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| Download the presentations from the 2005 Microsoft Asia-Pacific Regional Architect Forum. | |
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| | | | Smart Client Architecture Principles | | Brenton Webster, Solutions Architect, D&PE Architecture Strategy Team, Microsoft, Redmond, USA
This session will cover a joint project recently completed between the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) and Microsoft's Architecture Strategy Team. The CommSee Architectural Proof of Concept was one step in CBA's efforts around increasing their customer service capabilities and processes - empowering employees to better serve the needs of the Bank's customers. The PoC was implemented as a Windows Forms based Smart Client consuming backend web services. On the client side it shows a rich user experience combined with a simple developer model, as well as the ability in integrate in existing UI assets into the new Windows Forms based User Interface. Backend Web services are secured using WS-Security standards with AD as the security credentials store. Key technologies used include the .NET Framework, Windows Server 2003 and WSE 2.0.
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| | | | Microsoft Architectural Frameworks | | Gurpreet S. Pall, Snr. Director, D&PE Architecture Strategy, Microsoft Corporation
Every architect oversees a unique ecosystem of connected systems which only they can connect in a valuable way. The Microsoft Architectural Framework builds a common context for discussion and delivery of thought leadership, guidance, and artifacts to architects. The framework is built upon the familiar Business, Application, Information, and Technology enterprise architecture model using it to connect the business imperatives that drive a company and the software strategies used to accomplish them.
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| | | | Mainframe Migration to Windows | | Ian Archbell, VP Product Management, Micro Focus
Micro Focus 'lift and shift' helps you unlock the enormous value in your mainframe applications:
- Transactions defining business workflow
- COBOL encapsulating business rules
- Data representing the business
- ... and re-deploy these applications to contemporary, low-cost platforms increasing business agility at low risk.
Micro Focus Enterprise Server with Mainframe Transaction Option (MTO) extends your capability to literally 'lift and shift' CICS transaction-based COBOL applications to lower cost open platforms, including Windows, UNIX and Linux.
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| | | | Case Study: Real World Web Services, Scalability and Integration | | Kevin Francis, Principal IT Architect, Infosys Australia
In this session Kevin Francis, Principal IT Architect for Infosys Australia, will provide a detailed case study of a large, highly scalable architecture built on the .NET platform which will include the following topics:
- Integration between J2EE and .NET applications using Web Services - architecture, standards and performance;
- Integration with mainframes through HIS and MQSeries;
- Version and release management for large integrated applications;
- Design, estimation and project management techniques and the role of the Architect in development;
- The use of frameworks in application development, including an in-depth analysis of the framework beneath the application; and
- Managing asynchronous communication in an integration scenario with multiple applications.
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| | | | 8 Business Drivers for Technology & Architecture decision making | | Mark Carroll, Architect Advisor, Microsoft ANZ
Avoid creating tomorrow's project and operational failures by reducing the risk of your technical and architecture decisions today. In some cases, architectural and technology decision-making is a process doomed to fail no matter how much we slave over our understanding of technical and architectural merit. Ask yourself why some of the most elegant architectures and technologies have ended up helping create disasters?
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| | | | A Year of Innovation at Intel | | Brett Hannath, Group Manager, Solutions Marketing and Alliances, Intel Corporation
The recent release or maturation of technologies across all communication and computing platforms has given rise to some truly innovative projects in Australian IT. The Intel Australia team has spent considerable time working side by side with customers as they investigate and deploy 64-bit servers, Secure WiFi and WiMax Networks, Mobile applications on Tablets and Smartphones, RFID in Supply Chain, Consolidation and Virtualisation with Bladeservers...... just to name a few! This session will present in detail a number of these customer projects, how they were run, and the results they achieved. In addition, we will highlight Intel's key future technologies released throughout 2005, which clearly point to another innovative year ahead!
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| | | | Microsoft and Interoperability | | Simon Guest, Program Manager, Architecture Strategy, Microsoft Corporation
In a recent survey of IT Managers by Jupiter Research, 72% rated Microsoft as the vendor most interoperable with their existing environments. Few people however know exactly how Microsoft's technology fits within a heterogeneous environment.
How is Microsoft interoperable with your existing infrastructure? How can you build applications that seamlessly work with IBM and BEA? How do you think about identity and management? How are future products such as Indigo going to work with others?
Come to this informational for the answer to these questions, and discover a new way of thinking about interoperability in your own environment.
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| | | | Mainframe Migration to Microsoft Windows | | Spyros Sakellariadis, Platform Strategy Advisor, Microsoft Corporation
Companies are migrating workloads off the mainframe. They've been migrating for years, but what's new is that they are migrating to the Windows platform. They are re-platforming Line of Business applications such as SAP, re-hosting custom COBOL applications, as well as simply rewriting mainframe applications to run on Windows. It is a huge decision for a company to move off the mainframe, typically requiring CEO or board approval. This presentation addresses the motivations for undertaking this effort, the questions or concerns those companies have before making the decision, and the benefits they achieved after migrating. We will cover common technical and operational topics such as agility, scalability, performance, supportability, reliability, and security, as well as business issues such as cost - TCO, price, price-performance, and the ROI of a migration. We will end with a brief summary of resources and strategies for migration from Microsoft and its partners. Come to this talk with an open mind - many people are surprised when they see how the mainframe compares to Windows! More importantly, learn how a company can be more competitive in their own market if they move from the mainframe to Windows.
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| | | | Keynote Sessions | | Usability and Software Architecture: Experience in Supporting the Mars Exploration Rover Mission
Len Bass, Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI)
While the Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity perform exploration on Mars, scientists located at Jet Propulsion Laboratory must interpret the data they are sent and decide what actions the rovers will perform on the next day. These actions must be done in real time since if the window of the Martian morning is missed, the rovers will not perform as much science as would be possible. The MERBoard is a collaborative white board developed by NASA Ames to support the scientists in their data analysis and decision making. It is critical that the MERBoard be as usable as possible to ensure that the scientists can perform data analysis and decision making efficiently. I and my colleagues have recently been exploring the relationship between usability and software architecture and we intervened with the MERBoard developers to assist them in understanding those aspects of usability that depend heavily on software architectural decisions that are difficult to change. This talk will describe our intervention and how we are analysing the data that we gathered about this intervention to determine the effectiveness of our intervention.
Modelling for Connected Systems
Gurpreet S Pall, Senior Director of Architectural Strategy, Microsoft Developer and Partner Evangelism Division
The scope and flexibility required to model, implement and operate today's business environment requires the architect of today to stretch his imagination, toolset and skills. This talk presents thoughts about directions of business, strategies to support those directions and various toolsets to manage the increasing complexity. It finally presents Microsoft products, services and initiatives in the context of the presented business directions.
Aligning Business & IT Architecture
Roger Roberts, Partner, McKinsey and Janaki Akella, Expert Associate Principal, McKinsey
Ask most organisations about their technical architecture and they will know precisely what you are looking for, but ask about their business architecture, and many people won't know what you are talking about. Business architecture is a critical component of 21st century business and there are simple and not so simple explanations for why this is the case.
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