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The
theme of Enterprise Management for eBusiness in the
21st Century was well chosen given developments
in IT as it responds to the market. Our
plenary speakers talked of the challenges, the need
for improved systems management and for
standardization. Speakers represented the
buy-side and supply-side of the IT industry, as well
as Consortia in the Systems Management field.
The following were
amongst the most important points to emerge:
- Systems
management has moved beyond network
management which now accounted for 50% of
resources to encompass management of the
supply chain and of customers.
- System failures
for eBusinesses have high impact and far
reaching consequences including the share
value of the company if quoted on the Stock
Exchange.
- The value
proposition for systems management activity
has moved from traditional values (ROI and
cost control) to a focus on the business and
its customers.
- Systems
management functions are now distributed and
often undertaken in virtual corporations.
The challenges in the future will be related
to managing resources that are not under
ones control. There will be a need for
guaranteed levels of support in these other
systems.
- Effective
systems management for eBusiness is the key
to the future, it is critical to future
business
- Systems
Management must be built into future systems
from the start, not as an afterthought.
- Systems
management is no longer systems constrained
with the costs of hardware and software to
provide systems resilience, etc., being low
compared with the costs of skilled systems
administrators and systems management staff.
- Although there
are "islands" showing good
practice and the benefits of
standardization, there is a great deal of
work to do to accomplish full integration
and interoperability through adoption of
standards.
The second day of the
Conference provided Briefing Sessions covering the
Application Instrumentation and Control (AIC) API
Technical Standard recently published following
completion of the Fast-Track Review process of the
specification submitted by CA and J P Morgan, the Application
Resource Measurement (ARM) Standard, and Software
Licensing (XSLM). We also ran a full
session on Security and eCommerce: The Role of
Common Data Security Architecture (CDSA) and PKI,
and a special session on eSpeak.
The Plenary Sessions
concluded with an update with recent developments
featuring our work on XML, Directory and Wireless
and Mobile Computing.
Summaries, slides and
other materials are available in our Post Meeting
Documentation (available to Members)
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| Sponsorship: |
We
were pleased to have BMC Software and Tivoli as
joint sponsors of our Conference. |
Our
Speakers:
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The
contribution from plenary speakers was highly
valued.
| The
User Perspective |
| Dawn
Hartley |
Chief
Technology Officer |
Defense
Information Systems Agency (DISA) |
| Mike
Reilly |
Chief
Technical Officer |
J
P Morgan & Company, Incorporated |
| Dror
Segal |
Senior
Technical Director |
Securities
Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC) |
| Jim
Turner |
Director
of Marketing |
Enterprise
Management Business Unit, Cisco Systems
Incorporated |
| From
the Supply-side |
| Bob
Beauchamp |
Senior
Vice President, Product Management and
Development, |
BMC
Software Incorporated, |
| Jan-Maarten
van Dongen |
Service
Management & Integration Architect,
OpenView Software Business Unit |
Hewlett-Packard
Company |
| Sam
Greenblatt |
Senior
Vice President, Advanced Technology |
Computer
Associates International, Incorporated, |
| Mr
Kimio Miyazawa |
Division
Head of Management Software Business
Unit |
Fujitsu
Limited |
| Bob
Yellin |
Senior
Vice President |
Tivoli
Systems Incorporated |
| Consortia
Viewpoint |
| Ray
Williams |
Vice
President of Technology |
Distributed
Management Task Force, Incorporated (DMTF) |
| Allen
Brown |
President
and CEO |
The
Open Group |
External contributors
to other sessions through the week are too numerous
to mention here (please see the individual reports).
We extend thanks to all our speakers who gave such a
breadth of information and insights in our Plenary,
Briefing, and other Sessions.
