Gartner Application Architecture,
Development & Integration Summit

Registration

28 November 2011 03:00 PM to 06:30 PM

Workshop: How to Build a Portal Strategy and Plan a Portal Project (Pre-registration required. For End Users Only.)

28 November 2011 03:15 PM to 04:45 PM

Most portal failures stem from faulty governance, lack of agility, and poor usability. Recent technology and work trends change how portals must be governed and managed. In this workshop, we will work together to devise:

Gartner’s New IT Market Clock: Assessing the Risks of Your Technologies From Cradle to Grave

28 November 2011 05:00 PM to 06:00 PM

From a budget standpoint, the new products/services often can only be adopted if others are retired or replaced. Gartner's IT Market Clock is a new research framework which highlights for clients key investment and divestment opportunities and threats throughout the life of their technologies.

SOA 101

28 November 2011 05:00 PM to 06:00 PM

Service orientation is a paradigm that frames what you do. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) results from applying service orientation. This tutorial provides an introduction to SOA.

Workshop: Developing a Platform-as-a-Service Strategy for Your Enterprise (Pre-registration required. For End Users Only.)

28 November 2011 05:00 PM to 06:30 PM

Use of private or public cloud computing are being considered in many new IT projects, but the experience of choosing the right architecture and the fitting technology providers is often lacking. Many projects are developing their cloud-based solutions for the first time based on the limited understanding of the challenges and requirements of the field. Platform as a service (PaaS) is the cloud equivalent of a combination of at least an application server and dedicated application development tools. The choice of PaaS will influence project’s architecture, scope, costs, time-to-results and required skills. At this workshop the attendees will develop a framework for selecting a PaaS provider for a moderate, but real enterprise software project. Armed with the framework, they will be able to systematically evaluate and select a PaaS provider for their next cloud-based software project.

Registration

29 November 2011 07:00 AM to 06:00 PM

Networking Breakfast

29 November 2011 07:30 AM to 08:30 AM

Cloud 101

29 November 2011 07:45 AM to 08:30 AM

Cloud computing is changing the way solutions are designed, built, deployed and managed. This tutorial will explain the concepts behind cloud computing and provide a framework for understanding when your enterprise can safely leverage cloud computing capabilities.

User Experience Methodologies and Best Practices

29 November 2011 07:45 AM to 08:30 AM

The process of good user experience design does not require "rock star" talent, but instead simply requires following some common-sense principles and some proven practices.

Welcome and Opening Remarks

29 November 2011 08:45 AM to 09:00 AM

Gartner Opening Keynote: The Ten Most Important Strategic Planning Assumptions

29 November 2011 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM

We are at the beginning of a broad sea change in IT caused by the rapid evolution of the Cloud and the Web, and the development and deployment of Mobile and Social applications. In total, they require that you create a new vision for your application strategy and a set of tight planning assumptions for how they will impact your IT capabilities.

The Future of AD

29 November 2011 10:15 AM to 11:00 AM

Technological, cultural, and economic shifts are combining to force business change at a breakneck pace. These changes necessitate that AD deliver solutions better, faster, cheaper. IT leaders must selectively embrace new platforms and processes to ensure that the enterprise captures appropriate value from its AD initiatives.

Cloud Computing Scenario

29 November 2011 10:15 AM to 11:00 AM

Cloud Computing has become the latest in a series of hot industry terms and as such, is used in many contradictory ways. Underneath the fog, there are very real trends such as global class architecture, web platforms, scalable and elastic processing, and the Internet itself that are converging to fuel this phenomenon. The impact will be felt broadly in applications as well as platforms and services.

Cloud Infrastructure Platform Scenario

29 November 2011 10:15 AM to 11:00 AM

Cloud computing outcomes rely on the underlying cloud infrastructure platform. IaaS, PaaS and programmable SaaS – all form the foundation of the Platform. Understanding the trade-offs, opportunities and risks in choosing the architecture of your cloud infrastructure platform is to succeed in cloud computing – for both the providers and consumers of cloud business services. This presentation will open and introduce the conference track devoted to cloud infrastructure platform issues and decisions.

The Future of Integration: Why It Remains a Required Core Competency

29 November 2011 10:15 AM to 11:00 AM

Application integration means, simply, making independently designed applications work together. But there's nothing simple about integrating all your on-premise applications, ecommerce trading partners and cloud (SaaS) applications.

Applications 2020: Social, Mobile and Gaming Collaboration's Impact on Your Portfolio

29 November 2011 10:15 AM to 11:00 AM

Business leaders are seeking capabilities that will drive breakthroughs in revenue growth, organizational performance, customer loyalty and innovation. SaaS, social, collaboration, mobile and intelligence technologies will have significant impacts. This session focuses on emerging technologies, their impact on the application portfolio and skills to balance new and legacy investments.

Postmodern Application Architecture

29 November 2011 10:15 AM to 11:00 AM

Externalization, consumerization, and democratization are disrupting business-as-usual in IT organizations. Postmodern IT requires a conscious break with the past and the rejection of old narratives. This Summit track explores the latest trends in application architecture.

The Future Web: Widgets, HTML5, Tablets and Social (Among Other Things)

29 November 2011 10:15 AM to 11:00 AM

Web 2.0 is just a stop along the road, with semantic Web, HTML5 and cloud computing driving a new era of Web innovation. Is your enterprise prepared for this future?

Workshop: Implementing DevOps (Pre-registration required. For End Users Only.)

29 November 2011 10:15 AM to 12:15 PM

Release management comes in many different flavors, from manual processes to the complete automation of DevOps practices. In this workshop we'll help you figure out where you are on this spectrum. We'll discuss some hurdles that you'll face and some best practices that will help you get to where you want to go. This workshop is appropriate for those engaged in either agile or waterfall build and release processes from either a developer or operations perspective.

The Future of Mobile Application Development: A Movement Toward Multichannel and Ensemble Programming

29 November 2011 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM

Fragmentation and chaos will be the norm in the mobile market through 2014. IT leaders need to be able lead projects to construct best in class mobile applications today that will evolve into multichannel experiences across a multitude of devices tomorrow.

Roundtable: Designing the User Experience for the World of Mobile and Social (Pre-registration required. For End Users Only.)

29 November 2011 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM

As the online world becomes increasingly mobile and social, there emerges a set of design patterns and best practices to address the unique aspects of these new channels.

Roundtable: Keeping Your Cloud/on-Premises Hybrid Application Environment Under Control (Pre-registration required. For End Users Only.)

