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Event Timetable
Monday, July 21, 2014
Additional Open Session: 14.00 - 15.30 > Explore and navigate the IT4IT Reference Architecture
|Enabling Boundaryless Information Flow™
Welcome AddressAllen Brown, President & CEO, The Open Group
Welcome Address
Allen Brown, President & CEO, The Open Group
Allen Brown is President and CEO, The Open Group – a global consortium that enables the achievement of business objectives through IT standards. For over 10 years Allen has been responsible for driving The Open Group's strategic plan and day-to-day operations, including extending its reach into new global markets, such as China, the Middle East, South Africa and India. In addition, he was instrumental in the creation of the AEA, which was formed to increase job opportunities for all of its members and elevate their market value by advancing professional excellence.
Prior to joining The Open Group, Allen Brown held a range of senior financial and general management roles both within his own consulting firm, which he founded in 1987, and other multi-national organizations.
Allen is TOGAF® 9 certified, an MBA alumnus of the London Business School and a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
Platform Shift - How New Open Business Models are Changing the Shape of IndustryMarshall Van Alstyne, Professor at Boston University School of Management & Researcher at MIT Center for Digital Business
Platform Shift - How New Open Business Models are Changing the Shape of Industry
Marshall Van Alstyne, Professor at Boston University School of Management & Researcher at MIT Center for Digital Business
This talk reveals the secret of Internet-driven marketplaces. Companies that can transform their linear business models into network models will have a competitive advantage based on new insights into pricing, network effects, supply chains, and strategy. These principles show how dotcom companies like Airbnb, Amazon, Apple and Google managed, in a relatively short time, to attract millions of clients worldwide. In addition, these companies can extend existing transactions to new, associated products and services. Platforms will beat products every time. This talk tells why.
Professor Van Alstyne is one of the leading experts in network business models. He conducts research on information economics, covering such topics as communications markets, the economics of networks, intellectual property, social effects of technology, and productivity effects of information. As co-developer of the concept of "two sided networks" he has been a major contributor to the theory of network effects, a set of ideas now taught in more than 50 business schools worldwide.
Awards include two patents, National Science Foundation IOC, SGER, SBIR, iCorp and Career Awards, and six best paper awards. Articles or commentary have appeared in Science, Nature, Management Science, Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
Full biography here
Open Platform 3.0™ - An Integrated Approach to the Convergence of Technology PlatformsChris Harding, Director of Interoperability, The Open Group
Open Platform 3.0™ - An Integrated Approach to the Convergence of Technology Platforms
Chris Harding, Director of Interoperability, The Open Group
Disruptive new technologies are revolutionizing society and business. To take advantage of the business opportunity, enterprises need a standard platform. The platform must provide access to the technologies and support a new style of business operations. Open Platform 3.0™ is being defined and evolving to meet this need. Open Platform 3.0 is centered on technology trends converging on each other to form new business models and system designs.
Creating value through integration with technologies such as Cloud Computing, Big Data Analytics, Internet of Things, Social Networks, and Mobile Computing raises challenges for enterprises who might now need to engage in partnerships and make use of data and services from sources that may or may not be directly under their control.
Today there is a set of emerging technology platforms focused on Cloud Computing, Big Data Analytics, Internet of Things, Social Networks, and Mobile Computing. Each of these platforms is massive on its own; each has its own standards which are vendor-dependent and tightly coupled. Individually these platforms are changing business models and technology environments for enterprises seeking to obtain either competitive advantage or new business capability. It is, however, the convergence of these distinct technology platforms that The Open Group and analysts such as Gartner and IDC perceive will create new disruptive business scenarios and business value to existing enterprises and new market entrants. The convergence of these emerging technology platforms into a single platform is called Platform 3.0, and the proposed standard is the Open Platform 3.0 standard. The concept is that the Open Platform 3.0 standard will provide functional and performance capabilities through an integrated approach that cannot be achieved by any one emerging platform by itself.
Resources: Open Platform 3.0 White Paper
Dr. Chris Harding is Director for Interoperability at The Open Group. He is responsible for developing the new Open Platform 3.0™ Forum, to address the convergence of new technical phenomena such as social, mobile and cloud computing, big data, and the Internet of Things. He supports the work of The Open Group members in the Forum on these topics. Chris has been with The Open Group for 17 years. Chris has managed forums and work groups in a number of areas, including networking, UNIX®, Directory Interoperability, Identity Management, SOA and Cloud Computing. The Open Group's international events and publications are respected providers of thought leadership within the IT industry. Chris is a frequent speaker at Open Group and other industry events, and a contributor to several online journals.
He began his career in communications software research and development. He then spent nine years as a consultant, specializing in voice and data communications, before moving to his current role. Dr. Harding has a PhD in mathematical logic, is TOGAF® certified, and is a member of the British Computer Society (BCS), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA).
Panel: Consortia Perspectives on the Internet of Things and Interoperability
Panel: Consortia Perspectives on the Internet of Things and Interoperability
The panel will share and discuss their views on:
|Boundaryless Information Flow™
|Open Platform 3.0™
Architecting the Future of Coherent, Connected Government - An Integrated Service Delivery PerspectiveTrishit Baran Sengupta, Senior Consulting Manager - Enterprise Architecture, Wipro Consulting Services, India
Architecting the Future of Coherent, Connected Government - An Integrated Service Delivery Perspective
Trishit Baran Sengupta, Senior Consulting Manager - Enterprise Architecture, Wipro Consulting Services, India
Government leadership across geographies is facing rising customer expectations and demand for real-time services, seamlessly integrated with consumer life-cycle events.
With global changing dynamics, government ecosystem is also experiencing a changed metaphor where the consumer takes charge of the steering wheel. This in turn results unprecedented expectation for integrated public services aligned to consumer life-cycle events.
The world is changing, so does the government. A connected, coherent, integrated and collaborative government is KEY to deliver high quality services to globally connected consumer base.
Isolated, entity specific discrete government service delivery cannot withstand consumer demands.
The resolution is to adopt a connected Whole-of-Government approach.
Integrated Service Delivery doesn't mean centralization, neither it is only about technology.
Instead, it is all about well architected whole-of-government capability ensuring seamless collaboration and communication across entity boundaries. Of course all these must be conceptualized, managed and governed holistically.
This session will feature key context, pre-requisites, capability architecture and an integrated framework for approaching the most significant transformation towards future of government service delivery.
Key takeaways:
Trishit Baran Sengupta is a practicing architect and senior executive in Global Enterprise Architecture practice of Wipro. Apart from leading high profile consulting engagements, he is responsible for conceptualizing and designing customized consulting offerings ensuring maximum value realization.
He is a thought leader in the areas of business capability planning, operations optimization and developing Enterprise Architecture functions capable of delivering a new, innovative 21st century mission centered on business capabilities. This is well complemented by his rich experience in management consulting spanning Enterprise Architecture, Strategic Planning, Organization Design and Program Management with diverse organizations across geographic locations.
Trishit is a passionate change advocate, a trusted adviser to his customers and mentor for a high caliber team of practicing and aspiring Architects within the practice.
He is an influential CXO communicator skilled at delivering high-impact, visual story based executive presentations. Trishit also enjoys promoting new ideas and concepts through executive coaching, mentoring and knowledge sharing.
