(SOA World Conference & Expo, New Yoprk City) - Nexaweb Technologies, a provider of a standards-based platform for building and deploying Enterprise Web 2.0 (EW2.0) applications, has unveiled Web2SOA – a newly formed Enterprise Web 2.0 & SOA Ecosystem Program designed to help customers capitalize on their SOA initiatives and deliver rich, reliable and governed Enterprise Web 2.0 (EW2.0) and Service-Oriented Business Applications (SOBA) to end-users via the Web.

According to a recent Gartner forecast the worldwide market for SOA, Web services, and Web 2.0 reached $41 billion in 2006, and will grow to $140 billion by 2011. Additionally a Gartner survey also found that 25% of companies were using Web 2.0 style services and of these more than 47% of respondents were engaged in some phase of enterprise “mash-up” projects at the end of last year. Close to 50% of those who are using or planning to use Web 2.0 style services will use application development tools and IDEs in the next 12 months. However, among companies that were doing projects involving Web services and Web 2.0 style services, the survey also found an absence of best practices among respondents in areas such as an SOA center of excellence (only 27%), an SOA governance process (only 19%), use of a registry product (only 27%), and a published list of reusable components (only 25%).

Nexaweb’s Web2SOA Program encompasses the following areas of the SOA technology landscape:

• Governance
• Service Composition & Orchestration
• Testing
• Tooling
• System Integration

Visit http://www.nexaweb.com to learn more about the Enterprise Web 2.0 & SOA Ecosystem Program as well as the Enterprise Web 2.0 Application Workshop.