Business Applications Guru Max Dolgicer Speaks at India's MostInfluential Business Technology Event

Max Dolgicer has more than 25 years of management and technical
experience in development and support of Business applications,
software products and systems internals. An internationally recognized
expert, Max is Technical Director and principal at International
System Group, (ISG) Inc a leading consulting firm that specializes in
design, development and integration of large-scale distributed
applications using leading edge Middleware technologies. Max is coming
to Business Technology Sumit 2010 (www.btsummit.com) to speak about
all things SOA, on 12 November at the NIHANS Convention Center in
Bangalore. At the summit, Max covers the following sessions:

* Managing the SOA Evolution: once a company has completed initial
SOA projects, the number of deployed services increases such that the
key question no longer is how to build services, but rather how to
efficiently govern the development and operation of services on an
enterprise scale. The focus of SOA shifts to reusability, securing how
a growing number of clients access the services, and assuring that
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are met, to name just a few issues. At
this point companies run the danger that a "free for all" environment
proliferates, and the benefits of SOA cannot be realized. The key is
to introduce SOA governance before services spin out of control.
Managing the evolution of SOA into the cloud with the correct
governance is the next challenge. This keynote will address: typical
categories of SOA projects, how SOA Maturity Models and governance
relate, and how SOA governance needs to be extended when we move
applications into the cloud

* A ROI Calculator for SOA: let the Numbers Do the Talking:
there are many pro and very few con arguments from an engineering
perspective that make us believe that SOA is a superior approach for
most application development and integration projects. However,
nowadays we typically won't get away with brilliant technical
arguments to justify the transition to SOA. In most cases we will have
to convince the CFO that there is a positive bottom line result. This
presentation outlines a ROI model for application development based on
service reusability in a SOA. It describes how the cost effect of
reuse can be calculated during the development and the maintenance
cycle of a portfolio of service oriented business applications. The
model is based on metrics that have been widely accepted throughout
the IT industry. The model will then be illustrated by a project where
multiple business applications have been developed within a SOA that
employs a foundation of reusable services. This presentation will show
an overview of a project that is used as an example, a popular ROI
model that is the basis for the ROI calculation, and the application
of the model to determine concrete monetary savings.

* Defining a SOA Roadmap Based on SOA Maturity Model: once a
company has completed initial SOA projects, the number of deployed
services increases and the key question no longer is how to build
services, but rather how to efficiently manage the development and
operation of services on an enterprise scale. What is needed is a
concise roadmap that guides the evolution of SOA such that IT can
deliver the right value at the right time to the business. This
roadmap has to address multiple dimensions of IT: architecture,
development processes, applications, information, etc. This
presentation will outline a model against which the degree of service
oriented maturity of an organization can be assessed, and a process
(i.e. the roadmap) for assessing the current and desired degree of
service maturity of an organization and for developing a plan for how
to get to the target state. This presentation will show: what SOA
Maturity Models exist today?, walkthrough of the levels and key
elements of each level, developing a custom SOA Roadmap and project
example for mapping a Maturity Model to a Roadmap.

* Service Oriented Integration (SOI): doing Integration the Right
Way: IT managers have been under increasing pressure to migrate a
portfolio of independent “stovepipe” applications to an integrated set
of business services that can be aligned with changing business
requirements and support new business processes faster and with
reduced cost. Today, corporations have to choose from a number of
integration products (e.g. Enterprise Service Buses) that have quite
different capabilities, never mind different architectures and
standards. This seminar starts with a comparison of SOA and event
based architectures and then outlines the key issues and guidelines
that architects should consider when defining an integration
architecture based on services. The key point of the seminar is a case
study that illustrates how SOA concepts have been applied in a real
project. It explains the key architectural and design decisions that
produced an integration architecture and a set of services that were
reused beyond one particular project. This presentation will show:
drivers for Service Oriented Integration (SOI), comparing SOA to Event-
Driven Architecture (EDA), how to evolve from Enterprise Application
Integration (EAI) to SOA/EDA to SOI, and applying SOI in a project
example.

Max is a contributing editor for Application Development Trends
magazine and recognized instructor and presents extensively at major
industry conferences including Gartner's Web Service and Application
Integration conferences, Sys-Con's Web Services, XMLOne, XMLDevCon,
JavaDevCon, e-Business Integration, Java Expo, Component Development,
GIGA's Middleware Choices, and Comdex.

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