides systems administrators, solutions administrators, and operators with the skills they need to install, configure, and manage WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus applications and to troubleshoot common problems.
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WA1568 WebSphere Process Server v6.0 Administration (5 days)

 

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This course teaches the basics of the administration and deployment of business processes and service-based applications in IBM WebSphere Process Server v6.0. It provides systems administrators, solutions administrators, and operators with the skills they need to install, configure, and manage WebSphere Process Server applications and to troubleshoot common problems.
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Architects

WA1605 SOA Data Modeling (3 days)

 
 

This course is designed for the data modelers who are considering using SOA as the next generation methodology for Enterprise Application Integration. Data modeling plays a key role in SOA where the chief concern is data integration between applications. Traditionally data modeling has been limited to Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS). This course will help you extend your existing RDBMS modeling knowledge to the SOA world.
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WA1597 Mastering Service Oriented Analysis and Design (BEA Aqualogic Edition) (4 days)

 
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Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) shows demonstrable signs of simplifying software integration. It can reduce the cost of integration significantly and reduce time-to-market through leveraging reusable enterprise assets. SOA requires a new methodology for analysis and design. This class is designed for the Business Analysts (BA). The course contains comprehensive coverage of the theory of analysis and design for SOA applications, reinforced by hands-on labs.
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WA1595 Service Oriented Architecture for Architects (BEA Aqualogic Edition) (5 days)

 

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Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) shows demonstrable signs of simplifying software integration. It can reduce the cost of integration significantly and reduce time-to-market through leveraging reusable enterprise assets. Organizations are beginning to design agile business solutions following a service oriented approach.
This course delves deep into various architectural aspects of SOA. It starts with Service Oriented Analysis and Design. This will help the architects understand how requirements are captured, business processes are modeled and services are identified. The curriculum then moves on to explore more advanced topics, including information architecture, transaction management and enterprise messaging architecture.
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WA1585 SOA for Security Professionals (2 days)

 

 

This 2-day course will introduce you to the world of service orientation and prepare you to identify, define, diagnose, and implement a comprehensive security strategy for a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) initiative. SOA opens up a whole realm of security issues due to its ubiquity, decentralization, distributed, and even federated nature. Students will be exposed to a broad range of service orientation topics and enterprise SOA security subjects, providing a solid foundational understanding of valid and in-valid approaches to designing and implementing SOA security.
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WA1583 SOA For Architects BizTalk Edition (5 days)

 

 

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) shows demonstrable signs of simplifying software integration. It can reduce the cost of integration significantly. Organizations are beginning to architect new integration solutions following the SOA approach.

This course delves deep into various aspects of SOA. It starts with the Service Oriented Analysis and Design. This will help the architects understand how requirements are captured, business processes are modeled and services are identified. It describes the principles of service orientation. The principles will act like a checklist against which you can validate your own design.
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WA1577 Mastering Service Oriented Analysis and Design with .NET (4 days)

 
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SOA requires a new methodology for solution analysis and design. This class is designed for the Business Analyst (BA). The course contains comprehensive coverage of the theory of analysis and design for SOA applications.  Extensive theory around Business Process Management (BPM) and Service Orientation will be taught.  Additionally, all concepts will be reinforced through group exercises, collaborative discussion, and hands-on labs.
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WA1571 Service Oriented Architecture for Architects (Oracle Edition) (4 days)

 

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) shows demonstrable signs of simplifying software integration. It can reduce the cost of integration significantly. Organizations are beginning to architect new integration solutions following the SOA approach.

