SOA & Cloud Computing in the "New Reality"

The crisis has brought a profound upheaval across most industries. One thing we know - coming out of the recession we'll need to adjust to a "new reality" in both the business and technology environment. Cost-consciousness and transparency are built-in. The boundaries between vendors/clients, employers/employees, business/personal, IT/business become blurred. New standards for a "normal" user experience or business requirement emerge. This is the new "normal".

On the technology front, we are reaching a tipping point where SOA, Cloud Computing and new development models combine into completely different capabilities that can deal with these new demands. This new reality includes:

• A widespread SOA transition from a technical design methodology to the core underpinning of all application-enabled business transformation.
• Event-driven architecture is now on the front burner, as a way to make the enterprise a true real-time system.
• The emergence of Cloud computing dramatically shifts the business technology agenda and has the potential to deliver a "killer" combination of productivity/agility/elasticity as well as reshape business models, risk profiles and the whole IT ecosystem.
• Radically changing Application Development. The synergies of agile methods, model driven development, and composition are changing what it means to develop applications.
• A New face of Integration as hybrid environments proliferate and as enterprises begin to respond to the opportunities that come from integrating information, platforms and processes.
• Governance and business alignment become non-negotiable components of any application strategy, in an increasingly unstructured and rapidly changing environment.

This year's conference will address these issues by helping you look at the big picture, determine the most important strategies, technologies and best practices for your environment and show you how to get the greatest bang for your budget dollar.

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Complimentary Webinar on October 29

SOA in Action Keynote: SOA in the Real World - Advanced Practices Assure Advanced Results
with Yefim Natis, Vice President and Distinguished Analyst, Gartner Research.
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