Anthony Assi

Thomas Erl is the world's top-selling SOA author, Series Editor of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl, Editor of SOA Magazine, and member of several OASIS technical committees driving SOA standards. Dr. Mark Little, Vice President at Red Hat, where he leads JBoss technical direction, research and development . Dr. Arnaud Simon, principal software engineer for Red Hat's strategic messaging and ESB products, was ESB/SOA architect for Innovation Process Technology. Dr. Thomas Rischbeck, senior architect for Innovation Process Technology, has extensive SOA/ESB experience. Dave Chappell, of Chappell Consulting Corp, is an independent consultant focusing on Service-orientation, architecture, grid and cloud computing. Chappell has 30 years of experience in the software industry covering a broad range of roles in leading edge architecture. Tom Plunkett is a senior consultant with Oracle. Tom has written books and has spoken internationally at over thirty conferences and delivered hundreds of presentations worldwide on the subjects of Big Data, Cloud Computing, Java, and Service-Oriented Architecture. Dr Anna Liu is currently the Research Group Leader for Software Systems at National ICT Australia (NICTA), where she leads an R&D program on Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing. Herbjörn Wilhelmsen is a Software & Innovation Independent Professional based in Stockholm, Sweden. His main focus areas are Cloud Computing, SOA and Innovation. Dr. Pethuru Raj Cheliah has been working as a TOGAF-certified enterprise architecture (EA) consultant in Wipro Technologies, Bangalore. He has more than 12 years of IT industry experience.

Toufic Boubez

Thomas Erl is the world's top-selling SOA author, Series Editor of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl, Editor of SOA Magazine, and member of several OASIS technical committees driving SOA standards. Dr. Mark Little, Vice President at Red Hat, where he leads JBoss technical direction, research and development . Dr. Arnaud Simon, principal software engineer for Red Hat's strategic messaging and ESB products, was ESB/SOA architect for Innovation Process Technology. Dr. Thomas Rischbeck, senior architect for Innovation Process Technology, has extensive SOA/ESB experience. Dave Chappell, of Chappell Consulting Corp, is an independent consultant focusing on Service-orientation, architecture, grid and cloud computing. Chappell has 30 years of experience in the software industry covering a broad range of roles in leading edge architecture. Tom Plunkett is a senior consultant with Oracle. Tom has written books and has spoken internationally at over thirty conferences and delivered hundreds of presentations worldwide on the subjects of Big Data, Cloud Computing, Java, and Service-Oriented Architecture. Dr Anna Liu is currently the Research Group Leader for Software Systems at National ICT Australia (NICTA), where she leads an R&D program on Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing. Herbjörn Wilhelmsen is a Software & Innovation Independent Professional based in Stockholm, Sweden. His main focus areas are Cloud Computing, SOA and Innovation. Dr. Pethuru Raj Cheliah has been working as a TOGAF-certified enterprise architecture (EA) consultant in Wipro Technologies, Bangalore. He has more than 12 years of IT industry experience.

Toufic Boubez

Toufic Boubez is the chief technology officer of Saffron Technology. Prior to joining Saffron, he was a senior technologist in IBM's Emerging Technologies group, and lead architect of IBM's Web services initiative. He was IBM's technical representative to the UDDI Web Services Consortium with Microsoft and Ariba and co-authored the UDDI API specification. He was also the IBM technical lead on the UN/CEFACT/OASIS ebXML initiative and helped drive IBM's early XML and Web services strategies. Dr. Boubez has more than 15 years of experience in IT and has published and presented on Web services, XML, object technology, distributed computing, intelligent agents, B2B, business modeling, simulation, neural networks, and wavelet analysis. He holds a doctorate in Biomedical Engineering from Rutgers University.

David Chappell

Dave Chappell, of Chappell Consulting Corp, is an independent consultant focusing on Service-orientation, architecture, grid and cloud computing. Chappell has 30 years of experience in the software industry covering a broad range of roles in leading edge architecture, and spends much of his time of late working with IT leaders to define new strategies for Service Oriented Applications that scale reliably and predictably in corporate cloud environments.

David Chappell

David Chappell is Principal of Chappell & Associates and the best-selling author of Understanding ActiveX and OLE (Microsoft Press) and other books. Through his speaking, writing, and consulting, David helps information technology professionals around the world understand, use, and make better decisions about new technologies.

Pethuru Raj Cheliah

&>Thomas Erl is a best-selling IT author and founder of CloudSchool.com™ andSOASchool.com^®. Thomas has been the world's top-selling service technology author for over five years and is the series editor of the Prentice Hall Service Technology Series from Thomas Erl (www.servicetechbooks.com ), as well as the editor of the Service Technology Magazine (www.servicetechmag.com). With over 175,000 copies in print world-wide, his eight published books have become international bestsellers and have been formally endorsed by senior members of major IT organizations, such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Intel, Accenture, IEEE, HL7, MITRE, SAP, CISCO, HP, and others.

Four of his books, Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & Architecture, SOA Design Patterns, SOA Principles of Service Design, and SOA Governance, were authored in collaboration with the IT community and have contributed to the definition of cloud computing technology mechanisms, the service-oriented architectural model and service-orientation as a distinct paradigm. Thomas is currently working with over 20 authors on several new books dedicated to specialized topic areas such as cloud computing, Big Data, modern service technologies, and service-orientation.

As CEO of Arcitura Education Inc. and in cooperation with CloudSchool.com™ andSOASchool.com^®, Thomas has led the development of curricula for the internationally recognized SOA Certified Professional (SOACP) and Cloud Certified Professional (CCP) accreditation programs, which have established a series of formal, vendor-neutral industry certifications.

Thomas is the founding member of the SOA Manifesto Working Group and author of the Annotated SOA Manifesto (www.soa-manifesto.com). He is a member of the Cloud Education & Credential Committee, SOA Education Committee, and he further oversees theSOAPatterns.org and CloudPatterns.org initiatives, which are dedicated to the on-going development of master pattern catalogs for service-oriented computing and cloud computing.

Thomas has toured over 20 countries as a speaker and instructor for public and private events, and regularly participates in international conferences, including SOA, Cloud + Service Technology Symposium and Gartner events. Over 100 articles and interviews by Thomas have been published in numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal and CIO Magazine.

