The Insider's Guide to Business and IT Agility
The Insider's Guide to Business and IT Agility
Date: January 28, 2009
Time: 11:00 am US Eastern
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Joe McKendrick, Contributing Editor and Analyst, ebizQ (bio)Miko Matsumura, Vice President and Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Software AG (bio)Jignesh Shah, Vice President of SOA Product Management & Marketing, Software AG (bio)
Faced with the challenges of current economic times, there is an increased sense of urgency to provide visibility around supporting business requirements and making the best use of available IT resources. Is your current strategy delivering on its promise to transform your business from a state of sprawl to a more rational state that provides the agility to create a uniform and orderly system for finding, connecting with and making the best use of your IT services?
This webinar will speak to how cutting edge Enterprise Architecture is implemented and how successful organizations have used SOA techniques to transform the delivery of Information Technology.
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Featured Speaker Bios:
Joe McKendrick: Author and consultant Joe McKendrick is ebizQ's Community Manager for Enabling Business Agility and Reuse. This community focuses on SOA,EDA/CEP, ESB, Open Source, Event Processing, Web Services, Application and Web Servers, and Legacy Integration, among other topics.
As Community Manager, McKendrick will blog and podcast on the latest news and breakthroughs relevant to agility and reuse. He will also publish press releases, cover briefings, write feature articles and source content from other analysts, industry associations and vendors for publication on ebizQ. McKendrick will also compile the most important news and views in a weekly e-mail newsletter for ebizQ's ever-growing business agility and reuse community.
With his deep knowledge regarding trends and developments in the
technology industry, McKendrick is more than qualified for the job of
Community Manager. He is a contributing editor to a number of national
and international publications and websites, including Database Trends
& Applications, ZDNet, and Webservices.org. He also serves as analyst
for Evans Data Corp., authoring their highly regarded bi-annual
SOA/Web Services and Web 2.0 surveys.
McKendrick tracks the impact of information technology on management
and markets, frequently speaking on Enterprise 2.0 and SOA topics at
industry events and Webcasts. He has authored numerous research
reports in partnership with Unisphere Research for user groups such as
SHARE, Oracle Applications Users Group, and International DB2 Users
Group. Previously, McKendrick served as director of the Administrative
Management Society (AMS), an international professional association
dedicated to advancing knowledge within the IT and business management
fields.
Miko Matsumura is Vice President and Deputy Chief Technology Officer at Software AG. He is co-author of the book “SOA Adoption for Dummies” by John Wiley and Sons. He served as founding chair of the SOA Adoption Blueprints Technical Committee at Oasis and is the organizer of the SOA Link Interoperability Initiative. Mr. Matsumura blogs at www.SOAcenter.com. Prior to his current role, he served as Vice President of marketing and technology standards at Infravio. Mr. Matsumura emerged as an industry thought leader at The Middleware Company, where he was a co-creator responsible for building the partner program for SOA Blueprints, the first complete vendor-neutral specification of an SOA application set, supported by BEA, Borland, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Veritas and others. He has worked extensively with software startup companies, raising more than $12 million in capital for Java startups. Mr. Matsumura holds an MBA from San Francisco State University and a Master’s Degree in Neuroscience from Yale University.
Jignesh Shah is Vice President of SOA Product Management & Marketing at Software AG. He works closely with customers on real-life SOA projects to guide the direction of Software AGs products. Jignesh is also the co-author of “SOA Adoption for Dummies” and frequently speaks on how enterprises can adopt SOA to gain competitive advantage. Prior to joining Software AG, Jignesh was a founding member of OpsPlanner - a SaaS startup for emergency management solutions. Prior to OpsPlanner, Jignesh was a Solutions Architect at BearingPoint. He led the design and implementation of several large IT solutions for Fortune 500 clients in industries like High Tech, Consumer Products, Pharmaceuticals, Health Care, Industrial Manufacturing and Federal Government Services.
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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