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Sunday
03:00 PM to 06:30 PM | |
Sunday
03:45 PM to 04:45 PM | |
| Learn about the information organizations need to collect about applications for portfolio management. We’ll discuss what is important to collect, what is difficult to collect, and what will be controversial. Participants will be asked to share challenges and approaches to resolution. |
Sunday
03:45 PM to 04:45 PM | |
| BPM has far-reaching effects on skills, staffing, capabilities and organizational models. This session outlines the roles and skills needed to make BPM projects successful and provides guidelines for selecting external service providers to supplement the in-house staff’s capabilities.
• What are the key roles, skills and capabilities needed for BPM?
• What is the best way to organize BPM roles and responsibilities?
• What are best practices in filling skills gaps with capabilities from a BPM consulting vendor?
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Sunday
04:00 PM to 06:00 PM | |
| "The greatest challenge of SOA is consistently created well designed services. Adopting a structured approach to designing services insures that the benefits of SOA are realized and the cost and effort of deploying and using services are minimized. Adopting an approach based on consistent service models, and leveraging existing SOA patterns can transform your service design practices from ad hoc to a managed and methodical approach. This workshop will teach the participants how to design their services using a repeatable methods, models and patterns, to insure consistent results.
• Implementing SOA principles through models and patterns
• Modeling services for design completeness
• Using SOA patterns to drive best practice implementations. "
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Sunday
05:00 PM to 06:30 PM | |
| Attendees raved about it last year, so we're bringing back this series of structured - and fun! - pre-conference networking activities where you can join Gartner analysts and your peers and get to know each other, identify people with similar roles and interests, and start discussing issues and building relationships. And if that wasn't enough, the beer and snacks are on us, and we'll give away a few prizes! |
Monday
07:00 AM to 06:00 PM | |
Monday
07:30 AM to 08:45 AM | |
Monday
07:45 AM to 08:30 AM | |
| Cloud Computing continues to be the number one hyped term in IT, yet continues to be misunderstood by many. This tutorial will explain the concepts of cloud computing and will provide a framework for understanding when your enterprise can safely leverage cloud computing capabilities.
What is Cloud Computing and how does it differ from other styles of computing?
What are the risks and challenges of cloud computing, and what are the ideal targets and best practices for using it?
How will cloud computing impact the way solutions are designed, built, deployed and managed?
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Monday
07:45 AM to 08:30 AM | |
| "ALM Solutions are agility delivery mechanisms, delivering software at higher velocity and lower overhead. This session will help an organization choose the best fit from the range of strategies and products available.
What is the range of ALM strategies?
How should an organization define its ALM needs?
Which products and vendors deliver which ALM strategies?"
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Monday
07:45 AM to 08:30 AM | |
| From its early focus on getting applications to work together, the scope of integration middleware has expanded dramatically. Today, it is key to supporting initiatives like SOA, cloud and multi-enterprise B2B that can differentiate your organization from competitors. This presentation examines:
* What features are required to implement a comprehensive SOA and Integration Application Infrastructure?
* What types of integration middleware are available, what are the typical usage scenarios and how do vendors of these products compare?
* What must you do to select the infrastructure that best meets the needs of your organization?
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Monday
08:45 AM to 09:45 AM | |
| Today, IT agility requires delivering on the promise of Cloud and SOA, and beginning the hard work of overhauling and modernizing existing Applications. These three are the “must have” building blocks of an applications strategy. Where to start? Which technologies and vendors will succeed? This keynote presentation will lock down core concepts and present Gartner’s strategic planning assumptions so that you can build a plan for moving forward. |
Monday
10:10 AM to 11:05 AM | |
| Cloud Computing has become the latest in a series of hot industry terms and as such, is used in many contradictory ways. Underneath the fog, there are very real trends such as global class architecture, web platforms, scalable and elastic processing, and the Internet itself that are converging to fuel this phenomenon. The impact will be felt broadly in applications as well as platforms and services.
• What is cloud computing and what impact will it have on the IT market?
• Which cloud computing service markets will emerge and who will be the main providers of cloud services?
• How should companies leverage cloud computing services to support their IT and business strategies?