29 November 2011 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM

This interactive roundtable discussion will focus on best practices for managing cloud/on-premises hybrid application environments.

Maximizing Business Benefits From Business Applications and ERP in the Cloud

29 November 2011 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM

It is easy to find wildly optimistic views of the migration of business applications to the cloud that leave you wondering where the benefits are going to come from. IT cost savings alone cannot be used to drive application functions around finance, HR, order management, procurement, and CRM . Instead, this session will sort through the confusion with a detailed, function-by-function analysis of where business applications are going with respect to cloud and give concrete advice and timelines on when you should take action to maximize benefit based on your enterprise’s level of risk tolerance.

Application Platforms for Cloud Computing: Scenario

29 November 2011 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM

Application Platforms as a Service (aPaaS) provide the foundation for business systems offered as cloud services. They play the role of application servers – in the cloud context. For many users the choice of an aPaaS is the first technology choice they make on the way of adopting cloud computing. Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Red Hat, VMware, Salesforce.com, Google, SAP – all compete to be your first choice in cloud computing. This presentation examines the real options, opportunities and risks that users face in the aPaaS market.

A Framework for Creating Value From Information Assets: The Key to Information Management Success

29 November 2011 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM

Information-related challenges are among the most significant issues facing CIOs and business leaders. Lack of agility, increased costs, and governance risks arising from the rapidly-expanding information landscape will derail many. The information capabilities framework described the collection of capabilities that allow the enterprise to create value from information assets and address these challenges.

Accelerating Innovation by Adopting a Pace-Layered Application Strategy

29 November 2011 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM

Organizations need to develop a layered application strategy that allows them to establish management and governance that matches the rate of change in the application and underlying business processes.

Advanced SOA – The Impact of Heterogeneity on SOA Development and Governance

29 November 2011 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM

Early SOA focused on internal, homogeneous development. Mature SOA increasingly integrates heterogeneous services to support composite applications and BPM projects. This heterogeneity requires new approaches to service management and application development.

Portals of Today and Tomorrow

29 November 2011 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM

Elements of supply and demand for enterprise portals are in flux. Enterprises respond to current developments and demands while anticipating the inevitable and unpredictable changes in the future.

Solution Showcase & Attendee Lunch

29 November 2011 12:15 PM to 02:15 PM

Splunk: Developing for Application Intelligence

29 November 2011 12:25 PM to 12:45 PM

Effective adoption of agile development methodologies requires considerable collaboration between the development and operations teams. While business owners require analytics from applications to get insight into customer preferences, application owners often still rely on outdated spreadsheets for reporting and analytics. Join Splunk to learn how minor enhancements to the application code with key metrics helps organizations gain insight and intelligence into applications, maintain uptime, understand usage patterns and facilitate effective collaboration for their DevOps teams.

Mashery: APIs in the Extensible Enterprise: Tips for Wild, Crazy Success

29 November 2011 12:30 PM to 01:00 PM

The Extensible Enterprise needs to be top priority on any CIOs agenda. Whether it be mobile, B2B integration or fostering rapid innovation, a well executed API strategy helps align with business drivers, reduce stress on over-taxed IT organizations and architect for success. Based on the success of over 150 API program launches, learn how some of the most successful, well-adopted APIs are attracting developers, getting turned into apps and changing the face of business.

Software AG: 7 SOA Practices That Unlock Business Value

29 November 2011 12:55 PM to 01:15 PM

Learn 7 SOA practices that companies are using to improve business results and in the process making their company more competitive in the marketplace. We will use 7 cross-industry case studies to illustrate each of these practices in action.

ATERAS: Understand, Modernize, Convert & Re-Host with ATERAS Tools and Services

29 November 2011 01:25 PM to 01:45 PM

Learn how to Understand, Modernize, Convert and Re-Host your mainframe applications using low cost, low risk, field-proven strategies. ATERAS tools and services can quickly move your applications from fading mainframe technologies (Adabas, IDMS, IMS and VSAM) to fresh new .NET, Java or Windows applications that use Oracle, SQL Server or DB2.

TIBCO Software: PushToTest Presents | The Results: Developer Productivity and Performance Comparison Analysis

29 November 2011 01:55 PM to 02:15 PM

PushToTest implemented a multi-step business workflow on Oracle, IBM, and TIBCO platforms to surface developer productivity and application performance differences. In this session, learn from a developer's journal… metrics to compare costs, load and performance results and learn why platform choices do count in building and deploying highly scalable applications. Review the results of the study, the open-sourced code and materials to run the tests, and the methodology used.

DevOps: Building the Bridge for Agile Environments

29 November 2011 02:15 PM to 03:15 PM

Effective movement of code through the stages from conception to production has always had its challenges. Agile practices, emphasizing more frequent builds and releases, drive new behaviors and practices with respect to release management. This session will focus on DevOps , building more-efficient integration between the application development teams and their counterparts in production control. DevOps practitioners can review the release management processes in ITIL for ideas and define formal process based on their unique requirements that coordinates the introduction of changes to the production environment. The benefits of formalizing the work include standardization of approaches, scalability, metrics, reporting and continual process improvement.

Roundtable: Building Large Scale, Critical Applications – On-premises or in the Cloud (Pre-registration required. For End Users Only.)

29 November 2011 02:15 PM to 03:15 PM

Cloud computing, in memory, event processing, low latency messaging and other emerging technologies are changing the way large scale, business critical applications are designed, developed, deployed and managed. This AUR will allow participant to debate the associated opportunities and challenges.

Roundtable: Developing an ERP Strategy (Pre-registration required. For End Users Only.)

29 November 2011 02:15 PM to 03:15 PM

Most organizations lack an ERP strategy, and an ERP without a strategy usually doesn’t deliver value. This analyst user roundtable will discuss how to develop an ERP strategy that drives business value recognized by the business.

Cloud Computing Changes the Vendor Landscape

29 November 2011 02:15 PM to 03:15 PM

Cloud computing is impacting not only enterprises but also is poised to reshape the vendor landscape. The competition is heating up between early cloud leaders as established enterprise players enter the market. A disruptive force of gigantic proportion, cloud computing stands to change the balance of vendor power in many ways.

Business Process Management Suites: Carrying the Flow From the Enterprise to the Cloud and Back

29 November 2011 02:15 PM to 03:15 PM

A business process spans business interactions between systems, people or systems and people. A BPMS is used to help organizations identify and automate business processes and to cope with frequent process changes by empowering business stakeholders to make changes to the process models. As cloud computing matures many business processes begin to incorporate cloud-based systems and many BPMS become available as cloud services. This presentation will examine the dynamics of the cloud-enabled business process management.

