Application integration is at the core of today's most important business strategies, including Web enablement, supply chain management (SCM), customer relationship management (CRM), multichannel and mobile computing, and self-service applications. Application integration means creating or modifying the interactions among semi-autonomous but related application systems, encompassing purchased packages, legacy applications and new Web services.
The market for integration middleware is changing rapidly. Low-end, limited-function integration products are expanding their capabilities to challenge the high-end, comprehensive integration suites for business in mainstream integration projects. Vendors and user enterprises need to update their views of integration products and the development practices that they will apply to the task of application integration.
Modern integration tools, such as integration suites, business process managers, Web services platforms, .Net and J2EE software platforms, and publish-and-subscribe messaging systems, are changing the nature of the enterprise network from a low-function communication service to a high-function "enterprise nervous system." The enterprise nervous system (ENS) is not just the next architecture for enterprise middleware infrastructure, it is a new way of organizing computing. IT managers who don't realize that they are implicitly building an ENS, will build a poor one.
What is the Enterprise Nervous System?
The new foundation for business processes, Web services, customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM), and other key e-business enablers, the Enterprise Nervous System (ENS) is the underlying network, application architecture and standards that glue together multiple business units and their data, applications and processes. Gartner forecasts that building a rational ENS architecture is the single biggest IT challenge – and opportunity – of 2002, and for those organizations that succeed, will result in significant cost reduction and business growth.
02What You Will Learn
The Gartner 2002 Application Integration conference will help you hit the ground running with important insights and advice on:
Technology trends - keep current on the technical advances in this area which is particularly fast in its pace of evolution
Vendors - avoid unnecessary business risk by learning which vendors are strongest and most likely to survive the ongoing industry shakeout
Products - learn criteria for product selection, see demonstrations of the leading integration middleware products, hear objective analysis from Gartner analysts comparing and contrasting the various product offerings
Return-on-investment - understand how to cost-justify application integration projects, how and where to get near-term payback, and how to get long-term competitive advantage for your business
Best practices in design and management - development practices for application integration are different from the traditional development practices for new applications, hear how web services, XML standards and other new technologies are changing the tradeoffs
Case studies - hear what other enterprises are doing, what is working and what is not working
01Pricing
Standard Price:
US $1,495.00 for Gartner clients*
US $1,795.00 for nonclients
*Client discount applies to all clients retaining more than U.S. $5,000 in contract value.
Team Registration Discount:
When you register five colleagues from the same company at the same time with payment, the fifth colleague may attend for free. (Early Bird and Standard pricing applies. Discount not valid for Gartner conference ticket holders.)
03Who Should Attend
IT managers, project leaders, architects, integration specialists, system integrators and Web application developers.
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