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Monday
10:10 AM to 11:05 AM | |
| IT professionals have long struggled to describe and justify IT’s value to skeptical managements. This presentation, based on case studies drawn from the bestselling Harvard Business Press book “The Real Business of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value”, named the best IT/Business book of 2009 by CIO Insight magazine, shows how application leaders create and communicate value for their enterprises, and achieve deeper cross-enterprise engagement and effective executive oversight.
Key issues:
. How will successful IT professionals communicate the value of IT to peers and colleagues throughout the enterprise?
• How will the virtuous cycle of IT-related activities— identification, investment, execution and measurement—create value for enterprises?
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Monday
10:15 AM to 12:15 PM | |
| A high-quality user experience for Web sites and applications, is now within reach of most organizations. The principles and best practices are well-known among high-end consumer-facing Web sites. The challenge is how to apply this know-how within the enterprise setting, to gain strategic benefits and competitive advantage. There are different approaches, each with its risks and requirements. What are best practices for designing and delivering high-quality user experiences? What is the state of enterprise applications and Web sites with regard to user experience? How can enterprises overcome organizational, cultural and governance barriers to designing high-quality user experiences.
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Monday
11:15 AM to 12:15 PM | |
Monday
11:15 AM to 12:15 PM | |
| Incorporating packaged business applications into users’ SOA framework is challenging because these packages bring with them conflicting semantic and technical “standards” defined by the respective vendor, as well as their own SOA-enabling application infrastructure middleware “stacks”. In this AUR participants will debate what these challenges are and how to overcome them.
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Monday
11:20 AM to 12:15 PM | |
| Unless addressed, your bloated application portfolio will stifle innovation and strangle agility. As IT leaders awake to the scale of applications overhaul, they'll need to build a strong coalition across the whole of IT and with all business stakeholders.
1: What are the compelling arguments for applications overhaul? 2: How can the case for applications overhaul be communicated? 3: What are the desired outcomes of an effective applications overhaul communications program?
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Monday
11:20 AM to 12:15 PM | |
| To maximize your success in adopting cloud computing, you need to change your IT processes, not just your sourcing mechanism. We'll take a look at best practices in cloud computing-related policies, cloud management, governance, and administration. Key issues:
- What governance challenges are created by the shift to cloud computing?
- How should IT policies change as a result of cloud services?
- What are the best practices in managing cloud services?
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Monday
11:20 AM to 12:15 PM | |
| IT advances are typically promoted as if they were separate topics, but gaining their full value requires using two or more of them together. This session discusses how to maximize the effects of six related technology trends.
• Will modern SOA and BPM make distributed applications, including cloud systems, measurably better, or is the industry just recycling old design ideas?
• Can BI, rule engines and event processing make mainstream business systems “smart” or should these technologies be aimed at niche problems?
• What are the critical differences between projects and application architectures that succeed and those that struggle and fail?
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Monday
11:20 AM to 12:15 PM | |
| New IT capabilities constantly appear in the market, but their adoption requires integration into a portfolio of existing – sometimes mature - IT assets. From a budget standpoint, the new products/services often can only be adopted if others are retired or replaced. Gartner's IT Market Clock is a new research framework, complementary to the Hype Cycle, that aims to provide a full life cycle view of technology assets. Simplistically put, the Hype Cycle supports ""technology hunting"" decisions, while the IT Market Clock supports ""farming"" decisions for existing assets.
What is the Gartner IT Market Clock, and how is it complementary to other research?
How should clients to use the IT Market Clock to support investments and divestment planning?
Which technologies and disciplines appear on the IT Market Clock for Application Development?
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Monday
11:20 AM to 12:15 PM | |
| The middle layer of cloud architecture will define the standards and powers of cloud business solutions. Here we look at the emerging trends in application infrastructure for cloud computing -- often referred to as Platform as a service (PaaS) technology.
> How will application infrastructure and middleware technology evolve to form the foundation of PaaS and cloud computing?
> What vendors will emerge as leaders in the PaaS market?
> What will be the winning business strategies of leading-edge and mainstream enterprises in adopting or resisting the challenges of cloud computing?
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Monday
11:20 AM to 12:15 PM | |
| Data integration is a mainstay for achieving integrated applications and providing access, movement and transformation of data. It is relevant for business intelligence, system consolidation and migration, B2B data sharing, etc. EIM is on the rise and leverages basic data integration but is a more holistic approach to data discipline that also addresses SOA, low-latency data delivery, and data quality. Vendors of data integration technologies continue to mature but the market remains fragmented and volatile.
