In this video, Dennis Smith, SOA course instructor and lead of the SEI System-of-Systems Performance team, discusses why the SEI is offering the SOA certificate and why basic architecture principles and practices are even more important to effective SOA adoption than to single system development. He also explains his primary goals in teaching the SOA courses, the three main takeaways SOA certificate holders will receive, the challenges that developers and their managers face in SOA implementation efforts, and how the SEI training differs from that of SOA technology vendors.

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