Technology leaders from the large enterprise organizations of McDonald's, Chevron and Boeing stood up at Microsoft's SOA and Business Process Conference last week to share their experiences implementing service-oriented architecture using Microsoft tools and technology.REDMOND, Wash.—With
a core focus of Microsoft's SOA and Business Process Conference here identified
as "Real World SOA," Microsoft called on three enterprise customers
to discuss their efforts to deploy service-oriented architecture.
The enterprise customers were Chevron, McDonald's and Boeing. Thomas
Cogswell, engineering manager for Boeing Research and Technology, said Boeing
runs some 5,600 applications in the engineering space. "And SOA has been
something we've been working in since 2001," he said. "Microsoft is a
strategic partner with The Boeing Company."
Cogswell said Boeing has been successful in implementing SOA "because
we don't talk to our people about SOA, we talk about the capability. We look at
how to solve a pain point. That's why Microsoft's modeling efforts fit right
into what we've been doing—understanding the problem and what it needs before
we get started."
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McDonald's had two representatives on the customer panel: Tom Gergets,
senior director and technology lead, and Eng Chong Lim, enterprise architect
for the fast food giant. Lim said McDonald's has "more than 30,000
restaurants we have to send data to. I develop the solution and he deploys
it," Lim said, referring to Gergets.
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