The SOA Consortium has announced that a podcast and slide presentation of the SOA Governance Roundtable that was held at its recent European general meeting is now available on its Website. To access the presentation, visit http://www.soa-consortium.org/podcast-pr.
The main objective of the SOA Governance Roundtable was to generate a meaningful conversation between Thought Leaders and meeting attendees on the hot topic of SOA Governance. Each Roundtable participant gave a five-minute overview of their thoughts on the following topics:
SOA Governance Program Capabilities: æTop 3 key capabilitiesÆ or æThree lesser known, but important capabilitiesÆ Human Factors in SOA Governance: Such as, the impact of SOA governance on the governed, or governors, or the use of social computing tools/technologies for effective SOA governance Best SOA Governance Practices from the Field: 2-3 best practices that their customers are employing Ties to IT and Corporate Governance: Discuss how (or how not) SOA Governance relates to IT Governance and Corporate Governance SOA Governance Thought Leaders were:
Fill Bowen, Marketing Manager, SOA Governance, IBM Software Group Ed Cobb, VP-Architecture & Standards, Office of the CTO, BEA Systems Christian Hastedt-Marckwardt, Solution Marketing Director, Enterprise SOA, SAP AG Clive Read, SONA Program, Cisco Systems Facilitator: Brenda Michelson, SOA Consortium Program Director After the individual presentations, SOA Consortium meeting attendees joined the discussion with questions and comments.
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 next SOA Consortium meeting is September 26-27, 2007 in Jacksonville, FL at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront hotel. Organizations interested in joining the SOA Consortium and attending the meeting should visit the website, http://www.soa-consortium.org or email
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 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, Adaptive, Inc, American Red Cross, Avis Budget Car Rental, Bank of America, Capability Measurement, Cape Clear Software, Inc., CellExchange, Inc., Center for Public-Private Enterprise, CGI, CSC, EDS, Equally Keen, Ltd., Federal Signal Corp., General Services Administration, Helm Solutions Group, HP, Hurwitz & Associates, Interoperability Clearinghouse, Integration Consortium, iWay Software, KohlÆs Department Stores, Lake Trail Partners, LLC, MAKE Technologies Inc., Maryfran Johnson & Associates, Object Management Group, Penn National Insurance, SAIC, PHS Operation, 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.
For more information, please visit http://www.soa-consortium.org/ or email
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