"BI,
BPM & SOA – Which is one up, What is emerging, and How does one
execute?"
IDC’s Asia/Pacific Business Optimization: BI, BPM & SOA Conference
2007 Conference
September 11, 2007
JW Marriott Hong Kong, Hong Kong
September 21
Intercontinental Hotel, Mumbai, India
BI, BPM & SOA –
Which is one up, What is emerging, and How does one execute?
Today's fast pace industry is causing companies to
evolve into business optimization entities. The survival
of the fittest is being played out in a different arena,
with business optimization being one of the main themes.
For many years, business services and IT infrastructures
have continued along different and difficult roads of
progress, resulting in a huge gap in how these assets
can be collectively optimized and synergized for the
business. The disintegrated nature of IT assets alongside
segmented workflow and business processes form the barriers
that are blocking progress.
What role does SOA play
in improving business processes?
In recent years, service oriented architecture (SOA)
software and platforms look set to deliver on promises
of "refreshing" IT infrastructures, with reduced
effort in integration and system interfacing, as well
as an overall aim of improving business process visibility
and control. Business processes that are hard to stitch
together in the past are re-engineered with agility
and flexibility to help cope with rapid changing business
requirements.
In short, SOA has evolved into the business process
management (BPM) area and is helping to reform enterprise
software with a newfound flexibility for change. BPM
is the convergence of a number of existing technologies
and approaches. Its primary roots are in the process
management capabilities of workflow tools but it also
includes capabilities that derive from document management,
process modelling, analytics, rules management, collaboration
applications and application integration. It brings
together all these technology elements into a single
platform that manages the lifecycle of a process starting
from business goals, definition, through deployment,
execution, measurement, change and re-deployment.
What do enterprises want?
What offerings are considered "winners"?
It is pertinent and important for all IT infrastructure
architects and CIOs to have a firm understanding of
the roles SOA and BPM play, and how their business can
be optimized in all areas from application services,
networks, data, down to the channels and devices. These
layers do not operate in silos but have increasing interactions
and collaborations shaping up in the near future. Demands
are high now for the winners:
To provide visibility and confidence over business
processes segmented across different geographical
boundaries and have best governance and practices
in place
To focus on compliance and satisfying legal regulations
without high costs and manual efforts
To develop the agility to roll out innovative services
faster
In addition to these management and senior executives'
requirements, other ecosystem players (customers, suppliers,
partners etc.) want to know how to control and improve
their business further.
Understanding the interplay
of SOA and BPM in your business
Together, SOA and BPM provide a perfect
fusion for enterprise computing. BPM gives a high-level
abstraction for defining business processes, as well as
the capabilities of monitoring and managing those processes.
SOA provides the capabilities for services that support
those processes to be combined together, to support and
create an agile, flexible enterprise. BPM without SOA
is useful for building applications, but difficult to
extend to the enterprise. SOA without BPM is useful for
creating reusable and consistent services, but lacks the
ability to turn those services into an agile, competitive
enterprise.
Hot topics to be discussed
At IDC's Asia/Pacific Business Optimization: BI, BPM & SOA Conference 2007, IDC and our partners will
help educate and inform a targeted audience on topics
such as:
SOA and BPM emerging standards, software and platforms.
How will the evolving network and data technologies
complement enterprise SOA strategies?
How SOA and BPM can bring out the best of business
optimization?
Market Scan: SOA and BPM readiness of stakeholders
and early adopters in key markets in Asia/Pacific
Status Check: Enterprises' current and planned adoption
of SOA and BPM in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan)
Key issues surrounding SOA and BPM: Striking the
right note to deliver value
Who should attend
Our event attracts CxO's, MDs, Directors, VPs and Senior
Managers from Information Security/Internet Security,
Business Strategy, Research & Development, Finance,
and IT & Operations. Other practicing professionals
include IT Engineers, Security Administrators, Systems
Architects/Designers, Consultants, and Project Managers.
You should attend if you are from these industries:
