1. SOA Meets the Cloud 5 Practical Best Practices for your Enterprise David Bressler @djbressler May 2009

2. © 2008 Progress Software Corporation2 Best Practices

3. © 2008 Progress Software Corporation3 Mediation. A secret weapon.

4. © 2008 Progress Software Corporation4 Service Level Management. Don’t even start with “my piece is working fine!” (Sorry to say, it doesn’t matter that it is)

5. © 2008 Progress Software Corporation5 Security. It’s not (only) what you think it needs to be.

6. © 2008 Progress Software Corporation6 Make mistakes.

7. © 2008 Progress Software Corporation7 Map out a strategy. Reward innovation. Reward relevance.

8. © 2008 Progress Software Corporation8 David Bressler bressler@progress.com http://blogs.progress.com http://blogs.progress.com @djbressler