SOA Consortium 2008: Highlights of the Second Year

Membership Growth

• Founding membership: 4 Sponsors, 7 Participants

• At end-of-year: 8 Sponsors, 120 Participants

• Vibrant Community of Practice of Enterprise Architects

Member Deliverables

• Joint SOA Consortium / CIO magazine “SOA Case Study Competition” a great success with submissions far exceeding expectations, one overall winner and five special recognition category winners.

  • Overall Winner: Synovus Financial

  • Special Recognition in Insurance: Penn National Insurance

  • Special Recognition in Transportation: Con-way, Inc - SOA and EDA Evolution

  • Special Recognition in Government: US Department of Defense, AT&L

  • Special Recognition in Technology: SunGard Financial Systems

  • Special Recognition in Healthcare: Canada Health Infoway

• Four active and well-attended meetings

• Case Study Forum with two dozen case studies so far (here)

• Active wiki of discussion groups & deliverables development (here)

• Active and well-connected blog (here)

• Additional deliverables under development for 2009

  • 2009 Case Study Contest with CIO Magazine

  • SOA planning framework

  • EA2010 “drill down”

  • SOA Practitioners Soapbox Derby program

  • Influence the influencer program

Podcasts

• * December: The Future of SOA -- Myths and Realities

• * December: Success with SOA: a Cisco IT Case Study

• * December: CIO magazine | SOA Consortium Case Study Competition Winners Panel Discussion

• * December: CIO magazine | SOA Consortium Case Study Competition Winners Panel Discussion Part 2: Futures

• * December: Service Oriented Design, a Key Competency for SOA Success

• * December: The Practical Guide for SOA in Healthcare

• * December: SOA, Master Data Management and Software as a Service

• * December: Data Mashups Accelerating the Delivery of SOA Value, a case study

• September: Records Management in a Federal Service Oriented Environment (here)

• September: SOA Adoption & Value Research Results (Members only here)

• September: SOA Sustainment Soapbox Derby, SOA Practitioners (here)

• June: SOA Hot Topic Roundtable: “SOA and Event Processing” (here)

• June: SOA Complex Event Processing Using Mashups (here)

• June: BPM Enabled by SOA and Business Event Processing for an Agile Business Response (here)

• June: How to Fail at SOA (here)

• June: SOA Hard Problems and Spiral Solution Development (here)

• June: Creating an SOA Pipeline (here)

• June: SOA Transformation: Ready or Not (here)

• March: SOA Hot Topics Roundtable: Center of Excellence (here)

• March: SOA Center of Excellence (Competency Centers) (here)

• March: CSC's SOA Center of Excellence (Experience and Lessons) (here)

• March: SOA Hot Topics Roundtable: Public Sector SOA (here)

• March: Practical Guide to Federal Service Oriented Architecture (PGFSOA) (here)

• March: Getting to the Service Oriented Enterprise (here)

* December podcasts will be posted in the weeks after the Santa Clara meeting.

Event Participation, Partnerships & Sponsorships

• December: Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit, Las Vegas, NV

• December: Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit, Las Vegas, NV

• December: Information Sharing in Cross-Boundary, Shared-Mission Environments: The Challenge of Standards, Setting an Agenda for Action, Cambridge, MA

• December: Enterprise SOA Conference, India

• November: Babson College CIMS Program, Wellesley, MA

• October: Business Rules Forum, Orlando, FL

• September: Schweizer Informatik Gesellschaft SigMo Seminar, Zurich, Germany

• September: IT Architect Regional Conference Thailand 2008, Bangkok, Thailand

• September: SOA Challenges 2008, Mumbai, India

• September: Gartner BPM Summit, Washington, D.C.

• September: InfoWorld 10^th Annual SOA Executive Forum, New York, NY

• June: SOA World Conference & Expo 2008, New York, NY

• June: Oracle Insurance Industry Strategy Council, Chicago, IL

• June: Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit, Orlando, FL

• June: Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit, Orlando, FL

• May: SAP Sapphire & ASUG, Orlando, FL

• May: Toward the Electronic Payment Record 2008, Fort Lauderdale, FL

• April: SOA in Healthcare: Realizing Quality-of-Care, Business Value, and Delivery on IT’s Promise, Chicago, IL

• April: ARTiSAN Benutzerforum D.A.CH 2008, Lindau, Germany

• April: Open Standards 2008, Santa Clara, CA

• April: IBM IMPACT 2008: Smart SOA Conference, April, Las Vegas, NV

• April: OMG Korea & IASA Korea KOSTA Workshop, Seoul, South Korea

• March: 19^th Australian Software Engineering Conference, Perth, Australia

• February: SHARE 2008, Orlando, FL

• February: Gartner BPM Summit, Las Vegas, NV

• January: OMG Maximizing BPM Investments with SOA Workshop, Orlando, FL

• January: SourceMedia’s Insurance Industry SOA Summit: A Reality Check for Driving Business Value, New York, NY

Analyst Members & Research Partnerships

• Aberdeen Group (SOA Adoption Study)

• ebizQ

• Hurwitz & Associates

• Maryfran Johnson & Associates

• MIT’s Center for Information Research (SOA Reality Check Survey)

• Smallwood, Maike & Associates (SOA in Insurance Study)

• Standish Group (SOA Adoption Study)

• ZapThink, LLC

Press Releases

• November: SOA Consortium Releases New Podcast on “Records Management in a Federal Service Oriented Environment” by Dr. Michael J. Kurtz 

• September: SOA Consortium and CIO Magazine Announce Winners of SOA Case Study Competition

• August: SOA Consortium Releases New Podcast from Jim Johnson, Founder & Chairman, Standish Group, on Creating an SOA Pipeline

• June: Layer 7 Joins SOA Consortium as Silver Sponsor

• May: SOA Consortium Announces Hitachi Ltd. Has Joined

• May: SOA Consortium Releases Three New Podcasts on SOA Centers of Excellence; Includes Two Case Study Presentations and a Hot Topic Roundtable Podcast

• April: Savant Joins SOA Consortium as Sponsor

• April: SOA Consortium Releases New Podcast From Kshemendra Paul, Chief Architect, Office of Management & Budget (OMB) on “The Practical Guide to Federal Service Oriented Architecture (PGFSOA)”

• April: SOA Consortium Announces HP Now a Sponsor; HP was Founding Member of SOA Consortium

• April: SOA Consortium and CIO Magazine Announce SOA Case Study Contest; Contest open to organizations in all industries including government that have completed Successful SOA Projects

• February: SOA Consortium Releases New SOA Hot Topics Roundtable Podcast on CIO SOA Concerns, featuring Sandy Carter, Judith Hurwitz and Richard Soley

• February: Sun Microsystems Joins SOA Consortium as Sponsor

• January: SOA Consortium, OMG and HL7 Announce Program for SOA in Healthcare Workshop: Realizing Quality of Care, Business Value, and Delivery on IT’s Promise

• January: SOA Consortium Releases New Podcast Featuring Judith Hurwitz, President & CEO of Hurwitz & Associates, on “ SOA Planning for 2008 by Learning from 2007”

• January: SOA Consortium Releases New Podcast Featuring Sandy Carter, VP, SOA & WebSphere Strategy, Channels and Marketing IBM: IT Needs SOA Skills

Executive Summits

• Held all over the United States & in Belgium so far

• Several dozen CIO, CTO, Chief Enterprise Architect participants