SOAA-1
Improving Time to Market and Data Quality within the Insurance Industry (Customer Case Study) |
Time: |
Monday, September 8, 11:00am-12:00pm |
 |
Location: |
Pacific Ballroom G |
|
Speaker: |
Dan Benton, Chief Application Architect, Kemper, a Unitrin Business |
|
|
Unitrin’s Kemper property and casualty business has used Progress Sonic ESB as the backbone of their shared services project for the past 18 months and now has 12 deployed services for address scrubbing, content management, location-based coding, and territory mapping. As they accelerate their SOA deployment to including other business units they are looking to improve data quality through the use of Progress DataXtend Semantic Integrator. In this presentation by Dan Benton, Chief Application Architect, will share his organizations approach to improving the time it takes to make product changes to their insurances policies and how better data quality can have a dramatic and immediate impart on agent and customer satisfaction. |
|
SOAA-2
Methods for Managing SOA Project Complexity |
Time: |
Monday, September 8, 2:00pm-3:00pm |
|
Location: |
Pacific Ballroom G |
|
Speaker: |
Jean-Michel Coeur, Manager Progress’ EMEA SOA & BAM Competence Center |
|
|
Structuring teams for leadership and success in high-profile SOA infrastructure projects is a challenge we all face. In this session Jean-Michel Coeur will share his team’s proven approach to managing both small and larger projects for term business benefit. He will explore lifecycle management of Sonic, Actional and DataXtend SI components and show how to deliver proven results for the business in six to eight weeks from initial project kickoff. |
|
SOAA-3
How SOA and BPM are being used to improve Customer Intimacy and Operational Efficiencies in the Mutual Fund Industry (Customer Case Study)
|
Time: |
Monday, September 8, 3:30pm-4:30pm |
|
Location: |
Pacific Ballroom G |
|
Speaker: |
Geoff Youell, AVP Architecture, OppenheimerFunds |
|
|
OppenheimerFunds, a leading mutual fund company with offices in NYC and Denver, is transforming their IT systems to streamline the job of servicing customers. Their project provides a new consolidated servicing user interface with a SOA and Workflow backbone providing standardized, measurable business processes. In this presentation Geoff Youell will share his teams experience with Sonic in combination with a Workflow BPMS solution, Rules Engine and external 3rd party web services. |
|
SOAA-4
Progress SOA Reference Architecture Explained |
Time: |
Monday, September 8, 4:45pm-5:45pm |
|
Location: |
Pacific Ballroom G |
|
Speaker: |
Michael Ormerod, Applied Architect, Product Manager |
|
|
Taking the experiences of over 400 successful SOA customer deployments, Progress offers you a proven approach to defining the core components of your SOA Architecture. Mike Ormerod will walk you through the Progress SOA Reference Architecture, discussing the approach and benefits for both technical and business users. |
|
SOAA-5
Jim Higgins – Director/Chief Architect and Steven Large – Solution Architect, Cerner Corporation |
Time: |
Tuesday, September 9, 8:30am-9:30am |
|
Location: |
Pacific Ballroom G |
|
Speaker: |
Jim Higgins – Director/Chief Architect and Steven Large – Solution Architect, Cerner Corporation |
|
|
Cerner’s CareAware™ device connectivity architecture was designed to make healthcare safer and more efficient. The Medical Device Bus (MDBus) is a core component of this architecture and provides plug-and-play connectivity between medical devices and electronic medical record systems. In this presentation Jim Higgins and Steven Large from Cerner will describe the MDBus architecture and provide a live demonstration of this device integration in the form of a mobile vital sign collection solution. |
|
SOAA-6
Implementing the Progress SOA Reference Architecture |
Time: |
Tuesday, September 9, 10:00am-11:00am |
|
Location: |
Pacific Ballroom G |
|
Speaker: |
David Millman, Principal Architect, Office of the CTO |
|
|
Using common business use-cases, David Millman will explain how to apply the concepts and techniques of the Progress SOA Reference Architecture enabling you to leverage connection, composition and business service design for maximum productivity and reuse. David will discuss real customer use-cases in order to demonstrate how customers have realized these advantages whilst gaining maximum benefits of the Progress products feature set. |
|
SOAA-7
Discovery and Visibility – The Keys to a Well Managed SOA Infrastructure (Customer Case Study) |
Time: |
Tuesday, September 9, 11:15am-12:15pm |
|
Location: |
Pacific Ballroom G |
|
Speaker: |
Tony Orecchio, Sallie Mae, Program Manager Enterprise Architecture |
|
|
Whether you have ten or a hundred web services, SOA management has become a required function for the effective control of mission critical applications. But how do you find services across different subsystems or understand the dependencies between various consumers and producers? In this presentation Tony Orecchio will share his organization’s experience using Progress Actional to discover and visualize the dependencies between services within Sallie Mae, the leading U.S. provider of student loans and administrator of college savings plans. |
|
|
|
SOAA-8
Managing Education in the Internet Era (Customer Case Study) |
Time: |
Tuesday, September 9, 2:00pm-3:00pm |
|
Location: |
Pacific Ballroom G |
|
Speaker: |
Amin Kassem, AITS Manager, University of Illinois |
|
|
The University of Illinois has used Progress Sonic MQ as their SOA backbone for several years to allow reliable communication between 100 independent college departments, 3 geographically distributed campuses and tens of thousands of distances learners. As they expand their shared “University” services to even more users the next challenge they face is service levels agreements (SLA), business process visibility and backbone monitoring and management. In this presentation, Amin and his team will share their vision for service-oriented architecture and an e-procurement project related to their new ERP system. They will go on to discuss manageability, and describe how they are using Progress Actional to manage SLAs and gain visibility to systems across the entire University. |
|
SOAA-9
Technology Trends and SOA Portfolio Directions: All Roads lead to Progress |
Time: |
Tuesday, September 9, 3:15pm-4:15pm |
|
Location: |
Pacific Ballroom G |
|
Speaker: |
Hub Vandervoort, CTO, Progress Software |
|
|
As SOA becomes the strategic approach to designing, building, deploying and integrating IT systems, tactical issues force your hand as you manage the evolving needs for visibility, integration and governance within this modern computing architecture. In this session Hub Vandervoort will share Progress’ SOA Portfolio Product Roadmap and our vision in support of your goal for increased business velocity. |
