It's a hot topic among business and IT executives. It's on the radar screen for a growing number of companies. And it's something that you may have experienced first hand- even though you may not realize it. It's Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and you can run into it when making online purchases or even when buying product at your favorite brick and mortar retailer. SOA frameworks allow a number of disparate software systems to communicate and interact with one another. One system might contain all of the descriptive information about the item you want to buy. Another might be monitoring inventory to make sure that the item is available. While a third system is standing by to process your payment information. These are all different systems developed at different times by different vendors. Yet here they are successfully interacting with one another because of SOA.

The implications for business are profound. SOA enables you to tap into different capabilities from different systems, different software programs, and different sources. In this webinar, we'll talk about initiatives underway at ADP Taxware to move the company towards Service Oriented Architecture - and the potential benefits to ADP Taxware customers.

You will learn how ADP Taxware is using SOA to:

• Integrate disparate applications
• Improve business agility by adapting our products and our business
• Re-use legacy systems rather than reinvent the wheel

If your company is serious about SOA, this webinar should broaden your horizons.

Anna Gervasoni - Vice President of Development, ADP Taxware
Anna provides the overall direction and management of software development at ADP Taxware. She has responsibility for a number of functional aspects of the business including business analysis, total QA management, and release engineering. She has led Taxware Enterprise development initiatives in the areas of enhancements, interfaces, architecture, application deployment, and maintenance. Under Anna's direction Taxware Enterprise has matured from a next generation technology into a world-class tax engine that is enjoying increasingly widespread adoption at some of the country's finest companies. Prior to joining ADP Taxware, Anna provided consulting as well as systems integration services to Fortune 500 firms in a variety of industries including finance, broadband, and transport networks.

Abha Dogra - Director of Development, ADP Taxware
Abha has responsibilitiy for the integration and architecture of the Taxware Enterprise product. She leads all Taxware Enterprise development initiatives in the areas of enhancements, interfaces, architecture, application deployment, maintenance, and support. Abha holds a master?s degree in computer science from Boston University and an MBA degree from Narsee Monjee Institute in India, specializing in finance and IT. Over the past ten years, she has worked on several Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) projects in a variety of industries including the financial, travel, and consumer industries.

ADP Taxware webinars feature ten full minutes of Q&A towards the end of the program. So you'll have ample time to submit your questions to this expert panel. As always, any questions that we don't get to answer "on the air" will be answered via email in the days following the webinar.