Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Data Management Training

Chapter 1 - SOA Fundamentals

• Defining Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Putting SOA in Context
• SOA As an Alignment Strategy
• The SOA Umbrella
• What’s a Service?
• Service Actors
• Serving Up SOA
• Business Process Management
• BPM & Workflow
• SOA Governance
• SOA Governance Model
• SOA Job Role Impact
• Before SOA
• SOA Re-Organization
• What Makes a Good Design?
• Is SOA a New Concept?
• Service Orienting the Enterprise
• Service Oriented Thinking
• SOA Is Perfect…NOT!
• Service Characteristics
• When Do I Need a Service?
• About Services in SOA
• Contract-Driven Software
• SOA Standards
• Summary

Chapter 2 - Layers of Services

• What Is Layering?
• Service Layers
• Layering Example
• The Application Service Layer
• The Business Service Layer
• The Orchestration Layer
• Layering Guidelines
• The User Interface Layer
• Context Awareness in SOA UI
• Web 2.0 Data Aggregation
• Summary

Chapter 3 - Information Management in SOA

• Introduction
• SOA and Enterprise Information Management
• Replication Overview
• Operational Challenges
• SOA and Data Basics
• Intro: Operational Data
• Data Publishing Event
• Modeling Events
• Data Mediation
• Data Format
• Generic Data Model
• Example Generic Data Model
• Mapping Data
• Loading Data
• Extract Transform Load (ETL)
• ETL and SOA
• Data Federation
• SOA Data Layering
• Data Federation vs ETL
• Summary

Chapter 4 - Data Modeling in SOA

• Data Modeling in SOA
• Data Models in SOA
• The Physical Data Model
• Deriving the Physical Data Model
• Scenario 1: New Software System
• Scenario 2: Legacy Data Model
• Strategy #1: Adapter-based service example
• Strategy #1: Another adapter example
• Strategy #2: Wrapper Web service
• Scenario 3: Meet-in-the-middle
• The role of XML in SOA data modeling
• Converting Relational to XML data
• Storing XML data in a RDBMS
• Approaches to storing XML data in a RDBMS
• Storing the entire XML document
• Shredding the XML document
• Using a native XML data type
• SQL extensions for native XML support
• The Logical Data Model
• Benefits of the Logical data model
• Deriving a Logical Data model from the Physical
• Designing the Logical Data Model
• The Enterprise Architecture approach
• EA Approach – example
• Aligning your logical and physical models
• How to align your logical and physical models
• The SOAD approach
• The Logical Data Model in Business Process Modeling
• Business Process state variables
• Input and the Receive activity
• Output and the Reply activity
• The Invoke activity
• The Assign activity
• Why do you need a published data model?
• Industry-standard XML-based data models
• Review questions
• Summary

Chapter 5 - The Data Mapping Layer

• Why do you need data transformation in SOA?
• Interface mapping in SOA
• Business processes and data mapping
• How are Data Maps used?
• How are Data Maps created?
• XML-to-XML data mapping
• XML-to-Any data mapping
• Mapping techniques
• Copy
• Splitting
• Aggregation
• Enrichment
• Filtering
• Computed
• Testing data maps
• Review questions
• Summary

Chapter 6 - Data Model Governance

• What is data governance?
• Roles and Responsibilities
• What is metadata?
• SOA metadata repository
• SOA registry as a governance tool
• Review questions
• Summary

Chapter 7 - Data Modeling Patterns and Best Practices

• Pattern template
• Data Federation pattern – Synopsis
• Data Federation pattern – Benefits
• Data Federation pattern – Context
• Data Federation pattern – Solution
• Data Federation pattern – Solution architecture
• Data Federation pattern – Considerations
• Data Federation pattern – Summary
• Data Consolidation pattern – Synopsis
• Data Consolidation pattern – Benefits
• Data Consolidation pattern – Context
• Data Consolidation pattern – Solution
• Data Consolidation pattern – Considerations
• Data Consolidation pattern – Summary
• Data Cleansing pattern – Synopsis
• Data Cleansing pattern – Benefits
• Data Cleansing pattern – Context
• Data Cleansing pattern – Solution
• Data Cleansing pattern – Considerations
• Data Cleansing pattern – Summary
• Data Management systems primer
• MDM patterns – Synopsis
• MDM patterns – Benefits
• MDM pattern taxonomy
• MDM pattern catalogue
• Transaction Interception pattern
• Transaction Interception pattern flow
• MDM Pub/Sub pattern
• Message-based Integration pattern
• Master Data Integration pattern
• Information synchronization pattern (1 of 2)
• Information synchronization pattern (2 of 2)
• BI Analytical pattern
• Review questions
• Summary

Appendix A - Introduction to Process Modeling

• What Is A Business Process?
• Business Process Management
• Business Process Modeling
• Process Modeling Advantages
• Process Components ½
• Process Components 2/2
• What’s a Service?
• SOA and Business Process
• Process Modeling and SOA
• From Ad-hoc to Formalization
• Process-centric Organizations
• The Value of Process-Centricity
• CMMI Levels 0-2
• CMMI Levels 3-5
• Key Tasks in Process Modeling
• Roles and Responsibilities ½
• Roles and Responsibilities 2/2
• Process Modeling Standards
• Summary