The release of SOMF version 1.1 has been announecd today by the leading SOA modeling company, Methodologies Corporation. The advanced edition is based on recent book publication written by Michael Bell and produced by Wiley & Sons Inc. in March, 2008, entitled "Service-Oriented Modeling: Service Analysis, Design, and Architecture".

Michael Bell declared: "The advanced service-oriented modeling framework, also known as SOMF 1.1, offers a service life cycle development methodology designed to help organizations establish state-of-the-art software architecture disciplines for building enterprise services." He added: "Our goal is to provide an SOA modeling framework that is easy to understand and implement, increases application reuse, decreases expenditure, shortens time-to-market, and encourages software assets consolidation."

For small scale projects or large initiatives, the provided service-oriented modeling framework disciplines enable business and IT personnel to collaborate on devising an efficient SOA model. These involved SOA project life cycle participants are typically application and database modelers, business analysts, project managers, program executives, managers, business and technical architects, system analysts, team leads, and software developers.    

To facilitate business agility and growth, Methodologies Corporation is an SOA Adoption company that provides SOA strategies, implementation, and training services. Methodologies Corporation mission is to assist business and IT organizations to increase software asset reusability, accelerate time-to-market, improve and manage business processes, reduce expenditure, and efficiently consolidate business and technological assets. The leading forces behind these accomplishments are three major business and technology drivers: Process, Strategy, and Implementation.