About the SOA forum

The SOA Forum is an exclusive Fortune 500 roundtable of enterprise architects who are mandated with the challenging mission of creating a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in their enterprises using XML and Web Services Technologies.

The SOA forum was initiated and is coordinated by WebLayers, Inc. a Cambridge, MA based, venture capital backed company. WebLayers is dedicated to promoting SOA as means to achieve business agility. Working with its Fortune 500 customers, WebLayers realized the need in creating a forum for enterprise architects to share and exchange knowledge.

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Gartner About SOA

"Through 2006, SOA and "designing for integration" will represent the largest single innovation that reduces the cost and increases the effectiveness of integration projects in large enterprises .", Gartner

"Service-oriented architecture built opportunistically with the purpose of "getting it over with" as soon as possible, and at as low a cost as possible, will prove to be a disaster for enterprises' software infrastructures.", Gartner

"In 2006, enterprises worldwide will have spent nearly $3 billion on failed and redesigned Web services projects because of poorly implemented service-oriented architectures.", Gartner