SOA Consortium Overview

The SOA Consortium is a new SOA advocacy group comprised of end users, service providers, and technology vendors, committed to helping the Global 1000 successfully adopt SOA by 2010.

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 perceived by business executives as an IT integration and productivity story, rather than a business agility 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.

What's New

• SOA Hot Topics Roundtable: Public Sector SOA
  -Featuring Victor Harrison, CSC, Bill Vass, Sun Microsystems Federal, & Kshemendra Paul, Office of Management & Budget
  -Recorded at the SOA Consortium Meeting in Washington, D.C. - March 12, 2008

• Practical Guide to Federal Service Oriented Architecture (PGFSOA)
  -Presented by Kshemendra Paul, Chief Architect, Office of Management & Budget (OMB)
  -Recorded at the SOA Consortium Meeting in Washington, D.C. - March 12, 2008

• Getting to the Service Oriented Enterprise
  -Presented by Ross Altman, CTO, SOA and Business Integration, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
  -Recorded at the SOA Consortium Meeting in Washington, D.C. - March 12, 2008

• SOA Case Study Contest
  -Sponsored by CIO Magazine & the SOA Consortium
  -The contest is open to organizations of all sizes, including government agencies, which have successfully delivered business or mission value using a SOA approach.