Pethuru Raj Cheliah

Dr. Pethuru Raj Cheliah has been working as a TOGAF-certified enterprise architecture (EA) consultant in Wipro Technologies, Bangalore. He has more than 12 years of IT industry experience, primarily as a technical architect.

David Chou

David Chou is a technical architect at Microsoft and is based in Los Angeles. His focus is on collaborating with enterprises and organizations in such areas as cloud computing, SOA, Web, distributed systems, and security. His involvement supports decision makers in helping them to define the appropriate evolutionary strategies in their architecture development. Drawing from his extensive experience at previously held positions with Sun Microsystems and Accenture, David enjoys helping his clients and customers create value by using objective and pragmatic approaches to create definitive IT strategies, roadmaps, and solution architectures. Find David and his blog at blogs.msdn.com/dachou.

David Chou

Thomas Erl is a top-selling IT author, founder of Arcitura Education, editor of the Service Technology Magazine, and series editor of the Prentice Hall Service Technology Series from Thomas Erl. With more than 175,000 copies in print worldwide, his books have become international bestsellers and have been formally endorsed by senior members of major IT organizations, such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Intel, Accenture, IEEE, HL7, MITRE, SAP, CISCO, HP, and many others. As CEO of Arcitura Education Inc. and in cooperation with CloudSchool.com and SOASchool.com, Thomas has led the development of curricula for the internationally recognized Cloud Certified Professional (CCP) and SOA Certified Professional (SOACP) accreditation programs, which have established a series of formal, vendor-neutral industry certifications obtained by thousands of IT professionals around the world. Thomas has toured more than 20 countries as a speaker and instructor and regularly participates in international conferences, including Service Technology Symposium and Gartner events. More than 100 articles and interviews by Thomas have been published in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal and CIO Magazine.

Andre Tost works as a Senior Technical Staff Member and Software Architect in IBM’s Software Group. He is currently helping to develop and evolve the new PureApplication System cloud platform. Previously, Andre spent 10 years as an SOA consultant for IBM, leading large SOA transformation projects with clients worldwide. His specific focus was on SOA governance and middleware integration using enterprise service bus technology. Andre has co-authored several technical books and has published many articles on SOA and related topics. He is also a frequent conference speaker. Originally from Germany, he now works and lives in Rochester, Minnesota. He likes to watch, coach and play soccer whenever his busy schedule allows. Andre has a degree in Electrical Engineering from Berufsakademie Stuttgart, Germany.

Satadru Roy is a Consultant Architect who has designed and built large-scale, distributed systems using Java-based technologies for the last two decades. In that time he has worked as a product engineer and services consultant at Java infrastructure software vendors such as BEA Systems, Sun Microsystems, and Oracle Inc. He currently helps customers build mobile and cloud-hosted applications where he alternates between wearing architect and development manager hats, while his main areas of focus are API design and lightweight integration using agile development methodologies. Satadru is also immersing himself in the growing eco-system of the Scala platform and believes they will play increasingly important roles in future cloud and Big Data applications. He holds a Masters degree in Engineering from Indian Institure of Science.

Philip Thomas is an IT Architect in IBM’s Software Group. During his time in the technology sector, he has worked across industries and geographies with a range of organizations as a consultant on technology strategy and on the architecture, design, and implementation of a broad variety of solutions. His expertise spans a number of areas including Java/JEE, SOA, transaction processing systems, messaging/integration middleware, business process management, information management systems, and business analytics. He currently specializes in Big Data and analytics, based out of the UK. Prior to joining IBM in 2000, Phil trained as a physicist and holds a Ph.D. in experimental high-temperature superconductivity awarded by the University of Birmingham.

David Chou

Thomas Erl is a top-selling IT author, founder of Arcitura Education, editor of the Service Technology Magazine, and series editor of the Prentice Hall Service Technology Series from Thomas Erl. With more than 175,000 copies in print worldwide, his books have become international bestsellers and have been formally endorsed by senior members of major IT organizations, such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Intel, Accenture, IEEE, HL7, MITRE, SAP, CISCO, HP, and many others. As CEO of Arcitura Education Inc. and in cooperation with CloudSchool.com and SOASchool.com, Thomas has led the development of curricula for the internationally recognized Cloud Certified Professional (CCP) and SOA Certified Professional (SOACP) accreditation programs, which have established a series of formal, vendor-neutral industry certifications obtained by thousands of IT professionals around the world. Thomas has toured more than 20 countries as a speaker and instructor and regularly participates in international conferences, including Service Technology Symposium and Gartner events. More than 100 articles and interviews by Thomas have been published in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal and CIO Magazine.

Andre Tost works as a Senior Technical Staff Member and Software Architect in IBM’s Software Group. He is currently helping to develop and evolve the new PureApplication System cloud platform. Previously, Andre spent 10 years as an SOA consultant for IBM, leading large SOA transformation projects with clients worldwide. His specific focus was on SOA governance and middleware integration using enterprise service bus technology. Andre has co-authored several technical books and has published many articles on SOA and related topics. He is also a frequent conference speaker. Originally from Germany, he now works and lives in Rochester, Minnesota. He likes to watch, coach and play soccer whenever his busy schedule allows. Andre has a degree in Electrical Engineering from Berufsakademie Stuttgart, Germany.

Satadru Roy is a Consultant Architect who has designed and built large-scale, distributed systems using Java-based technologies for the last two decades. In that time he has worked as a product engineer and services consultant at Java infrastructure software vendors such as BEA Systems, Sun Microsystems, and Oracle Inc. He currently helps customers build mobile and cloud-hosted applications where he alternates between wearing architect and development manager hats, while his main areas of focus are API design and lightweight integration using agile development methodologies. Satadru is also immersing himself in the growing eco-system of the Scala platform and believes they will play increasingly important roles in future cloud and Big Data applications. He holds a Masters degree in Engineering from Indian Institure of Science.

Philip Thomas is an IT Architect in IBM’s Software Group. During his time in the technology sector, he has worked across industries and geographies with a range of organizations as a consultant on technology strategy and on the architecture, design, and implementation of a broad variety of solutions. His expertise spans a number of areas including Java/JEE, SOA, transaction processing systems, messaging/integration middleware, business process management, information management systems, and business analytics. He currently specializes in Big Data and analytics, based out of the UK. Prior to joining IBM in 2000, Phil trained as a physicist and holds a Ph.D. in experimental high-temperature superconductivity awarded by the University of Birmingham.

