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Sasa Ana has dedicated the last five years of professional career exclusively to the field of SOA and implementation of SOA solutions. Ana has worked on a number of IT projects for government agencies and large companies and has specialized knowledge and experience in the technical, business and organizational aspects of SOA. Ana has worked with all the major SOA platforms and is an expert in a wide range of IT technologies. Currently she works as a researcher in the domain of SOA, business process analysis and modeling, and enterprise architectures at the University of Ljubljana.
Rising Above the Challenges of SOA Testing
Track: SOA & Web Services; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: Sasa Ana
Traditional testing approaches, which have been used through the years, are often used also for service-oriented systems. However, due to the dynamic and adaptive nature of SOA most testing techniques are not directly applicable to SOA testing. The session will focus on the process of testing SOA based systems, especially on business process testing, testing of service interfaces, services, integration testing and testing of SOA as a whole. In this vendor-agnostic presentation, the main challenges in SOA testing will be discussed and techniques to overcome them will be presented.
Advanced BPEL for Robust Business Processes
Track: SOA & Web Services; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: Sasa Ana
Using BPEL for complex real-world business processes requires that different advanced techniques are used. Two very important aspects of business process modelling are fault handling and event handling. Particularly in business processes that span multiple enterprises and use web services over the Internet, we can assume that faults will occur quite often due to various reasons, including broken connections, unreachable web services, unavailability of services, and so on. Sometimes the process has to wait for a message event or an alarm event to occur. The session will present several advanced BPEL features which deal with these and other issues necessary to implement complex and robust business processes.
BPMN to BPEL - Modelling Business Processes for SOA
Track: SOA & Web Services; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: Sasa Ana
In this tutorial we will demonstrate the complete SOA lifecycle development, starting with business process modeling, continuing with process implementation and decomposition to services, process execution, business activity monitoring, and optimization. We will dig into the BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation), show how to automatically translate BPMN to BPEL (Business Process Execution Language). We will show how to do decomposition to services, how to reuse services, how to use registry & repository, and finally how to monitor process execution. In this tutorial, we will show hands-on demos of achieving complete SOA life-cycle in IBM and Oracle SOA platforms.
Nitin Borwankar Father of Data 2.0
Nitin Borwankar is an industry veteran of 20+ years. He was a panel moderator on Next Generation Data and Analytics at structure08. He has been worked at Ingres, Sybase and Ironport and consulted for companies like Sun, Sybase, NetObjects, Mayfield Fund, Preview Travel (Travelocity), Synarc, Greenplum and OnMobile. He continues to consult for small, medium and large business on strategic infrastructure technology and hands on technical architecture. He is equally comfortable either as a hands on technical architect or a business strategy consultant. He was the first CTO at GigaOmni Media the parent of GigaOm and also writes on database technology for GigaOm. He coined the term Data 2.0 on his blog TagSchema in 2005, to capture the emerging wave of database technology that is being developed to manage distributed web generated data. He lives in El Sobrante CA and consults in the US and internationally.
How to Find the Silver Lining in Cloud Services
Track: SaaS/PaaS; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: Nitin Borwankar
Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine represent the leading edge of a wave of cloud services. These services and similar services that are being developed by other vendors are increasing efficiencies in web application development, hosting and data storage. These services provide the ability to expand computing and hosting capability as a variable cost rather than a fixed cost. The ability to design infrastructure that dynamically adapts to peak loads positively affects the stability and resilience because infrastructure no longer experiences service outages during peak loads. It can flexibly extended via cloud services. What are the business areas that can benefit most from using cloud services? How can enterprise business standards be met with seemingly unreliable services? Take two of the most prominent services as category examples. What does Amazon Web Services offer specifically and what does Google App Engine offer and how are they similar and different? How do we evaluate these and future offerings to come? This talk addresses key issues surrounding the leveraged use of cloud services for business applications in the enterprise and identifies where the usage differs from the usage of these services in Web 2.0 applications. We use Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine as examples only. This is not a vendor presentation also it is not biased to one vendor - rather it is meant to teach the audience how to evaluate these offerings for their own needs and what checklists might one find useful. We use AWS and GAE as examples as these are the most well known - we also survey the other offerings available so that the audience can get an idea of what is out there and what is coming. This talk is meant for technologists as well as business users.
Why Understanding Data 2.0 is Critical to your Survival
Track: ECM; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: Nitin Borwankar
Since 2005 the Web 2.0 global phenomenon has created and enabled over 100 million individual users to be generators of content. In the first response to this deluge of data the data management principles applied were conventional database technologies. Normalized schemas were used in a naive fashion only because we did not know better. Since 2005 many technologies and techniques such as memcache and systematic denormalization have emerged but these too are the trailing edge of an old wave. Enterprise data management technologies have been strongly impacted by Web 2.0 data for every company that has a customer facing web presence. The emerging technologies from agile data warehousing, to analytic databases and edge analytics all coalesce around the need to rapidly analyze massive amounts of data and to respond in near-real-time via multiple channels. A consensus is emerging in mid 2008 about the need for a term to capture this - the term is Data 2.0 and was first used by the author in a similar context in 2005. Use cases such as fraud detection, dynamic ecommerce pricing and customized advertising amongst many others all involve data management techniques that come from the Data 2.0 world. Whether you are a technologist, businessperson, vendor or end-user Data 2.0 needs to be part of your knowledge toolkit post 2008. This is the first time this presentation is being given outside the US. As the person who originated the term, the author is ideally placed to bring this approach to Asia Pacific and Europe.