Big Data: From Experiment to Revenue through Enterprise ArchitectureAndrew Frey, Chief Technology Officer, Marketing Associates
Big Data: From Experiment to Revenue through Enterprise Architecture
Andrew Frey, Chief Technology Officer, Marketing Associates
With enterprises being asked to prove the real relevance of Big Data in their product offerings or internal decision enablement keeping an eye on top line and/or bottom line value to the enterprise by their board and investors, the time has come for organizations to evolve their Big Data strategy from an experiment into a real monetizable asset. To achieve this, enterprise architecture is the key to defining and delivering the framework that would drive realizing the outcomes envisioned by the enterprise. In this session, we will explore delivering Big Data as a Service for large and small enterprises alike. The session will conclude with how Marketing Associates leverages Big Data Framework in their product offerings to deliver tremendous value to their customers.
Key takeaways:
1. Big Data as a Service Framework – the what and how
2. Challenges and how to prepare for delivering on Big Data promise through people, process and technology
3. Lessons Learned
Andrew Frey is Chief Technology Officer with Marketing Associates. Before joining Marketing Associates, Andy developed his deep knowledge as a technologist, CIO and IT Director at leading national corporations such as Compuware, Kelly Services, J. Walter Thompson, and Coolfire.
Venkat Nambiyur is a seasoned Enterprise Architecture executive with extensive and a proven record of success as an architect, innovator and thought leader. Venkat is responsible for the Business Transformation and Enterprise Architecture Practice for North America Emerging Markets. In this role, he is Oracle's Chief Architect/CTO for Oracle's fast growing companies that use technology in an innovative and cutting edge fashion. He is the strategic adviser to the C-Level executives in creating Enterprise Strategies and Architectures towards realizing their business goals and outcomes successfully. Venkat is the Vice President of Texas AEA and member of The Open Group Business Architecture workstream for the next generation of TOGAF®
Venkat Nambiyur, Director, Business Transformation & Enterprise Architecture, Oracle
Best Practices for Enabling Boundaryless Information Flow™ across the GovernmentSyed Husain, Consultant - Enterprise Architecture, Saudi Arabia E-government Authority
Best Practices for Enabling Boundaryless Information Flow™ across the Government
Syed Husain, Consultant - Enterprise Architecture, Saudi Arabia E-government Authority
Consumers of government services prefer a one stop shop for all services and see the government as a single entity, not the silo-ed, fractured, hodgepodge it actually is. Enabling Boundaryless Information Flow requires the government to get a few things right.
1. Incentivize the sharing of information or create legislation to enforce it.
2. Set up the infrastructure to enable easy sharing of information.
3. Evangelize, Evangelize, Evangelize.
Getting the incentive structure or legislation right is of primary importance, if agencies don't see the benefits, and if these benefits don't significantly out weight the benefits of homeostasis, nothing will happen. Having a dedicated team to evangelize and help agencies is also important, because even with supporting legislation, individual agencies, sighting technical difficulties can drag the process on forever. Creating a consultancy service that helps agencies when they are ready to change is a key best practice, the consultancy service team needs to be well versed in the technological aspects of enabling boundary less information flow as well as business process re-engineering to help agencies figure out where and how to integrate data from other agencies in there services. This team can also be used to evangelize the benefits of sharing information. Another important point is that the infrastructure needs to be seamless and standards based, to enable agencies to connect with as little effort as possible. The data standards for sharing information should be openly published and having a public forum where ideas on integrated services can be discussed helps build a strong business case with agency heads.
Key takeaways:
1. The infrastructure to enable boundary less information flow has to be standard driven and seamless.
Syed Husain is an accidental Enterprise Architect, coming upon the career after completing his MBA in finance from Duke University and looking for a career that merged his background in technology and new found interest and appreciation for the non-technological elements of an organization. Syed has 10 years of experience working in various roles in banking, telecom and federal governments. In his spare time, Syed enjoys playing peek a boo with his 2 year old son and advocating bare foot running to the long distance running community in Riyadh.
Putting the 'D' Back in DecisionPenelope Gordon, Emerging Technology Strategist, 1Plug Corporation
Putting the 'D' Back in Decision
Penelope Gordon, Emerging Technology Strategist, 1Plug Corporation
We will share how and when we achieved notable outcomes within Verizon and IBM and for government and NGO clients of IBM's Smarter Cities initiative by shifting stakeholders' focus from collecting, processing, storing, and reporting data to improving decision outcomes with insights gleaned from the analysis of enriched, representative data. The outcomes included: scored the attractiveness of a potential cloud partner or vendor in less than 15 minutes, reduced data collection costs by 1000%, and doubled addressable revenue projections
For context, we will discuss the impetus for changing an organization's relationship between data and decisions and for balance, with the benefit of hindsight, we will explain how to identify and overcome obstacles to good governance - and to recognize when retreat is the wiser course of action.
Technique points that we will cover include indirect questioning – asking what's known to determine the unknown, representative sampling and population segmentation, combining multi-layered qualitative and quantitative metrics, correlation and extrapolation, and relative comparisons.
Last but not least, we will talk about setting stakeholders' expectations for what's reasonable given the resources and time allotted to analysis, the role of analysis in the organization's decision making process, and the degree to which the compensation for the execution of and improvements to that process are based on measurements of decision outcomes; without a robust, well-supported decision making process, better data inputs won't result in better decision outcomes.
Key takeaways:
• Determining the what, when, and how of data collection based on decision objectives
Penelope Gordon recently led the expansion of the channel and service packaging strategies for Verizon's cloud network products. Previously she has been an IBM Strategist and Product Manager bringing emerging technologies such as predictive analytics to market. She helped to develop one of the world's first public clouds.
Jean-Francois Barsoum has provided strategy advice to a diverse set of clients: financial institutions, higher education, professional associations, pharmaceutical companies, and telecoms. He has been invited to speak at conferences on the subjects of innovation, smarter transportation, and climate change on four continents. For the past decade, he has participated in numerous conferences on water and environmental management and led IBM's ties with related research organizations and NGOs. He helped develop core smarter cities concepts and as a result has deepened IBM's involvement with several North American cities.
Jean-Francois Barsoum, Senior Managing Consultant, Smarter Cities, Water and Transportation, IBM
|EA & Enterprise Transformation
|Open Platform 3.0™
Innovation and Enterprise Architecture Applied Together to Deliver Transformational, Out-of-the-Box Business ModelsSonia Gonzalez Paredes, Enterprise Architect and Consultant, Dux Diligens, Costa Rica, and Chair, Association of Enterprise Architects, Costa Rica Chapter
Innovation and Enterprise Architecture Applied Together to Deliver Transformational, Out-of-the-Box Business Models
Sonia Gonzalez Paredes, Enterprise Architect and Consultant, Dux Diligens, Costa Rica, and Chair, Association of Enterprise Architects, Costa Rica Chapter
This presentation is about innovation as another driver and also supporting discipline for a successful EA Practice. Due to the continuous market changes and rapid technology adoption and worldwide megatrends, one of the big challenges that most organizations face is how to construct innovative, flexible business models that could make a difference regarding the competitors and could make possible a real organizational transformation. Also organizations need to find a good strategy, methodology and standards for making this business models a reality. Techniques and methodologies such as swot and market analysis, blue ocean strategies, ideal final result curves, customer segmentation and Business model innovation along with Enterprise Architecture methodologies, frameworks and standards can help organization define innovative business models and also close the gaps between the strategy and the implementation. In this way organizations would be able not only to be efficient (do the things right) but also effective (do the right things). This presentation shows the strategies, frameworks, good practices and supporting tools that can be applied for defining innovative business models and also presents how to integrate them with Enterprise Architecture models and more detailed solution designs that would support and leverage business capabilities and their application and synergic use for making the business strategy and business vision a reality.
