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Date: Wednesday 21st November 2007
Venue: The British Museum, London |
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| 09.00 |
Registration |
| 09.45 |
Welcome
Jim Close, Senior Vice President & Country Manager, Software AG (UK) |
| 09.50 |
Corporate Values and Cultural Diversity in a Global Enterprise
Karl-Heinz Streibich, Chief Executive, Software AG
Software AG, approaching its 40th birthday, was one of the first global software houses. Over the past four decades the company has matured, and the corporate culture and value system has evolved. In his keynote, Mr Streibich will describe the importance of Software AG’s ecosystem, and how the corporate culture and common core values influence the company’s day to day operations and long term strategy, making Software AG one of the most successful global software companies today. |
| 10.20 |
Software AG: Technology, Vision & Strategy
Dr Peter Kürpick, President & CPO, Software AG
Software AG is well known for its commitment to ensuring that its customers have the best-performing enterprise database and most productive application development tools through Adabas and Natural. With the merger of the Software AG crossvision and webMethods suites, our technologies for designing, building and governing service oriented architectures are second to none. Dr Kürpick will describe Software AG's technology vision and strategy and explain how it is relevant to helping organisations address the challenges they face today and will face in the future. |
| 10.50 |
Coffee Break |
| 11.15 |
UKvisas Biometrics Programme – Delivering 21st Century Immigration Management.
Tony Mercer, Network Operations Director, UKvisas
This presentation examines the challenges that face all countries in providing fair and effective visa and immigration management systems to meet 21st century requirements. The UK response to these challenges and the role that biometrics is playing will be discussed, outlining how this has moved from concept to implementation in 3 years with the help of Software AG technologies, providing a successful platform for both current and future demands. |
| 11.35 |
Success or failure with BPM/SOA - Your choice
Dave Schofield, Strategic Design Authority,
Cable & Wireless
Based on real life experiences mainly from telecommunications but also banking and utilities, the talk will focus on the key decisions which need to be made in order to deliver a success or a failure when using BPM and SOA technologies.
- Preparing the ground
- Organising the IT engines
- Engineering the processes
- Measuring the outcomes
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| 11.55 |
The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army
Guest Speaker |
| 12.15 |
Lunch |
| 13.35 |
SOA Trends and Future Directions : Forrester Research Ltd
Henry Peyret, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research Ltd.
Based on the SOA adoption annual survey results, Forrester sees significant growth for the strategic use of SOA. But SOA is an expanding concept which must be seen as a journey to provide greater IT and enterprise flexibility. So how can you measure the value of investments in SOA if the enterprise cannot measure its progress in achieving agility? |
| 14.15 |
| Breakout Sessions |
Mission Critical Data Management
Enterprise Transaction Systems – ADABAS
Becky Albin, Chief Architect, Software AG USA
Mhairi Benest, Principal Database Administrator, JPMorganChase
Gain an understanding of the latest features of ADABAS for both mainframe and open system environments and discover how new ADABAS products can supplement your data management infrastructure.
See what innovations are planned for ADABAS in the future.
Hear
how one user’s ideas are redrawing the boundaries between product and application.
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Get Real with SOA
Governance from Day One
Miko Matsumura, Vice President and Deputy CTO, Software AG
Conventional wisdom says governance becomes essential as you move to increasingly complex, federated and large scale SOA implementations. Governance is considered to be something for sophisticated implementers, requiring a lot of best practices and patterns.
Paradoxically, analysts including Frank Kenney of Gartner strongly recommend instituting Governance from your first production service.
How can you institute scalable governance methodologies when you are just getting started? Matsumura talks about how to "get there faster".
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Power Up Your Processes
BPM and How to Achieve Operational Excellence
Vijay Jaswal, Pre-Sales Manager, Software AG
Global companies are rapidly adopting BPM to achieve process performance goals and become more agile, efficient and productive.
This session will help you to understand the concept of Process Management, as well as how it can work to strengthen your business competitiveness.
Learn how to develop organisational alignment and agility between business and IT. Discover how to enhance your chances of success - especially when used in combination with SOA and BAM technologies. |
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| 15.00 |
Break |
| 15.25 |
| Breakout Sessions |
Enterprise Application Development and Maintenance
Enterprise Transaction Systems – Natural
Guido Falkenberg, Vice President Product Management ETS, Software AG
If you think Natural is old technology you are 5 years out of date. Take a fresh look at Natural.
New features, additional supporting products and techniques and new development and business user environments mean that Natural is perfectly placed to take full part in service oriented and web based application implementation.
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Get Real with SOA
Governance from Day One
Miko Matsumura, Vice President and Deputy CTO, Software AG
Conventional wisdom says governance becomes essential as you move to increasingly complex, federated and large scale SOA implementations. Governance is considered to be something for sophisticated implementers, requiring a lot of best practices and patterns.
Paradoxically, analysts including Frank Kenney of Gartner strongly recommend instituting Governance from your first production service.
How can you institute scalable governance methodologies when you are just getting started? Matsumura talks about how to "get there faster". |
Power Up Your Processes
BPM and How to Achieve Operational Excellence
Vijay Jaswal, Pre-Sales Manager, Software AG
Global companies are rapidly adopting BPM to achieve process performance goals and become more agile, efficient and productive.
This session will help you to understand the concept of Process Management, as well as how it can work to strengthen your business competitiveness.
Learn how to develop organisational alignment and agility between business and IT. Discover how to enhance your chances of success - especially when used in combination with SOA and BAM technologies. |
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| 16.20 |
Still Doing the Business - The feasibility and benefits of extending the life of mature applications.
Customer Success Story from Universal Music Group
What do you do if the applications that run your business are reliable and fit for purpose but perceived as expensive and somewhat old fashioned? Well, depending on the technology that underpins them, there are a range of strategies that can be deployed. The music industry is dealing with some of the most radical change of any business segment. Universal Music Group will talk about the steps that they have taken to develop a cost effective low risk strategy for systems evolution and modernisation.
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| 16.40 |
Plenary Speech
Karl-Heinz Streibich, Chief Executive, Software AG |
| 16.50 |
Meet your Peers - Networking Drinks |
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| Armoured general, terracotta, Qin dynasty (221-206 BC). Museum of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shihuang, Lintong, Shaanxi Province, China. Photo by kind permission Shaanxi Provincial CulturalRelics Bureau © The Trustees of the British Museum.
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