Affordable Data Analytics and Data Warehousing for Medium and Large Business
Track: ECM; Edition: Bangalore/Mumbai
Speaker: Nitin Borwankar
Vast amounts of data are being generated in many sectors of the Indian economy and yet in most businesses very primitive data analysis and management tools are being used. There is a huge need for appropriate technology solutions at the right price point for medium as well as large businesses. What is relevant in US/Europe may not be feasible in India and Asia/Paciific. This workshop discusses open source data analytics and data warehousing technologies and techniques as well as very affordable proprietary solutions and identifies which technologies and techniques might be useful for what specific business segment, business size and revenue. Specific designs and techniques for various industry segments such as telecom, pharma, retail, travel, entertainment, web ecommerce and others will be presented. For the technical presentation in Bangalore there will some example exercises. If Internet access is available users will be able to log on to open source systems and systems from multiple vendors configured for various problem areas. If registrants submit problem specifics in advance to the instructor at
info@btsummit.com, their problems can be used for demonstration. For the business presentation in Mumbai there will be a survey of use cases from multiple segments and some live demos with real world data sizes.
Peter Coffee SaaS/PaaS Expert
Peter Coffee, formerly the Technology Editor at eWEEK, has written product reviews, technical analyses and opinion columns concerning disruptive forces in IT tools and practices; he has appeared on CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox, and PBS newscasts addressing Internet security, the Microsoft antitrust case, wireless telecom policies, and other business issues. His two books to date are the Ziff Davis Press tutorial "How to Program Java" in 1996 and "Peter Coffee Teaches PCs. Coffee, currently director of Platform Intelligence at salesforce.com has 23 years' experience in advancing and evaluating information technologies and practices as a developer, manager, consultant, educator, and internationally published author and industry analyst.
Code in the Cloud
Track: SOA & Web Servcies/SaaS; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: Peter Coffee
On-demand computing has transformed software, lowering risk and cost while increasing user adoption and customer success. To be successful, an application must be designed for on-demand from the ground-up, including core architectural elements such as multi-tenancy, availability, performance, security, metadata-driven customization, integration via web services, etc. A comprehensive platform should encapsulate core computing services, allowing application developers to focus on innovation and value. Using demos and code examples, Peter Coffee will discuss the technical architecture and developer benefits of a multi-tenant language and a comprehensive cloud-based development experience.
Enterprise Readiness for Cloud Computing
Track: SOA & Web Servcies/SaaS; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: Peter Coffee
Enterprise IT leaders face challenges on many fronts: demands for innovation in processes and partnerships, growth in data volume and variety, and rising standards for process governance and data protection. Cloud computing offers corresponding strengths of capacity and reliability, enhanced by superior governability and standards-based interoperability. These alone are enough to establish the customizable applications of Software as a Service, and the open-ended opportunity of Platform as a Service, as credible options. Still more important, though are the economics of lower initial investment, more rapid time to value, and dramatically greater freedom to experiment and innovate: these are benefits that make the Cloud Computing model truly compelling. This session will explore the emerging ecosystem of complementary resources and services in the cloud and will explain their fundamental advantages as well as the areas of confusion to avoid.
Matching CEO Needs with CIO Mandates: Strategic SaaS and PaaS
Track: SaaS; Edition: Mumbai
Speaker: Peter Coffee
Enterprise IT leaders face many expectations that pull them in opposite directions. Scarce resources require them to do more with less, but global competition requires more rapid innovation. Rapid development of mobile and broadband systems creates demand to make more data available to more users, but standards are continually rising for strict information security and business process governance. Visionary IT leaders will achieve economies of scale, and get more leverage from specialized skills, by taking full advantage of the growing capabilities of software as a service—and the breakthrough potentials of the general-purpose application platform as a service. This session will illuminate the reasons why service models represent "the new normal" for future IT systems.
Kiran Datar Managing Director, Cisco WebEx Technology Group
Kiran Datar has over 12 years of experience in various high technology and finance positions. He co-introduced the concept of Conferencing Services in India and has a wealth of experience in the emerging Indian telecom scenario. Kiran has also worked as a Strategist (International Economics and Foreign Exchange) at the Treasury Department of ABN AMRO, Chicago and at the Emerging Markets Department of Credit Suisse First Boston in fixed income & equity fields with focus on analyzing companies in the telecom space. Today, Kiran Datar, is at the helm of a business that leads the Indian web conferencing market with 65% share, and the audio conferencing one with 54% share (Frost & Sullivan).
The Drive Towards an On-Demand Platform
Track: SaaS/PaaS; Edition; Bangalore
Speaker: Kiran Datar
According to Gartner, the annual cost to own and manage software applications can be up to four times the cost of the initial purchase. As a result, companies end up spending more than 75% of their total IT budget just on maintaining and running existing infrastructure and software, companies have accepted this as a cost of doing business. The number of software applications that a company may need is infinite but the resources are finite. The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) revolution allows companies to subscribe to software applications and have minimal cost of ownership on a usage basis. SaaS solutions are more cost effective than ownership. Thus, companies can spread their IT budget across applications to support their business needs which will contribute to the bottom line. On-demand collaboration is among the leaders in the SaaS platform along with CRM solutions. People want to work together and share data, video & audio with anyone, anywhere, anytime. We are in the “NOW” era of collaboration. . Today's collaboration solutions also offer a very high level of security and availability. As the environment for collaboration is changing, IT departments are now making collaboration services as part of their overall deliverables.
Ismael Ghalimi Father of Office 2.0
Ismael Ghalimi is a passionate entrepreneur and fervent industry observer, founder and CEO of Intalio, creator of BPMI.org and initiator of Office 2.0. Ismael has been referred to by many as a technology visionary, and strategic industry leader. Having founded Intalio in 1999, Ismael put together the world-class engineering team that created the first standards-based Business Process Management System (BPMS), defining the scope and functionality for this new breed of enterprise software. Ismael is an advisor to several high-tech companies, including Zoho, EchoSign, EveryTrail, Open IT Works, ThinkFree, and 3TERA.