Key takeaways:
• How to help organizations think out of the box and deliver new innovative ideas for doing business
Sonia Gonzalez Paredes has 20 years experience as a consultant in Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Governance of IT and IT Service Management, Information Systems design and analysis, Business Process Management, Service Oriented Architecture and Systematic Innovation. Sonia is certified in TOGAF®, ArchiMate® and Cobit 5, and has professional experience as a project manager and researcher.
Academic Degrees: Master Degree in Business Administration. Universidad de Costa Rica, Computer engineer. Universidad de Costa Rica.
Professional Training and Certifications:
The Open Group: TOGAF® 9 Certification (# 41961), ArchiMate® 2.0 Certification (# 634)
APMG: IT Governance and Management COBIT 5 Foundations Certification
Data within an Enterprise: Past and Present - what has changed?Boris Vishnevsky, Distinguished IT Architect / Client Technical Advisor, IBM, US
Data within an Enterprise: Past and Present - what has changed?
Boris Vishnevsky, Distinguished IT Architect / Client Technical Advisor, IBM, US
In this presentation we will invite attendees to take a journey "behind" the popular industry and marketing terms of BigData , Data Science, and Information Science to explore the role of data and how it had evolved within an Enterprise. Based on practical experience and use cases that span multiple industries we will describe and define the evolutionary stages that the data had progressed through. Based on these use cases, we will highlight the data capabilities and business expectations that data centered solutions must deliver today.
Intended audience: Business Owners, Architect building solutions focussed on Data and Information Science.
Key takeaways:
Boris Vishnevsky is an Executive Certified IT Architect and an Open Group Distinguished Chief IT Architect. He has accumulated over 25 years of extensive Information Technology experience across many industries and market segments including Healthcare, the Pharmaceutical Industry and Prescription Benefits Management leading projects that deliver mission critical capabilities. Most recently, in NYC, Boris was lead architect on project to enhance a social services case management system with analytics to optimize outcomes. Over his 25 years in the industry, Boris has gained broad experience in business, managerial, financial planning and Enterprise Architecture with concentrations in areas of Information Management, Big Data and Information Science, Business Analytics, Information Security, Business Process analysis and optimization, Social Business, and Middleware technologies.
Business Transformation Justification Leveraging Business and Enterprise ArchitectureRobert K. Pucci, CTO - Communications Practice, Cognizant Technology Solutions
Business Transformation Justification Leveraging Business and Enterprise Architecture
Robert K. Pucci, CTO - Communications Practice, Cognizant Technology Solutions
Today, Communications Service Providers (CSPs) continue to endeavor on IT Transformation Initiatives, often 1) not understanding the Business Drivers/Value and how to isolate and measure the attainment of these drivers during the transformation,..2) selecting a Best of Suite vendor specific solution that often cannot deliver the desired Business outcome when having to work within an existing heterogeneous infrastructure...3) do not understand what Business Architecture is within an EA and how / what to use as input into a target end state definition for the the Transformation. The lack of traceability and measurement from the Transformation back to the Business Case, otfen leads to CIO displacement and 5-7 year repeating IT Transformation cycle.
The objective of this presentaion is to show how Business Architecture and the components within, coupled with other TOGAF work products, Industry Frameworks can feed into a Transformation Business Case...and provide the metrics to measure to determine success.
Key takeaways:
-- Understanding Business Architecture and the linkage to desired Business Value outcome
Mr. Robert K. Pucci is currently the CTO for Cognizant's Communications Practice. He is responsible for the Cognizant's Communications Solution Strategy, and the development of Solution Offerings to support a Communications Service Provider's (CSPs) heterogeneous infrastructure supporting multiple lines of business (Retail, Wholesale, and SMB/E). He seamlessly works across geographies, organizations, and business partners to bring to realization the enablement of these offerings to provide CSPs the desired Business Value needed to remain competitive in today's market space. Being part of Cognizant's Leadership team, he closely interacts with Clients and Business Partners at the Executive (CxO, SVP), Operational (VP, Director), and Technical (Architecture, Delivery) levels to collaborate and deliver desired business outcomes.
While CTO, Mr. Pucci has brought ideation to realization in developing the Industries first Solution as a Service to support B2C (Consumer Wireless and Wire Line) and B2B (SMB/E Business for Wireless and Wire Line) to enable Lead/Quote/Order 2 Cash Business Process enablement on a single multi-channel eCommerce platform, to co-exist and augment a CSPs Heterogeneous environment.
SMAC driven Big Data as a Service for B2CVarun Sharma, Enterprise Architect, BMC Software, US
SMAC driven Big Data as a Service for B2C
Varun Sharma, Enterprise Architect, BMC Software, US
The topic "SMAC driven Big Data as a Service for B2C" is driven primarily by the theme of enabling boundary less information. I have created a detailed Big Data as a Service reference architecture, inclusive of operational, security and governance tiers and talks about how we could apply principles of data services and SOA fundamentals to help build a reference architecture for handling dozen dimensions of big data (beyond velocity, volume, complexity).
Intended audience: Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, Data Architect, Big Data Enthusiasts, Analytics, Analysts
Key takeaways:
Varun Sharma - Enterprise Architect @ BMC, with rich experience in architecting for large and mid-sized organizations. Ex-employee of eBay, Sony and Infosys.
|Networking Reception
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
|Enabling Access to Quality Healthcare
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Welcome Address & Forum HighlightsAllen Brown, President & CEO, The Open Group
Welcome Address & Forum Highlights
Allen Brown, President & CEO, The Open Group
Allen Brown is President and CEO, The Open Group – a global consortium that enables the achievement of business objectives through IT standards. For over 10 years Allen has been responsible for driving The Open Group's strategic plan and day-to-day operations, including extending its reach into new global markets, such as China, the Middle East, South Africa and India. In addition, he was instrumental in the creation of the AEA, which was formed to increase job opportunities for all of its members and elevate their market value by advancing professional excellence.
Prior to joining The Open Group, Allen Brown held a range of senior financial and general management roles both within his own consulting firm, which he founded in 1987, and other multi-national organizations.
Allen is TOGAF® 9 certified, an MBA alumnus of the London Business School and a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
Keynote: Making Health AddictiveJoseph Kvedar, MD, Partners HealthCare, Center for Connected Health
Keynote: Making Health Addictive
Joseph Kvedar, MD, Partners HealthCare, Center for Connected Health
Mobile health offers many transformational opportunities. We can use smart phones as a data upload/home hub device, or as a way to engage the consumer around health content. We can use them to display health-related information at just the right moment in just the right context, and the built-in cameras can capture relevant health information (e.g., home test results). Add to the list that we can harness the addictive properties of these devices to make health addictive. So how can we take advantage of this phenomenon to improve health? Dr. Kvedar will present three key strategies to change behavior and make health addictive.
Joseph C. Kvedar, MD, is the Founder and Director of the Center for Connected Health, working to create a new model of healthcare delivery, by developing programs and innovative strategies to move care from the hospital or doctor's office into the day-to-day lives of patients.
In his role with the Center for Connected Health, Dr. Kvedar is creating innovative programs to leverage information technology – cell phones, computers, networked devices and simple remote health monitoring tools – to help providers and patients manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness and improve adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes. Based on the technology platform developed at the Center, Healthrageous, a personalized health technology company, was launched in 2010, offering a range of health and wellness self-management programs to their clients.
