http://blogs.gartner.com/aadi SOA & Modernization: Beyond Business & IT Alignment Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:38:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am pleased to announce that Jeff Schulman is chairing the June ADI event. I'll let him give you some opening remarks and some early plans for the event. Even before last week's event concluded Jeff enlisted me as one of his track managers so before one is over the other ... http://blogs.gartner.com/aadi/2008/12/15/jeff-schulman-takes-on-the-conference-chair-role-for-the-june-2009-adi-summit/ Last week we held the Gartner Fall Application Architecture, Development and Integration (ADI) Summit in Las Vegas. This is our SOA flagship event. By many attendee accounts the summit was a great success. I'd like to wrap up the fall conference with a few bottom lines (this may look familiar to ... http://blogs.gartner.com/aadi/2008/12/15/thank-you-for-a-great-conference/ For those of you that might have missed it, we took a cue from all of the negative economic news/talk of budget cuts, and added a panel on cost optimization (see link for slides).  Jim Duggan, Roy Schulte and I started off by highighting a framework to categorize cost savings based ... http://blogs.gartner.com/aadi/2008/12/12/application-cost-optimization-panel/ Earlier today, I had the pleasure to briefly meet Malcolm Gladwell and then listen to his keynote.  He told a number of great stories that illustrated things that we should all keep in mind, particularly in the increasingly cost-cutting crazed world that we live in . The first story he told ... http://blogs.gartner.com/aadi/2008/12/11/malcolm-gladwell-change-on-a-shoestring/ Here are some findings and follow-ups from Benoit Lheureux on one of his analyst/user roundtables: Thank you very much for your participation in the discussion about B2B / SOA today. I really appreciate that everyone actively participated, and was pleased that we were able to reach the three interesting (and at least ... http://blogs.gartner.com/aadi/2008/12/10/b2b-soa-analystuser-roundtable-follow-up/ The first session I attended this morning is David Norton's "How To Make Agile Waterfall" (click link for slides).  He just put up a slide entitled: "Waterfall Gives the Illusion of Seeing the Future - Accept the Winds of Change".  To me this is one of the key points when it comes ... http://blogs.gartner.com/aadi/2008/12/09/agile-waterfall-and-winds-of-change/ Anthony Bradley just posted Talking Operational Intelligence with Kapow.  The post mentions a cool new iPhone app for Summit Agenda Planning.  Those of you with iPhones should definitely check it out, and others can see a version rendered through a regular browser on their computer. This is a great example of a mash-up.  ... http://blogs.gartner.com/aadi/2008/12/09/cool-new-iphone-app-summit-site/ Dan Sholler's session Initiating a SOA Effort (click link for slides) did a nice job of highlighting the basic things that lead a SOA initiative to be successful.  Many people first coming to SOA struggle to understand what this concept is really all about.  He started off with a nice simple list of the ... http://blogs.gartner.com/aadi/2008/12/08/initiating-a-soa-effort/ [gallery] This morning's opening keynote was a bit of a surprise to all of us.  Rather than a traditional preesentation, the session took the form of a role play between Anthony Bradley as "SOA", Sue Landry as "IT", and Roy Schulte as their "relationship therapist".  At first the dynamics of the ... http://blogs.gartner.com/aadi/2008/12/08/relationship-therapy-soa-and-it/ I'm sitting in Jess Thompson's SOA Technology Alternatives session (note: you can see the slides I mention below by following the preceding link).  He has done a nice job of putting a number of technologies into the overall context of what it takes for an SOA initiative to succeed.  All the technologies come ... http://blogs.gartner.com/aadi/2008/12/08/understanding-esb-suites-and-soa-technology-alternatives/