CBDI Forum is the Everware-CBDI research capability and portal providing independent guidance on best practice in Service Oriented Architecture and engineering.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is widely forecast to be the most profound transformation in the history of business and IT and many large enterprises and governments are now planning adoption. Undertaken correctly Service Oriented Architecture enables the highest level of convergence between business and IT, in which information solutions reflect the real requirements of the business for efficiency, standardization and adaptability. Well executed SOA will deliver radical reductions in cost and help businesses to improve their business design for growth and flexibility.

However, today most enterprises and government agencies are experimenting with SOA in a tactical manner that will not scale. CBDI Forum believe it is essential for business success that structured architecture and engineering approaches are employed to ensure appropriate policy development, execution and governance.
 

There are many analysts, commentators and consultants providing coverage of SOA. What makes CBDI Forum unique?

Focused - CBDI Forum provides in-depth guidance in its core topics. For others, SOA is just one of many topics they cover. CBD Forum covers not just the technology, but also the architectures, usage, practices and processes, as well as the business relevance of SOA.

Engineered -CBDI Forum provides detailed, precise guidance in techniques in order to inform an engineered SOA based process - that incorporates a high level of standardization and utility that facilitates consistency and repeatability.

Actionable - CBDI Forum focuses on best practice guidance that is immediately actionable by subscribers. Whilst CBDI Forum provides vision and a long term view of SOA, it also provides detailed guidance on activities that are relevant today.

Business Oriented - For CBDI Forum, SOA is not just an IT issue but an enabler for Business/IT convergence. CBDI Forum provides insight on how SOA impacts business design, and how business strategy guides SOA decisions.

Experienced - CBDI Forum consultants have a rich background in their particular disciplines. All have decades of relative experience.

Real World - Everware-CBDI provides 'real world' grounding for our best practice. CBDI Forum guidance is refined though work with end-user organizations.

Independent - CBDI Forum guidance is independent of technology or vendor.

CBDI Forum members are primarily middle and senior management including business analysts, consultants, CTO's, CIO's, designers, development managers, IT architects, project managers, product strategists and managers, senior developers, etc.

Members come from commercial and government end-user organizations, as well as from the IT industry including vendors and systems integrators.

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CBDI Forum was founded in 1997 as an independent research company and think tank specializing in service oriented architecture and component based development. Our aim then and now is to provide an independent guidance on best practices at a level that is useful for practitioners.

In May 2006 CBDI Forum Limited merged with Everware Inc. to form Everware-CBDI Inc. The combined company continues to pursue the original goals of independent guidance on best practice, but with a much expanded capability in terms of topic coverage, skills and resources as well as geography.

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