SOA Symposium 2008 Sponsor Packages

As a sponsor of the International SOA Symposium you will have the unique opportunity to reach out to an international community of IT professionals interested in or involved with SOA, Web services or cutting edge technologies. This year we are offering Platinum, Gold and Silver sponsor packages.

For pricing details and more information about these packages please contact:

Gert Van De Donk (gert@ckc-seminars.nl or +31-40-212-9499)
Nicole Slats (nicole@ckc-seminars.nl or +31-40-2129499)

If you have any general questions regarding the SOA Symposium, feel free to contact: info@soasymposium.com.

Why Sponsor the SOA Symposium 2008?

The SOA Symposium offers your company the following opportunities:

• To position your company as a major player in SOA in the industry.
• To demonstrate your latest SOA products and services to the exact demographic they should be exposed to.
• To meet qualified employment prospects and potential clients.
• To meet other solution vendors and to explore opportunities for partnerships.
• To recommend one of your users to speak at the symposium as an opportunity to showcase your solutions.
• To give you and your colleagues the latest knolwedge relating to SOA industry trends, insights, technologies, and issues.
• To help influence the direction of the industry by being an active event participant.

Platinum Sponsor: edge IPK

edge IPK is an enterprise software company with R&D headquarters in the UK combined with a presence in both the Netherlands and North America. edge IPK has a global delivery capability and strong partner network which includes leading systems integrators such as Ordina, IBM, EDS, CSC and Atos Origin.

edge IPK's flagship product edgeConnect, is a powerful and flexible open presentation platform, built on the agile service oriented (SOA) architecture, which eliminates the complex, costly and time consuming effort of developing business solutions. Its unique capability allows business users and IT to work together to create, visualize, deploy and maintain complex front end applications.

edgeConnect provides an environment that provides superior productivity and agility over bespoke development approaches. It's unique Model Driven Architecture approach provides future proofing for different user interface technologies, and has strong features that will significantly reduce development times and maintenance costs whilst supporting multiple user interfaces and presentations through a single process. Independent Research by Butler Group states that by using edgeConnect organisations can yield 40% cost savings on initial application development and deployment, rising to 85% on subsequent developments.

Applications developed in edgeConnect will provide Scalability, Robustness, Security and Performance with no additional effort by a runtime environment that has been proven in use by global organisations. Organisations can recognise many benefits by adopting edgeConnect as the presentation layer within their SOA architecture including:

• Rapidly reducing time to market
• Delivery of a Multi-channel Strategy
• Right First Time Solutions
• Repurposing of Legacy Systems maximising existing investment
• Ensuring Compliance
• Enhancing he Customer Experience
• Gaining competitive advantage by being agile and responsive to market requirements

edge IPK's proven track record with blue chip customers includes: a global internet banking platform for Deutsche Bank International handling hundreds of millions £'s transaction daily; a multi-channel Insurance solution for Zurich Financial Services which is the largest European Insurance site by volume managing multiple general direct and white labelled products; a global deployment of 'Know Your Customer' solutions for client on-boarding across 30 countries and multiple business units for ABN AMRO.

For more information about edge IPK, please visit our Web site at http://www.www.edgeipk.com.

Platinum Sponsor: Microsoft

Microsoft's SOA and Business Process portfolio includes a broad array of offers spanning Business Strategy, IT Strategy and Solution Delivery. This portfolio provides IT professionals, architects and developers with the guidance, technologies and tools for scoping, designing, building and maintaining SOA and Business Process solutions. It also provides them with personal productivity software that enables business users to streamline and optimize business processes in a manner that increases productivity, lowers costs and promotes organizational agility.

Microsoft provides a comprehensive ESB offering through its Application Platform including Windows Server, the .NET Framework and BizTalk Server. The Application Platform provides an infrastructure that enables the flexible and secure reuse of infrastructure and business services and the ability to orchestrate existing services into new end-to-end business processes. At the core of this solution is BizTalk Server.

