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Extending the value of existing IT systems investments

Karsten Alva-Jorgensen
Accenture

This opening session sets the scene from a business level exploring the options available to organisations wishing to benefit from their existing IT systems and take advantage of new opportunities presented by the latest IT advances.

The technology landscape - is it all new?
Tom Welsh
The Cutter Consortium
(http://www.cutter.com)

Tom Welsh is a senior consultant with Cutter Consortium, he is the editor of "Web Services Strategies" and author of in-depth reports on CORBA, Model Driven Architecture and Web Services. As an independent software consultant specialising in software engineering, component technology and middleware his articles often appear in MiddlewareSpectra and other periodicals, and he is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars.

Service Oriented Integration (SOI)
- getting on with the practicalities
Ron Grevink
WRQ

Ron takes a very pragmatic view of the latest technological thinking to enable businesses to maximise the use of the existing IT investment by extending the useful life of existing host and legacy systems (already successfully supporting the business) and take advantage of the new opportunities created by advances in IT.

FACILITATED EXPERT DEBATE
- Open question and answers from the floor
Facilitated by the authors of Conspectus - PMP (UK) Ltd

Questions will be encouraged from the floor to ensure that all attendees get direct answers to the most pressing questions affecting their businesses.