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Monday
03:00 PM - 06:30 PM | |
Monday
03:15 PM - 04:45 PM | |
| Years have passed since the first privacy laws and the first major security breaches woke application developers up to a new reality: They must build secure applications and they must protect sensitive data from misuse and unapproved access. To build security into applications — particularly in emerging areas such as cloud and mobile — requires thoughtfulness not only about languages and code but also about application architecture and the development process. Approaching security the right way enables developers and architects to make their applications more secure while not being an overburdening undertaking.
•How does security best fit into overall application design?
• What application security activities help make life easier?
• How does application security work in cloud and mobile?
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Monday
03:15 PM - 04:45 PM | |
| Many(Pre-registration begins Monday, October 29th) companies need to modernize their approach to integration to sufficiently address internal application and data, B2B e-commerce, cloud (SaaS) and mobile integration requirements, that is, integrating just about everything. In this workshop, attendees collaborate to assess what kind of integration strategy is required to support such an ambitious goal.
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Monday
05:00 PM - 06:00 PM | |
| A business derives IT investment value from its application portfolio. All stakeholders of each application must understand the current and future state of the application value proposition and participate fully in managing the application strategy over time.
How should the probable outcome of the current application strategy be exposed to the stakeholder community?
● How can alternative application strategies be evaluated in order to optimize the outcomes for all stakeholders?
● What transformations are required in order to ensure the effective management of an application strategy?
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Monday
05:00 PM - 06:00 PM | |
| Cloud computing is changing the way solutions are designed, built deployed and managed. This tutorial explains the concepts behind cloud and the scenarios in which your enterprise can safely leverage its capabilities.
● What is the best approach to building a cloud computing strategy?
● How will public, private and hybrid delivery models evolve?
● What are the ideal targets and best practices for consuming cloud computing services?
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Monday
06:00 PM - 08:00 PM | |
| Come tailgate with us and enjoy wings, beer and Monday Night Football! |
Tuesday
07:00 AM - 06:00 PM | |
Tuesday
07:30 AM - 08:30 AM | |
| Get to know your fellow attendees and make some new connections right away. Attendees are invited to join informal discussion, networking and best practice sharing with peers. Select a table with the topic of most interest to you, and join the conversation.
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Tuesday
07:45 AM - 08:30 AM | |
| As mobile apps become a top concern for enterprises and CIOs, AD leaders face an increasing backlog of mobile development projects. This tutorial examines the major trends in mobile app design and development, and provides a road map for development practices.
• What are the current trends in mobile application platforms?
• What skills do I need to develop within my organization to support mobile application development?
• How will mobile applications affect my software development processes?
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Tuesday
07:45 AM - 08:30 AM | |
| Today’s applications are very different from those developed even a few years ago. They must be more flexible, accessible, capable of being deployed both in the cloud and on premises while managing vast amounts and numerous types of rapidly changing data, and provide consumer-grade experiences. The focal point of modern, cloud-ready application design is how information is created, consumed and augmented.
• What is information-first design?
• How does this differ from existing conventional design approaches?
• What kinds of applications benefit from these design patterns?
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Tuesday
08:30 AM - 08:45 AM | |
| Networking Break
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Tuesday
08:45 AM - 10:00 AM | |
| Will there be an end to the increasing pace of technology change? Not likely. So the question becomes how to evaluate and prioritize the application technologies that are most important. The challenge: to protect legacy investments and catalyze our organizations to leap forward competitively, while at the same time managing change. Not an easy undertaking. Come join us for some recipes for success.
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Tuesday
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM | |
| Networking Break
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Tuesday
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM | |
| The convergence of mobile, social, cloud and big data computing requires AD leaders to overhaul their organizations, processes and technologies. This session examines how pace-layered application strategies and other innovations can be used to harness these forces and propel the organization to success.
• How are the converging forces of mobile, social, cloud and big data changing the AD mission?
• How have AD leaders harnessed these forces to serve their enterprises?
• What must AD leaders do to position their organization to deliver in this new era?
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Tuesday
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM | |
| SaaS, pace layering and shared multi-enterprise applications are just a few examples of how your application portfolio is evolving. But as your applications flourish, are you also investing to modernize your integration strategy and skills?
• How are SaaS, pace layering and multi-enterprise applications affecting your application portfolio?
• As your application portfolio evolves, how do application integration requirements change?
• What new integration strategies are needed?
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Tuesday
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM | |
| The linear, one-dimensional approach to defining applications (2-tier, 3-tier, N-tier) is no longer accurate. Applications must support multiple user interfaces and communications channels. Data comes from multiple sources. And application logic is provided by packaged and legacy applications, along with purpose-built code.
