While attending DIALOG I had a chance to have lunch with Sandy Carter of IBM and Pierre Haren of ILOG. There was a lot of interesting discussion but two key themes caught my attention - business v IT drivers and reuse.
Sandy discussed how top-down SOA being driven by BPM and has an executive focus, although [...]

After a short break we had Sandy Carter on The New Language of Business - SOA and Web 2.0. Sandy has recently published a book on this topic(The New Language of Business: SOA & Web 2.0). IBM recently surveyed CEOs to see what is top of mind and found that innovation for growth in today’s [...]

The folks at OMG have just published the presentations from the recent SOA Consortium meeting. I blogged about some of these - a discussion of CIO concerns about SOA and Sandy Carter of IBM. You can find the following PDFs on the OMG site:

Sandy Carter of IBM, Keynote on SOA Skills
Judith Hurwitz of Hurwitz & [...]

Next up was a panel of experts - Sandy Carter of IBM, Judith Hurwitz of Hurwitz & Associates, Richard Soley of OMG - moderated by Brenda Michelson. This will apparently be available as a podcast some time soon. Brenda asked each person to identify the areas of most concern to CIOs. Here’s what they had [...]

I am attending the SOA Consortium meeting that is co-located with the OMG in Burlingame this week. The SOA Consortium was founded in 2007 and has grown from 11 to 81 members already. They do podcasts, case studies and work with people like Gartner to co-locate events around SOA and BPM.
Sandy Carter of IBM was [...]