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Where SOA Means Business Collective SOA Wisdom: A Consortium Experience Fourth Service Oriented Architecture for E-Government Conference Burc Oral, Ph. D, Cell. Exchange Federal SOA Consortium, Steering Committee Member Burc. Oral@Cell. Exchange. com http: //www. cellexchange. com/soa October 1, 2007 Mc. Lean, VA Page: 1 © 2007 Object Management Group
Mission is Business Agility Promote and Enable Business Agility via Service-Oriented Architecture Agile Businesses Compete, Innovate & Thrive Page: 2 © 2007 SOA Consortium
SOA Consortium is an Advocacy Group q SOA Advocacy Group, not a Standards Body q Managed by OMG, not Part of OMG q Facilitate adoption of SOA q Targets Global 1000, major government agencies and mid-market businesses q Time-boxed, End Date of 2010 Page: 3 © 2007 SOA Consortium
SOA Advocacy in Three Fronts Promoting Business-Driven SOA Executive Suite SOA Build awareness amongst the C-level executives on the cost, value, challenges and success factors of moving to SOA CIO/CTO Summit for Federal Government in January 2008 - CIO & CTO Summits - Case Study Forums - Influence the Influencers - Business/IT Articles, Curriculums Generating Business Value from SOA Business Operations SOA Establish awareness and linkages between business operations and IT professionals on approaches for using SOA to enable business process improvement initiatives Launched in September 2007 - Thought & Practice Leadership Events - Articles, Methods, Tools Executing Business-Driven SOA Ground Floor SOA Enable architects and senior development managers to sell, transition to, develop, and support a SOA in practice - Practitioner Working Groups - Enterprise Architecture 2010 - Blueprinting SOA - Standards Knowledgebase - Open Practitioner Forum - Roundtables & Podcasts Page: 4 © 2007 SOA Consortium
Influencers are SOA Consortium’s Constituency SOA-C Members Page: 5 © 2007 SOA Consortium
Diversity of Participants Bring Rich Expertise q End Users (commercial and public sectors) q Service providers q Technology Vendors q Analysts Page: 6 © 2007 SOA Consortium
SOA Consortium is Growing Fast Practitioner Members • • • • • • • • • • • • Adaptive, Inc American Red Cross Avis Budget Car Rental Bank of America Bunge Agribusiness Cambridge Technology Enterprises Capability Measurement Cape Clear Software, Inc. Cell. Exchange, Inc. Center for Public-Private Enterprise CGI Computer Sciences Corp. Daugherty Business Solutions e. Cube Systems, LLC EDS Equally Keen, Ltd. Evans Data Corporation Federal Signal Corp. Fidelity Investments Forestay, LLC General Services Administration H 2 O Gmb. H Helm Solutions Group Hitachi Consulting HP Interoperability Clearinghouse Integration Consortium i. Way Software Kohl's Department Stores Lake Trail Partners, LLC Sponsors • • • © 2007 SOA Consortium BEA Systems Cisco Systems IBM SAP AG Sparx Systems Analysts • • * Page: 7 MAKE Technologies Inc. Mercury Interactive Model Driven Solutions Momentum. SI Monsanto Object Management Group** Penn National Insurance Pricewaterhouse. Coopers SAIC, PHS Operation SDG Corporation Schlumberger Technology Software AG Sonoa Systems Tethers. End Consulting Thomas & Hebert Torry Harris Business Solutions Web. Ex Communications Wells Fargo Bank Aberdeen Group Hurwitz & Associates Maryfran Johnson & Associates Zap. Think, LLC List as of September 23, 2007 ** OMG also manages the SOA Consortium
Benefits to Members q Connect with industry peers in open forums and working groups q Influence technology providers, service providers and standards organizations on the techniques, products and services to derive business value from SOA q Collaborate on SOA thought leadership q Redirect the industry conversation to “business-driven SOA” q Exchange real-world insights on preparing businesses and IT organizations for SOA q Influence standards-organizations on pragmatic standards related to SOA q Enable communication among Service Oriented Enterprises [SOEs] q Contribute to the Service-Oriented Global Ecosystem [SOGE] Page: 8 © 2007 SOA Consortium
A lot is on the table for SOEs q SOA Measurement q CIO and CTO Success Factors q SOA and Organizational Readiness – Maturity? q SOA and Saa. S q SOA and Complexity – Creator or Destroyer? q SOA and Mashups – Power to the Business User? q SOA Skills Shortage q SOA and BPM Bridge Page: 9 © 2007 SOA Consortium
SOA Consortium is on the Internet SOA Consortium Website: http: //www. soa-consortium. org SOA Consortium Blog: http: //blog. soa-consortium. org SOA Consortium Contact: info@soa-consortium. org Page: 10 © 2007 SOA Consortium
Where SOA Means Business Thanks Ready for Q/A about how to JOIN Collective SOA Wisdom: A Consortium Experience Burc Oral, Ph. D, Cell. Exchange Federal boral@cellexchange. com http: //www. cellexchange. com/soa Page: 11 © 2007 Object Management Group
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