Keynotes

Tuesday
14 June
9:15 - 10:30

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KEYNOTE: Architecting the Service Oriented Enterprise
Nick Gall, Senior Vice President and Principal Analyst, META Group

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the most widely discussed (and debated) concept since Client/Server. While SOA began as the architectural foundation underlying Web services back in 2000, it has broadened in depth and scope to encompass all aspects of Information Technology including Enterprise Architecture. SOA is fundamentally a set of emerging architectural principles for designing complex systems that are general purpose, federated, extensible, and interoperable. Such service oriented “systems of systems” (which include not only technology systems, but organizations and processes) are the key to accelerating innovative change.

• Why modularity is the key to rapid and efficient innovation
• How traditional approaches to modularizing complex have fallen short
• How emerging service-oriented, network-oriented, model-oriented, and process-oriented approaches to modularity are turning conventional wisdom on its head

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Nick Gall Senior Vice President and Principal Analyst META Group To Speaker's Bio

Tuesday
a4 June
13:15 - 14:30

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CASE STUDY

Enterprise Architecture is now the focus of enabling airlines to move towards Managed Solutions. Managed Solutions is a service orientated architecture used to transition airlines from relying upon applications to using services that are managed and measured towards solving critical business challenges that result in increased safety and higher profit margins.

Today, applications are developed and deployed to address niche challenges. As applications are deployed the impact to existing business process and exchange of information has been the burden of the organization acquiring the application. The Managed Solutions approach identifies and improves strategic business functions that are of high value to the airline.

The transition towards Managed Solutions requires a level of readiness in order to be successful in realizing the value. An Airline Capability Assessment has been developed to help the airlines measure their state of readiness and help those responsible for the Managed Solutions understand the capability of the airlines. The Airline Capability Assessment examines five domains consisting of Business Strategy, Organizational Integration, Business Process Integration, Information Integration and Information Technology.

• Enterprise Architecture, Architecture for Business
• Transitioning Applications to Managed Solutions
• Airline Capability Assessment

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Robert Rencher Sr Systems Engineer The Boeing Company To Speaker's Bio

Wednesday
15 June
9:00 - 10:30

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KEYNOTE: Enterprise Architecture Strategy: Defining the Build Sequence
John Zachman, President, Zachman International

Thousands of years of history establish that architecture is fundamental to accommodating complexity and managing change and yet those of us in the information community seem to be searching for some kind of technological magic to accommodate rapid expansion of enterprise complexity and dramatic escalation of the enterprise rate of change. There is no “silver bullet!” Actual work will have to take place. The framework for enterprise architecture defines the set of descriptive representations that constitute architecture for an enterprise. This presentation briefly sketches out the basic logic of the framework and then shows how to define the build sequence of subsystems in three-month increments to end up with an enterprise-wide, coherent, integrated implementation. This presentation is not for the faint of heart or for anyone who is looking for a “quick fix” or an “easy out!”

• Overview of the logic of the framework for enterprise architecture
• Description of the set of models that constitutes the knowledgebase of the enterprise
• Enterprise architecture strategy – defining the build sequence
• Renewed challenge - show me the models!

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John A. Zachman President Zachman International To Speaker's Bio

Wednesday
15 June
13:00 - 14:15

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KEYNOTE: Business Value of IT and how to manage a portfolio
Martin Curley, Director, IT Innovation, Intel Corporation

This presentation discusses an integrated approach to delivering business value from IT and addresses how multiple practices such as portfolio management and enterprise architecture practices can compliment each other to help deliver a superior return from IT. In addition a capability maturity framework for optimizing the business value of IT is explained and practical examples of architecture changes which resulted in significant value are shared.

• Portfolio Management approaches to optimize IT value
• Stages of enterprise architecture maturity
• A Capability maturity model for optimizing IT value

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Martin Curley Director, IT Innovation Intel Corporation To Speaker's Bio