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Collective SOA Wisdom: A Consortium Experience. Fourth Service Oriented Architecture for E-Government Conference. Burc Oral, PhD, CellExchange Federal SOA Consortium, Steering Committee Member BurcOral@CellExchange.com http://www.cellexchange.com/soa October 1, 2007 McLean, VA.
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Collective SOA Wisdom: A Consortium Experience Fourth Service Oriented Architecture for E-Government Conference Burc Oral, PhD, CellExchange Federal SOA Consortium, Steering Committee Member BurcOral@CellExchange.com http://www.cellexchange.com/soa October 1, 2007 McLean, VA
Mission is Business Agility Promote and Enable Business Agility via Service-Oriented Architecture Agile Businesses Compete, Innovate & Thrive
SOA Consortium is an Advocacy Group • SOA Advocacy Group, not a Standards Body • Managed by OMG, not Part of OMG • Facilitate adoption of SOA • Targets Global 1000, major government agencies and mid-market businesses • Time-boxed, End Date of 2010
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 Summits • - Case Study Forums • - Influence the Influencers • - Business/IT Articles, Curriculums CIO/CTO Summit for Federal Government in January 2008 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 - Thought & Practice Leadership Events - Articles, Methods, Tools Launched in September 2007 Executing Business-Driven SOA Ground Floor SOA • - Practitioner Working Groups • Enterprise Architecture 2010 • Blueprinting SOA • Standards Knowledgebase • Open Practitioner Forum • Roundtables & Podcasts Enable architects and senior development managers to sell, transition to, develop, and support a SOA in practice
Influencers are SOA Consortium’s Constituency SOA-C Members
Diversity of Participants Bring Rich Expertise • End Users (commercial and public sectors) • Service providers • Technology Vendors • Analysts
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. CellExchange, Inc. Center for Public-Private Enterprise CGI Computer Sciences Corp. Daugherty Business Solutions eCube Systems, LLC EDS Equally Keen, Ltd. Evans Data Corporation Federal Signal Corp. Fidelity Investments Forestay, LLC General Services Administration H2O GmbH Helm Solutions Group Hitachi Consulting HP Interoperability Clearinghouse Integration Consortium iWay Software Kohl's Department Stores Lake Trail Partners, LLC Practitioner Members MAKE Technologies Inc. Mercury Interactive Model Driven Solutions MomentumSI Monsanto Object Management Group** Penn National Insurance PricewaterhouseCoopers SAIC, PHS Operation SDG Corporation Schlumberger Technology Software AG Sonoa Systems TethersEnd Consulting Thomas & Hebert Torry Harris Business Solutions WebEx Communications Wells Fargo Bank Sponsors BEA Systems Cisco Systems IBM SAP AG Sparx Systems Analysts Aberdeen Group Hurwitz & Associates Maryfran Johnson & Associates ZapThink, LLC SOA Consortium is Growing Fast * List as of September 23, 2007 ** OMG also manages the SOA Consortium
Benefits to Members • Connect with industry peers in open forums and working groups • Influence technology providers, service providers and standards organizations on the techniques, products and services to derive business value from SOA • Collaborate on SOA thought leadership • Redirect the industry conversation to “business-driven SOA” • Exchange real-world insights on preparing businesses and IT organizations for SOA • Influence standards-organizations on pragmatic standards related to SOA • Enable communication among Service Oriented Enterprises [SOEs] • Contribute to the Service-Oriented Global Ecosystem [SOGE]
A lot is on the table for SOEs • SOA Measurement • CIO and CTO Success Factors • SOA and Organizational Readiness – Maturity? • SOA and SaaS • SOA and Complexity – Creator or Destroyer? • SOA and Mashups – Power to the Business User? • SOA Skills Shortage • SOA and BPM Bridge
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
ThanksReady for Q/A about how to JOIN Collective SOA Wisdom: A Consortium Experience Burc Oral, PhD, CellExchange Federal boral@cellexchange.com http://www.cellexchange.com/soa