BPM After SOA - Office 2.0 Meets BPM
Track: SOA & Web Services/ECM; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: Ismael Ghalimi
Right now SOA is so heavily embedded in BPM that I would be hard pressed to find any of our customers who don't use it in their BPM deployment. I have often said that SOA is the enabling infrastructure of BPM and BPM is the killer app for SOA. But what comes after SOA? Office 2.0 companies are using a number of tools to integrate SaaS applications that have nothing to do with SOA, such as REST, HTTP Binding, JSON, XML, Atom, and iCal. The benefits of using these technologies builds a compelling case for making the shift, but we need to be aware of the possible pitfalls as well. Come join the conversation and help shape BPM for life after SOA.
Otto de Graaf Website Globalization & Online Marketing Expert
Otto de Graaf is Vice President of Products & Solutions at SDL Tridion. He joined SDL Tridion in August 2000 as Director of Product Management, responsible for specifications and development of SDL Tridion products. In his role as Vice President of Products & Solutions worldwide he is responsible for SDL Tridion's positioning, the SDL Tridion product strategy and alliances. Through his eight years of service at SDL Tridion, Otto de Graaf is very familiar with the issues of Web site globalization and online marketing.
Web Globalization: The World as Online Village
Track: ECM; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: Otto de Graaf
Many organizations work on a global scale and organizations need to ensure that products, service and communication are localized and translated for all of the different audiences within these regions. At the same time organizations need to control message and brand consistency to follow a consistent corporate strategy. Corporate and local marketing and communication departments need to react to market trends, launch new products and roll out integrated campaigns on a daily basis. This need to balance the needs of regional and international means that organizations need a solid Web site globalization strategy that includes and extends beyond translating content. Otto de Graaf will talk about how Web site globalization entails deploying multiple Web sites across the globe and show how organizations with an effective globalization strategy meet the localization requirements for different cultures, languages and markets while maintaining central control over brand and messaging.
Hans de Groot Web Globalization Expert
Hans de Groot joined SDL Tridion in 2001 as International Alliance Manager and was responsible for building up strong alliances including IBM, BEA and Software AG. Prior to his appointment, he was Sales Director International with the responsibility for SDL Tridion's direct operations in Sweden, France, Germany, Spain and the partner network in Poland, the Middle East, Australia and Japan. In his present position as Vice President Asia Pacific and member of the Management Team of SDL Tridion Hans de Groot is responsible of the company's expanding operations in APAC and the Middle East.
Web Globalization: The World as Online Village
Track: ECM; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: Hans de Groot
Many organizations work on a global scale and organizations need to ensure that products, service and communication are localized and translated for all of the different audiences within these regions. At the same time organizations need to control message and brand consistency to follow a consistent corporate strategy. Corporate and local marketing and communication departments need to react to market trends, launch new products and roll out integrated campaigns on a daily basis. This need to balance the needs of regional and international means that organizations need a solid Web site globalization strategy that includes and extends beyond translating content.
Hans de Groot will talk about how Web site globalization entails deploying multiple Web sites across the globe and show how organizations with an effective globalization strategy meet the localization requirements for different cultures, languages and markets while maintaining central control over brand and messaging.
Tarun Gulati General Manager - Marketing and Operations, Microsoft India
Tarun Gulati is the General Manager - Marketing and Operations for Microsoft India and in this role is responsible for all marketing and brand development activities for the four product business groups in the country - Server & Tools, Windows Client, Information Worker and Microsoft Business Solutions. Tarun also oversees the business operations for the Microsoft India subsidiary. Until recently, Tarun was the General Manager for Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) at Microsoft India. In this role, Tarun was responsible for spearheading Microsoft India's efforts to foster the Indian software ecosystem through deep strategic engagements with developers, IT professionals, students, academia and software and services organizations. Prior to this role, Tarun was based in Microsoft US where he was General Manager - National Platform Evangelism and Technical Sales. Before joining Microsoft in 2001, Tarun worked with Aditi Technologies as Vice President - Services and helped bootstrap the company into a key global System Integrator (SI).
Fundamental Shifts in Platform Computing
Executive Edition: Mumbai
Speaker: Tarun Gulati
We are at the cusp of the biggest industry change; The way software is delivered and monetized is undergoing a fundamental shift. The multiple models for monetization are fundamentally shifting the software industry and business models. Traditionally software companies have made monies only in licensing and now there are three additional models to monetize. Software licensing is going to continue to exist and grow. Online advertising will grow. Online transactions and subscriptions will grow. But perhaps most importantly for a number of our partners, the amount of value that will be delivered by humans providing customization services, application development services, management services, hosting services, will also continue to grow, and so we see a big opportunity for our partners as we make this transformation to Windows and Windows Live and the new software plus service user interface and computing model. Virtualization is much more than simply consolidating physical servers and cutting data center costs. At Microsoft, virtualization means helping IT departments maximize ROI and cost savings across the enterprise, and powerfully improving business continuity. That's why we created a portfolio of products that address all aspects of the physical and virtual infrastructure-servers, networks, applications, and desktops-across multiple hypervisors, and that can be easily managed through a centralized console.
Ravi Gururaj Virtualisation Expert
Ravi Gururaj is currently the founder and CTO of VMLogix. Ravi has over seventeen years of product development, management and marketing experience, having held position at companies including Trilogy, UberWorks and Dialogic, and having founded two software start-ups. Ravi received his MBA from Harvard, and his BSE in CS & Engineering and B.Sc. in Finance from Penn.
