UFIDA Technology Conference 2007 – a grand technical summit of China’s management software industry – was inaugurated at Intercontinental Pudong Shanghai on June 9, 2007. Elaborating the theme “SOA - A Driver of Business Innovation”, the event saw the gathering of over 300 SOA experts, enterprise customers and development partners sharing a feast of the new generation software technology architecture of SOA. The conference had an in-depth exploration into issues including the opportunities SOA will bring to Chinese enterprises, successful application practices and value of SOA, the revolutionary impact of SOA on the software industry and methodology for SOA deployment. As a leading vendor of enterprise management software in China and the Asia-Pacific, an SOA practitioner and promoter, UFIDA has introduced in detail its SOA technology architecture to participants at the conference, and has showcased its understanding and philosophy of SOA application. The conference will be of high significance to application of the state-of-the-art IT application architecture at Chinese enterprises to improve business flexibility and technical flexibility and prompt adaptation to changes in the market.

IDC - an acclaimed global market research leader, IBM – a leading SOA vendor, Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), senior experts from the Institute of Software of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS), development partners and Chief Officers of Information practitioning SOA, were present at the conference and they discussed together the trend of development of SOA in the world, shared practical experience of SOA of renowned multinational companies, and the methodology of SOA application.

“The significance of SOA is that it makes IT more elastic and it synchronizes business operation and IT, thus enabling enterprises to respond better to changes,” said Mr. Wang Wenjing, Chairman and President of UFIDA. SOA technology changes ways of software development and drives IT application innovation for enterprises. UFIDA has placed itself again at the forefront of technology and applications in the great opportunities brought by transformation of enterprise management software to the SOA architecture.

Experts of the management software industry pointed out that SOA concept has already become a focus of the industry in the last two to three years after it was set out by Garnter in 1996. Under SOA architecture, software will become a service component in the future. While improving the flexibility of software, SOA will bring flexible and stable support for business model innovation, process restructuring and organization evolution for its users. Therefore, it is regarded as one of the most important strategic subjects for informatized enterprise management in the near future. UFIDA has been spearheading development of China’s management software industry over the years. UFIDA’s initiation and application of SOA architecture will help a great number of Chinese enterprises enhance the adaptability of their information systems to fast changing business environments. SOA architecture is poised to become a powerful driver for world-level management practices at Chinese enterprises.

SOA architecture has already been widely used in UFIDA enterprise group management solution NC and the latest version of UFIDA ERP-U8. It has been learnt that U9 – UFIDA’s new generation management software product and the world’s first product based on SOA technology architecture will be released in the latter half of this year. This means that China can also design and develop world leading management software and China will become the third management software center after Europe and North America.

UFIDA Technology Conference is the most influential and most forward-looking grand gathering of China’s management software industry and it features leading application technologies. The technology conference held in Shanghai has set up a platform for sharing of state-of-the-art technology, leading applications and successful experience between enterprise customers, experts and management software vendors. At the same time, it has highlighted liveliness and interactivity. Diversified activities were organized at the conference including keynote speeches, seminars, development scenario simulation and experiencing, and on-the-job supervision by experts, all aimed at helping participants at the conference to familiarize with development and delivery tools, methods and skills.

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