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Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Using Open Source Products

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc).

Enterprise 2.0 is about creating a platform and having a forum which is easy and conducive for greater interaction amongst employees in an enterprise. Technologies like wiki, blog, group messaging and networking software can make a corporate intranet into collaborative platform which reflects the way work really gets done. It is about:

• Discoverability of information through Search
• Building interconnection between enterprise assets through Links
• Providing Authorship access to all
• Allowing natural on-the-fly organization of data to emerge through Tags
• Extensions to knowledge to emerge through usage pattern
• Making consumption of information easier through Signals

Open source platforms are available for each of the technology elements and they have become sufficiently robust to handle enterprise needs. However, to meet the needs of the enterprise, they need to be integrated. Also the enterprise security and access control requirements have to be incorporated. In NIIT Technologies, we have implemented Enterprise 2.0 technologies by customizing and integrating open source tool like MediaWiki (the engine with runs Wikipedia), WordPress and others. This talk is to share:

• How we went about the whole process,
• The steps involved,
• Benefits we accrued and
• The learning

Bridging Internal and External Clouds

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Virtualization is a technology that is being rapidly adopted by production data centers and pre-production labs today. Virtualization's success is due in part to the ease and flexibility with which users can create, deploy and operate virtual machines (VMs). This ease of operations with VMs combined with powerful management applications provide a policy governed self-service IT environment enabling IT users to have access to an internal cloud environment. On the other hand, along with the adoption of virtualization the trend of external cloud infrastructures based on the utility style cloud computing is also growing. Juxtapose these two trends and you have a platform that seamlessly bridges the virtualized enterprise data center to secure cloud based resources. It is this powerful combination that we refer to as "Bridging Internal and External Clouds".Given the complementary nature of these two clouds, IT infrastructure decision makers will quickly adopt a hybrid of the external and internal clouds to operate their infrastructure. This presentation will discuss key areas for consideration in such a flexible and elastic data center including security, the business model benefits of the public cloud infrastructure, operational flexibility, user access models and compliance/governance which are key consideration areas for organizations adopting or evaluating this approach.

10 Things Software Architects Should Know

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

The speaker contributed to the 2009 O'Reilly book 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know. This talk continues in the spirit of that book, offering ten axioms to help guide the creation of a stable and fluid software architecture.

The ten axioms presented in this talk address the fact that software architects must be versatile, have broad and deep technical knowledge, and be good communicators and team builders. Staying current with new and emerging technology and frameworks, communicating effectively with development teams and executives, managing the ilities and complexity in design, working with project managers, showing leadership, and balancing all of these competing needs can be tricky. To help light the way, axioms range from the abstract ("The Importance of Consomme"), to the practical ("Design at the Boundaries"), to the controversial and counter-intuitive ("Don't Be a Problem Solver").

This talk will provide architects with innovative and accepted strategies for framing the business problem, working with developers, and outlining a solution architecture.

The simple, clear, and fun axioms presented in this talk will help software architects develop their role successfully within their organizations and create beautiful, sustainable, workable software architectures.

Migrating Existing Applications to the Cloud: A Blueprint

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

The AWS Cloud brings scalability, elasticity, agility and reliability to the enterprise. To take advantage of the benefits of the AWS Cloud, enterprises should adopt a phased driven migration strategy and try to take advantage of the cloud as early as possible.

In this session, Seattle-based Jinesh Varia will discuss a step by step approach to migrate your existing applications to the Cloud environment. This blueprint will help enterprise architects in performing a cloud and security assessment, selecting the right candidate for the Cloud for a proof of concept project and leveraging the actual benefits of the Cloud like auto-scaling and low-cost business continuity. Jinesh will discuss migration plans and reference architectures of various examples, scenarios and use cases.

The session will be ideal for enterprise architects and technical decision makers who already have basic understanding of Amazon Web Services offerings.

