Webinars
Model, Not Code, Your Way To Agility
Date: December 06, 2006
Time:
12:00 pm US Eastern
All dates and times are NY local time, please consult your favorite world clock to determine when this webinar takes place in your time zone.
Featured Speakers:
Ronald Schmelzer, Managing Partner, ZapThink (bio)
Jack Kennedy, Co-Founder and Vice President of Product Delivery, Skyway Software (bio)
Moderator:
Joe McKendrick, ebizQ Contributor
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Are the constant demands of dynamic business conditions outpacing your IT Department's ability to keep up?
Are your Software Developers spending too much time in application maintenance such that they are unable to create the new applications that will move the business forward?
Are your concerned about your ability to retain your most valuable Developers?
If the answer to any of these questions is yes, it might interest you to know that there is an answer to all of these questions.
Mark your calendars for December 6, 2006 at 12pm EST. Give us a fraction of your time and we will give back valuable information about:
- Why SOA is the foundation for business and IT agility
- How SOA enables IT to keep pace with the business
- The reason business services are the building blocks of SOA-based applications
- How modeling business services improves developer productivity versus traditional coding methods
Ron Schmelzer, Senior Analyst at Zapthink, and Jack Kennedy, Co-Founder and Vice President of Product Delivery at Skyway, will cover these topics clearly and in great detail. And at the end of the presentation, Ron and Jack promise to answer your situation-specific questions.
You should attend this seminar if you are:
- Looking for a way to increase your business agility
- Interested in freeing up Developers from overly burdensome maintenance activities
- Wondering how modeling increase Developer value to the business
- Concerned with potential key Developer attrition
- Challenged with an application backlog (or your inability to deliver projects on time)
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Featured Speaker Bios:
Ronald Schmelzer, Managing Partner at ZapThink, is a well-known expert in the field of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, and XML-based standards. Ron has been featured in and has written for periodicals, and has spoken at numerous industry conferences and in front of some of the largest busineses in the world. Ron Schmelzer was the lead author of XML And Web Services Unleashed (SAMS 2002) as well as co-author of Service-Orient or Be Doomed (Wiley 2006) with Jason Bloomberg, due to be released in 2006. Ron has served as the chair of the RosettaNet Cluster 1 Workgroup, working group member of CPExchange, member of the UDDI advisory group, and was a member of the CompTIA Electronic Commerce Standards Board (ECSB). Prior to ZapThink, Ron was founder, CTO, and "ePostle of Partners" of ChannelWave Software, as well as founder and President of VirtuFlex Software, and founder and CEO of VirtuMall, one of the first online eCommerce sites in 1994..
Jack Kennedy, Co-Founder and Vice President of Product Delivery
- More than 10 years of software development expertise
- Co-founder of Skyway Software, Inc.
- Chief Architect at Ariba (Marketplace product line), the market leader in spend management
- Consulting Architect at MarketMile, a leading e-procurement service provider
- B.A., Management of Information Systems, University of South Florida