For Immediate Release

Contact: Karen Colson
karen @ summa-tech.com
412.258.3294

Summa Sponsoring and Presenting at IBM's Impact 2010 Conference

Pittsburgh, PA (April 14, 2010) - Summa, a provider of IT consulting and software solutions that help companies align technology and business goals to achieve business effectiveness, is pleased to announce its participation at IBM's premier SOA conference, Impact, as a presenter, exhibitor and sponsor. Impact will be held at the Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas from May 2 through May 7, 2010.

Summa will be presenting five sessions at the conference, along with a Birds of a Feather Breakout Session focused on "The Transformative Role of IT in Healthcare." The sessions include:

• UPMC Modernizes Healthcare Interoperability with WebSphere Process Server
• Highmark Modernizes Healthcare Insurance Sales Process with WebSphere Message Broker
• The Real TCO of WAS vs. JBoss and other Open Source JEE Runtimes
• Accelerate Your Cloud CRM Deployments with WebSphere
• Panel Discussion: WAS vs. JBoss and Tomcat: Customer Insights and Perspectives

In addition to the speaking sessions, Summa will be exhibiting at Booth #IZ16 in the Industry Zone at the conference, highlighting solutions in Healthcare, SaaS/Cloud Integration, Application Modernization, and SOA, BPM, BRM and Connectivity.

For more information about Summa's sessions and the Impact conference, visit http://www.summa-tech.com/news/impact2010.php4 and http://www-01.ibm.com/software/websphere/events/impact/.