BizTalk Server 2006 R2 provides connectivity, messaging and business process services to an organization's service oriented infrastructure. Through broad support for connectivity to platforms, applications, devices and people BizTalk Server preserves existing investments and minimizes the cost and risk of integrating the new pieces of technology into your SOA initiatives. It enables organizations to expose data and process from line of business (LOB) applications as services and to compose them into new business processes. Because BizTalk Server includes tools to connect both proprietary and standards- based systems and to design, manage and monitor business processes, BizTalk Server is a central part of any SOA & Business Process strategy.

IDS Scheer is the leading international solution provider for Business Process Management. As a preferred BPM modeling and monitoring partner for the Microsoft Business Process Alliance, IDS Scheer joins Microsoft at the SOA Symposium to present the integration of IDS Scheer's ARIS Platform with Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2.

With this integration, companies can accelerate their return on business process management improving their business performance. They are able to seamlessly model and design business processes using ARIS, and then execute them through Microsoft BizTalk Server and respective web services. The integration of the ARIS Platform with Microsoft BizTalk Server offers time and cost savings not only in the development of individual software and implementation of middleware; it also enables the orchestration of business processes through industry standard web services and BPM protocols. Moreover it features complete, always up-to-date documentation for better communication between technical and development departments.

The integrated offering allows businesses to design, simulate and execute business process dynamically through BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and also enables Process Analytics and Intelligence to be built into the business process which in turn enables a continuous improvement capability with a dashboard for process based decision making for the business.

The availability of ARIS for Microsoft BizTalk Server is a significant step along the path toward Microsoft's vision for delivering model-driven SOA and BPM capabilities to customers.

For more information, please visit www.microsoft.com/soa and www.ids-scheer.com.

Platinum Sponsor: TMNS

Today's toughest IT challenge is not to design and implement new systems but to integrate the plethora of existing ones in such a way that they can provide flexible, configurable support to present and future business processes.

Today's companies can not simply afford to throw away and rebuild, yet it is surprisingly difficult to find strong, reliable partners that truly specialize in the integration market. TMNS was started in 2002 to fill this gap by creating a consulting company with an exclusive focus on implementing SOA through the application of BPM and EAI technologies.

Our customers are large and mid-size companies in the finance, telecom and life sciences industries. Our services span the integration trajectory covering architecture, design, development, implementation, and testing themes. In addition we support customers in establishing pragmatic governance and implementing best practices.

We actively seek to gain and maintain specific technology and product skills, investing in creating and maintaining our own expertise with established and new product offerings, including technologies from TIBCO, webMethods, IBM, Oracle/BEA and Cordys.

We believe our position in the integration services market to be unique in the sense that we are not a general purpose IT services organization, but are truly 100% dedicated to the integration services market.

TMNS is an independent company with headquarters in Den Haag and offices in London, Frankfurt and Zürich.

For more information visit us at www.tmns.com.

Platinum Sponsor: Systemation

Systemation (www.systemation.com) provides organisations with advanced IT-solutions that enable enterprises to modernise and simplify their IT architecture, processes, applications and infrastructure. We focus on two areas:

• Application Integration & Web Services (with a special focus on SOA, Services Oriented Architectures).
• IT Infrastructure & Operations Management.

Systemation offers organisations a full spectrum of services in these areas. Systemation's state-of-the-art solutions are based on products of leading international software vendors and are characterised by flexibility, ease of use and last-but-not-least a maximum return on investment. Systemation is (among others) the authorised representative of the following international software vendors in the Benelux countries:

AmberPoint (www.amberpoint.com). AmberPoint is the runtime SOA governance of choice for commercial organisations, government institutions and software vendors alike. Utilizing a policy-based approach to manage the health and well-being of SOA applications, AmberPoint's industry-leading software brings real-time visibility and control to services and applications at each stage of the SOA lifecycle.

Ascentn (AgilePoint) (www.ascentn.com). Ascentn AgilePoint pioneered .NET-based BPMS and delivered a SOA-aligned, model- driven, metadata framework architecture to enable any organisation to practice 'adaptable' and 'explicit' process management. This advancement truly empowers business users with full-lifecycle process visibility and process-based innovation from design-time to run-time with no coding and within an IT governed ecosystem. Ascentn's 'Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast' approach delivers on the value proposition of SOA, BPM and composite applications with minimal cost, complexity and code.

