Summmit Tracks
Application Strategy: Delivering Business Value
Applications are one of the core responsibilities of IT departments. Unfortunately, they are often built or acquired one at a time in response to business requests without a long term business or technology strategy. This points to the need for an application strategy that is cost effective, responsive to business needs, and that can deal with a rapidly evolving set of mega-vendors whose desire is to lock you in to a their architectural vision and a single stack of hardware, operating systems, applications and tools. This track provides a framework for understanding and addressing the key decisions in creating and managing an application strategy. Key Issues: -How will evolving technology, business and social trends affect the future direction of applications, and how can firms plan for these changes over the long term? -How can application strategy be segmented (pace layered) to provide a range of options for stability vs. agility? -How will organizations assess and improve their application governance practices?
Sessions
Applications 2020: Social, Mobile and Gaming Collaboration's Impact on Your Portfolio
29 November, 2011 (10:15 AM - 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.
Accelerating Innovation by Adopting a Pace-Layered Application Strategy
29 November, 2011 (11:15 AM - 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.
Case Study: Changing the Application Organization - Fundamentals for Driving Successful Innovation
29 November, 2011 (02:15 PM - 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’.
Build, Borrow, Buy or Rent: Shifting the Perspective on Software Investment Decisions
30 November, 2011 (08:30 AM - 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.
The Impact of Cloud Computing on Your Application Modernization Strategy
30 November, 2011 (02:00 PM - 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: IBM IT Transformation — Accelerating Application Delivery Through a Community-Based Collaboration Model
01 December, 2011 (08:30 AM - 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.
Ten Questions to Test the Quality of Your Application Strategy
01 December, 2011 (12:30 PM - 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?
Applications Overhaul: Nine Critical Success Factors for Business Value
01 December, 2011 (01:45 PM - 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.
