The Insider's Guide to Business and IT Agility
The Insider's Guide to Business and IT Agility
Date: September 30, 2009
Time: 12:00 pm US Eastern
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Dennis Byron, Analyst, ebizQ (bio)Amanda McPherson, Vice President, Marketing and Developer Programs, Linux Foundation (bio)Anthony Gold, Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) President, Open Solutions Alliance (bio)Debbie Moynihan, Director, FUSE Community & Marketing, Progress Software (bio)
The roundtable will take a look at the state of open source, following up on ebizQ's mid-year view held in August 2008. It looks again at the ongoing convergence of open source software (OSS) with the goals and objectives of the leading software suppliers and adds deeper discussion of the acceptance of open source applications "up the stack." This roundtable will take up the industry-wide discussion, started here on ebizQ in our most recent annual review, on whether or not there is an open source business model. This is not an academic issue but is designed to explain the significance from IT users’ perspective. Does open source software save you time, money or both? Whether or not it is a business model, open source is at once a set of cultural issues, a development model and a set of terms and conditions. Each of those statements has actionable meaning for IT users as well.
Culture, development model and business issues will be considered in the following context:
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Featured Speaker Bios:
Dennis Byron brings three decades of analyst experience to his role as
ebizQ's Community Manager for Improving Business Processes. This
community covers Business Process Management (BPM), Process Modeling,
Process Analysis, and Business Alert Monitoring (BAM), among other
topics.
As Community Manager, Byron will blog and podcast to keep the ebizQ
community fully informed on the latest news and breakthroughs relevant
to enterprise BPM. Byron will be responsible for bringing you breaking
news on BPM daily, writing feature articles and sourcing content from
other analysts, industry associations and vendors for publication on
ebizQ. Finally, each week, Byron will compile the most important news
and views in an e-mail newsletter for ebizQ's ever-growing BPM
community.
Byron is ideally suited to the job, as he has researched and analyzed
all areas of IT and information-systems use for the past 30 years.
Byron looks at BPM market dynamics backed up by facts, while taking
into account the perspective of the IT and business person. He is a
frequent speaker and moderator on business processes, which will also
be one of his roles as Community Manager.
Byron was the ERP and Middleware Analyst with the Datapro division of
McGraw-Hill and IDC from 1991 to 2006. In these roles, he was the
primary analyst for Business Process Management. He has conducted
over 500 specific information-systems case studies. He has contributed
to Application Development Trends, IT Business Edge, Research 2.0 and
other publications.
Byron is also the principal of IT Investment Research, which is aimed
at institutional and individual investors in IT, or anyone who enjoys
peering under the covers of "the financials," where large companies
and emerging IPOs like to bury their most interesting facts. His main
area of interest is investment opportunities in enterprise software.
Amanda McPherson is a founding management team member of the Linux Foundation. She is responsible for content, web strategy, events, public relations and developer programs, including the Linux Developer Network. Highlights of her work with the Linux Foundation include: defining the initial brand and positioning of the organization, creating the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, and authorizing multiple content pieces, including the "Who Writes the Linux Kernel" white paper. She has been involved in open source for the past eight years. Most recently, Amanda was director of marketing for the Free Standards Group, the certification and standardization authority for Linux. Previously she was director of marketing for Covalent Technologies, the provider of Apache Web server software. She was a core member of the marketing team responsible for the launch of the Java programming language in 1995. Her work blog can be found at http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/amanda/.
Anthony Gold is an open-source industry veteran and has been recognized as one of the most influential executives in the business. Currently he is president of the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) and consults on all types of open source issues. Gold was formerly vice president and general manager of open source business at Unisys (Unisys has been an active OSA member since its founding in 2007 and is committed to helping the OSA achieve its mission). At OSA, he will work to drive interoperability and education of open solutions, emphasizing increased OSA efforts on the Common Customer View project and identifying new opportunities where the unique role of a consortium can accelerate momentum for open solutions.
Debbie Moynihan is responsible for expanding user adoption and growing the revenues of the FUSE open source business unit. Manage the FUSE Marketing team and budget including product marketing, demand generation, and web marketing to achieve our business objectives. Leverage communities, social media, Google and other viral marketing techniques to grow popularity of FUSE, which has completed a record quarter for Q12009. Act as key spokesperson with press and analysts, including March 2009 coverage in NY Times. Responsible for the community site, web-site, and other technology infrastructure that is instrumental to our growth.
Debbie earned her BS in Mechanical Engineering from the MIT School of Engineering and her MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
ebizQ is very interested in what you have to say. To contribute an article, an opinion, or to become a blogger, please contact Peter Schooff.
June 3, 2009
One of the most compelling trends in the enterprise business technology space over the past year has been the emergence of cloud computing. In ebizQ’s upcoming Qcamp virtual un-conference, leading industry experts and practitioners will explore the role of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) in supporting cloud-computing initiatives. Additionally, the new skills that developers and IT managers need for successful cloud development will be discussed.Register
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