SOFTWARE + SERVICES

Dear Sir/Madam,

Enterprises today are changing their focus from deploying and supporting custom applications, to creating and consuming building blocks of IT services to meet business needs. This service-oriented approach is gaining ground as the latest paradigm for business agility and innovation for the Web 2.0 world.

Microsoft calls this combination of local software interacting with Internet services as Software + Services (S+S). But what does it mean for the enterprise software architect? Where do you begin to create a service-oriented architecture (SOA) in your environment? And, how do you combine local software with software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings to innovate new applications?

Join architects, applications managers, technical managers, and technical decision makers at the Microsoft Regional Architect Forum, as we explore the future of S+S, and the impact it will have to your organization.

23 April 2008

•	Trends and best practices in developing S+S applications
•	The benefits and implications of consuming external services in the enterprise-computing environment
•	Create, host, and monetize such services in your own organization using the Microsoft platform
•	Discover the infrastructure for the next generation S+S architecture: The Internet Service Bus

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