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Rob Brown shows how Enterprise portfolio management is best conducted as a structured decision management process that creates alignment of understanding among managers about the purpose and goals of enterprise initiatives to support the business, explicitly considers the effects of uncertainty on the outcome of those desired goals, and provides a means to monitor the performance of the portfolio.
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Jason Tapp, Cogentes, Principal Consultant provides insight regarding the benefits of an Enterprise level CM Architecture that in fact addresses a much wider array of activities and artifacts. Among these are: linking architecture governance with change control, defining coding standards that aid Production troubleshooting, test data management, integrating technologies to enable end-to-end lifecycle traceability, effective measures for quality control, automating deployment processes, virtualizing hardware infrastructure, and how we can measure CM success.
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Tony Iams, Vice President and Senior Analyst at the analyst firm Ideas International reviewed some of the basic trends driving the adoption of virtualization, and compared the current capabilities of server virtualization technology on Intel X86 and other platforms.
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Mark S. Evanko, Principal at BRUNS-PAK, presented the impact of new computer technology and considerations in developing 'High Availability' facility infrastructures, with specific emphasis on server virtualization, server consolidation, and energy management.
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Rob Hagan, EVP Infrastructure Architecture at Cogentes presented Information Technology (IT) infrastructure initiatives that can reduce cost, improve service, and deliver bottom line results.
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Paul Giurata, Managing Partner at Catalyst Resources presented the key elements for a successful strategy to move from traditional enterprise software to Software as a Service (SaaS). Implementing or buying SaaS presents unique challenges. The focus needs to be on simplicity, the user experience, end-user value and operational parsimony.
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Robert Brooks, Director of Technology at gridGISTICS, presented the benefits that Service Virtualization brings to the challenges of SOA. SOA has often fallen short of its promise in practice, and benefits substantially from the operational transparency, scalability, development, and other benefits of Service Virtualization.
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Allie Gentry, Founder & CIO at SwiftKnowledge provided information on how new technologies are expanding the features, functions, and velocity of Business Intelligence.
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Dan Davis, Chief Architect at Cogentes, presented a foundation for developing effective and flexible IT and enterprise architecture practices using a simple yet sophisticated approach that enables reliable execution and predictable success.
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Dr. Donald Brown, M.D., Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Interactive Intelligence Inc. exposed the facts and hype around unified communications.
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Paul Preiss, President and Founder of The International Association of Software Architects (IASA) presented a rigorous path to go from IT specialist (developer, project manager, testing, etc.) to architect and how to succeed and grow in that role.
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Craig Henne, Executive Vice President, Enterprise Architecture at Cogentes presented how to bridge the gap between business owners and IT organizations. Discover how Business Strategy Realization goes beyond issues of alignment between business and IT, offering a real solution to this now classic business and IT problem.
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Harwell Thrasher, the author of Boiling the IT Frog discusses ways to set IT strategy, choose projects, and make your projects successful.
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