Virtualisation & Software Engineering - Transform Your Lab as a Strategic Asset
Track: Virtualisation; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: Ravi Gururaj
Enterprises, ISVs and SMBs are rapidly adopting virtualisation technology. Virtual lab automation (VLA) has emerged as an innovative solution for streamlining software development and automating the entire development and test environment setup while utilizing existing server virtualisation infrastructure. VLA transforms your lab into a strategic asset while accelerating your test and development cycles to get better products to market quicker.
This presentation will provide an overview of VLA driving your test and development infrastructure and provide best practice recommendations for how VLA can add significant value to developers, testers and IT operations staff and help drive business growth and employee productivity. VLA can be effectively leveraged with leading hypervisors such as those from Citrix, Microsoft and VMware and leading software engineering tools such as IBM Rational Build Forge, IBM Rational ClearQuest and HP Quality Center. The presentation will also provide an insight into using virtualisation across the software operational cycle -in the lab, staging/pre-production and production data center.
Chris Harding SOA Visionary
Dr. Chris Harding is Forum Director for SOA and Semantic Interoperability at The Open Group. He has been with The Open Group for ten years and is currently responsible for managing and supporting its work on semantic interoperability and SOA. Before joining The Open Group, he was a consultant, and a designer and development manager of communications software. With a PhD in mathematical logic, he welcomes the current upsurge of interest in semantic technology, and the opportunity to apply logical theory to practical use. He has presented at Open Group and other conferences on a range of topics, and is a frequent contributor to electronic journals such as eBizQ, CIO Update, DM Review and SOA World. He is a certified TOGAF practitioner.
Using TOGAF for SOA
Track: SOA & Web Services; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: Chris Harding
This workshop will explore in depth how to develop a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) using The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF).
SOA is the architecture style of choice for enterprises looking for agility in their IT systems. But it is not a "one size fits all" approach. It can be applied in different ways to meet the needs of different enterprises. To do this successfully, an architect must have knowledge, skill, and good judgement.
TOGAF is an industry standard architecture framework that has been developed and continuously evolved since the mid-90's by representatives of some of the world's leading IT customer and vendor organizations, working in The Open Group's Architecture Forum. No framework can take the place of skill and judgement, but TOGAF gives an architect knowledge that has been accumulated by others working in many different architectural styles. Over the last two years, members of The Open Group have been working on how to apply TOGAF to SOA.
Workshop participants will gain an understanding of SOA features and building blocks, of the TOGAF architecture development method, and of how to use TOGAF to create SOAs for their enterprises.
My Chief Architect Recommends SOA - What Should I Do?
Track: SOA & Web Services; Edition: Mumbai
Speaker: Chris Harding
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a technical phenomenon. It can bring business advantage if it is used in the right way. But technologists are not very good at predicting financial return, and SOA can be expensive. How do you know whether it will be a wise investment?
This presentation will help you answer that question. It addresses SOA development from the executive's perspective, describes what the executive should expect from the architecture team, and discusses how to communicate with that team to obtain a service-oriented architecture that maximises ROI for the enterprise.
Matjaz B. Juric BPEL Mentor
Matjaz B. Juric holds a Ph.D. in computer and information science. He is Associate Professor at the University of Maribor and the CEO of SOA Competency Centre. Matjaz has authored several SOA books, such as SOA Approach to Integration, Business Process Execution Language, BPEL Cookbook, etc. Matjaz has been consultant for large companies on the SOA projects and has worked on projects, such as SOA Maturity Model, SOa in Telco, performance analysis and optimization of RMI-IIOP, etc. Matjaz is author of courses for the BPEL and SOA consulting company BPELmentor.com. He is also a member of the BPEL Advisory Board.
Designing Reusable Service Interfaces
Track: SOA & Web Services; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: Matjaz B. Juric
One of the challenges of SOA is the development of services, which are reusable. Such services can participate in several different processes and orchestrations. Experienced architects are aware that designing and implementing reusable services is much harder task than implementing services for single use. In this session we will discuss best practices for designing reusable service interfaces. We will discuss the possibilities provided by WSDL. We will address the versioning issue, which becomes crucial when changing/modifying services in order to make them more reusable.
SOA Architectural Patterns and Anti-Patterns
Track: SOA & Web Services; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: Matjaz B. Juric
Designing SOA has been and still is a challenging task. SOA is about designing business services and composing those services into end-to-end applications that support business processes. SOA approach promotes loose coupling, reusability, coarse-grained interfaces, and several other concept. This session will demonstrate, how to use these and more advanced concepts in practice. How to develop a business services? What is the right granulation? How many operations a business service should have? What is a service and what a process? How to decouple types? How to define service layers? These and other questions will be answered in this session, where we will show on examples the good practices - patterns, and the bad practices - anti-patterns of SOA design.
Building a Flexible Enterprise with SOA and BPM
Track: SOA & Web Services; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: Matjaz B. Juric
SOA can help companies solving immediate business problems such as connecting to business partners, accessing legacy applications, and integrating across technology boundaries. However at a more strategic level, SOA is about creating an IT environment to support continuous business optimization. SOA can better align IT with business, but at the same time can stimulate business to start thinking about business processes and optimizing them. In this session we will show how enterprises can use BPM together with SOA to become more flexible, more agile, more competitive, and to gradually transform into process-driven enterprise. We will also discuss the changing role of IT, which can (and should) become the innovator and the driver of changes.
BPMN to BPEL - Modelling Business Processes for SOA
Track: SOA & Web Services; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: Matjaz B. Juric
In this tutorial we will demonstrate the complete SOA lifecycle development, starting with business process modeling, continuing with process implementation and decomposition to services, process execution, business activity monitoring, and optimization. We will dig into the BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation), show how to automatically translate BPMN to BPEL (Business Process Execution Language). We will show how to do decomposition to services, how to reuse services, how to use registry & repository, and finally how to monitor process execution. In this tutorial, we will show hands-on demos of achieving complete SOA life-cycle in IBM and Oracle SOA platforms.