In addition, Dr. Kvedar also launched the first physician-to-physician online consultation service in an academic setting, which today electronically links patients from around the world and their local providers with leading specialists at Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals.
Dr. Kvedar is internationally recognized for his leadership and vision in the field of connected health and the application of communications technologies to improve healthcare to patients. He is a frequent lecturer and has authored over 70 publications on the subject. Dr. Kvedar serves as a Board member for a number of organizations, including the Continua Health Alliance and the Care Continuum Alliance. He also is a Co-Founder of Healthrageous and Chair of the company's Scientific Advisory Board.
Dr. Kvedar is a past President and Board member of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and a Past Chair of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) Task Force on Telemedicine. In 2009, Dr. Kvedar was honored by the ATA with its Individual Leadership Award, recognizing his significant contributions to connected health and telemedicine. Mass High Tech, The Journal of New England Technology named Dr. Kvedar an All-Star in the field of healthcare and he has been honored by the New England Business and Technology Association for his extraordinary leadership in the field.
A division of Partners HealthCare, the Center for Connected Health works with Harvard Medical School-affiliated teaching hospitals, including Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's Hospitals. Dr. Kvedar is also a board-certified dermatologist and Associate Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School.
Keynote: From Build to Run at the Colorado Health Insurance Exchange - Achieving Long Term Sustainability through Better ArchitectureProteus Duxbury, CTO, Connect for Health Colorado
Keynote: From Build to Run at the Colorado Health Insurance Exchange - Achieving Long Term Sustainability through Better Architecture
Proteus Duxbury, CTO, Connect for Health Colorado
The Affordable Care Act brought with it the necessity to create health insurance exchanges in many states.
Connect for Health Colorado is a marketplace that opened in October 2013 to help individuals, families and small employers across Colorado purchase health insurance and apply for new federal financial assistance to reduce costs.
This talk will provide key observations from the successful rollout of the Connect for Health Colorado health insurance exchange, along with a discussion of ongoing challenges. An architecture roadmap for achieving long term sustainability will be presented as well.
Proteus Duxbury joined Connect for Health Colorado as Chief Technology Officer in February 2014, directing technology strategy and operations. Proteus previously served at Catholic Health Initiatives, where he led all IT activities for Virtual Health Services, a division responsible for deploying Telehealth solutions throughout the US. Prior to that, Proteus served as a Managing Consultant at the PA Consulting Group, leading technology change programs in the US and UK primarily in the healthcare and life science industry. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems Management from Bournemouth University
|EA & Business Value
|Service Oriented Architecture
Transforming Care Delivery through Integration at Visiting Nurse Service NYSteve Prewitt, VP of Business Transformation Services, Visiting Nurse Service of New York
Transforming Care Delivery through Integration at Visting Nurse Service of NY
Steve Prewitt, Vice President of Business Transformation Services, Visiting Nurse Service of New York
The Healthcare industry is undergoing significant transformation due to the impact of reform. Technology can play a key role in helping lower the overall cost of care by enabling new care pathways and greater collaboration among payers & providers. Almost every major healthcare organization in the country is pursuing a Business Transformation program enabled by technology. In this session, we talk about the key ingredients of ensuring the success of any transformation program – a well-articulated strategy, strong engagement with the business and robust architecture & planning to ensure success. And we will share our experience using a case study from a recent planning exercise for a program that is now underway to fundamentally transform the Care Delivery function of the largest Visiting Nurse Service in the country. The program will replace a complex mesh of legacy home grown systems with an integrated Care Delivery platform that takes a patient from referral through care delivery to billing and payment.
Key takeaways:
1) Why its worth it - the key benefits to this transformation
Steve Prewitt is Vice President of Business Transformation Services at Visiting Nurse Service of New York, the largest not-for-profit home health care agency in the United States. Steve is a proven IT leader with interest and experience in transforming operations within health care and driving business value using information technology. His expertise is in strategic planning, organizational strategy, mergers & acquisitions, data management and project portfolio management.
Nick Mathisen has 15 years of experience delivering business change through the innovative use of technology primarily in the Healthcare and Pharmaceutical industry. Nick combines strategic vision with action-oriented skills that allow him to follow projects through from insight to implementation. His wide range of client work includes business architecture for a large home healthcare company, design assurance of a $billion Government IT change program, and enterprise architecture for a leading US healthcare payor/provider organization. With a history in architecture and experience across all elements of delivering IT solutions, Nick excels at providing a business friendly interface to IT projects.
Nick Mathisen, Principal Consultant, PA Consulting Group
Architecture Value Chain and Capability ModelChris Armstrong, President, Armstrong Process Group, Inc.
Architecture Value Chain and Capability Model
Chris Armstrong, President, Armstrong Process Group, Inc.
Value chains and capability models are emerging as industry standard best practices for abstracting the enterprise landscape for planning, improving, and monitoring enterprise investments. If these things are good for the business enterprise, shouldn't we be able to apply them to describing an architecture capability? As the architecture profession continues to advance and mature, understanding the common activities that all architects perform are becoming more important. Just what exactly is it that makes us architects? Can we identify those things that we all do, irrespective of what level we are applying architecture (enterprise, segment, capability, system, project) or in which domain (business, information, data, application, technology, systems, software)? The speaker will present an architecture value chain and a supporting capability/service model that attempts to address these questions, based on practice and industry standards like TOGAF, ISO/IEC 15704, ISO/IEC 15288, and ISO/IEC 42010.
Key takeaways:
-- Enterprise Architecture
Chris Armstrong, President of Armstrong Process Group, Inc., is an internationally recognized thought leader in enterprise architecture, formal modeling, process improvement, systems and software engineering, requirements management, and iterative and agile development. Chris represents APG at The Open Group, the Object Management Group and the Eclipse Foundation.
SOA for Business Technology (SOA4BT)Martin Neuhard, SOA and Application Integration Architect, Hewlett Packard
SOA for Business Technology (SOA4BT)
Martin Neuhard, SOA and Application Integration Architect, Hewlett Packard
This presentation focuses on the creation of a Service Oriented Enterprise. It is based on a White Paper developed within The Open Group's SOA Work Group, and provides an overview of SOA4BT. It covers a holistic review of business strategic and operational factors and how they align in the creation of a Service Oriented Enterprise. Finally it maps this to The Open Group's SOA Reference Architecture (Version 1) and the creation of Enterprise SOA Solution Architectures.
Attendees will gain an understanding of the different components of SOA4BT. The presentation focuses on Service Orientation in a Business Context rather than a Technology Context. Topics covered include mission, vision, goal to business capability mapping to define organizational strategy in a Service Oriented context, and its role in the specification of Technology Capabilities. It addresses Business Operating Models and the alignment of Capabilities, Business Processes and Services. Finally it maps Service Orientation and Business and Service Governance.
Martin Neuhard is a SOA and Application Integration for Hewlett Packard and also an Adjunct Professor at Binghamton University. In this role he chairs Global Technical councils for HP ES in Integration and Middleware and Presentation technologies. Previously he worked in the US/UK Public sector creating service based web applications for multiple customers.
Nikhil Kumar is a thought leader in Personalized Medicine, Genomics, Translational Medicine, SOA, Cloud Computing and Enterprise Architecture, with extensive experience in the insurance, finance and healthcare sectors. His accomplishments include co-chairing the SOA RA Project, participating in organizational boards, authoring standards, books, and articles, consulting to Fortune 500 companies, and leading the development of the ApMEDTM, SOASenseTM and SOARealityTM platforms.