John deVadoss

David Chou

David Chou is a technical architect at Microsoft and is based in Los Angeles. His focus is on collaborating with enterprises and organizations in such areas as cloud computing, SOA, Web, distributed systems, and security. His involvement supports decision makers in helping them to define the appropriate evolutionary strategies in their architecture development. Drawing from his extensive experience at previously held positions with Sun Microsystems and Accenture, David enjoys helping his clients and customers create value by using objective and pragmatic approaches to create definitive IT strategies, roadmaps, and solution architectures. Find David and his blog at blogs.msdn.com/dachou.

John deVadoss

John deVadoss leads the Patterns & Practices team at Microsoft and is based in Redmond, WA. Patterns & Practices is the trusted source for guidance on the Microsoft platform; John and his team are chartered with creating, collating, and disseminating proven practices to enable productive, predictable development on the Microsoft .NET platform. John’s experience spans 15 years in the software industry. 10+ years have been with Microsoft--all of it in the enterprise space as a consultant, a program manager in the distributed applications platform division, an architect working with some of Microsoft’s key partners, a director of architecture strategy and, most recently, as the leading technical strategist for the all-up application platform. Prior to Microsoft, John spent a number of years as a technology consultant in Silicon Valley working on largescale middleware and distributed systems design and development. His areas of interest are broadly in distributed application architectures, data and metadata, systems management and currently on edge architectures (both service/cloud and experience), but most of all in creating business value from technology investments. John holds a BE in Computer Engineering, and an MS in Computer Science. Both degrees were awarded by the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where he also did graduate work towards a PhD in Computer Science.

Thomas Erl

Thomas Erl is the world’s top-selling SOA author, series editor of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl (www.soabooks.com), and editor of the SOA Magazine (www.soamag.com). With more than 120,000 copies in print worldwide, his books have become international bestsellers and have been formally endorsed by senior members of major software organizations, such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, Intel, SAP, CISCO, and HP. Two of his five books, SOA Design Patterns and SOA Principles of Service Design, were authored in collaboration with the IT community and have contributed to the definition of the service-oriented architectural model and service orientation as a distinct paradigm. In cooperation with SOASchool.com, Thomas has helped develop the curriculum for the internationally recognized SOA Certified Professional accreditation program (www.soaschool.com), which has established a series of formal, vendor-neutral certifications in the areas of service-oriented computing. Thomas is also the founder of SOA Systems Inc. (www.soasystems.com), the founding member of the SOA Manifesto Working Group (www.soa-manifesto.org), a member of the SOA Education Committee (www.soacommittee.org), and oversees the SOAPatterns.org initiative, a community site dedicated to the on-going development of a master pattern catalog for SOA. Thomas has toured more than 20 countries as a speaker and instructor for public and private events, and regularly participates in events, such as the SOA Symposium (www.soasymposium.com) and

John deVadoss

John deVadoss leads the Patterns & Practices team at Microsoft and is based in Redmond, WA. Patterns & Practices is the trusted source for guidance on the Microsoft platform; John and his team are chartered with creating, collating, and disseminating proven practices to enable productive, predictable development on the Microsoft .NET platform. John’s experience spans 15 years in the software industry. 10+ years have been with Microsoft--all of it in the enterprise space as a consultant, a program manager in the distributed applications platform division, an architect working with some of Microsoft’s key partners, a director of architecture strategy and, most recently, as the leading technical strategist for the all-up application platform. Prior to Microsoft, John spent a number of years as a technology consultant in Silicon Valley working on largescale middleware and distributed systems design and development. His areas of interest are broadly in distributed application architectures, data and metadata, systems management and currently on edge architectures (both service/cloud and experience), but most of all in creating business value from technology investments. John holds a BE in Computer Engineering, and an MS in Computer Science. Both degrees were awarded by the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where he also did graduate work towards a PhD in Computer Science.

John deVadoss

David Chou

David Chou is a technical architect at Microsoft and is based in Los Angeles. His focus is on collaborating with enterprises and organizations in such areas as cloud computing, SOA, Web, distributed systems, and security. His involvement supports decision makers in helping them to define the appropriate evolutionary strategies in their architecture development. Drawing from his extensive experience at previously held positions with Sun Microsystems and Accenture, David enjoys helping his clients and customers create value by using objective and pragmatic approaches to create definitive IT strategies, roadmaps, and solution architectures. Find David and his blog at blogs.msdn.com/dachou.

John deVadoss

John deVadoss leads the Patterns & Practices team at Microsoft and is based in Redmond, WA. Patterns & Practices is the trusted source for guidance on the Microsoft platform; John and his team are chartered with creating, collating, and disseminating proven practices to enable productive, predictable development on the Microsoft .NET platform. John’s experience spans 15 years in the software industry. 10+ years have been with Microsoft--all of it in the enterprise space as a consultant, a program manager in the distributed applications platform division, an architect working with some of Microsoft’s key partners, a director of architecture strategy and, most recently, as the leading technical strategist for the all-up application platform. Prior to Microsoft, John spent a number of years as a technology consultant in Silicon Valley working on largescale middleware and distributed systems design and development. His areas of interest are broadly in distributed application architectures, data and metadata, systems management and currently on edge architectures (both service/cloud and experience), but most of all in creating business value from technology investments. John holds a BE in Computer Engineering, and an MS in Computer Science. Both degrees were awarded by the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where he also did graduate work towards a PhD in Computer Science.

Thomas Erl

Thomas Erl is the world’s top-selling SOA author, series editor of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl (www.soabooks.com), and editor of the SOA Magazine (www.soamag.com). With more than 120,000 copies in print worldwide, his books have become international bestsellers and have been formally endorsed by senior members of major software organizations, such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, Intel, SAP, CISCO, and HP. Two of his five books, SOA Design Patterns and SOA Principles of Service Design, were authored in collaboration with the IT community and have contributed to the definition of the service-oriented architectural model and service orientation as a distinct paradigm. In cooperation with SOASchool.com, Thomas has helped develop the curriculum for the internationally recognized SOA Certified Professional accreditation program (www.soaschool.com), which has established a series of formal, vendor-neutral certifications in the areas of service-oriented computing. Thomas is also the founder of SOA Systems Inc. (www.soasystems.com), the founding member of the SOA Manifesto Working Group (www.soa-manifesto.org), a member of the SOA Education Committee (www.soacommittee.org), and oversees the SOAPatterns.org initiative, a community site dedicated to the on-going development of a master pattern catalog for SOA. Thomas has toured more than 20 countries as a speaker and instructor for public and private events, and regularly participates in events, such as the SOA Symposium (www.soasymposium.com) and

Thomas Erl

Thomas Erl is a best-selling IT author who has authored and co-authored 15 books published by Prentice Hall and Pearson Education and dedicated to topics focused on contemporary information technology and practices. These titles were delivered for the Pearson Digital Enterprise Series from Thomas Erl (formerly the Prentice Hall Service Technology Series from Thomas Erl) for which Thomas also acts as series editor.

