SOA Consortium Releases New Roundtable Podcast:
Relationship Between SOA & BPM
Experts and Attendees debate the relationship between SOA and BPM

Needham, MA, USA – October 29, 2007 – The SOA Consortium™ today announced that a podcast and slide presentation of the SOA-BPM Relationship Hot Topic Roundtable that was held at its recent Jacksonville, FL general meeting is now available on its website. To access the podcast, visit http://www.soa-consortium.org/podcast-jv-pr. 

The main objective of the SOA-BPM Relationship Hot Topic Roundtable was to generate a meaningful conversation between Thought Leaders and meeting attendees on the hot topic of the relationship between SOA and BPM. The SOA Consortium’s position is that SOA and BPM are complements. Each Roundtable participant gave a brief overview of their thoughts on one of the following topics:

• Business Discipline: Often, BPM and SOA are discussed solely in respect to their implementation technologies, rather than as business disciplines that enable business process improvement, business performance management and business agility. Thought leaders discussed SOA and BPM from a business discipline perspective, stating commonalities, complements and conflicts.
   
• Methodology: Thought leaders discussed the value or characteristics of a methodology that allows for a seamless transition from BPM to SOA.
   
• Technology: Thought leaders discussed how current SOA and BPM technologies do or don’t work together and how SOA and BPM technologies should work together.
   
• Human Element: Thought leaders discussed the human element of the SOA-BPM divide. Is the divide business versus IT, or is it different?

SOA-BPM Relationship Thought Leaders were:

• Ashwini Ahuja, SDG Corporation
• Sooraj Balgobin, The SOA Monitor
• Brian Erickson, Hitachi Consulting
• Facilitator: Brenda Michelson, SOA Consortium Program Director

After the individual presentations, SOA Consortium meeting attendees joined the discussion with questions and comments.

The SOA Consortium mission, strategies and tactics center on the following premises:

• Service-oriented architecture adoption is a key enabler for the 21st century enterprise
• Achieving the benefits of service-oriented architecture requires significant changes for both IT and business executives
• Service-oriented architecture is a business agility story, not just an IT integration story
• Enterprise SOA practitioners would greatly benefit from a vibrant practitioner community to drive local, business-driven, SOA success, and to spur broader enterprise, and industry-wide, SOA adoption.

The next SOA Consortium meeting is December 12-13, 2007 in Burlingame, Calif., at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport hotel. 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.

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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, 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 BEA Systems, Inc., Cisco, IBM Corporation, SAP AG and Sparx Systems. Participants in the consortium to date include: Aberdeen Group, Inc., Adaptive, Inc., American Red Cross, Avis Budget Group, Bank of America, Bunge Agribusiness, Cambridge Technology Enterprise, Capability Measurement, Cape Clear Software, Inc., CellExchange, Inc., Center for Public-Private Enterprise, CGI Federal, Computer Sciences Corporation, Daugherty Business Solutions, ebizQ, eCube Systems, LLC, EDS, Equally Keen, Ltd., Evans Data Corporation, Federal Signal Corp., Fidelity Investments, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Forestay, LLC, Fraunhofer FOKUS, General Services Administration, H2O GmbH, Helm Solutions Group, HP, Hitachi Consulting, Hurwitz & Associates, ICW Group, Integration Consortium, Insurance Corp. of British Columbia, Interoperability Clearinghouse, iWay Software, Kohl's Department Stores, Lake Trail Partners, LLC, MAKE Technologies Inc., Maryfran Johnson & Associates, Mercury Interactive, MITRE, Model Driven Solutions, MomentumSI, Monsanto, OMG, Penn National Insurance, PricewaterhouseCoopers , SAIC, PHS Operation, Schlumberger Technology, SDG Corporation, Software AG, Sonoa Systems, TethersEnd Consulting, Thomas & Hebert, Torry Harris Business Solutions, TPP Global Services LLC, WebEx, Wells Fargo, and ZapThink, LLC. 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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