I asked what she did for a living. She said she was a software engineer working with SOA. I did not think about my plane ride much until I arrived in San Francisco to attend the SOA World Conference & Expo this past Monday and Tuesday. The first day of the conference as I walked into the hotel, guess who I saw? My friend who I met on the Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul. What a small world, isn't it? Her company was one of the sponsors of the event.

HP today announced that Rydex Investments and Wheaton Franciscan Services have deployed HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays (EVAs) in their IT environments.

Xenos Group announced that TSI Terminal Systems has selected the Xenos EDI terminalONE solution to integrate with their new container management system to improve the movement of containers at two of the largest container terminals at the Port of Vancouver. Xenos terminalONE is a key element in an information supply chain that links multiple trading partners to TSI.

Xenos Group announced that it has authored and published two new white papers on the AIIM Solution Center for Financial Services.

Business process management (BPM), and the information technology systems that support it, are defined in many different ways. Business process management software (BPMS) is the enabling technology to define, digitize, execute, monitor and optimize global business processes. It automates the end-to-end business process, encompassing people and system activities, across multiple organizations and supporting applications and, to quote Webster, 'delivers a particular and consistent result.'