Nikhil Kumar, President, ApTSi (Applied Technology Solutions, Inc.)
Stewarding Healthcare Transformation with Enterprise ArchitectureVenkat Nambiyur, Director, Business Transformation & Enterprise Architecture, Oracle
Stewarding Healthcare Transformation with Enterprise Architecture
Venkat Nambiyur, Director, Business Transformation & Enterprise Architecture, Oracle
Healthcare enterprises are under tremendous pressure today to transform aggressively to meet the rapidly changing industry landscape driven significantly by the new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Addressing and meeting Accountable Care Organization mandates and Pay for Performance requirements are significantly complicated by a larger number of stakeholders and confusion around defining outcomes, meeting relevant regulatory compliance, preparing and certifying for meaningful use and overall moving to a patient centric ecosystem from an organization centric incumbent environment. Further pressures on this transformation are present in the form of ever increasing cost of healthcare and providing services, lower reimbursement from payers along with ever increasing liability from security asks and immature decision enablement. In this session, we will review how a healthcare partner like Intelligent Medical Objects working with a technology vendor like Oracle Corporation is working to enable this transformation for payer, provider and vendors through innovate IP and enterprise architecture.
Key takeaways:
1. What is the true opportunity for partners like IMO to define the healthcare landscape and enable providers and payers alike to meet the new asks of the vertical?
Venkat Nambiyur is a seasoned Enterprise Architecture executive with extensive and a proven record of success as an architect, innovator and thought leader. Venkat is responsible for the Business Transformation and Enterprise Architecture Practice for North America Emerging Markets. In this role, he is Oracle's Chief Architect/CTO for Oracle's fast growing companies that use technology in an innovative and cutting edge fashion. He is the strategic adviser to the C-Level executives in creating Enterprise Strategies and Architectures towards realizing their business goals and outcomes successfully. Venkat is the Vice President of Texas AEA and member of Open Group Business Architecture workstream for TOGAF Next.
Regis Charlot is President and CTO, and has been part of IMO's team since its inception. He was key to iMRE, an ambulatory electronic medical record now known as Allscripts Professional EHR, as architect, lead software & database engineer. Subsequently Regis played a major role in the development and commercialization of IMO's products & technologies, including clinical terminology solutions (including vendor partner implementations, SAAS / cloud hosting patterns), metabase development patterns for massive Health IT initiatives, complex multi-phase / multi-modality / multi-resource imaging procedure scheduling solutions, large master patient index solution design & deployment, disease management solutions, leading to many solutions being awarded USPTO patents. Regis is passionate about technologies, the right implementation of clinical terminology, and responding to the need of our users and vendor partners. He believes that such technology development and partnerships can only occur with disruptive technologies, driving technology leaps, leading to market leadership for IMO partners.
Regis Charlot, President & CTO, Intelligent Medical Objects, Inc.
Architecture Assessment FrameworkSuresh Done, President, SNA Technologies, US
Architecture Assessment Framework
Suresh Done, President, SNA Technologies, US
Architecting for an organization can be a complicated exercise. It can be time-consuming, involve considerable investment and always has some risk associated with it. Before an organization decides to roll out the new architecture all stakeholders involved would definitely want to assess the efficacy of the proposed architecture in:
-- Closing the organization's performance gaps
-- Saving money and avoiding cost through collaboration and reuse, productivity enhancements, and elimination of redundancy
-- Strengthening and improving security, inter-operability, reliability, availability, solution development and service delivery time and overall end-user performance
-- Improving the quality, availability and sharing of data and information
-- Increasing the transparency of all operations
Suresh would like to discuss how to analyze and substantiate architecture through a framework and a set of key metrics. The management of both the client and architecting organization would be interested in this form of objective evaluation that is likely to dissipate some of the clouds of uncertainty around EA.
Suresh Done has more than 24 years of experience in IT and Engineering. Suresh is a TOGAF® 9 certified Enterprise Architect, TOGAF® Evangelist and practitioner. Suresh is a registered TOGAF® certification trainer. Suresh had provided TOGAF® training and certified several Enterprise Architects and IT professionals across the world. He has provided Enterprise Architecture consulting services to major companies in Automotive, Health, Telecom, Banking and Retail Industries. Suresh had done extensive research on Agility, Innovation and complexity. He developed a methodology to implement Enterprise Architecture in an agile and lean manner called TOPAgile (TOGAF® Operational Pragmatic) Agile.
Suresh Done is the Co-Founder of AEA Michigan Chapter ( http://aogea-michigan.org) and Chairman since its inception. He led the chapter to a great success with his vision and leadership skills. AEA Michigan chapter very soon became the largest chapter of all the AEA chapters.
Implementing Business Processes with SOA and BPMOdd Christian Landmark, Owner / Senior Enterprise Architect, Landmark Blue, Norway
Implementing Business Processes with SOA and BPM
Odd Christian Landmark, Owner / Senior Enterprise Architect, Landmark Blue, Norway
This presentation will go through lessons learned from getting an organization to embrace service oriented architecture all the way to implementing horizontal business processes on top of services, independently of system technicalities.
Key takeaways:
-- Implementing business processes on top of, and indepentently of, a heterogenous collection of systems and databases, is possible
Odd Christian Landmark has been working on Enterprise Architecture projects for the last eight years - on several occasions as a team leader. He has a lot of experience in defining target architectures, roadmaps to getting there and following-up the projects afterwards. In many of those projects, information sharing, horizontal processes and an enterprise perspective on integration have been vital perspectives. He has had customers within telecom, shipping, energy sector, retail, pharmacies, insurance, finance and logistics.
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Implementing an Enterprise & Solution Architecture Capability at a Health Care InsurerAl Zannini, Director - Architecture & Design, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island
Implementing an Enterprise & Solution Architecture Capability at a Health Care Insurer
Al Zannini, Director - Architecture & Design, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island
This is a case study of re-launching an Enterprise and Solution Architecture practice at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island. It will review a multi-year journey to build capability both upward toward managing from a more enterprise perspective and downward to formalize the practice of designing and implementing solutions in order to streamline the road to production. This transformation took place on the heels of a migration to a new core processing platform and over the course of the enormous architecture challenges presented by Health Care Reform, thus requiring a careful and incremental roll out so as not to impact any regulatory deliverables. The study will highlight the common challenges of building capability while juggling the typical workload of mission critical activities, and share some strategies for being successful.
Kkey takeaways:
-- Lessons learned from a Health Care Insurer's architecture transformation
-- A proposed roadmap for moving toward more formal EA and SA
-- A playbook for a role we have found challenging, that of providing technical leadership to implementing projects post-design
Al Zannini has over 30 years of Technology experience in the health-insurance, retail, and financial industries. He is currently Director of Architecture & Design at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island where he oversees the application architecure design and integration of the company's internal, hosted and third party application infrastructure to ensure most efficient use of the assets available. Al has a B.S. in Organizational Management from the University of Rhode Island.
Dan Hughes is a principal consultant and partner at Systems Flow, Inc, where he helps clients launch and execute Enterprise and Solution Architecture programs. He has 20+ years of software engineering experience spanning a broad range of technologies and techniques. Startup to enterprise, he has launched, managed, and executed all aspects of both product and enterprise life cycle: delivering complex, enterprise-scale architectures for clients in the public and private sector, in industries ranging from banking and health care to international development. Dan holds a B.S. in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Dan Hughes, Principal Consultant and Partner, Systems Flow, Inc.
