New York April 10, 2008 Houston April 15, 2008 Denver April 17, 2008 Detroit April 29, 2008 Seattle May 13, 2008 Toronto May 15, 2008
Join your executive peers for a moderated discussion led by Contributing Editor, Lane Cooper. Over the course of two hours Lane will lead the group in an interactive conversation that outlines the best practices and key steps that organizations can take to implement effective application modernization strategies.
Attendees will explore how organizations can leverage valuable core applications into modern Web, SOA and process-oriented architectures. Key issues to discuss include, how organizations are:
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Extending and increasing returns from investments in legacy technologies
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Leveraging service management IT strategies to make their organizations more innovative
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Rapidly enabling new processes that are responsive to changing market, competitive and regulatory conditions
Agenda:
8:00 am – 9:00 am
Breakfast, Registration & Networking
9:00 am – 9:15 am
Welcome Remarks
9:15 am – 10:30 am
Executive Roundtable Discussion Moderated by Lane Cooper
10:30 am – 10:45 am
Closing Remarks, Evaluations and Surveys to be completed
By joining this executive roundtable you will:
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Take part in an interactive conversation that outlines the best practices and key steps that organizations can take to implement effective application modernization strategies.
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Gain insights from senior IT executives who will share their goals, challenges and frustrations as they consider their Application Modernization options
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Achieve awareness and appreciation of the benefits that come from implementing effective Application Modernization Strategies
Did You Know…
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Two-thirds of Best in Class companies are working on incorporating legacy applications and data into their SOAs, compared with only 37% of all survey respondents.
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The Best in Class also exhibit a stronger commitment to SOA as an IT strategy, as well as a commitment to keeping as much of the SOA enablement work in-house as possible.
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The ROI for Best in Class companies is more than two-thirds higher than that of Industry Average performers.
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Close to 30% of enterprises running on mainframe platforms reported very good results in modernizing their applications for SOA while only 6% reported poor -- According Aberdeen Research
