Synopsis

Trends in the IT Arena and IDA's Manpower Development Roadmap
By Dr Karippur Nanda Kumar, Assistant Director of Manpower Development, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore

Singapore has long recognised the importance of harnessing infocomm to gain strategic advantage. However, the increasingly strategic role of infocomm in businesses implies the need for Singapore to continue raising the people's capacity and capability to effectively use infocomm. As Singapore's infocomm industry moves to higher value added activities, there is also a need to develop highly valued infocomm professionals namely the techno-strategists and technologists.
This presentation will highlight some of the key trends in the IT arena , it's implications and how IDA plans to develop an infocomm savvy workforce and globally competitive infocomm manpower.

Five Entry Points for Service-Oriented Architecture - Your Agile e-business Framework
by Mark Colan , SOA Evangelist, IBM World Wide

Where should businesses start with SOA? IBM has studied emerging practices among its own 1,900 SOA customers. This presentation will look at five SOA starting points.

Many enterprises want collaboration and better access to IT capabilities for their people. Others are more focused on innovation through Business Process Management. Some companies have an urgent need to get a 360-degree view of the customers, by aggregating information from diverse resources on demand, in real time. If your enterprise is maturing into SOA, past the pilot phase, at some point you'll want to consider improved connectivity and integration. You should also learn about SOA Governance - to improve the alignment of IT capabilities to business requirements, and improve reuse.

We will consider all of these capabilities, and some ideas for getting started or moving forward with SOA, in this talk. Find out how SOA can improve the business' bottom line where it matters now, as well as improve long term business flexibility.

Business Imperatives for SOA/Web Services
by Bjoern Brauel, Crossvision Technology Evangelist, Software AG HQ

In today’s competitive business environment, generating a high return on assets (ROA) is imperative. The greatest ROA comes from extending the useful lives of your legacy applications while embracing emerging technologies—without having to invest in re-training or new skills to cross old and new platforms or languages. The challenges are to enable these older applications to interoperate with newer e-business applications and to extend them through new channels like the Web, mobile devices, etc. To meet these challenges, this presentation will discuss how SOA can help organizations reduce transaction costs, improve visibility, control business process, improve business efficiency, respond quickly to changing business priorities and most importantly, maximize business agility by bringing people and data together.

This presentation will also look at how SOA using Web services technologies help to provide the necessary security, reliability and maintainability for a true enterprise class business.

SOA Governance
by Andrew G. Weekes, Senior Executive – Systems Integration & Technology, Accenture

Mr. Weekes will define SOA Governance and describe the risks of Ungoverned SOA. He will then describe the dimensions of an SOA Business Case that the Governance structure must drive to achieve the desired outcomes. He then moves on to discuss the high-level approaches for implementing SOA and outline the governance activities required against each level of the Accenture SOA Maturity Model. He will then cover the organisational roles and approaches for governing SOA and wrap-up discussing one of the key capabilities of SOA Governance being Service Life Cycle Management.