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DESCRIPTION:Click for Latest Location Information: http://semtechbizsf2012.semanticweb.com/sessionPop.cfm?confid=65&proposalid=4638\nThe big dream of SOA, summed up in two words, is loose coupling.  Decentralized teams with little coordination could independently build services that, later, could be linked together.  This was and is a radical departure from the typical IT pattern of on-off, point-to-point integrations.\nTo this end, Staples has implemented a massive Enterprise Service Bus with thousands of attached services. They have discovered that the very same loose coupling of services that makes the ESB such a powerful IT architecture presents an equally massive challenge for governing, maintaining and evolving the environment.  Challenges include:\n<ul>\n<li>How can a service producer determine the impact of a proposed change to a service, especially given that a message will often undergo three transformations en route from source to target?</li>\n<li>How can a service consumer ensure that his application is working against the proper versions of others? services?</li>\n<li>What services are negatively impacted if the core ESB is upgraded?</li>\n</ul>\nIn response to these challenges, Staples has built a system called Athena, based on Semantic Web technologies from Anzo.  In this talk Staples will describe:\n<ul>\n<li>The challenges of managing a very large, production ESB implementation.</li>\n<li>How traditional tools for managing ESB models fall short.</li>\n<li>Athena?s design and current scope.</li>\n<li>Future plans for using Semantic Web technologies within Staples.</li></ul>\nThe talk is a case study discussing the problem that Staples is solving, how they've tried to address it in the past, and how & why semantic tech is helping.
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SUMMARY:Athena: Using Semantics to Help Manage Staples? Enterprise Service Bus
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