2006-11-15

Jonathan Hill
Senior Executive
Accenture's Global Business Solutions

The Transformational Impact of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
No technology advance on the horizon will have a more profound impact on information technology than the emergence of service-oriented architecture (SOA). That is one of the primary conclusions arising from the 2006 technology forecast conducted by Accenture Technology Labs, the technology R&D organization within Accenture.  Jonathan Hill, Senior Executive with Accenture’s Global Business Solutions practice, will share some of the conclusions from Accenture’s rigorous assessment of 150 technologies and 17 major impact areas for IT, drawing on examples from Accenture’s latest R&D activities.  With an eye toward helping organizations prioritize their investments in and use of technology innovation to achieve high performance, Jonathan will explore SOA’s role as a catalyst for revolutionary change in IT, and as a critical enabler of organizational agility and competitive advantage in the future.

 

 

 

Sustaining Partner:

SIM – Chicago Chapter (One of Our Own)
Dr. Gezinus Hidding

Dr. Hidding, an associate professor at Loyola University, Chicago was recently featured in the Wall Street Journal in a jointly written article titled “The IT Platform Principle: The First Shall not be Last”. Congratulations to Dr. Hidding (a SIM Member) on this nationally published article. You can read the article at:
“The IT Platform Principle: The First Shall not be Last”

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