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Service oriented architecture (SOA) has been for long touted to increase business competitiveness by enabling strategic business flexibility and enhancing business control. Most of the major technology service providers are now offering SOA based consulting and solutions to address various business needs. This can sometimes add to the perplexity of the CIO as vendors talk different languages and offer various strategies. This special aims to provide a good look at the SOA practice of the major solution providers in the market.
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David Nichols, Executive Partner and Global Lead, Service Oriented Architecture, Accenture New apps, portal development likely to drive SOA: Accenture
According to Accenture, while integration probably remains the biggest reason for SOA, the focus will likely shift in future to new applications and portal development.
David Nichols, Executive Partner and Global Lead, Service Oriented Architecture, Accenture
Atul Sareen, Vice President – Platform, SAP India Enterprise SOA revolutionizes design of business applications: SAP
SAP''s approach to enterprise SOA goes beyond service-oriented architecture fundamentals by supporting business requirements through the use of enterprise services.
Atul Sareen, Vice President – Platform, SAP India
Sunil Mehra, Director – Sales, Fusion Middleware, Oracle India Adoption of SOA in India relatively slow: Oracle
India has lagged behind the rest of the world as far as SOA adoption goes. There is a need to understand the significant benefits of SOA on delivering new business services: Sunil Mehra, Director – Sales, Fusion Middleware, Oracle India
Sunil Mehra, Director – Sales, Fusion Middleware, Oracle India
Panini Dwivedi, Country Manager, WebSphere, IBM India/ SA It is always better to start small with SOA: IBM
“It is difficult to manage if you take a big bang approach. Companies may not be able to manage the total change that comes about," opines Panini Dwivedi, Country Manager, WebSphere, IBM India/ SA
Panini Dwivedi, Country Manager, WebSphere, IBM India/ SA
David Nichols, Executive Partner and Global Lead, Service Oriented Architecture, Accenture SOA has changed the enterprise application game
Accenture has been one of the frontrunners in making the big push for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with an investment of $450 million over the next three years into its SOA practice
David Nichols, Executive Partner and Global Lead, Service Oriented Architecture, Accenture
Dr G. N. Shrinivas, Head, SOA Competency Center, Bangalore, Hewlett-Packard SOA likely to become dominant enterprise IT architecture: HP
HP points out that customers have been doing their homework with regard to SOA, which also has the potential to become the dominant enterprise IT architecture.
Dr G. N. Shrinivas, Head, SOA Competency Center, Bangalore, HP
Dr. Jerry Smith, CTO, Symphony Services SOA''s agility, flexibility mitigates time to and cost of results: Symphony
The principle business benefit of the SOA setup lies in its ability to realize the agile and flexible enterprise systems that are capable of minimizing the impact of business driver changes
Dr. Jerry Smith, CTO, Symphony Services
Vinod Ponmanadiyil, IT consultant, Product Engineering Group, LogicaCMG SOA de-facto standard for designing, integrating large, complex apps: LogicaCMG
SOA is widely considered as the most effective way of overcoming IT complexities involved in businesses that require IT systems to be flexible and adaptive enough to address the changing business needs
Vinod Ponmanadiyil, IT consultant, Product Engineering Group, LogicaCMG
Prem Nithin- Sr. Technical Consultant, Cisco, India & SAARC SOA lets companies deploy applications more quickly: Cisco
IT organizations are under continuous pressure to decrease costs and improve responsiveness. One way to achieve this is to adapt SOA: Prem Nithin- Sr. Technical Consultant, Cisco, India & SAARC
Prem Nithin- Sr. Technical Consultant, Cisco, India & SAARC
Sandhya Sule, senior manager, Product and Technology Initiatives, Patni SOA needs to be considered across boundaries of immediate domain: Patni
Patni, points out that organizations grappling with complex integration problems have been forced to adopt “service-oriented integration"
Sandhya Sule, senior manager, Product and Technology Initiatives, Patni
Arnab Ghosh, CTO, Torry Harris Business Solutions Indian customers quick to realize SOA benefits: Torry Harris
"The pace of adoption is accelerating and business critical systems are being implemented using SOA principles."
Arnab Ghosh, CTO,Torry Harris Business Solutions
        Features 

Grid and SOA – Future of Enterprise Computing
2007 will witness Indian enterprises graduating to the second level of dynamic IT infrastructure, where IT infrastructure would be able to bring about changes instantly to suit the dynamic business scenario.

SOA calls for a strategic rethinking of the IT infrastructure
When an organization starts thinking about adopting SOA, often they are stuck with a deluge of conflicting information. This paper tries to put things into perspective and proposes a practical way of starting an SOA adoption program

SOA: Whazinnit for me?
Most of the application vendors have started realizing the need to make their architectures service oriented. Instead of rebuilding their applications with SOA concepts they are exposing well defined services out of their applications.

 E-SOA : Key to an agile & dynamic enterprise
Sanjeev Munje, CIO, Kenstar, elaborates the impact of SOA on changing business processes and how it can be leveraged to gain maximum business advantage
Business Process Management enabled by SOA
With Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), BPM has evolved into a comprehensive solution that models, monitors, simulates and redesigns processes for competitive improvement		 ''Six Steps to Transitioning Successfully to SOA''
Six steps to embarking on a service-oriented architecture (SOA) implementation in a cost-effective offshore model