Budgets are tight. Demands for efficiencies and ROI are mounting. The organization must be more agile. You need to implement SOA, embrace new web-based applications and communities, but also make sure the integrity and complexity of your systems is under control. Oh, and by the way, IT needs to be better aligned with business goals, and if you don't want to be obsolete in five years, you need to start thinking like a business manager.

Can you do it all?

Gartner is here to help. The 20th edition of the Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit is the one event that will give you the most complete view of SOA, Web, application development, and integration trends available. In over 70 sessions, the Summit will give you a roadmap of emerging software and architecture trends, and answer your burning questions on how to implement SOA, agile methods, governance, application modernization, Web services and Web2.0, Software-as-a-Service and much more...

Key Topics

• SOA project best (and worst) practices
• SOA governance, roles and responsibilities
• Service-oriented development, process-centric development
• Emerging architectures: context-aware, web-oriented, event-driven...
• The future of development tools and languages
• Measuring the value of SOA and integration
• Web services, WS-* and SOA standards
• Web 2.0, Ajax, REST/POX, Enterprise Mashups
• Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and "Cloud computing"
• Agile development methods
• Application Portfolio and Lifecycle Management
• Requirements and change management
• Application and Web Security
• Application testing and quality
• Data integration and management

Plus NEW this edition:

• Analyst sessions on Virtualization, Mobile Web2.0, Web application frameworks, Cloud computing and Federation
• Workshops on how to engage the business, agile implementation best practices, assessing your application maturity and more...

Summit Features:

• learn from a team of 30 Gartner experts on SOA, software and Web infrastructure issues
• network with the largest pool of architects and application managers anywhere
• get specific answers to your issues through roundtables, Analyst One-on-Ones, and online communities
• check out the latest solutions and validate your shortlists

Join us to mark a special anniversary!The 20th Edition of this exciting Summit will deliver the same great event experience our alumni from the last 9 years have come to expect! Fresh content, latest trends, networking receptions and more!

If you're new to the Summit or already know the ropes, you can expect a gathering of your peers and face time with Gartner analysts at the largest independent SOA event!

The celebration includes:

• FREE "10 Years of SOA" Gartner T-shirt
• FREE exclusive "2008 Roadmap to SOA" poster
• FREE book, The Big Switch, when you attend author Nick Carr's Keynote session
• Special meet and greet breakfast with Roy Schulte who coined the term SOA ten years ago