Infrastructure and Best Practices for A2A, B2B and Cloud Integration

29 November 2011 02:15 PM to 03:15 PM

Organizations are increasingly consolidating the products they use for their internal, B2B and cloud-to-on-premises integration projects. This features for comprehensive integration, The vendors that offer those technologies and the best practices for selecting and using those technologies.

Case Study: Changing the Application Organization - Fundamentals for Driving Successful Innovation

29 November 2011 02:15 PM to 03:15 PM

Most application organizations are in a constant state of change. Sadly, they fail up to 80% of those changes because they don’t have a competency in change management. Driving change is first and foremost about engaging both logical and emotional responses in the organization. We present an overview of change management basics and the critical capabilities necessary to make changes ‘sticky’.

SOA, WOA and REST: Real-World Scenarios

29 November 2011 02:15 PM to 03:15 PM

SOA is becoming a standard approach to structuring new systems. As more SOA systems are developed, some common patterns of implementation are becoming apparent. These use cases combine the various SOA, Web Architecture and RESTful concepts to create highly flexible systems.

The User Experience Platform: How to Create Your Future Websites and Portals

29 November 2011 02:15 PM to 03:15 PM

The UXP will allow enterprise developers and end users to create cross-platform user interfaces via a single set of integrated technologies, tying together currently disparate tools for creating websites, portals, mashups, RIA and mobile.

Workshop: Crafting a Cloud Computing Strategy (Pre-registration required. For End Users Only.)

29 November 2011 02:15 PM to 03:15 PM

In examining how to adopt cloud computing, an organization needs a framework for how to approach planning. Cloud services come in many different flavors and support different outcomes. This workshop explains how to match outcomes with the level of cloud service and describes multiple paths to success or failure.

Large Issues in Application Strategies

29 November 2011 02:55 PM to 03:15 PM

When we look beyond the technology issues we see there are larger questions in application strategy that require our attention. What are they? Come to this presentation to explore these questions.

SAP: SAP’s Vision for Innovation with the Technology Platform

29 November 2011 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM

Business model innovation created sustained shareholder value for most companies who made the Fortune 500 in the past 15 years. To enable better collaboration, adaptation, decisions and operations, the role of information technology has changed – driving innovation, improving productivity, and creating competitive advantage in an accelerated environment. Learn about SAP's technology solutions, and how their roadmap is driven by cloud, mobility and in-memory trends. Learn from Halliburton and Amerisource Bergen how they are using SAP to drive innovation and deliver differentiated business capabilities.

Trinity Millennium Group, Inc.: Modernization of Legacy Applications Involves Architectural Transformation, Not Just Code Transformation

29 November 2011 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM

This session will show and illustrate how legacy architectures can be re-architected into the new world of .NET and or JEE frameworks using automation-enablement. Applications developed over the last 40 years bring with them a “culture” that does not “fit” into today’s modern architectures. Learn how to identify those attributes that can be harvested from these legacy architectures and how to re-engineer into the modern technology of today. This includes M-V-C layers.

ITKO: Application Lifecycle Optimization with Agile Collaboration and Cloud DevTest Labs

29 November 2011 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM

To successfully deliver critical customer-facing services faster, enterprises must first leverage Cloud to optimize software lifecycles. As companies move applications to Cloud, they find these environments intertwined with dependency constraints on other off-cloud systems, limiting the elasticity and overall usefulness of Cloud environments. This session discusses how multiple software teams increase agility and collaboration using virtual infrastructure in DevTest clouds. Time-to-market is accelerated when lab infrastructure and data scenarios are in place on-demand, enabling teams to “shift quality left” and eliminate issues early.

Software AG: How Mobile & Cloud create new value from SOA

29 November 2011 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM

Many companies with existing investments in middleware infrastructure are now building mobile applications to enable new channels of doing business for customers and employees. Many are also increasingly adopting cloud based services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) for developing and deploying new business applications and processes. In this session, participants will be able to share their views and hear from others about the role of taking an SOA approach to architecture while adopting these business technologies.

IBM: SOA and Cloud Computing: Or Clouds on the Bus

29 November 2011 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM

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The Evolving PaaS Marketplace – Which Vendors will Emerge as Leaders?

29 November 2011 04:10 PM to 04:30 PM

The market of cloud application infrastructure services (PaaS) is “under construction”. Major software vendors like Oracle, IBM, SAP, Red Hat and VMware -- have just entered the market this year, with offerings in beta or under development. The early competitors in the PaaS space (Salesforce.com, Google, Microsoft) are building up for the new cycle of competition. We will look briefly at vendors’ strategies for 2012 and their prospects for leadership in PaaS in the next 3 years.

Guest Keynote: Why Games Make Us Better -- and How They Can Help Us Achieve Extraordinary Goals

29 November 2011 04:45 PM to 05:45 PM

We spend 3 billion hours a week as a planet playing computer and videogames -- and these 3 billion hours are far from an escapist waste of time. Gaming is actually one of the most productive ways we can spend our time -- it produces positive emotion, stronger social relationships, a sense of accomplishment, and for players who become a part of a bigger online community, a chance to build up a sense of meaning and purpose. Scientific research shows that all of these feelings and activities can trickle into our real lives and impact our real-life confidence, ambition, likability and willingness to help others. In fact, when we play a good game, especially multiplayer games, we become the best version of ourselves: the most optimistic, most creative, most focused, most collaborative, the most likely to set ambitious goals, the most resilient in the face of failure. In this talk, find out how you can unlock the power of games to achieve extraordinary goals in your real life -- and how gaming can become a source of innovation and collaboration for your most important work.

Solution Showcase & Attendee Reception

29 November 2011 05:45 PM to 07:45 PM

AppCentral: Going Mobile: How to Easily Get Your Enterprise Mobile Apps Out to Employees on Any Device

29 November 2011 05:55 PM to 06:15 PM

Learn how to build, test, secure, deploy, and manage mobile applications along the entire lifecycle. Gain a strategic view of the issues to consider for mobile app distribution and tactical tips to avoid common pitfalls. Find out how enterprise app stores and centralized management tools fit easily into your infrastructure and deliver the scalability and control enterprises need to support multiple mobile device platforms. All session attendees receive a free license for the AppCentral App Storefront.

