Mr. Harrington has more than 30 years varied business experience. Currently, he is responsible for all operational aspects of DAT, a focused Enterprise Architecture Consulting and Software Development company. DAT is a strong promoter of OMG's Model Driven Architecture standards.

Prior to joining DAT, Ed was Vice President of Business Development and Strategy for NEXOR, a UK based developer of high tolerance messaging and directory solutions. Prior to that, he served as director, i500 Americas for ICL the then market leader in X.500 directory solutions. Prior to ICL, Ed spent 17 years at General Electric in various marketing and finance management roles.Dataaccess Technologies.

Mr. Harrington is currently Chair of the OMG-Open Group-IC Joint TOGAF-MDA Synergy Working Group. He is Vice Chair of the Open Group's Architecture Forum as well as a past Chair of its Directory Interoperability Forum and Mobile Management Forum. Mr. Harrington holds a B.A. in Economics from Holy Cross and is a graduate of the GE Financial Management and Manager Development Programs

Presentation
The State of SOA and the Standards that Support it
 This session describes the state of SOA as viewed from numerous perspectives including a number of analyst organizations (Gartner, Yankee Group, Forrester, etc.), and describes the state of the standards supporting SOA from the perspective of various standards development organizations.

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