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Sandy Carter, Vice President, SOA & WebSphere Strategy, IBM
to Present and Hold Book Signing at OMG and SOA Consortium Meetings
Meetings will take place week of March 23-27, 2009 in Washington, D.C., USA

Needham, MA, USA - January 29, 2009 - OMG™ and the SOA Consortium announce that Sandy Carter, Vice President, SOA & WebSphere Strategy, Channels and Marketing, IBM will be giving presentations at their upcoming general meetings and holding a book signing for her latest book, in Washington, D.C. at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City hotel. For more information on the meetings, visit http://www.omg.org/carter.

During the SOA Consortium meeting on March 25-26, Sandy Carter, recently recognized by Fast Company magazine as one of the most influential executive women in technology, will speak to attendees on how the "Smart SOA™" approach can help in a tough economic climate. Her presentation is scheduled for the morning of Wednesday, March 25.

The OMG meeting will be held March 23-27, 2009, with Sandy giving a Plenary to the joint OMG/SOA Consortium lunch on Wednesday, March 25. Immediately after her plenary presentation, Sandy will be available for a half-hour book signing of her most recent publication: "The New Language of Marketing 2.0."

Members and non-members are invited to attend. Interested non-members may attend OMG Technical Meetings as observers; for an invitation see http://www.omg.org/tcguest. Members may register for the meeting at http://www.omg.org/registration. To register for the SOA Consortium meeting, visit http://www.soa-consortium.org/SOA2009.htm. Attendees of the OMG Technical Meeting may attend the SOA Consortium meeting at no additional charge.

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About The SOA Consortium
The SOA Consortium is an advocacy group of end users, service providers and technology vendors committed to helping the Global 1000, major government agencies, and mid-market businesses successfully adopt Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) by 2010. SOA Consortium founding enterprise members include Fortune 200 companies in Financial Services, Travel, Manufacturing, Retail and Telecommunications. Sponsors are Cisco, HP, IBM Corporation, Layer 7 Technologies, NEC Sphere, Savant, Sparx Systems and Sun Microsystems, Inc. Participants include Fortune 1000 corporations, major government agencies and non-governmental organizations. Any organization may join the SOA Consortium. The SOA Consortium is managed by OMG.

For more information, please visit http://www.soa-consortium.org  or email info@soa-consortium.org.

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About OMG
OMG is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry consortium. OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration standards for a wide range of technologies, including: Real-time, Embedded and Specialized Systems, Analysis & Design, Architecture-Driven Modernization and Middleware and an even wider range of industries, including: Business Modeling and Integration, C4I, Finance, Government, Green Computing, Healthcare, Insurance, Legal Compliance, Life Sciences Research, Manufacturing Technology, Robotics, Software-Based Communications and Space.

OMG's modeling standards, including the Unified Modeling Language™ (UML®) and Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®), enable powerful visual design, execution and maintenance of software and other processes, including IT Systems Modeling and Business Process Management. OMG's middleware standards and profiles are based on the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA®) and support a wide variety of industries. 

More information about OMG can be found at www.omg.org. OMG is headquartered in Needham, MA, USA.

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Edited by Stephanie