Michael Liebow is a seasoned leader who brings more than 25 years of sales, marketing and management experience to Dexterra. Most recently, he served as a vice president in IBM Global Business Services, a $20 billion division, where he was responsible for creating a new portfolio of composite business solutions. In addition to his career at IBM, Michael has held a variety of senior management positions across a diverse range of industries, including high-technology, consumer package goods, communications, media and entertainment. With a strong entrepreneurial focus and technical vision, Michael has a proven success record in building organizations that uniquely address the needs of global markets and industries.
SOA has been aggressively hyped by the IT industry as a technology that can -
and does - change the very nature of business. In recent times - as you well
know - the Internet was a similar technology - and as with the Internet, we
at IBM actually believe the hype to be true.
SOA has come on the scene in a big way in the past few years. But hype alone
isn't what's causing the huge stir. It's because those who've started using
SOA have discovered a huge benefit: flexibility. Let me put it this way:
Before SOA, to have flexibility, a company might have needed to deploy and
integrate 20 different software applications. After SOA, it mightn't need to
build 20 isolated applications but only one instead - which, on a dime (both
literally and figuratively), it can reconfigure 20 different ways to meet the
imperatives of changing market conditions. That's flexibility.
Which ... (more)
Today most of the conversations surrounding service-oriented architectures
(SOAs) focus on flexibility and breaking down applications into services:
modular, reusable, componentized, with increased availability to the services
as well as increased management of them. However, with these conversations
comes the risk of getting sucked into a technology-centric vacuum in which
consideration for the real business problems that customers need to solve
might be neglected.
Undoubtedly there is a huge demand for the development and implementation of
SOAs. Gartner predicts that by 2008 m... (more)
Michael Liebow is a seasoned leader who brings more than 25 years of sales, marketing and management experience to Dexterra. Most recently, he served as a vice president in IBM Global Business Services, a $20 billion division, where he was responsible for creating a new portfolio of composite business solutions. In addition to his career at IBM, Michael has held a variety of senior management positions across a diverse range of industries, including high-technology, consumer package goods, communications, media and entertainment. With a strong entrepreneurial focus and technical vision, Michael has a proven success record in building organizations that uniquely address the needs of global markets and industries. 
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