SOA Consortium Releases New Podcast Featuring Todd Landry, NEC Sphere, on "Service Oriented Communications"

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(Business Wire)--
The SOA Consortium today announced that a podcast and slide deck of the
presentation by Todd Landry, SVP, NEC Sphere on "Service Oriented
Communications," recorded at the March 2009 meeting of the SOA Consortium in
Washington, D.C. are now available. To access the podcast, visit
http://www.soa-consortium.org/pr-dc-tl.

Landry spoke of the evolution in business communications, how private branch
exchange (PBX) services have migrated from proprietary hardware switches, to IP
based systems, to software based systems, in which voice is no longer the
system, but just one of many business communication features. Instead of being
locked in a closet, communication services are now available to business
applications via an open standards-based enterprise communications service
cloud.

Landry pointed out that the most unpredictable-and highest latency-aspect of
business processes and decision-making is human interaction. By incorporating
smart communications technology and collaboration mechanisms within business
workflow, this latency is significantly reduced. Landry concluded his
presentation with a demonstration of a first responder scenario that allowed
responders across agencies to communicate both audibly and visually,
incorporating individuals, incidents, state and geo-spatial elements.

To hear Todd Landry`s entire presentation, download the 45-minute podcast and
accompanying slide presentation at http://www.soa-consortium.org/pr-dc-tl. To
read more about this podcast or to share your views, visit the SOA Consortium`s
SOA Insights blog at http://blog.soa-consortium.org. To learn more about NEC
Sphere, visit their website at http://www.necsphere.com.

The next SOA Consortium meeting is in San Antonio, Texas on September 16-17,
2009. Organizations interested in joining the SOA Consortium and attending the
meeting should visit the website, http://www.soa-consortium.org or email
info@soa-consortium.org.

About The SOA Consortium

The SOA Consortium is an advocacy group of end users, service providers and
technology vendors committed to helping the Global 1000, major government
agencies, and mid-market businesses successfully adopt Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA) by 2010. SOA Consortium founding enterprise members include
Fortune 200 companies in Financial Services, Travel, Manufacturing, Retail and
Telecommunications. Sponsors are Cisco, HP, IBM Corporation, Layer 7
Technologies, MegaPractical, NEC Sphere, SPARX Systems and Sun Microsystems,
Inc. Participants include Fortune 1000 corporations, major government agencies
and non-governmental organizations. Any organization may join the SOA
Consortium. The SOA Consortium is managed by OMG.

For more information, please visit http://www.soa-consortium.org/ or email
info@soa-consortium.org.

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