Cloud Computing Taxonomy and Service Provider Overview

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

"Cloud Computing" is a broad technology area that was initially vaguely defined. However in the past few months there has been a growing consensus on Cloud Computing terminology and taxonomy driven by the US National Institute Standards and Technology (NIST). This talk will review and extend the NIST work. The taxonomy will be used to position current Cloud Service providers and explore possible way to interface their products to provide interoperability and portability.

SOA, Composite Applications, and Cloud Computing: Three Pillars of a Modern Technology Solution

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Aside from garnering copious media buzz, at first glance SOA, composite applications, and Cloud Computing appear to have very little in common. As it turns out, however, increasing numbers of organizations are coming up with innovative ways to combine the unique strengths of each of these technology platforms to produce new types of solution environments capable of enhancing the user experience while increasing the organization's overall ROI and responsiveness.

This session begins by explaining the concepts and benefits of each of these key technologies. We explore each of the following facets of SOA, composite applications, and Cloud Computing:

• Scope of vision (strategic or tactical)
• Scope of deployment
• Decision maker
• Speed to deployment
• Technical skills required
• Market penetration
• Speed to ROI
• Eventual total ROI
• Expected longevity of a solution
• Available standards
• Maturity of vision

Once these subjects have been covered, we spend the remainder of the presentation exploring scenarios where these three technology architectures may be used to complement each other.

Self Service Analysis and the Future of Business Intelligence

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

You most likely have already heard of Project "Gemini", the ground-breaking new Business Intelligence technology shipping in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2. In this session we introduce "Gemini" for both analysts and IT, in the context of Self Service Business Intelligence. We look at the client capabilities of "Gemini" for Microsoft Office Excel power users, the collaboration features for teams, and the important IT tools for compliance and effective administration. If time permits we will also take a sneak preview into Reporting Capabilities that get introduced with this new version which is loaded with Business Intelligence related enhancements. This is just the beginning of what we call as Self-Servicing Business Intelligence, the future is here and is mind-blowing.

Architecting Cloud Solutions for Windows Azure

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Architecting and designing solutions for a cloud based platform requires different approaches than non-cloud platforms. Designing for container headroom, latency, identity, role synchronization and application configuration are critical design considerations. In this session, Vikram discusses emerging approaches to architecting cloud based applications using the Windows Azure platform as the demonstration environment.Objectives:

• Understand challenges to architecting solutions for the cloud
• Understand how to design for cloud architecture challenges using Windows Azure
• Understand how we currently implement highly available, high scalable, managed cloud applications for customers

Cloud Computing Use Cases

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Based on the Cloud taxonomy, a series of Cloud Computing Use Cases have been documented in a White paper by an open collaborative group. These Cloud Computing Use Cases cover most of the scenarios currently being planed by enterprises. The White Paper also includes a mapping from the Use Cases to the standards required to prevent vendor lock-in. This talk will describe in detail the Use Cases with examples and the associated standards.

Software + Services : The Technical Landscape

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Software-plus-Services is the next logical step in the evolution of computing. It represents an industry shift toward a design approach that is neither exclusively software-centric nor browser-centric. This session explores the Technical Landscape for Software + Service from a consumer and provider perspective. We look at the solutions and services from a delivery, experience and economical standpoint and discuss some prominent service offerings in more detail.

Managing a Heterogeneous Virtual & Physical Environment

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Heterogeneous virtualization environments consisting of Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESXi are a reality in today’s data centres. Presence of different operating systems such as Windows and Linux adds more complexity to this environment. Luckily Microsoft has got a vision to manage such complex infrastructures using a single set of tools under the System Centre umbrella. Join us in this session to learn more about the integrated physical and virtual management in a heterogeneous environment.

Succeeding with SOA: Designing and Building SOA in the Real World

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

SOA is alive and well, although its face may have changed somewhat in the aftermath of the economic upheaval and considerable unqualified hype. This session walks developers and architects through the speaker's experience in designing and building SOA at a multi-billion dollar US retail company and highlights some of the conclusions outlined in his book Java SOA Cookbook. While there are many answers to the questions surrounding SOA, this talk will give you one architect's perspective, and the tools to make architectural decisions for yourself.