Corizon (www.corizon.com). Corizon is the first software company to develop enterprise mash-up technology which has been safely deployed on a large scale to deliver demonstrable return on investment. It has devised a pioneering approach that eliminates the need for deep technical coding in composite application development, through the innovative re-use of user interface "building blocks". These building blocks, called UI Services, provide functionality that is built and controlled by IT but combined into solutions by those with less specialist technical skills but a deeper understanding of business problems. The UI Services can be created from scratch or, to maximise speed and re-use with minimum cost, extracted non-invasively from existing applications. They extend the concept of web services to the user interface and therefore fit well within enterprise architectures. Composite applications can now be built by the business for the business with the appropriate monitoring capabilities to ensure compliance and quality performance. Corizon's customers include the leaders in their fields such as BT (British Telecom), KPN and Homeserve.

iTKO LISA (www.itko.com) iTKO LISA offers the most comprehensive solution for testing, validating, and virtualizing Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). iTKO's mission is to minimize the business risk inherent in making frequent changes to complex IT environments. Their LISA software suite provides Complete, Collaborative, and Continuous quality throughout the enterprise software delivery lifecycle. LISA enables the extended team, from development, to QA and business analysts to exercise multiple business technology layers within a single test case. LISA automates unit, functional, regression, load and performance tests, and virtualization of services and data. Founded in 1999, the Dallas-based company's customers include KPN, Numico, Citigroup, WaMu, Level3, TIBCO and eBay.

Platinum Sponsor: IBM

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an information technology company. IBM provides business, technology and consulting services. The company develops and manufactures products and services related to advanced information technology, including computer systems, software, storage systems and microelectronics. The company business operations offer a range of services and technologies which includes, hardware, software, financing, research and chip technologies. The company operates in over 170 countries across North America, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific.

IBM's clients include a range of enterprises, from sole proprietorships to the world's largest organizations, governments and companies. The company provides products and services across different industries including financial services, public, industrial, distribution, communications, small and medium business, and original equipment manufacturer (OEM).

A majority of the company's enterprise business, which excludes the company's original equipment manufacturer (OEM) technology business, occurs in industries that are broadly grouped into six sectors:

The financial services include banking, financial markets and insurance. The public sector includes education, government, healthcare and life sciences. The industrial sector includes aerospace, automotive, defense, chemical and petroleum, electronics. The distribution sector comprises of consumer products, retail, travel, transportation. The communications sector comprises telecommunications, media and entertainment, energy and utilities and the small and medium business consists of mainly companies with less than 1,000 employees.

The company also distributes its products and services through two categories internal routes to market and business partners routes to market. The internal routes to market include services consultants, hardware and software brand specialists and ibm.com. The business partners routes to market include global and major independent software vendors (ISVs), global and major systems integrators (SIs), regional ISVs and Sis, and solutions providers, resellers and distributors.

IBM operates through four operating segments: global services, systems and technology group, software and global financing.

Platinum Sponsor: Ilog

ILOG deliver software and services that empower customers to make better decisions faster and to manage change and complexity

Business Rule Management System (BRMS) offers businesses full life-cycle support for authoring, deploying, running and managing Business Rules throughout BPM and SOA solutions.

Decision services carry legal impacts and use highly volatile business logic. By their nature and traditional IT approaches, decision services are usually hard coded, making them difficult to maintain, audit and reuse. Ideally, they should be modeled, owned and maintained by business professionals and managed by IT. To ensure successful SOA implementation, companies should reconsider how they provide decision services. The unmanageable, black-box approach of wrapping legacy code does not work.

ILOG helps companies to meet the SOA promises of reuse and agility with Transparent Decision Services which are truly reusable, modeled by business analysts, maintained by business teams and managed by IT. ILOG BRMS Empowers business teams to manage the business rules that automate their policies Helps development teams deploy business rules as fully formed decision services and weave them into SOA platforms from companies such as IBM, BEA, Microsoft and Oracle.