Srikanth Karnakota Platform Strategy Lead - Microsoft India
Srikanth is responsible for developing and defining core platform strategies for Microsoft India, and driving platform adoption with customers and partners. He played a key role in building 'Software + Services' based vertical industry solutions for manufacturing clusters and evolved innovative business models with key Telcos, ISVs and SIs to service the small business segment. In his earlier role Srikanth built and incubated Start-ups and Venture capital engagement arm of Microsoft India. He led strategic business development activities thru start-up engagements and ISVs. Prior to joining Microsoft, Srikanth was the early employee of a young Indian product company Pramati Technologies and established their business development activities in the US.
Software + Services: Fundamental Shifts in Platform Computing
Track: SaaS/PaaS; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: Srikanth Karnakota
We are at the cusp of a big industry change; The way software is delivered and monetized is undergoing a fundamental shift. The multiple models for monetization are fundamentally shifting the software industry and business models. Traditionally software companies have made monies only in Licensing and now there are three additional models to monetize. Software licensing is going to continue to exist and grow. Online advertising will grow. Online transactions and subscriptions will grow. But perhaps most importantly for a number of our partners, the amount of value that will be delivered by humans providing customization services, application development services, management services, hosting services, will also continue to grow, and so we see a big opportunity for our partners as we make this transformation to Windows and Windows Live and the new software plus service user interface and computing model.
Amol Khire SOA Performance Expert
Amol joined TIBCO in 2006 and is the head of TIBCO India Quality Assurance overseeing teams responsible for performance engineering, service virtualization and complex event processing products. Prior to joining TIBCO, he was the lead engineer for the SOA Partner Program at Sun Microsystems. Amol has over 10 years experience in SOA, performance engineering and real-time messaging. He has a BS in Electronics and Telecom from COEP, Pune and has passed all 3 levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst Program.
Turbo Charging SOA: Performance Pitfalls and Best Practices
Track: SOA & Web Services; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: Amol Khire
As traditional monolithic "silo-oriented" architectures get increasingly replaced by SOA, assuring the performance of the system becomes a daunting challenge. Incorrect design choices regarding service granularity, service composition, service invocation, service distribution and service virtualization may either lead to disastrous performance or coming up with an architecture that does not yield the benefits of an SOA. In this session we discuss the challenges that need consideration during each step of the design. Practical tips to get around some of the tricky issues (like assuring low latency) are presented. Pitfalls of the common design flaws and how they impact SOA performance are discussed. Some of the best practices for load balancing, low latency, high throughput, service composition, performance testing and change management are also discussed and a real life example that uses each of the best practice to solve a business problem is presented.
Ramesh Loganathan Head, Progress Software-India
Ramesh Loganathan is presently Vice President (Products) and Managing Director of Progress Software in India, responsible for leading the product development at the India Development center. Prior to taking the above position, Ramesh was Vice President of Middleware Technologies at Pramati, responsible for driving the product direction and the Technology Consulting business. Ramesh has been with pramati since 2000, heading Product Engineering until 2004, and then helped setup the team (for Progress Software) that built the Sonic Workbench on Eclipse, eventually transitioned to Progress Software- India.
Ramesh is an accomplished Technologist and evangelist regularly speaking at workshops and seminars in India. Has been active in Tech fora, JCP and SPEC organizations. Member of several Standards Expert groups including J2EE 1.3. Co-founded ebXMLIndia.org and hyd-eclipse.org, and organizes BarCamps and Startup events.
SOA in the Web cloud
Track: SOA & Web Services + SaaS/PaaS; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: Ramesh Loganathan
With SOA and SaaS, Solution architectures have undergone two significant paradigm shifts in the past few years. One is the notion of breaking down a solution into coarse grained services pushed by SOA, and the other is to deliver software as a managed service, pushed by SaaS. With SaaS gaining mainstream recognition, amplified by the advent of virtualization platforms and web based computing options, the enterprise infrastructure is rapidly morphing into a large computing blurb- a 'computing cloud'.
The cloud spans dedicated servers, virtualized platforms, web based hosting, solutions in SaaS model, solutions built on PaaS, and much of these. All ready for user interactions in a Web2.0 model, and integration using the SOA backbone. This brings forth new possibilities for solution architectures, infrastructure, tools, and deployment considerations for business applications/products. SaaS/PaaS And SOA fits in rather snugly as a primary integration fabric. Largely driven by the location transparency, SOA ties in all the applications both within the enterprise network and beyond.
In this session we will discuss some of these trends in the virtualization space in the context of SOA. The outline: State of SOA, Enter SaaS, PaaS adding a new dimension, Virtualization- abstracting the hardware and operating layer, Where do they all meet?, The resulting computing cloud, The user interaction layer - Web2.0, The integration fabric- SOA, The backends- SaaS & PaaS, The synergies, Emerging enterprise architecture models, What to expect in 2009.
Robert Marcus Author, Great Global Grid
Dr. Robert Marcus has worked in many areas of information technology and software development. He was a leader for SOA and Distributed Virtualization standards at the Network Centric Operation Industry Consortium (NCOIC.org) as a Senior Research Engineer at SRI International. His previous experience includes Director of Technology Transformation and Deployment at General Motors, CTO of Rogue Wave Software, VP of Technical Strategy at the MCC Research Consortium, Director of Object Technology at American Management Systems, Coordinator of Object Technology at Boeing, and Knowledge Systems Engineer at HP. In 2003, he published a book on "Great Global Grid: Emerging Technology Strategies".
State of the Union- SOA Standards
Track: SOA & Web Services; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: Robert Marcus
This session will discuss the current status of SOA-related standards and their applicability. This has been an active area over the last few years with multiple standards being developed and supported by different organizations. However there are still concerns about the complexity and maturity of SOA standards. The content will be based on Bob's recommendations for government agencies in the US and Asia. It will also include information from an "Emerging Standards for SOA" Session that Bob organized bringing together leading standards groups.
