SOA Consortium Meeting to Feature Presentations by Sandy Carter, IBM,
Judith Hurwitz, Hurwitz & Associates and Amit Sinha, SAP
Meeting to be held in Burlingame, Calif., December 12-13, 2007

Needham, MA, USA – November 8, 2007 – The SOA Consortium™ today announced the agenda for its next general meeting to be held in Burlingame, Calif. on December 12-13, 2007. To access the agenda and to register to attend, visit http://www.soa-consortium.com/burlingame-pr. 

On Day One of the meeting, Sandy Carter, VP, SOA & WebSphere Strategy, Channels and Marketing, IBM, will give the presentation “IT needs SOA Skills,” while Judith Hurwitz, President, Hurwitz & Associates, will present “Planning for SOA 2008 by learning from SOA 2007.” Both featured speakers will join SOA Consortium Executive Director Dr. Richard Soley for a SOA Hot Topic Roundtable discussion on CIO SOA Concerns. Meeting attendees will have the opportunity to participate with comments and questions. The Roundtable will be recorded and made available after the meeting as an on-demand podcast. On Day Two of the meeting, featured speaker Amit Sinha, VP of Portfolio Marketing, SAP will present “The Business Case for Service Oriented Architecture - Business Network Transformation.”

The two-day meeting will also feature an update on the US Army Adoption Project as well as meetings of the various strategy groups.

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 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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