“The RomeSOALeadershipCenter is dedicated to the technology and application side of innovation,” said Andrea Pontremoli, General Manager IBM Italy. “It is the ideal resource to increase SOA-based technologies for customers, partners, and users who are facing this architecture. It is the right solution for customers looking for advanced solutions.”

IBM new SOALeadershipCenter in Rome, Italy, is designed to address the growing demand for skills needed to solve customer business problems using service-oriented architectures (SOA). IBM customers, Business Partners, and university students are expected to benefit from this new structure.

SOA is 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.