Best Practices for Enterprise SOA Deployment
Track: SOA & Web Services; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: Robert Marcus
This session will discuss requirements and best practices for enterprise SOA Deployment. The session will be based on Bob's experience working with large enterprises such as General Motors and Boeing. It will also include recommendations from a Session on "SOA Deployment: Industry Best Practices" that Bob has organized for several US government agencies.
Service Oriented Architectures and Use Cases
Track: SOA & Web Services; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: Robert Marcus
This session will discuss recommended service oriented architectures based on Use Cases. For example, there are different architectural requirements for Intranet, Extranet, and Internet SOA scenarios. The content will be based on Bob's work with US government agencies at the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC).
Future Distributed Computing Architectures and the Role of SOA
Track: SOA & Web Services; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: Robert Marcus
Multiple emerging technologies are being used in conjunction with SOA to create next generation distributed computing architectures. The Workshop will describe recent technology developments and their relationship to SOA. Some examples are Event Processing, Distributed Virtualization, Virtual Environments, and Web 2.0. The content will reference recent Sessions that Bob organized on these topics at the NCOIC and the Object Management Group (OMG).
Sandeep Mehra Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Cisco Webex Technology Group
Sandeep is Chief Sales and Marketing Officer for the Cisco Webex Technology Group. He has a B.S. (Industrial Engineering) from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Sandeep has worked in the computer software industry in USA. He has experience in marketing of new software products, upgrades, customer service and support.
The Drive Towards an On-Demand Platform
Executive Edition: Mumbai
Speaker: Sandeep Mehra
According to Gartner, the annual cost to own and manage software applications can be up to four times the cost of the initial purchase. As a result, companies end up spending more than 75% of their total IT budget just on maintaining and running existing infrastructure and software, companies have accepted this as a cost of doing business. The number of software applications that a company may need is infinite but the resources are finite. The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) revolution allows companies to subscribe to software applications and have minimal cost of ownership on a usage basis. SaaS solutions are more cost effective than ownership. Thus, companies can spread their IT budget across applications to support their business needs which will contribute to the bottom line. On-demand collaboration is among the leaders in the SaaS platform along with CRM solutions. People want to work together and share data, video & audio with anyone, anywhere, anytime. We are in the “NOW” era of collaboration. Today’s collaboration solutions, such as the Webex Suite of Collaboration services, also offer a very high level of security and availability. As the environment for collaboration is changing, IT departments are now making collaboration services as part of their overall deliverables.
Venki Muthanna Founder & CEO, AppPoint
As CEO and VP of engineering, Venki is responsible for overall strategy of the company. Venki's vision for AppPoint is to translate it into a leading provider of a process management platform & services which enable organizations to streamline their business processes. Prior to founding AppPoint, Venki was with IBM, Rational Software for over 12 years. Venki brings with him the extensive experience of architecting & developing enterprise software solutions using diverse technology.
Offering IaaS Leveraging SOA compliant Business Process Platforms
Track: SOA & Web Services, SaaS; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: Venki Muthanna
Given the high degree of competitiveness and the reduced time lines available to respond to dynamic business needs, organizations have little option, but to embrace as many productivity enhancement tools as necessary to stay ahead & optimally manage their business. Invariably this results in a farm of tools which either are loosely connected or are completely isolated, introducing a level of management complexity which negates the value these tools offers in isolation.
Traditionally organizations adopted data integration and warehousing infrastructure to break the barrier imposed by these point solutions, but with organizations recognizing the benefits of OnDemand solution or software delivered as a service (SaaS), complexity associated with integrating these has increased by several folds. In this session we could look at how organizations can leverage some of the standard architecture (like SOA) and standards (BPEL/BPMN, REST) to not only address the integration constraints, but also enable integration solution providers to offer these integration as a service. In this session, Venki will also discuss about the advantages organizations get by developing these integration solutions using a comprehensive business process platform that adheres to the standards.
Gautam Nadkarni ITSM Consultant
Gautam is an ITSM consultant with Infosys Technologies with wide experience in IT process assessments, process engineering, implementations and professional process certifications such as ITIL, CMMI, Six Sigma, CSQA and others. He also carries with him experience in process consulting using these process frameworks for fortune 500 clients. Gautam is also the chief architect of a reusable process framework developed by Infosys.
Essential DNA for SOA Genesis - Service Lifecycle Processes
Track: SOA & Web Services; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: Gautam Nadkarni
This talk attempts to emphasize “Service Orientation” principles and patterns. It will bring out the significance associated with real life experiences of “Processes”, which will in turn reinforce SOA practices by taking them through various service lifecycle stages of “Strategy” to “Operations” followed by a cycle of “Continuous Improvement”. Gautam will provide a structure to the Service Orientation Elements forming a “Service Orientation Triad” of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Service Oriented Infrastructure (SOI) and Service Oriented Processes (SOP). Significance of “processes” to promote and cultivate a service oriented culture will be highlighted. The talk also recommends how the processes need to be engineered on a two dimensional scale in order to leverage and optimally manage SOA, SOI as well as IT Services. In addition to the prescribed process architecture, this talk also discusses how real life experiences (based on ITIL best practices) such as - service strategy, demand management, configuration management systems, service portfolio & catalog and service level management - have been proved to promote a SOA culture in organizations.
Ravi Sankar IT Evangelist, Microsoft India
Ravi Sankar is a Technology Evangelist at Microsoft and has more than eight years of experience in the field of Windows Server and related technology areas as a system administrator. He works closely with the IT Professional community in India and helps them learn and adopt cutting edge server technologies from Microsoft. He loves technology beyond work and is very passionate about security, virtualization and high performance computing.