Protecting Your APIs from Threats and HacksLaura Heritage, Principal Solution Architect – Enterprise API Platform, SOA Software
Protecting Your APIs from Threats and Hacks
Laura Heritage, Principal Solution Architect – Enterprise API Platform, SOA Software
As software applications become more accessible through APIs, the available surface area increases for hijackers to attack and compromise your data. We see an upward trend of malicious assaults and denial-of-service attacks targeted at enterprise applications, exploiting vulnerable APIs. This session will discuss potential vulnerabilities with APIs and the different attack vectors that hackers might use to compromise your APIs. To help prepare you, we will also discuss strategies and best practices to secure your APIs from these threats.
Key takeaways:
Laura Heritage is a Principal Solution Architect at SOA Software. In this role, she works with customer to establish API Business strategies and implement API and SOA Platforms. Previously Ms. Heritage served as a Product Line Manager at IBM and was responsible for establishing IBM¹s API Management business. She is an IBM Certified IT Specialist.
Managing the Management FrameworksRobert Weisman, Chief Consultant / CEO, Build The Vision Inc.
Managing the Management Frameworks
Robert Weisman, Chief Consultant / CEO, Build The Vision Inc.
Executives are confronted with numerous best practice GOVERN, PLAN, BUILD and RUN frameworks but have difficulty implementing them due to significant redundancies and differing concepts. TOGAF® 9 includes the need to coordinate these frameworks but little guidance. This presentation highlights the extent of the redundancies and the criticality of harmonizing the frameworks (including the vocabulary) using case studies from different industry domains where alignment has been achieved and works. Many business transformation / EA efforts have failed because this harmonization was not sorted out in the Preliminary Planning phase.
Key takeaways:
-- Awareness of the management framework integration issue
Robert Weisman has been a portfolio/program manager in major business transformation initiatives and has used EA for governing, planning, building and running complex environments in both private and public sectors. He has seen the emergence of the management frameworks and has had to use and integrate them in an increasingly dynamic business environment. Over the past 35 years, Bob has experienced both the opportunities and difficulties inherent in the professionalization of the governance, plan, build and run disciplines.
Robert Weisman MSc, PEng, PMP, CD is also ITIL V3 and TOGAF 9 certified. He is Director Governance at ISACA Ottawa and was awarded an Outstanding Contribution Award from the Open Group for his work on TOGAF 9. He teaches, consults and mentors EA, Knowledge Management and Strategic Planning.
Healthcare Workshop
Healthcare Workshop
Barriers to Effectively Using Patient-Centered Mobile Medical Devices
2:45 – 2:55 Purpose and Overview
2:55 – 3:10 Healthcare Forum Mission, Vision and Scope
3:10 – 3:30 Effectively Adopting Patient-Centered Mobile Medical Devices: Pain Points and Challenges
3:30 – 4:00 Coffee
4:00 – 4:30 Expert Panel Discussion
4:30 – 5:30 Workshop Participants to discuss pain points with expert panel and presenters
Improving the Measurement and Communication of Information Security RiskJim Hietala, VP Security, The Open Group, US
Improving the Measurement and Communication of Information Security Risk
Jim Hietala, VP Security, The Open Group, US
Risk analysis has grown to be a critical function in enterprises. As organizations are confronted with a confusing array of threats, gaining a more precise understanding of which risks are the most serious ones to address is important. This talk will explore common challenges in risk analysis, including measurement of risk, cognitive biases that inhibit effective analysis of risk and communication on risk with senior executives. It will also discuss popular risk management frameworks and how they deal with these topics.
The Open Group published our Risk Taxonomy Standard, based upon FAIR (Factor Analysis for Information Risk) several years ago to address the need for a standardized taxonomy in risk analysis. We have also now published a companion Risk Analysis Standard, and have launched a new risk analyst certification program. The talk will provide an overview of these standards, and how they address the issues of risk measurement and communication.
Jim Hietala is Vice President, Security for The Open Group, where he manages all security and risk management programs and standards activities. He holds several security and risk certifications including CISSP, GSEC, and Open FAIR Foundation. Jim is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, and he recently authored a comprehensive course on IT risk management. He participates in the SANS Analyst/Expert program, having written several research whitepapers and participated in several webcasts for SANS. He has also published numerous articles on information security, risk management, and compliance topics in publications including The ISSA Journal, Bank Accounting & Finance, Risk Factor, SC Magazine, and others. A security & risk industry veteran, he has held leadership roles at security vendors including ControlPath, Avail Networks, Alternative Technologies, eSoft, Qwest, Concentric Network, and Digital Pathways. He holds a B.S. in Marketing from Southern Illinois University.
People Architecture: How the EA/Human Capital Axis Is Transforming the Management of Disruptive Technology and Rapid ChangeDavid Foote, IT Industry Analyst, Foote Partners
People Architecture: How the EA/Human Capital Axis Is Transforming the Management of Disruptive Technology and Rapid Change
David Foote, IT Industry Analyst, Foote Partners
Information technology's intensifying role as an engine of enterprise innovation and competitiveness has in many ways caught IT leaders unprepared.
That's because for years they've been slow to repair persistent and potentially hazardous human capital problems ranging from IT skill deficits, hiring/retention issues and pay inequalities to murky promotion paths and ineffective professional development programs. Now CIOs are being pressured to take on new business challenges that have critical technology foundations and they're stumbling---and in many cases losing their jobs. At the root of their failures are these same people problems, which have intensified with widespread economic instability and emerging global markets, labor market uncertainties, and the advent of dozens of disruptive technologies.
Coming to the rescue: applying traditional IT architecture principles to IT human capital and workforce management. Dubbed "people architecture", it has emerged as the key ingredient enabling a growing number of IT leaders to execute mission-critical IT-business initiatives effectively and predictably.
In this session, industry analyst David Foote will define the pillars of people architecture and describe specific practices that are helping IT leaders meet the enormous pressures being thrust upon them by the C-suite.
This session will introduce people architecture components including:
Intended audience: IT executives, managers and professionals. Business managers with IT management responsibilities
David Foote is an IT industry research pioneer, innovator, and one of the most quoted industry analysts on global IT workforce trends and multiple facets of the human side of technology value creation. His two decades of groundbreaking deep research and analysis of IT-business cross-skilling and technology/business management integration and leading the industry in innovative IT skills demand and compensation benchmarking has earned him a place on a short list of thought leaders in IT human capital management.
A former Gartner and META Group analyst, David leads the research and analytical practice groups at Foote Partners that reach 2,300 customers on six continents.
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Healthcare Workshop
Healthcare Workshop
Barriers to Effectively Using Patient-Centered Mobile Medical Devices
2:45 – 2:55 Purpose and Overview
2:55 – 3:10 Healthcare Forum Mission, Vision and Scope
3:10 – 3:30 Effectively Adopting Patient-Centered Mobile Medical Devices: Pain Points and Challenges
3:30 – 4:00 Coffee
4:00 – 4:30 Expert Panel Discussion
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Implementing an EA Capability to Support Boundaryless Information Flow™, Using the TOGAF® Framework and the ArchiMate® Modeling LanguageHenry Franken, CEO, BiZZdesign, The Netherlands
Implementing an EA Capability to Support Boundaryless Information Flow™, Using the TOGAF® Framework and ArchiMate® Modeling Language
Henry Franken, CEO, BiZZdesign, The Netherlands
A complete approach to enterprise architecture (EA) to support Boundaryless Information Flow™ requires:
The Open Group's TOGAF® 9 standard is the leading method for EA development, including a process, techniques and best practices. The Open Group's ArchiMate® standard is the leading graphical language for integrated EA modelling, describing the business, application and technology layers and their relationships. Moreover, ArchiMate provides strong features for modelling the motivation for the architecture (stakeholders, concerns, goals, principles and business requirements, etc.) and the implementation and migration planning (plateaus, gaps, workpackages, etc).
