Opportunities in Enterprise Mashups

Jason Bloomberg
Senior Analyst
ZapThink

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Jason Bloomberg

Jason Bloomberg is Senior Analyst and Principal at Service Orientation industry advisory and analysis firm ZapThink LLC. He is a leading thought leader in the areas of Enterprise Architecture and Service-Oriented Architecture, and helps organizations around the world better leverage their IT resources to meet changing business needs. He is a frequent speaker, prolific writer, and pundit. His latest book, "Service Orient or Be Doomed! How Service Orientation Will Change Your Business" (John Wiley & Sons, 2006, coauthored with Ron Schmelzer), is recognized as the leading business book on Service Orientation.

Mr. Bloomberg has a diverse background in eBusiness technology management and industry analysis, including serving as a senior analyst in IDC’s eBusiness Advisory group, as well as holding eBusiness management positions at USWeb/CKS (later marchFIRST) and WaveBend Solutions (now Hitachi Consulting). He also co-authored the books "XML and Web Services Unleashed" (SAMS Publishing, 2002), and "Web Page Scripting Techniques" (Hayden Books, 1996).

What's the Value of IT Architecture?

Jeff Tash
CEO
Flashmap Systems, Inc.

Architects are responsible for bridging the chasm between the cultures of business and technology; their job is to communicate complexity by simplifying and synthesizing. The best way to conceptualize the architectural bridge is to envision a twisted rope made up of three intertwined strands. One strand corresponds to models. The second relates to populating those models. The third involves communicating the documented information organized around the models. What's the value of EA if its contents are not communicated effectively? How much can EA be worth if the only ones who ever read what the architects have written are the authors themselves?

The overriding goal of architecture is to allow an organization to think about and manage technology in precisely the same way that it currently knows how to think about and manage money, people and property. IT architecture generates ROI by aiding managers in making better, more informed technology decisions. In this roundtable session, participants will discuss how IT architecture creates value through:

• Consolidation and standardization
• Enterprise architecture
• Technology architecture
• Governance and compliance
• ITIL
• IT service Management
• Innovation and effectiveness
• Software architecture
• Architectural styles

Jeff Tash

Jeff Tash is CEO of Flashmap Systems, Inc. He also maintains two free web sites: ITscout which organizes information about IT products and vendors, plus the "Architecture 'Resources' Repository". Previously, for over twelve years, he was President of Hewitt Technologies, a Division of Hewitt Associates. Prior to that, he was employed by Digital Equipment Corp, IBM Corp., Control Data Corp., and Arthur Young & Company. Mr. Tash has lectured internationally to tens of thousands of IT professionals. Also, more than a million copies of his ITscout Roadmap wall posters have been distributed worldwide. He is currently a Microsoft MVP Architect and an IASA Fellow.

Enterprise Architecture Lifestyle Project Portfolio Management Systems: The Road Map to a Platform Specific Implementation

Dorin Andreescu
Principal
General Project Management Solutions

The Enterprise Architecture (EA) Life Cycle Process Model is complex, time sensitive, and includes deterministic and non-deterministic concepts from different enterprise knowledge areas. To optimize its management, without help from de jure and de facto standards and information technology (IT) solutions, could be an overwhelming challenge. This workshop exemplifies a complete platform-specific solution for EA life cycle processes. It illustrates techniques to model and to transform EA life cycle concepts by using a coherent methodology inspired by de jure and de facto standards from ISO, IEEE, PMI, SEI, OMG, IBM, Microsoft and VMWare. After a brief introduction of the platform independent solution architecture, the workshop will propose a road map to the platform specific solution. Live interactive labs will demonstrate how the IT perspective of the road map steps works. These labs will introduce the utilized IT tools and will exemplify the key aspects of the solution road map.

Workshop Content:

• EA ontology (systematics): Introduction
• EA Life Cycle Project Portfolio System – Road Map
• Enterprise, computer, and human systems
• Systemic virtualization
• EA modeling and transformations

Dorin Andreescu

Dorin Andreescu is the Founder and President of Elinco SA, a corporation specializing in innovative solutions for turn-key ERP designs and implementations. In 2002, he enrolled in the Doctor of Management in Information Technology program at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Michigan and plans to defend his doctoral dissertation "Measuring Business Performance for IT Enabled Global Organizations: A Systematic Approach" in August 2006. His practical experience includes architecting, designing, developing, implementing, and managing project portfolio management system solutions for diverse enterprise initiatives. Additionally, he has authored papers about the management of the unknown; systemic virtualization as a method to fuse the enterprise past, present and future; knowledge portfolio management systems; research project portfolio management systems; and research techniques to compress time and space in global organizations.

Working with the Zachman Framework

Facilitator TBA

The Zachman Framework has been instrumental in promoting an awareness of the need for enterprise architecture as the basis for our systems projects. Practitioners' opinions vary widely as to how far should it be used as a literal foundation for an EA.

This roundtable will discuss the benefits and limitations of the Zahman Framework as a basis for EA. We welcome those who have based their corporate architectures on the Framework, as well as those who are considering it, and even those who looked at it already and chose another path. This is the type of topic that intelligent people can reasonably disagree on, and we expect a fair bit of that.

