Everware-CBDI and EBDS Partner to Provide Business Case Services for EA and SOA

Business Wire, Dec 19, 2006

Unique Offering to Evaluate ROI of Enterprise Initiatives

FAIRFAX, Va. -- Everware-CBDI Inc., the leading independent source of practices, consulting and education on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Architecture (EA), and Executive Business Decisions Software, LLC (EBDS), the developer of the CxOToolKit[TM] financial analysis methodology, have created a partnership to deliver business case and ROI services to government and commercial clients.

"Whereas many large organizations are investing in EAs based on SOA, very few have applied financial analysis techniques to guide their level of investment and evaluate their net benefits," explained Warren Ellmore, president of Everware-CBDI North America. "This new offering provides financial justification for EA in executive management terms."

EA is a planning tool and information repository supporting cross-enterprise business process integration and consolidation. SOA is an architectural style that defines the business and supporting information technology in terms of building blocks (services) easily reconfigured to support changing business strategies.

While EA/SOA can generate significant business benefits, rarely is the business case rigorously evaluated. Everware-CBDI and EBDS decided to market these services to government and industry after recently completing a significant EA/SOA program business case project for a federal agency.

Ellmore continued,"Combining our experience in EA and SOA with EBDS's financial analysis expertise and tools allows us to develop credible ROI estimates of enterprise-level organizational improvements."

Added John Santoro, managing partner EBDS, "With Everware-CBDI, we can leverage our 'best in class' financial modeling techniques in an area where quantitative analysis is usually missing. Now we can help organizations better recognize the full potential of their EA/SOA initiatives."

About Everware-CBDI

Everware-CBDI is the leading independent provider of EA and full-lifecycle SOA consulting services. CBDI Forum is the Everware-CBDI research capability and portal providing members with training and independent guidance on SOA best practices, including CBDI Service Architecture & Engineering(TM), a repeatable process for enterprise SOA. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, the company has operations in North America and Europe. For more details see www.everware-cbdi.com and www.cbdiforum.com.

About EBDS

Headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, EBDS is the leading provider of performance-based business case ROI and other financial metrics for technology investments. EBDS's CxOToolKit[TM] based consulting services model complex investment alternatives for government and commercial entities. For more details see www.cxotoolkit.com.