Summit Executive
I have assisted at the IBM SOA executive summit in Paris ( 31/05/2007)
Amongst other great presentations I have to underline the interest of these two:
Selling SOA to your CEO
Dan Powers, VP, WW SOA Sales
Behind every successful SOA there is a CEO sponsor that understands the importance and value of SOA and recognizes it as an organization-wide business strategy. It is possible to use your language with the CEO and get them to understand the value of industry frameworks. Learn how to gain executive endorsement and approval to build an SOA as this session will position the use of existing technology to align IT with business goals to realize greater efficiencies, cost savings and increase productivity.
It’s really important for the CIO to establish the good communication in order to explain the advantages of the SOA to the organisational leaders. What is important to say, how it must be explained, the language to use etc. The impressive suite of arguments provided vith clarity and simplicity. Amazing speaker.
Implementing Customer Centicity in financial services : experience of the CITIGROUP
Charles De Felice, Program Director, Office of the CIO, CITIGROUP
In today’s global, complex world, having the right technology solutions and supporting tools & processes in place that address Customer Data Integration (CDI) priorities is an excellent start. However, for many firms, it’s simply not enough for interfacing with the countless numbers of transaction processing engines that have sprung up over decades, and increased pressure from local & global regulatory agencies. This is where embracing a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solution in partnership with a state-of-the-art CDI solution can free the CIO and his / her team from the years it can take to implement siloed, one off technology solutions within their companies. SOA can act as the “glue” that can bring the right amount of information to the people that need it, when they need it, without “boiling the ocean” and without burdening your business people with learning how to navigate the seas of data warehouses on different topologies, internally and / or externally to your company.
Why CITIGROUP started the transformation, what were the difficulties, and what are the actual outcomes. The primer what could be achieved with this new paradigm of doing IT in the banking sector
As usual, the power point presentations will be available soon on the event’s home page (link).