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A free luncheon seminar about service-oriented architecture and best practices will be hosted by CIBER, Wednesday, May 10, 11:30 a.m. at Nicklaus Golf Club in Overland Park. This one-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 Kansas City market. 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, data warehousing, data governance, service-oriented architecture, 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 lunch, and is open to any business executive interested in learning more about service-oriented architecture.