Virtualization 360
Track: Virtualisation; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: Ravi Sankar
Increase your virtualization IQ: learn about Microsoft's virtualization roadmap, understand the technologies and get ready for the Virtualization. This session will provide you with an overview of Microsoft's comprehensive virtualization strategy and product offerings, including server virtualization and management (Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008), Microsoft Application Virtualization, presentation virtualization (Terminal Services) and desktop virtualization (Virtual PC 2007, App-V).
Sridharan Sankaran ECM Expert
Sridharan Sankaran is Director of the Content Management and Archiving Group at EMC India Center of Excellence (COE). With over 30 years of experience in the IT industry, Sridharan has expertise in the areas of Content Management, E-payments, Middleware, ERP, Communications and Networking, Compilers and Operating Systems. Sridharan has worked at companies such as HP, TCL Mindware, Oracle, Hinditron, and developed a real type operating system for a nuclear power plant's simulator at Department of Atomic Energy. Sridharan has an M.Tech in Computer Engineering from IIT Kharagpur.
ECM 2.0: Putting it All Together
Track: Virtualisation; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: Sridharan Sankaran
We are experiencing a paradigm shift in ECM. User experiences and expectations are changing and increasing. Technology is reaching out to a wider audience in a variety of ways and creating newer possibilities for what people could do with information. Statutory compliance, security of information and protecting corporate and personal assets is becoming increasingly important. In this context, ECM vendors are faced with game changing opportunities and challenges. Putting all these together is not entirely disruptive, neither incremental evolutions over status quo is best for cost effective and timely solutions. This requires a solid architectural approach to the ECM platform and the glue to connect the business needs with a rich set of applications.
Alan Pelz-Sharpe ECM Analyst
Alan Pelz-Sharpe is a Principal and Partner at CMS Watch, covering ECM and Archiving technologies and practices. He is the author the ECM Suites Report and the E-Mail Archiving and Management Report for CMS Watch. Formerly he was the ECM Consulting Director at Wipro and prior to that VP North America for Industry Analyst firm Ovum. A 19 year veteran of the document technology industry, Alan has written extensively on document, web and records management topics, is a contributing editor at Intelligent Enterprise Magazine, Byte and Switch and KM World Magazine. He has delivered keynotes at events around the world, and appeared as an expert guest on the BBC, CNN and ABC television.
Putting ECM and SOA Through the SWOT Grind
Track: ECM, SOA & Web Services; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: Alan Pelz-Sharpe
Services Oriented Architecture has moved beyond the hype cycle and though maybe not what its inventors envisage - is nonetheless an important element of the IT strategy and execution with many large organizations today. Where does ECM fit into this? How do ECM vendors fit into this picture?
Almost all the major ECM vendors talk about their SOA architectures and their Web Services approach - but beware much of it may be little more than marketing. ECM has a powerful role to play in SOA and the future of SOA, but its role is still nascent and being formed. In this session we will discuss SOA, ECM - the challenges, opportunities, weaknesses and benefits. We will share with you examples from existing organizations of ECM/SOA success and some where little or no progress has been made, despite strong efforts.
e-Mail Archiving and Discovery - a New Focus for ECM
Track: ECM; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: Alan Pelz-Sharpe
eMail is arguably the most important business application that any organization runs, yet bringing control to the email flood, remaining compliant with increasingly unforgiving regulations and making sense of divergent technology solutions to tame the email beast is a near impossible undertaking. Drawing upon current independent and global research, this session will share best and worst practices along with a no holds barred examination and evaluation of the current archiving and management technologies in the marketplace. All organizations have to manage and archive emails, but doing it efficiently and with the right tools currently eludes many.
Selecting the Best ECM System
Track: ECM; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: Alan Pelz-Sharpe
In the technology world, conflicts of interest abound. How can a prospective buyer of content technologies find truly impartial advice as to which system is best for their enterprise? CMS Watch exists to provide such advice - and this workshop will give you a vendor-independent look at how to select the ECM system that's most appropriate for you (rather than the system that your boss' golf partner is selling). Alan Pelz-Sharpe, analyst and author of the ECM Suites Report, will lead you through:
- Hints and tips on selecting an ECM product for your organization
- Overcoming the daunting prospect of selection
- A critical, high-level overview of ECM solution providers and product selection best practices
- Picking the best product based on ECM use-case scenarios
The ECM Market 2008-09 - an Uncensored Analysis
Track: Vendor-Agnostic Voices; Edition: Mumbai
Speaker: Alan Pelz-Sharpe
Understanding the market can be as complex as choosing and using the right product. In this session, we will take a look at what the enterprise content management market really means, from the perspective of vendors, consultants, and buyers: Where is the market now? And we will have an educated guess at where it may be in five or ten year's time.
If we are to believe many of the industry analysts and journalists, the market will soon belong to just a handful of major vendors (EMC, Oracle, IBM and Microsoft for example). Yet in fact, there is a much more vibrant and dynamic market than most people imagine, one made up of a multitude of players and technology options.
In fact, now the options are broader than ever and include SaaS, open source, regional and industry specific tools along with challengers from the likes of Google and Salesforce.com . Often developers and providers of solutions are as just as confused as buyers over the best ways of meeting users' needs!
This session provides some future watching beyond the next calendar year. It will show that this industry is in its infancy, and that huge changes and challenges still lie ahead. Hopefully, the session will offer some guidance on how to make sense of and navigate the options that face you.
