Application Architecture, Development & Integration » Modernization http://blogs.gartner.com/aadi SOA & Modernization: Beyond Business & IT Alignment Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:38:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Stories from the real world… http://blogs.gartner.com/aadi/2008/12/07/stories-from-the-real-world/ http://blogs.gartner.com/aadi/2008/12/07/stories-from-the-real-world/#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:02:28 +0000 Val Sribar http://blogs.gartner.com/aadi/?p=176 Now that the Summit is upon us, we have the roster of case studies and user sessions finalized…and it’s an impressive one. Check it out:

-         Customer Keynote: A Platform for Strategic Execution – Transforming Your Business through SOA – Joe McCartin CIO & Mike Onders SVP, National City Corp

-         User Panel: Measuring the Value of SOA co-organized with the SOA Consortium featuring Lincoln Financial, National City Corp, Healthways, Department of Defense

-         Case Study: Event Driven Architecture at Bank of America – Managing Assets using RFID – Bill Conroy, Bank of America

-         Case Study: Transitioning to SOA – Transforming Chaos into Capability – Kevin Forbes, Healthways

-         Case study: Using Service-Oriented Application Composition To Reduce Development Costs and Improve Business Agility – Baz Khuti, Emerson Electric

-         Case Study Panel: SOA as an Legacy Application Extension Strategy featuring BlueCross BlueShield, LA Times, and Thomson Reuters

-         Case Study Panel: Mainframe Migrations – For Better or for Worse? Featuring FAA, Meritz Finance  and NYSE

]]> http://blogs.gartner.com/aadi/2008/12/07/stories-from-the-real-world/feed/ 0 Starting Points and Destinations – Modernization, SOA and Web http://blogs.gartner.com/aadi/2008/11/26/starting-points-and-destinations-modernization-soa-and-web/ http://blogs.gartner.com/aadi/2008/11/26/starting-points-and-destinations-modernization-soa-and-web/#comments Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:14:03 +0000 Val Sribar http://blogs.gartner.com/aadi/?p=153 In my travels, I often run into two seemingly unrelated conversations that I view as two sides of the same coin.  There is one set of people that talk about how their existing systems, processes and people need to evolve – increasingly, these people are using the term “modernization”.  On the other hand are the people working on various aspects of SOA, Web/Internet, Agile Methododologies, SaaS, Cloud Computing, etc.  When I ask the first group what a ‘modern’ set of systems, processes and people/skills look like, they rattle off pretty much the same list as the second set of folks.

The big difference is that the second set of folks are often starting in newer areas – like their enterprise’s web sites – whereas, the modernization set of folks is starting with longer standing systems often built on things like mainframes, COBOL, etc.  The fact that people focused on modernization need to deal with the longer standing systems as part of getting to SOA, Web, Agile, Cloud, Saas – led us to create an entire track of sessions dedicated to modernization. 

Dale Vecchio is the lead analyst on modernization, which has been a significant research initiative for us for quite some time.  Make sure to check out Dale’s sessions on:

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