LongJump: Creating An Agile Enterprise With A Process-Driven Applications Platform

29 November 2011 06:25 PM to 06:45 PM

Learn how enterprises are creating process-driven web applications that improve business productivity by automating business workflows, making data actionable, enabling social collaboration, mobilizing information access and empowering end-user customizations. Practical real-world examples using the LongJump process-driven application platform: • Enterprise Architects are aligning business and technology strategy and providing business users with reporting, analytics, and customization capabilities. • System Architects and IT developers are deploying process applications cost effectively, utilizing enterprise security with centralized control of IT.

Registration

30 November 2011 07:00 AM to 06:00 PM

Networking Breakfast

30 November 2011 07:30 AM to 08:30 AM

Agile Outsourcing: Real or a Dream?

30 November 2011 08:30 AM to 09:30 AM

As more and more organization look to adopt agile it becomes harder to decouple agile from your outsourcing strategy. This leads to question is agile outsourcing really possible for all but the most trivial projects? And if it possible how and who with.?

Roundtable: Beyond Business/IT Alignment: Best Practices in Creating and Communicating Value (Pre-registration required. For End Users Only.)

30 November 2011 08:30 AM to 09:30 AM

Better communication about value helps IT shape demand and deliver more value. Join us in this roundtable discussion of best practices in defining and communicating value that every IT professional should know.

Roundtable: Managed File Transfer Solutions Best Practices (Pre-registration required. For End Users Only.)

30 November 2011 08:30 AM to 09:30 AM

Organizations are pursuing managed file transfer (MFT) to support a spectrum of needs ranging including ad hoc file transfer, internal A2A integration, B2B integration, cloud-to-on-premises integration and establishing systematic, enterprise-wide governance to file transfer activities. This roundtable will discuss a way to establish requirements for evaluating MFT technology so as to ensure the products you select with those requirements best meets your file transfer needs.

Private Cloud Computing - Beyond Virtualization

30 November 2011 08:30 AM to 09:30 AM

The vast majority of Gartner clients are now virtualizing their infrastructures, and a full 2/3rds are on a journey to build private cloud computing services based on their virtualization architecture. This session discusses the big picture, trends, drivers, challenges, private cloud technologies and vendors, and best practices to building successful private cloud services.

Database Management in the Cloud

30 November 2011 08:30 AM to 09:30 AM

Many organizations are struggling to distinguish between true database Platform as a Service and the use of a DBMS – or just a datastore - running “in the cloud.” Use cases will dictate which is most appropriate.

Integration PaaS: Enabling the Global Integrated Enterprise (Featuring “The Enterprise Edge: Enterprise Business Partners LLC case study”)

30 November 2011 08:30 AM to 09:30 AM

To beat competition enterprises must creatively integrate data, applications and processes globally across departments, business units, clients, partners, and mobile workforces. In this presentation Gartner will introduce the notion and industry impact of iPaaS, a cloud-based alternative to integration middleware, and Enterprise Business Partners LLC will illustrate how iPaaS enabled a transformational cloud strategy by providing dramatically faster time-to-value and lower cost of integration

Build, Borrow, Buy or Rent: Shifting the Perspective on Software Investment Decisions

30 November 2011 08:30 AM to 09:30 AM

Every organization has a perceived buy vs. build policy. But one policy cannot fit all situations. Trends such as increasing mainstream open source and SaaS adoption, decomposition of application software into services, and higher development productivity offered by aPaaS are shifting perspectives.

Case study: SOA Integration as the Foundation for Customer Analytics - Wind River Systems, Inc.

30 November 2011 08:30 AM to 09:30 AM

There’s a great deal of excitement today in analytics, broadening a base case for SOA to include significant data analysis and action based on customer activity. In this case study, we’ll talk with key implementers at Wind River, which has been using SOA as a foundation for integrating customer analytics.

Mobile and Social: Major Drivers of Your Web Strategies

30 November 2011 08:30 AM to 09:30 AM

Linkage between mobile, social, and web development and architecture sets the stage for context aware experiences, changing how you interact with your customers and employees.

Workshop: Getting Started With Pace Layers (Pre-registration required. For End Users Only.)

30 November 2011 08:30 AM to 10:00 AM

In 2010, Gartner introduced the pace layered application strategy framework: an approach that segments the application portfolio based on business value and rate of change. This workshop introduces the concept and takes attendees through exercises designed to begin the process of implementing pace layers.

Portal Magic Quadrant

30 November 2011 09:10 AM to 09:30 AM

After years of consolidation, the portal market is expanding again, galvanized by technology innovation and emerging demand for better user experiences across many channels and devices.

Software AG: Cox: Using SOA to Create Value with Mobile and Cloud

30 November 2011 09:45 AM to 10:45 AM

In this session, Cox will discuss its application strategy to create new customer value by adopting mobile and cloud computing. Cox is using its SOA infrastructure to deliver innovative mobile applications to its customers as well as field technicians resulting in cost efficiencies, new revenue channels and key differentiation in the market. In addition, Cox is planning to deploy the same SOA infrastructure to an enterprise private cloud further enhancing its ability to bring new products to the market with greater agility and lower costs.

IBM: Next-generation SOA for Cloud, Mobile, and Accelerated Application Delivery

30 November 2011 09:45 AM to 10:45 AM

New business demands are driving organizations to adopt mobile application delivery, cloud platforms, and accelerate application and service delivery across the enterprise. The same service-oriented foundation that delivered the last generation of business and IT agility is once again evolving to support this new generation of workloads. Learn how UniGroup, Inc. developed and deployed a unique point-of-sale application for mobile field agents while reusing core application functions across the organization.

Oracle: Tackling Complexity by Converging SOA, Cloud, and Data Integration

30 November 2011 09:45 AM to 10:45 AM

It’s easy to be overwhelmed by the expansion of integration technologies from SOA, orchestration, data integration, to enterprise gateways, and more. Add the evolution from purely on-premise deployments into a hybrid private/public cloud model and the challenges grow exponentially. Attend this session to learn how to simplify your infrastructure while maintaining cloud deployment flexibility. Oracle products highlighted include Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Oracle Data Integrator, and the Oracle Public Cloud.

Intel: Intel: Building Trust in the Cloud: End Points to Apps

30 November 2011 09:45 AM to 10:45 AM

Reusing application assets as services forms the basis for Cloud based infrastructure sharing. Key to exposing application functionality is through APIs. Cloud API Management presents a new discipline with added security, visibility, integration, scale requirements. As apps are shared outside the perimeter to/from the cloud and among cloud providers, traditional firewalls don’t provide mediation or XML threat protection to expose apps safely. Gartner’s Daryl C. Plummer states Cloud Service Brokerage via APIs “the biggest growth area for cloud computing.” Intel explains the API broker role.

