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SOA Consortium Reaches 50 Member Mark in Less than Six Months
Rapid Growth for SOA Advocacy Group

Needham, MA, USA – September 4, 2007 – The SOA Consortium™ today announced that 31 new organizations have become members since May 1st, bringing the total number of participants to more than 50 in the less than six months since beginning operations. 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. Founding sponsors are BEA Systems, Inc., Cisco, IBM Corporation, and SAP AG.

New SOA Consortium members include: Bunge Agribusiness, Cambridge Technology Enterprises, Capability Measurement, Cape Clear Software, Inc., Center for Public-Private Enterprises, CGI Federal, Daugherty Business Solutions, eCube Systems, LLC, EDS, Equally Keen, Ltd., Evans Data Corporation, Fidelity Investments, Forestay, LLC, Fraunhofer FOKUS, H2O GmbH, Helm Solutions Group, Hitachi Consulting, iWay Software, Lake Trail Partners, LLC, MAKE Technologies Inc., Mercury Interactive, MomentumSI, Penn National Insurance, PricewaterhouseCoopers, SAIC, PHS Operation, Schlumberger Technology, SDG Corporation, Sonoa Systems, Thomas & Hebert, Torry Harris Business Solutions, and ZapThink, LLC.

“The SOA Consortium’s core mission of advocacy is clearly being heard by the industry as evidenced by our rapid growth in membership,” said Richard Mark Soley, Ph.D., executive director, SOA Consortium. “We are very pleased to welcome all of our new members and look forward to their participation in our various initiatives.”

"The SOA Consortium plays an important role in getting the message out that SOA is a business agility story and not just the latest technology hype. The rapid membership growth of the Consortium is proof that the message is resonating," said Judith Hurwitz, President, Hurwitz & Associates. "We are pleased to be part of an organization that is already producing useful deliverables in such a short time period and congratulate the SOA Consortium on reaching this important milestone."

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 meeting of the SOA Consortium will take place September 26-27, 2007 in Jacksonville, Florida. For more information visit http://www.soa-consortium.org/SOA2007.htm.  Organizations interested in joining the SOA Consortium should visit the website, http://www.soa-consortium.org or email info@soa-consortium.org for more information. Visit the SOA Consortium Insights blog at http://blog.soa-consortium.org. 

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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. 

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