When: 02/12/2009 - 09:00 till 16:30
Where: Reading, UK
What:
Executive Summary
Tough economic times bring us back to focus on improving efficiencies, cutting cost and extracting more value from existing systems. These times also present excellent opportunities to streamline information-sharing among partners, customers, employees and suppliers, as well. This event is focused on the topic of how Business Integration can help organizations realize more value from their existing IT investments and integrate and connect their business applications and data and increase business value. The event includes lots of real-world case studies and examples of how customers are using the Microsoft BizTalk platform to integrate their business.
Target Audience
This conference is aimed at CTOs, IT Directors, enterprise architects, solution architects and key technology decision makers.
Agenda
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Time
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Title
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Speaker
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09:00-10:00
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Breakfast and Registration
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10:00-10:15
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Welcome and Introduction the Microsoft Business Integration Vision
This session will provide a perspective on the current state of the Integration market including current and future trends in this domain.
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Morris Novello – Microsoft BizTalk Server UK Product Manager
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10:15-11:00
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Opening Keynote: The Microsoft Application Platform: Connecting business applications, partners and devices
Hear the Microsoft vision for Business Integration and how Microsoft provides a holistic platform for data integration across applications, events, master-data and other scenarios. Customers are looking to drive costs out of their businesses and do more with less and Microsoft’s data integration technologies provide a comprehensive platform to streamline information-sharing among partners, customers, employees and suppliers, as well as automating sophisticated, high-value transactions, both inside and outside the organization. Hear how integration can do a lot for your organization during these challenging times.
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Sriram Balasubramanian – Group Manager Microsoft BizTalk Engineering
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11:00-11:45
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Payments Processing on the Microsoft Platform
In this session we’ll cover how a mission critical payment processing platform was architected and delivered by Microsoft Services. The Payments Platform had many challenging functional and non-functional requirements including the ability to process both batch and real-time payment schemes on the Microsoft platform using Microsoft BizTalk Server, SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 Integration Services. In the session we’ll drill into some of the technical challenges overcome by the project, discuss the performance results and detail how Microsoft Services delivered the solution within a very compressed timeframe.
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Darren Jefford –Solution Architect, Microsoft Consulting Services
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11:45-12:00
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BREAK
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12:00-12:45
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Transforming Local Government with Microsoft BizTalk
Hear how the Transformational Government Accelerator is helping local authorities face the challenges of transforming their IT delivery capability by building a service orientated based enterprise architecture delivered on a BizTalk Server platform. This session will discuss how by tackling head-on the barriers that local government face, cross department business processes can be automated, providing immediate efficiency gains, measurable cost savings whilst significantly contributing to the NI 14 (avoidable contact) initiative.
Skandia: a Case Study
Online banking and insurance provider Skandia was beginning a major program of application development to modernize the bank following service-oriented architecture principals using Microsoft BizTalk, IIS, and WCF as the core foundation. Hear how BizTalk Server and key partner, SOA Software deployed an integrated service registry/repository and lifecycle management as part of the solution. Skandia quickly saw the value in the operational governance capabilities of SOA Software’s solutions for BizTalk, IIS and WCF.
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Andy James – Solidsoft, TGA Chief Architect
Ian Goldsmith – SOA Software, VP Product Management
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12:45-13:30
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LUNCH
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13:30-14:15
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ERP Business Integration
BizTalk is an enabling technology that customers can use to increase the reach of existing ERP and other line-of-business applications. This session looks at how BizTalk 2009 Enterprise Service Bus can be used to connect to major ERP platforms such as SAP, Oracle e-business suite, Siebel etc to create compelling composite applications that blend on-premise and services from cloud platforms such as Windows Azure.
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Jeff Johnson, Harsha Karunaratne – Microsoft Integration Specialists
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14:15-15:00
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Enterprise Services for the Energy Industry
Centrica Energy sources energy for Centrica Plc (British Gas in the UK) by Exploration and Production, Power Generation as well as through its Trading and Optimisation activities. Centrica Energy needed a fundamental shift in the way that information is captured and used across the organisation and Avanade was brought in as a key partner and integration specialist to help enable this.