SAP: Optimizing Your Technology Architecture for Business Agility and Cost Optimization

30 November 2011 09:45 AM to 10:45 AM

In this interactive roundtable discussion, we will explore the nature, value and roles of an enterprise (technology) reference architecture as a multi-faceted tool for IT managers and architects. Enterprise reference architectures help IT to organize, communicate, plan and execute towards a more agile and cost efficient IT infrastructure capable of delivering IT solutions to meet business strategy and goals.

Guest Keynote: Management 2.0

30 November 2011 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Today’s organizations face unprecedented challenges, which include: a wildly accelerating pace of change, the gale-force winds of creative destruction, intensifying competition, rapid commoditization, and increasing demands for social accountability. Problem is, these challenges lie outside the performance envelope of the “management model” that currently predominates in most companies. What’s needed is a revolution in how our companies are led, managed and organized—and information technology will be the catalyst. The basic structures of “modern” management were invented a century ago with the goal of driving discipline and efficiency into large organizations. But today, companies need to be more than diligent and cost-effective. They must be highly adaptable, endlessly inventive, and inspiring for employees and customers. Accomplishing this will require a fundamental overhaul of “Management 1.0.” Over the past decade, companies have harnessed the power of information technology to reinvent their operating models and their business models. Now they must overhaul their deeply embedded management practices. Top-heavy and control-oriented organizations must be rebuilt around the principles of meritocracy, freedom and openness. In his provocative and practical presentation, Professor Hamel will lay out a blueprint for Management 2.0, and help you to identify the ways in which you can use the power of the social web to start a management revolution in your company. In his talk, Hamel will cover: • The make-or-break challenges that will drive competitive success in the “creative economy” • The performance limits of Management 1.0 • The “design rules” for Management 2.0 • How information technology will invert ultimately the pyramid • What you can do to begin “hacking” the management processes in your company Drawing on a wealth of examples from the world’s most progressive organizations, Professor Hamel will present a compelling vision of how information technology will help us build organizations that are fit for the future and fit for human beings, and he will challenge you to join the vanguard.

Solution Showcase & Attendee Lunch

30 November 2011 12:00 PM to 02:00 PM

Intel: Building Trust in the Cloud: From Endpoints to Apps

30 November 2011 12:10 PM to 12:30 PM

Reusing application assets as services forms the basis for Cloud based infrastructure sharing. Key to exposing application functionality is through APIs. Cloud API Management presents a new discipline with added security, visibility, integration, scale requirements. As apps are shared outside the perimeter to/from the cloud and among cloud providers, traditional firewalls don’t provide mediation or XML threat protection to expose apps safely. Gartner’s Daryl C. Plummer states Cloud Service Brokerage via APIs “the biggest growth area for cloud computing.” Intel explains the API broker role.

Layer 7 Technologies: API Management & OAuth for Web, Mobile & Cloud

30 November 2011 12:15 PM to 12:45 PM

REST and JSON APIs are offering new ways to expose internal information assets across affiliate Web sites, mobile apps and Cloud services like Salesforce and AWS. While underpinned by SOA-based integration approaches, the specifics of REST and JSON require a rethink around how security and governance are handled. This talk from Scott Morrison, CTO at SOA, API and Cloud governance provider Layer 7, will examine best practices for managing APIs, implementing OAuth and opening up internal API resources to inside and outside developers.

SAP: Effectively automating a differentiating marketing campaign that crosses organizational boundaries

30 November 2011 12:40 PM to 01:00 PM

This demo highlights how a tailored marketing campaign for a utilities company can effectively be automated using SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration. Utility companies are under increased pressure to optimize consumption in order to save on costly infrastructure upgrades. By accessing SAP CRM and leveraging heterogeneous IT assets end-to-end activities are orchestrated among stakeholders and business partners to meet business goals. See how partners use mobile devices and business leaders monitor campaign results with an executive dashboard.

CollabNet: Industrializing Agile Software Delivery with DevOps

30 November 2011 01:10 PM to 01:30 PM

How well do you release code to production? Monthly, weekly and daily software releases are increasingly commonplace, and not just for start-ups. Enterprise IT departments have increased developer productivity, saved millions, and realized governance by implementing DevOps. Attend this session to hear best practices learned from Fortune 500 implementations: 1) US financial services company that cut production release variants by 85%; 2) Global logistics company that realized flexible delivery cycles ranging from monthly to daily.

Sencha: Mobile HTML5 Development: Best Practices for Efficient and Effective Apps

30 November 2011 01:40 PM to 02:00 PM

Due to the increasingly complex and fragmented native app development landscape, 2011 has seen a groundswell of interest in using mobile HTML5 technologies. In this talk, we'll cover the state of maturity of HTML5 on various mobile form factors, the main challenges in design and development, as well as the tools and frameworks available to help. We'll demo a few outstanding applications built with Sencha technologies to show the state of the art in mobile HTML5 development.

Application Development and Application Life Cycle Management in the Cloud

30 November 2011 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM

Cloud technologies present not only a disruption to the applications we develop but also to how we develop them. This session looks at how Application Lifecycle Management tools and practices are affected by tools delivered in SaaS and PaaS formats, the emergence of DevOps and lab management, and how these solutions will improve the ability to deliver better software faster. ALM tools aid in the planning and management of application projects and are key enablers of effective collaborative development. As tools move toward becoming cloud-based platforms they reduce the cost of implementation but are also altering the way we think about integration of tools and teams.

Roundtable: Entrusting Your Data to the Cloud (Pre-registration required. For End Users Only.)

30 November 2011 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM

Does your forecast predict clouds ahead? Thinking about which data ought to reside, on or off premises: in standard storage, a private cloud, or the public cloud? Or have you already experimented with implementations of cloud storage? Join us to discuss early experiences shared with lessons learned, potential pitfalls and best practices.

Roundtable: Measuring the Value of SOA (Pre-registration required. For End Users Only.)

30 November 2011 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM

Has anyone ever asked you to justify your investments in SOA? Come to this AUR to learn how to measure and properly communicate SOA value.

SaaS — Business Applications and Beyond in the Cloud

30 November 2011 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM

Organizations continue to look at Software as a Service as an alternative to traditional application deployment, driven by the promise of quicker time to value and smaller up-front costs. This session will look at the evolution of SaaS, where companies are seeing value and what barriers still must be considered when making investments for cloud based applications.

