Savant Joins SOA Consortium as Sponsor

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.

“As a vanguard of applying SOA technology to the emerging field of enterprise mashups, Savant has been implementing real world solutions for the past three years ” said Tony Gibson, president and CEO of Savant and OSG. “Savant is thrilled to be a sponsor of the SOA Consortium and its charter of promoting the adoption of Service Oriented Architecture as the key to business agility for the 21st century enterprise.”

“We are pleased to welcome Savant as a Sponsor and participant. Savant is creating real-world systems that bring together the best elements of enterprise mashups and SOA best practices. From tracking the housing crisis, to charting the health of the US banking system, Savant is proving that the SOA approach can deliver the goods for the enterprise,” said Richard Mark Soley, Ph.D., executive director, SOA Consortium.

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 Savant
Savant is the product group of OSG, focusing on producing next generation business applications by combining emerging mash-up technology with service oriented architecture best practices. Our customers are Fortune 500 companies in Financial Services, Energy and Hospitality. Savant develops core technology for enterprise mash-ups, and has applied for multiple patents on it's core techniques and components.

OSG, Inc has been providing IT consulting and outsourcing services to Fortune 500 clients in the U.S. for the past 15 years, specializing in architecture, software development, process mentoring and full life-cycle application development.

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, major government agencies, and mid-market businesses 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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