TECHNICAL SESSIONS
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Next Generation Data Integration
Ken Rugg, Vice President, Products, DataXtend & ObjectStore, Progress Software
Corporation
Tuesday, September 12, 10:30am - 12:00pm
Data integration is gaining increasing strategic importance to enterprises.
Integrated customer data provides enterprises with a consolidated 360-degree
view of their customers, enabling superior customer service and cross-selling
opportunities. Integrated product and supplier data ensures that organizations
process customer orders quickly and accurately. Integrated accounting data ensures
that enterprises adhere to strict regulatory requirements. Current data integration
products are based on batch processes. Such products make periodic snapshots
of data, execute data transformation rules, and store the result in read-only
data warehouses. In this talk we describe the next generation of data integration
technology, which can integrate data from multiple sources, transform them into
a tailored representations that meet the unique requirements of different applications,
and permit both query and update operations on the data. This technology guarantees
strong transactional consistency, regardless of whether the original data sources
or the integrated copy are modified. The technology can also make data available
to disconnected mobile applications, by automatically provisioning data to remote
machines and intelligently synchronizing changes.
Evolving SCM Best Practices
How SOA impacts and changes your enterprise SCM best practices.
Presented by Uttam Narsu, SCM Consultant
Tuesday, September 12, 1:45pm-3:15pm
Service oriented architecture (SOA) and service-based development (SBD) are
changing the software development game, bringing new challenges to traditional
SCM practices. This presentation focuses on identifying what the evolving new
best practices are, their impact on existing enterprise SCM implementations,
and how to implement these changed practices cost-effectively without jeopardizing
the success of ongoing projects.
Highlights:
-Review SOA and impact on enterprise software development
-Review key SCM best practices in the light of SOA
-Identify key challenges of SOA/SBD to SCM
-Identify resulting SOA/SDB compliant best practices
-Examine case studies for impact on enterprise SCM
-Recommend ROI-based implementation path
The Easy Way for Software Publishers to Create Multilingual Versions of Applications
Presented by Frederic Sénégas, Technical Director, WizArt, and Pamela Chahine, Marketing Manager, WizArt
Tuesday, September 12, 3:45pm - 5:15pm
Many software publishers are subject to greater and greater competition within their local market. Access to foreign markets would allow them to increase their revenues. In several cases, software solutions were only developed for the American market and the process of rendering multilingual versions of the solution is a major technical challenge.
This session presents WizTom, a suite of localization solutions, which enables existing applications to become multilingual without modifying the source code. Developers continue to code and maintain the application for only one language however it may be deployed in several languages.
Therefore, Software Publishers can reach foreign markets at reduced costs all the while increasing their return on investment.
Applying UML and MDA to Team Based Software Development
Presented by Frank Truyen, Technical Consultant, Sparx Systems
Wednesday, September 13, 10:30am - 12:00pm
Model Driven Architecture (MDA) provides a framework to assist in reducing complexity,
costs and development times of software systems. With ever-increasing complexity
of modern systems, the principles and techniques of MDA are essential to connecting
business requirements with the end solution, improving overall product quality
and lessening the impact of technology obsolescence. In this session, we summarize
the concepts behind MDA and demonstrate concrete examples of applying MDA to
key stages of the development life-cycle, using Enterprise Architect. We also
discuss approaches to maintaining traceability from the early stages of requirements
analysis and conceptual modeling through to design, implementation and deployment.
The Role of Faster Builds in Agile Development and Continuous Integration
Presented by John Ousterhout, Founder and Chairman, Electric Cloud, Inc.
Wednesday, September 13, 10:30am - 12:00pm
In order to adopt a more iterative style of development, software teams must
apply both tools and techniques to drive down the cycle time for the full code-build-test
process. Many organizations are finding that the speed and accuracy of the build
process is a limiting factor. In this presentation John will discuss the role
of builds in agile environments and show how build times can be reduced dramatically
by running the builds in parallel. He will also describe technology for automatic
dependency management, which is crucial for parallel builds. Finally John will
describe how some teams are using faster builds to enable continuous integration
and improve product quality.
Best Practices for Effective Build and Release Management
Presenter and Moderator: Doug Fierro, Director, Product Management, IBM Rational
Build Forge
Panelists: David Darby, Senior Consultant, ClearGuidance; Heather Mardis, SWE
Release Manager, Stratus Technologies
Additional Panelists to be announced
Wednesday, September 13, 1:45pm-3:15pm
Ineffective build and release management practices are becoming more and more
of a critical roadblock for software development and IT organizations to achieve
high product quality and timely software delivery. Large-scale operations face
the greatest threat for build and release chaos. The combination of managing
multiple teams and projects, executing complex development processes, coordinating
a global workforce, and satisfying audit requirements means that teams must
work smarter - not harder - to stay ahead. This session will provide a summary
discussion of best practices that are being adopted by leading ISV's and Global
2000 organizations to increase the reliability, reproducibility, speed and quality
of their build and release environments for better overall performance. A panel
of industry leaders will share their strategies for transitioning from unpredictable
environments to more automated and measurable systems.
Dealing with Localization as an After Thought
Presented by Frederic Sénégas, Technical Director, WizArt, and Pamela Chahine, Marketing Manager, WizArt
Wednesday, September 13, 1:45pm-3:15pm
In an increasingly global economy, IT departments are faced with new challenges. Due to acquisitions, mergers, or international expansion, an application initially developed in one language, English for example, must now be deployed for foreign language speakers. How does one approach the localization problem of an application that was not designed for translation?
This session presents WizTom, a suite of localization solutions that enables any application to become multilingual without modifying the source code and while maintaining a single executable for all languages. This session will demonstrate how WizTom adds a multilingual user interface to an application; how the original application remains unchanged while the end user views a translated application and is given the option to change between languages at any time during the execution of the application.
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