Conference - Day 1

CONFERENCE - DAY 1 TUESDAY 12 JUNE, 2001
8:00–9:00		*REGISTRATION*
9:00–10:15		Chairs’ Address: The Evolution of Enterprise Architecture Richard Buchanan,Vice President, - META Group Brian Burke, Vice President International, - META Group
10:15–10:45		*Break & Exhibits*
10:45–12:00	Track 1	Innovation Economics: Using Dynamic Planning to Transform the Adaptive Enterprise Brian Burke, Vice President International, META Group Bjorn Tuft, Vice President International, META Group
10:45–12:00	Track 2	Architecture & Implementation of The UK Government Gateway Philip Teale, Architectural Consultant, Microsoft
10:45–12:00	Track 3	Architecture Practices at the Dutch Tax Authority Allard Krings, Senior Advisor Strategy & Technology, Dutch Tax Authority
12:00– 13:30		*Lunch & Exhibits*
13:30–14:45	KEYNOTE	Flying High with Architecture Victor Garland , CIO, AerLingus
14:50–16:00	Track 1	Defining Architecture in a Diverse Manufacturing Business Henrik Benthien, IT Chief Architect, The Danfoss Group
14:50–16:00	Track 2	Architecture, Tool to Survive prof. dr. Daan Rijsenbrij, Corporate Scientific Officer, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
14:50–16:00	Track 3	Integration Applications for Successful E-Business Andy Joss , Senior PreSales Consultant, CrossWorlds Software
16:00–16:30		*Break & Exhibits*
16:30–17:00		Guru Panel: Architecture as Change Vehicle Moderators: Richard Buchanan, META Group & Brian Burke, META Group
17:00–18:45		*Cocktail Reception & Exhibits*

Tuesday
12 June
9:00–10:15

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Chairs’ Address: The Evolution of Enterprise Architecture

Global 2000 IT organisations are faced with the dual challenge of addressing long-term business strategies while simultaneously responding to pressure to change and innovate. The underlying challenge is handling the impact of the complexity and depth of change on the organisation. To sustain effective e-business strategies, companies must manage this impact across their related business processes and partners – and understand the effect on information flows, supporting business system applications, and technology infrastructure. To establish and maintain an adaptive IT environment – while driving innovation throughout business processes, applications, information, and technology – a holistic enterprise architecture is an essential catalyst.

Implement a unified process model for enterprise business, information/application and technology architecture planning
Ensure objectives and goals are understood and dispersed across the enterprise by establishing a formal planning process
Gain insight into how successful companies are extending their enterprise architecture efforts to include digital planning and programme management
Understand how to integrate business and IT planning and architecture processes to exploit technology as a competitive weapon
Bring home proven techniques and strategies to get your enterprise on Track

Featured Speakers

	Richard Buchanan Vice President, Enterprise Architecture Strategies META Group To Speaker's BIO
	Brian Burke Vice President International Enterprise Architecture Strategies META Group To Speaker's BIO

Tuesday
12 June
10:45–12:00

Track 1

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Innovation Economics: Using Dynamic Planning to Transform the Adaptive Enterprise

During the next 3-5 years over 60% of Global 2000 enterprises will implement a three-tier strategy approach that provides innovation equilibrium to perform under current market conditions while continuing the dynamic transformation into an uncertain future state. This three-tier approach will be driven by (1) a dynamic planning cycle for short term, current market driven innovation, (2) a strategic planning cycle to ensure positioning for change drivers that impact a 1-3 year horizon, and (3) a paradigm pioneering cycle to position the enterprise for long term market and business process transformation. This presentation explores the components of a three-tier innovation process along with the concepts of innovation economics and the inform-perform-transform-measure (IPTM) lifecycle.

Initiate a dynamic planning process for their enterprises
Understand the importance of maintaining innovation equilibrium while transforming the enterprise
Realise how to use a net process value (NPV) analysis tool to calculate the enterprise's innovation quotient
Demonstrate how to use the IPTM framework to guide their enterprise's transformation initiative

Featured Speaker

	Brian Burke Vice President International Enterprise Architecture Strategies META Group To Speaker's BIO
	Bjorn Tuft Vice President International META Group To Speaker's BIO

Tuesday
12 June
10:45–12:00

Track 2

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Case Study: Architecture & Implementation of The UK Government Gateway

This presentation focuses on the role of and implementation of a Service Hub as a key enterprise architectural component in a complex distributed environment. The implementation, which uses Microsoft Enterprise Server technology at the hub and interfaces to three large department enterprise systems, will be described along with lessons learned. It will describe:

The challenge faced by the UK government in enabling public and business electronic interfacing with government departments and in integrating and interoperating between the departments.
The requirements thus placed on the solution and the project challenges.
The architectural principles applied in defining the solution, and the architectural components required and their interfaces.