* What is the role of data integration within an overall EIM strategy?
* How will major trends such as open source, SOA and cloud impact data integration practices and markets?
* What should mainstream companies do to successfully apply data integration in their EIM strategy?
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Monday
12:15 PM to 02:15 PM | |
Monday
02:15 PM to 02:40 PM | |
| We discuss the basic application governance framework, how organizations can assess themselves, and the results of client assessments. |
Monday
02:15 PM to 03:15 PM | |
Monday
02:15 PM to 03:15 PM | |
Monday
02:15 PM to 02:40 PM | |
| Many enterprises want to leverage cloud computing, but what is the first step, and how big is that first step? This NET-IT-OUT session will discuss pragmatic strategies for adopting cloud computing in a safe and sane manner.
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Monday
02:15 PM to 02:40 PM | |
| SOA brings up many complex issues; technology complexity, organizational challenges, architectural and design obstacles. This presentation focuses on 5 practical recommendations that can streamline the path to SOA success, and realizing the business value of SOA.
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Monday
02:15 PM to 02:40 PM | |
| Continuous integration, continuous testing, and continuous deployment - What do they really mean? |
Monday
02:15 PM to 02:40 PM | |
| By 2013, mobile devices will overtake PCs as the most-common Web access device worldwide, and their impact is already reshaping how enterprises architectures and application infrastructure are extended to meet business requirements. 2010-2015 represents a transition period for many enterprises, here we discuss the opportunities and risks of the new world of mobile-enabled enterprise.
• What are the future requirements for a mobile platform investments?
• What is the vendor landscape for mobile platforms?
• What are the best practices in integrating mobile into enterprise computing?
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Monday
02:15 PM to 02:40 PM | |
| Application versus process versus data Integration. Application-to-application (A2) versus business-to-business (B2B) versus ecommerce versus cloud services integration. Integration software versus integration services. Oh, my – isn’t integration complicated? Come discover the 5 essential questions you should ask prior to implementing any integration project to help ensure your success.
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Monday
02:15 PM to 04:15 PM | |
| Cloud computing requires an architecture shift and new development models. Traditional application and data architecture does not enable optimal elastic scalability and maximum utilization of shared infrastructure. To build Cloud-friendly applications that will maximize benefits, development teams must apply Cloud application design patterns to build systems that exhibit parallelism, multi-tenancy, autonomy, distributed interactions, declarative definitions, separation of concerns, and federation.
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Monday
02:50 PM to 03:20 PM | |
| Gartner receives a growing number of inquiries from mainframe customers to move off this stalwart platform. Is it really possible? What shape and size of mainframe portfolios are easier to move than others. What options are available? How do I know it will be cheaper if I move to a new platform?
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Monday
02:50 PM to 03:20 PM | |
| As SaaS has gone from leading edge technologies toward mainstream, enterprise applications have forcefully entered the market. While the labels they use are often the same, SaaS vendors often have very different architectures. Understanding these differences and how to exploit SaaS applications can help your company deliver increased business value.
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Monday
02:50 PM to 03:20 PM | |
| Do you think your SOA project needs more governance? Too little governance can dilute SOA benefits, but too much governance can cripple a SOA project. Join this highly interactive session to learn what mistakes have been done by some of your peers in the SOA Governance space, and how to avoid them.
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Monday
02:50 PM to 03:20 PM | |
| In many organizations, developers and architects seem to inhabit separate worlds, with different priorities and behaviors, despite being cut from the same cloth. How can architects be in touch with the real-world issues developers face? How can development teams adapt their skills, processes and vocabulary to meet SOA and other architectural demands? In this session we’ll discuss practical ways of “making the twain meet”.
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Monday
02:50 PM to 03:20 PM | |
| Event processing and cloud computing are rapidly invading mainstream computing. Here Gartner analysts will present and debate (with audience participation) come key predictions on the impact of Events and Cloud on mainstream IT practices.
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Monday
02:50 PM to 03:20 PM | |
| Many companies publish cloud API’s to share information and link business processes. Some companies consume each other’s API’s, eliminating the need for cloud services integration. But many companies still leverage various integration technology. Why? If you build it (cloud API’s), will they (API users) come? Thus, is there still a need for “integration” technology, per se?
