Conference Tracks
Integrating the Extended Enterprise
The future of integration isn’t about mastering technology or standards, it’s about seamlessly executing business processes and managing business information across your extended enterprise. To be successful in the emerging hyper-connected world of business applications and data across your data center, trading partners and the cloud, companies need a strong competency in all forms of integration. Key Issues: -What will be the impact of cloud computing on your integration project? -How do you cost-justify integration projects – and what best practices will ensure your project’s success -Which type of integration solution – COTS, OSS, Appliance, iPaaS or integration brokerage – will work best for you?
Sessions
The Future of Integration: Why It Remains a Required Core Competency
29 November, 2011 (10:15 AM - 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.
A Framework for Creating Value From Information Assets: The Key to Information Management Success
29 November, 2011 (11:15 AM - 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.
Infrastructure and Best Practices for A2A, B2B and Cloud Integration
29 November, 2011 (02:15 PM - 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.
Integration PaaS: Enabling the Global Integrated Enterprise (Featuring “The Enterprise Edge: Enterprise Business Partners LLC case study”)
30 November, 2011 (08:30 AM - 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
Application and Data Integration: Converging Disciplines or Not?
30 November, 2011 (02:00 PM - 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.
Using Events and Analytics to Create Intelligent Business Operations
01 December, 2011 (08:30 AM - 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.
Your Megavendor Relationship: Marriage or Addiction?
01 December, 2011 (10:30 AM - 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.
Case Study: Mohawk Fine Papers – Using Cloud Services Brokerage To Drive Business Process Innovation
01 December, 2011 (12:30 PM - 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.