We show how TOGAF and ArchiMate provide and actionable EA capability:
We will demonstrate that TOGAF and ArchiMate are a perfect basis for a tool supported Enterprise Architecture practice. This will be done on the basis of a concrete example from the financial sector. The case concerns IT-legacy rationalization due to the merger of three previously independent insurance companies. The new company wanted to rationalize their IT applications portfolio, to simplify the application landscape, improve consistency and reduce maintenance costs. The demo shows elements of this case.
Key take-aways:
-- To the point overview of TOGAF, ArchiMate, and its fitness for purpose for a tool supported Enterprise Architecture practice.
Henry Franken M.Sc. Ph.D, is CEO of BiZZdesign and chair of The ArchiMate Forum at The Open Group. Henry is a speaker at many conferences. Henry has co-authored several international journal and conference publications and Open Group whitepapers.
At BiZZdesign, Henry is also responsible for research and innovation. Alignment with and contribution to open standards are key. BiZZdesign has contributed to and edited the ArchiMate 2 specification. BiZZdesign is involved in the workgroup working towards the next version of TOGAF® and its further hand-in-pocket alignment with ArchiMate®.
BiZZdesign offers native tooling, certification training and consultancy for TOGAF® and ArchiMate®. BiZZdesign offers complete and integrated solutions (tools, methods, consultancy and training) to design and improve organizations. Business models, enterprise architecture, business requirements management and process business analysis and management are important ingredients in the solutions.
Profession vs. PracticeLen Fehskens, VP Skills & Capabilities, The Open Group; and Editor, Journal of Enterprise Architecture
Profession vs. Practice
Len Fehskens, VP Skills & Capabilities, The Open Group; and Editor, Journal of Enterprise Architecture
Many practitioners' concepts of enterprise architecture as a profession are understandably strongly influenced by their practice of the discipline, both as an individual and in the context of their organization. But not all practitioners of established professions are "general practitioners"; many are specialists, and their practice is representative of only a portion of the domain addressed by their profession. What does this observation suggest about the emerging profession of enterprise architecture? This talk provides an overview of what it means to be a profession, why some disciplines become professions while others do not, how specialized practices relate to a larger profession, and what these together imply for the design of an emerging profession.
Key takeaways:
-- The difference between a practice and a profession.
-- How this difference affects the way we think about a profession of enterprise architecture.
Len Fehskens is the Chief Editor of the Journal of Enterprise Architecture and is responsible for the Association of Enterprise Architects' activities relating to the professionalization of the discipline of enterprise architecture. Len is also the VP of Skills and capabilities for The Open Group.
Prior to joining The Open Group, Len led the Worldwide Architecture Profession Office for HP Services at Hewlett-Packard. He majored in Computer Science at MIT, and has over 45 years of experience in the IT business as both an individual contributor and a manager, within both product engineering and services business units. Len has worked for Digital Equipment Corporation, Data General Corporation, Prime Computer, Compaq and Hewlett Packard. He is the lead inventor on six software patents on the object oriented management of distributed systems.
Enterprise Portfolio Management: Coherent Strategy Modelling, Business Capability Planning, Project Portfolio Management and Enterprise Architecture Modelling to Rationalize a Huge Application Portfolio in HealthcareSven van Dijk, BiZZdesign North America, US
Enterprise Portfolio Management: Coherent Strategy Modelling, Business Capability Planning, Project Portfolio Management and Enterprise Architecture Modelling to Rationalize a Huge Application Portfolio in Healthcare
Sven van Dijk, BiZZdesign North America, US
After several mergers and take-overs, a large healthcare company has taken up the challenge to create a uniform application landscape across its independent organizational entities. The goal is to structurally reduce the operational costs. The strategic plan that describes this organizational change is structured around the company's key business capabilities. Each capability consists of several generic business functions that currently are realized by various application landscapes throughout the organization. For each business function several programs each consisting of multiple projects are defined to gradually move towards a consolidated application landscape. In total there are over five thousand projects defined and planned over the next four years.
We demonstrate how to manage this large project using a holistic solution where enterprise architecture models, expressed in the ArchiMate language, are related to the key business capabilities on the one hand side, and the project landscape on the other. To actually gain control over this project landscape, the landscape is evaluated on a regular basis against various financial criteria and related to the long term strategy. This creates a powerful solution for managers to make adequate transformational and investment decisions during the runtime of the programs and projects. Support is provided especially by various dashboards that visualize operational and project costs at different levels, based on the underlying architectural models, making this solution invaluable for decision makers.
Key takeaways:
Sven van Dijk a consultant and trainer at BiZZdesign North America. After receiving his professional training at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, he worked as an application consultant on large scale ERP implementations and as a business consultant in projects on information management and IT strategy in various industries such as finance and construction. He gained over 10 years of experience in applying structured methods and tools for Enterprise Architecture and Business Process Management. He frequently shares his experiences at international conferences, and is the author of many blogs and publications on topics related to the fields of EA and BPM.
Back to Basics: A Return to ArchitectureJanet Mostow, EA, Enterprise Strategy Team, Oracle, and an Open Group Certified Distinguished IT Architect
Back to Basics: A Return to Architecture
Janet Mostow, EA, Enterprise Strategy Team, Oracle and an Open Group Certified Distinguished IT Architect
For many years, organizations such as The Open Group have promoted the idea of IT Architecture as a fundamental discipline for successful IT strategy and implementations. Open CA is a certification for IT Architecture sponsored by The Open Group. Why then do so many organizations fail to leverage Enterprise Architecture, and why do so many projects fail due in part to a lack of architecture? We explore what IT Architecture is and what it is not and why it is important. We give examples of success when it is used and failures when it is not. Finally, we give suggestions as to how IT Architecture can be incorporated into a project or strategy with Architectural analysis and artifacts, using an architectural framework, such as TOGAF®.
Key takeaways:
-- Successful IT Projects require Architecture
Janet Mostow is a Principal Enterprise Architect on Oracle's Enterprise Strategy Team. Janet works with Oracle's State and Local Government clients to understand their business goals, create a vision, and develop a roadmap to achieve their vision, using Enterprise Architecture as a guide. She is an Open Group Certified Distinguished IT Architect with 30 years of experience in IT. She authored the Oracle Public Sector Big Data Reference Architecture, and speaks on Big Data, SOA/BPM, and other technology topics.
Tom Plunkett is a principal consultant with Oracle and teaches graduate-level computer science courses for Virginia Tech. Tom is also the Chief Data Officer for AtrocityWatch, a non-profit organization which uses Big Data to analyze social media to detect precursors to atrocities. Tom is the lead author of the Oracle Big Data Handbook and several other books. Tom has given presentations on Big Data at over fifty conferences. Prior to joining Oracle, Tom practiced patent law with Fliesler Meyer in San Francisco, representing Oracle and other Silicon Valley companies. Tom has a B.A. and J.D. from George Mason University, an M.S. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, and has taken graduate courses in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.
