The SOA Work Group is a work group of The Open Group's Customer Council and Supplier Council.

Its mission is to develop and foster common understanding of SOA in order to facilitate alignment between the business and information technology communities.

Work Program

The Work Group carries out its mission by conducting a work program to produce definitions, analyses, recommendations, reference models, and standards to assist business and information technology professionals within and outside of the Open Group to understand and adopt SOA.

The Work Group currently has the following projects:

• Ontologies for SOA
• SOA Governance
• SOA/TOGAF Practical Guide
• Service-Oriented Infrastructure
• SOA Reference Architecture
• SOA and Security
• Legacy Evolution to SOA

In addition, it produces the SOA Source Book, which is is a collection of source material for use by enterprise architects working with Service-Oriented Architecture, derived from the work of the project teams.

Participants and Officers

Over 350 people from over 70 Open Group member companies are involved in our work.

The SOA Working Group has two co-chairs:

• Tony Carrato, IBM
• Mats Gejnevall, Capgemini

The Working Group Steering Committee members are:

• Tony Carrato, IBM
• Jorge Diaz, IBM
• Mats Gejnevall, Capgemini
• Chris Greenslade, CLARS

The Working Group Liaisons Officers, responsible for co-ordinating relations with other bodies both inside and outside of The Open Group, are:

• Ed Harrington, Model-Driven Solutions
• Heather Kreger, IBM

More About the Work Group

You can find further information about the SOA Work Group in the latest Work Group presentation.

View the presentation