The talk delves into the many choices, trade-offs, disillusionment, setbacks, and victories in the real-world application of SOA. Specifically, we'll look at acquiring tools, starting with open source and vendor selection processes, modernizing legacy systems, sharing services between different presentation channels, managing service rollout, versioning services, and demonstrating how ESB, BPM, and BAM fit into the architecture.

Developers and architects will come away from this presentation armed with real-world tools, and strategies for dealing with SOA-specific challenges on a strategic and technical level. We'll address what's hype and what's real in SOA, the use of policies, generated code, and making architectural choices to succeed with SOA.

The Cloud as a Platform for Platforms

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Startups love Cloud Computing because they are able to convert their concept or idea into a successful product quickly. Enterprises love Cloud Computing because of on-demand scalability and elasticity.

The inherent flexibility of the AWS cloud enables businesses to use it as a Platform in variety of different ways. In this session, Seattle-based Jinesh Varia will cut through the cloud hype and share some of the real-world customer stories and case-studies demonstrating how the AWS cloud is being used as a platform for innovation.

AWS is not only a rich platform to build products and solutions but also a platform to build specialized platforms. Jinesh will also share some of the unique characteristics of the AWS cloud that is enabling many businesses around the world to take advantage of the value-added platforms built on the top of AWS. Come and let's learn how the Cloud is being used as a Platform for Platforms.

Designing and Implementing RESTful Web Services

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Building RESTful web services has become a popular, lightweight way to develop applications and APIs. In this talk you'll discover what REST is, why it's an important alternative to SOAP-based web services, and how to build a working RESTful application. We'll examine the foundations of RESTful principles, including HATEOS (Hypertext as the Engine of Application State), and then quickly move to the practical aspects of building and designing RESTful applications so developers can walk away ready to start building.

To create real REST applications, you need a solid understanding of how to design RESTful URIs, designing Resources, and building Representations using HTML, XML, the Atom Publishing Protocol, and JSON-all of which this session provides.

The session will include examples from the new JAX-RS 1.0 API for Java, which is scheduled for inclusion in Java EE 6. The talk culminates in a real-world example from Java SOA Cookbook using Google's RESTful API for Financials, with notes on how some Web 2.0 sites such as LinkedIn are using REST.

Cloud Computing Standards Coordination

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Many standards required to ensure openness can be derived from the Cloud Computing Uses Cases. Multiple groups are working on Cloud Computing standards. Recently these groups have formed a Cloud coordination working group to harmonize their activities. The standards from the Cloud Use Cases White Paper have been collaboratively allocated to specific standards groups. This talk will describe this coordinated effort to address required standards and related open software activities.

SharePoint in Large Enterprises - Some Lessons Learned

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc).

SharePoint is one of Microsofts most successful products of all time, with over 100 million licenses sold SharePoint is used in almost every large firm globally. The launch of SharePoint 2010 is eagerly awaited by the Microsoft Channel, but SharePoint is not without its problems. In this session we will look at some best practices gained from the field, exploring where SharePoint is an ideal fit and where it may not work so well. We will share insights from Global 1000 organizations that can ensure you have a better chance of success with your SharePoint project.

What Every Software Developer Must Understand About SOA Governance

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Creating software for use in a Service-Oriented world requires a new perspective on design techniques and development technologies. Unfortunately, in the race to understand these new methodologies and tools, important considerations such as governance often get overlooked. These types of oversights can end up as a significant reason for the oft-experienced gap between the promise of SOA (increased ROI on software investments, augmented organizational agility, and diminished IT maintenance burdens) and the reality of far too many SOA initiatives: a proliferation of duplicate services, unclear policies, and frustration.

