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The SOA Forum Surpasses 1,000 Members to Become Largest SOA Organization for Executives
CTO for SunGard’s Financial Systems Business to Present at Next Worldwide SOA Forum Event
Cambridge, MA, October 2, 2006 – The SOA Forum, an exclusive roundtable of senior IT executives and enterprise architects from Fortune 500 companies and Government agencies, today announced that is has reached a significant milestone with over 1,000 members to date.
The SOA Forum is a 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.
The next SOA Forum roundtable will feature Darren Wesemann, Chief Technology Officer for SunGard's Financial Systems businesses and is chief architect of the Common Services Architecture (CSA), who will present "Achieving a Common Services Architecture" on Thursday, October 5 at 2:00 PM EST. The discussion will cover SunGard's 5-year SOA effort (dubbed the Common Services Architecture, or CSA), which is both a technical architecture as well as a collaborative process including a governance model. Learn how the CSA has transformed the way SunGard works and the SOA lessons they have learn along the way.
"To appreciate how challenging our SOA initiative is, remember that SunGard is a company that has grown by more than 135 acquisitions to date. Our developers have had the choice of at least seven operating systems, eight programming languages, eight database management systems, six Web servers, and four code repositories. The goal of CSA is to synchronize those software assets, achieving economies of scale, leveraging and sharing the intellectual property of our diverse business units, while nurturing agility and focus," said Darren Wesemann, Chief Technology Officer for SunGard's Financial Systems.
“WebLayers is excited to have Darren Wesemann of SunGard present at the next SOA Forum,” said Gregg Bjork, CEO of WebLayers. “We are also very proud of the contributions the SOA Forum has made in helping to move the SOA market forward. When WebLayers initiated the SOA Forum over 3 years ago, we saw tremendous enthusiasm about the promise of SOA, but very limited results as the market was just in its infancy. Providing a venue where senior executives could share and learn from their peers has propelled many of our member companies to success in their SOA initiates.”
About The SOA Forum
WebLayers is the founder and coordinator of The SOA Forum. The SOA Forum is comprised of senior IT executives and enterprise architects from Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. Current members include over 1,000 senior IT executives and enterprise architects. http://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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