SOA Consortium Announces Hitachi Ltd. Has Joined
Becomes First Japanese Company to Join SOA Advocacy Group

Needham, MA, USA – May 27, 2008 – The SOA Consortium™ today announced that Hitachi, Ltd. has joined the SOA Consortium. They are the first Japan-based organization to join. 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 sponsors include Cisco, HP, IBM Corporation, SAP AG, Savant, Sparx Systems and Sun Microsystems.

“We are delighted to welcome Hitachi to the SOA Consortium. Their experience and ties to the Japanese market and beyond will be invaluable as we strive to bring the message of SOA as a business agility story to this fast-growing community,” said Richard Mark Soley, Ph.D., executive director, SOA Consortium.

“We have seen increasing demands of SOA towards agile enterprise systems in Japan as well as in the worldwide market,” said Masahiro Kitano, Corporate Officer, and Chief Strategy Officer, Information and Telecommunication Systems, Hitachi, Ltd. “The SOA Consortium is a valuable place to share best practices, case studies, and experiences of SOA. The collective knowledge will be beneficial to all the parties who need to prepare for tomorrow’s business and/or technology changes. With Hitachi Consulting in the U.S., another consortium member from us, Hitachi is happy to work as an SOA advocate in Japan.”

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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.

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