Business Application and Real Time Enterprises
The real-time enterprise (RTE) is an emerging concept that promises great business impact. However, while a confluence of new technologies will enable real-time performance, the RTE is not simply a matter of technology. Enterprises must take a broader view of business processes and people to complement their technology migration efforts. Further, enterprises will have to reconcile RTE evolution with their business applications portfolios.

Gartner Predicts the Future of Business Applications
Business application markets are maturing as users focus on gaining tangible business benefit from their business application investments and vendors struggle to find ways to grow new customers and revenues profitably. But the shifting business environment and new ways of planning and building enterprise architectures mean that to be successful, both users and vendors will need to change the ways they approach business application investments and markets.

Managing Architecture for Success
Enterprise architecture can easily get bogged down in politics or, worse, become irrelevant. This presentation guides you through this political minefield so that enterprise architecture delivers real business value.

Web Service Scenario
Web Services technologies and concepts are permeating almost every industry. Yet misconceptions and unrealistic expectations abound. Understanding the truth to get through the hype is the focus. It's time to cut to the chase when it comes to Web services.

Wireless
The Mobile Scenario: Bite Sized Business on Pocket Sized Devices
High-level overview of the corporate, economic and social impacts of increased mobility in all aspects of business and community. We also review the key risks mobile vendors and users will face in a future of accelerating technological and business change.

Infrastructure:
Servers: The Future of Servers
Next-generation servers will deliver new technology architectures and new value propositions that will impact data centre server procurements and infrastructure designs. This session examines the server's rapidly changing and expanding IT role with a view toward maximizing value. How will servers and server infrastructures evolve in the next five years? How will Linux change the operating system landscape? How should enterprises evaluate existing and emerging technology to maximize server returns?

Storage:
Storage Trends & Directions Scenario
Continued high growth in information, and thus storage, requires better Storage Products, Topologies and Management mechanisms. New Modular and Monolithic storage products together with topologies like Storage Area Networks (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS) and iSCSI are creating opportunities and confusion. These new products and topologies are demanding that Storage Management tools incorporating policy-based storage management be a part of the storage solution.

Security Architecture:
Security Architectures for the new Enterprise
Enterprise architectures are evolving to support a wide range of business functions over a broad set of constituents. The Internet, B2B exchanges and mobile workers extend the enterprise perimeter while providing more avenues for attack. Web services, wireless applications, content management and other technologies are enabling architectural evolution, but each has its own security risks which need to be addressed by the security architecture.


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