1. Harrods: Managing Master Data and Multi-Channel Initiatives Through SOA
May 17, 2006
1:30 - 2:30 pm
Speaker:
David Llamas
IT Director
Harrods
No matter what industry your company is in, you are probably faced with challenges around managing your master data and how you leverage that data in a consistent way across multiple channels. It is a common problem: Multiple channels lead to multiple solutions which result in the inability to react to market changes. How can that competitive edge be regained without a long, expensive replacement of business software? A pragmatic approach to implementing new capabilities using Service Oriented Architecture principles is the solution.
Join David Llamas, IT Director of Harrods, who will share his real world experiences and strategies for creating a single view of their customer, in a highly competitive and customer centric market. David will also discuss how consolidating numerous silos of information has allowed Harrods to take advance of new channels of delivery to their customers, by leveraging SOA approaches.
Learn how a single view of customers across channels can lead to higher revenue. Understand how management of orders across multiple channels can lead to increased customer satisfaction. Learn how to know better your customers and drive a unified cross-channels customer experience.
2. Transforming Kroger's HR Payroll Processing
May 17, 2006
2:45 - 3:45 pm
Speakers:
Jim Brasic
Manager of Integration Services
Kroger Co.
Mike Smith
Integration Architect
Kroger Co.
As part of any growing organization, Kroger has experienced challenges with integrating their diverse set of payroll systems. In this presentation we will discuss the business use cases and detail how Java CAPS helped to streamline their overall batch process to real-time.
3. Transamerica Life Insurance Company: Risk Management enabled with Java CAPS 5.1
May 17, 2006 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Speaker:
Jeff Freeze
Team Lead for Integration Competency Center
Transamerica Life Insurance Company
In this session you will learn how Transamerica has used Java CAPS 5.1 products to put together a solution to help with analyzing and minimizing risk on their Variable Annuity products. The key concepts touched will cover the business process that manages their data migration and transformation logic.
4. CenterPoint Energy: Achieving Compliance through SOA and Composite Applications
May 18, 2006 8:30 - 9:30 am
Speaker:
Mary Rich
IT Manager
CenterPoint Energy
In today's business climate, companies are constantly challenged with new procedures, requirements and mandates around compliance and changing business objectives. CenterPoint Energy, like many other organizations, has been hit with a constant barrage of demands around Sarbanes-Oxley, deregulation and very high volumes of external transactions to manage.
Join Mary Rich, IT Manager at CenterPoint, who will share her real world experiences of leveraging a SOA based approach to deliver against many business initiatives.
Mary, a regular speaker at Horizons, will share CenterPoint's progress on many topics, including; a Sarbanes-Oxley auditing composite application, using Java CAPS and Identity Management together for managing access and audit to critical applications, progress on their SOA based B2B Transaction Management Hub and BAM composite application as well as her latest experiences on the latest versions of CAPS.
5. Emerson Process: Data Integration for Today's Enterprise
May 18, 2006 9:45 - 10:45 am
Speaker:
Bryce Rendall
Manager of Integration and SOA
Emerson Process
With today's ever increasing demands for more data to be delivered faster, learn about new methods and expanded flexibility in reliably extracting, delivering and transforming massive amounts of data across the Enterprise using Java CAPS and eTL Integrator 5.1
* All sessions subject to change.
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6. Securus Technologies: Java CAPS SOA Integration, Performance and Scaling on a Budget
May 18, 2006
11:00 am - Noon
Speaker:
James Wedberg
Director Enterprise Architecture
Securus Technologies
Mergers and acquisitions are common events in today's business environment. Eliminating cumbersome, expensive-to-update, point-to-point data and message exchange interfaces generally found in these merged systems is paramount in plans towards creating easily implemented and integrated business processes. Implementing with SOA technologies is a viable solution to these types of integration problems.
Are you interested in leveraging the scalability and flexibility of a SOA, but feel constrained by company culture, existing technologies, current staff skills, and limited budgets? Executing a paradigm shift is difficult in any IT shop, but perhaps is more difficult in smaller companies since a greater percentage of the IT staff and budgets will be directly impacted.
