Michael Rulf is the vice president of advanced engineering at USinternetworking, Inc., an AT&T Company. At USi, he provides strategic direction and management of all product engineering initiatives with a primary focus on Oracle?s ERP products such as Siebel, Oracle E-Business Suite, and PeopleSoft. This includes setting strategic direction and managing development of various SOA initiatives encompassing Oracle ERP products, Microsoft business productivity products such as SharePoint, and e-commerce solutions such as IBM WebSphere Commerce. Recently, he designed and implemented an Oracle-based identity management system that provisions users to a range of applications using an SOA architecture, resulting in significant industry recognition.
You are equipped with a technical understanding of Web Services. You are a
strong believer in the power of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Now
you're eager to bring SOA to your enterprise. You want to get maximum benefit
from SOA, so you propose to service-enable the key functions of your
company's enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship
management (CRM) applications and automate cross-application processes like
order-to-cash.
Quickly, you realize that this means significant change to the organization.
Unfortunately, most human beings and organizations resist change. Your CIO is
doubtful. He doesn't want to spend any resources on anything that isn't
absolutely necessary. He demands 100% proven return on investment. Functional
users are limited... (more)
Michael Rulf is the vice president of advanced engineering at USinternetworking, Inc., an AT&T Company. At USi, he provides strategic direction and management of all product engineering initiatives with a primary focus on Oracle?s ERP products such as Siebel, Oracle E-Business Suite, and PeopleSoft. This includes setting strategic direction and managing development of various SOA initiatives encompassing Oracle ERP products, Microsoft business productivity products such as SharePoint, and e-commerce solutions such as IBM WebSphere Commerce. Recently, he designed and implemented an Oracle-based identity management system that provisions users to a range of applications using an SOA architecture, resulting in significant industry recognition.
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