SYS-CON Events announced today that webMethods joined SOA World 2007 East Conference & Expo as "Gold Sponsor."

webMethods provides business process integration to over 1,400 of the world's largest corporations and government agencies, enabling them to achieve faster business improvements and competitive differentiation. By taking a process-centric approach to integration, webMethods allows customers to reuse their existing IT assets and achieve greater process automation and visibility.

SYS-CON Events also announced that the "Call for Papers" for SOA World 2007 East Conference & Expo and Enterprise Open Source 2007 East Conference & Expo, both to be held June 25-27, 2007, in New York City, are now open through April 30, 2007.

Topics include all development and management aspects of Web Services and Service-Oriented Architecture plus all development and management aspects of Open Source technology.

SOA World 2007 East Conference & Expo 

According to industry analyst firm Gartner Group, by 2008 more than 60 percent of enterprises will use SOA as the guiding principle when creating mission-critical applications and processes. "Businesses that ignore the potential of SOA will find themselves outpaced by rivals who improve their agility and transform themselves into new kinds of enterprises," says Gartner analyst Yafim Natis.

Help with that transformation: submit your speaking proposal today. Topics will include:

• Transitioning Successfully to SOA
• Federated Web Services
• SOA Governance
• ebXML
• Orchestration
• Discovery
• The Business Case for SOA
• Interop & Standards
• Web Services Management
• Messaging Buses and SOA
• Enterprise Service Buses
• SOBAs (Service-Oriented Business Apps)
• Delivering ROI with SOA
• Java Web Services
• XML Web Services
• Security
• Professional Open Source
• Systems Integration
• Sarbanes-Oxley
• Grid Computing
• Business Process Management
• Web Services Choreography

Speaker Candidates
Ideal candidates are i-Technology experts who have first-hand experience in the development and/or implementation of Web services, .NET, MX, or Java applications, XML-based technologies, and service-oriented architectures in general. .NET and Java developers involved in building, deploying, or maintaining Web services and IT/IS management involved in IT integration and related issues are also welcome.

If you have something substantive, challenging, and original to offer, you are encouraged to submit a proposal. In the proposal, please highlight previous speaking engagements including classroom or course work. Please provide at least three references with respect to speaking ability, as well as contact information that will allow us to reach you to evaluate presentation skills. Past speakers do not need to provide references. 

Enterprise Open Source 2007 East Conference & Expo

In the world of Enterprise Open Source software, the code is free and open but you can pay for things such as support, packaging, and/or reliable distributions. This conference aims to help attendees navigate the choppy waters between what JBoss CEO Marc Fleury calls "the expectations/perceptions of the open source community and the reality of sustaining the kind of software and services that professional IT management can be comfortable signing off on."

Help with that navigation process: submit your speaking proposal today. Topics will include:

• Open Source Licenses
• Open Source & E-Mail
• Databases
• ROI Case Studies
• Open Source ERP & CRM
• Open-Source SIP
• Testing
• LAMP Technologies
• Open Source on the Desktop
• Open Source & Sarbanes-Oxley
• IP Management

Benefits of Being a Member of the 2007 Faculty
Speakers will receive unprecedented visibility in pre-conference promotion in print and online. They will also receive exposure via the accompanying Web Services Edge 2007 East conference portal for many months prior to and following the conference. Sessions may be recorded and made available via the Internet to a wider audience (at the discretion of SYS-CON Events). Speakers will have the benefit of attending the entire conference as our guest.

Topics include all development and management aspects of Web Services and Service-Oriented Architecture plus all development and management aspects of Open Source technology.

SOA World 2007 East Conference & Expo 

According to industry analyst firm Gartner Group, by 2008 more than 60 percent of enterprises will use SOA as the guiding principle when creating mission-critical applications and processes. "Businesses that ignore the potential of SOA will find themselves outpaced by rivals who improve their agility and transform themselves into new kinds of enterprises," says Gartner analyst Yafim Natis.

Help with that transformation: submit your speaking proposal today. Topics will include:

• Transitioning Successfully to SOA
• Federated Web Services
• SOA Governance
• ebXML
• Orchestration
• Discovery
• The Business Case for SOA
• Interop & Standards
• Web Services Management
• Messaging Buses and SOA
• Enterprise Service Buses
• SOBAs (Service-Oriented Business Apps)
• Delivering ROI with SOA
• Java Web Services
• XML Web Services
• Security
• Professional Open Source
• Systems Integration
• Sarbanes-Oxley
• Grid Computing
• Business Process Management
• Web Services Choreography

Speaker Candidates
Ideal candidates are i-Technology experts who have first-hand experience in the development and/or implementation of Web services, .NET, MX, or Java applications, XML-based technologies, and service-oriented architectures in general. .NET and Java developers involved in building, deploying, or maintaining Web services and IT/IS management involved in IT integration and related issues are also welcome.

If you have something substantive, challenging, and original to offer, you are encouraged to submit a proposal. In the proposal, please highlight previous speaking engagements including classroom or course work. Please provide at least three references with respect to speaking ability, as well as contact information that will allow us to reach you to evaluate presentation skills. Past speakers do not need to provide references. 

Enterprise Open Source 2007 East Conference & Expo

In the world of Enterprise Open Source software, the code is free and open but you can pay for things such as support, packaging, and/or reliable distributions. This conference aims to help attendees navigate the choppy waters between what JBoss CEO Marc Fleury calls "the expectations/perceptions of the open source community and the reality of sustaining the kind of software and services that professional IT management can be comfortable signing off on."

Help with that navigation process: submit your speaking proposal today. Topics will include:

• Open Source Licenses
• Open Source & E-Mail
• Databases
• ROI Case Studies
• Open Source ERP & CRM
• Open-Source SIP
• Testing
• LAMP Technologies
• Open Source on the Desktop
• Open Source & Sarbanes-Oxley
• IP Management

Benefits of Being a Member of the 2007 Faculty
Speakers will receive unprecedented visibility in pre-conference promotion in print and online. They will also receive exposure via the accompanying Web Services Edge 2007 East conference portal for many months prior to and following the conference. Sessions may be recorded and made available via the Internet to a wider audience (at the discretion of SYS-CON Events). Speakers will have the benefit of attending the entire conference as our guest.