If you have ever looked at a stock quote on the Internet, chances are you have used a system that Hans Jespersen had a hand in creating. Hans has been working with infrastructure software at TIBCO Software Inc. for 11 years, and many more at various other Silicon Valley pioneers. The systems that Hans has been designing, implementing, and evangelizing are often large scale distributed systems based on a variety of enterprise technologies.

As the Director, Integration & Web Services and a member of the Office of the CTO at TIBCO, Hans's current focus is on Enterprise Architectures and Integration, and more specifically the emergence of Web Services standards, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Event Driven Architecture (EDA). Hans received an Honors BMath in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo in Canada.

Presentation
Enabling Real-Time Business Through Service-Oriented and Event-Driven Architectures
Today businesses need to constantly adapt and reconfigure their IT assets, systems and business operations to meet changing customer demands, shrink cycle times and differentiate themselves from the competition. Enterprises need to deliver accurate and relevant information where and when it is needed and enable more predictable, higher quality business operations. To do this they need to sense, understand and respond to changes, threats and opportunities as they arise by harnessing the power of real-time events and services—also known as real-time business.

As services and events are both crucial elements of enterprise computing, SOA and EDA are essential components of how companies develop, deploy, and manage distributed applications. Furthermore, a complete infrastructure platform that meets all of the functional requirements for SOA and EDA is essential in enabling real-time business. However, most enterprises have invested in packaged, legacy, and custom applications that deliver value by performing specific business functions. Unfortunately, these systems usually rely on an extremely complex and mostly ad hoc architecture consisting of monolithic silos, point-to-point connections and hard-coded interactions between systems. This makes it impossible to achieve real-time business.

In this session, participants will learn:

1. How to address the key functional requirements of both SOA and EDA enterprise architectures in order to enable a real-time business.
2. How to quickly and easily support new business requirements through the creative use and reuse of existing assets through a service-oriented architecture.
3. How to automatically incorporate information about currently occurring events into business processes and decisions through an event-driven architecture.
4. How to deliver SOA and EDA within one unified architectural framework to achieve true business agility.

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