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APPLICATION PLATFORM STRATEGIES TRACK 2005
Wednesday July 13, 2005
Thursday July 14, 2005
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The Emerging Network Application Platform:
Enabling Business Agility and Borderless Integration
The Application Platform Strategies (APS) track
at Catalyst Conference 2005 will continue Burton
Group's industry-leading investigation into the
rapidly evolving enterprise application infrastructure.
In particular, the APS track will explore how
today's business requirements are demanding a
common platform for network applications - one
that enables rapid response, interoperability,
and integration across the boundaries between
operating systems, applications, organizational
units, and companies. The "network application
platform" that is emerging to meet these
needs relies on important contributions from Web
services, model-driven development, and next-generation
application servers.
The APS track will define the network application
platform and its components. Burton Group analysts
and consultants will explain how the combination
of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and the
Web services framework (WSF) has started to make
the vision a reality. They'll also separate the
hype from the reality, discussing how far the
WSF can take you today and where it falls short.
This track will clearly define the issues the
industry must solve before the framework is ready
to support complex integration projects. You'll
hear the latest design considerations, learn how
new and future standards and technologies will
impact your organization, and get practical tips
on how to ease the adoption of SOA and the implementation
of Web services technologies. The APS track will
also give you a clear picture of the network application
platform's future, ensuring that the steps you
take today won't lead you to architectural dead-ends.
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Application Platform Strategies
Track - Wednesday July 13,
2005
Superplatforms: The Arms Race Continues
On the first day of the conference, the APS track
will focus on the evolution of development frameworks
and application servers. Burton Group analysts
and consultants will discuss how the market continues
to segment between "good enough" open
source frameworks and the evolving application
"superplatform," a single-vendor offering
built around an application server that provides
a long list of services, including portal, collaboration,
integration, and data management. Participants
will examine the technologies and market interplay
among open source projects, Microsoft's growing
.NET-based offerings, and the uncertain future
of the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) specification,
which is both giving rise to alternative frameworks
and catalyzing the superplatform.
Burton Group analysts will take a holistic approach,
giving you the "big picture" view of
how these initiatives will evolve and their impact
on your organization, from technology adoption
to vendor acceptance. You'll also hear from experienced
customers, who will present case studies, and
Burton Group consultants, who will discuss methodologies
and best practices. In both cases, we'll focus
on real-world scenarios and provide fresh perspectives
on the rise of the superplatform, and how enterprise
developers and architects can embrace change while
mitigating risks and lock-in.
By examining these and other topics throughout
the conference, you'll gain a better understanding
of challenges and opportunities you'll face as
your application architecture evolves.
Topics include:
- The Superplatform Race
- What market forces are driving
platform vendors to add so many features and
functions to their platforms
- What benefits and risks are
associated with this one-stop-shopping phenomenon
- How the Web services framework
can mitigate these risks
- The J2EE Specification
at Risk
- How the superplatform phenomenon
impacts the J2EE specification
- How the leading J2EE application
server vendors are responding to these changes
- .NET - Microsoft's Answer
to the J2EE Superplatform
- What benefits and risks are
associated with a single vendor-defined superplatform
- What Microsoft's game plan
is for broadening .NET capabilities and market
reach and addressing shortcomings in the J2EE
superplatforms
- Open Source Alternatives
- What impact open source alternatives
will have on the superplatform race
- When open source alternatives
should be leveraged or avoided
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Application Platform Strategies
Track - Thursday July 14,
2005
SOA Reality Check: Getting There from
Here
On the second day of the APS track, Burton Group
analysts and consultants will discuss the benefits
and challenges of implementing an SOA, with particular
focus on how existing application tiers can migrate
to the SOA world. These sessions will examine
the importance of governance, from service design
through deployment and maintenance. You'll see
how new interoperability standards, design practices,
and methodologies permeate the presentation, integration,
and data tiers of today's application architectures.
You'll also learn how to apply these concepts
in your organization, what you should be doing
today, and what you should put off until tomorrow.
Burton Group analysts will continue to take a
holistic approach, giving you the "big picture"
view of how these technologies will evolve and
their impact on your organization. Customer case
studies will give you a clear picture of what
your peers are doing, and how they're doing it.
Burton Group consultants will discuss why enterprise
developers must break old habits and how to establish
new practices for building enterprise applications.
This candid, objective assessment of the vendors,
their products, and the market will give you an
effective combination of practical information
for near-term decisions and strategic information
for long-term decisions.
Topics include:
- SOA Reality Check
- Web Services Registries and
their role in SOA governance
- Getting back to the basics:
philosophies and methodologies for building
better services
- Lessons from the Real
World
- How customers are rethinking
their enterprise application design
- Tips and tricks for building
reusable services
- Building the business case
for SOA and Web services
- Presentation in Transition
- Improving the client experience
while reducing network bandwidth
- Balancing vendor lock-in
against client presentation needs
- Identifying when and where
presentation servers are appropriate, and
when to avoid them
- Integration in Transition
- How the WSF is fundamentally
changing the integration middleware market
- Identifying when proprietary
protocols might still be a better choice
- Data in Transition
- How Extensible Markup Language
(XML) is fundamentally changing data management
- How the database management
system (DBMS) vendors are responding
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