Full Agenda

TRACKS

Healthcare/Public Sector

Supply Chain

1.00pm - 2.15pm

Health Information Networks - the Health Connect Engine
Werner Van Huffel, Health and Human Services Industry Strategist, Microsoft APAC

Many countries around the world are tackling the issues of providing better care, more cost effective services and catering for the ever expanding requirements and information that care provision demands of their people and infrastructure. The effective use of Technology has been seen as a way in which assistance can be provided to the environment to address the issues of delivering healthcare within the inherited constraints. A major part of this technological ability lies within the features inherent within the software that drives the technology. Health Information Networks are the technological presentation of the management, interoperability and integration of healthcare data between various systems, people and policy interactions - a drive to deliver knowledge through the healthcare information infrastructure. The Microsoft vision for healthcare information technology, Knowledge Driven Health, is driven through the use of the Connected Health Framework - a vendor agnostic set of Architecture, Blueprint and Design documents. This session will focus on this.

The World is Flat: Using Technology to achieve and maintain supply chain advantage in the global marketplace
Steven Martin, Director, Connected Systems Division, Microsoft Corporation

As the face of the global economy continues to change, companies are under increasing pressure to leverage federated supply chains - both within their organizations and across the globe. And the rate of change makes agility a distinct competitive advantage. BizTalk Server and BizTalk Services can help you not only connect supply chain management systems within federated operating environments - driving real time visibility and operating efficiencies - but also achieve a degree of business agility that can keep you ahead of your competition. We'll discuss how both Microsoft and our customers are using technology to streamline operations, manage federated environments, and drive business results.

SWIFTNet Funds & Payments using the BizTalk SWIFT Accelerator
James Bibby Business Manager, Sales Services S.W.I.F.T. Services Australia Pty Ltd.

This session demonstrates the BizTalk SWIFT Accelerator to provide the most comprehensive, reliable and secure delivery of financial messaging for customers in banking, capital markets, payments and corporate finance.

2.15pm - 3.25pm

Shared Services between Government agencies using BizTalk
Christine Axton, Solutions Architect, Public Sector, Microsoft Australia

Federal and State governments are all working towards improving outcomes, value and efficiency to their customers through the implementation of shared services. Super clusters and consolidation all have a heavy requirement to provide process integration. This session explains how the Microsoft process platform, BizTalk being the central component - enables government to achieve this process transformation.

Orchestrating the real-time enterprise from plant to business with BizTalk RFID
Anush Kumar, Snr Product Manager, BizTalk RFID, Microsoft Corporation (30 mins)
Phill Kenny, Managing Director, Bryn Systems (30mins)

Ready to unleash the potential of RFID information and enable a new class of solutions that leverage the power of physical world data to drive real time competitive advantage? In the upcoming release of BizTalk Server R2 Microsoft is shipping an innovative device management and event processing platform at the edge of the enterprise, designed to provide a scalable, extensible platform for development, deployment, and management of rich RFID and sensor solutions. Core components include a device abstraction framework and robust set of tools that enable customers and partners to build .NET based RFID and sensor applications, enabling businesses to drive efficiencies in real time via native integration of RFID data with the BPM capabilities of BizTalk Server. Hear from local partner, Bryn Systems, regarding implementations of R2 at Boeing and Chep.

Integration-centric implementation of BPM in Financial Services
Craig van Zeyl, CEO and Founder, Dataract Pty Ltd

With the inclusion of BizTalk in the Microsoft BPM stack it is now possible to integrate all facets of enterprise process management. The Microsoft BPM stack is the only stack that effectively integrates system to system, system to human and human to human business processes. Add to that the document management capabilities of the Microsoft stack which are key to incorporating unstructured documents, messages and images into your BPM initiative and we now have the world's most comprehensive BPM platform.

3.25pm - 3.55pm

Break

3.55pm - 5.10pm

The Microsoft Customer Care Framework - an integrated customer service desktop powered by BizTalk
Lawrence Crumpton
Regional Specialist, Microsoft Customer Care Framework

The Microsoft Customer Care Framework (CCF) provides a single view of the numerous processes, applications, and systems that agents and self-service channels are required to access in order to resolve customer issues and offer increased customer satisfaction. This session will walk you through a variety of scenarios on how CCF can "Aggregate, Automate, and Accelerate" your plans to streamline your customer care operations and add value to your business.

Managing high volume transactions using B2B in the manufacturing and retail sectors
Ian Lister, General Manager, GXS Australia; Miguel Herrera, Web & E-Commerce Technical Lead, Visy (30mins)

In our increasingly federated world, businesses rely on partners and supply chains for their daily operations. BizTalk Server 2006 R2 provides a very cost effective and powerful B2B integration platform allowing enterprises to automate electronic transactions with their trading partners. See the GXS Trading Grid for Microsoft BizTalk in action with local customers such as Visy.

ASB - One Step Ahead with BizTalk Server R2
Robert Maher - Strategy and Architecture; Chris Robb - Practice Manager, ASB Bank, NZ

ASB has a long history of innovation. As one of New Zealand's leading financial services providers ASB was selected by the Government to provide a default scheme for the new retirement savings initiative - KiwiSaver. The KiwiSaver project involves real time B2B integration with the government using the AS2 messaging protocol. This session will explain how ASB utilised nearly every new feature in BizTalk R2 to develop the KiwiSaver platform.

Keeping the Lights On: Managing mission critical processes in Australia's National Electricity Market using Microsoft BizTalk Server
Tony Barnes, Managing Director, Utilisoft (30 mins)

The de-regulation of global energy markets has given consumers and businesses freedom to choose who supplies their electricity and gas and has led to radical reform of energy markets. Innovative new products and services are being now being delivered by energy retailers including Green and Renewable Energy products, driven by customer demand. Technological innovations such as Smart Metering, environmental concerns about global warming and carbon trading programmes continue to drive further substantial change in this industry as an unprecedented rate. Utilisoft has developed a market-leading software application in Microsoft BizTalk Server which manages the complex and highly regulated B2B data flow interactions between retailers, networks and meter data collectors which are mandatory for participation in Australia's giant National Electricity Market. Utilisoft will discuss how they deliver high-volume, mission critical information systems which manage key energy market processes and underpin market participation.

5.10pm - 6.10pm

Launch Reception Drinks