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Monday
03:30 PM to 04:30 PM | |
| The application portfolio of most firms is a haphazard collection of strategies, and in some cases, lack of strategy. Now firms need to figure out how to understand where they are now, where they want to get to, and how to keep their portfolio current once they arrive. In this Analyst Round Table we will talk about how firms have been attacking this problem, and how you can apply these experiences in your organization.
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Monday
03:30 PM to 04:30 PM | |
| Attend this session to hear Oracle and one of its customers share best practices for building successful SOA for private and public cloud environments. Understand how customers are transitioning to support cloud requirements in their existing shared services infrastructure. This session also describes how Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud coupled with Oracle SOA Suite uniquely addresses the common challenges faced by companies evolving their infrastructure to a hybrid cloud model. |
Monday
03:30 PM to 04:30 PM | |
| There’s a significant opportunity trapped within a company’s machine-generated IT data. But how can you leverage it to better solve problems, monitor service levels, identify risk, and ultimately make better decisions? Splunk customers LinkedIn and Autodesk share how they have unlocked the value of their IT data in new ways. Learn how these organizations ensure the delivery of critical business services with minimal disruptions and downtime and gain key insights into usage of these services to support business-level decision making.
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Monday
03:30 PM to 04:30 PM | |
| Whether you already have an SOA in place-or you're just getting started with SOA-it is essential to prove business benefits. Today, measuring cost and revenue impact as well as other SOA metrics is vital to any leading organization. This is a round-table discussion, especially relevant for IT Leaders such as Directors of IT Strategy and Enterprise/SOA Architects, that will allow participants to share and learn best practices for making a persuasive business case in their organization. We will start the discussion by proposing a model for proving business value and you will likely find the key takeaways to be both significant and actionable. |
Monday
05:00 PM to 06:00 PM | |
| (NOTE: Participants are required to have at least a Platform-as-a-service pilot underway) Cloud computing is a new opportunity and a new challenge for most IT organizations. In this session the early pioneer users in platform-as-a-service space will share their experiences, compare notes and discuss the plans for the future.
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Monday
05:00 PM to 06:00 PM | |
| Is MDM a “data integration” initiative? Does MDM “work” without data integration? If you “do” data integration, does this mean you don’t need MDM? Just some of the more interesting questions this roundtable is challenged to discuss and answer. Come share your experiences and help your peers figure out how to reconcile data integration efforts with MDM. All experience levels are welcome.
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Monday
05:00 PM to 06:00 PM | |
| In this must-attend keynote, best-selling author Keith Ferrazzi will help you and your teams succeed with your most vital asset: the people you work with. In a time of cutbacks and layoffs, it is more important than ever for your organization to deepen relationships and build resolve. Creating deep community bonds among employees is an incredibly effective instrument for continuing change and growth in the workplace – the kind that translates to bottom-line impact. As business and IT leaders, you’ll learn vital lessons to enhance productivity, innovation, and growth among your teams, and prepare to create recession-proof relationships with your counterparts and stakeholders. Through an interactive and transformative experience, Ferrazzi will share powerful insights and techniques that will put you in a position to maximize the power of what Ferrazzi calls “lifeline relationships” – the secret to transformative change.
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Monday
06:00 PM to 08:00 PM | |
Tuesday
07:30 AM to 08:30 AM | |
Tuesday
07:30 AM to 06:00 PM | |
Tuesday
08:30 AM to 09:30 AM | |
| The project is finished and the application goes live. But the popping of champagne corks simply celebrates the end of the beginning – the hard work and the major expense is all yet to come. Applications are expensive to own – but they don’t have to be so expensive – there are techniques that any application team can adopt that have a substantial effect on the total cost of ownership. Come along and find out what they are
Key Issue 1: What are “non-functional requirements” and how do they effect the total cost of ownership?
Key Issue 2: How can the trade offs between “I want it fast and I want it cheap” and the requirements for lower TCO be negotiated?
Key Issue 3: How can the TCO of an existing application be reduced?
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Tuesday
08:30 AM to 09:30 AM | |
| This session explores the usage scenarios, evaluation criteria, and decision frameworks that roundtable participants have used to select BPMS products. The roundtable will also examine how successful these choices have been, and the pitfalls to avoid.
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