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

6Register today at europe. gartner. com/ soa Do's and Don'ts for Cost Effective SOA When everybody talks of cost cutting SOA looks like a nice to have. However, experience says that gradual and wise adoption of SOA coupled with BPM, SaaS and other disciplines can lead to greater business efficiency without compromising agility and innovation. This presentation discusses the " do's and don'ts" for successful enterprise- wide SOA in a time of shrinking IT budgets. • What will be the drivers to SOA adoption in a time of belt tightening? • How will organizations deploy their SOA infrastructure by minimizing costs and maximizing benefits? • Which are the key hurdles on the way to cost effective SOA, and how can organizations get over them? Massimo Pezzini Selecting Backplane Infrastructure Technologies to Support Your SOA and BPM Initiatives Complex initiatives such as service- oriented architecture ( SOA) and business process management ( BPM) increase the need for integration. This presentation examines the role that integration technology will play in addressing the needs of those initiatives. • How are modern application systems evolving? • What features are needed for your SOA backplane and what types of products supply these features? • How do vendors of these products compare, and what must an organization do to select the products that best suit their requirements? Jess Thompson How to Make Agile Waterfall: Breathing Life into Prescriptive Practices The 80' s and 90' s saw a rush to implement software improvement programs to add rigor to chaotic and uncontrolled development discipline. This has left a legacy of waterfall development, in which prescriptiveness wins out over agility. This session looks at how organizations can achieve the right balance of control and agility by weaving new practices into the existing software life cycle. • Why do plan- driven and prescriptive processes look enticing, but are often smoke and mirrors? • How are BPM, SOA and Web 2.0 stressing old- style waterfall application development and do they require a new approach? • How to integrate lean and agile principles and practices into an existing development process? David Norton XML Gateways To Application Integration: Hardening Your Appliance Strategy All appliances aren't equal and in many cases solve a myriad of technology issues. Regardless whether your need is XML processing, faster than light messaging or SaaS integration there is an appliance that fits your needs. Frank Kenney The Rise of the Agile Software Factory The lines between agile development and methods that are considered more formal, such as model and metadata- driven development, are blurring. Principles of iterative delivery, team focus and engaged customer are common in most modern methods. Agile teams have synergy with teams organized around more- formal lines, such as a software factory's and product line development. Agile teams can focus on developing solutions using assets that are developed and maintained using more formal approaches. Agile software factories will become increasingly popular both in- house and off- shore for SOA and non SOA solutions. • What are the potential benefits to the business and IT organization of the Agile Software Factory? • Why the Agile Software Factory is more than the sum of its parts and the natural evaluation of high and low ceremony process i. e. CMMI meets Agile. • Principles, practices and roles for getting started and maintaining the factory. David Norton 21st Century Application Development Tools, Environment and Platforms Development tools are the foundation of any IT strategy. These technologies make up the core of any application development ( AD) strategy, and dictate the scope and stability of all IT long- term investments. Here we examine the latest trends in AD tools, the environments they are leveraged within, and the technology platforms they support. We pay particular attention to the ones best capable of supporting next-generation service- oriented architecture ( SOA) challenges. • How do we assess and measure the market viability of application development tools? • Which application development environments and platforms offer the optimal foundation for next generation AD challenges? Joseph Feiman Track 2 Application Integration and SOA Technology At the core of SOA and other modern SOA- derived approaches like BPM lies application integration enabled by a variety of middleware technologies framed in an " SOA Backplane". Proper selection and implementation of application infrastructure technologies is critical for the success of integration- enabled SOA initiatives. Learn how to leverage application integration for SOA and BPM, how to effectively evaluate, select and implement the components of the enabling application infrastructure and what are the most appropriate development methodologies and tools. Summit Agenda P P PG G