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| Location: |
We
welcomed a large number of members and visitors to
San Diego for our Conference. All sessions
were well attended and the interaction between
suppliers and buyers was as high as ever! |
New
Members: |
We
welcomed sixteen new members from Japan, Europe
and the United States:
| Program/Organization |
Country |
| Systems
Management: |
| Technology
Deployment |
United
States |
| Hermes
Softlabs |
Slovenia |
| Indigo
Security Software |
United
States |
| Computer
Direct |
United
States |
| Database
Interoperability: |
| Microsoft |
United
States |
| Directory: |
| Netscape |
United
States |
| Architecture: |
| Police
Information Technology Organization |
United
Kingdom |
| Security: |
| Certified
Time.com |
United
States |
| Adario |
United
States |
| SAGA
Software |
United
States |
| Indigo
Security Software |
United
States |
| Institua
de Soldadura e Qualidado |
Portugal |
| Police
Information Technology Organisation |
United
Kingdom |
| Det
Norske Veritas of Norway |
Norway |
| Barclays
Bank |
United
Kingdom |
| Galosis
Connections |
United
Kingdom |
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| Collaboration: |
We
were pleased to welcome representatives of various
consortia and other bodies. This included the
Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), The PKI
Forum (managed by The Open Group), and the
Directory Interoperability Forum (DIF). |
| Demonstrations: |
Exposition
space featured demonstrations from Computer
Associates, Hermes SoftLab, Isocor, Starquest
Software Inc., and Ubizen.
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| Forums: |
The
Customer and Supplier Forums met for the second
time. Each
forum broke into discussion groups to identify areas
of future activity. |
| Wireless
LAN: |
A
first at this Conference, we experimented with a
Wireless LAN enabling attendees to link with one
another and to the Internet to share information and
reach The Open Group web site for Conference
Documentation. Feedback was very
positive. Our thanks to RadioLAN
Inc. for their support |
Projects
and
Program
Groups: |
Architecture
Program Group:
There
was significant endorsement of the Group's work in
this field in the form of a presentation by
representatives of the U.S. Navy outlining the
Navy's needs in the architecture tools space and the
relevance of the ADML work to providing integrated
tools.
The Group initiated
an important dialogue with the UML (Unified Modeling
Language) community. An in-depth presentation from
Sridhar Iyengar of Unisys on UML and the XML-based
interchange language XMI was followed by a lengthy
discussion on the relative merits of UML/XMI and
ADML for describing architecture building blocks.
The group agreed to provide Sridhar with the ADML
DTD, and a UML representation of ACME, and he in
turn undertook to investigate the feasibility of
rendering the ADML / ACME architecture primitives in
UML.
The Group received a
very informative presentation from Kevin Smathers of
Hewlett-Packard on HP's E-speak facility, and the
implications of integrating E-services into an
overall enterprise architecture. There was agreement
to investigate further the relevance of E-speak to
the Building Blocks Information Base.
Directory Program Group:
With definition of the LDAP 2000 Server Brand
complete and launch expected in the Spring, the
Program Group moved forward on the associated
"Works With LDAP" application
certification scheme, agreeing a general framework
for the scheme and discussing approaches to making
it specific to LDAP
The Program Group will analyze requirements for
specific applications in order to develop functional
Directory profiles for the Directory-Enabled
Enterprise
Enterprise Management Program Group:
The Management Program group made a first
contact with the work of service management in a
presentation from the secretary of the ITSMF (IT
Service Management Forum). This will be followed up
at the April Conference.
The group evaluated it's current program in
the areas of application management and
manageability and agreed to commit additional
resources to emphasis the priority of these
areas. These areas of management appear to be
key objectives of both the supply and user sides
today particularly with the advent of the WEB based
application.
The Group continued its work on AIC, ARM and XSML,
and it has initiated a manageability initiative to
provide standard open instrumentation interfaces,
and service definitions for components.
Security and eCommerce Program Group:
The Security and eCommerce group had a very
successful meeting, with an agreement to review
several current standards to bring them up to date.
The group also completed its work on the
Authorization API with the publication of the
Technical Standard.
New work programs will be started over the next
two meetings to meet the demands of mobile commerce
and the use of PKIs.
Summaries, slides and other materials are
available in our Post Meeting Documentation
(available to Members) |
Next
Conference: |
We
invite you to join us at our next Conference in
London, UK from April 10 2000. The plenary
theme will be "Mobile
Commerce 2000". |
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