IBM, on Wednesday, announced plans to open a SOA Leadership Centre in India designed to address the growing demand for skills needed to solve customer business challenges. 

The centre will come up in Bangalore and would be first of its kind in Asia Pacific and fourth of a series of SOA Leadership centres planned across the world. The centre will become fully functional during the first quarter of 2008, IBM said.

Key areas

The centre in Bangalore will be staffed by IBM’s Global SOA experts and will focus on three key areas: SOA education and training; SOA implementation support; and SOA exhibitions and demonstrations, thus benefiting IBM customers, Business Partners and University students.

It will offer training and instruction from leading SOA experts; certification and joint education programs with top local universities; as well as access to industry models and SOA best practices and proven methodologies based on the IBM’s worldwide experience.

Springboard Research’s latest report expects the SOA market in India to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40 per cent from 2007-2010 making it the fastest growing market in the regions.

According to the Springbaord report, IBM remained the leading SOA vendor in the Asia Pacific region.