Nigel is recognised globally as a leading practitioner of service focused and componentised platforms applied to federated businesses and public sector agencies. His insights are based on practical experience of transportation and logistics with blue-chip companies and the conception of information services highly federated business environments such as the UK Criminal Justice organisation.

In the recent past, Nigel has specialised in event-based business process management platforms and advanced distributed intelligence solutions such as agent-based multi-channel processing platforms. He has held senior positions within end-user organisations such as Hertz, DHL, Hutchison Whampoa and within the IT services industry Computer Sciences Corporation and, since 2005, Capgemini UK.

Nigel is a member of Capgemini UK's Technology Leadership team and in this capacity, advises both Capgemini and clients globally on the business impact of technology trends.

Presentation
Externalisation - the next Principle for Information Sharing

Capgemini has been working with a number of public and private sector clients who wish to understand how to leverage SOA, Web 2.0 and Semantic Web concepts to solve tangible and immediate business problems.

This session is a series of observations and thought-provokers arising from this work. We stand back from the detail of the specific technologies and standards to examine underlying patterns and trends. Specifically, we look at the effect of 'Information Containers' on information important to business outcomes and make the case for 'Externalising' such concepts as Events, Content and Policies. We believe many organisations would benefit from starting their journey to Externalisation now, in an incremental fashion, by using readily available standards and Web-based technologies but with a view to future capabilities being developed by the Semantic Web technologists and communities.

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