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SOA Consortium
Holds Successful
Inaugural Meeting,
Executive Summit
“Top 5 Lessons Learned”
Report Webcast and
Announces Nine New
Members
Planning
underway for first
European meeting June
27-28 in Brussels,
Belgium
Needham, MA, USA – April
5, 2007 – The SOA
Consortium™ today
announced that Aberdeen
Group, CSC, General
Services Administration,
Hurwitz & Associates,
Integration
Clearinghouse, Kohl’s
Department Stores,
Maryfran Johnson &
Associates, TethersEnd
Consulting, and Wells
Fargo Bank have joined.
"Although the SOA
Consortium is less than
two months old, we are
already seeing a
tremendous response from
end-users and vendors
both large and small as
well as from industry
analyst firms such as
Aberdeen, Hurwitz &
Associates and Maryfran
Johnson & Associates,"
said Dr. Richard Soley,
Executive Director, SOA
Consortium. "It helps
confirm our belief that
SOA is a powerful
business agility story
that resonates across
the industry and can be
a benefit to
organizations of any
size."
March
was a busy month for the
newly formed SOA
Consortium. On March 20,
Richard Soley and Brenda
Michelson presented the
“Top 5 Insights” from
the recently held SOA
Executives Summits via a
webinar. Press and
blogger coverage
indicates particularly
strong interest in the
Executive insights
regarding the
complementary
relationship of SOA and
BPM, and the ‘game
changing’ nature of SOA
for application
providers. The webcast
version of that report
is available on-demand
on the SOA Consortium
website,
http://www.soa-consortium.org/info-pr.
The
SOA Consortium held its
first, well-attended
general member meeting
in San Diego, California
on March 28-29. During
the inaugural meeting in
San Diego, the complete
findings of the SOA
Executive Summits were
discussed by the
membership, the
Promoting
Business-Driven SOA and
Executing
Business-Driven SOA
working groups shared
work-in-progress, and
plans were made for the
Steering Committee
elections to be held at
the next quarterly
meeting.
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. Founding sponsors
are BEA Systems, Inc.,
Cisco, IBM Corporation,
and SAP AG.
The
SOA Consortium is
holding its inaugural
European meeting June
27-28 at the Crowne
Plaza Brussels City
Centre in Brussels,
Belgium. Organizations
interested in joining
the SOA Consortium and
attending the European
meeting should visit the
website,
http://www.soa-consortium.org/info-pr
or email
info@soa-consortium.org
for more information.
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About
The SOA Consortium
SOA Consortium founding
enterprise members
include Fortune 200
companies in Financial
Services, Travel,
Manufacturing, Retail
and Telecommunications.
Founding sponsors are
BEA Systems, Inc.,
Cisco, IBM Corporation,
and SAP AG. Participants
in the consortium to
date include: Avis
Budget Car Rental, Bank
of America, CellExchange,
Inc., Integration
Consortium, HP, Object
Management Group, and
WebEx Communications.
Any organization may
join the SOA Consortium.
The SOA Consortium is
managed by the Object
Management Group.
For
more information, please
visit http://http://www.soa-consortium.org
or email
info@soa-consortium.org.
Note to
editors: SOA Consortium,
OMG and Object
Management Group are
trademarks of Object
Management Group. All
other trademarks are the
property of their
respective owners.
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