| Title & Abstract |
| IF1 Microsoft Architectural Framework |
| Every architect oversees a unique ecosystem of connected systems which only they can connect in a valuable way. The Microsoft Architectural Framework builds a common context for discussion and delivery of thought leadership, guidance, and artifacts to architects. The framework is built upon the familiar Business, Application, Information, and Technology enterprise architecture model using it to connect the business imperatives that drive a company and the software strategies used to accomplish them. |
| IF2 Microsoft Operations Framework |
| The Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) provides guidance that enables organizations to achieve mission-critical system reliability, availability, supportability, and manageability of Microsoft products and technologies. MOF provides operational guidance in the form of white papers, operations guides, assessment tools, best practices, case studies, templates, support tools, and services. This session will discuss the MOF guidance and relate it to the challenges of delivering services within a service-oriented architecture (SOA). This session will have a follow-up discussion session. |
| IF3 Microosft Technology Roadmap |
| This session presents a look at Microsoft's technology strategy through the "Longhorn" wave. What lies ahead for Windows, SQL, Office, Exchange, BizTalk, Visual Studio, and the .NET Framework? |
| IF4 Integration and Development Strategy |
| Integration with existing systems is essential to an effective architecture. This session discusses technical direction and the product roadmap for Microsoft's integration and product development toolset, including Visual Studio, .NET Framework, Biztalk, and Enterprise tools. |
| IF5 Interchangeability of Operations in the Service-Oriented Enterprise |
| Looking at the evolution of manufacturing and the creation of interchangeable parts and mass production can teach us about the challenges of connecting services. Modern manufacturing was not successful until our grandparents mastered the creation of interchangeable parts. Prior to that, individual craftsmen would make an entire machine and the internal parts were always somewhat different for different machines. Interchangeable parts allowed different people to contribute parts to the same machine by ensuring their precision and their successful assembly.This talk argues that the creation of interchangeable business operations describing the interactions between services is essential to the decomposition of applications. |
| IF6 Web Services Interoperability between .NET and J2EE |
| Web Services offer a vision of interoperability between multiple platforms, applications and vendors. But what is the reality? What are the tips and tricks for developing seamless Web Services between Microsoft .NET, IBM WebSphere and BEA WebLogic? How are vendors contributing to the WS-* process, and what does this mean to you? In this session we¡¯ll be answering these questions and more ¨C showing the promise of interoperability using Web Services and discussing best practices for implementing these in your own applications. This session will have a follow-up discussion session. |
| IF7 Smart Client Application Architecture and Design |
| Smart Client applications are a new type of client applications that have rich user interface, utilize local processing power and network resources intelligently, yet avoid high deployment and maintenance cost of traditional rich client applications. While .NET provides a great platform to build smart client solutions, there are many architectural challenges and design issues that solution architects didn¡¯t face before. For example, cache management, offline capability, configuration management and application updates. This talk will touch upon these architectural design problems. |
| IF8 Connected Systems Case Study: Commonwealth Bank of Australia |
| This session will cover a project recently completed at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA). The CommSee Architectural Proof of Concept was one step in CBA's efforts around increasing their customer service capabilities and processes ¨C empowering employees to better serve the needs of the Bank¡¯s customers. The PoC was implemented as a Windows Forms based Smart Client consuming backend web services. On the client side it shows a rich user experience combined with a simple developer model, as well as the ability in integrate in existing UI assets into the new Windows Forms based User Interface. Backend Web services are secured using WS-Security standards with AD as the security credentials store. Key technologies used include the .NET Framework, Windows Server 2003 and WSE 2.0. |
| IF9 Improving Software Development Life Cycle with Visual Studio Team System |
| With Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft is introducing the Team System ¨C an extensible life-cycle tools platform that helps software teams collaborate to reduce the complexity of delivering modern service-oriented solutions. Team System includes role-specific support for architects, developers, testers, project managers and teams. This session will present an overview of the entire Team System and a drill down on the architect specific features. |
| IF10 Enterprise Information Integration |
| This session examines the use of data translation and shared data models as approaches to integrating business applications. How do you balance the tradeoff between the expediency of point-to-point solutions and the maintainability of canonical data models? How do you manage the process of developing shared models to avoid costly over-analysis? What are the patterns and practices for developing information-based integration solutions in a service oriented environment? This session will have a follow-up discussion session. |
| IF11 Virtualizing the Enterprise |
| As technology and communications mature, the traditional notion of the ¡°four walls¡± as the boundary of the company is giving way to a far less rigid notion that allows for things ranging from very common to very innovative ways to develop new kinds of very close relationships customers, partners and suppliers.? Thinking of a company in more virtual terms and the impact this can have on the short term and long term architecture of the business can be a major influencer for success, but it can also be a distraction if not properly managed and understood. |
| IF12 Securing Web Services |
| How can you secure Web Services within an organization and between organizations? What are the important aspects of security, ranging from authentication to policy to logging to threat modelling? How does security affects other important service management functions, such as SLA enforcement and expressing legal intent? This session will discuss the techniques an organization can use to meet these requirements in their Web Services. This session will have a follow-up discussion session. |
| IF13 Best Practices for Securing your IT Assets |
| In the Internet age, businesses are demanded to go online, to communicate with each other via e-mail, to explore potential business opportunities via Internet, to do business electronically with customers and partners through public networks. This causes huge security concerns for CTO on how to best protect the company¡¯s IT assets. This session talks about various aspects of security risks, including risks coming from technical/operations/management areas, and shows the security best practices of North American corporations in banking and insurance industry. |
| IF14 MS IT Showcase: Operation Excellence |
| One of the biggest changelings faced by IT departments is how to make its IT operations run 24x7, to support the company¡¯s daily business functions, with reduced cost and higher efficiency. This talk will share with you Microsoft¡¯s own story of IT operations and management. This session will have a follow-up discussion session. |
| IF15 Digital Office: Business Client Growth Opportunity |
| What is the digital office? This discussion will focus around issues that IT departments and corporate line-of-businesses face and how Intel is helping to address the needs of customers. Intel's digital office strategy centers around four main pillars -- lowering total costs of ownership and better handle manageability and security: Embedded IT; provide tools to work effectively regardless of space and time: Instant Teamwork; turn raw data into information people can use: Information Assistant; seamlessly connect wherever you go: Pervasive Computing. |
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