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SOA Consortium Meeting to Feature Presentations by IBM's Sandy Carter
and Hurwitz & Associates' Judith Hurwitz and SAP's Amit Sinha
(Wireless News Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)
The SOA Consortiumannounced the agenda for its next general meeting to
be held in Burlingame, Calif. on December 12-13.
On Day One of the meeting, Sandy Carter, VP, SOA & WebSphere Strategy,
Channels and Marketing, IBM, will give the presentation "IT needs SOA
Skills," while Judith Hurwitz, President, Hurwitz & Associates, will
present "Planning for SOA 2008 by learning from SOA 2007."
Both featured speakers will join SOA Consortium Executive Director Dr.
Richard Soley for a SOA Hot Topic Roundtable discussion on CIO SOA
Concerns. Meeting attendees will have the opportunity to participate
with comments and questions. The Roundtable will be recorded and made
available after the meeting as an on-demand podcast. On Day Two of the
meeting, featured speaker Amit Sinha, VP of Portfolio Marketing, SAP
will present "The Business Case for Service Oriented Architecture -
Business Network Transformation."
The two-day meeting will also feature an update on the US Army Adoption
Project as well as meetings of the various strategy groups.
The SOA Consortium mission, strategies and tactics center on the
following premises:
- Service-oriented architecture adoption is a key enabler for the 21st
century enterprise - Achieving the benefits of service-oriented
architecture requires significant changes for both IT and business
executives - Service-oriented architecture is a business agility story,
not just an IT integration story - Enterprise SOA practitioners would
greatly benefit from a vibrant practitioner community to drive local,
business-driven, SOA success, and to spur broader enterprise, and
industry-wide, SOA adoption.
The SOA Consortium meeting is December 12-13, in Burlingame, Calif., at
the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport hotel. Organizations interested
in joining the SOA Consortium and attending the meeting should visit
the website, http://www.soa-consortium.org or email
info@soa-consortium.org for more information.
About The SOA Consortium
The SOA Consortium is an advocacy group of end users, service providers
and technology vendors committed to helping the Global 1000, major
government agencies, and mid-market businesses successfully adopt
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) by 2010. SOA Consortium founding
enterprise members include Fortune 200 companies in Financial Services,
Travel, Manufacturing, Retail and Telecommunications. Sponsors are BEA
Systems, Inc., Cisco, IBM Corp., SAP AG and Sparx Systems. Participants
in the consortium to date include: Aberdeen Group, Inc., Adaptive,
Inc., American Red Cross, Avis Budget Group, Bank of America, Blue
Turtle Technology, Bunge Agribusiness, Cambridge Technology Enterprise,
Capability Measurement, Cape Clear Software, Inc., CellExchange, Inc.,
Center for Public-Private Enterprise, CGI Federal, Computer Sciences
Corp., Con-Way Inc., Daugherty Business Solutions, ebizQ, eCube
Systems, LLC, EDS, Equally Keen, Ltd., Evans Data Corp., Federal Signal
Corp., Fidelity Investments, Food and Drug Administration (FDA),
Forestay, LLC, Fraunhofer FOKUS, General Services Administration, H2O
GmbH, Helm Solutions Group, HP, Hitachi Consulting, Hurwitz &
Associates, ICW Group, Integration Consortium, Insurance Corp. of
British Columbia, Interoperability Clearinghouse, iWay Software, Kohl's
Department Stores, Lake Trail Partners, LLC, Lockheed Martin, MAKE
Technologies Inc., Maryfran Johnson & Associates, Mercury Interactive,
MITRE, Model Driven Solutions, MomentumSI, Monsanto, OMG, Penn National
Insurance, PricewaterhouseCoopers , SAIC, PHS Operation, Schlumberger
Technology, SDG Corp., Software AG, Softworx Technology Group, Sonoa
Systems, TethersEnd Consulting, Thomas & Hebert, Torry Harris Business
Solutions, TPP Global Services LLC, WebEx, Wells Fargo, and ZapThink,
LLC. Any organization may join the SOA Consortium. The SOA Consortium
is managed by the Object Management Group.
Event information: http://www.soa-consortium.org/
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