The Open Group Rome 2010
April 26-30, 2010, Rome, Italy
Objective of Meeting
This conference addressed some of the key issues in IT today.
Architecture:
To better understand the future role
of enterprise architecture as it is more closely aligned with
business decision-making at a ‘board room’ level
To outline practical initiatives based on real-life experiences
from leading industry professionals
To help you to understand tomorrow's best practices and policies
To reveal the role of TOGAF™ in delivering operational
efficiencies and real business benefits
Security:
How to architect secure enterprise business solutions and how to
verify whether they are truly effective
How to ensure the best return on investment in the provision of
information security
To reveal mature and proven solutions in delivering dependable
cost-effective information security
Focus on security in the Cloud
Cloud Computing:
To shed light on requirements, challenges, security, use-cases,
and opportunities for the deployment of Cloud Computing
To show how the outsourcing of infrastructure to the Cloud enables
timely innovation in business
How to utilize Cloud Computing to make it easier to optimize
resources on-the-fly in order to meet operational demands
Summary
Each day of the three-day conference included a mix of plenary
presentations, with industry leaders from near and far sharing their
insights on the day’s theme; and a set of parallel tracks examining
specific areas in depth. The various tracks delivered presentations by
enterprise architecture professionals from both vendor and customer
organizations; and provided experience-based insight into the approaches
and methods that have proved most effective for developing architectures
around the world.
The presentations can be accessed from the links below under separate
daily headings:
EA Education and Research in Higher Education Brian Cameron, Professor of Practice and Director of the EA
Initiative, College of Information Sciences & Technology,
Pennsylvania State University
OPEN "Birds of a Feather" SESSION: Professionalizing
the Discipline of EA Hosted by Len Fehskens, VP Skills & Capabilities, The Open
Group
Adaptive Cloud Engineering an SOA-Based Approach to Effectively
Developing Real-World Cloud Solutions Tony Shan, Principal Enterprise Architect, Keane, Inc. (US)
The presentations, tutorials, and workshops at the meeting, and the
associated discussions and panel sessions, all provided participants
with a wealth of experience-based insight into current best practice in
architecture, security, and cloud computing, from leading experts and practitioners around
the world.
