The Insider's Guide to Business and IT Agility
07/11/2006
Software AG and Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation today announced the CentraSiteTM Community, an initiative that brings both alliance partners and customers together to create a complete service-oriented architecture (SOA) ecosystem.
ebizQ received the following details:
Formed to help organizations successfully design, implement, manage, govern and optimize an SOA, the CentraSite Community will foster business agility by providing customers with partners’ pre-integrated SOA assets stored in CentraSite, a standards-based SOA registry and repository. Jointly developed by Fujitsu and Software AG, CentraSite represents the foundation of this Community. In a separate release today, Fujitsu and Software AG also announced the general availability of CentraSite Version 2.1.
The CentraSite Community is a unique approach to:
CentraSite Community – Uniting Partners to Deliver Standards-based, Interoperable SOA Solutions
“The formation of the CentraSite Community is a major development in the delivering of advanced SOA. Vendors must deliver more cohesive solutions that customers can deploy with confidence,” said Dr. Peter Kuerpick, member of the board at Software AG and responsible for the development of crossvision. “Adoption of SOA offers organizations tremendous opportunity to achieve unprecedented levels of adaptability and agility within their enterprises. The CentraSite Community will ensure this becomes a reality, and it will provide customers with far greater confidence in their purchasing decisions.”
“The CentraSite Community demonstrates Fujitsu’s complete commitment to the SOA market,” said Robert Sepanloo, senior vice president of Enterprise Software Group, Fujitsu Computer Systems. “We recognize that the very nature of SOA requires that vendors work collaboratively to guarantee standards-based, interoperable solutions that maximize the reusability of existing services, ensure faster ROI, and scale for future growth. CentraSite and the CentraSite Community form a major industry initiative to reach these key goals.”
Sponsor Benefits
Sponsorship in the CentraSite Community is free, and to date, 15 Strategic Sponsors have joined in addition to founding Sponsors Software AG and Fujitsu.
CentraSite Community – Providing Customers with an Innovative SOA Information Portal
The CentraSite Community will appeal to customers looking for guidance on their SOA deployments as it takes an innovative approach to leveraging the “wisdom of crowds.” Over the coming months, the CentraSite Community will feature:
ROUNDTABLE: Stretch Your Budget with smart SOA Governance-A Look at Successful Case Studies
ROUNDTABLE: Open Source Market Update
Insurance: Explore how SOA & BPM are driving down expenses and improving ROI
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June 3, 2009
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