This session aims to help the developer appreciate how to incorporate solid governance practices as part of the software development lifecycle. We begin by exploring how to consider governance during the earliest analysis stages of an initiative. Given that the best-designed services have governance "baked in" during their design phase, the next part of the session examines how to make this happen. We pay special attention to the art of shaping contracts, policies, and schemas with their governance in mind. Since service compositions are such a vital part of the Service-Oriented enterprise, we cite how to apply governance to them as well. With a solid governance foundation set, we next examine the intersection of governance and service development. We then close the session by reviewing how to properly test for governance compliance during the QA portion of a development project.

Up the Architecture Stack with SPEaRS Architecture: Services, Processes, Events, Rules, Spaces

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Architectural models abound: Service-Oriented Architecture, Event-Driven Architecture, Space-Based Architecture, Model-Driven Architecture, Context-Driven Architecture, Ontology-Driven Architecture, and more. We frequently are compelled to choose a single model, and drive projects toward this chosen goal; it’s hard to be “driven” by more than one paradigm at once. But different architectural strategies arise to address specific problems, so we are still left with the problems that our chosen strategy was not intended to solve. Loosening coupled components, for example, can degrade performance. We want both loose coupling and great performance. We need services for interoperability, processes for business alignment, and events for dynamic processing.

We can achieve a new level of robustness and agility by positing a path using an aggregate architectural strategy, one that combines the best of different architectural approaches. But without some hard decision making and a clear model, the complexity of such an approach could be overwhelming.

This talk explores the possibilities in a proposed architectural strategy called SPEaRS (Services, Processes, Events, Rules, Spaces), which combines aspects of rich SOA, BPM, EDA, and SBA to create a flat, “tierless” architecture, with no central controller, and composed of recombinatory fragments, to address the growing demands of the modern enterprise.

Cloud Initiatives and Standards Roadmaps

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Several governments (e.g. US, UK) are rapidly moving to procure and deploy Cloud Services. In the United States, the government plans to issue a series of solicitations for Cloud Service Providers for Infrastructure, Platform, and Software. The solicitations will follow an aggressive published timeline based on increasingly complex Use Cases. One of the government's goal is to prevent vendor lock-in by including Cloud interoperability and portability requirement in procurements. This talk will discuss how to achieve this goal using a Cloud Standards Roadmap based on Cloud Computing Use Cases and Cloud Standards Coordination. The Roadmap should be useful for all large enterprises planning Cloud deployments.

Ten Strategies for Overcoming the Technological Impact of SOA Governance

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

CWhen setting up a governance strategy, there's no need to go it alone: a host of technology offerings is available to provide automated assistance in this important undertaking. They can help you design and develop better software, run and monitor it more effectively, and then help you determine the potential impacts of change. However, if not selected and deployed correctly, these tools may bind your organization too closely to the vendor's vision, thereby limiting your flexibility and restricting your options.

In this presentation, we begin by taking a look at how technology can be used in support of governance. Once that's been covered, it's time to explore the range of SOA-related tools that can be improved with governance capabilities, including design, development, and testing software, as well as runtime infrastructure such as middleware and messaging platforms. As part of this exploration, we delve into the differences between service repositories and registries, and suggest scenarios where these products are most effective. We'll also explore the strengths and weaknesses of the open source approach to governance software vs. the closed, proprietary nature of vendor offerings. We'll close out the session by providing some guidance on how to select a governance infrastructure provider without putting your organization's vendor-agnostic strategy at risk.

Enterprise Portals 2009 Insights & Why Portals will be big in 2010

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

In the dot.com era every vendor wanted to be a portal vendor, then all that changed and portal vendors went out of fashion. Some were bought, some went bust, others shrank and some repositioned into adjacent markets. But all that seems to be set to change as the global recession has put enterprise portals back in the spotlight. This session provides an insight into the Enterprise Portals market in 2009, with a look at each of the leading players both commercial and open source, along with a discussion as to why we believe Portals will be big in 2010.

