Tracks
9 Tracks
| Cost Optimization | CO | |
| Gartner Vision | Gartner Vision: Business and technology leaders turn to Gartner for strategic insight, market overviews and information on upcoming trends. Sessions with a particular focus on visionary thinking are marked with a “G” icon. | G |
| Keynote | Keynote | |
| Practical Guidance | Practical Guidance: We understand your need for tactical information you can action straight away. Please look out for sessions marked with a “P” icon for content focused on how to, dos and don'ts and best practices. | P |
| Track 1: The Business and the Governance of SOA | Nowadays and more than ever, embarking on an SOA initiative requires careful evaluation of business benefits, prudent planning and staffing and the appropriate level of governance. Discover how to frame SOA to hit business value, in the context of a broader application strategy, how to coordinate SOA with enterprise architecture, how to align business and IT, how to tackle the relevant organizational and governance challenges and how to derive value for the most advanced architectural approaches such as events processing, BPM and multi-enterprise B2B. | Track 1 |
| Track 2: Application Integration and SOA Technology | At the core of SOA and other modern SOA-derived approaches like BPM, lies application integration enabled by a variety of middleware technologies framed in an “SOA backplane.” Proper selection and implementation of application infrastructure technologies is critical for the success of integration-enabled SOA initiative. Learn how to leverage application integration for SOA and BPM, how to effectively evaluate, select and implement the components of the enabling application infrastructure and what are the most appropriate development methodologies and tools. | Track 2 |
| Track 3: Operational Efficiency Through SOA | The primary goal of any IT project nowadays is aimed to gain greater operational efficiency and reduce the cost of staying in business. Reducing IT expenditure is imperative. Investments must be justified through short-term cost efficiency benefits. False starts are most dangerous. Reacting swiftly is vital. Find out why MDM and BAM play a role in this picture; how middleware technology, application modernization, modern transaction processing techniques and data integration enable “doing more with less” and how to address the associated security and management challenges. | Track 3 |
| Track 4: Enabling Growth Through Multienterprise SOA | A time of rapid and unpredictable change like this offers several opportunities for growth to companies able to exploit them rapidly. Reaching out to clients and citizens more effectively, focusing on core business, more closely integrating with business partners and leveraging new Internet and cloud-enabled business models are ways to innovate and reinvent the business enabled by available technology. Explore the opportunities for innovation associated with multienterprise B2B integration patterns, e-commerce, cloud computing and software as a service, Web 2.0, mash ups and Web-oriented architecture. | Track 4 |
| Track 1: The Business and the Governance of SOA | Nowadays and more than ever, embarking on an SOA initiative requires careful evaluation of business benefits, prudent planning and staffing and the appropriate level of governance. Discover how to frame SOA to hit business value, in the context of a broader application strategy, how to coordinate SOA with enterprise architecture, how to align business and IT, how to tackle the relevant organizational and governance challenges and how to derive value for the most advanced architectural approaches such as events processing, BPM and multi-enterprise B2B. | Track1 |
