Development and deployment platforms have continuously evolved and matured to meet the needs of today's complex business models. At the same time, new technologies such as Web Services have emerged to support the applications architectures of tomorrow. Sustainable solutions are keys to managing systems development lifecycles and operational frameworks. This seminar will help you get familiarized with the transformational methods of designing, developing, operating and maintaining financial applications.

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM: Breakfast, Registration and WSTA Introduction

8:05 AM - 8:45 AM:
Examining the Platforms And Tools for Next Generation IT Solutions

001 Gartner Final

 001 Gartner Final.pdf 874.71 kB

Mark Driver, Research VP, Gartner
From SOA to Web 2.0 today’s applications have radically evolved in dramatically short timeframes. Moreover, this rate of IT evolution is ever increasing with no end in sight. In response, the tools, technologies, skills, and processes required to deliver today’s IT solutions are also evolving to meet these new challenges. Here we address the past, present and future of application development platforms like Java and .NET and tools ranging from COBOL to Ruby. We examine the roles they will play in future IT challenges and best practices to maximize return on investment.

During this session you will learn:

• What are the principle driving factors for next generation application architectures?
• What are the strengths and challenges for today’s industry dominant application development tools?
• How will application development efforts evolve to meet the challenges of next generation IT solutions?

8:45 AM - 9:05 AM Joseph Weitekamp, SVP, Strategic Technology and Architecture,

ITG-WSTA App Arch Pres 11-07 [Compatibility Mode]

 ITG-WSTA App Arch Pres 11-07 [Compatibility Mode].pdf 145.27 kB

ITG, Inc. - An End User Perspective
Today’s application architects have an unprecedented collection of approaches, technologies and tools at their disposal, allowing them to create the most maintainable, scalable and well factored systems ever possible. If only the clients weren’t clamoring for sub-millisecond latency. What’s an architect to do?
Joseph Weitekamp, SVP Strategic Technology and Architecture at ITG will share his perspectives on walking the line between modern architectural principals and the do-whatever-it-takes-to-make-it-fast pragmatism that often drives our approaches.