Seven Fundamentals of Mission-Critical Service Testing

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Organizations of all shapes and sizes are deploying Web, REST, J2EE, and other services as mission-critical software assets. While there are a number of well-regarded software analysis, design, and development methodologies, testing/quality assurance are often relegated to second-class status. In this presentation, we describe 7 fundamental guidelines to follow to ensure that your services will be functionally accurate, well-performing, and available for maximum usage.

Since so many tests plans only cover the most basic scenarios, we start out by stressing the importance of creating comprehensive test cases. We then highlight the reasons you should always feed your tests with large volumes of meaningful information. Next up is a review of why governance considerations factor in to the most effective test plans. Techniques to boost developer and tester productivity are next topic, followed by an exploration of how modern business intelligence tools can help make sense of the large volumes of information generated by automated testing. We then discuss the value of placing your services under accurate load and monitoring the results. Finally, we examine the interplay between service test plans and security configurations.

ECM - CMIS and the Emergence of Standards

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

ECM technologies such as document management have been with us for a long time - but up until very recently this was one of the mostproprietary of industry sectors, with each vendor trying to dominate. In the past year a raft of new standards and specifications has hit the sectorenabling ECM to finally become a true part of the IT infrastructure. In this session we will look at all the emerging standards and evaluate theirworth and strengths to integrators and users alike.

Virtual Labs in the Cloud

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Cloud computing is a strategic initiative for IT in small, medium and large businesses. Organizations have started to look at both private as well as public clouds to start tackling their acute lab infrastructure operational issues. Virtual labs on these cloud infrastructures provides powerful management solutions to the operational issues including the ability to run a policy governed self-service virtual lab and driving consolidation and centralization in the lab.

This presentation will discuss and cover:

• Infrastructure management challenges in development and test labs
• Virtual labs on the private and public clouds – an overview of their benefits and challenges
• Engineering benefits of a virtual lab in the private or public cloud – with a discussion around software development (e.g., managing multi-machine configurations and outsourced partner control access), software build (e.g., virtual labs in the cloud for pristine build environments) and software test (e.g., virtual labs in the cloud for elastic scalability tests, compatibility tests, manual testing etc.)
• Business justification of a virtual lab in the cloud – with a discussion around accelerating software time to market, improving software quality, improving cost control and improving worker productivity

Identity Management in a Heterogeneous Environment

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Digital identity management can be challenging in today’s dynamic workplaces. With diverse operating systems and multiple identity management processes, making changes to identity stores can be complicated and time-consuming. With the need to comply with privacy and security regulations, inefficient manual processes and decentralized identity management can even put your company at risk. Join us in this session to learn how Microsoft’s identity management technologies can solve your real life problems.

Make SOA while the Economy Whines

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Lush pastures grow when it rains, but you make hay when the sun shines; when the grass shoots wither up and dry and not many new ones spring up. The present economic climate is the best time for enterprises to evolve their IT infrastructure. In this weak economy, where revenues and profits are shrinking, enterprises are single mindedly focused on cost cutting measures in order to survive. Only if in these lean times enterprises invest in improving critical business processes and imparting agility to their IT infrastructure then they stand a better chance of positioning themselves as formidable competitor in the market when market is booming again. It's well known that adopting SOA promotes assets reuse, provides business agility, reduces IT complexity and brings down IT costs. But then are enterprises doing that? An average CXO's mind is clouded with these questions. What about the cost? Can my enterprise afford to take on SOA if it means burning a hole in my pocket? Has SOA really matured? Am I going to end up in JBOWS (Just a bunch of Web Services)? Am I going to be locked in for ever by vendors that aggressively promote "SOA enabled" product extensions rather SOA principles. The prime reasons for not adopting SOA are strong entry barriers (expensive vendor products, professional services and trainings), insufficient SOA maturity and perceived delays in ROI.