This course delves deep into various aspects of SOA. It starts with the Service Oriented Analysis and Design. This will help the architects understand how requirements are captured, business processes are modeled and services are identified. It describes the principles of service orientation. The principles will act like a checklist against which you can validate your own design.
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WA1565 Securing the Service Oriented Enterprise (1 day)

 
  This 2-day course will prepare you to identify, define, diagnose, and implement a comprehensive security strategy for a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) initiative. SOA opens up a whole realm of security issues due to its ubiquity, decentralization, distributed, and even federated nature. Students will be exposed to a broad range of enterprise SOA security subjects, providing a solid foundational understanding of valid and in-valid approaches to designing and implementing SOA security
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WA1560 SOA Best Practices for Technology (3 days)

 
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This course addresses best practices, design patterns, and recommendations tailored to the technical side of SOA. For information on our Best Practices course for the business side of SOA, check out WA1549. The course offers practical knowledge regarding the right and wrong way to adopt SOA within an organization. Teams that are relatively new to SOA will learn valuable knowledge and skills regarding how to implement SOA right the first time. Experienced SOA teams will extend their understanding of SOA and gain insight into advanced concepts and strategies.
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WA1520 Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for z/OS (2 days)

 
  This course is designed for IT managers, planners and architects. The course presents an overview of SOA, describes the SOA reference architecture, and demonstrates how the existing and new z/OS applications can support the SOA framework. It highlights the new development tools and z/OS facilities for SOA-enabling z/OS applications and data access. It also provides several integration scenarios for access to CICS, IMS and DB2 applications and data.
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WA1477 Mastering Service Oriented Analysis and Design (4 days)

 
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SOA requires a new methodology for analysis and design. This class is designed for Business Analysts who have experience designing traditional applications.
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WA1471 Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for Architects (5 days)

 

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) shows demonstrable signs of simplifying software integration. It can reduce the cost of integration significantly. Organizations are beginning to architect new integration solutions following the SOA approach.

This course delves deep into various aspects of SOA. It starts with the Service Oriented Analysis and Design. This will help the architects understand how requirements are captured, business processes are modeled and services are identified. It describes the principles of service orientation. The principles will act like a checklist against which you can validate your own design.
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WA1369 Service Oriented Analysis and Design (SOAD) (1 day)

 
In this one-day seminar, we will explore how to design and build a SOA based solution. We explain how SOAD extends Object Oriented Analysis and Design. The approaches unique to SOAD will be explained in details.
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Developers

WA1624 Mastering XML for SOA and Web Services (3 days)

 
  In this course you will learn fundamentals necessary to use XML in the data-driven applications in SOA and Web Services. Through lecture and hands-on lab exercises, you will learn the essentials of data interoperability using XML, write well-formed XML documents, enforce document validity, use XSLT and stylesheets to transform XML documents, and get an introduction to XML programming options. You will also learn best practices for how to evolve XML syntax and structure over time and how XML related to some of the fundamental technologies used by Web Services.
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WA1596 SOA Immersion Bootcamp (BEA Aqualogic Edition) (5 days)

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Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) shows demonstrable signs of simplifying software integration. It can reduce the cost of integration significantly and reduce time-to-market through leveraging reusable enterprise assets. This course covers the full lifecycle of a SOA project - requirements gathering, process and service design, implementation, testing, deployment, and runtime management.
If you are getting started with SOA development, this class offers a wonderful opportunity for your development team to get a concrete idea for how a SOA application is built. The course consists of both pen and paper exercises and hands-on labs using BEA Aqualogic to build, test and run SOA applications.
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WA1574 SOA Testing Workshop (2 days)

 
  This course provides a brief introduction to the concept of testing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based applications. SOA testing introduces new challenges. This course starts with an overview of SOA fundamentals and then looks into what is involved in testing SOA applications. The course also looks into some of the popular SOA testing tools in the market and demonstrates features of one such tool (selected by customer) and provides hands-on exercises to re-enforce learning.
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WA1565 Securing the Service Oriented Enterprise (1 day)

 
  This 2-day course will prepare you to identify, define, diagnose, and implement a comprehensive security strategy for a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) initiative. SOA opens up a whole realm of security issues due to its ubiquity, decentralization, distributed, and even federated nature. Students will be exposed to a broad range of enterprise SOA security subjects, providing a solid foundational understanding of valid and in-valid approaches to designing and implementing SOA security.
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WA1560 SOA Best Practices for Technology (3 days)