9:05AM-9:15AM WSTA 2007 Recap, Mark Sanders, WSTA President

Time		Session 1		Session 2
9:15-9:45		MKS Inc. 1-001 MKS Final  1-001 MKS Final.pdf 705.82 kB Extending Your Service Desk – Linking Application Development to Operations Jim Winder, Regional Application Engineer, MKS Inc. Service Desks traditionally serve the operational and production aspects of IT organizations and their respective business units. However, business services that consist of applications typically start their lifecycle as requirements from the originating business unit, then follow a development lifecycle before entering the operations realm. This development lifecycle is commonly a blind spot for service desks manifesting most typically via an incident logged against an application in production requiring maintenance or upgrade work to be completed by development. Learn how to remove this blind spot by linking the development lifecycle – which is also widely known as ‘Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)’, with the production environment and the Service Desk.		Cast Software 2-001 CAST Final  2-001 CAST Final.pdf 1.32 MB Measures that Matter Lev Lesokhin, VP Worldwide Marketing Today’s IT leadership face increasing demands to become better partners to their business by reducing risk and deploying faster, more predictable applications that are easy to change and less costly to maintain. To meet these challenges, visionary IT organizations are embracing automated solutions to continually monitor application quality and objectively measure the output of their in-house and/or outsourced teams. The result – balanced, actionable metrics for improved application health and delivery, and enhanced team performance.
9:45-10:15		KnowNow SOA: Syndication-Oriented Architecture? 1-002 KnowNow-SynOA-final  1-002 KnowNow-SynOA-final.pdf 1.16 MB Ron Rasmussen, CTO and VP Engineering Rohit Khare, Co-founder, KnowNow At the core of the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) vision is the concept of a ‘service bus’ that routes notifications between any services. A similar opportunity exists for integrating workflow between people and applications. Routing notifications between applications and users (and all mobile devices) calls for a Syndication-Oriented Architecture that can unlock a new level of business intelligence. Learn about an equally significant transition occurring within the enterprise that can connect employees, partners, and customers to the information they need, now.		Aspect Security 2-002 Aspect-WSTA Architecture Final  2-002 Aspect-WSTA Architecture Final.pdf 1.76 MB John Pavone, Acceleration Services Practice Lead Many organizations are struggling to establish an enterprise application security architecture. In this talk, John Pavone from Aspect Security will share his real world experience helping organizations work more strategically and stop trying to secure one application at a time. John will depict a continuous security improvement process for your portfolio of applications based on a repeatable set of secure architecture analysis and design patterns including risk profiling, threat modeling, vulnerability analysis and risk mitigation. He’ll also show how to best leverage the emerging application security tools in your enterprise. You’ll learn how to overcome the key people, process and technology challenges when establishing a baseline set of security controls to architect into your solution.
10:15-10:30		Break and Demo Area		Break and Demo Area
10:30-11:00		Securent 1-003 Securent-Final  1-003 Securent-Final.pdf 657.55 kB Thinking Outside the Application: A Practical Guide to Implementing an Entitlement Management Solution Sunil Madhu, Senior Solutions Architect, Securent Access to information is a necessity for the modern enterprise. While many organizations have implemented an identity management solution to control top-line access to applications and data, many continue to struggle with managing access at more granular levels, which is required to comply with internal policies and government regulations. This session will explore the topic of entitlement management and demonstrate how implementing a policy-based security layer outside an application can save precious development resources and enable a more secure enterprise.		Microsoft/Two Connect Facing SOA – Cutting Through and Building Up Enterprise IT departments of all sizes are managing increasingly complex IT portfolios. Yet as business needs change, these departments must ensure that their technologies remain aligned with business goals. Failure to do so compromises organizational agility and responsiveness to business needs or market changes. This is particularly true in the financial services industry where the ability to manage risk and meet compliance or regulatory demands is tied directly to ensuring a seamless and integrated IT environment; one whose critical systems are not just connected but whose processes are aligned to business requirements in order to exchange and deliver the right data to internal employees, stakeholders and business partners. What attendees will learn: A People Ready Vision How others have worked through the justification for SOA Building your SOA from bottom to top
11:00-11:30		Idea Integration 1-004 Idea Final  1-004 Idea Final.pdf 738.66 kB Application Portfolio Management and Modernization Enterprise applications are at the heart of every organization, they run the business and represent an enormous investment, that can be utilized as a competitive advantage. By rationalizing and modernizing these applications there is a tremendous opportunity to reduce total cost of ownership and improve the ability for IT to stay aligned with the enterprise’s business strategy as well as becoming a proactive entity. Only when an organization possesses a full understanding of the entire IT portfolio, the associated costs and the value and health of the IT assets, can the guesswork be removed from critical decisions concerning modernizing, new systems, a new outsourcing path, or a merger and acquisition opportunity. Application Portfolio Management provides the coverage, tools, processes and reporting capabilities that are essential for supporting the strategic business decisions needed to successfully manage IT. Idea and Micro Focus will be presenting a case study highlighting a global financial firm, focusing on the utilization of Application Portfolio Management during a modernization project.		Avaya 2-004 Avaya-GueretteFinal  2-004 Avaya-GueretteFinal.pdf 1.54 MB Service-Oriented Architecture and Communications for the Financial Services Industry Michael Guerette Avaya Sr. Manager - Business Development In this era of IT convergence, we're now seeing the convergence among Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Communications, and Business Process Management, which have manifested under the moniker "Communications Enabled Business Processes". This session will introduce the capabilities now available in this space and how they are applied within the Financial Services industry while addressing architectural considerations.
11:30-12Noon		CSC Consulting 1-005 CSC- Final  1-005 CSC- Final.pdf 376.86 kB (presented by IBM) Business Driven Application Modernization for Capital Markets Mike Brennan, Partner, National Financial Services Practice, CSC Consulting Group Generate more transactional activity. Transform operations into a lower cost, scalable model. Manage new processes on top of legacy systems. If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. Capital markets participants face significant process and technology challenges to meet these business imperatives. This session will share insights on current market dynamics and their implications, and present modernization approaches, practices and tools that can help you implement a business driven paradigm that scales from project to enterprise level.

12Noon-12:30 Demo Area Open

The Warwick New York Hotel
65 West 54th Street
New York City

Keynote Speaker: Mark Driver, Research VP, Gartner
Mark Driver is a vice president and research director in Gartner Research, where he specializes in application development technologies and open source software. Within Gartner, Mr. Driver serves as a principle analyst for Java technology as well as the Microsoft .NET framework. He also manages Gartner's research agenda concerning both business and technical issues around open source software. He covers many aspects of open source software models including adoption challenges, best practices, market impact and development models. Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Driver was a technical architect and project leader for more than 15 years in the IT industry, where he focused on distributed open systems development. He worked in several areas including state government, commercial software vendors and in-house IT groups.

Lev Lesokhin, VP Worldwide Marketing, CAST Software
Lev Lesokhin is responsible for CAST's strategic marketing activities. Mr. Lesokhin comes to CAST from SAP, where he was Director, Global SME Marketing. Prior to SAP, he was at the Corporate Executive Board, working with the heads of Applications organizations at Fortune 1000 companies to identify best management practices. Mr. Lesokhin also served several years as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, and has many years of direct experience as a developer and manager of AD teams.

Sunil Madhu, Senior Solutions Architect, Securent
Sunil Madhu is the Senior Solutions Architect at Securent, Inc. with over 14 years experience in both the developer and the consumer side of Information Technology. He has worked at global firms such as IBM, Siemens, Sun Alliance, Texaco, EDS, Netegrity and CA. He is well versed in all aspects of the Software Development Life-cycle, with a special focus on application security architecture and design. He has personally architected and helped implement mid-to-enterprise scale application security frameworks at a 148 of the Fortune 500 firms to date.