ILOG customers include: BA, BT, Barclays, Reuters, SAP, Vodafone Grupo Santander, Essilor, Axa Banque, AXA Touring, Centrica, British Airways, SMA BTP, Groupe Mutuel, Hiscox

ILOG S.A., 9 rue de Verdun, 94257 Gentilly Cedex

Gold Sponsor: Prentice Hall

Prentice Hall Professional is a leading publisher of high-quality and timely information for programmers, developers, engineers, and system administrators. Our mission is to provide educational materials about new technologies and new approaches to current technologies written by the creators and leading authorities. Prentice Hall Professional is a part of InformIT the online presence of the family of information technology publishers and brands of Pearson Education, the world's largest educational publisher.

For more information about Prentice Hall, please visit our Web site at http://www.informit.com/ph.

Gold Sponsor: HP

HP Software, the leader in Business Technology Optimization (BTO) helps businesses around the world make sure that every dollar invested in IT, every resource allocated, and every application or service in development or production meets its business goals. They support the key initiatives CIO's pursue to drive business results, like Business & IT alignment, application quality management, service management, data center transformation.

Alternative Thinking About Growth

Information technology (IT) is a critical part of business operations. Nothing gets made, sold, bought, shipped or accounted for without IT's involvement. Accordingly, companies have invested billions of dollars in IT infrastructure to run the applications that run the business. The risk of an application failure is material. The integrity of a company's applications is equal to the integrity of the business. IT is no longer a maintenance and support function, but a business unit responsible for the success of the overall enterprise. The business expects the same level of reliability, integrity and economic return from IT as they do from other parts of the organization: credible, predictable, reliable business results. This requires a shift from managing IT projects to delivering business outcomes.

Find out more

To learn more about how HP Software can help you bring together strong planning, execution and automation technologies so you can establish a center of excellence based on best practices contact your HP representative today.
Or visit us online at www.hp.com/go/software.

Silver Sponsor: Oracle

Leading companies are gaining operational efficiencies and business agility through adaptable, re-usable business processes and services built on a truly flexible Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) foundation. Oracle SOA products allow you to build, deploy, and manage SOA with integrated, best-in-class technology that provides:

• Comprehensive and Pre-Integrated SOA Platform - Complete set of service and process infrastructure components for building, deploying, and managing SOAs
• Closed-Loop Governance - Comprehensive, end-to-end lifecycle governance of services
• Extreme performance and scalability - In-memory transactions, real-time event processing, and high-volume data transfer on top of a highly scalable application server
• Integrated Security - Centralized policy management, enterprise-grade, end-to-end security

Oracle SOA Suite, which now includes the former BEA AquaLogic Service Bus, is Oracle Fusion Middleware's strategic product for SOA. Oracle plans to continue to develop and support Oracle WebLogic Integration, and expects to converge this product with Oracle's strategic solutions over time. Existing deployments of this product will benefit from complementary products such as Oracle SOA Suite. Learn more about Oracle SOA Suite's role in Oracle's middleware strategy.

SOA Offerings:

• Oracle SOA Suite
• Oracle SOA Governance
• Oracle Event Driven Architecture
• Oracle Data Integration
• Oracle Business Process Management
• Oracle Service Bus
• Oracle Service Bus for Financial Services
• Oracle Application Integration Architecture

About Oracle

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

Silver Sponsor: Realdolmen

RealDolmen is an independent single source ICT solutions provider and knowledge company with over 1,900 highly skilled IT professionals and more than 2,000 customers in the Belux and France. The company offers innovative, effective and reliable ICT solutions and professional services designed to help its clients achieve their objectives by optimizing their business processes.

RealDolmen covers both infrastructure and applications solutions, supporting their full lifecycle through a plan-build-operate approach. Its Software Factory allows them to work in fully scalable virtual organizational models, while adding the capability to "right shore" development projects.

RealDolmen offers professional services across development environments such as Java, .Net, iSeries, Oracle and Progress. RealDolmen provides both custom-made solutions and standardized applications in specific vertical markets such as logistics & distribution, financial services, public, general industry and life sciences.

