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| Track A: Best Practices in Application Architectures | Applying the architecture patterns of SOA, event processing and Web-based computing requires expertise and insight in business systems modeling and software design. Here we look into the choices and trade-offs in modern architecture, the innovation outlook for the leading IT visionaries and the best practices for the mainstream IT practitioners. | A |
| Track B: Leveraging the Web for Applications & SOA | Recent innovations of the Web have caused enterprise IT to become both excited and fearful. Despite the ubiquity and promise of the Web 2.0 movement, many features are not quite ready for enterprise deployment, and application leaders must understand how to capitalize on the strengths of Web technologies while compensating for key limitations. The presentations in this track will concentrate on how enterprises are effectively using Web technologies and practices, including enterprise mashups and Web 2.0 applications, new collaboration methods, Web services and Web-oriented architecture (WOA), rich Internet application (RIA) and portal technologies for an enhanced user experience, and management of Web sites and Web infrastructure. | B |
| Track C: Mastering AD | Success in application development demands a fine balance of costs, schedules, resources and technologies. This track focuses on the big barriers, the mastery of which makes or breaks AD management in today's environments. We'll focus on what it takes to master these process areas, to delight your customer by setting and delivering predictably and with high quality against expectations.
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| Track D: Managing and Governing the Agile Applications Organization | For most applications organizations, the need is clear but the direction is not. Businesses are demanding agility and it’s up to development organizations to meet those needs or be deemed irrelevant. If agility is the answer, applications organizations need to chart a course in that direction. Agility requires the use of new skill sets, new methods and -- yes -- new technology. Governance provides the policies, procedures and rules to not only hold the applications organization together, but to enable change. | D |
| Track E: Platform Technologies for SOA Projects and Application Deployment | Application platform middleware has expanded from its traditional role as a simple container for application logic into a diversified portfolio of IT infrastructure that also supports application development, integration and personalization with a direct role enabling SOA, extreme transaction processing and software as a service. This track will help IT professionals understand what classes of platform middleware are available, how these solutions are evolving and how to effectively leverage various platform middleware to support distributed applications and SOA. | E |
| Track F: Integration in Practice | Today, SOA and BPM initiatives are popular, but integration but has not lost its value or relevance. Integration skills and technology are now an inherent component of BPM, application development, SOA and Web services, as well as legacy, packaged and composite applications. Innovative approaches such as multi-enterprise (B2B), SaaS and Web 2.0 increasingly utilize integration features. Additionally, your company's – and your partners’ – databases, portals, applications and systems are collectively linked into one "integrated enterprise." This track will help you apply integration skills and technology to a wide range of IT projects to ensure that their software can successfully interact with other software – to support new integrated enterprises. | F |