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Application integration and middleware is the key to real-time enterprise (RTE) software infrastructures. This track will explore the architecture for integration, managing complex business processes, the role of real-time monitoring (BAM), B2B integration, composite applications, integration technologies and vendors.
Systems architects, application integration and middleware standards team, application integration product marketing managers (application integration vendors), central integration team, e-business platform analysts, CIO and direct staff, consulting organ
Tutorial: Middleware 101: The Cheat Sheet
(01A)
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm 23 March 2003
Lheureux, Ben
Middleware is a key enabler in modern integration and Web services solutions, but the technology is dynamic and the terminology ambiguous. This presentation provides a middleware taxonomy, explains its components and investigates the trends in middleware products. Key issues include:
- How does middleware used for deploying of multi-tier, distributed applications differ from that used to integrate applications, and can a single product be used for both?
- What will be the key integration middleware trends during the next five years?
- What types of middleware can be used to deploy Web services, and how does it differ from that used to make use of Web services?
Lead Presentation: Web Services Scenario: Web Services Get Real
(13I)
11:30 am - 12:30 pm 24 March 2003
Smith, David
WS technologies and concepts are permeating the industry. Yet misconceptions and unrealistic expectations abound. Understanding the truth to get through the hype is the focus of this presentation.
- What are Web services, and how are they affecting modern software development and deployment?
- How will Web services evolve over the next five years?
Lead Presentation: Application Integration Scenario: Making It All Work Together
(16A)
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm 24 March 2003
Schulte, Roy
Enterprises are migrating to a fundamentally new way of organizing computer systems and business processes, although many are unaware they are making this shift. The conventional network is mutating into an enterprise nervous system (ENS) where the network is as intelligent as the applications.
- How will application design and integration practices change as IS managers seek to implement the “agile” enterprise?
- What will be the benefits and limitations of the three major migration strategies: rip-and-replace, wrap-and-reengineer, and leave-and-layer?
- How can enterprises extract pragmatic value from the enterprise nervous system and avoid the pitfalls of excessive hype?
AIM Marketplace Presentation: The World-Wide Market for Application Integration, Middleware and Portals
(MTP03A)
6:05 pm - 6:20 pm 24 March 2003
Correia, Joanne
This session speaks about the dynamics of the worldwide software market in relationship to the drivers and inhibitors of the Application Integration, Middleware and Portal markets.
Gartner 360°: Application Integration and Middleware
(23B)
11:30 am - 12:30 pm 25 March 2003
McCoy, David Long, Gary Correia, Joanne Schulte, Roy Vendor Solution Presentation: Citrix Systems, Inc.: Curing the Information Access Headache with Citrix
(24A)
12:45 pm - 1:45 pm 25 March 2003
Trying to provide enterprise-wide application access can cause an IT headache - especially in today’s heterogeneous world. Citrix can help organizations quickly expand their implementations and adapt to changing business needs using scaling and management capabilities from Citrix MetaFrame XP.
Vendor Solution Presentation: WRQ: Speeding Up Host Integration: The Time-Saving Features You Need
(24D)
12:45 pm - 1:45 pm 25 March 2003
Need to respond quickly to new business initiatives? Repurpose the valuable business logic in your host applications. This presentation focuses on how host integration products work and the five key features that speed up the integration process. For more information on WRQ products, visit www.wrq.com/products
Vendor Solution Presentation: SAP: SAP NetWeaver: The Comprehensive Integration & Application Platform for Lower Total Cost of Ownership
(24H)
12:45 pm - 1:45 pm 25 March 2003
SAP NetWeaver (NOTE: NEEDS TM) integrates people, information, and business processes across technologies and organizations by delivering open, flexible technology that integrates heterogeneous systems, and is completely interoperable with Microsoft .NET and IBM WebSphere (J2EE). Learn how SAP NetWeaver can provide your company with a blueprint for turning Web services into a business reality, and drive down your total cost of operations.
Best Practice Workshop: Application Integration and Middleware
(25J)
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm 25 March 2003
McCoy, David Long, Gary Corriera, Joanne Schulte AIM Marketplace Presentation: Best Practices for the First Integration Project
(MTP19A)
5:00 pm - 5:15 pm 25 March 2003
Long, Gary
Most managers understand that application integration takes more than just buying middleware and tools, but they may be unclear on how to get started. This presentation summarizes some of the practical, issues involved and provides a readiness checklist.
Business Process Management Goes Mainstream
(33C)
11:00 am - 12:00 pm 26 March 2003
Sinur, Jim
Business process management has invaded application integration strategies. Demanded by the increasing pace of change in business and fueled by a confluence of factors spanning the workflow and integration middleware markets, BPM must become part of integration arsenal.
