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Getting Started as an IT Architect
www.ITarchitect.co.uk
Mitch Ruebush, the President of IASA Philadelphia
chapter and Leader of Architecture Team for ING DIRECT writes about
How an IT Architect starts to be one. |
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Top Ten Software Architecture Mistakes
www.ITarchitect.co.uk
Eoin Woods, one of the IASA Fellows has published an article about what he considers to be the top ten software architecture mistakes - mistakes that are too often learned the hard way. |
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Enterprise Architecture: It's All About Relationships
www.computerworld.com
The enterprise architecture (EA) team at the Portland, Ore., offices of Con-way Enterprise Services has been together for two and a half years. When the company consolidated the IT operations of its freight and logistics divisions, CIO Jackie Barretta created a centralized EA group, believing that a team of 15 architects could develop a road map for Con-way’s 700 IT employees. |
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Gartner highlights massive future risks in large scale enterprise IT projects
www.publictechnology.net
Gartner yesterday said enterprise IT architecture initiatives risk failure if they are unable to demonstrate value to the business. Gartner analysts predict that by 2010, 40 per cent of existing enterprise architecture programmes will be stopped due to poor execution. |
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IASA is Recognized as Professional Recruitment Criteria
It is exciting to spot out IASA's name appearing in job and responsibility of Appointment Advertisement. In the recent lookout of jobs posting in Jobstreet.com, we have noticed that local software companies listed "Professional member of IASA" as part of the requirements when hiring Senior Software Architects. |
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| Event, Date, Location | Details | Oracle BPM Executive Roundtable
16 September 2008 - Thursday
9:00am to 12:00pm
Le Meridian
KL Sentral
| You're invited to learn more about business integration for customer intimacy and operational excellence
Optimizing Your Business Processes with SOA, BPM, and Web 2.0
You’re invited to join Oracle and a select group of your peers for a discussion of next-generation application integration paradigms, including service-oriented architecture (SOA), business process management (BPM), and Web 2.0. You will learn how companies that employ these cutting-edge architectures benefit from lower total cost of ownership, faster time to market, and improved quality of services. Sessions will focus on both strategic and practical integration issues, including: - Process, message, and data integration with Oracle’s unified integration platform
- The role of BPM in improving efficiency and innovation
- Dramatically improved data performance with Oracle Data Integrator
- The creation of context-rich user experiences for both business users and IT developers
Click here now to register for this FREE event. Don’t miss your exclusive opportunity to network with your peers and discuss today’s most vital integration topics with Oracle experts. Call Oracle Registration Centre +603 2148 8381 for more information
| ITARC Thailand 2008
12 September 2008 - Friday
8:00am to 5:30pm
Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre
Bangkok, Thailand
| The IASA IT Architect Regional Conference (ITARC) is the largest event in the region to address the pressing needs of IT architects today.
The theme of the conference, “Kick your skills into high gear”, is targeted at architects of all levels who are interested in walking out of every session with a new capability. The conference will carry forward the success of the recent IASA Architect Skills Library, which delivered over 600 pages of material on architect skills from IT architects all over the world.
ITARC Thailand 2008 consist of more than 15 sessions and three tracks (Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture and Software Architecture). It is definitely an high profile event not be missed.
To RSVP for this event, please email to rebecca@iasahome.org or call Rebecca +6017 219 3377 for more information
| Object Oriented Analysis and Design using UML
3 - 5 September 2008 - (Wed - Fri)
| Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) is the principal industry-proven method for developing reliable, modular, testable programs and systems. This course provides the practical skills in the latest OO analysis and design methods. The course uses the industry-standard Unified Modeling Language (UML) as a means of depicting OO software design and providing students with a common notation and vocabulary for UML.
About the workshop :
This workshop is especially designed and formulated to provide introduction to object oriented analysis and design and modeling using UML notation. The basic concepts of Object Oriented and the methodologies will be covered. It includes case study and exercises that will familiarize the participants with UML to give them an opportunity to work through the same case study. Microsoft Visio will be used as a tool for modeling UML.
Who should attend :
This course is for those who want to take full advantage of the benefits of Object Oriented software development and want to use the industry-standard Unified Modeling Language (UML) as a means of depicting OO software design. This include the IS Manager, Project Manager, Business Analyst, System Analyst, Technical/Solution Architect, Database Administrator, Qality Controler and Documentation Staff.
What you will learn:
1. Explain the difference between object and procedural programming
2. Understand object oriented concepts such as encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism and abstraction.
3. Discussion on the concepts of namespaces, objects, classes and methods
4. Identify classes, associations, aggregations, and multiplicity
5. Understand the common features of UML diagrams
6. Write use case, classes, sequence diagrams
7. Draw activity diagrams
8. Use component and deployment diagrams
9. Describe the object oriented software life cycle
10. Understand architectural layering of a software application and best OO practices
11. What are functional and non functional requirements?
Please register by emailing to info@jccreativemax.com or call us for more information.
Enjoy special discount if you are an IASA MEMBER! call us for more enquiry.
| Office of the CIO: EMPOWER and CONNECT Workshop
3 September 2008 - Wednesday
9:00am to 12:00pm
SAP Malaysia Sdn Bhd
Suite 3.03A, 3rd Floor
Kompleks Antarabangsa
Jalan Sultan Ismail
50250 Kuala Lumpur
| Learn What 560 Top Executives Expect from I.T. (besides everything)
As the business world becomes flatter, C-level executives across the globe are turning to collaboration within their business networks as a way to win new markets and address evolving customer needs.
Through real-time sharing and virtual collaboration rooms, SAP makes it easy for team members to come together – to share knowledge, applications, and ideas. You can remove barriers that stand between people, information and results as well as build a community that can drive the success of your business.
With SAP Solutions for Information Workers, information is delivered in relevant context of the work environment and collaboration is easier and more effective. It means employees can now do more, faster.
Highlighted solutions include:
Collaborative Portal
SAP Enterprise Search
SAP NetWeaver Mobile
Click here for more information about the workshop, agenda and download complimentary report!
RSVP to info.malaysia@sap.com or call 1800 80 6371 for more information.
| Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Summit
4 September 2008 - Thursday
8:45am to 1:00pm
Ballroom A
Hilton Kuala Lumpur
| Deliver Pervasive Intelligence to Every Business User
As an IT leader, you need a secure and stable infrastructure that gives finance and line-of-business users the data and systems they need to run the business. At the same time, you have to balance the expanding—and often conflicting—information demands of those business users with the need to cut costs and manage the proliferation of data.
Join us for the Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Summit, and learn how you can provide a complete, cost-effective business intelligence (BI) foundation. With a unique track specifically designed for IT, business intelligence, and data warehousing professionals, you will learn how to deliver:
• A comprehensive BI foundation that meets the widest range of user needs
• Pervasive access to business intelligence across multiple client platforms
• Hot-pluggable technology that can work with your Oracle and non-Oracle systems
Gartner calls Oracle #1 in corporate performance management and InformationWeek readers declare Oracle their preferred business intelligence vendor. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from the experts how to turn insight into action with Oracle’s enterprise performance management solutions.
Click here to view the program agenda. Don't miss this exclusive opportunity to discuss with peers and industry experts vital enterprise performance management topics and learn how to turn insight into action
To register for this event, please email to events@oracleevents.net or call Oracle Registration Centre +603 2148 8381 for more information
Sony PSP to be given away during Raffles Draw!!!
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