Technology practitioners establish collaboration platform to drive SOA thought leadership.
Vienna, VA (PRWeb) February 8, 2007 -- IT practitioners from a broad range of industries today joined with end user corporations, leading technology suppliers, standards organizations and the global stakeholder community to formally establish the IC SOA. The Integration Consortium™ (IC™), a non partisan industry body will sponsor the platform and infrastructure to foster the IC SOA collaboration community. The IC also announces significant changes to their membership structure so that participation in the collaboration platform will be open and accessible to all SOA stakeholders.
The IC SOA is a global community of practice comprised of information technology leaders dedicated to the ideals of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as the prevalent IT-model for transforming business and improving IT practices. The IC SOA will explore the value of SOA by sharing and delivering real world experiences among like minded peers.
"The IC SOA community of practice is a tremendous breakthrough in end-user and industry collaboration," says John Schmidt, Chairman of the Integration Consortium. "The end user representatives in the IC SOA community need to work together to stop the 'standards wars' and restore confidence in the business community that the IT Industry can indeed solve the interoperability challenges and facilitate profitability for business."
Founding initiatives for IC SOA include:
- Sponsoring an Award for Excellence and a cash prize for the Best SOA Best Practice at the Global Integration Summit, taking place May 14 & 15, 2007 in Banff, Canada.
- Launching a series of collaboration events to exchange knowledge among SOA practitioners. These events are designed to answer questions such as; what frameworks exist, what are the tradeoffs between creating a framework for your own company versus adopting one developed by others and how can existing methodologies be effectively used?
For more information on how to get involved with IC SOA, and to receive information about the upcoming activities, please visit http://icsoa.icmembers.org/.
About the IC SOA
The IC SOA is a global community of practice comprised of senior IT leaders dedicated to the ideals of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as the prevalent IT-model for transforming business and improving IT practices.
The IC SOA will explore the value of SOA by sharing and delivering real world experiences among like minded peers.
Collaborating closely with end-users, leading standards organizations, industry associations, vendors, academia, and business and technology consultancies - this initiative harvests best practices, demonstrates the SOA value proposition, and raises the level of professionalism across both Business and IT teams. For more information about joining IC SOA please visit http://icsoa.icmembers.org/.
About the IC (Integration Consortium)
The IC is a member-driven community that shares experiences, knowledge and best practices in multiple forums. Our members champion; innovation, feedback between members, collaboration with standards bodies, and the articulation of strategic and measurable business benefits for leading-edge capabilities. Annual meetings are complemented by a growing number of regional chapters who meet periodically. On-going networking is encouraged through the dynamic IC website which supports knowledge exchange and records of industry papers and studies.
The mission of the Integration Consortium (IC) is to foster the leading community of like-minded Information Technology professionals responsible for transforming business through both traditional systems integration and emerging SOA with greater agility, ease of use and business results.
One of the IC's strengths is the diversity of member support and interest. Our membership includes end user corporations, independent software suppliers, hardware suppliers, system integrators, academic institutions, non-profit institutions, individual members as well as various industry leaders. Information on the IC is available at www.integrationconsortium.org or by sending an e-mail to information(at)integrationconsortium.org.
About the Global Integration Summit (GIS)
The Global Integration Summit is the annual event of the Integration Consortium membership. The Summit allows for IC members to gather yearly, sharing best practices on a theme which is current and relevant to the integration industry at the time. The program of the Summit is driven by a Call for Papers process which is open to the public. Other activities which may take place during the event are hosted by the IC membership and are open to all attendees. Information may be found at www.globalintegrationsummit.com.
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