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Extensible Markup Language has grown to be the data description language enabling applications for all layers of the computing stack in most vertical industries. This track covers major XML developments of the past year and projections for the next few years.
Tutorial: XML-Defined Web Services Standards
(03F)
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm 23 March 2003
Knox, Rita Thompson, Jess
This session covers the basics of the W3C XML standards and the standards forming the foundation of the Web computing infrastructure and Web services: Simple Open Access Protocol (SOAP), Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI), and Web Services Description Language (WSDL).
- How do the Web services standards enable the Web computing infrastructure?
- How and when will Web services enhance enterprise productivity?
- What strategies should enterprises employ to deal with standards that are incomplete and immature?
- How should enterprises integrate the Web computing standards into their enterprise architecture, and when can they begin?
Lead Presentation: XML -- My, How You've Grown
(16H)
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm 24 March 2003
Knox, Rita
XML emerged over 5 years ago, quickly spreading into every aspect of information technology. This presentation covers the fundamental shift it effected in computing, the improvements it has brought to different industries, and what we can expect over the next five years.
- What are the biggest industry changes XML will enable through 2008?
- Where will XML save money for enterprises through 2008?
- How can industries develop XML standards that can be shared and long-lived?
- Through 2008, what will be the most important new product offerings that employ XML, and what will they affect?
Mobile Device Choices for the Enterprise
(25H)
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm 25 March 2003
Dulaney, Ken
In an era in which users may have more mobile devices than shoes, organizations must have a clear understanding of which devices -- handsets, PDAs, pagers or notebooks -- will best fit the needs of businesses and consumers. What’s in store for the next generation of mobile products, and how should you supply them to users? Which form factors will win? Which features and wireless capability will future devices offer? Which operating systems will they run? Which are the primary applications that users will demand? This presentation will answer all these questions and more.
- What product vendors will make a successful contribution to the mobile enterprise, and how?
- How will the evolution of wireless devices affect enterprises?
- Which vendors will deliver effective mobile and wireless technologies, devices, infrastructure, applications and content?
Panel: Web Computing: When XML Is Everywhere and in Everything
(27F)
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm 25 March 2003
Pescatore, John Thompson, Jess Smith, David Wheatman, Victor
XML is rapidly moving onto the Plateau of Productivity and will drive changes (both good and bad) in the IT processing "stack" used by enterprises. When XML's broader capabilities become as ubiquitous and taken for granted as HTML is today, how will the way business processes get implemented in B2B, B2C and B2E environments?
- When and how will XML get baked into everything we do?
- How will XML pervading the IT infrastructure change server/operating system choice, application development and integration approaches and security strategies?
- What should enterprises do in this year's and next year's budgets to prepare for XML's pervasiveness in the IT computing stack?
Optimizing Web-Enabled Applications
(32F)
9:30 am - 10:30 am 26 March 2003
Fabbi, Mark
As Web-enabled applications and Web services continue to permeate the enterprise, finding ways to optimize the performance and scalability of these applications becomes increasingly important.
- Through 2008, how would enterprises architect the end-to-end application environment?
- What networking technologies will emerge by 2008 to help provide increased availability, performance and scalability?
- Which vendors are leaders in providing solutions to optimize Web-based applications?
Seamless Content and the Content Service Providers That Provision IT
(38F)
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm 26 March 2003
Knox, Rita
Seamless Content is transparent access to any information from any device in any format at any time. Content Service Providers will be provisioners from the network service provider, content, entertainment and software industries; they will drive technology and business innovation; and will arrest the aimless drift of all of them.
- How can NSPs, software vendors, entertainment, and content vendors redefine themselves to exploit the Content Service Provider industry?
- What technologies will implement seamless content?
- What must content providers do to survive and thrive in the seamless content world?
- Who will be the Web-based Content Service Providers (CSPs)?
The New Applications -- Composite, Collaborative and Content-Centric
(43G)
11:00 am - 12:00 pm 27 March 2003
Hayward, Simon
The SES is not just a bundling of workplace applications, it may also be a platform for the delivery of the next generation of business applications.
- How do the new applications differ from the old?
- Why do vendors such as SAP, Peoplesoft and Siebel care about SES?
- How will the new applications be selected (or developed) and deployed?
Web Services Standards: De Facto, De Jure or Defunct?
(47H)
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm 27 March 2003
Perlstein, Larry
The success of Web services hinges on the development and adoption of standards. Understanding how to prioritize support and investment in these standards is a must.
- How and why are standards important to the future of Web services?
- How will Web services standards evolve?
- What are the critical success factors for early Web services?
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