Reston Va., November 1, 2006, David Linthicum, an internationally known
application integration and service oriented architecture (SOA) expert,
announced today the launch of his new consulting organization the Linthicum
Group (www.linthicumgroup.com). The Linthicum Group was created to assist
Global 2000 organizations, government agencies, and SOA product companies
with the implementation of sound SOA strategies that work the first time.
The Linthicum Group provides “real world” SOA consulting services to product
or end-user organizations who are seeking guidance beyond the SOA hype.
The group seeks to understand your requirements first, and then define the
correct solution to meet the particular needs of your enterprise, or SOA
product organization. The group leverages proven and pre-built approaches
and methodologies, using industry best practices, including © Steps, David
Linthicum’s SOA methodology, now in use for over 5 years.
“What’s unique about the Linthicum Group is that we come to organizations
with a great deal of knowledge and understanding of the notion of SOA, as
well as pre-built and tested approaches for the proper implementation of a
SOA game plan in the client organization. “ says David Linthicum. “We
ignore the hype, going directly to the requirements and needs of the client
organization, crafting a solution that’s correct for them and will make them
successful.”
David is the host of InfoWorld's SOA Report Podcast, and writes the
InfoWorld's Real World SOA Blog, and has columns in both Web Services
Journal and Business Integration Journal.
“End user organizations will learn more about their own requirements, having
a complete semantic, services, and process level understanding of their
domain before selecting the technology solution that will work for them.”
Linthicum continues.
Moreover, the group will work with SOA product organizations, teaching them
how their product compares and competes in their market space, as well as
any planning needed around product enhancements to meet market demands.
This includes leveraging new enabling technology, and key enabling
standards.
About David Linthicum
David Linthicum is an internationally known application integration and
service oriented architecture (SOA) expert. In his career David has formed
many of the ideas for modern distributed computing including EAI (Enterprise
Application Integration) and B2B application integration, and Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA), approaches and technology in wide use today.
Dave is the former CEO of BRIDGEWERX, and has held key technology management
rules with a number of organizations including CTO of Mercator Software, CTO
of SAGA Software, Mobil Oil, EDS, AT&T, and Ernst and Young. In addition
he was an associate professor of computer science for eight years, and
continues to lecture at major technical colleges and universities. David
keynotes at many leading technology conferences.
In addition, David has authored over 500 articles for major computing
publications, and has monthly columns in several popular industry magazines.
David has authored or co-authored six books including David Linthicum's
Guide to Client/Server and Intranet Development, and the ground breaking and
best selling Enterprise Application Integration released in 1999. His
latest book, Next Generation Application Integration, was just released and
is already a best seller.
David is the host of InfoWorld's SOA Report Podcast, and writes the InfoWorld's Real World SOA Blog.