System Infrastructure Services (IaaS)

30 November 2011 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM

The fastest growing layer of cloud computing is infrastructure as a service for computing and storage services. The rapid growth of on-premises virtualization and the development of private and hybrid clouds is also motivating service providers to offer interoperability options to existing on-premises architectures.

Application and Data Integration: Converging Disciplines or Not?

30 November 2011 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM

A chasm exists between the disciplines of application integration and data integration. These domains don’t intersect without conscious effort by IT mgt and project teams. However, there are huge synergies between these domains from both a technology and practice point of view. Organizations must federate these activities & integrate the technologies to reduce costs and increase business agility.

The Impact of Cloud Computing on Your Application Modernization Strategy

30 November 2011 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM

IT Modernization efforts should evaluate cloud deployment strategies as a growing opportunity to evolve an organization’s application portfolio. Application modernization is more than just changing the underlying languages or databases. This presentation will contrast the issues and opportunities associated with new cloud deployment options for modernizing a legacy application portfolio.

Case Study: The Impact of Event Processing on Application Architecture (Bank of America)

30 November 2011 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM

IT systems have used events for decades to support system functions and GUIs, but only now are events becoming first class citizens in high-level application architecture. Gartner’s Roy Schulte sets the stage, followed by Kim Kazmaier from Bank of America who will feature her case study: Implementing the Integration Suite - ESB, Web Services, BPM and EDA at Bank of America.

The Modern User Experience: Mobile, Social Experience and Game Design Patterns

30 November 2011 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM

Beyond the discipline of user experience design is an emerging discipline that focuses on the architecture of the social experience and the discipline of applying game-design principles to non-game applications.

Workshop: Adopting Agile (Pre-registration required. For End Users Only.)

30 November 2011 02:00 PM to 04:00 PM

Agile, and particularly Scrum, adoption abounds. But textbook Scrum isn't a fit for many organizations. As they tailor and scale the process to fit their needs, they face many questions for which the answers lie only in the vaulted mind of the experienced practitioner. Workshop participants will collaborate to discuss:

New Enterprise Application Server MQ

30 November 2011 02:40 PM to 03:00 PM

Versata: Can Versata Bring You Free SAP Maintenance?

30 November 2011 03:15 PM to 04:15 PM

For over 15 years, Versata has been engaged in an epic battle with SAP over our Versata Pricer software, in the marketplace and courts. This past month, Versata won a lawsuit and was awarded $391 million. The judge also granted an injunction, that although stayed pending appeal, prohibits SAP from charging maintenance to US ERP/CRM customers. Come learn about the real possibility of saving 80% of your annual SAP maintenance bill. Visit www.versata.com/SAP for details.

Intel: Intel: Meet the Cloud API- The New Enterprise Control Point

30 November 2011 03:15 PM to 04:15 PM

Reusing application assets as services forms the basis for Cloud based infrastructure sharing. Key to exposing application functionality is through APIs. Cloud API Management presents a new discipline with added security, visibility, integration, scale requirements. As apps are shared outside the perimeter to/from the cloud and among cloud providers, traditional firewalls don’t provide mediation or XML threat protection to expose apps safely. Gartner’s Daryl C. Plummer states Cloud Service Brokerage via APIs “the biggest growth area for cloud computing.” Intel explains the API broker role.

Splunk: Staples and Expedia Turn Big Data Into Operational Insights

30 November 2011 03:15 PM to 04:15 PM

Staples and Expedia have gained new operational visibility and intelligence using Splunk and their machine data. Learn how Splunk users across their organizations turn terabytes of data into increased uptime, improved service delivery, real-time customer insights, end-to-end transaction visibility, streamlined application development and business insights that contribute to the bottom line.

VMware, Inc.: Is your data ready for the cloud?

30 November 2011 03:15 PM to 04:15 PM

Your application infrastructure will look very different years from now. Applications are becoming increasingly web oriented, dynamic, data intensive and are often deployed on virtual infrastructure. New applications will be sourced from existing datacenters and cloud services. And end users will access applications from a variety of devices. Weaving this together into a cohesive, secure, compliant whole in a way that improves IT agility is the challenge. This session will discuss how you can meet these challenges while protecting investments in legacy infrastructure.

RIA Marketscope

30 November 2011 03:55 PM to 04:15 PM

The market landscape for user interface frameworks, libraries and platforms is undergoing disruptive change due to the emergence of HTML5, CSS3 and other browser technologies, standards and specifications. Vendors, both large and small, are responding to this change. Enterprises must deal with both technology decisions and design process improvement.

Playing to Win: How IT Creates Value and Makes It Visible

30 November 2011 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM

As a major platform change for delivery of IT-enabled capabilities draws closer, enterprise IT professionals need to know and clearly communicate the value they deliver. This presentation describes the two most important ways that IT professionals create value, and how successful IT teams make that value clear to the enterprises they serve.

Registration

01 December 2011 07:00 AM to 04:00 PM

Meet the Speakers Breakfast

01 December 2011 07:30 AM to 08:30 AM

Join your fellow attendees for breakfast an enjoy informal discussions with this week’s speakers.

Roundtable: Best Practices in Leveraging Web Oriented Architecture, REST, and SOA (Pre-registration required. For End Users Only.)

01 December 2011 08:30 AM to 09:30 AM

Come share best practices for advanced SOA, and hear how others are leveraging RESTful service designs.

Roundtable: Creating a More Effective UX for Enterprise Applications (Pre-registration required. For End Users Only.)

01 December 2011 08:30 AM to 09:30 AM

Enterprise applications are not known for a great user experience. In this interactive session, participants share strategies for improving the UX of both legacy and new systems.

Case Study: Best Practices in Using Platform as a Service for Enterprise IT Projects - Lockheed Martin

01 December 2011 08:30 AM to 09:30 AM

Programmable cloud infrastructure platforms (PaaS) are new and many organizations that use them – use them for less-demanding, less-critical applications to track the maturity of the industry (and not leap ahead of it). In this session we examine the best practices of using cloud platforms and SOA and hear from Mel Greer at Lockheed Martin on their decision making, success factors and lessons learned in the process.

Using Events and Analytics to Create Intelligent Business Operations

01 December 2011 08:30 AM to 09:30 AM

The traditional disconnect between BI and application development limits the effectiveness of conventional SOA and BPM projects. Event processing and analytics should be integrated within the application.

