The Business Of IT: Visible Process Improvement |
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May 2-5, 2005 Dallas, Texas
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Agenda & Speakers
May 2
May 3
May 4
May 5
8:30-8:40 a.m.
Morning Announcements
8:40-9:20 a.m.
Forrester Analyst Keynote: The Ascendancy Of IT
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Marc Cecere |
9:20-10:30 a.m.
Emerging Technology Preview: Demos From 2004 Emerging Technology Showcase Winners
10:30-11:00 a.m.
Networking Break In The Technology Showcase
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Track Sessions
11:00-11:50 p.m. — Sessions
11:50-12:00 p.m. — Intermission
12:00-12:30 p.m.
Guest Executive Forum: Computer Sciences Corporation
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) is delivering innovation to clients in ways that minimize risk, avoid cost, and deliver benefits to our customers' business. Simply said, we do this by innovating practically. Learn how CSC is bringing business value to our customers through innovative approaches to enterprise communications. As businesses become more reliant on technology for success, the requirement for effective business communications becomes more critical to maintaining and increasing competitive advantage. Businesses develop, evolve, and need to remain agile enough to adapt to new requirements as market conditions dictate. One of the fundamental enablers is a solid IT and communications infrastructure that is both flexible and scaleable enough to meet both core business needs and enable differentiation and competitive advantage.
CSC's Converged Networks is a powerful new architecture providing a platform for fully managed multimedia services. As business productivity applications become more readily available, consideration must be given to the network infrastructure to ensure that these applications can be effectively introduced and efficiently supported.
Simplicity is the key; the need for easier management making the network more transparent to the business is a fundamental. CSC's Converged Networks enables organizations to consolidate both real-time and nonreal-time traffic across a simplified, unified ubiquitous, scalable network allowing enterprises to leverage the latest and greatest enterprise, business-to-business, and business-to-customer applications.
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Adrian Bronco |
12:00-12:30 p.m.
Guest Executive Forum: Enterprise Risk Management — An IT Perspective
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Krishna Nacha |
12:00-12:30 p.m.
Guest Executive Forum: Microsoft Corporation — Making Better Platform Decisions
When Microsoft? When Linux? When UNIX? In today's changing enterprises, critical IT often evolves into an organic mesh of applications and services running on a mix of UNIX, Linux, and Windows platforms. In many scenarios, the customer is left to integrate it all — a job that can often be labor-intensive, unreliable, and costly. Through the power of software, Microsoft is uniquely positioned to help IT organizations reduce complexity by providing solutions for all stages of the IT life cycle. Does your organization consider all the factors it should in making well-informed platform decisions? Come listen to Microsoft's General Manager of Platform Strategy, Martin A. Taylor, take on these issues in an executive Forum speech at GigaWorld, May 4 at noon.
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Martin A. Taylor |
1:30-2:15 p.m.
Dessert Buffet In The Technology Showcase
2:15-3:05 p.m. — Sessions
3:05-3:15 p.m. — Intermission
3:15-4:05 p.m. — Sessions
4:05-4:15 p.m. — Intermission
4:15-5:05 p.m. — Sessions
5:05-7:30 p.m.
Technology Showcase Closing Reception
