Todd Biske: Outside the Box

Presenter: Benoit Lheureux

This was a decent overview of a whole bunch of things including composite applications, *-as-a-Service (software, platform, etc.). I would have preferred it if this presentation had taken more of an advisory, rather than informing, approach. There has to be a large number of enterprises represented here who have SAP, Oracle, or something else in their environment. Rather than going into depth on how to incorporate (e.g. best practices) these packaged applications into an enterprise’s SOA efforts (it did cover it, just at a light level), it went for breadth and spent a lot of time discussing packaged vendors and SaaS providers and their approach to SOA.