This presentation aims to make a case to the average CXO's and technical community on why and how SOA can work for them in this economical climate by answering all the above questions and proposing a solution. First we help rediscover how and why SOA promises agility of enterprise IT and more importantly we cover what we need to do to ensure that SOA delivers on this promise. In that journey we cover a canonical SOA reference architecture and set of standards including the WS-I basic profile, concepts like BAM, BPM, and all those essential ingredients of SOA that like the proverbial sunshine, are a must to make the SOA that stays with you through the icy winters of change. Most interesting part of the presentation is the realization that implementing all these lofty concepts for the enterprise in practice need not cost as much money, as a little bit of conscious thought. This we prove by presenting reference implementations using standards based, lightweight, open source SOA stack and how we leverage the various options to add more muscle to this stack by investing in support etc when things start looking up.

Adaptive Enterprise - The SOI & SOM Way

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Given the dynamic changes in the competitive landscape today, organizations face huge challenges in aligning their IT infrastructure with their business needs. This session will help participants understand how SOI (Services Oriented Infrastructure) and SOM (Services Oriented Management) can enable IT infrastructure to be orchestrated to meet business needs. The significance of this approach is that organizations can achieve this in a short timeframe to setup the required infrastructure for any specific need, including cost of building and managing all components. Majumdar will explain this with a framework, and highlight how organizations can enable alignment using this approach.

Web Application Security for the Payment Card Industry

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

E-Commerce has become the preferred medium of doing business today. Millions of people use e-commerce solutions for their daily needs. Credit cards being the payment method of choice has been adopted the world over for E-commerce transactions. While web applications are ubiquitous in their presence all over the world, attackers have started exploiting web applications to access credit card information worth millions. Security breaches of several leading web applications has prompted the industry to consider web application security more seriously. This talk aims to outline the security requirements and implementation techniques which can be used by organizations, architects and developers to build more robust web applications to be deployed on the Internet. This talk will also detail out the practical implementation strategies for cryptography, log management, authentication and authorization and other secure coding practices to be built into web applications. This talk will also highlight some of the important security compliance requirements like the PCI standards, which is one of the most stringent and popular security compliance standards in the world today.

Managing Teams and Projects - the Social Way

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

As the Social Networking phenomenon picks up and is getting more and more popular, many organizations are looking to embrace this new trend. An entirely new segment of Business software under Enterprise 2.0 termed Social Business Software or in other words Enterprise Social Software is creating the waves as more and more vendors try to bring in the social (networking) aspect into their collaboration products. Products that combine the value-adds of yesterdays Enterprise Content Management tools with the new age networking tools to create a powerful platform for enterprises to network, collaborate, manage projects and Manage Knowledge. For effective project management, the need is not for expensive project management tools with complicated graphs. The need is for simple tools that enable everyone to use them to capture what they are doing in a project. Tools that provide real-time updates to the Project Manager about the happenings in the project. Tools that defy processes and allows a user to start anywhere. Tools that allow teams to harness the collective power to innovate. The new Enterprise Social Software tools provide workspaces that combine Wikis, blogs, chat, email, document management, discussion forums, profiles and networking features to provide a very rich and easy to use platform. The talk would examine how these new age tools will be able to address the problems above. The talk will also examine how this shift in the way projects are managed can help in increased productivity, effective knowledge management and provide insights into how teams are thinking.

Cloud Computing + SaaS + Collaboration = Collective Team Intelligence

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Collaboration by definition is a way for teams getting things done. There has been various stages in which collaboration technologies have developed and used. Starting Form Email, Chat, Tele Conferencing, Video Conferencing and Enterprise Intranets. The new generation Social collaboration technologies being developed now are evolution in the way teams will work in future. For Social Collaboration to happen effectively it needs two key pillars (a) Cloud Computing Infrastructure (b) SAAS Business model. Knowledge workers need access to the collaboration platform 24 x 7 and from multiple devices. The system should also be Secure and Scalable. This can now be achieved by creating a Social workspace in the cloud on demand which all the team members can effectively use. These workspaces should integrate both the traditional communication and collaboration technologies like Email, Chat, Web conferencing, ECM and new Social technologies like Blogs, Wikis, Micro Blogging so that no information of any nature casual or formal is lost. This is most effective way to achieve team knowledge sharing and capture, without having the individuals to put any additional efforts for the same.

