EVERWARE-CBDI PUBLISH METAMODEL FOR SOA

FAIRFAX, Va, November – Everware-CBDI Inc. the leading independent source of practices, consulting and education on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) announced today the publication of a metamodel for SOA in the October CBDI Journal and a customer review process.

SOA is widely regarded as one of the most profound changes ever in enterprise computing. Yet there is general confusion over basic concepts, architecture and practices. Everware-CBDI Vice President David Sprott explains, “Many large organizations report they are experiencing “service anarchy” as services are implemented in an inconsistent manner. The situation has been made worse by the proliferation of proprietary metamodels embedded in SOA tools.”

To address these issues Everware-CBDI has developed a comprehensive metamodel that defines SOA unambiguously leveraging current industry standards. A metamodel defines the rules for building business and software models and defines terminology in a consistent manner to eliminate confusion. The SOA metamodel provides essential precision for the specification of business services, and enables SOA automation and effective governance. Over the next 3 months, Everware-CBDI will facilitate a metamodel review and refinement process with input from the CBDI Forum worldwide membership comprising architects from many of the world’s largest corporations, governments and the software industry.

“Our objective with the review process is to establish a metamodel that will allow large organizations to evolve beyond today’s tactical service activity to a genuinely strategic SOA environment,” Sprott continued. “We anticipate this work will form the basis for standardization of key aspects of the service architecture and that Everware-CBDI will submit the reviewed metamodel to appropriate standards bodies.”

About Everware-CBDI
Everware-CBDI is the leading independent provider of full-lifecycle, SOA-based research, education and consulting to businesses and governments. CBDI Forum is the Everware-CBDI research capability and portal providing members with independent guidance on best practice in SOA, including CBDI Service Architecture & EngineeringTM a repeatable process for enterprise SOA. CBDI Journal is a monthly subscription publication read by IT architects worldwide. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, USA, the company has operations in North America and Europe. For more details see www.everware-cbdi.com and www.cbdiforum.com or call 1-888-383-7927.

The introductory report on the SOA Metamodel is available at http://www.cbdiforum.com/metamodel (Requires free registration) Editors may request the October CBDI Journal from media contacts below.

Media contacts:
Everware-CBDI North America
Janet Goebel
703-938-1242
jgoebel@att.net

Everware-CBDI International
David Sprott
+353 28 38073
dsprott@everware-cbdi.com