Additional information can be found at http://www.realdolmen.com

Silver Sponsor: Approach Alliance

Approach is an alliance of companies that have organized their services around:

1. Service Oriented Architecture
2. Business Intelligence

Approach works according the following values and principles:

• Focus on quality and add customer value
• Focus on highly qualified jobs (consultant, architect, project managers, team leads)
• Business and IT alignment
• Focus on design, direction and testing
• Managing partners are experts in their respective fields and have hands-on experience
• Share knowledge

Service Oriented Architecture

Approach Alliance is an expert in designing SOA for companies, creating roadmaps, help the implementation and implement governance to ensure quality and control. Our services are focused around:

1. Business Process Management
2. Architecture
3. Governance.
4. User Experience

For more information you can contact us by email or phone, or visit us during the SOA Symposium at the Approach stand.

Info@approach-alliance.nl
0031-6-22 741 734
www.approach-alliance.nl

Silver Sponsor: Enable-U

We Enable-U to make SOA production ready. With 10 years of experience implementing real world SOA projects, Enable-U helps organizations to get true value out or their SOA initiatives.

Utilizing 'best of breed' solutions enables you to build, manage and secure your SOA and to deliver more business benefits through BPM and deployment of Web 2.0 / Composite Applications on top of it.

Enable-U has offices in the Netherlands and works with a range of trained, knowledgeable partners across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Silver Sponsor: Ises International

ISES International is the training institute for ICT and Project Management.

After following a training from ISES you step outside as a different person. You have undergone an experience and you have also learned something. You have practiced new skills and techniques. You have been stimulated to go and think things over. There is so much that you can do better! You have energy. You are more confident. Your learning engine is started and you have an unstoppable impulse to set your newly learned knowledge into practice. You can take on the whole world, come on!

What's stopping you? Go and get it! Reach out and dare to excel. An ISES training helps you to do this. Naturally you want to keep your learning engine going, and for that there is always a follow-up training from ISES...

ISES offers training in the following work areas:

• Project Management
• Information Management and Functional Management
• System Development
• ICT Service Management
• Communication and Management

For an overview of all our training courses we direct you to www.ises.nl where you can order our training guide for 2009.

ISES International is member of the VOI, recognized by Cedeo and is accredited for ITIL® and Prince2^tm. ISES International is part of the Schouten and Nelissen Group

PRINCE2^tm is a Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce. ITIL® is a Registered Trade Mark, and a Registered Community Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce, and is Registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Silver Sponsor: Dynatrace

A description for this sponsor will be added soon.

Founding Partner: Ordina

Ordina provides information and technology services in the Netherlands and Belgium. It offers consulting, system development and integration and application management and business process outsourcing services. We serve the finance, public and industry sector. Ordina was incorporated in 1973 and is headquartered in Nieuwegein, the Netherlands. Ordina employs over 5650 employees. Ordina NV shares are quoted on Amsterdam's Euronext Stock Exchange, where they are included in the Midkap Index.

Ordina strongly believes in the value of service-oriented architecture (SOA) to improve business effectiveness. Having done numerous projects with all kinds of integration technology, Ordina was one of the first to embrace the innovative concepts of connecting applications (EAI) with SOA and Enterprise Service Bus technology. Being a total solution organizer instead of a traditional technology oriented system integrator, Ordina adds value to her customers by combing deep knowledge of business processes and organization with superior expert skills on SOA / BPM and ESB technology.

In 2005 Ordina launched it's first book on implementing SOA, based on our SOA projects in the four preceding years. The message: "SOA is not about technology but about business solutions: a successful implementation requires a fully business driven approach". At that time SOA still was on the verge of breaking through. The focus was mainly on the infrastructural aspects of SOA implementation: 'getting on the Enterprise Service Bus'.

Today many organizations are past the stage of only thinking about SOA. Instead, they are taking their first steps on the SOA path. There is no time to experiment, the pressure to deliver is huge and the available time is restricted. Using available SOA knowledge is inevitable for timely delivery of the needed results. As SOA thought leader, Ordina nowadays notices an increasing demand for advice about the way service orientation can help with the realization of the organizations' goals.