Tom Plunkett, Principal Enterprise Architect, Enterprise Strategy Team, Oracle
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MRR Review: "The Broken Circle Breakdown"
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MRR Review: "The Broken Circle Breakdown"
Rating: Not Rated
Length: 111 minutes
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Directed by: Felix Van Groeningen
Genre: Drama/Music
"The Broken Circle Breakdown" was one of the most highly anticipated films of the year for the small number of people who knew about it. Like many independent films, "The Broken Circle Breakdown" did not benefit from the mass marketing enjoyed by most Hollywood blockbusters, so it relied largely on word of mouth. In spite of the lack of publicity "The Broken Circle Breakdown" received, it was selected from among many movies as the Belgian entry for the coveted award of Best Foreign Language Film at the eighty-sixth annual Academy Awards. Since then, "The Broken Circle Breakdown" has been riding a surging wave of popularity, with big-name movie critics are giving it rave reviews. The film is based on the play by Johan Heldenbergh, who actually stars as Didier, the male lead. The original play is known as "The Broken Circle Breakdown Featuring the Cover-Ups of Alabama," but the film has a shortened title. Unlike most movies based on plays, director Felix Van Groeningen does "The Broken Circle Breakdown Featuring the Cover-Ups of Alabama" justice as he translates the story to the big screen.
"The Broken Circle Breakdown" is a romance at heart and revolves around the lives of a very different couple and their beloved daughter, who has become seriously ill. The film begins with a country bluegrass group performing an old English hymn, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" The group is made up of Flemish musicians. One of them, the soft-spoken and ruggedly handsome Didier, is an atheist who falls madly in love with a religious tattoo artist named Elise who has tattooed her own body. Elise is portrayed by the talented Veerle Baetens, who won Best Actress in a Narrative Feature Film at the Tribeca Film Festival. Elise returns Didier's passionate feelings and joins his band. Not long after, they get married in spite of their differences, and they soon welcome a little one named Maybelle into the world. Maybelle is the light of the couple's life and is surrounded by loving family and friends who are all eager to help raise the precious little girl.
When Maybelle unexpectedly falls ill, "The Broken Circle Breakdown" takes a dark and realistic turn. The couple's passion for their unusual family is intensified as they realize their child's life is in very real danger. As they struggle to cope with their daughter's declining health and seemingly inevitable death, the film flies back and forth between the past and the present, entwining heartfelt flashbacks with the scenes of the family's terrible new reality. Ultimately, the very different beliefs of Didier and Elise lead to serious conflict, and Didier even takes the stage during one of the band's live performances and confronts the audience with his views on faith and religion. On the other hand, Elise is still clinging to her faith as she tries to understand why this cruel fate has befallen their child. The couple grows apart, seeing each other infrequently at concerts and rehearsals, and their love for one another seems as doomed as their daughter's life.
"The Broken Circle Breakdown" is a heart-wrenching movie that relies on artistic cinematography, imagery, and the raw talents of the actors who portray the characters. Few films deal with such painful topics without becoming unrealistic or campy, and "The Broken Circle Breakdown" certainly sets the bar high for all future films that deal with subject matter as dark as a disintegrating family and a dying child. In spite of the film's heartbreaking story, "The Broken Circle Breakdown" still has plenty of moments of relief in the form of frequent flashbacks of the family before Maybelle's illness. Even though Elise and Didier are going through trials that are absolutely unbearable, they are still trying desperately to keep their relationship alive against all odds.
Fans of foreign films are sure to adore "The Broken Circle Breakdown," which now has English subtitles to make it more accessible for audiences who don't understand Flemish. Fortunately, it has not been dubbed with English voices, a fate that has befallen many foreign films that are otherwise wonderful. "The Broken Circle Breakdown" can truly only be enjoyed in its original language, an emotional tongue that captures the mood of the film just as well as the beautiful imagery and creative cinematography do. However, moviegoers should view "The Broken Circle Breakdown" with the understanding that this movie does not pull punches or soften the multitude of devastating scenes. To tone down this film's darkness would be a tragedy.
Rating: 3.5 out of 5

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State of the Art Infrastructure to Support Ohio Research in Advanced Internet Utilization, Simulation, and Telerobotics
Funding Source: Hayes Investment Fund – Ohio Board of Regents
Principal Investigator: Robert Gilky., Ph.D., Wright State University
Duration: awarded 2002
This equipment project is a joint effort between Wright State University, the Air Force Institute of Technology, The Ohio State University, and OSC to investigate the sensory, motor and cognitive loads in Shared Virtual Environments, the computational and network performance and limitations.
Figure 1: Lower left, non-invasive use of infra-red imaging to determine user intent (Software: Courtesy of The Ohio State University. Upper right: User in HMD interface in different environments.
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Staten Island, NY – Responding to a new poll showing that California voters support a parental notification for abortion initiative, Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, stated, "This support for parental notification, which is consistent with attitudes of Americans nationwide, now has to be translated into votes this Fall. At the end of the day on Election Day, it is not opinions that are counted, but actual votes. Priests for Life urges Churches, organizations, and individual citizens to foster registration and get out the vote drives."
The parental notification measure, known as "Sarah's Law," will appear as Proposition 4 on California's November ballot. For more information, see www.PoliticalResponsibility.com
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Event Details
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Is your child a tinkerer? An inventor? A hands-on, open-it-up-and-see-how-it-works type of kid? Then you've come to the right place!
Children need time to solve hard problems -- be it wiring LEDs to motorized cardboard, fashioning a self-powered boat, or building a simple robot that draws pictures.
A makerspace is an environment without interruptions. At Maker Krewe, there are plenty of tools and materials, as well as adult supervision and expertise, but the only deadlines are those that come naturally when a child is truly motivated to complete a project.
WHAT: Maker Krewe is a gathering of young, creative makers who desire the time, tools and expertise necessary to solve meaningful hard problems.
WHY: Because kids are natural born tinkerers and problem solvers, but rarely have the time they need to try and fail repeatedly until finally solving a problem or completing a meaningful project.
WHERE: St. Andrew's Episcopal School -- Rear gate on Short St. near Oak St.
WHEN: Sunday, January 28th. We'll be open 10 am to 4 pm. The more time your child has to work the better, but you are welcome to drop off and pick up whenever is most convenient for you.
WHO: Maker Krewe is best suited for children who are capable of working well independently. 2nd grade is the suggested minimum age, but many 1st graders have found success in the program.
Oskie Creech, the founder, will be joined by at least one other adult with plenty of experience working with kids.
FOOD / DRINK: Please send a snack or lunch with your child.
MATERIALS: We will provide all the materials and tools your child needs to dive right in and start making. You are welcome to send additional materials, particularly if there is a specific project your child is interested in working on. We are always looking for used electronics to disassemble and re-purpose!
Because space is limited, it is necessary to register prior to the event.
When & Where
St. Andrew's Episcopal School
1160 Short St.
New Orleans,
Sunday, January 28, 2018 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
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Oskie Creech
Oskie has over fifteen years of classroom teaching experience and currently serves as the Coordinator of Innovation and Design Thinking at Isidore Newman School.
In 2009, Oskie created Newman Summer Day Camp based on the belief that children should be empowered to make choices about how their time is spent.
Maker Krewe is not only about choices, but about time. Oskie agrees with the many experts who say that what children need today is time to work through meaningful hard problems. He hopes Maker Krewe will provide the time, tools, expertise and community support kids need to grow as creative problem solvers.