Business Intelligence and Open Source sounds like an impossible combination. Over the last year, a number of niche vendors have started to probe this territory. The talk will discuss Open Source products that are available for reporting and data warehousing/data aggregation, and will m...

This session will give an overview of management tools and patterns for very large (distributed) Enterprise projects including Business Process design UML (Use Cases) and tools such as Eclipse or Maven (1&2).

Traditional software companies have created a very structured, restricted and focused engineering department methodology which works efficiently in a process oriented, proprietary environment.

CRM-Customer Relationship Management-is a business strategy, not a technology. Every organization employs some method of CRM whether it be a deck of index cards, a spreadsheet, or an expensive proprietary computer system. Until recently, sophisticated CRM systems were reserved exclusiv...

Born in Paris in 1968, Marc Fleury got his Ph.D in physics from the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. He started in Sales at Sun Microsystems France and then moved to the US where he worked on early java enablement of SAP at SAPLabs.

Today there is a spectrum of architectural approaches to AJAX solutions. At the simple end of the spectrum, HTML pages are becoming enriched with simple AJAX behaviors exemplified by the likes of Yahoo! Maps, Google Suggest and a myriad of AJAX libraries and widgets that have now been...

This session will give an overview of management tools and patterns for very large (distributed) Enterprise projects including Business Process design UML (Use Cases) and tools such as Eclipse or Maven (1&2).

IDC predicts that data services - services designed to access data in a well-defined, modular fashion - will exceed the number of process services in a service oriented architecture (SOA).

The impact of open source software on web services transcends simply the use of actual open-source components; moving to a web services-based architecture requires a cultural shift in an organizations governance and application lifecycle management processes.

Today one of the hottest new software development techniques leverages open source tools and open source distribution, however there's much more to an open source business model than just sharing code.

When re-thinking the manufacturing process of enterprise software, most companies nowadays determine to leverage open source to boost popularity and attention onto their product lines.

This session will focus on Ingres's product rebirth and examine the technical lessons learned. From choosing the open source components from which to build a community site, to preparing and sanitizing the source code and evaluating build processes, SVP of Engineering Emma McGrattan wi...

When building highly available clusters one often chooses for 1 extra physical machine per service, hence creating an A-B fail-over schema. As the number of primary servers grows, your number of secondary servers grows accordingly. More complex setups have a many (N) to 1 fail-over sch...

Open source technologies have played a role in Web services and SOA for years. As large commercial vendors introduce more extensive open source SOA solutions and traditional open source providers broaden their solutions to address more SOA requirements, it is now possible to build an e...

This session concerns the use of open source middleware for service oriented architecture (SOA). For the SOA architect or developer wishing to build a SOA-based system today, we will show the current options available, in particular focussing on open-source implementations of ESB, CORB...

This session will be specifically tailored for developers and IT managers working on mobile e-mail and other mobile applications. While proprietary mobile e-mail companies protect their code and profits, the mobile open source approach boasts a transparent community of developers contr...

Business Intelligence and Open Source sounds like an impossible combination, but over the last year, a number of niche vendors have started to probe this territory.

Maven provides orchestration/management tools, smoothing out build processes, creating high-quality documentation, and management of test code, controlling large-scale Java projects. Maven accelerates OS in enterprises, giving developers build tools for real-time engineering practices...

Free and open source software such as the Firefox browser and the Apache web server has often been presented as an inexpensive alternative to expensive proprietary software. However, many businesses have been reluctant to adopt open source software, partly because they have not had a g...

Most developers know by instinct that some projects move quickly and others seem to crawl forward - or even go backwards at times. But how can a project's velocity - or speed of progress - be tracked more empirically?

Open Source software development communities have evolved a very unique combination of tools, practices, and principles for coordinating their development activities. The inherent transparency in a well-run Open Source project makes it possible for developers to discover existing effor...

This session will ask and answer the following key questions: Is Ruby on Rails an acceptable enterprise technology?

Software licensing is, to bend the old barb about Java, 'Read Once, Run Screaming.' Indeed, few things strike more fear into the heart of an entreprenurial programmer than page after page of legal jabberwock.

Recent changes in our industry have brought to the fore many interesting forces that affect the cost of software development teams around the world. In the past 10-15 years, the industry has achieved significant progress in productivity. It is doesn't mean that we don't have anymore ro...

Deployment of Open Source software is booming in retail environments. The combination of reliability, cost and ability to customize makes open source an obvious choice for large retail deployments.

This session introduces open source Geronimo from the perspective of a Java EE developer. Do you have experience developing Java EE applications, but no idea how to get started with Geronimo?

One-time password (OTP) based two-factor authentication solutions are commonly used to secure VPNs, web sites, and online transactions. They are much more secure than authentication methods based on static passwords. In fact, the US government mandates that all online banking services ...

As Open Source continues to capture market share in the enterprise, key drivers include the ability to lower total cost of ownership and the flexibility for improvement inherent in open coded environments. Quite simply, with unfettered access to code, developers and corporate technolog...

With many enterprises already making the JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS) the foundation of their SOA strategy, JBoss has completed its natural evolution as an interoperable, open source platform inherently suitable as a foundation for SOA. Until now, enterprises looking to im...

Even though Open source software is all the rage in the enterprise, the future of open source depends upon the success of widespread adoption by consumers.

Share first-hand experience of what it is like to operate the most successful open source project on the Microsoft platform, DotNetNuke - a Web Application Framework for ASP.NET.

In this presentation, Si Chen will discuss the key trends in the enterprise software sector, including vendor consolidation, on-demand delivery, and the transition to a Service Oriented Architecture, and how they are creating opportunities for open source applications.

Learn how to build and deploy enterprise open source applications with the ActiveGrid open source project. In this session you will see how to build applications rapidly with the ActiveGrid Application Builder, a graphical development environment oriented toward building rich Internet ...

This session will detail a best-practices approach to enterprise adoption of open source software, focusing on five common migration mistakes and recommendations for successfully avoiding them. We will cover the characteristics of open source offerings that make them especially suitabl...