This session covers:
- Business case scenario – key integration objectives
- How BizTalk was successfully used to automate interfaces to provide a seamless flow of information between disparate systems within Energy Trading
- The operational challenges of handling 100+ interfaces between Centrica Energy systems and external sources
- Migration of Centrica Energy’s BizTalk Server 2006 platform to BizTalk Server 2009 and SQL Server 2008 and SOA roadmap
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Ian Bretherton, Avanade Solution Architect and Integration Practice Lead
Balaji Anbil – Centrica Plc, Enterprise Architect
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15:00-15:15
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BREAK
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15:15-16:00
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Closing Keynote
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Sriram Balasubramanian – Group Manager Microsoft BizTalk Engineering
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16:00-16:30
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Q&A, Prize Draw (X-Box) and Drinks
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Register online (Windows Live ID is required) OR call 0870 166 6680 event ref: 0518. Space is limited so register today to ensure your attendance at this event.
Location
Microsoft UK
Thames Valley Park
Reading RG6 1WG, UK
Room: Chicago 1
Directions
Speaker Profiles
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Speaker
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Biography
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Morris Novello – Microsoft BizTalk Server UK Product Manager
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Morris Novello is Product Manager for BizTalk Server at Microsoft. His interests focus on Applications and Systems Integration, Event Driven Architecture and Business Intelligence. Prior to joining Microsoft, Mr. Novello spent few years of tenure at Samsung Semiconductors as Flash Memory Product Manager. Prior to Samsung Semiconductors, Novello spent four years at Intel Corporation, most recently as Product Marketing Engineer for Core 2 Duo processors. He attended the University of Padua in Italy earning a BSc. and MSc. in Electrical Engineering and he was visiting scholar at M.I.T. Sloan School of Management during his MBA degree.
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Darren Jefford – Solution Architect, Microsoft Consulting Services
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Darren Jefford is a Solution Architect working for Microsoft UK, Darren delivers Architectural consulting to a variety of organisations in the UK. Since joining Microsoft 8 years ago, Darren has worked across the whole spectrum of Microsoft products with a particular focus in recent years on BizTalk Server, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Cloud Computing.
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Andy James – Solidsoft, TGA Chief Architect
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Andy combines his role of CTO with that of heading up key projects for Solidsoft. Most recently he has been working with the Cabinet Office in delivering a key piece of the transformational government programme. Besides providing Solidsoft with its technical guidance, Andy is a prominent member of the Microsoft Architect Council and he is a frequent presenter around SOA and BPM in the Microsoft space. Andy has been an active member of the Microsoft Partner Advisory Council for .NET, MD .NET and RFID and is a valued contributor to the Microsoft community.
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Ian Goldsmith – SOA Software, VP Product Management
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Ian Goldsmith drives product and market strategy for the leading provider of Unified SOA Governance automation solutions. These award winning products include Repository Manager, Policy Manager, Service Manager and SOLA. Ian focuses his energies on technology adoption in large enterprises, having successfully completed several cryptography and secure messaging projects with US and international defense and intelligence agencies.
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Jeff Johnson – Microsoft Integration Specialist
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Jeff Johnson is a technical specialist focused on the area of Business Integration. Jeff helps customers understand and architect solutions based on the Microsoft Application Platform technologies, including BizTalk, SQL, .NET. Windows Azure. Prior to joining Microsoft 4 years ago, Jeff worked for BEA Systems in the Advanced Architecture consulting practice.
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Harsha Karunaratne – Microsoft Integration Specialist
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Harsha is a technical specialist focused on the area of Business Integration. Harsha helps customers understand and architect solutions based on the Microsoft Application Platform technologies, including BizTalk, SQL, .NET. Windows Azure. Prior to joining Microsoft 7 years ago, Harsha worked as an architect at SAP.
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Ian Bretherton - Avanade Solution Architect and Integration Practice Lead
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Ian Bretherton is a Solution Architect specializing in Microsoft integration technologies. Ian has been in the computing industry for more than 15 years and has spent the last 6 years developing enterprise Integration solutions primarily using BizTalk Server for various FTSE 100 clients and is currently leading Avanade UK’s Integration practice.
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Balaji Anbil - Centrica, Enterprise Architect
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Balaji Anbil is an Enterprise Architect at Centrica Energy. He is currently responsible for Centrica Energy’s trading and optimisation IT architecture and specialises on Global Energy Management MBA at Warwick Business School in part-time. Prior to this, Balaji has architected on Trading, HR and Workflow domains for more than 15 years. Part of these roles as an IT Consultant, he has worked in the Asia-Pacific, the US and in the UK for major financial service organisations focusing on Integration architectures and prides his implementations in all the versions of BizTalk platform.
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