Business Intelligence Project Execution on a Shoe String

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

With the global recession pinching many budgets, decision makers would like to reap the benefits of business intelligence without paying the high prices traditionally associated with them. How can I have the cake and eat it too? In this session join Rajesh as he leads you through the changing priorities of Business Intelligence/DWH projects, the cost factors to consider, what these costs translate to? (actual numbers), where do the funds come from?, different tried and tested approaches to reduce costs (including coverage on factors such as Preparation, Architecture, Methodology, Open source, Out-source/Off-shore, Perception) and the the top 10 best practices you SHOULD follow to successfully execute a Business Intelligence project on a shoe string.

Business Intelligence – Leveraging and Navigating During Current Challenging Times

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Organizations today are engulfed in a sea of data. The data that resides in various repositories inside a company has the potential to be one of the biggest levers of competitive advantage to the company. As we navigate the economic crisis and try to be well-positioned for the next turn of the cycle, CIOs could be holding the keys to a very powerful tool that would help their companies gain an edge, especially during a slowdown. The challenge is to take the enormous volumes of data and find the one or two nuggets of insight that can make this happen.

Mobile PKI - Quo Vadis

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

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Cloud Computing and Open Source

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Open Source and Cloud are made for each other. They form the best combination to deliver the maximum return on investment. In this session we will look at Cloud Computing platform through the eyes of an Open Source developer. This session will provide you with the necessary concepts of deploying a LAMP application on Amazon EC2. You will walk away with a clear understanding of the Cloud and how developers, ISVs and SIs benefit from the Open Source and Cloud combination.

A Practical Approach to Cloud Computing Adoption

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Organizations are in various stages of IT adoption and the strategy to adopt Cloud Computing will differ based on the stage they are in. This session will attempt to provide a set of practical guidelines to organizations on the adoption of Cloud Computing, based on their current status of IT adoption. This session will also prescribe some Do’s and Don’t’s for organizations when they evaluate and adopt Cloud Computing.

Bringing Public Clouds to Enterprises

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Cloud being the only way to achieve virtualisation for a vast majority of IT end users & given that there are already plenty of public cloud vendors who make it possible for you to deploy your IT initiatives on a virtual environment it adds to more challenge in terms of manageability & automation issues related to your cloud infrastructure. This is where cloud automation & management solutions helps you manage & automate your IT processes & streamline cloud utilization while burning less CPU cycles & dedicated manpower, not to mention drastic reduction in CAPEX & OPEX. In brief the more you consolidate & integrate your cloud usage via a single management console the more seamless it will bring in Cloud Control to your fingertips & with built in enterprise ready features you stand to gain extra mileage.

Strategies to Counter the Information Overload Conundrum

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

As the world moves into a new internet era with collaborative web 2.0 tools, social networks and the semantic web, an excess amount of information is being provided, making processing and absorbing tasks very difficult for the individual because sometimes we cannot see the validity behind the information. Through the amount of information being produced from various people on the Internet, the problem of Information Overload arises. The implication arises from the psychological field, society and individual. E-mail remains a major source of information overload, as people struggle to keep up with the rate of incoming messages as well as filtering out unsolicited commercial messages (spam), users also have to contend with the growing use of e-mail attachments in the form of lengthy reports, presentations and media files. Come to this session to learn about possible solutions and strategies to counter the information overload conundrum.

