Chair of IBM's SOA Governance Working Group to Present at Worldwide SOA Forum; Senior Technical Staff Member, Steve Graham, to Present ''How SOA Governance Fits Within IBM's SOA Foundation''.CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. Forum, an exclusive roundtable of senior IT executives and enterprise architects from Fortune 500 companies and Government agencies, today announced that Steve Graham, Senior Technical Member in IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : IBM) Software Group's SOA Foundation Architecture team will present "How SOA Governance Fits Within IBM's SOA Foundation": on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 at 2:00 PM (ET). Graham's presentation will focus on the emergence of SOA as a dominant discussion point within the industry. As the "approach of choice" for building enterprise systems, SOA's advantages have typically focused on agile systems, loose coupling, application reuse, and lack of single administrative domain, often resulting in new challenges to governance. These challenges, in turn, often demand both an evolution of and maturity in the way customers and the industry alike understand, embrace and realize the promise of SOA and SOA governance. When asked to frame the implications of SOA Governance for today's IT industry, Graham takes a page from American history. "I'm reminded of a quote by President James Madison...if men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." Applying a contemporary spin to the analogy, Graham added, "When was the last time an angel built an IT System? Until angels build IT, you will need SOA Governance." "WebLayers is proud to have Steve Graham present the latest in our series of SOA Forum webcasts," said Gregg Bjork, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of WebLayers. "As an Advanced Member of IBM's PartnerWorld Industry Networks, we are equally proud to align our company and our WebLayers Center(TM) solution with IBM's market-leading software for on-demand business, WebSphere(R) Application Server. Our partnership enables customers of both companies to achieve applications and services that are manageable as well as reusable while transforming legacy, silo-based enterprises into next generation, service oriented architectures." Forum members and non-members can register for this event on www.weblayers.com About Steve Graham Steve Graham is a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM Software Group's SOA Foundation Architecture team and chair of the SOA Governance Architecture Working Group within the IBM Software Group Architecture Board. Steve is also a member of the IBM Academy of Technology IBM's Academy of Technology is an independent body within IBM. It consists of around 300 of IBM's technical leaders from all lines of business. New members are elected by the Academy membership on an annual basis based on their technical leadership, technical contributions and . He has spent the last seven years working on service-oriented architectures, as part of the IBM's Web Services Initiative and IBM's On Demand Initiative. Steve is the lead author on "Building Web Services with Java: Making sense of XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , SOAP, WSDL (Web Services Description Language) An XML-based language for defining Web services. Developed by Microsoft and IBM, WSDL describes the protocols and formats used by the service. and UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) An industry initiative for a universal business registry (catalog) of Web services turned over to the stewardship of OASIS in 2002 as the version 3 specification of UDDI was released. . Second Edition", (c)2004 SAMs Publishing. Prior to this, Steve worked as a technologist and consultant working with various emerging technologies such as Java and XML, and before that he was an architect and consultant with the IBM Smalltalk consulting organization. Before joining IBM, Steve was a developer with Sybase, a consultant, and a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo The University of Waterloo (also referred to as UW, UWaterloo, or Waterloo) is a medium-sized research-intensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The school was founded in 1957. . Steve holds a BMath and MMAth in computer science from the University of Waterloo and an MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration from the Kenan Flagler Business School at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. You can reach Steve at sggraham@us.ibm.com. About the SOA Forum WebLayers is the founder and coordinator of The SOA Forum, an exclusive roundtable of senior IT executives and enterprise architects from Fortune 500 companies and Government agencies who are mandated with the challenging mission of creating a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in their enterprises using XML and Web Services Technologies. Current members include over 500 senior IT executives and enterprise architects. For more information about the SOA Forum, see www.weblayers.com/theSOAforum About WebLayers WebLayers (www.weblayers.com) is leading the market for policy-driven Governance for strategic IT initiatives such as SOA, Outsourcing, and Enterprise System Integration. A private company founded in 2002 with venture capital backing, WebLayers is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. WebLayers Center(TM), the company's flagship product, is deployed within Fortune 500 companies and Government agencies who are using it to define their enterprise policies, detect, analyze, and ensure conformance and to govern their most strategic IT initiatives. WebLayers Center's overall design is based on WebLayers' groundbreaking, patent-pending technology for policy-based Governance for the enterprise in a Service Oriented Architecture. For more information about WebLayers, please visit www.weblayers.com. WebLayers is a member of AFEI AFEI Association For Enterprise Integration (Association for Enterprise Integration), WS-I (Web Services Interoperability Organization, www.ws-i.org) A consortium founded by Microsoft, IBM, BEA Systems and Intel that is dedicated to the development of Web services. Its goals are to provide guidance and education, to promote interoperability and to ensure that Web services (Web Services Interoperability The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) is an industry consortium chartered to promote interoperability amongst the stack of web services specifications. Organization), and OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards). |
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