While SOA can deliver dramatic cost reduction of an organization's business operations, it is a complex, multidisciplinary undertaking, and therefore introduces significant risk. This article presents a list of the most important risk factors and ways to mitigate them BEFORE it is too late. The paper will be of interest to anyone planning an SOA initative, primarily CIOs, Technical Managers, Project Directors and Technical Architects.

Speaker Bio: Jacek Kruszelnicki is the founder and President of Numatica Corporation. Mr. Kruszelnicki’s holistic approach stresses planned software ecosystem design, risk minimization, usability and interoperability to provide outstanding value to clients. His approach and interest in the business and IT alignment correspond well with the service oriented architecture (SOA) high-level objectives.