Case Study: IBM IT Transformation — Accelerating Application Delivery Through a Community-Based Collaboration Model

01 December 2011 08:30 AM to 09:30 AM

Economic uncertainty, rapid technology advancements and a widening pool of global expertise are opening the way for unprecedented change in how businesses operate and collaborate. The complexities of globalization and cross-company and cross-national partnerships are forcing enterprises to make transformational shifts in application management. A new economic environment is evolving based on transparency, trust, talent and teamwork. In this new case study, IBM joins us to discuss the open-collaboration model they are implementing to enable communities of specialists to work, connect, communicate and innovate faster and more effectively. We’ll look at how their virtual, globally integrated workspace benefits IBM and its stakeholders as well as its customers.

Applying SOA Design Principles to Cloud Application Architecture

01 December 2011 08:30 AM to 09:30 AM

Hybrid cloud application architecture will not be realized by simply redeploying isolated applications onto IaaS. Cloud computing is not an excuse to leap-frog architecture practices such as service modeling. Applying SOA design principles at multiple levels is the cornerstone of any approach to composing internal and external services.

Case Study in Web and Portal Deployment - The Hershey Company

01 December 2011 08:30 AM to 09:30 AM

Portal success requires effective governance, a robust and high performing architecture, and an engaging experience for users. In this session David G. Stahl, Sr. Application Developer at The Hershey Company will take the stage to detail the success and challenges faced by the Web Solutions Group at The Hershey Company to deliver the portal promise to their customers.

Workshop: Best Practices for B2B E-Commerce and Cloud Integration (Pre-registration required. For End Users Only.)

01 December 2011 08:30 AM to 10:30 AM

Many companies need to modernize their approach to B2B integration to sufficiently address B2B ecommerce requirements -- e.g., 100% trading partner integration and process analytics -- and Cloud computing integration requirements -- e.g., integrating data and processes between SaaS and on-premise applications. In this workshop attendees will collaborate to assess B2B integration strategy and requirements, evaluate different B2B integration solutions, and develop a decision framework for choosing between them.

Workshop: Building Better Business Cases for Applications (Pre-registration required. For End Users Only.)

01 December 2011 08:30 AM to 10:00 AM

The Investment Management Process should use the business case as the primary document where costs, risks and benefits associated with investments can be thoroughly investigated. Unfortunately too many business cases are poorly prepared and this leads to sub-optimal investment decisions.

Informatica: Architecture and Best Practices for Enabling Agile Data Integration

01 December 2011 09:45 AM to 10:15 AM

HealthNow NY had serious concerns with their data architecture spanning BI, MDM and SOA projects. New reports took months to create and deliver, needing shadow IT teams. An inflexible architecture, data proliferation, quality and redundancy issues, and low reuse was resulting in project delays, higher costs and business risk. Learn how HealthNow is using an agile data integration approach built on self-service and data virtualization. To date this approach has resulted in 5x shorter project times and 1/3rd the cost.

The Software Revolution, Inc. (TSRI): Strategies for Transitioning Legacy Enterprise Applications to the Cloud

01 December 2011 09:45 AM to 10:15 AM

Legacy applications, with the most to gain from cloud migration, are left behind as services expand with new applications written for cloud architectures. Philip Newcomb, co-author of Information Systems Transformation: Architecture Driven Modernization Case Studies and 2011 Stevens Award recipient for work as “leader in architecture-driven reengineering, modernization, research, development and commercialization of automated renovation methods and tools,” discusses transitioning legacy applications to the cloud. He focuses on practical case studies on modernization and presents guidelines for transitioning legacy applications to the cloud.

GXS: Case Study - MillerCoors Data Exchange Model (MCDEM)

01 December 2011 09:45 AM to 10:15 AM

Eric Minning is the Senior Business Partner for MillerCoors, Commercial Connect. In his role, Eric leads the distributor and retailer technology strategy and guides its execution. Eric’s team is aligned internally to the Commercial Managed Chain and Distributor Sales & Services Functional Groups, and externally aligned to chain retailers and domestic distributors, as well as their Route Accounting Software vendors and GXS. Find out how he aligns the distributor technology strategy to the Commercial business needs and drives design and delivery of business capabilities.

Dell Boomi: Lessons Learned in using Integration Platform as a Service: Panasas

01 December 2011 09:45 AM to 10:15 AM

Successfully moving your business application portfolio to the cloud starts with an application integration strategy which takes into account technology, governance and auditing requirements. In this session, John Lake of Panasas and Rick Nucci of Dell Boomi will examine lessons learned from Panasas’s 3 year journey migrating their business applications to the cloud.

CA Technologies: Capitalizing on the New Normal: Addressing the Risk, Speed and Cost of the Cloud

01 December 2011 09:45 AM to 10:15 AM

The demand for technology-based solutions to meet growing business needs is outstripping the supply that even the most efficient IT organizations can meet. Combined with the drive for increased speed, shrinking budgets and mitigated risk and you’ve got the “new normal.” This session will address these challenges and provide IT leaders with the opportunity to discuss how to embrace service assurance to deliver virtual and cloud infrastructure, applications and business services.

Case Study: The Consumerization of Application Development — Healthways

01 December 2011 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

Consumer technology is changing the expectations for applications and application development (AD) teams. Consumerization cannot be stopped, but it can embraced to drive more value from AD investment. This session will be an overview of Gartner’s view of how Consumerization is impacting application development, followed by Nathan King, Senior Product Portfolio Manager, Healthways (Nasdaq: HWAY) detailing how they empowered end-users to safely create enterprise applications for themselves.

Roundtable: Managing Your Team’s Skill Sets (Pre-registration required. For End Users Only.)

01 December 2011 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

Most organizations take a reactive approach to managing their team’s skills. This can result in application teams that are continually out of pace with their business partners and their needs. We’ll discuss best practices in taking a forward looking view of skillset management.

Roundtable: Real-time Business Analytics and Event Processing (Pre-registration required. For End Users Only.)

01 December 2011 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

This interactive roundtable discussion will focus on best practices in event processing, business activity monitoring, business dashboards, sense-and-respond systems and intelligent business operations.

Cloud Services Brokerages - Harnessing the Power of the Cloud Services Value Chain

01 December 2011 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

With increasing cloud computing adoption more companies face commercial and technical complexities of dealing with multiple cloud providers. Cloud Services Brokerage is a new IT services intermediation role between cloud providers and consumers that normalizes and simplifies things like billing, provisioning, integration and governance.