Ramnish Singh IT Advisor, Microsoft India
Ramnish Singh joined Microsoft in 2005 and was the first IT advisor hired in India for driving developer and platform evangelism on infrastructure products and technologies. Ramnish has been instrumental in driving key infrastructure evangelism initiatives with system integrator partners to enable their IT infrastructure practices on the Microsoft platform. Prior to working for Microsoft, Ramnish was the principal consultant on the Microsoft platform in the Infrastructure Consulting group at Wipro. During his tenure at Wipro, he worked closely with the sales group, providing pre-sales support and project management services.
Virtualization - What, When, Where, Why and How?
Track: Virtualisation; Edition: Mumbai
Speaker: Ramnish Singh
This workshop will help you understand various virtualization offerings available from vendors, from Desktop to Datacenter, and will help you choose the right technology to best meets your business needs. The workshop will also help participants understand scenarios where virtualization can be used and will end with ROI and TCO analysis based on examples.
GS Raju Sr Vice President, Satyam Computer Services
GS joined Satyam in 2005 as Sr Vice President to set up ADMS practice. He has rich experience in Application Delivery in the areas of Finance, Healthcare and travel and is well versed in managing diverse technologies. At Satyam, in the first two years of joining, he was heading the HCU - ADMS practice and he was instrumental in building expertise on technology, processes and tools for application development, maintenance and Re-Engineering projects. With effect from April 1st 2008, he has taken the responsibility of managing Java & C/S circle as part of the newly formed ADMS group. He has 25 years of experience in the IT industry with a career spanning TCS, the Tata group of companies, Perot Systems.
Way to Work - Enterprise 2.0
Track: ECM; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: GS Raju
ECM now encompasses several areas of Information architecture including Enterprise 2.0. Currently the ECM providers are viewing Enterprise 2.0 as part of the ECM strategy. The session will focus on how business can use the Enterprise 2.0 tools. The Way to Work is a snapshot of how Enterprise2.0 tools such as Wiki, Blogs, Mashups, RSS play a role in helping business to move forward. Some of the these help in collaboration, generation of ideas which increases human interaction showing the business the way to work.
Sumedha Rubasinghe Apache Axis2 Committer
Sumedha Rubasinghe is a lead developer of WSO2 Data Services. He is a key contributor to the WSO2 Web Services Application Server (WSAS) and is a Committer of the Apache Axis2 project. He has over 6 years industry experience in Java and J2EE technologies. Sumedha has a B.Sc in MIS from the National University of Ireland and is currently reading for a M.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
Enterprise Data Service for Strategic SOA
Track: SOA & Web Services; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: Sumedha Rubasinghe
As enterprises move into developing SOAs for their internal infrastructure, data services have become a critical component of that architecture. Essentially data services allows one to take relational and other data and make them available as services. This not only enables easy integration of data into business processes but also for mashups and any service in general. Exposing enterprise data as Web services is however not a simple task. These services need to be well secured, highly reliable, and highly scalable with the ability to handle failures transparently. One of the challenges is to make data services consumable by many applications and hence having many integration options as well. At the same time the data that need be exposed could be in the form of relational data, CSV files, Excel spreadsheet files and so on.
For the enterprise another important factor for data service solutions is that it needs to be very database developer friendly. Database architects, developers and administrators who know best how to handle enterprise data and work very closely with that data, need to be geared with an easy mechanism to expose the data as services. This ensured highly flexible integration for enterprise wide SOA.
In this talk Sumedha Rubasinghe will discuss the challenges and also introduce WSO2 Data Services which can be used to meet these challenges and help bring various data sources into the center of your enterprise SOA strategy.
Manoj Saxena Vice President, Global Solutions & Assets, IBM Global Business Services
Manoj Saxena is the former chairman, president and chief executive officer of Webify Solutions, Inc. which was acquired by IBM in 2006. After the acquisition, Mr. Saxena led the Webify business unit within IBM Software Group. Currently as Vice President, Global Solutions and Assets, he leads the Business Solutions and Assets group for IBM's industry solutions business. Mr. Saxena is an accomplished CEO and serial entrepreneur who has successfully founded, managed, and sold two venture-backed software companies within a five year span: Webify, an emerging leader in industry-specific SOA middleware, was acquired by IBM in 2006 and Commerce One bought Exterprise, a business process collaboration software company in 2001. For his accomplishments, Mr Saxena has received multiple recognitions and awards including "Entrepreneur of the Year" by Inter@ctive Week magazine in 2001 and "IT Technologist of the Year" by Innotech in 2006. Mr. Saxena was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award by Michigan State University, from where he had received his MBA in 1989. He also holds a Masters in Management Studies Degree from the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India.
Business Transformation vs. SOA Transformation - Can I do Both?
Track: SOA & Web Services; Edition: Bangalore
Speaker: Manoj Saxena
Corporations are transforming their business models in an attempt to increase revenue, operational efficiency and global competition by designing innovative business models and processes to be disruptive in their market space. The business leaders are looking for IT to provide and support the disruptive business models. However, the majority of IT's budget and resources are spent in maintenance leaving little time and resources for IT to be innovative and meet the business demands. In addition, many IT Corporations have adopted SOA in adhoc fashion and achieved some maturity in the technology. The key to aligning the IT objectives with the business objectives is a structured approach. Come hear about new ways to develop the required capabilities and prioritize the initiatives to create a Business and SOA transformation roadmap.
Optimizing Business Performance through Composite Applications & SOA in Your Industry
Track: SOA & Web Services; Edition: Mumbai
Speaker: Manoj Saxena
Imagine high quality business solutions that bring together bets of breed business process functionality from the right providers. Such business solutions would be flexible and adaptable, as pieces of functionality are upgraded and / or replaced as market needs change and evolve. This is where the market is headed, and when you look under the covers, these business processes are enabled by composite applications consisting of composable business services. Composable business services that can be sourced from the right provider in an ecosystem, while SOA ensures that they are brought together in an open and flexible manner that maximizes re-use.