As founder and president of Arcitura Education (www.arcitura.com), Thomas also leads the development of curricula for internationally recognized, vendor-neutral training and accreditation programs. Arcitura’s portfolio currently consists of over 100 courses, over 90 Pearson VUE exams, and over 40 certification tracks, covering topics such as Digital Transformation, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), DevOps, Blockchain, IoT, Containerization, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cybersecurity, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing and Big Data Analytics.

Thomas Erl

Thomas Erl is a best-selling IT author who has authored and co-authored 15 books published by Prentice Hall and Pearson Education and dedicated to topics focused on contemporary information technology and practices. These titles were delivered for the Pearson Digital Enterprise Series from Thomas Erl (formerly the Prentice Hall Service Technology Series from Thomas Erl) for which Thomas also acts as series editor.

As founder and president of Arcitura Education (www.arcitura.com), Thomas also leads the development of curricula for internationally recognized, vendor-neutral training and accreditation programs. Arcitura’s portfolio currently consists of over 100 courses, over 90 Pearson VUE exams, and over 40 certification tracks, covering topics such as Digital Transformation, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), DevOps, Blockchain, IoT, Containerization, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cybersecurity, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing and Big Data Analytics.

Thomas Erl

Thomas Erl is a best-selling IT author who has authored and co-authored 15 books published by Prentice Hall and Pearson Education and dedicated to topics focused on contemporary information technology and practices. These titles were delivered for the Pearson Digital Enterprise Series from Thomas Erl (formerly the Prentice Hall Service Technology Series from Thomas Erl) for which Thomas also acts as series editor.

As founder and president of Arcitura Education (www.arcitura.com), Thomas also leads the development of curricula for internationally recognized, vendor-neutral training and accreditation programs. Arcitura’s portfolio currently consists of over 100 courses, over 90 Pearson VUE exams, and over 40 certification tracks, covering topics such as Digital Transformation, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), DevOps, Blockchain, IoT, Containerization, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cybersecurity, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing and Big Data Analytics.

Csilla Farkas

Thomas Erl is the world's top-selling SOA author, Series Editor of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl, Editor of SOA Magazine, and member of several OASIS technical committees driving SOA standards. Dr. Mark Little, Vice President at Red Hat, where he leads JBoss technical direction, research and development . Dr. Arnaud Simon, principal software engineer for Red Hat's strategic messaging and ESB products, was ESB/SOA architect for Innovation Process Technology. Dr. Thomas Rischbeck, senior architect for Innovation Process Technology, has extensive SOA/ESB experience. Dave Chappell, of Chappell Consulting Corp, is an independent consultant focusing on Service-orientation, architecture, grid and cloud computing. Chappell has 30 years of experience in the software industry covering a broad range of roles in leading edge architecture. Tom Plunkett is a senior consultant with Oracle. Tom has written books and has spoken internationally at over thirty conferences and delivered hundreds of presentations worldwide on the subjects of Big Data, Cloud Computing, Java, and Service-Oriented Architecture. Dr Anna Liu is currently the Research Group Leader for Software Systems at National ICT Australia (NICTA), where she leads an R&D program on Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing. Herbjörn Wilhelmsen is a Software & Innovation Independent Professional based in Stockholm, Sweden. His main focus areas are Cloud Computing, SOA and Innovation. Dr. Pethuru Raj Cheliah has been working as a TOGAF-certified enterprise architecture (EA) consultant in Wipro Technologies, Bangalore. He has more than 12 years of IT industry experience.

Francois Lascelles

Thomas Erl is the world's top-selling SOA author, Series Editor of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl, Editor of SOA Magazine, and member of several OASIS technical committees driving SOA standards. Dr. Mark Little, Vice President at Red Hat, where he leads JBoss technical direction, research and development . Dr. Arnaud Simon, principal software engineer for Red Hat's strategic messaging and ESB products, was ESB/SOA architect for Innovation Process Technology. Dr. Thomas Rischbeck, senior architect for Innovation Process Technology, has extensive SOA/ESB experience. Dave Chappell, of Chappell Consulting Corp, is an independent consultant focusing on Service-orientation, architecture, grid and cloud computing. Chappell has 30 years of experience in the software industry covering a broad range of roles in leading edge architecture. Tom Plunkett is a senior consultant with Oracle. Tom has written books and has spoken internationally at over thirty conferences and delivered hundreds of presentations worldwide on the subjects of Big Data, Cloud Computing, Java, and Service-Oriented Architecture. Dr Anna Liu is currently the Research Group Leader for Software Systems at National ICT Australia (NICTA), where she leads an R&D program on Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing. Herbjörn Wilhelmsen is a Software & Innovation Independent Professional based in Stockholm, Sweden. His main focus areas are Cloud Computing, SOA and Innovation. Dr. Pethuru Raj Cheliah has been working as a TOGAF-certified enterprise architecture (EA) consultant in Wipro Technologies, Bangalore. He has more than 12 years of IT industry experience.