• How does application architecture shift to better accommodate multichannel application delivery?
• How can enterprises best deal with the intersection of big data and social and event processing data?
• Will agile and other iterative development techniques make application architecture obsolete?
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Tuesday
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM | |
| Many new application leaders find themselves in charge of an application portfolio that hasn't been properly managed for years. It has evolved randomly in response to a variety of business requests, and may not meet the current or emerging needs of the business.
• What is required to develop an application strategy?
• How do you analyze the current application portfolio for technical and business fit?
• How do you engage the business in translating business strategy to application strategy?
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Tuesday
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM | |
| Cloud computing alters how solutions are built, marketed, acquired, used, managed and paid for. This presentation will examine the future evolution of cloud computing with an emphasis on the key factors that will promote or limit its evolution and alternative futures based on these factors.
• What are the key forces that will determine how cloud computing will evolve over the next 5 years?
• What are the potential scenarios that organizations should consider and plan for?
• What specific actions should be taken today to prepare for these future scenarios?
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Tuesday
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM | |
| Today, every enterprise needs to build mobile into their application strategy, yet mobile’s impact on each is unique. Building mobile applications without fitting them into your application strategy is a recipe for waste and risk. No two enterprises will incorporate mobile technologies exactly the same way, but there are common do’s and don’ts that apply to all.
• What are the key elements of a mobile-savvy application strategy?
• How can enterprises set strategy in such a tumultuous market?
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Tuesday
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM | |
| The new Web encourages participation, enables ecosystems and provides a rich and interactive experience across an array of devices. Beyond advancing technologies such as HTML5, the new Web is a platform to expand an organization’s reach and provide new services to consumers.
• What are the features of the new Web?
• How do I leverage the Web as a platform?
• What are the implications of social, mobile and cloud on the new Web?
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Tuesday
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM | |
| As traditionally defined ALM is a misnomer. An application has a life-cycle bigger than requirements, development and testing and the market is rapidly evolving driven by agile and the need to scale what started as small independent teams into a more efficient pipeline for the delivery of applications. This includes a shift toward a product centered planning focus and incorporation of PPM functionality into Agile planning tools, the emergence of DevOps and a toolset that looks at the life-cycle of the application rather than a development project. These changes drive the need for an improved terminology and taxonomy. In this workshop, conference attendees will examine the fundamentals of new methodologies and be introduced to Gartner’s product definitions and understand where market leading tools fit in this taxonomy.
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Tuesday
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM | |
| Developing and managing applications for IaaS starts with the provider’s API. Most IaaS providers use an API to create, start, stop, manage the various services they provide. The problem is, these APIs are different and proprietary. In addition, building applications requires in-depth knowledge of how these services are build and how to host application platforms within the IaaS service. This workshop is an overview of a few of the IaaS providers, their APIs, and how to use them to develop and manage applications in IaaS.
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Tuesday
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | |
| Networking Break
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Tuesday
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | |
| Today’s mobile applications require secure and reliable access to cloud-based data and can also benefit from a growing number of mobile-specific cloud services. During this presentation, the conferees will learn:
• Strategies for building robust cloud-aware mobile applications
• The benefits of employing cloud services within mobile applications
• Potential risks and pitfalls of today’s solutions and how to address them
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Tuesday
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | |
| IT organizations are expanding efforts to deploy applications into the cloud; however, new “cloud development services” that allow AD efforts to take place in the cloud are also emerging. In this roundtable, we discuss new opportunities to leverage cloud technologies directly within the software development life cycle, and examine whether and when these options can yield positive effects in modern AD efforts.
•What cloud developer services are emerging to move AD efforts into the cloud?
• When should an AD organization consider leveraging cloud-based development tools and technology?
• How will development in the cloud evolve in coming years?
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Tuesday
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | |
| Marketing and sales teams often independently lead the charge in the world of social to create brand awareness and opportunities to engage with customers. But then rising social sophistication demands deeper integration into business processes and mission-critical applications, introducing new demands on applications leaders. Join this analyst-user roundtable to explore the challenges:
- How are leading organizations augmenting business processes with social, both inside and outside the enterprise?
- What are the implications to application architecture, development and integration?
- What are best practices for application leaders in driving towards serious social business applications?
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Tuesday
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | |
| Leading organizations know “our business is IT, and IT is our business," and there is a tight link between processes, people, information and technology. One crucial aspect to success is using architecture as a conduit for engaging business leaders and understanding the ripple effect of business changes. Join us for this analyst-user roundtable to discuss:
• How can organizations use business architecture to integrate business and IT?
