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Overview

This working area is a broad investigation of the SOA and API spaces jointly.  The popularity of commercial APIs, lightweight interfacing techniques  have both overtaken and reinvigorated the need to apply SOA principles in the enterprise.  Below is a draft table of SOA API stages/areas followed by identification of the initial groups and their starting topics.

SOA API Stages

Areas of investigation

Architecting/Selling

Determination of capabilities needed in an SOA API environment
Leveraging Business Drivers (Analytics, Evidence-based decisions, monetizing access to enterprise data)
Leveraging IT Drivers (better security, reduce complexity)
Investigation of overlap with teaching and learning

Constructing/Deploying

Enterprise data defintion and management
WS02 solution (selection, integrations, operations)
Design of common API across higher education
Securing APIs (authentication and especially authorization)
Messaging (role of ESB solutions, push vs pull direction)
Mobile device integration

Using/Governing

Creating public APIs (use cases, balancing openness and resource control)
How to move enterprise from old techniques (ftp, direct database links) to SOA
Impact on data custodians and new governance opportunities

Working Groups

SOA Management High-level Working Group

WS02 Subgroup

Data Definition and Design Standards Subgroup
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