Session Description: The Reference Model for SOA is an OASIS standard. It provides a vocabulary for service oriented applications that allows people to achieve a common understanding when they talk about services. This talk will explain how to use the reference model in discussions with vendors, stakeholders, development staff, business analysts and others that participate in the development of services. This will permit everyone to speak the same language when planning, architecting, developing, and using a SOA.

Speaker Bio: Michael Stiefel is principal of Reliable Software. A consultant on software architecture and development, and the alignment of information technology with business goals, his current work involves training in distributed applications development, software best practices, in .NET, C#, Web services, C++, and SQL Server. he also advises on IT strategy and planning, including budgeting, hiring, and growth management, and designs and implementats service-based applications including Web services. Stiefel is currently a member of the OASIS Technical Committee developing a core SOA Reference Model and related Reference Architectures. In July 2006 he was named a Microsoft Visual Developer Solutions Architect MVP. He is a Visiting Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Science, Technology and Society Program where his research and teaching focus is the teaching of engineering to high school and undergraduate students.

Charter Sponsors of SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 East
Laszlo Systems: Laszlo Systems is the original developer of the open source platform OpenLaszlo, and provider of Rich Internet Applications and services that advance the Web experience. OpenLaszlo is an XML-native foundation for building next generation Web applications that increase customer retention, conversion and brand loyalty. Laszlo provides comprehensive support services, education, and commercial application modules so that any company can easily make the move to Rich Internet Applications.

webMethods: webMethods provides business process integration to the world's largest corporations and government agencies. webMethods flagship product suite, webMethods Fabric, is the only integrated platform to deliver both SOA and BPM, delivering rapid ROI to our 1,400 customers around the globe. With webMethods, customers can take a process-centric approach to their business problems, allowing them to leverage their existing IT assets, dramatically improve business process productivity and ROI, and rapidly create competitive advantage by making their business processes work harder for their company.

Trivera Technologies: Founded in 1997, Trivera Technologies has been providing premier technical education, mentoring and courseware development and licensing services for developers, managers and engineers of all skill levels. Trivera has the unique strength, focus, and depth of talent needed to help our clients build the technology teams that are creating and securing their future. Headquartered in New Jersey, but with world-wide delivery, our instructors and mentors boast an average of 20 years experience in software design, development and deployment, bringing their extensive real world experience into every classroom and development project. The company focuses on advanced technologies and enterprise development solutions, such as Java, J2EE, XML, object oriented design, software engineering, service-oriented architecture, testing, troubleshooting and more. We specialize but are not limited to training in IBM WebSphere, Rational, WebLogic, Eclipse, JBoss and much more. Our staff has trained and mentored thousands of clients to date.

Managed Methods develops and sells practical, versatile, and cost-effective products for monitoring Web services and managing service-oriented architectures. The company is headquartered in Boulder Colorado with a team who has over ten years of experience in building industry-leading management tools for IT operations which are used by thousands of small, medium, and enterprise-level companies around the world.

Sponsors and Exhibitors of SOA World 2006 and Enterprise Open Source Conference 2006
Last year's conference sponsors and exhibitors included Adobe, Apress, Backbase,  CalAmp, Cassatt, Centric CRM, Chariot Solutions, Composite Software, Exadel, Ingres, Metallect, Optaros, OSS Nokalva, Parasoft, Rogue Wave Software, SugarCRM, Web Age Solutions.