As if ICT wasn’t challenged enough, the events of the
last year put more pressure on more areas in less time.
The economic crisis means that we have to be more
efficient and effective, in other words, to do more with
even less. All the while, technology marches on with
new devices and lots of hype about the cloud. And of
course, there is no shortage of vendors trying to sell us
tools as a solution to our problems. How can we put all
of these challenges into perspective to make sure that
we are getting the most value out of our tools and
technologies and providing real solutions with real
business value?
Join Enterprise Architecture experts from Cutter
Consortium as we explore the architectural approaches
to meeting these challenges. Understand what is real
and what is hype with cloud computing and BPM. Learn
about best practices with architectural tools and portfolio
management to deliver value and make a difference.
You can’t afford to miss this insightful and informative
event.
Cutter Consortium América Latina
Retorno 30 #2, Colonia Avante, C.P. 04460, Delegación Coyoacán, México D.F. Teléfonos (55) 53360418
www.cutter.com.mx
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Four experts with
successful Stories.
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Keynotes on trends and Best
Practices and Panel
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Real Experts giving you a
practical and critical view on
Architecture.
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In-depth Architecture
Workshops
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Limited Audience so you can
interact with the Experts.
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No vendors will be there-
Our only interest is to help
you achieve your business
goals and generate value
through Enterprise
Architecture.
Enterprise Architecture
Cloud Computing
BPM
Standards and Frameworks
Portfolio Management
9:00-‐ 10:30
Keynote
Business Architecture with Mike Rosen, Director of the Business
and Enterprise Architecture PracBce
10:30-‐ 11:00 Break
11:00-‐12:30
Keynote
The Adolescence of Cloud CompuBng – Growth and Standards by
Claude Baudoin CuMer, Senior Consultant
12:30-‐ 13:00 Break
13:00-‐ 14:30 Panel Discussion Mike Rosen , Gustavo de la Cruz, Alejandro Pisanty y Jesús
Reynaga
14:30-‐ 16:00 Lunch
16:00-‐17:30
Keynote
Making the most of BPM
Mike Rosen, Director of the Business and Enterprise Architecture
PracBce
MARCH 7
MARCH 8
Room A
Full Day Workshop
2 Half Day Workshops
Room B
8:30-‐ 12:30
EA and Por[olio Management
Mike Rosen and Bob Benson
Cloud CompuBng: Hype, Fear, Reality and
PragmaBcs with Claude Baudoin
12:30-‐13:00
BREAK
BREAK
13:00-‐ 14:00
EA and Por[olio Management
Mike Rosen and Bob Benson
Cloud CompuBng: Hype, Fear, Reality
and PragmaBcs with Claude Baudoin
14:00-‐ 15:30
LUNCH
LUNCH
15:30-‐ 18:00
EA and Por[olio Management
The Adolescence of Cloud Computing –
Growth and Standards
Like a teenager (and if we date it to the creation of SalesForce.com, it is now 13 years old), Cloud Computing is evolving rapidly, and we need to talk about it this year a bit differently than we did last year.
The technology itself is not changing much. What is changing the most is the awareness of the risks and opportunities among potential users, and their willingness to address them in a thoughtful, balanced manner. The signal/noise ratio is increasing, with real information slowly overcoming the hype and the paranoia that prevailed earlier.
In this presentation, Claude Baudoin will first remind you of the key characteristics of cloud computing, its extent, the main offerings on the market, and the pros and cons of the model. Then, he will present some case studies that have been documented recently. He will discuss the work of the Cloud Standards Customer Council, and in particular its Practical Guide to Cloud Computing, published in October 2011. He will conclude with a forecast of where cloud computing is going in the next few years.
