SOA Consortium Presents: SOA BPM Roundtable Podcast

The SOA Consortium™, where SOA Means Business™, is presenting a free podcast on SOA and BPM issues. The main objective of the SOA-BPM Relationship Hot Topic Roundtable was to generate a meaningful conversation between Thought Leaders and meeting attendees on the hot topic of the relationship between SOA and BPM. The SOA Consortium’s position is that SOA and BPM are complements. The session was recorded and is now available as an on-demand audio podcast.

Roundtable participants gave five-minute overviews of their thoughts on the following:

	Business Discipline: Often, BPM and SOA are discussed solely in respect to their implementation technologies, rather than as business disciplines that enable business process improvement, business performance management and business agility. Thought leaders discussed SOA and BPM from a business discipline perspective, stating commonalities, complements and conflicts.
	Methodology: Thought leaders discussed the value or characteristics of a methodology that allows for a seamless transition from BPM to SOA.
	Technology: Thought leaders discussed how current SOA and BPM technologies do or don’t work together and how SOA and BPM technologies should work together.
	Human Element: Thought leaders discussed the human element of the SOA-BPM divide. Is the divide business versus IT, or is it different?

SOA BPM Thought Leaders were:

	Ashwini Ahuja, SDG Corporation
	Sooraj Balgobin, The SOA Monitor
	Brian Erickson, Hitachi Consulting
	Facilitator: Brenda Michelson, SOA Consortium Program Director

After the individual presentations, SOA Consortium meeting attendees joined the discussion with questions and comments.

About The SOA Consortium
The SOA Consortium is a new advocacy group of end users, service providers and technology vendors committed to helping the Global 1000, major government agencies, and mid-market businesses successfully adopt Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) by 2010. SOA Consortium founding enterprise members include Fortune 200 companies in Financial Services, Travel, Manufacturing, Retail and Telecommunications. Sponsors are BEA Systems, Inc., Cisco, IBM Corporation, SAP AG and Sparx Systems. Participants in the consortium to date include: Aberdeen Group, Inc., Adaptive, Inc., American Red Cross, Avis Budget Group, Bank of America, Bunge Agribusiness, Cambridge Technology Enterprise, Capability Measurement, Cape Clear Software, Inc., CellExchange, Inc., Center for Public-Private Enterprise, CGI Federal, Computer Sciences Corporation, Daugherty Business Solutions, ebizQ, eCube Systems, LLC, EDS, Equally Keen, Ltd., Evans Data Corporation, Federal Signal Corp., Fidelity Investments, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Forestay, LLC, Fraunhofer FOKUS, General Services Administration, H2O GmbH, Helm Solutions Group, HP, Hitachi Consulting, Hurwitz & Associates, ICW Group, Integration Consortium, Insurance Corp. of British Columbia, Interoperability Clearinghouse, iWay Software, Kohl’s Department Stores, Lake Trail Partners, LLC, MAKE Technologies Inc., Maryfran Johnson & Associates, Mercury Interactive, MITRE, Model Driven Solutions, MomentumSI, Monsanto, OMG, Penn National Insurance, PricewaterhouseCoopers , SAIC, PHS Operation, Schlumberger Technology, SDG Corporation, Software AG, Sonoa Systems, TethersEnd Consulting, Thomas & Hebert, Torry Harris Business Solutions, TPP Global Services LLC, WebEx, Wells Fargo, and ZapThink, LLC. Any organization may join the SOA Consortium. The SOA Consortium is managed by the Object Management Group.

For more information, visit http://www.soa-consortium.org or email info@soa-consortium.org.