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Making SOA Work in a Healthcare Company

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Summary

Brian Nicks presents a study case of a healthcare company which inherited many disparate technologies from Java on WebLogic to .Net to RPG on iSeries to CICS on zSeries to COBOL on OpenVMS, deciding that the integration solution was to implement a SOA initiative. The presentation contains the challenges, the successes and the lessons learned throughout the process.

Bio

Brian Nicks is the Manager of the Enterprise Frameworks and Innovation team in Health Net’s Chief Technology Office, and is responsible for architecture of strategic applications and frameworks. Brian has experience in the Health Care, Telecommunications, Education and Aviation industries.

About the conference

Starting in 1986, OOPSLA Conference has proven to be the cradle of many techniques and methodologies that have become mainstream over the years: OOP, Patterns, AOP, XP, Unit Testing, UML, Wiki, and Refactoring. Gaining its prestige with 3 academic tracks, OOPSLA Conference has managed to attract researchers, educators and developers every year. The event is sponsored by ACM.

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Aug 27, 2010

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