Success Strategies for Standards and Frameworks
with Terry Merriman
Keynotes & Panel
If architecture is about creating standards for your organization, then it follows that architects and architecture practices should also follow standards. As Tanenbaum once said, “The best thing about standards is there are so many to choose from”. And, choosing the right standard is just the beginning because the standards must be applied to your organization’s environment. To do this, you want a tool that supports the standard in a flexible manner and allows you to incorporate your modifications. Finally, no standard will cover all of your needs. You may need one standard for Enterprise Architecture, another for Enterprise Risk Management, and yet another for Business Process Modeling. Somehow, you need to bring all of these together into a framework that supports the development teams and conforms to your standards.
This keynote will show how key concepts from Enterprise Architecture, namely • architectural views (business, information, application, and infrastructure), • architectural services,
• business process realizations, and • future state planning
and concepts from Enterprise Risk Management, • objectives,
Getting started, implementing, and sustaining an EA effort is difficult at best. Delivering demonstrable value is even harder. This panel discussion will feature EA leaders at different stages of the EA journey who will share their experiences with the summit. Delegates will get the chance to ask questions and benefit from the successes, failures, and insights of real life architecture practices and learn how to apply these lessons to their own organization.
Delegates will share EA trials, tribulations and successes with EA leaders in their own industries and geographies, including:
• Tips for getting started with EA • Strategies for organizing EA teams
• Exploiting opportunities and avoiding pitfalls
Panel: Real Life Architecture Experiences
Business Process Management (BPM) provides a proven method for analysis and design of business processes that can improve the alignment of the business with IT systems. But while the potential is there, it is just as easy to create bad processes as good ones, so what it is that makes the difference? Of equal importance, the ‘M’ of BPM, ‘Management’ allows processes to be measured and monitored for performance, analyzed and reported on, and enables continual improvements at both the process and organizational level.
This keynote will introduce the basic concepts of BPM from both a business and IT perspective and look at best practices in BPM design and implementation. In addition, it will explore how to measure not only the technical aspects of a business process, but also its business impact. Finally, the keynote examines the link between BPM and related enterprise concerns of business, information, applications and technology, so delegates will understand how to apply BPM to help their organization improve productivity and performance. Like any other tool, BPM is only an enabler to better business. This keynote will discuss best practices in making the most of your BPM investment, including:
* Best practices for BPM adoption and design * BPM in the perspective of overall enterprise IT
* Optimizing Business Process performance and impact
Making the Most of BPM
with Mike Rosen
In-depth Architecture Workshops
Every enterprise is faced with the challenge of selecting projects to fit within their allocated IT budget.
But far too often, choices are made because of politics, popularity, or hunches instead of real
information. Few organizations have a method that actually improves business IT alignment and
optimizes their IT spend. And, ultimately, we must be able to answer the question of how we define
alignment, how we determine if something is in alignment, and aligned to what?
This workshop teams the proven portfolio management practices of Cutter Fellow Bob Benson with the
proven EA techniques of Cutter Practice Director Mike Rosen. Together, they will show you how to use
architecture to create an objective definition of both the business and IT and how to judge alignment
against it. Given this target, they will present a project assessment and portfolio management
framework that identifies and weeds out unnecessary spending so that it can be focused on projects
that will deliver the most business impact.
The workshop will be a mix of presentation and exercise that give participants the opportunities to
create targets, assess projects, and make portfolio tradeoffs.
Participants in this workshop will learn how Enterprise Architecture and Portfolio Management can be
used together to optimize IT results, including:
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Formalizing strategies in Target Architecture models
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Identifying measurable objectives for IT projects
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Assessing projects against business and IT strategies
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Project assessment and governance process
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Assessment criteria for your organization
Architecture and Portfolio
Management
During the last decade, CIOs and business managers have realized several things:
* Internal IT resources might be insufficient 10% of the time, and woefully underused for the remaining 90%.
* When an unexpected increase in capacity is needed, it takes time to obtain the additional equipment or software — and if the increase is temporary, the cost may be excessive.
* Common business processes, such as customer relationship management, are so similar across companies that it makes little sense to follow a complex selection process. These systems are essentially commodities; as long as the basic quality is there, you’ll probably buy the cheapest.