In our second SOA book, Ordina has bundled the practical experiences of the authors during their SOA consultancy practice of the last years. This book - "Service Oriented Architecture: The Next Phase" - will be launched during the SOA Symposium on October 7, 2008 at 16:45 in a ceremony hosted by David Chappell.

For more information, contact us by email or phone, or join us during the SOA Symposium at the Ordina stand.

email eai-solutions@ordina.nl
Tel +31(0)30 663 79 56
Fax +31(0)30 663 74 96
URL http://www.ordina.nl/soa

Founding Partner: SOA Systems

SOA Systems offers internationally renowned SOA consulting and training expertise. Our clientele includes Fortune 500 companies and international government agencies. Our goal is to empower your organization by helping you fully leverage SOA and service-oriented computing.

For more information, visit www.soasystems.com.

SOA Systems and best-selling SOA author Thomas Erl have worked closely with representatives from major SOA organizations and academic institutions to develop the industry-recognized SOA Certified Professional (SOACP) program, which is dedicated to excellence in the field of SOA and service-oriented computing.

Through a series of seasoned course modules and exams, IT professionals have the opportunity to obtain a number of different certifications to recognize their accomplishment of gaining 'project ready' SOA proficiency.

This program is comprised of a series of credit courses and formal exams that can be completed to achieve one or more of the following certification designations:

• Certified SOA Consultant
• Certified SOA Analyst
• Certified SOA Architect

The SOA Symposium includes the delivery of three post-conference workshops that include the credit courses required to obtain these three SOA Consultant, SOA Analyst, and SOA Architect certifications. For complete agendas, visit www.soasymposium.com/workshops.asp.

The following additional certifications are currently in development and are scheduled for release in 2009:

• Certified SOA Java Developer
• Certified SOA .NET Developer
• Certified SOA Governance Specialist
• Certified SOA Security Specialist

For more information visit www.soacp.com and www.soaschool.com.

Supporter: SAP

SAP is the world's leading provider of business software. Today, more than 75,000 customers in more than 120 countries run SAP® applications - from distinct solutions addressing the needs of small businesses and midsize companies to suite offerings for global organizations. Powered by the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform to drive innovation and enable business change, SAP software helps enterprises of all sizes around the world improve customer relationships, enhance partner collaboration and create efficiencies across their supply chains and business operations. SAP solution portfolios support the unique business processes of more than 25 industries, including high tech, retail, financial services, healthcare and the public sector. With subsidiaries in more than 50 countries, the company is listed on several exchanges, including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE under the symbol "SAP".

SAP provides expertise and processes to create and execute an SOA strategy

SAP Services offers a comprehensive portfolio of services for successful adoption and implementation of SOA. The portfolio includes advisory and value services, governance, implementation, program and project management, and enterprise architecture services dedicated to an SOA approach. These offerings help IT and business process experts harness their widespread IT landscapes for reduced cost while gaining access to high-value services to maximize their immediate and long-term success.

SAP Business Process Platform

The SAP Business Process Platform is a unified environment implemented by customers to create and adapt business processes quickly across the business network. It is comprised of an SOA-based, technology platform for application composition and process integration, as well as service-enabled process components from SAP and its partners that enable rapid innovation.
(A business process platform is NOT a product - it is an approach).

Additional information can be found at http://www.sap.com

Supporter: IPT

[ipt] assists clients with the technical strategy required to deal with the complexities involved in the integration, interoperation and deployment of business critical IT solutions.

[ipt] consultants provide the client with world-class expertise. Whether the requirement is to deliver state-of-the-art IT projects or to establish client partnerships, [ipt] will provide the answers. [ipt] competencies cover the entire software engineering lifecycle, with a focus on leading edge technologies and Service Oriented Architectures.

[ipt] was founded in 1996, and has built up a large client base. Among [ipt] clients are the most prestigious companies in Switzerland. To serve our clients, [ipt] specializes in the definition, planning and implementation of IT solutions in the following areas:

• Service oriented architecture & technology management
• Enterprise data management & integration
• Business rules management & BRMS
• Process management & governance frameworks

Additional information can be found at http://www.ipt.ch