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Chair of IBM’s SOA Governance Working Group to Present at Worldwide SOA Forum
Senior Technical Staff Member, Steve Graham, to Present “How SOA Governance Fits Within IBM’s SOA Foundation”
CAMBRIDGE, MA, June 20, 2006 – The SOA Forum, an exclusive roundtable of senior IT executives and enterprise architects from Fortune 500 companies and Government agencies, today announced that Steve Graham, Senior Technical Member in IBM (NYSE: IBM) Software Group’s SOA Foundation Architecture team will present "How SOA Governance Fits Within IBM’s SOA Foundation”: on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 at 2:00 PM (ET).
Graham’s presentation will focus on the emergence of SOA as a dominant discussion point within the industry. As the “approach of choice” for building enterprise systems, SOA’s advantages have typically focused on agile systems, loose coupling, application reuse, and lack of single administrative domain, often resulting in new challenges to governance. These challenges, in turn, often demand both an evolution of and maturity in the way customers and the industry alike understand, embrace and realize the promise of SOA and SOA governance.
When asked to frame the implications of SOA Governance for today’s IT industry, Graham takes a page from American history. “I’m reminded of a quote by President James Madison...if men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.” Applying a contemporary spin to the analogy, Graham added, “When was the last time an angel built an IT System? Until angels build IT, you will need SOA Governance.”
“WebLayers is proud to have Steve Graham present the latest in our series of SOA Forum webcasts,” said Gregg Bjork, CEO of WebLayers. “As an Advanced Member of IBM’s PartnerWorld Industry Networks, we are equally proud to align our company and our WebLayers CenterTM solution with IBM’s market-leading software for on-demand business, WebSphere® Application Server. Our partnership enables customers of both companies to achieve applications and services that are manageable as well as reusable while transforming legacy, silo-based enterprises into next generation, service oriented architectures.”
Forum members and non-members can register for this event on www.weblayers.com
About Steve Graham
Steve Graham is a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM Software Group's SOA Foundation Architecture team and chair of the SOA Governance Architecture Working Group within the IBM Software Group Architecture Board. Steve is also a member of the IBM Academy of Technology. He has spent the last seven years working on service-oriented architectures, as part of the IBM's Web Services Initiative and IBM's On Demand Initiative. Steve is the lead author on "Building Web Services with Java: Making sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI. Second Edition", (c)2004 SAMs Publishing. Prior to this, Steve worked as a technologist and consultant working with various emerging technologies such as Java and XML, and before that he was an architect and consultant with the IBM Smalltalk consulting organization. Before joining IBM, Steve was a developer with Sybase, a consultant, and a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. Steve holds a BMath and MMAth in computer science from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from the Kenan Flagler Business School at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. You can reach Steve at sggraham@us.ibm.com.
About the SOA Forum
WebLayers is the founder and coordinator of The SOA Forum, an exclusive roundtable of senior IT executives and enterprise architects from Fortune 500 companies and Government agencies who are mandated with the challenging mission of creating a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in their enterprises using XML and Web Services Technologies. Current members include over 500 senior IT executives and enterprise architects. For more information about the SOA Forum, see www.weblayers.com/theSOAforum
About WebLayers
WebLayers is the market leader for automated SOA governance.
WebLayers Center™, the company’s flagship product, is a policy management solution that automates what has traditionally been a manual, labor intensive process of enforcing governance policies. In use today at many of the world’s largest companies and government agencies, WebLayers Center is the only solution to ensure compliance throughout the lifecycle which provides the necessary visibility and guidance to govern effectively.
WebLayers is also the founder and coordinator of The SOA Forum, an industry roundtable of executives who are mandated with the challenging mission of driving a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) within their organizations. The SOA Forum is celebrating over three years of successful and interactive collaboration between its members. Today the Forum includes over 1,000 members representing more than 350 organizations.
A private company founded in 2002, WebLayers is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more information please visit www.weblayers.com.
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