OTN Architect Day - By Architects, For Architects

Many organizations are using the economic downturn as an opportunity to rationalize IT portfolios, reduce cost and complexity, and set the foundation for future growth. IT Rationalization requires a holistic approach to the business platform (Business Processes, Applications & Data, Infrastructure Platform, Service Management). This keynote will detail the different strategies for IT Rationalization.

The evolution of your existing IT assets can involve moving off of a legacy platform, replacing a system, or leveraging business rules and assets in order to re-architect an altogether new environment. In this guest keynote address, Oracle ACE Jordan Braunstein will discuss how to enable legacy assets and information through SOA, Consolidation, Rationalization, Modernization, and Portfolio Management.

• Information Management
  
  Presenter: Joe Rayman
  
  Too many organizations struggle to find the best approach to providing information to business users in a timely and accurate manner. Satisfying a diverse range of information needs—from traditional reporting to high-end analytics—requires a strategy for assembling information from sources like ERP, CRM, packaged solutions, custom applications, and syndicated data. Best-in-class organizations are discovering techniques to provide information to the enterprise that enable transparency and ease of access while providing a single version of the truth. This session will discuss information management strategies that can meet the need for dynamic information.
  
  
• End-to-End Enterprise Security: From Access to Audit
  
  Presenter: Paul Andres
  
  Businesses are being forced to evolve rapidly in the face of a changing global economy and fluctuating market conditions. In this environment, what is the most effective way to manage risk? What changes will new regulations introduce? How can IT do more with less, while still maintaining adequate levels of security? This session will address these topics and more and illustrate how Oracle can help you meet the challenges of Identity and Access Management; Information Security and Data Privacy; and Governance, Risk, and Compliance.

• Infrastructure Consolidation and Virtualization
  
  Presenter: Mans Bhuller
  
  Everyone wants to save money. Budgets are under cost pressure and CIOs are being asked to improve the efficiency of IT infrastructure. There are many layers of virtualization and consolidation that can benefit an organization, from data to SaaS. Oracle increased its own internal applications utilization through consolidation and virtualization. This session will focus on architecting solutions that are the underpinnings of the next major wave of computing. Be ready to discuss your own architectural ideas in a peer group format.
  
  
• Business Process Optimization with Enterprise SOA and AIA
  
  Presenter: Michael Cincinatus
  
  IT leaders may understand the value of SOA in theory, but in practice few IT organizations have been able to build a successful enterprise SOA. The SOA challenges IT faces tend to be organizational in nature. It's difficult to get the business to see the value of and fund an enterprise SOA. And it's equally as difficult to build consensus on SOA standards and policies across large organizations. Successful organizations are turning to business process optimization and application integration projects to bridge the IT/ Business gap. This session will outline how SOA technology and Oracle's Application Integration Architecture (AIA) can be used to implement such projects, mitigate project risks, and address organizational challenges in building an enterprise SOA.

• Getting Started with Application Grid: The Next Generation Middleware Infrastructure
  
  Presenter: Ajay Patel
  
  Application Grid is an architectural approach and set of practices related to building a dynamic, high performance, continuously available and scalable application infrastructure using the latest innovations in grid computing, application server, and JVM technology. Application Grid offers the promise to meet the dual and competing priorities of reducing IT costs while continuing to deliver "five 9s" availability and guaranteed response times under heavy, unpredictable work loads. This session will cover the use of Application Grid to create a middleware shared-services environment (Enterprise Private Cloud) to reduce IT complexity, deliver improved service levels and drive down operational cost.
  
  
• Building Content Enabled Business Processes
  
  Presenter: Rick Reuter
  
  Organizations continue to struggle with the management of unstructured information, which represents the majority of information collected for key business decisions and processes. Often these documents exist in application silos, departmental solutions, email, or shared file systems, and are not part of an integrated content management infrastructure for process automation. This architecture session will explore Oracle's Content Management integrations with Oracle Applications and Fusion Middleware, specifically BPEL Process Manager for automating paper or document centric processes.