The SOA Forum Surpasses 1,000 Members to Become Largest SOA Organization for Executives

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. --(Business Wire)-- 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 EDT. 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."

SOA Forum members and non-members can register for this event at http://www.weblayers.com/theSOAforum/.

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 (www.weblayers.com) is leading the market for Policy Infrastructure for SOA Governance. A private company founded in 2002 with venture capital backing, WebLayers is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

WebLayers Center(TM), the company's flagship product, allows organizations to define, enforce and audit policies across the enterprise. WebLayers Center is deployed in many of the largest commercial and government organizations who use it to define their enterprise policies, detect, analyze, and ensure conformance and to govern their SOA implementation.

Copyright 2006 WebLayers, Inc. All rights reserved. Information in this document is subject to change without notice. WebLayers Center, WebLayers Center for SOA, WebLayers Center for Outsourcing and WebLayers Center for Enterprise Services Integration are trademarks of WebLayers, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies.
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