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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

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.