Cloud + In Memory: A Recipe for Breakthrough Applications

01 December 2011 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

Relentless innovation in software technology will foster radically new application paradigms. Cloud transaction processing, in-memory computing and new programming models enable applications so far simply unthinkable, which will deliver business value in a “blink of an eye” to global audiences.

Your Megavendor Relationship: Marriage or Addiction?

01 December 2011 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

Major vendors (IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, ) make up a significant proportion of the money spent on middleware and application infrastructure systems. Understanding the strategy and motivation of these vendors, and working to maximize your leverage in the relationship can save you money, and improve the quality of your environment.

Web AD Panel: How Will AD Change to Support Future Web and Mobile Solutions

01 December 2011 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

As the Web evolves to become mobile, social, contextual and with rich experience, there will likely be disruptive changes in existing AD tools, platforms and methodologies.

Networking Lunch

01 December 2011 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM

Rich Mobile, Mobile Web, or Something In Between?

01 December 2011 12:30 PM to 01:30 PM

Rich Mobile applications (RMA) provide an excellent user experience. Unfortunately, using native tools and technologies, rich mobile applications designed for one platform are not portable to any other. For most organizations, designing rich mobile applications for multiple platforms using native tools and technologies is cost prohibitive. Advancements in web technologies and cross platform mobile development frameworks offer the promise of portability with a user interface that rivals a RMA.

Roundtable: Best Practices in Using IaaS (Pre-registration required. For End Users Only.)

01 December 2011 12:30 PM to 01:30 PM

This interactive roundtable discussion will focus on best practices in using Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

Roundtable: Best Practices in Mobile Application Development (Pre-registration required. For End Users Only.)

01 December 2011 12:30 PM to 01:30 PM

This interactive session will discuss the unique challenges and opportunities in supporting both consumer facing and employee facing applications on smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices.

Business and Information Services in the Cloud

01 December 2011 12:30 PM to 01:30 PM

Most segmentations of cloud computing either ignore or group business and information services with SaaS. Information services offer search services or other mechanisms to provide access to external data or content while business services refer to any business process (for example, payroll, printing or e-commerce) that is delivered as an elastic service via the Internet. These services are distinct from cloud application services and must be analyzed independently to see the big cloud picture.

Case Study: Mohawk Fine Papers – Using Cloud Services Brokerage To Drive Business Process Innovation

01 December 2011 12:30 PM to 01:30 PM

In pursuit of new business opportunities Mohawk Fine Papers needed to quickly implement new business processes spanning internal applications, trading partners and various cloud functionality including SaaS. In this session Paul Stamas of Mohawk will describe his “mandate” for a virtualized SOA backplane via cloud services brokerage.

Ten Questions to Test the Quality of Your Application Strategy

01 December 2011 12:30 PM to 01:30 PM

Application Strategies are much like business strategies – every organization has one and most of them are not very good. This session will show you how to test your strategy by answering ten challenging questions. Is your strategy up to snuff or does it need a few more iterations with the stakeholders?

Roles of Solution and Application Architects

01 December 2011 12:30 PM to 01:30 PM

Enterprise architects want to ensure the consistency of application solutions with architecture strategies and plans, yet do not want to get bogged down in the details of projects. Application architects want to promote consistency and reuse at the project level.

Workshop: As Business Gets Social, How Do You Become a Social Business? (Pre-registration required. For End Users Only.)

01 December 2011 12:30 PM to 02:30 PM

Adoption of social computing is not rocket science, but does require involvement of key stakeholders, identification and management of risks, and change management. This workshop focuses on how to leverage the power of social software and the intelligence of the collective.

Workshop: SOA - Good to Great (Pre-registration required. For End Users Only.)

01 December 2011 12:30 PM to 02:30 PM

Gartner clients that have moved from delivering ‘fair to middling’ SOA results to great outcomes demonstrate that moving forward on organization, governance, metrics, service models, infrastructure, processes, and standards workstreams together is challenging but required. Using case studies from successful companies, you will work collaboratively to:

Composite Applications: The Applications That Support Innovation

01 December 2011 01:45 PM to 02:45 PM

Innovative applications support transformational business initiatives or enable established business processes in a way that radically improves results while serving as a barrier to entry for competitors. Going forward, both types of innovative applications will almost always be composites.

Roundtable: Advanced Practices in Application Lifecycle Management (Pre-registration required. For End Users Only.)

01 December 2011 01:45 PM to 02:45 PM

You have ALM in place, now what? Discuss with peers the improvements to application delivery you are gaining through integrated governance solutions and where the biggest challenges are in driving process improvement.

Case Study: Secure Use of Public Cloud - Best Buy

01 December 2011 01:45 PM to 02:45 PM

While concerns over security and compliance are consistently listed as the major obstacles to enterprise adoption of cloud computing, many organizations have moved forward to address security concerns and use public cloud services for business advantage. This presentation will be an overview of Gartner’s view of the critical security issues involved with cloud computing, followed by Thomas Kelly, Enterprise Architect for Cloud Services at Best Buy, detailing the approach they used in assessing the issues and implementing secure use of the cloud.

Case Study: Governance of Cloud Services in a Hybrid World (Apollo Group)

01 December 2011 01:45 PM to 02:45 PM

This case study will be introduced by a Gartner Analyst presentation, positioning SOA governance in the new world of off premise and mobile applications, and introducing a new magic quadrant. The presentation will be followed by a case study, which will highlight a practical user experience in governing services.

Applications Overhaul: Nine Critical Success Factors for Business Value

01 December 2011 01:45 PM to 02:45 PM

Dealing with the bloated and aging application portfolio demands a clear understanding of the current state and a strong will to overcome obstacles. This presentation summarizes three years of Gartner research into the topic of application overhaul.

Agile Architecture

01 December 2011 01:45 PM to 02:45 PM

Organizations are seeking to increase development agility, but often fail to address how agile development practices impact architectural decisions. Despite our wishing it were so, software architecture is not static throughout a project. Agile architecture is defined by our willingness and ability to embrace and accommodate architectural shifts. While embracing change is an attitude, the ability to accommodate change requires a software architecture that can adapt to change. Agile architecture is both temporal—when to make architectural decisions—and structural, demanding that the architect and architecture remain flexible and able to accommodate change.

Gartner Closing Keynote: What to Do on Monday?

01 December 2011 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM

When you get back to the office you will have key project and priority decisions to make based on the information at this event. How should you consider and prioritize what to do next?