This presentation is a real-world case study. It provides insights and the
business rationale that was used by a major travel industry service provider
to embark on a complete transformation of their legacy IT systems to SOA. The
company was planning to grow through targeted acquisitions and developing new
distribution channels (i.e. B2B channels). However, such growth was clearly
inhibited by limitations of their existing home-grown systems, which included
a portfolio of hard-to-maintain, hard-to-change core applications, augmented
with packaged applications.
The presentation discusses the business and technical objectives of the
transition to SOA, how the new architecture facilitates better alignment of
IT with new business strategies, it illustrates how service reusab... (more)