UFIDA Technology Conference 2007 Held in Shanghai

SOA – A driver of business innovation and a sharp tool for enterprises to respond to the
changing world

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.