* With fast Internet connections and the more interactive capabilities added to the Web in recent years, such as AJAX and Dynamic HTML, accessing a remote resource through the Web has become as fast and comfortable as using an on-premise capability.
This awareness led to the concepts of utility computing (reducing the provisioning time and paying according to use) and grid computing (exploiting idle resources by mutualizing them). These were hyped up by research analysts and vendors, sputtered, seemed to stall, and then essentially morphed and merged into what we know today as cloud computing.
Depending on whom you listen to, cloud computing is either the greatest thing since sliced bread, it’s what the vendor has always been doing anyway, or it’s an unprecedented threat to the integrity of your operations. Making sourcing decisions based on these messages is not only difficult, it is dangerous. Instead, we propose to look past the irrational messages and try to restore some balance to the discussion. In doing so, we make the following assertions:
Cloud computing follows a model of service delivery and consumption that is less new than you may think. The cloud approach can be applied to more forms of IT than the obvious ones, potentially yielding unexpected simplifications and cost savings.
While there are security issues, they are less prohibitive than the detractors of the model would like you to believe.
To fully take advantage of the new model, you may need to change more aspects of your business than you think.
While these assertions may be reasonably general, the adoption of cloud computing in a given organization must be highly customized. It depends on the organization’s needs, its culture, its regulatory environment, and other factors.
Cloud Computing: Hype, Fear, Reality
and Pragmatics
In-depth Architecture Workshops
Workshop: Tracking Strategy and Alignment
with EA Terry Merriman
For many organizations, Enterprise Architecture is not much more than a black box crammed full of different things of interest to a wide range of stakeholders. The view into the box is often obscured by the lack of tools that can manage all of the information. Consequently, the view is usually composed of “one-off” presentations that are almost immediately out of date. Best practices describe how a repository based toolset be used to organize and relate the information needed to support business and architectural evolution and alignment.
This workshop will explore a framework that can be customized according to the needs of your enterprise and the standards it wishes to follow. It will show you how to think about and organize the information within your enterprise architecture and how to incorporate other standards into the framework.
The workshop will illustrate the process using Enterprise Risk Management as an example. Starting with one of your business strategies, participants in the workshop will identify associated risks and controls to address them. The workshop will highlight the industry and architecture standards available to capture these results and illustrate the benefits of using an architecture tool to show the alignment across the different areas of the architecture.
Participants in this workshop will learn how to organize the different areas of Enterprise Architecture to optimize the information needed for strategic planning. They will learn how to track the various slices of the “black box” Horizontal slices comprising the architectural views
Vertical slices showing all of the architectural requirements of the business processes and the artifacts realizing the requirements
Temporal slices showing the current and future states of the business process realizations
He has worked in IT development for 30 years as a developer, designer, development manager, and architect. He has consulted with Fortune 500 companies in the insurance, finance, automobile distribution, and pharmaceutical sectors, leading crucial production projects and setting strategic architectural direction.
Mr. Merriman is President of OAD Consulting, Inc., which, for the last eight years, has concentrated on helping Fortune 500 companies define their approach to enterprise architecture. He has developed frameworks that extend the capabilities of UML modeling tools to provide guidance to design teams, ensure consistency across their models, and make conforming to architectural principles easier than not doing so.
Bob Benson
is a Fellow with Cutter Consortium's
Business Technology
Strategies
and
Government & Public Sector
practices
He is also a Principal with The Beta Group. Mr. Benson applies more than 40 years of academic and corporate experience to assist companies and government agencies in understanding the business value of IT, strategic and financial IT management, strategic IT planning, effective IT application development, and IT governance. He has written more than 100 Cutter Consortium E-Mail Advisors on business technology strategy and IT governance as well as additional Executive Reports, Updates, and Cutter journals. Mr. Benson has consulted for and conducted workshops with Cutter clients in the US, Mexico, and Poland.
Mr. Benson has been instrumental in the development of portfolio management methods and strategic and financial management methodologies based on Information Economics used by companies and consulting organizations around the world. He has conducted executive seminars and management courses on these subjects and has consulted with over 100 companies and organizations in 20 countries.
