Service-oriented Architectures (SOA) are a design paradigm for complex systems. Services are the key building block of SOA. A service is a self-describing encapsulation of business functionality (with varying granularity) and is commonly implemented as a software component (e. g. using Web Service technology). Following the SOA paradigm, complete business processes and supporting applications can be assembled out of several independent, distributed and loosely-coupled services. Those services can be provided even by third parties. Service-oriented Architectures are used to create agile and flexible business processes as well as to integrate legacy systems and to support process outsourcing.
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The project will be in cooperation with Software AG. Software AG, headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany, provides a full range of products and services to deliver a a SOA IT infrastructure, based on over thirty-five years experience in high-performance databases, application development tools and integration technologies. Software AG is represented in around 70 countries with more than 2.600 employees.

You and your team will act as contractor of a (virtual) company. You and your team will help the company integrating their various IT systems using SOA technology.
You will build a solution for your customer using the state-of-the-art crossvision SOA suite from Software AG. In detail, the project tasks will be:
Furthermore, you will have to build your own project organization with different roles and responsibilities (e. g. a team leader, quality management, ...). You will also have to develop a project plan and specification and present your milestones to the customer.
Anyone interested in the intersection of business and IT, e.g. students of
Type of meeting | Content | Date | Time | Location |
Initial / admin meeting | Presentation of project contents, registration | 18.04.2007 | 14:00 | S3/06-348 (Seminarraum KOM) |
Kick-off meeting | In detail discussion of assignment, planning of further schedule | 25.04.2007 | 15:00 | S3/06-348 (Seminarraum KOM) |
Latest update: 23.04.2007
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