IBM's SOA and WebSphere chief Sandy Carter's two popular articles appeared this week at SOA World Magazine, a sister publication of SYS-CON's WebSphere Journal.

Carter's popular "SOA Manufactures Success for the Supply Chain" article which examines that "there's no question that Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) will continue to lead the IT and business agenda. After all, an SOA offers a flexible, extensible, and composable approach to reusing and extending existing applications and services, as well as constructing new ones" is already read by mor than 4,000 SOA World readers.

The second highly popular SOA World article authored by Carter is entitled "Two SOA Projects That Can Pay For Themselves in Six Months" is already read by more than 14,000 SOA World readers.

Sandy Carter, vice president in charge of IBM's SOA and WebSphere strategy is a graduate of Duke University with a B.S. in Computer Science and Math and an M.B.A from Harvard University. Her professional associations include Member and Best Speaker Award, the Marketing Focus Advisory Council; Board Member of the Grace Hopper Industry Advisory Committee; and membership in Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Inner Circle. She recently won an Award from AIT United Nations for helping developing countries, is an active member of the Women in Technology Group, and the Lead IBM Partnership Executive at Duke University.

SOA World Magazine is the media sponsor of SOA World Conference & Expo.