Analyst Presentation on Lean BPM in the Cloud
Clay will unveil the latest Forrester thinking on BPM / SOA and how it relates to sustainability and provide valuable insight on the future of enterprise technology "in the Cloud".
 

SAP's Cloud Technology
SAP believes that cloud technology and delivery models can bring business benefits as well as cost reduction to our customers, partners, and SAP. In this session, Kaj van de Loo will share his thinking on the value proposition of cloud and present some of SAP’s activities in this area.
 

Choosing the Cloud for BPM: When it Works and When it Doesn't
While the industry press seems to have made the leap that soon IT will be "All Cloud, All the Time", the reality for most corporations is that Cloud will be assessed for applicability based on needs of the organization, the project, the reach, etc. This open brainstorming session will look at the factors to consider when evaluating Cloud for BPM.
 

Integration Capability Portfolio as Means of Competitive Advantage in the Cloud
 

Evaluating ROI for BPM On-demand
Particularly in times of economic turmoil, companies must evaluate directions based on their monetary impact and potential for growth. This open brainstorming session will allow us to dive deeper into the results of Roundtable Session 1 with a specific focus on how to evaluate BPM on-demand from an ROI perspective.
 

Deltacloud -- Many Clouds, One API
Building applications in the cloud is a hot topic today, adapting those
applications to different clouds will be a burning issue in the future.
Deltacloud takes the heat off that by providing a cloud agnostic API
geared towards long-term stability and backwards compatibility.

Deltacloud consists of a public REST API, and a growing number of
drivers that talk to cloud implementations like Amazon EC2, Rackspace
and RHEV-M. Built on top of the Deltacloud API is the Deltacloud Portal,
a service that aggregates information from different clouds, eases
cross-cloud tasks like image management, and presents all that in one
seamless view.

This talk will explain the usage of the Deltacloud API, how to write new
drivers, and what additions are planned to the existing API. It will
also highlight Deltacloud Portal as a specific example of an application
built on the Deltacloud API.
 

The Cloudy World of Disposable IT
The advent of the cloud and web 2.0 technologies is having a significant impact on the way on the way we buy and build applications. The entire field of application development is changing and it is changing beyond all recognition - and it's happening very quickly.

In this talk Jon will examine how process enabled Situational Applications can quickly become the ideal solution for those departments and organizations that need to develop and provision applications quickly and effectively at the lowest cost possible.
 

How Cloud Computing Will Change Business Process Management
George Barlow is the CEO of Cloud Harbor, Inc. a cloud computing software and services company that enables any business to transform its core DNA from data-driven proprietary systems and cultures to a fusion of collaborative and process-centric computing. Prior to founding Cloud Harbor Mr. Barlow spent seven years at Appian Corporation, a leading BPMS vendor where he was VP & General Manager of Appian Anywhere, the first complete Business Process Management Suite to be delivered as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering. Mr. Barlow also holds both the Business and Technical Professional Advanced OMG Certified Expert in BPM certifications.

Finding, Selecting and Developing Innovators: A Unique Approach to Building More Effective, Creative and Innovative Process Improvement Teams
Richard Buckles will introduce the concept of assessing thinking patterns in order to building more effective and creative business process improvement teams. He will answer three questions… "How do we find, select, and develop innovative problem-solvers?", "What strategies do people use that enable them to be more creative and solve critical business process improvement problems?", and "What can team leaders do in order to leverage the diversity of styles within a problem-solving team?" 
 

Strategizing for More Effective Business Process Improvement Teams
An effective team can mean the difference between success and failure. This open brainstorming session will apply the concepts introduced in Mr. Buckles presentation and will give attendees tools they can use for their own business.
 

Case Study: A Global Company’s Quest for Enhanced Productivity & Communication via the Cloud
Paul McNamara, entrepreneur in residence, at Adobe Systems Incorporated will be presenting a customer case study on a large oil field management company who is building an extensive process-centric document management and commenting system in order to circulate, share and comment on documents between the partnership companies in a scalable and secure manner. McNamara will walk through how the customer has constructed this system using several Adobe products ( PDF Generation, Reader Extensions, Rights Management, Process Management, Forms and Content Services) and deployed it in the cloud with a neutral third party. McNamara will also discuss Adobe’s present cloud deployment options and roadmap.
 

Case Study - Cloud from Practical Perspective
Enterprises are being forced to find alternative approaches to achieve their goals and manage within their budgets. As enterprises yearn to become more agile and scale “on demand,” they are looking to finally realize the promises that Cloud and utility computing have to offer.

In the last few years, Exadel has been engaged in a number of projects to assist enterprises in building and deploying applications in the Cloud using open source and Exadel’s professional services. Companies that embrace open source in the Cloud will be better able to right-size, keep essential projects alive, and pursue innovations that will give them a competitive advantage, particularly as general conditions in the economy improve. Removing proprietary vendor lock-in and instituting a pay-per-use approach using mature software based on open standards can provide considerable financial savings.

In this presentation, Exadel will share their in-the-trenches practical experience in cloud implementation and give advice on when it makes sense and when it doesn't (technically as well as financially).
  

Defining the Role of SOA in Business Ecology
Our three day program will end as it began – with a look at Business Ecology.  In this session we will focus discussion on BPM and SOA’s role in Business Ecology on the integration of BPM and SOA in the market.