 
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This course addresses best practices, design patterns, and recommendations tailored to the technical side of SOA. For information on our Best Practices course for the business side of SOA, check out WA1549. The course offers practical knowledge regarding the right and wrong way to adopt SOA within an organization. Teams that are relatively new to SOA will learn valuable knowledge and skills regarding how to implement SOA right the first time. Experienced SOA teams will extend their understanding of SOA and gain insight into advanced concepts and strategies.
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WA1536 Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Immersion Bootcamp for .NET (5 days)

 
  The chief goal of this class is to teach how to build a SOA application from ground up. It covers the full lifecycle of a SOA project - requirements gathering, design, implementation and testing. If you are getting started with SOA development, this class offers a wonderful opportunity for your development team to get a concrete idea for how a SOA application is built. The course consists of both pen and paper labs and hands-on labs using Microsoft BizTalk to build, test and run SOA applications.
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WA1530 Web Services Development Using WebLogic Server v9.2 (4 days)

 
If you are a J2EE developer, you can gain complete mastery over Web Services development in WebLogic Server after taking this course. This course will teach you the theory behind XML schema, WSDL and SOAP. It will proceed to teach you various Java specifications that cover Web Services development (JSR 101 and 109).
All the labs are done using WebLogic Server 9.2 and WebLogic Workshop Studio 3.2.
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WA1520 Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for z/OS (2 days)

 
  This course is designed for IT managers, planners and architects. The course presents an overview of SOA, describes the SOA reference architecture, and demonstrates how the existing and new z/OS applications can support the SOA framework. It highlights the new development tools and z/OS facilities for SOA-enabling z/OS applications and data access. It also provides several integration scenarios for access to CICS, IMS and DB2 applications and data.
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WA1505 Web Services Development using Eclipse (5 days)

 
If you are a J2EE developer, you can gain complete mastery over Web Services development in the open source platform after taking this course. This course will teach you the theory behind XML schema, WSDL and SOAP. It will proceed to teach you various Java specifications that cover Web Services development (JSR 101 and 109).
All the labs are done using Eclipse and WTP 1.0.2.
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WA1486 WebSphere Process Server Programming Using WebSphere Integration Developer (5 days)

 
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This course teaches the participants on how to build integration solutions using IBM WebSphere Integration Developer (WID) and IBM WebSphere Process Server. This class starts with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) basics and proceeds to using the tools to build SOA applications. Participants will learn about the Service Component Architecture (SCA) programming model and the Service Data Objects (SDO) data model. The role of adapters when integrating disparate back ends is discussed and participants learn about the WID tooling in detail.
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WA1395 Testing SOA Applications (1 day)

 
This one-day seminar describes the SOA testing methodology and the fundamentals of SOA testing. We also introduce the students to the SOA testing tools currently available in the marketplace.
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WA1390 Web Services Development Using RAD V6 (5 days)

 
If you are a J2EE developer, you can gain complete mastery over Web Services development in the IBM WebSphere platform after taking this course. This course will teach you the theory behind XML schema, WSDL and SOAP. It will proceeed to teach you various Java specifications that cover Web Services development (JSR 101 and 109).
All the labs are done using RAD V6..
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WA1362 Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Immersion Bootcamp for Java (5 days)

This class starts with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) basics and proceeds to cover advanced topics such as SOA Design and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). The course consists of both pen and paper labs and hands-on labs using IBM WebSphere Integration Developer V6.0 to build, test and run SOA applications.
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WA1117 Web Services Development using WSAD V5 (5 days)

 
This is an advanced class that starts with Web Services basics and proceeds to cover advanced topics such as Web Services Invocation Framework and JAX-RPC.
All the labs are done using WSAD v5.1.2. Where ever appropriate, WebSphere Application Server's implementation of a technology is discussed.
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Business Analysts

WA1549 SOA Best Practices for Business (2 days)

 
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This course addresses best practices, design patterns, and recommendations tailored to the business side of SOA. For information on our Best Practices course for the technical side of SOA, check out WA1560. The course offers practical knowledge regarding the right and wrong way to adopt SOA within an organization. Teams that are relatively new to SOA will learn valuable knowledge and skills regarding how to implement SOA right the first time. Experienced SOA teams will extend their understanding of SOA and gain insight into advanced concepts and strategies.
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WA1516 Business Process Modeling (2 days)

