Designed by IT professionals to help their peers deliver on the promise of the agile enterprise.

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IT is caught between budgetary squeezes on new projects and the drive towards SOA with its promise of greater interoperability and maintainability. Join us at FTP’s premiere Software Architecture Summit to share case studies, best practices, and lessons learned from IT practitioners, along with state-of the-art presentations from leading vendors.

Receive practical advice from industry experts like Conference Chair Steven P. Davis, VP of IT for Walt Disney Studios; Gordon Van Huizen, CTO of Sonic Software; Brent Carlson, Co-founder and VP of Technology for Logic Library; Mike Lee, Director of Enterprise Data & Application Architecture for Warner Bros. Entertainment, and others as they share their experiences on the IT battlefront.

Hear case studies firsthand from Yaacov Cohen, President and CEO of Mainsoft and Chris Keene, VP of Data Caching for Progress Software's ObjectStore.
And for pragmatic, how-to content, don't miss the day-long Architecture In-Depth track led by Billy Hollis and Keith Pleas - offering over five hours of design specifics.


Agenda:

Tuesday, February 8
Wednesday, February 9

Feb 7

.NET Focus Day

Feb 9	Software Architecture Summit
9 a.m.	General Keynote: Bringing the Power of Oracle to Visual Studio .NET
	Lessons from the Battlefront	The Architectural State-of-the-Art Showcase
10:30 a.m.	Top 10 ESB Myths	Best Practices for Faster Application Development
11:45 a.m.	Data Caching In Service-Oriented Architectures: Best Practices	Object-Oriented Concepts in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
12:45 p.m.	Lunch
2 p.m.	General Session: Innovation and IP
3:15 p.m.	Reuse Best Practices in Service-Oriented Architectures	Web Services and the Enterprise Security Threat
4:30 p.m.	Building Applications for Interchangeable User Interfaces	Hear about varying approaches to LCM, change management, configuration management, and more.