Mark Little

Thomas Erl is the world's top-selling SOA author, Series Editor of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl, Editor of SOA Magazine, and member of several OASIS technical committees driving SOA standards. Dr. Mark Little, Vice President at Red Hat, where he leads JBoss technical direction, research and development . Dr. Arnaud Simon, principal software engineer for Red Hat's strategic messaging and ESB products, was ESB/SOA architect for Innovation Process Technology. Dr. Thomas Rischbeck, senior architect for Innovation Process Technology, has extensive SOA/ESB experience. Dave Chappell, of Chappell Consulting Corp, is an independent consultant focusing on Service-orientation, architecture, grid and cloud computing. Chappell has 30 years of experience in the software industry covering a broad range of roles in leading edge architecture. Tom Plunkett is a senior consultant with Oracle. Tom has written books and has spoken internationally at over thirty conferences and delivered hundreds of presentations worldwide on the subjects of Big Data, Cloud Computing, Java, and Service-Oriented Architecture. Dr Anna Liu is currently the Research Group Leader for Software Systems at National ICT Australia (NICTA), where she leads an R&D program on Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing. Herbjörn Wilhelmsen is a Software & Innovation Independent Professional based in Stockholm, Sweden. His main focus areas are Cloud Computing, SOA and Innovation. Dr. Pethuru Raj Cheliah has been working as a TOGAF-certified enterprise architecture (EA) consultant in Wipro Technologies, Bangalore. He has more than 12 years of IT industry experience.

Mark Little

Thomas Erl is the world's top-selling SOA author, Series Editor of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl, Editor of SOA Magazine, and member of several OASIS technical committees driving SOA standards. Dr. Mark Little, Vice President at Red Hat, where he leads JBoss technical direction, research and development . Dr. Arnaud Simon, principal software engineer for Red Hat's strategic messaging and ESB products, was ESB/SOA architect for Innovation Process Technology. Dr. Thomas Rischbeck, senior architect for Innovation Process Technology, has extensive SOA/ESB experience. Dave Chappell, of Chappell Consulting Corp, is an independent consultant focusing on Service-orientation, architecture, grid and cloud computing. Chappell has 30 years of experience in the software industry covering a broad range of roles in leading edge architecture. Tom Plunkett is a senior consultant with Oracle. Tom has written books and has spoken internationally at over thirty conferences and delivered hundreds of presentations worldwide on the subjects of Big Data, Cloud Computing, Java, and Service-Oriented Architecture. Dr Anna Liu is currently the Research Group Leader for Software Systems at National ICT Australia (NICTA), where she leads an R&D program on Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing. Herbjörn Wilhelmsen is a Software & Innovation Independent Professional based in Stockholm, Sweden. His main focus areas are Cloud Computing, SOA and Innovation. Dr. Pethuru Raj Cheliah has been working as a TOGAF-certified enterprise architecture (EA) consultant in Wipro Technologies, Bangalore. He has more than 12 years of IT industry experience.

Mark Little

Dr. Mark Little is Vice President at Red Hat, where he leads JBoss technical direction, research and development. Prior to this he was SOA technical development manager, and director of standards. He was chief architect and co-founder at Arjuna Technologies, and Distinguished Engineer at Hewlett Packard when Arjuna was spun off. He has worked in the area of reliable distributed systems since the mid-80s. His PhD was on fault-tolerant distributed systems, replication and transactions. He is currently also a professor at Newcastle University.

Anna Liu

Dr. Anna Liu is currently the Research Group Leader for Software Systems at National ICT Australia (NICTA), where she leads an R&D program on Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing. She is also the CTO of the NICTA spin-out Yuruware.com, a migration and disaster recovery as-a-service company. Prior to joining NICTA, Dr Liu was a Principal Software Architect at Microsoft. In the more distant past, Dr Liu held senior research scientist positions at the CSIRO, Software Engineering Institute CMU, and academic appointments at the University of New South Wales and the University of Technology, Sydney Australia. She is the author of 50+ papers in the area of software architecture and enterprise computing, and a popular speaker at Cloud Computing Conferences.

Anna Liu

Thomas Erl is the world's top-selling SOA author, Series Editor of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl, Editor of SOA Magazine, and member of several OASIS technical committees driving SOA standards. Dr. Mark Little, Vice President at Red Hat, where he leads JBoss technical direction, research and development . Dr. Arnaud Simon, principal software engineer for Red Hat's strategic messaging and ESB products, was ESB/SOA architect for Innovation Process Technology. Dr. Thomas Rischbeck, senior architect for Innovation Process Technology, has extensive SOA/ESB experience. Dave Chappell, of Chappell Consulting Corp, is an independent consultant focusing on Service-orientation, architecture, grid and cloud computing. Chappell has 30 years of experience in the software industry covering a broad range of roles in leading edge architecture. Tom Plunkett is a senior consultant with Oracle. Tom has written books and has spoken internationally at over thirty conferences and delivered hundreds of presentations worldwide on the subjects of Big Data, Cloud Computing, Java, and Service-Oriented Architecture. Dr Anna Liu is currently the Research Group Leader for Software Systems at National ICT Australia (NICTA), where she leads an R&D program on Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing. Herbjörn Wilhelmsen is a Software & Innovation Independent Professional based in Stockholm, Sweden. His main focus areas are Cloud Computing, SOA and Innovation. Dr. Pethuru Raj Cheliah has been working as a TOGAF-certified enterprise architecture (EA) consultant in Wipro Technologies, Bangalore. He has more than 12 years of IT industry experience.

Brian Loesgen

Brian Loesgen is a Principal SOA Architect with Microsoft, based in San Diego. His extensive experience includes building sophisticated enterprise, ESB and SOA solutions. Brian is a 6-time Microsoft MVP for BizTalk Server, and has been involved with BizTalk since before the release of BizTalk Server 2000 beta; he was a key architect/developer of the “Microsoft ESB Guidance,” initially released by Microsoft in Oct. 2006. A speaker at numerous major technical conferences worldwide, Brian is a co-founder and past-President of the International .NET Association (ineta.org), and past-President of the San Diego .NET user group, where he continues to lead the Connected Systems SIG, and is a member of the Editorial Board for the .NET Developer’s Journal. Brian was also a member of the Microsoft Connected Systems Division Virtual Technical Specialist Team pilot, and is part of Microsoft’s Connected Systems Advisory Board. Brian has authored technical white papers for Intel, Microsoft and others; is a co-author of the SOA Manifesto, as well as the co-author of 7 books, including this one, and is the lead author on the upcoming BizTalk Server 2009 R2 Unleashed title. Find Brian and his blog at: blog.BrianLoesgen.com.

