CIBER and Microsoft to Host Ohio Seminar on Service-Oriented Architecture

CINCINNATI, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A free breakfast seminar about service-oriented architecture and best practices will be hosted by CIBER, Inc. and Microsoft, Wednesday, December 13, 8:30 a.m. at Microsoft's Heartland District Offices in Mason, Ohio (greater Cincinnati). This free two-and-a-half hour seminar will describe service-oriented architecture (SOA), SOA best practices, benefits, limitations, and what SOA means for businesses -- especially mid-market firms and the Cincinnati area market.

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To learn more, register, and obtain directions, please visit http://www.ciber.com/events/soa.

Registered attendees will receive a free copy of Understanding Enterprise SOA by Eric Pulier, Hugh Taylor, and Paul Gaffney, compliments of Microsoft and CIBER.

Dr. Khalid Mansour, Vice President of CIBER's Global Enterprise Integration Practice, will lead the seminar. Dr. Mansour directs CIBER's Enterprise Integration team in numerous IT projects that require distinctive expertise, such as enterprise architecture, business intelligence, service-oriented architecture, data warehousing, data governance, event-driven architecture and business continuity/disaster recovery projects.

Dr. Mansour has more than 20 years experience leading enterprise integration, strategy, and architecture projects for companies such as Silicon Graphics Incorporated - Federal Division and the U.S. Department of Energy. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

For more information about the seminar or to register online, please visit http://www.ciber.com/events/soa. The event is free, includes breakfast, and is open to any business executive interested in learning more about service-oriented architecture.

About CIBER, Inc.

CIBER, Inc. is a pure-play international system integration consultancy with superior value-priced services for both private and government sector clients. CIBER's global delivery services are offered on a project or strategic staffing basis, in both custom and enterprise resource planning (ERP) package environments, and across all technology platforms, operating systems and infrastructures. Founded in 1974 and headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colo., the company now serves client businesses from over 60 U.S. offices, 22 European offices and five offices in Asia. Operating in 18 countries, with over 8,000 employees and annual revenue of nearly $1 billion, CIBER and its IT specialists continuously build and upgrade clients' systems to "competitive advantage status." CIBER is included in the Russell 2000 Index and the S&P Small Cap 600 Index. CIBER, ALWAYS ABLE. http://www.ciber.com/

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