SOA Consortium 2007: Highlights of the First Year

Membership Growth

• Founding membership: 4 Sponsors, 7 Participants

• At end-of-year: 5 Sponsors, 80 Participants

• Vibrant Community of Practice of Enterprise Architects

Member Deliverables

• Four active and well-attended initial meetings

• Case Study Forum with two dozen case studies so far (here)

• Army Adoption Project, tracking US Army adoption of SOA, met twice

• EA2010: outlining the role of the Enterprise Architecture in 2010

• Active wiki of discussion groups & deliverables development (here)

• Active and well-connected blog (here)

• Additional deliverables under development for 2008

  • Case study contest

  • Government practitioner outreach

  • Influence the influencer program

  • Business operations SOA tactics

  • SOA planning framework

  • Service Funding Model survey report

  • EA2010 “drill down”

  • Unified SOA standards database

Podcasts & Webcasts

• March: Top Five Insights from IT Executives (here)

• April: SOA Consortium and ACORD in Insurance (with ACORD)

• May: Creating an SOA Pipeline (with Standish Group)

• June: Best Practices in Advanced SOA (here)

• June: SOA Governance (here)

• September: SOA and BPM Roundtable (here)

• October: Enterprise Architect 2010 (here)

• December: IT Needs SOA Skills (here)

• December: SOA Planning for 2008 by Learning from 2007 (here)

• December: The Business Case for Service Oriented Architecture - Business Network Transformation (here)

• December: SOA Hot Topics Roundtable: CIO SOA Concerns (here)

Executive Summits

• Held all over the United States & in Belgium so far

• Several dozen CIO, CTO, Chief Enterprise Architect participants

• One results document delivered in April (here)

Event Participation

• March: KnowFuture 2007 in Zürich, Switzerland

• March: SOA Information Days in Düsseldorf, Munich & Frankfurt, Germany

• May: Modeling & SOA Information Days in Hyderabad & Bangalore, India

• May: Japan BPM Association in Tokyo, Japan

• May: MIT CIO Forum in Cambridge, MA

• June: CIO Decisions Conference in Carlsbad, CA

• June: Gartner Application Development & Integration Summit in Nashville, TN

• June: ArchitectureGov in Cumberland, Maryland

• June: Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, Waltham, MA

• July: BPM ThinkTank in San Francisco, CA

• August: SWIFT CIO Forum in New York, NY

• September: CHAOS University Conference in Chatham, MA

• October: SIBOS in Boston, MA

• October: Telecommunication Technology Committee Forum in Tokyo, Japan

• October: MDA Technology Forum in Tokyo, Japan

• October: Business Rules Forum in Orlando, FL

• October: SOA for E-Government, McLean, Virginia

• December: Gartner Application Development & Integration Summit in Las Vegas, NV

• December: Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit in Las Vegas, NV

Event Partnerships & Sponsorships

• MIT CIO Conference in June

• TechTarget CIO Decisions Conference in June

• Gartner Application Development & Integration Summit

  • June 2007 in Nashville

  • December 2007 in Las Vegas

• Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit

  • December 2007 in Las Vegas

• Additional Partnerships developed for 2008:

  • Gartner Business Process Management Summits

  • SHARE Annual Conference

  • SOA in Healthcare Workshop

  • SAP Americas User Groups

  • SAP TechEd

  • SourceMedia SOA & Web Services Insurance Summit

  • IBM IMPACT Annual Conference

Analyst Partnerships

• AberdeenGroup (developing SOA adoption study)

• Smallwood, Maike & Associates (developing study of SOA in insurance)

Press Releases

• February 12: Global 1000 End-user and Vendor Organizations Form SOA Consortium to Promote Adoption of Service Oriented Architecture

• March 13: SOA Consortium to Present Top 5 Insights Learned from Executive Summits

• April 5: SOA Consortium Holds Successful Inaugural Meeting, Executive Summit; “Top 5 Lessons Learned” Report Webcast and Announces Nine New Members

• April 30: American Red Cross and Federal Signal Corporation Join SOA Consortium

• June 20: SOA Consortium Launches “SOA Consortium Insights” Blog

• August 27: SOA Consortium Presents: SOA Governance Roundtable Podcast, Experts from IBM, BEA, SAP AG and Cisco share their insights on SOA Governance

• September 4: SOA Consortium Reaches 50 Member Mark in Less than Six Months; Rapid Growth for SOA Advocacy Group

• October 1: Sparx Systems Joins SOA Consortium as Sponsor

• October 9: SOA Consortium Elects Steering Committee, Charters New Strategy Group and Releases New Content; SOA Case Studies Released, New Podcast on SOA & BPM Recorded at Meeting in Jacksonville, FL September 26-27

• October 29: SOA Consortium Releases New Roundtable Podcast: Relationship Between SOA & BPM; Experts and Attendees debate the relationship between SOA and BPM

• November 8: SOA Consortium Meeting to Feature Presentations by Sandy Carter, IBM, Judith Hurwitz, Hurwitz & Associates and Amit Sinha, SAP; Meeting to be held in Burlingame, Calif., December 12-13