Brian Loesgen

Thomas Erl is the world's top-selling SOA author, Series Editor of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl, Editor of SOA Magazine, and member of several OASIS technical committees driving SOA standards. Dr. Mark Little, Vice President at Red Hat, where he leads JBoss technical direction, research and development . Dr. Arnaud Simon, principal software engineer for Red Hat's strategic messaging and ESB products, was ESB/SOA architect for Innovation Process Technology. Dr. Thomas Rischbeck, senior architect for Innovation Process Technology, has extensive SOA/ESB experience. Dave Chappell, of Chappell Consulting Corp, is an independent consultant focusing on Service-orientation, architecture, grid and cloud computing. Chappell has 30 years of experience in the software industry covering a broad range of roles in leading edge architecture. Tom Plunkett is a senior consultant with Oracle. Tom has written books and has spoken internationally at over thirty conferences and delivered hundreds of presentations worldwide on the subjects of Big Data, Cloud Computing, Java, and Service-Oriented Architecture. Dr Anna Liu is currently the Research Group Leader for Software Systems at National ICT Australia (NICTA), where she leads an R&D program on Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing. Herbjörn Wilhelmsen is a Software & Innovation Independent Professional based in Stockholm, Sweden. His main focus areas are Cloud Computing, SOA and Innovation. Dr. Pethuru Raj Cheliah has been working as a TOGAF-certified enterprise architecture (EA) consultant in Wipro Technologies, Bangalore. He has more than 12 years of IT industry experience.

Tom Plunkett

Tom Plunkett is a senior consultant with Oracle. Tom has written books and has spoken internationally at over thirty conferences and delivered hundreds of presentations worldwide on the subjects of Big Data, Cloud Computing, Java, and Service-Oriented Architecture.

Tom Plunkett

Thomas Erl is the world's top-selling SOA author, Series Editor of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl, Editor of SOA Magazine, and member of several OASIS technical committees driving SOA standards. Dr. Mark Little, Vice President at Red Hat, where he leads JBoss technical direction, research and development . Dr. Arnaud Simon, principal software engineer for Red Hat's strategic messaging and ESB products, was ESB/SOA architect for Innovation Process Technology. Dr. Thomas Rischbeck, senior architect for Innovation Process Technology, has extensive SOA/ESB experience. Dave Chappell, of Chappell Consulting Corp, is an independent consultant focusing on Service-orientation, architecture, grid and cloud computing. Chappell has 30 years of experience in the software industry covering a broad range of roles in leading edge architecture. Tom Plunkett is a senior consultant with Oracle. Tom has written books and has spoken internationally at over thirty conferences and delivered hundreds of presentations worldwide on the subjects of Big Data, Cloud Computing, Java, and Service-Oriented Architecture. Dr Anna Liu is currently the Research Group Leader for Software Systems at National ICT Australia (NICTA), where she leads an R&D program on Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing. Herbjörn Wilhelmsen is a Software & Innovation Independent Professional based in Stockholm, Sweden. His main focus areas are Cloud Computing, SOA and Innovation. Dr. Pethuru Raj Cheliah has been working as a TOGAF-certified enterprise architecture (EA) consultant in Wipro Technologies, Bangalore. He has more than 12 years of IT industry experience.

Thomas Rischbeck

Dr. Thomas Rischbeck is an IT architect and business developer with [ipt], a local SOA consulting boutique with a Java technology focus (see Gartner's Guide to SOA Consulting). Thomas has a track record of successful SOA introduction and delivery projects with a number of Swiss blue-chip clients. He specializes in SOA reference architectures, SOA design patterns and SOA security. Prior to joining [ipt] Thomas worked as an architect with Arjuna Technologies and Hewlett Packard Middleware Labs where he gained extensive experience in Web Services architecture and development.

Thomas holds a PhD in Parallel Computing from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He engages with the world-wide SOA community, is a frequent speaker and book author (co-author of "SOA Design Patterns" and "Modern ESB Architecture for SOA" within the Prentice Hall SOA Series).

Thomas Rischbeck

Thomas Erl is the world's top-selling SOA author, Series Editor of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl, Editor of SOA Magazine, and member of several OASIS technical committees driving SOA standards. Dr. Mark Little, Vice President at Red Hat, where he leads JBoss technical direction, research and development . Dr. Arnaud Simon, principal software engineer for Red Hat's strategic messaging and ESB products, was ESB/SOA architect for Innovation Process Technology. Dr. Thomas Rischbeck, senior architect for Innovation Process Technology, has extensive SOA/ESB experience. Dave Chappell, of Chappell Consulting Corp, is an independent consultant focusing on Service-orientation, architecture, grid and cloud computing. Chappell has 30 years of experience in the software industry covering a broad range of roles in leading edge architecture. Tom Plunkett is a senior consultant with Oracle. Tom has written books and has spoken internationally at over thirty conferences and delivered hundreds of presentations worldwide on the subjects of Big Data, Cloud Computing, Java, and Service-Oriented Architecture. Dr Anna Liu is currently the Research Group Leader for Software Systems at National ICT Australia (NICTA), where she leads an R&D program on Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing. Herbjörn Wilhelmsen is a Software & Innovation Independent Professional based in Stockholm, Sweden. His main focus areas are Cloud Computing, SOA and Innovation. Dr. Pethuru Raj Cheliah has been working as a TOGAF-certified enterprise architecture (EA) consultant in Wipro Technologies, Bangalore. He has more than 12 years of IT industry experience.

Satadru Roy

Thomas Erl is a top-selling IT author, founder of Arcitura Education, editor of the Service Technology Magazine, and series editor of the Prentice Hall Service Technology Series from Thomas Erl. With more than 175,000 copies in print worldwide, his books have become international bestsellers and have been formally endorsed by senior members of major IT organizations, such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Intel, Accenture, IEEE, HL7, MITRE, SAP, CISCO, HP, and many others. As CEO of Arcitura Education Inc. and in cooperation with CloudSchool.com and SOASchool.com, Thomas has led the development of curricula for the internationally recognized Cloud Certified Professional (CCP) and SOA Certified Professional (SOACP) accreditation programs, which have established a series of formal, vendor-neutral industry certifications obtained by thousands of IT professionals around the world. Thomas has toured more than 20 countries as a speaker and instructor and regularly participates in international conferences, including Service Technology Symposium and Gartner events. More than 100 articles and interviews by Thomas have been published in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal and CIO Magazine.

