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The Value Proposition For End Users Joining The Integration Consortium (IC)
In 2007 the IC is bigger and better than ever. Whether you are new to the IC or an existing member, here are just a few of the benefits you can expect:
- Create your Integration Strategy: Whether you are launching an ICC for the first time or have an established practice that you need to take to the next level, you don’t need to do it alone; IC members are here to help with insights, brainstorming, or just plain commiserating.
- Learn from others: Early adopters of SOA share their best practices, insights, and views on the state of SOA adoption across the industry.
- Compare alternatives: Establish a baseline reference for comparison of options; other end-users will tell you things about products that vendors never will.
- Improve collaboration: They say the best way to learn something is to teach it to someone else; by actively participating in BLOGS, Chapter events, Global Integration IS, and IC Community calls, you clarify your own vision and establish core principles which are hallmarks of great leaders.
- Accelerate implementations: The IC membership can help clarify requirements, recommended tools, and best practices for every life-cycle stage.
- Avoid potential risks: Don’t make the same mistakes others have; IC members in private discussions are happy to share lessons learned from past failures.
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Expand Your Personal Network: the IC provides a very valuable network of peers and personal contacts that you can leverage at any time.
- Remain Professionally Active: The annual Call-for-papers and peer-review process, public speaking at events, and friendly debates at chapter meetings and conference calls will challenge and reward you.
Peer Learning from those that do, NOT those that sell!
- 16 BILLION in 2002 was lost due to inadequate software interoperability in the capital facilities industry, according to a study commissioned by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
- Increase the success ratio of integration deployments by 80%!
- Learn from peer integration experiences, success, failures and vendor management strategies.
Integration Learning
- The Unbiased Source for Integration, Resources, Case Studies, Bear Traps.
- The Global Integration Summit end user leaders in action!
- Regional Summits one day end-user hot topics!
- Webinars on real issues and not just the technology of the day!
- Access to all IC Chapter Presentations!
Integration Solutions
- Use the Global Integration Framework (GIF) provides specific integration solutions!
- Multimillion dollar IP collateral Total Business Integration (TBI) Methodology, donated by a Fortune 50 End User.
Company Wide Membership
- No geographical or user limitations! Involvement by everyone in your organization.
Join the Integration Consortium (IC)Today!
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