Social Computing Demographics Push Enterprise Architecture

Deborah Coleman
Assistant Professor
Rochester Institute of Technology

Our future workforce is growing up at a time when social computing is pervasive. At the same time, enterprise architecture planning is becoming a necessary organizational practice. Generation Z workers will be punching in with new technological competencies accompanied by a culture that may have a distinct influence on the business goals of the enterprise. If the overarching goal of enterprise architecture is to achieve business goals through technological innovation and business process, it seems logical to assert that enterprise architecture development should consider the computing literacy demographics of our budding workforce.

This roundtable disciussion will provide:

• An overview of enterprise architecture and social computing
• An examination of trends evidenced in computing demographics over the past twenty years in conjunction with the evolution of enterprise architecture and social computing
• An examination of social computing and proposed benefits as an enterprise architecture component

Deborah Coleman
Deborah is currently an assistant professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York. Her resume includes a BS degree in Computer Science, MS degree in Software Development and Management, and 25+ years of industry experience. Deborah is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Information Systems at Nova Southeastern University. In addition to her academic career, Deborah has held numerous software development, data management, and leadership positions in several private and public sector industries. Deborah's research interests include requirements engineering, social computing, enterprise data management, enterprise architecture, and software project development and management. She strives for excellence in satisfying requirements and believes that requirements don't change as frequently as they are missed.

Minimum Conditions for Starting-up and Nurturing A Successful Enterprise Architecture Team

Osman Tekes
Principal
Rotek dot Ca Ltd.

This session is for CIO’s, business and IT executives, directors, chief or senior lead enterprise architects.

You may like to attend this session to discuss:

• The ideal condition
• The issues which will impede
• A path of least resistance

We will review the impact of the following factors on chances of success:

• Organization
• Strategic Management
• Organizational Structure
• Level of Organizational openness and collaboration
• Communication style

Osman Tekes

Osman Tekes has worked with model driven software development approaches for many years. He has worked with major international consulting companies such as IBM, PwC, and Capgemini. Recently, he has advised a large bank on how to enhance its BI practice capabilities and also consulted to a large telecom on piloting an IT Encyclopaedia and analysis of one of their DSSs.

Data Strategy

John Ladley
Director
Navigant Consulting

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John Ladley

John Ladley is an internationally known information management practitioner and a popular speaker on information and knowledge management. John is widely published and has several regular columns. John is a Director with Navigant Consulting. Prior to Navigant's acquisition, John founded KI Solutions, an information and knowledge management strategy company. John was Senior Program Director of Data Warehouse strategies and a Research Fellow at Meta Group. Mr. Ladley is an authority on information architectures, business performance measurement architectures, knowledge management, collaborative applications, and information resource management.

Evolving the EA Business Process

Richard A. Hecht
President
Hecht Business Architects

Given that change is always present, evolution is necessary for survival. Whether your enterprise architecture business process just needs some improvements or it Simply Underutilizes Corporate Knowledge Systematically, this session is for you. Drawing from years of experience with multiple clients, Rich Hecht offers up a thought provoking and illuminating discussion to the challenge of evolving your enterprise architecture business process.

Specific topics covered include:

• Surviving the life cycle of executive support
• Balancing functional capability and maintainability
• Leveraging existing knowledge to address new needs
• Evolving the EA team

Attendees will leave this presentation with clear alternatives to consider when improving their enterprise architecture business process and insuring its sustained success.

Richard Hecht
Richard Hecht has over 25 years of IT experience from programmer, DBA, Data Administrator, Applications Manager, and Consulting Senior Manager before starting his own firm in 1992. He has worked with over 35 companies in 16 different industries including financial, government, defense contracting, healthcare, manufacturing, insurance, and transportation. Recent engagements have focused on integrating the enterprise architecture knowledge base and visual business and technology blueprints into IT strategic planning, budgeting, project management, and systems development processes. Rich provides enterprise architecture, program office management, and strategic IT consulting services.

Change Management

Mark T. Sauter
Principal
GTP Associates, Inc.

Many organizations are attempting to reinvent themselves, yet, why are only a few successful? Successful leaders not only envision new ideas but they are equally capable of ensuring the necessary workforce commitment is in place to implement them. Organizational readiness should drive the degree of investment, content design, and implementation expectations. As a result, ROI will be significantly improved by avoiding over-engineering and/or improving organizational execution. While project management focuses on the content of a change initiative, change management focuses on the people affected by it.

Specific topics covered include:

• Sponsorship
• Context versus Content
• Leading Change – dealing with chaos, ambiguity and resistance

Mark D. Sauter

With over 24 years of corporate leadership experience, Mark’s work, while with Dow Corning Corporation, was featured in Value Based Marketing for Bottom-Line Success, McGraw-Hill, 2003. Mark was globally responsible for developing customer relationship strategies, processes, and skills focused on improved delivery of customer value and service level performance. Mark established GTP Associates, Inc. in 2002, which assists organizations with customer-centered transformation.