• How can business capabilities highlight the effect of changes in key business processes?
• How can business architecture lead business change with diagnostic and actionable deliverables?
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Tuesday
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM | |
| As organizations embrace the cloud, they are discovering how to get greater business value by integrating on-premises business applications with SaaS, services and Web APIs. Many alternative approaches to support this emerging opportunity can be adopted, each with its pitfalls and benefits
• What are the key business benefits and technology challenges of cloud service integration?
• How can integration platform-as-a-service support cloud service integration?
• When should you use iPaaS, traditional integration middleware or outsourcing services?
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Tuesday
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | |
| The nexus of disruptive forces in modern IT stirs fear and uncertainty in some software organizations, but a systematic and creative approach to application architecture will turn this threat into opportunity for the best-functioning — and with time —most IT organizations.
•How will social, mobile, big data and cloud drive changes to the now-prevailing architectural practices?
• What will the state of the art application architecture look like by 2015?
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Tuesday
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | |
| Global organizations now recognize that a “one size fits all” approach to application strategy doesn’t work. Many have adopted Gartner’s Pace Layered Application Strategy for greater agility. This session focuses on the lessons learned and emerging best practices from organizations that have adopted pace layers.
• How are companies adopting pace layers in their organization?
• What are some of the challenges with implementing a pace layered application strategy?
• What are the emerging best practices from companies that have embraced pace layers?
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Tuesday
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | |
| Cloud computing continues to reshape the vendor landscape, with pressure mounting on 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.
• How can you separate cloud reality from cloud marketing when evaluating vendor offerings?
• What are the strategies of the major cloud computing vendors?
• How are traditional markets such as Communication Service Providers responding to the cloud?
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Tuesday
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | |
| Google Android ships on more devices than any other platform, but Apple boasts higher enterprise adoption. Microsoft is fighting back, but has lost influence as users embrace mobile devices alongside their PCs. This panel discussion pits the vision and strategies of these three megavendors against each other so you can judge for yourself.
• How do their mobile visions and strategies differ?
• How do enterprise customers fit in?
• What can IT leaders do to prepare?
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Tuesday
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | |
| Web 2.0 is just a stop along the road, with semantic Web, HTML5 and cloud computing driving a new era of innovation. The future Web will require a multichannel, multi-device approach, focusing on a holistic user experience. Analytics will be key, with big data driving tactical and strategic business decisions.
• What is the evolutionary path of the Web?
• What does the future Web look like?
• How will you prepare yourself and your enterprise for the future Web?
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Tuesday
12:00 PM - 01:15 PM | |
Tuesday
12:15 PM - 02:45 PM | |
Tuesday
12:30 PM - 01:00 PM | |
| Integration methods aimed at driving cross-enterprise data value have traditionally come at the cost of articulating business value beyond the CIO. Today’s RESTful API standards are powering simple integration strategies with measurable value across across the organization. Mashery’s Chris Lippi and Coca-Cola Enterprises’ Carl Kennedy will show how enterprise API programs are revising the enterprise playbook, and giving integration architects leading roles in growth strategies beyond IT. |
Tuesday
12:45 PM - 01:05 PM | |
| Red Hat's JBoss enterprise middleware is uniquely positioned at the intersection of modern integration and BPM technologies to enable customers to build the intelligent, integrated enterprise required today and in the future. Listen as Pierre discusses our vision for the "intelligent, integrated enterprise", how the recent FuseSource and Polymita acquisitions accelerate this vision, and how today's JBoss Enterprise Middleware platforms provide a foundation and path to the integration technology of the future. |
Tuesday
01:10 PM - 01:30 PM | |
Tuesday
01:35 PM - 01:55 PM | |
| Efficiency! Scalability! Flexibility! Cloud computing holds such promise. But real-world IT leaders must address security, workflow, and migration concerns before leaping into the cloud. In this presentation, ActiveState CEO Bart Copeland sizes up the challenge and delivers a what-you-need-to-know criteria list for CIOs looking to the cloud. Copeland will introduce Stackato, ActiveState’s enterprise private PaaS solution, illustrate how it’s benefitting enterprise customers, and show how Stackato delivers development agility, management control, and productivity gains. |
Tuesday
02:15 PM - 03:15 PM | |
| Will agile practitioners ever learn to work with their waterfall counterparts or will they be forever at odds with one another? During this debate, the panelists will consider:
• Agile and waterfall distinctions
• Agile methods suitable for waterfall processes
• Waterfall steps that work well with agile
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Tuesday
02:15 PM - 03:15 PM | |
| What are the best strategies to move mainframe workload to distributed infrastructure? What are the best strategies for mainframe migrations? Which vendors provide migration solutions? What infrastructure size is needed to move mainframe workload to a distributed infrastructure? Join us for this interactive roundtable discussion on these and other questions.