John Pavone, Acceleration Services Practice Lead, Aspect Security
John Pavone has been an IT professional for over 20 years. In the last 12 years, John has concentrated solely on Information and IT Infrastructure Security. John works for Aspect Security, a leader in the application security consulting space, as a practice lead specializing in the enablement of application security within organizations. John held various security related management positions, including the chief security architect for a large financial services firm. In this role, John established an enterprise–wide IT security program utilizing a quantitative risk assessment and mitigation approach with a direct line of sight to the organization’s corporate dashboard. Other major accomplishments include the development and mainstreaming of an IT risk management process, the creation of an application vulnerability testing lab, and the security design and implementation of an enterprise single sign-on and authorization system.
Joseph Weitekamp, SVP, Strategic Technology and Architecture at ITG, Inc.
Joseph Weitekamp is Senior Vice President, Strategic Technology and Architecture at ITG Inc., where he and his team identify emerging technological opportunities for ITG to capitalize on in the continuing evolution of its direct market access, algorithmic trading, crossing and analytic products. A former staff consultant with Deloitte Consulting, Intrasphere and marchFIRST, Joseph has a history as a software and hardware engineer in Financial Services, Pharmaceuticals and Manufacturing. His avocations include family, piano and SCUBA diving.

Mike Brennan, Partner, National Financial Services Practice, CSC Consulting Group
Mr. Brennan is a partner with CSC's Consulting Group and functions as a Capital Markets Subject Matter Expert and Management Consultant within the National Financial Services Practice. Mr. Brennan has over twenty seven years experience in the Securities Industry and has held three NASD licenses: Series 7 General Securities Representative, Series 63 Uniform Securities Agent State Law and Series 27 Financial and Operations Principal. Prior to his six years at CSC, Mr. Brennan spent twenty years at a Top 5 U.S. Broker Dealer with the majority of his career at or above the Vice President level in Securities Operations. As a result of his background, Mr. Brennan has been involved in all phases of design and implementation of technology and operational processes for diverse customer
and product lines. Additionally, Mr. Brennan's articles on contemporary issues affecting the securities industry have appeared in industry publications over a dozen times in the past six years.

Ron Rasmussen, CTO and VP Engineering, KnowNow
Ron Rasmussen serves as Chief Technical Officer and Vice President of Product Development for KnowNow, Inc. He brings over 20 years experience delivering distributed enterprise class infrastructure solutions. Prior to joining KnowNow, Mr. Rasmussen served as Senior Vice President of Engineering and Operations at Digital Impact Inc., where he was responsible for the development of hosted enterprise applications used for direct marketing by the Fortune 500. He also led the successful development and delivery of the company's first end-user marketing automation application-IMPACT. Before that, Mr. Rasmussen served as Vice President of Product Development -Server Products Group at SCO. While there, he led product development for both new and existing server software, driving the development of the company's top revenue-generating OpenServer product line. Prior to SCO, Mr. Rasmussen spent 8 years as an engineer and architect at Hewlett-Packard, developing compilers and prototyping distributed software development environments. Mr. Rasmussen holds a B.A. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Rohit Khare, Co-founder, KnowNow
Rohit Khare co-founded KnowNow in 2000, based on his doctoral research at UC Irvine. There, he studied the development of application-layer Internet protocols and architectural styles for decentralized systems with Prof. Richard N. Taylor, for which he won an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award. Subsequently, he was appointed Director of CommerceNet Labs, an electronic commerce think-tank, investor, and sponsor of community initiatives such as Microformats.org. Dr. Khare's participation in Internet standards development with world-renowned technical teams at MCI's Internet Architecture group and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, where he focused on security and eCommerce issues, led him to found 4K Associates, a standards-strategy consultancy, as well as editing the World Wide Web Journal (W3J) for O'Reilly & Associates. Rohit received his B.S. in Economics and in Engineering and Applied Science with honors from Caltech in 1995 and his Master's and Ph.D. in Software Engineering from UC Irvine in 2000 and 2003, respectively. He currently resides in New York City, where he is researching advanced relevancy-refinement algorithms for publish/subscribe alert systems.
Jim Winder, National Application Engineer, Strategic Solutions Team, MKS, Inc.
Jim Winder is a National Application Engineer on the Strategic Solutions team at MKS Inc. Specializing in Application Lifecycle Management, Jim helps organizations address key business issues by leading teams through the discovery, design, and implementation of IT controls and improved software development processes. Prior to joining MKS, Jim was a partner with iTegrity Group LLC, where he helped organizations adopt the ITIL framework. Under his leadership, several organizations achieved process automation, quality improvements, and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Jim is a 23 year veteran of the IT Industry and a frequent speaker on software quality and process improvement topics including CMMI, ITIL and process automation.

Presentations By: Avaya, MKS, Inc., CSC Consulting Group, KnowNow, Microsoft/Two Connect, Cast Software, Securent, Aspect Security, Idea Integration