SYS-CON Events announced today that IBM joined SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 East as "platinum sponsor." IBM (www.IBM.com/SOA) is the world's leading technology provider of SOA and Web Services solutions. IBM's "SOA" website answers the question "Why Service Oriented Architecture and IBM?" as "Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a business-centric IT architectural approach that supports integrating your business as linked, repeatable business tasks, or services. SOA helps users build composite applications, which are applications that draw upon functionality from multiple sources within and beyond the enterprise to support horizontal business processes."

SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 East 
According to industry analyst firm Gartner Group, by 2008 more than 60 percent of enterprises will use SOA as the guiding principle when creating mission-critical applications and processes. "Businesses that ignore the potential of SOA will find themselves outpaced by rivals who improve their agility and transform themselves into new kinds of enterprises," says Gartner analyst Yafim Natis.

Topics covered at SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 East include:

• Transitioning Successfully to SOA
• Federated Web Services
• SOA Governance
• ebXML
• Orchestration
• Discovery
• The Business Case for SOA
• Interop & Standards
• Web Services Management
• Messaging Buses and SOA
• Enterprise Service Buses
• SOBAs (Service-Oriented Business Apps)
• Delivering ROI with SOA
• Java Web Services
• XML Web Services
• Security
• Professional Open Source
• Systems Integration
• Sarbanes-Oxley
• Grid Computing
• Business Process Management
• Web Services Choreography

Bulding SOA with Apache Tuscany Session at SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 East
Apache Tuscany provides an open-source services infrastructure for building SOA. It is based on the widely supported Service Component Architecture (SCA) specification. With the Tuscany implementation of SCA, application developers can easily create or reuse services in different languages (BPEL, Java or various scripting languages) and assemble and deploy them in a distributed environment. This session will introduce SCA and explain how this open source implementation of SCA will simplify the building of SOA solutions.

Speaker Bio: Simon Laws is a member of the IBM Open Source SOA project team working with the open source Apache and PHP communities to build Java, C++ and PHP implementations of the Service Component Architecture (SCA) and Service Data Object (SDO) specifications. Prior to this role he was working in the distributed computing space building service oriented solutions for customers with a particular interest in grid computing and virtualization.

SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 East will take place on June 25-27, 2007, in New York City.