- What will drive demand for BPM in zero-latency and straight-through-processing integration scenarios?
- Which of the many technical sources of BPM will dominate integration architecture planning decisions?
- How will vendor strategies best address the balancing act of human-based and machine-based business processes?
AIM Marketplace Presentation: Best Practices for the First Integration Project
(MTP22B)
11:10 am - 11:25 am 26 March 2003
Long, Gary
Most managers understand that application integration takes more than just buying middleware and tools, but they may be unclear on how to get started. This presentation summarizes some of the practical, issues involved and provides a readiness checklist.
Business Activity Monitoring: The Flame Is Growing
(35C)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm 26 March 2003
McCoy, David Dresner, Howard
Business activity monitoring (BAM) is an emerging area that promises to take the best of business intelligence and applications integration and blend them for maximum business benefit. This presentation places this into proper perspective.
- Is BAM real-time integration, real-time BI, both or neither?
- How should enterprises proceed with BAM today?
- What does the future hold for BAM?
Vendor Solution Presentation: BEA Systems, Inc.: Business Integration - Convergence of Application Development & Integration
(36C)
2:45 pm - 3:45 pm 26 March 2003
While Business Integration remains a top CIO priority, artificial barriers between application development and integration have created fundamental tensions between business requirements and IT capabilities. BEA WebLogic Platform converges development and integration in a single, unified platform for building, integrating, extending, deploying and managing applications as end-to-end processes.
AIM Marketplace Presentation: The Worldwide Market for Application Integration, Middleware and Portals
(MTP32B)
3:20 pm - 3:35 pm 26 March 2003
Correia, Joanne
This session speaks about the dynamics of the worldwide software market in relationship to the drivers and inhibitors of the Application Integration, Middleware and Portal markets.
SODA Is Application Integration for Developers
(37I)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm 26 March 2003
Plummer, Daryl
This presentation examines the SODA and ISE concepts and projects their impact on applications development and Web services.
- How will services-oriented development impact development of Web services?
- How will integrated services environments emerge as the de facto development platform for Web services?
- How will vendors affect the impact of the emerging integrated services environment?
Application Server Scenario: .NET, J2EE and Application Platform Suites
(42F)
9:30 am - 10:30 am 27 March 2003
Schulte, Roy
Application servers are the key element of the modern software infrastructure. Which application server architecture (J2EE, .NET or another) is the best fit to meet enterprise requirements? Will application platform suites be next-generation application servers?
- What are the key trends in the application server market?
- How will enterprises choose between .NET and J2EE?
- When will enterprises use application platform suites?
Leveraging the Application Portfolio: Composite Applications
(43I)
11:00 am - 12:00 pm 27 March 2003
Thompson, Jess
Web services is becoming a viable paradigm for supporting B2B across the Internet, but how can users build Web services and other e-business applications out of established enterprise applications? With fledgling technology, conflicting standards and lack of experience, implementing Web services is a daunting prospect. Composite applications will play a pivotal role in enabling e-applications and Web services.
- How will organizations leverage established enterprise systems to build e-business applications and expose Internet-aware Web services?
- Which technologies, products and vendors will effectively support composite applications development and deployment?
- How will organizations exploit composite applications in a fiercely competitive scenario?
Which Application Development Vendors Will Survive the SODA Generation?
(45D)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm 27 March 2003
Blechar, Michael
The turn of the millennium has seen the emergence of the next generation of architectures, especially J2EE and .NET, and Services-Oriented Development of Applications (SODA). Consistent with the demand, vendors have flocked to this market just as mainstream buyers begin their transition from the older architectures and approaches. Many are choosing a “best-in-breed” set of AD solutions. However, due to the breadth of solution needed, the greatest likelihood is that, long term, this market will consolidate down to a handful of leaders, leaving many organizations in a lurch. In this presentation, we explore the scenarios for long-term leadership, and which vendors have the greatest likelihood of survival.
- What breadth of solution will be required to be a long-term leader in the SODA AD market?
- What are the most likely scenarios for how the SODA AD market will consolidate?
- Which vendors will be most likely to survive the SODA AD market consolidation, and which will face the greatest challenges?
Applying Enterprise Architecture Design Pattern Concepts That Work
(46C)
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm 27 March 2003
Long, Gary
Lays out the concepts of both logical and physical design patterns and their place in enterprise architecture. Shows how patterns in software, integration, network, security, etc. contribute to uniformity, get a jump-start on designs, and cut costs.
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