SOA Consortium announced that a podcast and slide deck of the presentation by Sandy Carter, VP, SOA & WebSphere Strategy, Channels and Marketing, IBM, on "IT needs SOA Skills," at the SOA Consortium meeting in San Francisco in December is now available. To access the podcast, visit http://www.soa-consortium.org/podcast-ca-sc-pr.

Sandy Carter spoke about the importance of fostering SOA skills in her presentation to the members and guests attending the SOA Consortium general meeting in December. In her presentation, she called out results from a survey conducted at IBM's Impact conference that "56% of people say their biggest inhibitor is not looking at the value of SOA, or what SOA brings to the table, but it was looking at their skills."