SOA/WS challenges and how to overcome them

Wayne Ariola of Parasoft

Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Networking @ 5:45; Business Meeting 6:30; Program @ 7:00 PM

at Countrywide, 2900 Madera, Simi Valley, CA 93065

SOA/WS initiatives impact development and quality organizations as they strive to accurately meet distinct business process objectives within a technology paradigm that requires unprecedented consistency and control. By definition a SOA introduces a distributed infrastructure that is virtually impossible to stage for quality or testing purposes.

This discussion will briefly examine the attributes of SOA/WS, highlight the business impacts of SOA/WS and discuss what is required to make a SOA agile. We will introduce a gated quality/provisioning process to ensure that your SOA is secure, reliable and compliant. We will also elaborate on how an "SOA Aware" infrastructure must be used to enable technical agility and manage the complexity within SOA environments.

Wayne Ariola, Vice President of Corporate Development at Parasoft, oversees the company's Business Development team as well as Enterprise Test team. In this capacity, Ariola has the responsibility for growing the company's revenue and customer base through channel sales strategies and guiding Product Management to leverage customer input from the over 10,000 Parasoft customers world-wide. Ariola brings more than 12 years strategic consulting experience within the high technology and software development industries. Prior to joining Parasoft, Ariola was Senior Director of Business Development for Fasturn, Inc., a company he helped to start. Ariola was a Principle Consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he was recognized as leader in the Strategic Change practice. Ariola joined Parasoft in March of 2003. He has a BA from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a MBA from Indiana University.