This session presents one small-to-midsize company's experiences in transitioning from the acquisition of multiple, Microsoft based, companies, morphing into a hybrid company implementing a J2EE SOA compliant backbone framework while maintaining existing and acquired Microsoft systems and applications. See how reliable, sustained 300-400 TPS message flows, on relatively inexpensive hardware, implemented with Sun/SeeBeyond J2EE compliant Java CAPS integration software, is achieved.
7. General Motors: Integration Services and Capacity On-Demand
May 18, 2006
1:30 - 2:30 pm
Speakers:
Gary Yu
Architecture Manager
GM Global Integration Factory
Rai Parvataneni
Operations Manager
GM Global Integration Factory
When managing over 3.8 million records a day and over 1,300 interfaces, the complexity of managing the peak demands of fluctuating processing requirements have not been straight forward, unless you have been able to invest in vast arrays of redundant hardware. With the emergence of GRID computing, the cost and complexity has now been greatly simplified.
Learn from Gary and Rai from General Motors, who are leveraging the Sun GRID to power their high processing peak demand requirements and reduce costs for their wide array of infrastructure. They will also highlight their use of many Sun solutions, ranging from Java Enterprise and also various versions of Java CAPS co-exiting from 4.x to 5.x and lessons they have learnt along the way.
This innovative use of the Sun GRID, to provide the extra resources your infrastructure may need on-demand, will introduce you to some new ways of thinking about how you can solve some of your SOA challenges at a much lower cost than you might expect.
8. Sun Java System Portal Server: Overview and Government of Norway Case Study
May 18, 2006
2:45 - 3:45 pm
Speakers:
Paul Hinz
Portal Product Architect, Software Marketing
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
David Bryant
Senior Director, Marketing, Application Platform Products
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Lasse Andresen
Practice Manager SOA/Business Integration & Identity Management
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Norway
Stein Myrseth
Senior Solution Architect
Software Innovation ASA, Norway
The Sun Java System Portal Server provides a new level of enterprise productivity, enabling users and groups to work together easily and securely within the requirements of a dynamic organizational structure. A powerful portal has the capability to provide access to business processes along with dynamic collaboration to enable more rapid decision making and communication. In this session, we will provide you with an overview of the Sun Java System Portal Server, it's latest feature enhancements, and plans for the future. During the second half of the session, hear from the Government of Norway on how they are using the Java System Portal Server to design citizen self service portals that go beyond information access to also provide applications and services that cross agency and department boundaries - meeting dynamic citizen needs and increasing government efficiency.
9. Eskom / Standard Bank / Bytes Technology Group: Rationalizing Your Integration Strategy Through Services
May 18, 2006 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Speakers:
Winston Anderson
Business Integration Manager
Bytes Technology Group
Shannon Kriel
Integration Centre of Excellence Architect
Standard Bank
Hendrik Van Der Watt
Information Technology Manager, Technology Operations
Standard Bank
Faced with massive regulatory changes in their industry, Eskom had to revisit how to better rationalize the integration of over 450 in-house applications to meet market pressures in a timely manner. Through implementing an integration strategy closely aligned with Business Value Chains, and establishment of an integration centrer of excellence to encourage service reuse, learn how Eskom has leveraged a services approach to realize the agility their business needed.
As a leading investment banking organization, Standard Bank required a global integration platform for its investment banking activities to replace both home grown and third party middleware solutions. Standard Bank implemented a global banking integration solution through using a Common Services Framework between offshore banking, London and Johannesburg. The Common Services Framework formed Standard Bank's basis for a flexible Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
Topics discussed will include: utility deregulation issues, corporate governance, large scale HR ERP integration services, services for fault management call centers (with one of the largest customer bases in Africa), banking transaction auditing, message tracking of trades, settlement systems services, and more. Winston will explain how Java CAPS has been applied to address these numerous challenges by using a common services approach as well as share future plans for Java CAPS and SOA at these customers.
Bytes Technology Group, a Sun partner, is the primary implementer of Sun Java CAPS in Africa. Two of the larger implementations in the last few years have been Eskom, the largest energy utility in Africa, and Standard Bank, the largest bank in South Africa and spanning 17 African countries.
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