SOA Consortium Announces HP Now a Sponsor
HP was Founding Member of SOA Consortium

Needham, MA, USA – April 14, 2008 – The SOA Consortium™ today announced that HP, a founding member of the SOA Consortium, has increased its support by becoming a Sponsor. 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. HP joins sponsors Cisco, IBM Corporation, SAP AG, Sparx Systems and Sun Microsystems.

SOA Consortium Sponsors are industry leaders dedicated to helping this SOA advocacy group promote the value and attainment of business-driven SOA, develop a lively community of practice, and get the message out that SOA is an important business strategy.

“Having a founding member like HP increase their support and commitment to the mission of the SOA Consortium by becoming a sponsor is great validation of our message that SOA is a business agility story,” said Richard Mark Soley, Ph.D., executive director, SOA Consortium.

“Our customers are increasingly adopting SOA to help them generate better business outcomes from their IT initiatives,” said David Butler, worldwide SOA director and chief evangelist, Technology Solutions Group, HP. “HP has been a strong early advocate for SOA and our sponsorship of the SOA Consortium will help us continue to drive SOA adoption and best practices.”

Together, SOA Consortium members are:

• Redirecting the industry conversation to “business-driven SOA”
• Exchanging real-world insights on preparing their business and IT organizations for SOA
• Influencing technology vendors and service providers on the techniques, products and services to derive business value from SOA
• Influencing standards-organizations on pragmatic standards related to SOA

The next SOA Consortium meeting is June 25-26, 2008 at the Ottawa Marriott Hotel in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 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. Visit the SOA Consortium’s SOA Insights blog at http://blog.soa-consortium.org. 

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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 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 Cisco, HP, IBM Corporation, SAP AG, Savant, Sparx Systems and Sun Microsystems, Inc. Participants include Fortune 1000 corporations, major government agencies and non-governmental organizations. Any organization may join the SOA Consortium. The SOA Consortium is managed by the Object Management Group.

For more information, please visit http://www.soa-consortium.org or email info@soa-consortium.org. 

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