The
majority of
our members
are actively
pursuing an SOA
strategy,
either
within their
enterprise,
government
agency or as
a
consultant/systems
integrator.
The upside
for them is:
(a) To
interact
with fellow
practitioners
and industry
experts to
exchange
ideas, best
practices,
and tips;
(b) To
collaborate
on thought
leadership
material to
help move
the
market
to the idea
of
business-driven SOA, thus
making their
SOA
roll-outs
easier; and
(c) To gain
visibility
in the
field.
Our
members are
working
towards
enterprise
level SOA.
As such,
they
recognize
the
importance
of
technology,
but spend
more time
focusing on
other
aspects,
such as
business
buy-in,
governance,
operations,
business
participation
and
organizational
change.
On the
sponsor/technology
vendor side,
our members
are
collaborating
on sharing
real-life
(business
oriented)
case studies
to get the
message of
SOA out of
the
technology
weeds and
into the
executive
suite. Part
of this
messaging
includes
outreach to
business and
technology
influencers,
including
leading
academic
journals,
consulting
organizations,
trade
groups, and
analyst
firms. We
are also
working with
BPM
organizations
to “break
the
artificial
divide” in
the industry
between SOA
and BPM.
The
majority of
our members
(sponsors,
vendors,
practitioners)
are active
participants
in the SOA
Consortium.
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