Videos tagged with Business/IT Alignment
Summary RESTful architectures are the subject of this presentation, specifically the way they are particularly attractive in solving many financial services integration problems. Kirk will present the advantages of a RESTful architecture to develop integrated systems in the financial services arena, in particular leveraging infrastructure, skills, and systems already in place at these firms. Bi...
Closing the Gap Between Apps and Ops
Summary Jake Sorofman talks on how to glue together the application development world and the business operations one in an automated, virtualized and cloud computing environment where everything moves faster than ever. Bio Jake Sorofman is Vice President of Marketing at rPath. He held several other leadership positions in the past: SVP of marketing and business development for JustSystems, the...
Investment Banking: Technology Space and Integration Issues
Summary John Davies discusses technology problems and solutions encountered in the investment banking domain. Issues covered include: transport and data integration, protocols, XML, complex validation, persistence, and scaling via distributed systems. SWIFT MT to MX migration is also discussed. Bio John Davies is CTO/co-founder of C24 and and Technical Director of IONA, positions that provide h...
Steve Jones on "Business-driven SOA"
Summary In this interview, recorded at QCon London, Stefan Tilkov talks to Cap Gemini's Steve Jones about his concept of a business service architecture. Topics covered include how to apply SOA to existing systems, the problems one runs into when SOA is driven by technology, and the structural and organizational impact of business-driven SOA. Bio Steve Jones is head of SOA for Global Outsourcin...
Hugh Ivory Reveals the New Face of DSDM
Summary Called "the grandmother" of the agile methodologies, DSDM V1 was released in 1995. The methodology is owned and collaboratively developed by the members of the not-for profit DSDM Consortium, and until V4.2 was only available to members. But the recent V5 or "Atern" release is now publicly available. Director Hugh Ivory provided an overview at Agile2007. Bio Hugh Ivo...
The Business Value of SOA
Summary In this presentation, recorded at QCon, Burton Group research director Anne Thomas Manes talks about how to make the business case for SOA. Her talk covers explaining SOA to non-technical business people, various approaches for selling SOA to management and gaining funding for SOA investments. Bio Anne Thomas Manes is a Vice President and Research Director at Burton Group. Anne has part...
SOA Driving IT from the business
Summary In this presentation, recorded at QCon London, Cap Gemini's Steve Jones explains his concept of a business service architecture. Topics covered include how to apply SOA to existing systems, the problems one runs into when SOA is driven by technology, and the structural and organizational impact of business-driven SOA. Bio Steve Jones is head of SOA for Global Outsourcing at Cap Gemini. ...