Expert Voices





 SOA is poised to deliver a new generation of agility, by applying SOA's powerful loosely-coupled principals beyond your technology – and directly to your people. IDN 'Expert Voices' speaks with Hub Vandervoort, CTO at Progress Software, for new ways to improve the effective of your SOA team working on Process, Policy, Data and Services.




In 2012, 'Data Services' promise more rapid and impactful enterprise-wide data sharing and integration. This emerging SOA-based technology also powers real-time data sharing – and at lower costs than imaginable.

In about 10 minutes, this IDN 'Expert Voices' presents the techniques and technologies you need to know for a successful data services project. The expert is Ciaran Dynes, Senior Director at Talend, a provider of open source integration solutions.




Cloud computing is changing how enterprises look at end-to-end IT operations. As cloud adoption soars, CIOs want to "police the cloud" to ensure business-critical manageability and governance. In this IDN Expert Voices, Cathy Lippert, Director of Oracle SOA Governance discusses how SOA is being tuned for Cloud Governance, including security, policy compliance and even SLAs.




More enterprises are embracing cloud, mobile and social networking projects. As each proves its own value, IT and business decision-makers are looking to bring them together to capture even more value. IDN 'Expert Voices' speaks with Samir Gulati, Vice President at Appian about how 'Mobile BPM' unites mobility, BPM, collaboration and cloud.




Business Process Management is evolving, as the economy recovers from a deep recession. Company executives are looking to a balance of IT and business experts to help them maximize profits, optimize operations – and even exploit new business opportunities. IDN 'Expert Voices' speaks with Scott Kirkland, vice president of product management at Global 360, to explore four important trends in BPM for 2011, and how today's IT architects and integration professionals can benefit.





Mobile adoption by enterprise users is about to explode, with studies predicting growth at 40 percent per year through 2015. IDN 'Expert Voices' speaks with David Barnes, a program director at IBM's Emerging Technologies unit, to find out how today's IT architects can become their company's 'go-to Mobile IT expert' thanks in large part to their experience with SOA and browser-based applications.



Recent surveys show pressure is on CIOs to only fund projects that can deliver quick and impactful business benefits. This week's IDN 'Expert Voice' on Enterprise Architecture, Craig Hayman, General Manager of IBM WebSphere, shares how today's economic realities are shaping how Big Blue is providing CIOs quicker business value via ESB middleware, BPM and cloud. Full Story & Transcript >


As 2010 gets underway, many Chief Information Officers say ways to leverage and share valuable mainframe assets will be a top priority. Our Mainframe Modernization 'Expert Voice' for this edition, IBM's Scott Searle, shares results of a revealing CIO study IBM conducted in 2009. He also details how the CIO findigs are driving a powerful approach to mainframe modernization at Rational, which blends the best of COBOL, Java, .NET, SOA and Governance. Full Story >

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