Digital business is bringing disruption to every aspect of today’s businesses, including the application organization. In this track, we’ll discuss how to create and implement the clear application strategies and the strong governance needed to support today’s rapidly changing technologies.

How can application leaders create principled architectural practices, adopt new technologies and drive digital excellence? In this track, we’ll examine the strategies needed to blend the old with the new, building digital platforms as the application infrastructure bedrock to propel your organization into the future.

Digital businesses must create applications that engage employees and customers in ever-improving ways. In this track, we’ll investigate the ways in which enterprises will continue to leverage legacy applications and databases, while emerging technologies facilitate projects that were not feasible in the past. We’ll explore the technologies, practices, tools and methodologies that enable digital business.

This track will examine how integration capabilities pervade all aspects of IT delivery. From embedded features of SaaS to complex and expensive technologies targeting skilled users, the options are overwhelming. Learn what it takes to create successful integration strategies to deliver the promise of digital business and assure the massive connectivity required for the future.

Every organization is looking to exploit emerging technologies — from machine learning to IoT to blockchain. This track illustrates how to fully realize the value of these investments by investigating how organizations need to simultaneously modernize their existing legacy application portfolio. Blending new and mature in flexible architecture is the key to digital transformation success.