IBM Service Oriented Architecture SOA certification from IBM

IBM today announced the first Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) certification and training program for Federal IT professionals. The 12-week certification program is sponsored by the IBM Federal SOA Institute, and will begin September 12th through December 4th. A second series is scheduled for Spring 2008.

Certification modules of this SOA certification from IBM cover issues like the value of SOA, bridging the gap between technical and business teams, determining return on investment, establishing solutions using existing assets and new components, basic architecture, preparing for governance issues, identifying barriers to adoption and management within an organization and effective deployment.

SOA is a way of architecting an organization's IT technology to more closely align with business goals