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Tuesday
02:15 PM - 03:15 PM | |
| Many enterprises seek to make their business processes smarter using rule engines, real-time monitoring dashboards or other analytics. This interactive roundtable discussion will focus on best practices in getting subject matter experts from the business side to work with IT to identify the right goals, constraints, key performance indicators, dashboard displays, alert thresholds, responses to alerts, and business rules to guide system design.
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Tuesday
02:15 PM - 03:15 PM | |
| Web APIs have become a central plank in strategies that extract competitive advantage from the nexus forces of mobile, social, cloud and information. Gartner clients tell us they’re pursuing Web APIs to support mobile app enablement, customer engagement in social media, and business model extension into new channels. Architects discover new learning opportunities as they help their organizations become service providers through Web API programs. Join Gartner analyst Eric Knipp as he leads a roundtable of your peers in a discussion of Web API experiences, practices and battle scars.
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Tuesday
02:15 PM - 03:15 PM | |
| Master data management is proving to be a worthwhile endeavor, but adoption is inhibited by challenges in aligning it with application architecture and integration strategies. This research explores how to assume information integrity across complex application landscapes.
• What are the intercepts between application architecture and information architecture?
• What are the barriers in information that inhibit success with application and integration strategy?
• What are the best practices and benefits to aligning application architecture and MDM?
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Tuesday
02:15 PM - 03:15 PM | |
| The challenge in managing data today is not just about the volume (“big data”); in addition, velocity, variety and complexity must be considered. In addition, location of information assets diversifies as the presence of Cloud increases. Many challenges of information management (in support of BI, analytics, pattern-based strategies and other use-cases) can be addressed with improved understanding and competencies for dealing with these forces.
•What is ""big data"" and what are the implications for IT leaders concerned with information management?
• What opportunities do “big data”, related technologies like NoSQL, and cloud computing present for organizations?
• What are the emerging techniques for leveraging the cloud and harnessing “big data” to create business value?
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Tuesday
02:15 PM - 03:15 PM | |
| Applications are expensive to acquire or develop, but that investment is just a fraction of the lifetime total cost of ownership (TCO). CIOs and IT management must improve how they manage and measure TCO in order to provide cost-effective applications that are agile enough to meet changing business needs.
• What are the Four Laws of Application Total Cost of Ownership?
• How should application management processes change to minimize TCO?
• How can the future ownership cost of existing applications be reduced?
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Tuesday
02:15 PM - 03:15 PM | |
| Platform as a service is the way to build innovative and differentiated cloud solutions, but beware of false PaaS. IT decision makers must understand the tradeoffs in choosing the platform technology before investing in strategic cloud computing initiatives.
• How will platform as a service evolve to best serve users’ business requirements?
• How will vendors compete for leadership in the cloud platform markets?
• What best practices will emerge for using PaaS to build modern software solutions?
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Tuesday
02:15 PM - 03:15 PM | |
| Mobile looks radically different today than even three years ago. Driven by fickle consumer taste, dramatic geographic variation and a tug of war between the world’s largest vendors, forecasting the future of mobile is devilishly difficult. Yet application leaders must understand what’s ahead in order to plan and invest. This analyst panel lays out our independent point of view.
• How will new technologies, like HTML 5, transform the future of mobile?
• Will mobile technologies converge or continue to diverge around the world?
• Will Apple and Google continue to define the future or will others rise?
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Tuesday
02:15 PM - 03:15 PM | |
| The consumer Web is dominated by Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook. These players are successful not just because of advanced technology, top-flight talent and strong brand. Their competitive advantage stems from critical masses of data: the “social graph,” plus intent, interest, payment and mobile graphs.
• What were the critical success factors for the big four?
• What are the five graphs and how do they provide sustainable competitive advantage?
• What predictions stem from the five-graph model and what impact will they have on enterprises?
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Tuesday
02:15 PM - 03:45 PM | |
| Web APIs are emerging as a way for organizations to deal with the mobile, social, cloud and big data nexus of forces. But organizations that aren't careful will find that underlying their Web API is a tangled implementation that brings back memories of traditional software design rot and increasing technical debt.
•How do I ensure the implementation behind the API exhibits architectural integrity?
• What architectural practices can I use to design the underlying implementation?
• How do I manage ongoing technical debt?
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