This Webinar on SOA Optimization presents IDC research into business needs shaping IT initiatives, including the quest for greater alignment between IT and business goals and looks at how organizations can develop and evolve their SOA to meet these needs and deliver better business results. Learn about: * The top demands on IT that are driving SOA adoption —including integrated access to information, real-time business performance monitoring, and other IT improvements that will provide higher business value * Steps that you can take to align your SOA with business goals to ensure and increase SOA business value * SOA metrics that provide insight into business processes, support business goals and help improve customer service—and the wrong and right ways to get them.

How enterprises can leverage SOA to share information securely has been the topic of much debate within IT departments and throughout the information systems industry. This tutorial will examine in detail the topic of securing SOA so that information can be shared safely within the enterprise and amongst authorized consumers of that information such as business partners and customers. The concept of service oriented architecture (SOA) has arrived. Indeed, arguably, SOA is a concept which arrived on the scene years ago. But whatever the case with respect to SOA's beginnings, it seems likely that SOA will have a long and bright future.