Rapid Growth for SOA Advocacy Group
NEEDHAM, Mass.--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:
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Redirecting the industry conversation to “business-driven
SOA”
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Exchanging real-world insights on preparing their business and IT
organizations for SOA
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Influencing technology vendors and service providers on the
techniques, products and services to derive business value from SOA
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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.
About The SOA Consortium
The SOA Consortium is a new advocacy group of end users, service
providers and technology vendors committed to helping the Global 1000
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. Founding sponsors are BEA Systems, Inc., Cisco, IBM
Corporation, and SAP AG. 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
Enterprises, Capability Measurement, Cape Clear Software, Inc.,
CellExchange, Inc., Center for Public-Private. Enterprises, CGI Federal,
CSC, Daugherty Business Solutions, eCube Systems, LLC, EDS, Equally
Keen, Ltd., Evans Data Corporation, Federal Signal Corporation, Fidelity
Investments, Forestay, LLC, Fraunhofer FOKUS, General Services
Administration, H2O GmbH, Helm Solutions Group, HP, Hitachi Consulting,
Hurwitz & Associates, Integration Consortium, Interoperability
Clearinghouse, iWay Software, Kohl’s
Department Stores, Lake Trail Partners, LLC, MAKE Technologies Inc.,
Maryfran Johnson & Associates., Mercury Interactive, MomentumSI, Object
Management Group, Penn National Insurance, PricewaterhouseCoopers ,
SAIC, PHS Operation, Schlumberger Technology, SDG Corporation, Sonoa
Systems, TethersEnd Consulting, Thomas & Hebert, Torry Harris Business
Solutions, WebEx Communications, Wells Fargo Bank, and ZapThink, LLC.
Any organization may join the SOA Consortium. The SOA Consortium is
managed by the Object Management Group.
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