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No area of enterprise-based IT changes as fast as engineering. In a constant pursuit for perfection, new approaches to thinking and delivery are an industry constant. Discover how to create frameworks for real-time businesses that are flexible yet integrated into our networked world. Understand how you can take a leadership position but avoid cost blow-outs that steal competitive advantage. Presentations will feature Gartner's latest thinking on vendor selection for platforms, web services, application integration and business intelligence.
Selecting Tools and Technologies for Business Intelligence (BI): The Key Criteria
(21F)
9:30 - 10:30 11 November 2003
Louisa Liu
Choosing the right tools and technologies to support BI initiatives is critical to success. This session addresses selection criteria for Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL), as well as BI vendors, their products and specific tools.
The Application Development (AD) Scenario
(23G)
14:00 - 15:00 11 November 2003
Dion Wiggins
Global economic forces, and the business strategy of the leading vendors, are shaping the delivery of legacy, newly-developed and purchased software applications. Understand what these trends mean for you and your industry in the next few years
- How will business and technology trends affect AD organisations in the next five years
- Which technologies and vendors will provide leading solutions for AD through 2005
- Which management approaches will enable AD organisations to deliver high business value
The Gartner Enterprise Architecture (EA) Framework
(25A)
16:45 - 17:45 11 November 2003
Jeff Schulman
Effective IT Architecture requires a disciplined and methodological approach. Proven in multiple organisations, the Gartner Enterprise Architecture Framework offers a practical means to ensure critical technology delivers agreed benefits.
- What business drivers will lead enterprises to a new view of architecture
- What are the key elements of the EA framework, and how will they deliver business agility
- What are the principle governance structures for creating EA
The Enterprise Nervous System (ENS): Life Blood of Integration
(31F)
8:30 - 9:30 12 November 2003
Jess Thompson
A new way of organising computer systems and business processes is emerging, although many enterprises are unaware they are doing it. The conventional network is mutating into an 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
- Benefits and limitations of the major migration strategies: rip-and-replace, wrap-and-reengineer, and leave-and-layer
- How can enterprises extract value from the ENS and avoid the pitfalls of hype
Unifying Application Development (AD) Change Management: Software Puzzle Pieces
(32E)
10:00 - 11:00 12 November 2003
Partha Iyengar
Many organisations struggle to implement a rigorous solution to manage the creation, revision and retirement of their software portfolio in response to evolving business strategies, changes in processes and volatility in external relationships. Discover Gartner's unified view of software change management and how it can help you.
- What governance structure unifies management of the balance of new and legacy, large and small requirements, internal and external demands
- How can portfolio management, project management, software change and configuration management be harmonised in this view
- How can enterprises effectively manage the transition process to best practices at a higher capability level
Application Server Scenario: APS, J2EE, .NET and More
(34G)
13:30 - 14:30 12 November 2003
Jess Thompson
Old stovepipe applications do not work on the Internet. Enterprises have devised various ways of opening up their systems to the opportunities of e-Business, but most of their initial web strategies will need to be replaced by new architectures, tools and processes.
- What do enterprises need to know about application server market trends
- Where are BEA, IBM, Microsoft, Sun and others taking their application platforms and will .NET surpass J2EE
- Why all the fuss about service-oriented architecture and web services
Application Portfolio Management: The First Step Toward Application Modernisation
(35A)
15:00 - 16:00 12 November 2003
Partha Iyengar
Organisations need to balance their investments in their IT portfolio by taking an application portfolio approach. This presentation outlines the issues and approaches to application portfolio management for enterprises evaluating their alternatives to architectural modernisation.
- How can an organisation determine its ability to migrate from an older technology
- Risks of moving an application portfolio forward without a portfolio management initiative
- Which technologies should be adopted to support application portfolio management initiatives
Managing Architecture for Success
(37F)
17:30 - 18:30 12 November 2003
Greta James
Enterprise Architecture (EA) can easily get bogged down in politics or, worse, become irrelevant. This presentation guides you through this political minefield so that enterprise architecture delivers real business value.
- How can EA best address business needs
- What are EA management best practices
- What are the attributes of a successful enterprise architect
Web Services (WS) Scenario: Web Services Get Real
(41B)
9:00 - 10:00 13 November 2003
Dion Wiggins
Web Services technologies and concepts are permeating the industry and finally becoming real. Yet misconception abounds. Cut through the hype and see the realities of Web Services revealed in this important presentation on one of the industry's hottest topics.
- What are WS and what role do they play
- How will WS catalyse and impact markets
- How will WS evolve over the next five years
Practical Architecture Guidance and Sequence for Implementation
(42G)
10:30 - 11:30 13 November 2003
Jeff Schulman
IT Architects need a clear roadmap to succeed. This presentation identifies a series of critical steps to assist architects to take stock of their IT assets and simplify their environment. These steps involve modelling when necessary, building new views of infrastructure and crafting the right guidelines to help create new systems.
- How to get management's attention and support for architecture
- Where to start creating an architecture
- How to measure the results of architecture
Lethal Integration Combo: Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) and Business Process Management (BPM)
(44G)
14:00 - 15:00 13 November 2003
Jim Sinur
BPM and BAM are fairly new to integration and are targeted at business process owners more than they are to the IT staff. Are these more technologies or business practices? How are they faring in most enterprises? Where are the benefits?
- What are the key drivers behind the emergence of BPM and BAM
- Are the benefits of BPM and BAM real, overstated or wishful thinking
- Which vendor strategies will be best suited for the next five years of BPM and BAM
Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Warehousing Scenario: Key Trends and Evolving Markets
(45B)
15:30 - 16:30 13 November 2003
Ted Friedman
Never has there been a greater imperative to translate data into insight. This session provides a present, near-term, and long-term view of BI and data warehousing, addressing driving forces, market trends, and relevant vendors.
- What strategies and methodologies should enterprises adopt to succeed with BI
- How will BI and data warehousing vendors react to market challenges, and which will lead
- What market forces and trends will impact enterprises’ BI and data warehouse strategies in the future
Enterprise Architecture (EA): Getting a Handle on Complexity
(46A)
17:00 - 18:00 13 November 2003
Greta James
EA must manage the increasingly complex and diverse portfolios of information and technology to better support business needs. Because the scope of EA is vast, this is not an easy job. However, tools are available today to help with this key EA undertaking.
- How does EA manage complexity
- What capabilities should a tool have to support these activities
- What tools are available to assist EA
Gartner Predicts: New Software Infrastructure will Transform Your Enterprise
(51B)
8:30 - 9:30 14 November 2003
Jim Sinur
This session embraces the coming wave of software infrastructure products, such as application servers, integration broker suites, Web Services networks and application platform suites. Understand how these will be the foundation for the next-generation enterprise information framework
- What are the key transformations in software infrastructure and architecture
- What are the IT management imperatives today, to maintain competitive enterprise business software infrastructure through 2008
- Which influential technologies and standards will transform the business use of IT in the next five years
Panel Debate: Agile Software - The Way Ahead?
(52G)
10:00 - 11:00 14 November 2003
Greta James Jeff Schulman Jim Sinur Dion Wiggins
This panel will discuss the implications of the presentations in this track, and provide answers to the issues collected from delegates. What does the future hold for software?
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