Today we live a dizzying technology race, every time there are more and better technology solutions that promise to help businesses be more efficient and productive, which happens in reality? The advantage of being predictive is anticipating the needs and requirements of our clients or prospects, before they request or require. This talk will focus on what it means to be a predictive business and how to get there.
  

Business Process Management offers the best return on investment for companies of all sectors. BPM ROI can be measured as a combination of different benefits such as productivity increases, cost savings, revenue increases, monitoring and control, or people satisfaction (customers, employees,…). This presentation shows an overview of practical cases of BPM implementation in Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, Financial Services, Outsourcing Services, Hotel Chain, Franchising Chain, Real Estate, Telecom, Retail, Manufacturing, Education, Public Administration and Government.
  

In this session attendees will learn how USMEPC made dramatic advances through the use of business processing management (BPM) and service oriented architecture (SOA) technologies and strategies. USMEPC was a recent award recipient from our BPM Case Study Competition.
  

The one day called by CBS News ‘Silicon Valley of the Region’; Costa Rica is a success story in Central America by many measures: Since the dawn of the XIX Century, barely 2 incidents of violence affected its Social & Democratic Development. This results in Costa Rica enjoying decades of stable Political environment and Life Quality of its inhabitants compared with other Latin American Nations. Even today with the Global Economy under trouble waters, Costa Rica ranks high in Economic stability, development and it’s Life Expectancy is among the Top 10 in the World. Over more than 20 Years, the Country began its journey towards a diversified Economy, one in which Services become prominent and mark the path for a different kind of Economic Development, one that draws from the Knowledge Economy. It’s been said that everything Costa Rican’s does, have or will have a Technological version of it; whether this is configured as part of a Business, a Product, its Services or the Costa Rican Culture. Naturally, this process of expanding the Economy carries along challenges such as Increasing the Competitiveness of the Country in a Globalized Economy or how to increase the quality of the Education emphasizing of course, the IT Ecosystem. Microsoft Costa Rica express its solidarity with this National Strategic Imperative by building on our combined Strengths: Software + People. We call our efforts ‘Local Software Economy’; because as Microsoft we are of the firm opinion that being a local Responsible Corporate Citizen is not just about charitable endowments; to really commit ourselves to such a broad National Agenda, requires the kind of Sharing that builds from Realizing the Potential of People thru the magic of Software. Over the last 6 Years, Microsoft in Partnership with the ‘Club de Investigacion Teconologica’, have been able to sustained a non-commercial agenda that have bring a Wealth of Programs, Initiatives and Events to foster the Local Software Economy in Costa Rica.
  

Moderator:
Karen Larkowski
Program Director, OMG

Panelists:
- Erik Brieva
  President and CEO of Polymita Technologies
  
- Mario Alberto Guerrero Mendoza
  Partner & CEO, MegaPractical
  
- Linus Chow
  Principal Sales Consultant, Oracle Public Sector, ORACLE United States

- Sanjay Kumar 
Vice President Communications and Media Solutions, Savvion Inc
  

Cory Casanave will discuss the importance of modeling in software development, where modeling occurs in the SOA lifecycle, and how to improve your modeling using the new OMG SoaML UML profile.

The SoaML (Service oriented architecture Modeling Language) specification describes a UML profile and metamodel for the design of services within a service-oriented architecture.

The goals of SoaML are to support the activities of service modeling and design and to fit into an overall model-driven development approach. Of course, there are many ways to approach the problems of service design. Should it be taken from the perspective of a service consumer who requests that a service be built? Should it be taken from the perspective of a service provider that advertises a service to those who are interested and qualified to use it? Or, should it be taken from the perspective of a system design that describes how consumers and providers will interact to achieve overall objectives? Rather than presume any particular method, the profile and metamodel accommodate all of these different perspectives in a consistent and cohesive approach to describing consumers requirements, providers offerings and the interaction and agreements between them.

The SoaML profile supports the range of modeling requirements for service-oriented architectures, including the specification of systems of services, the specification of individual service interfaces, and the specification of service implementations. This is done in such a way as to support the automatic generation of derived artifacts following an MDA based approach.
  

Architectural thinking is comparatively new in present-day Computing, and services technology is rather new, too. We will examine the maturation process towards architectural thinking and service orientation, and illustrate how this has proved fruitful in Central America with some real examples of practice. We will also point to some of the challenges ahead in learning and perfecting architectural thinking in this part of the world.