About: About Everware-CBDI

Everware-CBDI is the result of the May 2006 merger of Everware, a U.S. firm specializing in Enterprise Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and legacy transformations to SOA, with CBDI Forum, a U.K. firm focused on accelerating the successful adoption of Service Oriented Architecture best practices through independent consulting, education and a global knowledgebase.

A Shared History

In the early 1990's we recognized the potential for better-structured software and reuse. Initially we were evangelists and practitioners in the emerging field of software components at a time when there was widespread misunderstanding of basic component and reuse concepts. Many of us were on the front lines creating the architectural, technical, and managerial best practices for deploying business applications which consisted of large-grained, reusable software components.

In the late 1990's, CBDI Forum first wrote reports on service-based concepts and federated architectures. At that time, we were convinced that the evolutionary component story was not yet finished, and that emerging technologies combined with the enhancement and specialization of the interface would allow automation of many basic software processes. Today everyone refers to this approach as SOA, and the enhanced interfaces as web services.

At the same time, we were delivering enterprise business applications using component based development (CBD) approaches to dramatically reduce time and cost to market. We were an early adopter of the component capability within Java/J2EE (now Java EE) and developed a suite of service-based components and generators to accelerate development using industry standard patterns and frameworks.

During the last few years, both Everware and CBDI Forum have been innovators of architectures and practices using all aspects of service-based concepts, technologies and techniques. We believe these ideas are the foundation of higher-quality agile applications that result in improved support of business needs.

A Shared Vision

With the merger, Everware-CBDI is combining and expanding our capability to make the vision of SOA a reality. To us, SOA offers a real opportunity to fundamentally change the way business and technology work together and it offers the only credible response to modernizing the massive portfolio of legacy applications that are consuming approximately 80% of the IT budget. Implementing SOA across an enterprise is hard work, but done properly produces significant investment returns and greater business flexibility for years to come.