Solution Architect skills for IBM WebSphere Business Integration products

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Role
The solution architect works with the business analyst to analyze a particular business process or business requirement, and is responsible for the design and coordination of a new solution, application, or component based on the specified functional and non-functional business requirements.The solution architect transforms the process design provided by the business analyst into a platform-independent Unified Modeling Language (UML) model using IBM Rational Software Architect. The solution architect further refines the model using design patterns, performing model transformations and using reusable assets in the design.  These models are provided to the rest of the development team, who construct the system according to the specification.

Assumptions
It is assumed that the individual following this roadmap has basic skills in the following areas: 

• Understands the overall technical goals of the business and the current hardware and software inventory and capabilities 
• Understands industry patterns and approaches to creating solutions
• Understands solutions or technologies that map to company needs, as well as prerequisites and hardware and software requirements

Objectives
After completing this training, students should be able to:

• Explain the business and technical value of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web services
• Explain the key technologies and standards used in SOA
• Describe the key elements of a technical transition plan
• Explain the meaning of SOA governance
• Model business process designs and system architectures with IBM WebSphere Business Modeler
• Design solutions that can be developed using model-driven development
• Drive the development of J2EE applications from the UML 2.0 or the BPEL model
• Incorporate existing code and reusable assets into new development projects
• Author and apply model transformations and patterns on models