September Meeting: Architecture *is* the Business

What would you do if you were CEO for a month? What if you suddenly had to answer directly to your customers, your stockholders, your board, your employees – what would you do first, then what would you do next? If you are an IT architect and several major business initiatives and various impact scenarios didn’t just run through your mind, then perhaps you should consider broadening your perspective. Forward-thinking companies hold architects accountable for business progress and impact well outside of the IT domain. Because the practice of architecture crosses organizational and functional boundaries, architects are uniquely positioned to drive investment strategy, identify revenue opportunities, and reduce cost/risk for the enterprise. In this session we’ll explore a model designed to help IT architects expand their role to optimally drive business and technology strategy, describe the steps architects need to take to jump-start business transformation, and provide lessons-learned along the way.

This presentation is a recording from the 2009 ITARC conference in New York City. The speaker, Angela Yochem, will be joining us via Skype to answer questions after the presentation.

ANGELA YOCHEM is an executive in a multinational technology company, a thought leader in architecture practices and large-scale technology management, and the author of “Event Driven Architecture – How SOA Enables the Real-Time Enterprise”. Angela has held senior leadership roles in Fortune 50 companies where she drove technology transformation based on business objectives. Prior to her executive roles, Angela specialized in design and delivery of large-scale distributed systems and solutions to complex integration and convergence challenges. She has extensive B2B and B2C commerce implementation experience, with a foundation in systems design and network design and management of multicampus networks. Angela is the author of J2EE and WebLogic Server, 2nd Edition and is an IASA Fellow and an US Patent holder. Angela serves on executive boards and is a regular speaker at events and forums in the United States and abroad.

The presentation will be on Tuesday, September 7th, at 6:00 p.m, at ICC, 2500 Corporate Exchange Drive, Suite 310, Columbus, OH 43231, on the third floor. The meetings are always free, and we usually give away books and other door prizes.

Reminder: Defensible .NET on Tuesday 3 August

Come hear Jason Montgomery present Defensible .NET tomorrow!

August Meeting Announcement

Defensible .NET

ASP.NET and the .NET framework have become a preferred foundation underlying enterprise applications. While Microsoft has prioritized integrating security into the ASP.NET framework, attacks at the application layer are dramatically increasing. How effective are the security controls built into the ASP.NET framework? Application architects must understand the limitations of the framework and ensure that code is secure. Focusing on the OWASP top ten, Jason Montgomery will explain the latest defensive techniques specific to the ASP.NET environment, and discuss the importance and challenges of building security into the organization’s software development lifecycle.

About the speaker

Jason Montgomery is Sr. Security Specialist at Active Technologies Group, Inc. (ATGi). He is a SANS instructor in .NET application security and co-author of the secure coding certification, GSSP.NET. Jason has spent the past five years guiding software security practices at the Department of Defense, and currently leads ATGi’s secure software development and assessment practice.

Location

The presentation will be on Tuesday, August 3rd, at 6:00 p.m, at ICC, 2500 Corporate Exchange Drive, Suite 310, Columbus, OH 43231, on the third floor. The meetings are always free, and we usually give away books and other door prizes.

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Reminder: Creating a Data Model for Your Enterprise

Want to cripple business agility and make developers miserable? A poorly-designed and maintained data model will do all that and more. If you'd prefer to build a maintainable data architecture, come hear Jason Tiret present "Modeling for Your Enterprise" this coming Tuesday, July 6, at 6:00 p.m.

Two Day Visual Studio 2010 Briefing on June 22-23

This is not a ColARC event, but you might like it anyway...

TFS 2010 Overview, Scrum integration: June 22-23

Jason Tiret Presents Modeling for Your Enterprise on July 6

Most small to medium organizations place a premium on development and deliverables rather than documentation and architecture. While this may be great to get the business started, things can quickly spiral out of control as new systems are put in place.

Jason Tiret, Director of Modeling and Architecture Solutions for Embarcadero Technologies, will be the featured presenter for the July meeting of the Columbus Architecture Group. This session will teach the user how to build a practical data architecture strategy from the ground up!

Jason's presentation, called "Modeling for Your Enterprise," will include the top 5 best practices for using data models to capture metadata effectively and support key enterprise initiatives such as Business Intelligence, Data Architecture, Data Warehousing, Governance and Compliance, and SOA. Jason lives in California and will be presenting and answering questions via LiveMeeting, just for Columbus Architecture Group.

The presentation will be held Tuesday, July 6, at 6:00 p.m, at ICC, 2500 Corporate Exchange Drive, Suite 310, Columbus, OH 43231. The meetings are always free, and we usually give away books and other door prizes.