Enterprise architects will face their biggest challenge yet as they shift from their current IT-centric focus to a more business-driven view of architecture that comes with its own set of concepts, drivers, goals, and vocabulary. This shift is not just another step forward but a quantum leap into a new world where architects will have to think, act, and even learn differently. Are you ready?

• How the online/web channel is influencing IT architectural considerations and decisions.
• How Interaction Capture at the User Interface can provide an Enterprise-wide information source.
• Case studies showing how the vast datasets available from the online channel can inform business, CRM, marketing and real-time applications.

• Overview of some consistent Enterprise Information patterns and their implications for organisation performance
• Consistent patterns of integration and requirements of a information fabric
• Experience based lessons to improve organisational and technical effectiveness when developing an information fabric

Bloat kills. Whether it¿s excessive complexity in the application, its underlying platform, its architecture, or the process used to deliver it, overloaded platform software and heavy processes impede delivery of the solutions the business demands. Yet most enterprises are awash in application suites, development tools, processes, and platforms that have grown so large they no longer resemble the clean and clear vision of their original purpose. ¿Lean software¿ is emerging as the antidote to ¿bloatware¿, enabling architects and developers to rapidly assemble business solutions that deliver ¿just in time¿ the software capabilities the business requires today and tomorrow. In this session, we will discuss what lean software is and how application development professionals can incorporate lean software into their strategies for the future.