Andre Tost works as a Senior Technical Staff Member and Software Architect in IBM’s Software Group. He is currently helping to develop and evolve the new PureApplication System cloud platform. Previously, Andre spent 10 years as an SOA consultant for IBM, leading large SOA transformation projects with clients worldwide. His specific focus was on SOA governance and middleware integration using enterprise service bus technology. Andre has co-authored several technical books and has published many articles on SOA and related topics. He is also a frequent conference speaker. Originally from Germany, he now works and lives in Rochester, Minnesota. He likes to watch, coach and play soccer whenever his busy schedule allows. Andre has a degree in Electrical Engineering from Berufsakademie Stuttgart, Germany.

Satadru Roy is a Consultant Architect who has designed and built large-scale, distributed systems using Java-based technologies for the last two decades. In that time he has worked as a product engineer and services consultant at Java infrastructure software vendors such as BEA Systems, Sun Microsystems, and Oracle Inc. He currently helps customers build mobile and cloud-hosted applications where he alternates between wearing architect and development manager hats, while his main areas of focus are API design and lightweight integration using agile development methodologies. Satadru is also immersing himself in the growing eco-system of the Scala platform and believes they will play increasingly important roles in future cloud and Big Data applications. He holds a Masters degree in Engineering from Indian Institure of Science.

Philip Thomas is an IT Architect in IBM’s Software Group. During his time in the technology sector, he has worked across industries and geographies with a range of organizations as a consultant on technology strategy and on the architecture, design, and implementation of a broad variety of solutions. His expertise spans a number of areas including Java/JEE, SOA, transaction processing systems, messaging/integration middleware, business process management, information management systems, and business analytics. He currently specializes in Big Data and analytics, based out of the UK. Prior to joining IBM in 2000, Phil trained as a physicist and holds a Ph.D. in experimental high-temperature superconductivity awarded by the University of Birmingham.

Satadru Roy

Satadru Roy is a Technology Architect and Product Engineer with BEA Systems, Inc.

Satadru Roy

Thomas Erl is a top-selling IT author, founder of Arcitura Education, editor of the Service Technology Magazine, and series editor of the Prentice Hall Service Technology Series from Thomas Erl. With more than 175,000 copies in print worldwide, his books have become international bestsellers and have been formally endorsed by senior members of major IT organizations, such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Intel, Accenture, IEEE, HL7, MITRE, SAP, CISCO, HP, and many others. As CEO of Arcitura Education Inc. and in cooperation with CloudSchool.com and SOASchool.com, Thomas has led the development of curricula for the internationally recognized Cloud Certified Professional (CCP) and SOA Certified Professional (SOACP) accreditation programs, which have established a series of formal, vendor-neutral industry certifications obtained by thousands of IT professionals around the world. Thomas has toured more than 20 countries as a speaker and instructor and regularly participates in international conferences, including Service Technology Symposium and Gartner events. More than 100 articles and interviews by Thomas have been published in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal and CIO Magazine.

Andre Tost works as a Senior Technical Staff Member and Software Architect in IBM’s Software Group. He is currently helping to develop and evolve the new PureApplication System cloud platform. Previously, Andre spent 10 years as an SOA consultant for IBM, leading large SOA transformation projects with clients worldwide. His specific focus was on SOA governance and middleware integration using enterprise service bus technology. Andre has co-authored several technical books and has published many articles on SOA and related topics. He is also a frequent conference speaker. Originally from Germany, he now works and lives in Rochester, Minnesota. He likes to watch, coach and play soccer whenever his busy schedule allows. Andre has a degree in Electrical Engineering from Berufsakademie Stuttgart, Germany.

Satadru Roy is a Consultant Architect who has designed and built large-scale, distributed systems using Java-based technologies for the last two decades. In that time he has worked as a product engineer and services consultant at Java infrastructure software vendors such as BEA Systems, Sun Microsystems, and Oracle Inc. He currently helps customers build mobile and cloud-hosted applications where he alternates between wearing architect and development manager hats, while his main areas of focus are API design and lightweight integration using agile development methodologies. Satadru is also immersing himself in the growing eco-system of the Scala platform and believes they will play increasingly important roles in future cloud and Big Data applications. He holds a Masters degree in Engineering from Indian Institure of Science.

Philip Thomas is an IT Architect in IBM’s Software Group. During his time in the technology sector, he has worked across industries and geographies with a range of organizations as a consultant on technology strategy and on the architecture, design, and implementation of a broad variety of solutions. His expertise spans a number of areas including Java/JEE, SOA, transaction processing systems, messaging/integration middleware, business process management, information management systems, and business analytics. He currently specializes in Big Data and analytics, based out of the UK. Prior to joining IBM in 2000, Phil trained as a physicist and holds a Ph.D. in experimental high-temperature superconductivity awarded by the University of Birmingham.

Arnaud Simon

Thomas Erl is the world's top-selling SOA author, Series Editor of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl, Editor of SOA Magazine, and member of several OASIS technical committees driving SOA standards. Dr. Mark Little, Vice President at Red Hat, where he leads JBoss technical direction, research and development . Dr. Arnaud Simon, principal software engineer for Red Hat's strategic messaging and ESB products, was ESB/SOA architect for Innovation Process Technology. Dr. Thomas Rischbeck, senior architect for Innovation Process Technology, has extensive SOA/ESB experience. Dave Chappell, of Chappell Consulting Corp, is an independent consultant focusing on Service-orientation, architecture, grid and cloud computing. Chappell has 30 years of experience in the software industry covering a broad range of roles in leading edge architecture. Tom Plunkett is a senior consultant with Oracle. Tom has written books and has spoken internationally at over thirty conferences and delivered hundreds of presentations worldwide on the subjects of Big Data, Cloud Computing, Java, and Service-Oriented Architecture. Dr Anna Liu is currently the Research Group Leader for Software Systems at National ICT Australia (NICTA), where she leads an R&D program on Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing. Herbjörn Wilhelmsen is a Software & Innovation Independent Professional based in Stockholm, Sweden. His main focus areas are Cloud Computing, SOA and Innovation. Dr. Pethuru Raj Cheliah has been working as a TOGAF-certified enterprise architecture (EA) consultant in Wipro Technologies, Bangalore. He has more than 12 years of IT industry experience.

Arnaud Simon

Dr. Arnaud Simon, principal software engineer for Red Hat's strategic messaging and ESB products, was ESB/SOA architect for Innovation Process Technology.

Herbjörn Wilhelmsen

Herbjörn Wilhelmsen is a Software & Innovation Independent Professional based in Stockholm, Sweden. His main focus areas are Cloud Computing, SOA and Innovation. Herbjörn has many years of industry experience working as a developer, development manager, architect, enterprise architect and teacher. He has worked with clients in several fields of operations like telecommunications, marketing, the payment industry, healthcare, public services and tourism.