Featured Speaker

Philip Teale
Architectural Consultant
Microsoft
To Speaker's BIO

Tuesday
12 June
10:45–12:00

Track 3

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Case Study: Architecture Practices at the Dutch Tax Authority

The Dutch Tax Authority has a very large (35,000 users) and complex IT Infrastructure end set of applications. A staff of 3,000 develops, maintains and runs IT on a daily basis. Without a robust architecture process in place this would not be possible. This presentation will describe the architecture process itself and the lessons learned during the implementation and application of architecture at the Dutch Tax Authority.

Featured Speaker

Allard Krings
Senior Advisor Strategy & Technology
Dutch Tax Authority
To Speaker's BIO

Tuesday
12 June
13:30–14:45

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KEYNOTE: Flying High with Architecture

Architecture and planning is the cornerstone for the alignment of IT and business at Aer Lingus – doing the right things the right way. Architecture is the bridge between business strategy and successful implementation of an IT investment programme.

The key to business success in the future is agility – fast, effective responses to commercial opportunities and competitive threats. The mission of the Architecture and Planning group is to design an information technology environment that provides Aer Lingus with that agility.

Building long-term sustainable profitable growth through investments
Insuring IT investments deliver value for money in the context of the overall enterprise vision
Aligning architecture compliance with the urgent demands of the busines

Featured Speaker

Victor Garland
CIO
Aer Lingus
To Speaker's BIO

Tuesday
12 June
14:50–16:00

Track 1

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Case Study: Defining Architecture in a Diverse Manufacturing Business

Danfoss is Denmark's largest industrial Group with an annual turnover in 1999 of 1,978 EURm and about 20,000 employees. Danfoss is facing increasing challenges in today's dynamic business environment. Consolidations within Danfoss, its customers, suppliers, competitors, and sales channels are reshaping the business. E-Commerce, supply chain management, customer relationship management and other holistic management concepts must be exploited and supported by group wide IT solutions. Appropriate and innovative use of technology is essential in today's highly competitive environment.

IT architecture serves as a blueprint for the design of information systems, and for the computing, communications, and management infrastructure required to support these systems. The Danfoss IT architecture enables individual Divisions and Sales Companies to respond to specific business needs using common components, thus ensuring that information systems will be shared and managed on a corporate basis.

Defining a federated architecture in a diverse manufacturing company
Establishing governance for corporate level decision making
Over communicating to the stakeholder

Featured Speaker

Henrik Benthien
IT Chief Architect
The Danfoss Group
To Speaker's BIO

Tuesday
12 June
14:50–16:00

Track 2

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Architecture, Tool to Survive

Y2K and the upcoming Euro conversion are two small problems in IT – both pretty well defined and rather easy to solve. The really big problems are complexity, security, legacy, the overwhelming flood of new technologies and the need to really speed up application development. These problems are a factor of magnitude bigger and more difficult. Moreover it is a pity that they have no hard deadlines. According to advertisements it seems that architecture is the solution, the panacea to solve these problems and a whole variety of business challenges. Architecture looks like one of the latest hypes. In this lecture we will reflect upon the question "if architecture is the answer, what is the real question?"

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young is one of the leading solution integrators in the world in this fascinating era. More and more we see that packages, components, out-of-the-box solutions, patterns and ASP facilities are sewed together to a kind of IT patch work. To integrate the off-the-shelf solutions from vendors and to create an information infrastructure for customers with the proper IT effectiveness Cap Gemini Ernst & Young has to master both architecture and programme management to the very ultimate. This presentation will outline Cap Gemini Ernst & Young's approach to architecture and its installation of an internal certification programme ensuring that architects have an implicit responsibility for a flexible, future proof information infrastructure.

Featured Speaker

prof. dr. Daan Rijsenbrij
Corporate Scientific Officer
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
To Speaker's BIO

Tuesday
12 June
14:50–16:00

Track 3

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Integration Applications for Successful E-Business

As enterprises increasingly conduct business over the Internet, they face a growing number of business integration challenges and an increasingly competitive business environment, which can be exacerbated by factors like mergers and acquisitions, deregulation and the trend towards conducting business with partners over the Internet. For example, a seemingly simple task, such as processing a customer's order may become more difficult as companies make the move online. Processing a customer's order may require interaction among sales, manufacturing, logistics and accounting departments within one company and the customer service, manufacturing and accounting departments of others, each of which uses its own enterprise applications. CrossWorlds provides a comprehensive e-business platform both for integrating internal operations and extending these operations over the Internet. CrossWorlds' products help the Global 2000 and emerging businesses work more efficiently with customers and suppliers through unified, end-to-end business processes.

How companies today rely on integration to compete more successfully
The multiple degrees of integration across the enterprise and beyond
The role application integration plays in mergers and acquisitions, e-business and global business processes
Integration approaches to date and the resulting business challenges
Evaluation criteria for true application integration

Featured Speaker

Andy Joss
Senior PreSales Consultant, CrossWorlds Software
To Speaker's BIO

Tuesday
12 June
16:30–17:00

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Guru Panel: Architecture as Change Vehicle

Moderators:
	Richard Buchanan Vice President, Enterprise Architecture Strategies META Group To Speaker's BIO
	Brian Burke Vice President International Enterprise Architecture Strategies META Group To Speaker's BIO