Anne Thomas-Manes, Burton Group Analyst

Named one of NetworkWorld's "50 Most Powerful People in Networking," in 2002 and one of Enterprise Systems Journal's "Power 100 IT Leaders," in 2001, Manes is a renowned technologist in the Web services space.

Prior to joining Burton Group, Manes was founder and CEO of Bowlight, a software industry analyst and consulting firm. A 24-year industry veteran, Manes was chief technology officer at Systinet, a Web services infrastructure company. She pioneered Sun's Web services strategy and worked at Patricia Seybold Group as an analyst.

As a respected expert on distributed computing technology, Manes has participated in standards development at W3C, OASIS, JCP, UDDI.org, and WS-I. She is a member of the editorial board of Web Services Journal, a leading industry publication. She is a frequent speaker at trade shows and author of numerous articles and the book, "Web Services: A Manager's Guide," published by Addison Wesley.

You will find Anne Thomas-Manes' blog here.

Presentation: "The Business Value of SOA"

Track: SOA: Bridging business and technology

Time: Thursday 11:00 - 12:00

Location: St James's Suite

Abstract: Everyone always says that SOA helps organizations align business and technology, but how does it actually do so? To a technical person, its easy to see the value of open, standards-based integration and reduced redundancy. But the advantages of SOA may not be so clear to a non-technical person. This session will explore SOA from the business value perspective. It will provide guidance for explaining SOA to non-technical business people, and it will discuss various approaches for selling SOA to management and gaining funding for SOA investments.

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