Herbjörn is the co-author of the SOA with .Net & Windows Azure and the Service-Oriented Infrastructure: On-Premise and in the Cloud books. He has written several articles on SOA and cloud computing, most notably for The Service Technology Magazine and MSDN Magazine, and speaks at public and private events. Herbjörn holds a Bachelor of Science from Stockholm University.

Herbjorn Wilhelmsen

Thomas Erl is the world's top-selling SOA author, Series Editor of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl, Editor of SOA Magazine, and member of several OASIS technical committees driving SOA standards. Dr. Mark Little, Vice President at Red Hat, where he leads JBoss technical direction, research and development . Dr. Arnaud Simon, principal software engineer for Red Hat's strategic messaging and ESB products, was ESB/SOA architect for Innovation Process Technology. Dr. Thomas Rischbeck, senior architect for Innovation Process Technology, has extensive SOA/ESB experience. Dave Chappell, of Chappell Consulting Corp, is an independent consultant focusing on Service-orientation, architecture, grid and cloud computing. Chappell has 30 years of experience in the software industry covering a broad range of roles in leading edge architecture. Tom Plunkett is a senior consultant with Oracle. Tom has written books and has spoken internationally at over thirty conferences and delivered hundreds of presentations worldwide on the subjects of Big Data, Cloud Computing, Java, and Service-Oriented Architecture. Dr Anna Liu is currently the Research Group Leader for Software Systems at National ICT Australia (NICTA), where she leads an R&D program on Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing. Herbjörn Wilhelmsen is a Software & Innovation Independent Professional based in Stockholm, Sweden. His main focus areas are Cloud Computing, SOA and Innovation. Dr. Pethuru Raj Cheliah has been working as a TOGAF-certified enterprise architecture (EA) consultant in Wipro Technologies, Bangalore. He has more than 12 years of IT industry experience.

Herbjæ²® Wilhelmsen

David Chou

David Chou is a technical architect at Microsoft and is based in Los Angeles. His focus is on collaborating with enterprises and organizations in such areas as cloud computing, SOA, Web, distributed systems, and security. His involvement supports decision makers in helping them to define the appropriate evolutionary strategies in their architecture development. Drawing from his extensive experience at previously held positions with Sun Microsystems and Accenture, David enjoys helping his clients and customers create value by using objective and pragmatic approaches to create definitive IT strategies, roadmaps, and solution architectures. Find David and his blog at blogs.msdn.com/dachou.

John deVadoss

John deVadoss leads the Patterns & Practices team at Microsoft and is based in Redmond, WA. Patterns & Practices is the trusted source for guidance on the Microsoft platform; John and his team are chartered with creating, collating, and disseminating proven practices to enable productive, predictable development on the Microsoft .NET platform. John’s experience spans 15 years in the software industry. 10+ years have been with Microsoft--all of it in the enterprise space as a consultant, a program manager in the distributed applications platform division, an architect working with some of Microsoft’s key partners, a director of architecture strategy and, most recently, as the leading technical strategist for the all-up application platform. Prior to Microsoft, John spent a number of years as a technology consultant in Silicon Valley working on largescale middleware and distributed systems design and development. His areas of interest are broadly in distributed application architectures, data and metadata, systems management and currently on edge architectures (both service/cloud and experience), but most of all in creating business value from technology investments. John holds a BE in Computer Engineering, and an MS in Computer Science. Both degrees were awarded by the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where he also did graduate work towards a PhD in Computer Science.

Thomas Erl

Thomas Erl is the world’s top-selling SOA author, series editor of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl (www.soabooks.com), and editor of the SOA Magazine (www.soamag.com). With more than 120,000 copies in print worldwide, his books have become international bestsellers and have been formally endorsed by senior members of major software organizations, such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, Intel, SAP, CISCO, and HP. Two of his five books, SOA Design Patterns and SOA Principles of Service Design, were authored in collaboration with the IT community and have contributed to the definition of the service-oriented architectural model and service orientation as a distinct paradigm. In cooperation with SOASchool.com, Thomas has helped develop the curriculum for the internationally recognized SOA Certified Professional accreditation program (www.soaschool.com), which has established a series of formal, vendor-neutral certifications in the areas of service-oriented computing. Thomas is also the founder of SOA Systems Inc. (www.soasystems.com), the founding member of the SOA Manifesto Working Group (www.soa-manifesto.org), a member of the SOA Education Committee (www.soacommittee.org), and oversees the SOAPatterns.org initiative, a community site dedicated to the on-going development of a master pattern catalog for SOA. Thomas has toured more than 20 countries as a speaker and instructor for public and private events, and regularly participates in events, such as the SOA Symposium (www.soasymposium.com) and

Johannes Maria Zaha

Thomas Erl is the world's top-selling SOA author, Series Editor of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl, Editor of SOA Magazine, and member of several OASIS technical committees driving SOA standards. Dr. Mark Little, Vice President at Red Hat, where he leads JBoss technical direction, research and development . Dr. Arnaud Simon, principal software engineer for Red Hat's strategic messaging and ESB products, was ESB/SOA architect for Innovation Process Technology. Dr. Thomas Rischbeck, senior architect for Innovation Process Technology, has extensive SOA/ESB experience. Dave Chappell, of Chappell Consulting Corp, is an independent consultant focusing on Service-orientation, architecture, grid and cloud computing. Chappell has 30 years of experience in the software industry covering a broad range of roles in leading edge architecture. Tom Plunkett is a senior consultant with Oracle. Tom has written books and has spoken internationally at over thirty conferences and delivered hundreds of presentations worldwide on the subjects of Big Data, Cloud Computing, Java, and Service-Oriented Architecture. Dr Anna Liu is currently the Research Group Leader for Software Systems at National ICT Australia (NICTA), where she leads an R&D program on Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing. Herbjörn Wilhelmsen is a Software & Innovation Independent Professional based in Stockholm, Sweden. His main focus areas are Cloud Computing, SOA and Innovation. Dr. Pethuru Raj Cheliah has been working as a TOGAF-certified enterprise architecture (EA) consultant in Wipro Technologies, Bangalore. He has more than 12 years of IT industry experience.