OASIS Members Form Committee to Develop Blueprints for SOA Business Requirements

["Carol Geyer" <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>]

OASIS Members Form Committee to Develop Blueprints for SOA Business Requirements

Adobe Systems, Booz Allen Hamilton, Capgemini, DataPower, Infravio, MW2 Consulting, Raining Data, Satyam, Software AG, and Others
Join to Define Examples of SOA Business Profiles 

Boston, MA, USA; 15 August 2005 - Members of the OASIS international standards consortium announced plans to develop concrete
examples of business requirements for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementations. The new OASIS SOA Adoption Blueprints
Technical Committee will define vendor-neutral "recipes," focusing on use cases and real world requirements that can be fulfilled by
the deployment of services using SOA methods.

"There is a shortage of clear, demonstrable examples of working SOA implementations that teams can use to jumpstart new projects,"
said Jason Bloomberg, Senior Analyst, ZapThink LLC. "By defining an archetypal set of business requirements and functions that SOA
best practices can address, the adoption blueprints will encourage the production of useful implementation examples and lower the
risk of SOA initiatives overall."

Each adoption blueprint produced by the OASIS Committee will provide a business problem statement, a set of business requirements,
and a normative set of functions to be fulfilled, all on a vendor- and specification-neutral basis.  Early work being contributed to
OASIS as part of this project described the needs of a fictitious enterprise, "Generico," which could be fulfilled by a variety of
SOA approaches. Multiple vendor and service providers have already implemented this specification. The OASIS Committee expects that
external parties will continue to use these blueprints as patterns for comparable implementation examples.

"SOA builders and end users will be primary participants, as well as beneficiaries, of this effort," said Miko Matsumura of
Infravio, proposed chair of the OASIS SOA Adoption Blueprints Technical Committee. "Each blueprint will provide a community of SOA
best practice as well as a clear way to evaluate technology suppliers." He emphasized that the new OASIS Committee remains open to
all interested parties, and strongly encouraged SOA implementers, regardless of their size or geographic location, to become
involved.

Members of the OASIS SOA Adoption Blueprints Technical Committee include representatives of Adobe Systems, Booz Allen Hamilton,
Capgemini,  DataPower, Infravio, MW2 Consulting, Raining Data, Satyam, Software AG, and others.  The Committee proposers also plan
to work closely with and consider use of other relevant standards efforts, such as the SOA Reference Model also under development at
OASIS.

"It's very encouraging to see strong demand for clear guidance on practical methods used in service-oriented systems," said James
Bryce Clark, OASIS director of standards development. "At OASIS, user-oriented projects such as this new Committee can work closely
with functional standards to demonstrate how these technologies combine to solve real-world business problems." 

Support for SOA Adoption Blueprints

Booz Allen Hamilton
"We believe that the work of the OASIS SOA Adoption Blueprints Committee will be instrumental in the creation of service-oriented
systems for our clients through the availability of a valuable set of blueprints that can be applied consistently to the SOA
implementation process," said Joseph Chiusano, Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton.  "These blueprints, when combined with the work of
other OASIS committees such as the SOA Reference Model, are an evolutionary step along the path to an integrated set of techniques
and methodologies for SOA. This is consistent with the future direction and guidance of the US federal government in regards to SOA
and guidance from the Architecture and Infrastructure Committee (AIC)."

DataPower 
"DataPower has experience with hundreds of SOAs, and we look forward to sharing these security and management reference
architectures with the OASIS Blueprints activity," said Eugene Kuznetsov, chairman and CTO at DataPower.  "Enterprise architects are
clamoring for pragmatic, unbiased guidance to implementing SOAs, and OASIS is uniquely positioned to help. Now that key OASIS
building standards such as WS-Security, WSDM, UDDI, and SAML are firmly established, it is time to show how they can be best used
together--relying in part on production experience from DataPower and others."

Infravio
"Infravio is gratified to bring our real world SOA engagement experiences to the front line of SOA Adoption best practices at OASIS.
SOA end-users we talk to really want hands-on yet vendor-neutral SOA examples," said Srinivas Balasubramanian, 
CEO, Infravio.

MW2 Consulting
"We are excited about the idea to collaborate and bring to the industry a best practice approach to implementing SOA. This will
bring to the table a methodology to rapidly deliver and meet business requirements on any given SOA POC or project," said Michael
Morris, CTO, MW2 Consulting.

Raining Data 
"Raining Data, with its standards-based and enterprise-grade XML, XQuery, and SOA technologies would like to reiterate its long
standing commitment to standards efforts by supporting this important initiative which will accelerate the adoption of SOA in
industry," said Ash Parikh, director of development and technology, EAG, Raining Data. "Additionally, Raining Data would like to
bring to the TC, our distributed data services and process management expertise, as well as real world domain knowledge in Supply
Chain and RFID, Defense and Aviation, Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals, and Financial Services as the building blocks for developing
best practices for SOA."

Satyam 
"We are delighted to be part of this initiative, as the standards that come out of this SOA adoption blueprint shall directly
influence SOA implementations around the world. The planned SOA adoption blueprint model will provide an integrated framework for
SOA adoptions with potential to unlock hidden value in IT and help create new business value. Satyam looks forward to sharing these
advances with its clients," said G.B. Prabhat, Director, Consulting & Enterprises Solution, Satyam. 

Software AG
"Despite the volumes of information now available about SOA, customers still come to us regularly asking for practical 'how to'
examples that will help them solve business problems using SOA principles," said Theo Beack, Chief SOA Architect for Software AG
North America. "It is because we know that customers find such guidance so valuable that we have joined the OASIS SOA Adoption
Blueprints Technical Committee.  We strongly believe that implementers of SOA worldwide will benefit immensely from the results of
this committee's concerted efforts."

 

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Additional information:
OASIS SOA Adoption Blueprints Technical Committee  
    http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/soa-blueprints
FAQ  http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/soa-blueprints/faq.php
Cover Pages Technology Report on SOA http://xml.coverpages.org/soa.html

Press contact:
Carol Geyer, OASIS Director of Communications
carol.geyer@oasis-open.org
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