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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

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