Come join us for some exciting presentations - details below!

Early bird registration is only $50, if registration is returned by April 12th.
Registration on the day of the event is $65.

Full breakfast, lunch and snacks are provided!

Registration Form Available Here

  Revised Agenda for the OHVCMG Conference of April 19, 2007

8:00 - Registration and Full Breakfast

8:30 - Dan Ruehl - OHVCMG Chair, Brief opening comments

8:45 - Steve Samson, Author & 2006 CMG A. A. Michelson Winner! : MVS Performance Management and the Evolution of I/T with the Help of Technology - The IBM mainframe operating system has evolved over the years, and so has the discipline of performance management. Stephen Samson has worked "in the trenches" of MVS performance management over the years, and has been a major contributor to Performance Management.

9:45 - Break

10:00 - Annie Shum, BEA Systems - 2004 CMG A. A. Michelson Winner! : Achieving Sustainable Business Agility with SOA & Web 2.0 (Part 1) - While the SOA promise of business agility leading to competitive advantage is truly compelling, there  is a growing concern among skeptics and proponents alike that pursuit of this agile nirvana may turn out to  be a fruitless exercise. This two part talk begins by demystifying SOA & Web 2.0 through the lens of society and then takes an objective look at the key ingredients required to unlock the promise of business agility with SOA and Web 2.0. The conclusion is sobering but will have far-reaching implications for tomorrow’s IT: namely, leading edge technology alone is inadequate.  Service life cycle governance and holistic SLA Management make the difference between success and failure of SOA.

11:00 - John Smith, Indicative Software - Enterprise Service Management - John will discuss the most prevalent approaches to Enterprise Service Management, and contrast their applicability and effectiveness in today’s distributed computing environment. Additionally, this session will examine the unique innovation of a Service Model that places management emphasis on the efficiency and responsiveness of the IT service at the point of consumption, while providing context and association to the relevant performance metrics of the infrastructure Service Chain that must execute to deliver the service.

12:00 -  Lunch  - John Smith, Indicative Software -(Vendor lunch sponsors) : Enterprise Service Management - Product Specific

1:15 - Annie Shum, BEA Systems - 2004 CMG A. A. Michelson Winner! : Achieving Sustainable Business Agility with SOA & Web 2.0 (Part 2)

2:30 - Break

2:45 -  Dr. Curtis Hrischuk, IBM  - CMG Best Paper 2006 : A Tutorial on SIP Application Server Performance and Benchmarking - The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is an internet protocol for establishing sessions between two or more parties. It is becoming ubiquitous in uses such as Voice over IP, instant messaging, Internet TV, and others. The Java community has even provided a standardized API so that SIP applications can now be built within J2EE application servers. These new capabilities also bring with them new performance engineering methods, tools, and benchmarking needs. This paper describes the experiences and processes for the performance engineering of SIP applications in a J2EE environment.

3:45 - Kathy Steffens - OHVCMG Secretary/Treasurer : Brief Closing Remarks

4:00 - PARS

Meeting is at:

Dave & Buster's:614-771-1515 3665 Park Mill Run Drive Hilliard, OH 43026

Thanks for coming!!