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Business architecture is the critical bridge between business strategic and operational planning and technology at an enterprise level. This Round Table will explain why it is becoming more important in 2008.

Business Architecture survey results will also be discussed. 

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The Round Table explores strategies for maximizing ROI for operational business decisions and BPM/BDM projects. It discusses the benefits attained and agility gained when organizations externalize and manage Decisions and Business Rules.

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Keeping customers, attracting new customers, rapidly delivering new products, providing consistent service through multiple channels (branch office, internet, ATM, telephone) and meeting regulatory requirements is a daunting pursuit of retail bankers. This demanding proposition requires the continua...

A successful SOA implementation isn’t guaranteed, it comes together when business and IT coordinate their efforts.

But bringing IT and the business together can be daunting. They knock heads. When they talk, they don’t seem to speak the same language.

To promote the cross-functional, cross-discip...

A discussion of the business value of SOA and composite applications is actually two discussions. First, what is the business value of composite applications? More specifically, how do composite applications help you streamline business processes, reduce operational costs, increase customer service ...

During this webinar Anne Thomas Manes, vice president and research director from Burton Group and acknowledged SOA expert, discusses her three most critical recommendations for moving from SOA pilot to full production.

Join us and learn how combining SOA governance with time tested techniques of m...

This round table is the first of a six-part Round Table Series exploring the relationships that exist between BPM, SOA, BR, OP, and BA.

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Tom Dwyer, VP of Research, BrainStorm Group and Editorial Director, BPMInstitute.org

Tom Dwyer is the VP of Research for BrainStorm Group, the Edito...

Creating a unified data architecture is a key component of any enterprise SOA initiative. Rapidly building business services requires achieving a common vocabulary across disparate business systems (i.e. common definitions of "customer," "order," "product," etc.).

This Round Table will explore the...

Join us to understand how using BPM within a Digital Business Network (DBN) can drive innovation and create a competitive advantage. Forrester describes 'Digital Business Networks' as collaborative value chains, comprised of companies focused on creating timely, customer-oriented and process-centric...

VIP Auto, Inc. has been using Avorcor's SOA4SCL (SOA for Supply-Chain and Logistics) to modernize their existing warehouse and distribution capabilities and to prepare their organization for integration with a new host system. This session will provide attendees with an overview of how SOA is being ...

The Service Oriented Enterprise is a new approach in business. Each party or participant in service orientation sees themselves as a service provider and consumer, in an increasingly well connected global economy. This is not new: businesses have been serving their clientele since time immemorial. B...

Although industry standards exist around Web services, there are no standards around the technology capabilities needed to achieve success with SOA or how and when to implement them. Join webMethods to learn what’s needed to deliver and support enterprise-class service-oriented business applications...

Business people have generally been unable to grasp the language of how to best use IT to meet changing requirements, and IT departments are divorced from understanding changing business requirements. Companies often think that business and technology are two different worlds, with different languag...

Please join SOAInstitute.org for the first in a series of Round Tables featuring SOA Thought Leaders.  This recently recorded Round Table features individuals responsible for driving "Services Thinking" at Sun, Software AG, IONA and BEA.  Don't miss this opportunity to hear from the CTOs a...

In a world of reduced IT budgets and application backlogs, organizations must be able to reuse services and extend legacy technology. Further, with the ability to orchestrate these services into cross-enterprise business processes, a paradigm shift can be achieved in how applications are constructed...

Please join us to hear a future perspective on BPM from Ken Vollmer of Forrester Research and how “You Can’t Implement BPM with BPM” from Ross Altman, CTO of SeeBeyond.

Ken Vollmer of Forrester will provide his perspective on the future of BPM. In this session, Ken will address the need to combine...

For those assessing Service-Oriented Architectures as a direction for their company, this Webinar is the perfect opportunity to gain an insight into what skills, knowledge and investment is required to develop an enterprise quality SOA. The SOA Blueprint is a model for analyzing your company’s readi...

BPM solutions offer an effective approach for developing, deploying, monitoring, and optimizing multiple types of process automation applications through an organization. IT organizations that are considering BPM are increasingly looking for solutions within the context of an enterprise reference ar...

Most IT organizations have, or are planning to adopt SOA, but face an uphill journey. Recent reports put SOA into the dreaded “Trough of Disillusionment”, but still industry pundits predict that SOA will become the predominant architecture moving forward. This session describes the key business benefits and adoption risks of SOA, how to deliver immediate value while phasing in...

For a number of years, systems modernization been has providing benefits to organizations seeking to analyze software architectures in support of tactical systems initiatives such as software maintenance. Modernization has also delivered benefits for project teams seeking to migrate from obsolete or aging languages and platforms to more modern environments.

While success stories abound...