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December 13 Breakfast Free to Business Executives and IT Professionals A free breakfast seminar about service-oriented architecture and best practices will be hosted by CIBER and Microsoft, Wednesday, December 13, 8:30 a.m. at Microsoft's Heartland District Offices in Mason, Ohio (greater Cincinnati). This free two-and-a-half hour seminar will describe service-oriented architecture (SOA), SOA best practices, benefits, limitations, and what SOA means for businesses -- especially mid-market firms and the Cincinnati area market. To learn more, register, and obtain directions, please visit its Web site. Registered attendees will receive a free copy of Understanding Enterprise SOA by Eric Pulier, Hugh Taylor, and Paul Gaffney, compliments of Microsoft and CIBER. Dr. Khalid Mansour, Vice President of CIBER's Global Enterprise Integration Practice, will lead the seminar. Dr. Mansour directs CIBER's Enterprise Integration team in numerous IT projects that require distinctive expertise, such as enterprise architecture, business intelligence, service-oriented architecture, data warehousing, data governance, event-driven architecture and business continuity/disaster recovery projects. Dr. Mansour has more than 20 years experience leading enterprise integration, strategy, and architecture projects for companies such as Silicon Graphics Incorporated - Federal Division and the U.S. Department of Energy. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago. For more information about the seminar or to register online, please visit its Web site. The event is free, includes breakfast, and is open to any business executive interested in learning more about service-oriented architecture.