Demonstrating Business Value in EA and SOA
Reach beyond the world of enterprise technology architecture and explore how the concepts of EA can be used to support business strategy implementation. We'll explore how a successful EA program may depend on understanding how humans fit into the enterprise's architecture. A case study of a large, highly scalable architecture built on the .NET platform will include integration between J2EE and .NET applications using Web services, including architecture, performance, and standards; integration with mainframes through HIS and MQSeries; version and release management for integrated applications; design, estimation, and project management techniques; using frameworks in application development; and managing asynchronous communication in an integration scenario with multiple applications.

Greggory Garrett and Ben Bratt are enterprise architects in the strategy consulting services group at gedas USA (Volkswagen Group)
Toufic Boubez is CTO at Layer 7 Technologies

Building an Extensible SOA Infrastructure
How do chief architects balance near-term project success with long-term infrastructure reliability and performance as they build service-oriented architectures (SOA) that leverage their initial Web services efforts? Striking this balance is central to the success of every modern enterprise SOA initiative. This session will address how to approach SOA management from a project-based level while allowing room for future expansion to an enterprise-wide SOA. Find out how SOA management can help ease the complexity of moving toward a loosely coupled environment. In addition, learn how to move from project-based Web services to an enterprise-wide SOA, real customer challenges and solutions for SOA and Web service deployments, why SOA management is required for effective Web service deployments, and what's in store for the future of Web services.

Frank Martinez, CTO, Blue Titan
Dan Foody, CTO, Actional

Panel : Security-Key IT Challenges and Best Practices
Businesses face increasing needs for information sharing and challenges to information security-as well as compliance mandates-all of which must be met in a highly distributed, heterogenous IT framework. How can companies balance these issues and remain flexible?

Moderator: Chris Haddad, practice manager of the Burton Group's application platform strategies service
Paul Patrick is chief security architect, BEA
Scott Boehmer is the general manager of customer solutions at Sprint
Wayne Ariola, Vice President of Corporate Development, Parasoft

Evolving the Enterprise: Strategies from Architecture to Implementation
Examine the WS-* standards landscape from the SOA point of view. Look at which standards are critically important in forming the building blocks of enterprise SOA and enterprise service buses (ESBs), and discuss the differentiation between Web services architecture and enterprise SOA architecture in the large. We'll also taker a look at the composability model that ultimately unites evolving standards and SOA frameworks.

Implementing EA represents a unique important opportunity for the enterprise to re-establish the core infrastructure that will support its operations for many years to come. We'll examine how to transition the current IT systems to better support the service-oriented enterprise.

Glen Daniels is standards strategist at Sonic Software
Stephen W. Olding is project director of enterprise architecture and reuse at Everware

Enterprise Thinking in a Services-Oriented World
Service-oriented architecture is an architecture and design paradigm that has been applied in the software engineering space for the past 20 years. It has often been referred as a best practice in the architecture definition of distributed applications. We'll discuss the transformational aspect of SOA in terms of IT processes, governance and organizational changes as well as the software engineering disciplines required to make SOA based application engineering a reality. Management, security, and governance are a common concern today and this session provides the necessary background and perspective on both the business and the technical issues. We'll examine important principles and make concrete recommendations using real-world examples to illustrate key concepts.

Roger Sippl is chairman of the Board at Above All Software

The Business Case for SOA: Strategy and Tactics
Organizations are questioning the business value and hype surrounding service oriented architecture (SOA). In this session, Burton Group Practice Manager Chris Haddad provides information and guidelines for assembling a compelling business case for SOA initiatives, including the technical, financial, and market opportunities that SOA brings to your organization.

Chris Haddad is practice manager for Burton Group Application Platform Strategies Service
Dave Welsh is an architect in the Architectural Strategy Team at Microsoft

One Enterprise: How Semantics Supports Integrated Information and Processes The modern enterprise relies on transparent information and end-to-end automated processes. IT struggles with disparate systems that cannot provide the enterprise with the transparency and integration it needs and which prevent IT from delivering the responsiveness and cost-efficiency that the business desires. Two disciplines each on their own fail to solve this problem; enterprise architecture has proven better at capturing the "to be" while metadata management captures the "as is." Solving these business needs requires that these two be related. A case study shows how semantic technologies have been used to weave the "as is" and the "to be" together. The result allows the corporation to behave like "one enterprise," even if it's supported by hundreds of disparate systems.

Zvi Schreiber is Founder and CEO, Unicorn
Tom Hite is CTO at Metallect

Developing, Deploying, and Managing Large Enterprise Applications
Listen in on a detailed case study of a large, highly scalable architecture built on the .NET platform.Then examine real-time enterprise applications that enable the computing infrastructure to adapt and react to rapidly changing business and technology needs, allowing applications or services to become aware of computing resources they are using, making it possible for applications resources to adapt to the virtual infrastructure.

Martin Milani is president and CEO of Intersperse