SOA Consortium Releases New Podcast Featuring Harvinder Kalsi, Cisco,
on “Success with SOA: a Cisco IT Case Study”

Needham, MA, USA – January 27, 2009 – The SOA Consortium™ today announced that a podcast and slide deck of the presentation by Harvinder Kalsi, IT Architect, Cisco, on “Success with SOA: a Cisco IT Case Study,” recorded at the SOA Consortium meeting in Santa Clara in December 2008 are now available. To access the podcast, visit http://www.soa-consortium.org/pr-hk.

Harvinder Kalsi, an IT architect in Cisco’s internal information technology organization, presented an insight-packed case study on adopting a holistic SOA approach in support of Cisco’s business model expansion and IT enablement strategy. In describing Cisco’s SOA approach, Mr. Kalsi shared artifacts, anecdotes and tips covering their four-step maturity process, major design concerns, and SOA platform.

Throughout the presentation, Mr. Kalsi took questions from attendees on a range of topics including user and application security; governance automation; reconciling new subscriber demand with operational performance; service identification, investment and prioritization; and cost and funding models. Drilling into the SOA platform, Kalsi spoke of implementation challenges and the techniques used to address them, including open source, open standards and network-based services. In closing, Mr. Kalsi spoke of SOA success factors across people, process and technology dimensions, including the importance of business participation and business ownership of processes, policies and rules.

To hear the entire case study that Mr. Kalsi presented, download the 65-minute podcast and accompanying slide presentation at http://www.soa-consortium.org/pr-hk. To read more about this podcast or to share your views, visit the SOA Consortium’s SOA Insights blog at http://blog.soa-consortium.org. 

The next SOA Consortium meeting is in Washington, D.C., USA on March 25-26, 2009. 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 Cisco, HP, IBM Corporation, Layer 7 Technologies, NEC Sphere, 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 OMG.

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