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 key to successful IT rationalization is identifying and eliminating aspects of your business platform that increase complexity and cost. With Service-Oriented Abstraction (abstracting business objects, business rules, business processes and infrastructure), organizations can achieve agility and be empowered for future growth. This keynote will also discuss real-world experiences from organizations that have leveraged this approach to rationalize and consolidate their IT portfolios.

• Information Management
  
  Presenter: Robert Stackowiak - Vice President, EPM & Data Warehousing, Enterprise Solutions Group, Oracle Corp.
  
  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 - Security Solution Architect, Enterprise Solutions Group, Oracle Corp.
  
  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: Roddy Rodstein - Linux and VM Consultant, Oracle Corp.
  
  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.
  
  
• Application Portfolio Management
  
  Presenter: Roy Hunter - Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Solutions Group, Oracle Corp.
  
  Application Portfolio Management (APM) is a best practice whereby organizations proactively manage their applications portfolios and the surrounding technology based on business value and the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). APM can help organizations shift the balance of their IT budgets from being maintenance dominated to being investment and innovation centric. The benefits of APM can range into the hundreds of millions of dollars and can enable IT to successfully support some of their organizations most challenging business objectives. This session will cover: An overview of APM, APM rollout strategies and their respective pros and cons, APM case studies, benefit realization timeframes, and strategies for getting started with APM in your organization.

• Getting Started with Application Grid: The Next Generation Middleware Infrastructure
  
  Presenter: Ajay Patel - Vice President, Product Management, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Corp.
  
  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.
  
  
• The Cloud Concierge
  
  Presenter: Ralf Dossman - Director SOA/Integration, Enterprise Solutions Group, Oracle Corp.
  
  Just as a concierge offers centralized, trusted services to clients, Cloud Computing is quickly emerging as a solution for IT organizations to provide agile and cost-effective services to their internal and external customers. Having instant access to a wide array of applications, services, data, and content that can increase your company's agility — what's not to love? But are those benefits solid, or just vapor? This session will discuss the various aspects of Cloud Computing — with particular focus on private environments. It will use Oracle's Application Grid product portfolio as an example for creating a middleware shared-services environment (Enterprise Private Cloud) to reduce IT complexity, deliver improved service levels and drive down operational cost.