 
  This course introduces the participants to the theoretical aspects of process modeling. This course explores the forces driving the need for modeling business processes, the modeling effort as a project, and the critical success factors for making the effort successful. The course provides a way to document, understand, analyze and improve business processes.
This course does not use any specific tool although it will compliment training for a tool that can assist with business process modeling.
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WA1477 Mastering Service Oriented Analysis and Design (4 days)

 
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SOA requires a new methodology for analysis and design. This class is designed for the Business Analysts (BA). The course contains comprehensive coverage of the theory of analysis and design for SOA applications.
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WA1443 Fundamentals of WebSphere Business Modeler (3 days)

The objective is to learn to model business processes, understand and define the various roles and responsibilities in business processes, perform analysis and generate reports using WebSphere Business Modeler.
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WA1426 WebSphere Business Modeler for Business Process Management (5 days)

 
This course introduces the participants to Business Modeling. The course also introduces the fundamentals of Service Oriented Analysis and Design (SOAD). The course uses IBM WebSphere Business Modeler Advanced edition as the modeling tool. A well-constructed business process model can help modelers identify inefficiencies and problems with business models earlier in the cycle and eliminate those hidden inefficiencies leading to savings in costs and improving performance.
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Managers

WA1565 Securing the Service Oriented Enterprise (1 day)

 
  This 2-day course will prepare you to identify, define, diagnose, and implement a comprehensive security strategy for a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) initiative. SOA opens up a whole realm of security issues due to its ubiquity, decentralization, distributed, and even federated nature. Students will be exposed to a broad range of enterprise SOA security subjects, providing a solid foundational understanding of valid and in-valid approaches to designing and implementing SOA security
 More Info
 

WA1549 SOA Best Practices for Business (2 days)

 
Coming
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This course addresses best practices, design patterns, and recommendations tailored to the business side of SOA. For information on our Best Practices course for the technical side of SOA, check out WA1560. The course offers practical knowledge regarding the right and wrong way to adopt SOA within an organization. Teams that are relatively new to SOA will learn valuable knowledge and skills regarding how to implement SOA right the first time. Experienced SOA teams will extend their understanding of SOA and gain insight into advanced concepts and strategies.
 More Info
 

WA1516 Business Process Modeling (2 days)

 
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This course introduces the participants to the theoretical aspects of process modeling. This course explores the forces driving the need for modeling business processes, the modeling effort as a project, and the critical success factors for making the effort successful. The course provides a way to document, understand, analyze and improve business processes.
This course does not use any specific tool although it will compliment training for a tool that can assist with business process modeling.
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WA1470 Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for Managers (3 days)

Service oriented Architecture (SOA) shows demonstrable signs of simplifying software integration. It can reduce the cost of integration significantly. The approach is not new but may be a paradigm shift for many organizations. This is analogous to e-Business, which is essentially client-server computing, but ushered many new possibilities.

This no-nonsense course is designed for the IT managers. The goal is to explain in clearly understandable terms what SOA is and how it can aid application integration. The course proceeds to cover typical development lifecycle and various roles people play in the process. The course will help the managers build a vision for future development activities.
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Executives

WA1549 SOA Best Practices for Business (2 days)

 
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This course addresses best practices, design patterns, and recommendations tailored to the business side of SOA. For information on our Best Practices course for the technical side of SOA, check out WA1560. The course offers practical knowledge regarding the right and wrong way to adopt SOA within an organization. Teams that are relatively new to SOA will learn valuable knowledge and skills regarding how to implement SOA right the first time. Experienced SOA teams will extend their understanding of SOA and gain insight into advanced concepts and strategies.
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WA1548 Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for Executives (Half day)

 
  This half-day seminar introduces SOA, process-driven business alignment, corporate and technology governance, and provides a realistic look at the SOA value proposition. This seminar will provide decision makers with the essential understanding of service orientation, process-driven alignment, and governance to evaluate the implications of SOA upon their business.
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