For 40 years, Mr. Benson taught computer science and information management at Washington University in St. Louis (USA), where he also served as Associate Vice Chancellor for Computing and Communications, Dean, CIO, and in various financial executive positions. He has also taught information management at Tilburg University (the Netherlands) for 20 years and is a member of its faculty. Mr. Benson has appeared in numerous keynote speaking opportunities at executive conferences, including Cutter's Summits in the US and Mexico, Gartner Symposium/Expo events, Information Management Forum CIO, Enterprise Architecture Conference, IQPC-sponsored Summits, and others. He is coauthor of several books and numerous articles and monographs, including From Business Strategy to IT Action: Right Decisions for a Better Bottom Line, Information Economics: Linking Information Technology and Business Performance and Information Strategy and Economics: Linking Information Systems Strategy to Business Performance. Mr. Benson holds a bachelor of science degree in engineering science and a law degree, both from Washington University.
He is an accomplished architect and technical leader with extensive experience in enterprise architecture (EA), service-oriented architecture (SOA), business architecture, product strategy and development, software architecture, consulting and mentoring, distributed technologies, and industry standards.
Mr. Rosen specializes in architecture and IT strategy for Global 1000 clients in finance, insurance, government, and telecommunications. Throughout his career, he has been a frequent technical trainer, speaker, and writer on such topics as EA, application integration with SOA, Model Driven Architecture (MDA), and Enterprise 2.0 and collaboration architecture. In addition to his position as Cutter's EA Practice Director, Mr. Rosen is Chief Scientist with Wilton Consulting Group. He previously served as CTO of Azora Technologies, a startup focused on SOA analysis, design tools, and reference architecture; CTO of M2VP, Inc., a consultancy for IT architecture, where he developed the company's practice area using MDA; Chief Enterprise Architect at IONA Technologies, PLC, where he engaged in the development of the overall product architecture for its next-generation Web services platform and in the creation of the reference architecture for building applications on that platform. Prior to IONA, Mr. Rosen was Chief Enterprise Architect at Genesis Development, where he provided architecture consulting on large-scale applications and infrastructure. Before joining Genesis, he was a product architect, technical leader, and developer for numerous Web services, Java, CORBA, COM, messaging, transaction processing, DCE, networking, and operating system products for several vendors, including BEA and Digital.
Mr. Rosen has authored dozens of articles and reports and is coauthor of Applied SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture and Design Strategies; Developing E-Business Systems and Architectures: A Manager's Guide; and Integrating CORBA and COM Applications. He is a founding member of the Business Architect's Guild and is active in industry standards with the OMG.
Michael Rosen
is Director of Cutter Consortium's
Business & Enterprise Architecture
practice and Senior Consultant with its
Business Technology Strategies
practice
Claude Baudoin
is a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's
Business Technology Strategies
and
Data Integration, BI &
Collaboration
practices.
He is a proven leader and visionary in IT and knowledge management (KM) with extensive experience working in a global environment. Mr. Baudoin has 35 years' experience and is passionate about quality, knowledge sharing, and providing honest and complete advice.
Prior to becoming an independent consultant, Mr. Baudoin was employed by Schlumberger, an oilfield services company, in various positions, including serving as IT and KM Advisor. In this role, he established a fruitful relationship with the MIT Media Lab; led an SOA strategy; developed an IT maturity model for the CIO's staff; created an internal wiki of 12,000 articles; managed efforts to apply social networking concepts in the enterprise; wrote a key study on global shared service centers for the executive staff; and began an evaluation of cloud computing opportunities for the organization. Prior to this role, Mr. Baudoin served as Technology Practice Director at Schlumberger. In this capacity, he developed a catalog of technical consulting offerings, defined a methodology for business process analysis and reengineering (before BPM was popular), and created the patented Security Maturity Assessment method for security consulting at the enterprise level.Mr. Baudoin holds an MS in computer science from Stanford University and an undergraduate degree in engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris).
