Archives for July 2010

Business Ecology Initiative (BEI): Business Architecture Day, Sept 22, 2010 in Cambridge, MA

July 22, 2010 By brenda michelson

Are you interested in Business Architecture? Want to hear from leading practitioners and thinkers? Then check out the Business Architecture Information Day, co-sponsored by the Business Ecology Initiative and OMG’s Business Architecture Working Group. The day features practitioner and analyst keynotes:

Capitalizing on Business Architecture in the Pharmaceutical Industry by Deb Boykin, Business Process Management, Director, Pfizer, Inc.

Pfizer Inc. is a research-based global pharmaceutical company applying innovative science to improve world health. It discovers, develops, manufactures and markets prescription medicines for humans and animals. Pfizer markets its pharmaceuticals directly to health care providers and patients; with the majority of sales conducted through wholesalers including McKesson and Cardinal Health. At Pfizer, Business Architecture resides within the Business Process Management (BPM) group and is a critical component in delivering Business Process value. This presentation will first examine the approach used to develop a robust and agile Business Architecture structure and will then discuss how content is leveraged and sustained to ensure business value.

Trends & Emerging Strategies in Business Architecture, by Jeff Scott, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research, Inc.

Business architecture’s time has come. While EAs have talked about business architecture for years, not much has really happened. But now a confluence of events is driving renewed interest – and action – in the business architecture space. Forrester sees three significant trends driving this change: a shift towards business led IT initiatives particularly in social technologies, EA disintermediation in technology decisions as IT organizations outsource more of their role, and renewed interest in strategic planning as business models and organizations become more complex. This presentation will explore these trends and the challenges and opportunities they bring. Key takeaways include trends that are challenging the traditional EA model, trends in developing business architecture and challenges every EA will face on the road ahead.

Find the complete agenda here. Hope to see you there!

[Disclosure: The Business Ecology Initiative is a client of my firm, Elemental Links.]

6+1 Secrets of Successful SOA

July 21, 2010 By brenda michelson

The deck from my Open Group Conference session, 6+1 Secrets of Successful SOA, is now on Slideshare. The deck is a revision of the original 6 Secrets of Successful SOA talk delivered in May at ATA/ITLC. If you’ve seen the original deck, jump to slide 24 for the +1.

6+1 Secrets of Successful SOA

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Open Group Conference in Boston: 6+1 Secrets of Successful SOA; SOA Panel

July 15, 2010 By brenda michelson

Next Tuesday, I’m doing double-duty on the SOA Track at the Open Group Conference in Boston. First, I’ll be presenting the 6+1 Secrets of Successful SOA. Afterwards, I’ll be moderating a SOA Practitioner Panel. The panelists are Awel Dico, Bank of Montreal, Mark Sternberger, Raytheon and Chris McCarthy, State Street Corp.

If you are attending the conference, please join us on the SOA Track on Tuesday afternoon. Jeanne Ross is the Tuesday morning keynote. You know I’ll be there!

Submissions now Open: Innovative Event Processing Contest by EPTS

July 14, 2010 By brenda michelson

The Event Processing Technical Society (EPTS) has just announced two Innovative Event Processing Award Programs:

Innovative Event Processing Principles Contest. The contest is open to private persons from all countries as well as to organizations from all from all countries, of all sizes, including government agencies.

The goal of this EPTS contest is to highlight research contributions significantly advancing the state-of-the-art in event processing.
To qualify for the competition, research contributions (like conference or journal articles, doctoral theses, books) should have been published in the past 5 years, or accepted for publication in the last 12 months. Submissions by the (co-)authors of the research contribution are welcome.

The nominations will be judged based on: scientific and technical soundness, relevance to event processing, originality, and expected or already achieved impact on event processing.

For more information on the Event Processing Principles Contest, go here.

Innovative Event Processing Application Case Study Contest. This contest, co-sponsored by the OMG’s Event Processing CoP, is open to organizations of all sizes, including government agencies, which have delivered, or are developing, an innovative event processing application.

The goal of the contest is to highlight applications showing significant and innovative use of event processing. To qualify for the competition, the nominated application should have been developed in the past 5 years.

Entries will be judged on the innovative use and potential or realized value from this application. Evaluation committee members are: Alex Alves (Oracle), Francois Bry (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich), Mani Chandy (California Institute of Technology), Opher Etzion (IBM), Brenda Michelson (Elemental Links), Themis Palpanas (Trento University)

For more information on the Event Processing Application Contest, go here.

Submissions for both contests must be received by September 30, 2010. Winners will be announced during the EPTS annual conference in November 17-19, 2010.

[Disclosures: As an EP-TS member, I worked on the committee that devised the EP Application Contest questionnaire. That same committee will be evaluating EP Application Contest submissions. The OMG’s EP CoP is a client of my firm, Elemental Links.]