Building Enterprise Dashboards

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Enterprise dashboards are everywhere today and yet most of the dashboards fail to deliver what they are aimed to. A properly designed dashboard can be a great tool to an enterprise. A dashboard not only has to provide information under the hood but should present the information in visually compelling manner. A properly designed dashboard will insights for quick and intelligent decision making. At the same time a poorly designed dashboard can lead to wrong decisions. This session will cover the steps that should be followed to design an effective dashboard, what mistakes to avoid and how to adapt these steps to various situations, irrespective of the business software or technologies used across the enterprise.

Cloud Security Demystified

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Cloud Computing has not only been a buzzword but has also become an important opportunity for every type of business. Financial savings, agility and elasticity, all enabled through cloud technology, are crucial in a fast paced business world. At the same time security incidents in the Cloud have made clear that this new promising technology comes with complexity and security and privacy challenges. What are the security areas that customers and vendors of cloud solutions alike need to pay attention to? How does one assess the soundness of security controls of a cloud provider? By using the research and guidance of the Cloud Security Alliance we will provide a holistic overview of all aspects of security relevant to cloud computing.

Cloud, Build & Test and Lean Development

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

The session will highlight how to leverage cloud computing and lean development concepts to better manage your development processes and infrastructure for better agility, productivity and time to market. Cloud Computing, Lean Development, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Agile are some of the latest trends in software development. The session aims to explain how a combination of all these in a single platform can help organizations to realize value quickly and effectively.

Towards a Unified Business Intelligence and Enterprise Performance Management Strategy

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Organizations need to move towards a unified strategy for their business and enterprise performance solutions, pre-packaged analytics, business intelligence software, and data warehousing. This session will look at the elements of each of these solutions, and Oracle's vision and strategy of delivering a unified Enterprise Performance Management system, that lowers total cost of ownership for customers while providing a unified way of delivering insight to CXOs as well as line-managers across the organization.

Amazon Web Services Deep Dive - Cloud Workshop

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Introduction to AWS Infrastructure Services – 30 mins: Learn how to create an AWS account, understand SOAP, REST and Query APIs and learn how to use the tools, AWS management Console

Deep Dive into AWS Infrastructure Services - 60 mins

• Amazon EC2 - Learn how to create, bundle and launch and AMI, Setting up Amazon EBS volumes, Elastic IP, creating Auto-scaling group
• Amazon S3 buckets objects and ACLs and Amazon CloudFront distributions
• Amazon SQS queues
• Amazon SimpleDB Domains, Items, Attributes and Querying
• Amazon Elastic MapReduce jobflows and Map Reduce

Exercise/Assignments:

• Architect a Web application in the Cloud – to be discussed in class
• Architecting for the Cloud - Best Practices – 30 mins
  • Learn how to build highly scalable applications in the cloud. In this session, you will learn about best practices, tip, tricks and techniques of leveraging the highly scalable infrastructure platform: AWS cloud.
• Migrating Applications to the Cloud - 30 mins
  • Learn a step by step approach to migrate your existing applications to the Cloud environment. This blueprint will help enterprise architects in performing a cloud and security assessment, selecting the right candidate for the Cloud for a proof of concept project and leveraging the actual benefits of the Cloud like auto-scaling and low-cost business continuity. Jinesh will discuss migration plans and reference architectures of various examples, scenarios and use cases.

Pre-requisites include: Basic programming and scripting skills, a laptop that works, and preferably knowledge of Java.

CapEx-Free IT: How to Refresh your Technology, Deliver Stellar IT, and Still Keep your CFO Happy

Big Tent Technology Edition: Bangalore
Date: 3-4 November 2009
Location: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

In these challenging economic times, CIOs and IT managers across the globe are faced with increasingly restrictive budgets, reduced headcount, and high Capital Expenditures (CapEx), while the expectations of refreshed technology and delivery of sound IT solutions remain. This session will provide valuable insights into the main challenges faced today by IT organizations within startups and enterprise alike. You will come away from this session with tools and key resources, such as hosted/managed server and Cloud-based solutions, that you can take advantage of today, resulting in an optimized, secure, and highly cost-effective IT infrastructure environment.