IBM’s inaugural worldwide customer event, IMPACT 2007, opened today and is seeking to advance the opportunity and promise of service-oriented architecture through through education and demonstrable business results. ebizQ's Beth Gold-Bernstein is at the event, so check her blog for more details.

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More than 4,500 IBM customers have modeled their businesses around SOA, a business strategy that helps a company reuse existing technology to more closely align it with business goals, helping to result in greater efficiencies, cost savings and productivity.