EAI Industry Consortium Announces over 30 New Members in August


Monday, 08 September 2004
PR Newswire Europe

London, September 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) Industry Consortium today announced that it welcomed over 30 new members to the Consortium in August. This includes 16 end-user companies, 14 other companies consisting of vendors, Systems Integrators and Consultancies and a number of individuals and students from all over the world. The total number of EAI Consortium members now totals over 100.

The EAI Industry Consortium has been experiencing a greatly increased number of new members joining over recent months due to the increased activities of the group in both Europe and North America. The UK saw the first user group meeting in July and a number of new papers on EAI best practices have been published on the Consortium's website. There are also now 10 individual committees within the Consortium focusing on specific areas of EAI, such as Adaptor Technology, Web Services and Business Process Integration.

End-user members that joined the Consortium in August are: Caterpillar, GlobolTek Hospitality Technologies Inc., ING Reliastar Life Insurance Company, ING Canada, JumpStart, Pan Atlantic Consultants, Panhandle Energy, Sears Canada Inc., SIAC - Securities Information Automation Corporation, Smartcom PCS, Société Générale Corporate and Investment Banking, Société Générale Group, State Street Bank, Sprint, Williams-Sonoma Inc., Nestle USA.

Associate members that joined in August are: ASSIST Consultores, Attunity Inc., DBI Consulting, Global Integration Technology (GLINTECH), iConexio, Jacada Ltd, Librados Inc, Methodex Technologies Ltd, Nastel Technologies Inc, Oak Grove Systems, Robert Half Technology, SINFIC, T-Systems, Tier1 Innovation.

Michael Kuhbock, Chairman and Founder of the EAI Industry Consortium comments: "We are extremely pleased to welcome so many new members to the Consortium and we are sure that they will find our workgroups, committees, papers and events as valuable as our existing members do. The membership continues to expand our working initiatives daily and our activity is growing exponentially. "

About the EAI Industry Consortium

The EAI Industry Consortium is a non-profit global advocacy group developed to promote EAI and all related integration technologies through sponsored research, the establishment of standards and guidelines, best practices, and the articulation of EAI's strategic and measurable benefits. EAI Industry Consortium's motto is "Dedicated to the Quest for Measurable Business Value."

The strategic mission of the member-driven EAI Industry Consortium is simple: We are unifying and developing a common understanding within the industry, educating and informing the marketplace, and introducing and promoting integration technologies.

Among the sectors represented in the EAI Industry Consortium membership are independent software vendors (ISVs), hardware vendors, system integrators, academic institutions, end user corporations, non-profit institutions and individual members, as well as various industry leaders. Information on the EAI Industry Consortium is available at http://www.eaiindustry.org/ or by sending e-mail to information@eaiindustry.org.

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