4Register today at europe. gartner. com/ soa Track 1 The Business and the Governance of SOA Nowadays and more than ever, embarking on an SOA initiative requires careful evaluation of business benefits, prudent planning and staffing and the appropriate level of governance. Discover how to frame SOA to hit business value in the context of a broader application strategy, how to coordinate SOA with Enterprise Architecture, how to align business and IT, how to tackle the relevant organizational and governance challenges and how to derive value for the most advanced architectural approaches such as events processing, BPM and multienterprise B2B. Summit Agenda Presented by both Gartner analysts and invited guest speakers these sessions offer the very latest topical updates and actionable insights on the subjects most critical to your organizational development and innovation. Business Alignment in a SOA World Business alignment is a perennial challenge for IT, and it's getting even harder now that different business areas must rely on shared capabilities enabled by SOA, extensive integration, and enterprise portals. And for many organizations, the business is independently pursuing solutions ( e. g. Software as a Service), or are able to create solutions using models and mashups. • Examine critical elements of business alignment • Provide a method to assess business alignment across application disciplines • Introduce a framework to achieve greater unity. Susan Landry and Anne Lapkin The Evolving Market for BPM Technology — The SOA Connection Many BPM disciplines ( such as discovery, analysis and performance management) are best supported by BPM technology. Competence in these skills must become engrained in the work habits of business professionals. Today's Business Process Management Suites ( BPMS) represents state- of- the- art technology for business managers to explicitly manage daily operations, leveraging an enterprise business process platform ( BPP). One of the four use cases that the products support is ' redesign' for a process- based SOA. • Who will be BPMS leaders? • How can users leverage today's BPMS technology for tomorrow's BPP? • How will BPM and SOA evolve during the next five years? Marc Kerremans If You Had an Application Strategy, What Would It Look Like? The typical " de facto" application strategy approach works in a slow- changing environment, but cannot support today's radical and rapid changes needed for SOA, BPM and advanced integration. Organizations need to build a coherent, modern, vision- focused strategy, but few know where to start and how to craft the right objectives, structure and content. This session will present a framework for constructing a modern application strategy, and will provide practical advice on how to create and evolve one. • What is an application strategy, and how do you know you need one? • How do you create an application strategy that will evolve? • What do you need to do to bring the strategy to life in day- to- day practice? Susan Landry Riding the SOA Tiger: Practical Governance for SOA OK, governing an SOA is difficult. OK, if you don't govern the growth of an SOA, it will degenerate and implode. But practically, what needs to be done to govern an SOA? Come to this session to learn which governance processes should be put in place, which roles should act in them, and get a hands- on, practical, down- to-earth guide to put just enough reins on your SOA Tiger, and steer it firmly towards business value. • What does a SOA governance process look like? • What roles are needed in an IT organization to run SOA Governance processes properly? • What are the most fundamental SOA Governance processes to put in place? Paolo Malinverno Achieving Excellence with EA — the Present and Future of Enterprise Architecture Life has never been more challenging than it is for enterprise architects today. One the one hand, enterprise priorities are changing so quickly that it's hard to keep up. On the other hand, the opportunity to deliver value has never been greater. In this presentation, we'll explore the behaviors of leading EA programs that are delivering value to their enterprises in the current challenging climate. We will define how you can leverage the best practices to increase value delivery in your own organization. • What is the current state of EA? • What are the key indicators for enterprise architecture maturity? • What are leading EA programs doing today that will be in the mainstream tomorrow? Anne Lapkin What's Between You and the Cloud — Multienterprise SOA Governance Whether exploring the Cloud for B2B integration, or extending Web services, interoperability across domains continues to be a challenge because of various security, management, and visibility issues. The methodologies ( ICC and CoE) and technologies ( service registries and policy enforcement) associated with SOA governance will allow companies to successfully interoperate in a well managed, value- driven way. This presentation will reintroduce the notion of B2B Web services and SOA, present the challenges involved, and examine how various vendors are developing and delivering technology to fulfil promises made a decade ago. • How will companies share their internal services and applications with their business partners? • Which emerging and existing technologies will enable this style of service- centric multi- enterprise collaboration? • Which vendors currently offer software and services for service- centric multi-enterprise collaboration? Frank Kenney G GGP G P

5 " By 2010, general, holistic supply- side governance solutions will begin replacing discipline- specific solutions." Gartner Predicts Gartner Analyst/ User Roundtables Moderated by a Gartner analyst, these sessions are a great forum for hearing what your industry peers are experiencing on issues similar to those you face. Be prepared to join the discussion and share best practices and practical advice. All end- user attendees at the event are invited to register for Gartner Analyst/ User Roundtables by reserving their place at the Gartner One- on- One Booking Desk. Governing and Managing Applications In a SOA World To succeed with SOA, BPM and advances like EDA, application organizations must transform and must be run like a business. And because applications make up the majority of IT staffing levels and up to half of most IT budgets, their effectiveness is coming under scrutiny. You need a set of common governance frameworks and management processes to consistently and effectively allocate resources. • What application governance, management and business alignment disciplines will be required? • How do you assess your organization's capabilities and prioritize steps for advancement? • What approaches and tools help deliver the best mix of business capability, speed and quality? Susan Landry EDA and Event Processing Scenario: Two Ways to Capture the Value of Events Business processes and application systems that incorporate event- driven architecture ( EDA) principles are more effective than traditional IT systems because they reflect the way people and organizations actually operate. Companies use business events for two reasons: to engineer more flexible application software, and to improve situational awareness and real- time response through business activity monitoring ( BAM). • Where will organizations derive tangible benefits from business- event processing? • Which tactics and best practices will mainstream companies employ to pursue successful event- processing strategies? • Which strategies will vendors use to pursue the event- processing market, and how can user companies pick the approach that fits them best? Bill Gassman Architects and Developers Are at War — And SOA is Caught In the Middle The drive for business agility, shorter cycle times and increased emphasis on business value have given rise to greater use of agile and lean development methods, creating tension between the architects – who want to enact a grand plan – and agile developers, who just want to get it done. Unplanned SOA can lead to the proliferation of siloed applications, poor reuse, unrationalized information and higher total cost of ownership ( TCO) – but totally architected solutions just take too long. • What are the common misconceptions that cause SOA projects and EA to work poorly together? • How should enterprise architects and development teams collaborate, and what supporting techniques are there? • How can we inject just enough planning to support the need for speed without giving in to chaos? Anne Lapkin 1 AUR 1: Managing the Data Side of SOA: Dos and Don'ts Andreas Bitterer AUR 2: Lessons Learned in Enterprise Mashups David Gootzit AUR 3: Best Practices for B2B SOA Benoit Lheureux AUR 4: Best Practices in Using SOA Governance Technologies Frank Kenney AUR 5: How to Implement a SOA Infrastructure: ESBs, Appliances, Flow Managers Jess Thompson AUR 6: Next Practices: Getting Application Infrastructure Services From the Cloud David Mitchell Smith PGP PPractical GuidanceGGartner Vision