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Enterprise DevelopmentSession Descriptions
Get a Grip on the Big Projects
Dave Kapelansky, N. American Sales Support Manager, Compuware
Throughout an application's lifecycle, advanced planning and automated tools insure that web-to-mainframe applications are successfully accomplished. Join Compuware's Kapelanski for a detailed look at effective team management that coordinates requirements gathering, defect analysis, and configuration management data for development, QA, and production teams.
10:30 a.m.
Modeling for .NET Applications
Jan Popkin, Software CEO, Popkin
Today's fast-paced world calls for smart decisions before you start programming, whether your focus is Web services, E-business, .NET or just plain old IT systems. Popkin Software CEO Jan Popkin will examine the issues around modeling .NET applications.
11:45 p.m.
Develop Fast, Reliable Microsoft .NET Code
Ken Vodicka, Rational Software
If you want to build fast, reliable applications within the Visual Studio .NET IDE, you need to perform three critical steps before you're done: memory profiling, performance profiling, and code coverage analysis. We'll show you the tools and techniques involved.
1:45 p.m.
Business Intelligence
Robin Martin, IBI
Robust business intelligence solutions that specialize in real-time information delivery over the Web can be incorporated into your current enterprise-reporting environment. Learn how as well as ways to improve mission-critical operation with WebFOCUS.
3 p.m.
Reporting in .NET
Donald MacCormick, Worldwide Director of Product Communication, Crystal Decisions
Decision-makers require high quality, accurate reports to make informed tactical and strategic decisions. In this session, you'll get an in-depth technical look at how developers can use the power of Crystal Reports to create dynamic and highly graphical reports off almost any database, and leverage them in their next generation Web services, Windows applications, and Web applications.
4:15 p.m.
SQL Development Process Improvement
Neil Davidson, Lead SQL Architect, Red Gate
At the end of many development cycles, the development database is often wildly out of synch with the production database. This talk will discuss the technical issues and challenges involved in keeping the structure and contents of development and live databases synchronized, and will offer an alternative to poorly implemented processes.
5:30 p.m.
Enterprise DevelopmentSession Descriptions
Change Management Strategies
Sohail Haque, Director of Solution and Account Management, Merant
Change accelerates quality in software development and content management processes. We'll discuss how companies can employ an enterprise change management strategy that manages enterprise digital assets. We'll also explain how automating change across development environments enables enterprises to consistently deliver robust apps faster & ultimately sustain competitive advantage by growing with change.
10:15 a.m.
Load Testing
Mark Tomlinson, Technical Alliance Manager, Mercury Interactive
Testing, verifying and managing the performance of .NET Web Services presents a unique set of challenges. In his presentation, Mark Tomlinson will provide "rules of the road" for creating reusable test scripts that can help manage the functionality and performance of .NET Web Services to ensure a smooth roll-out and top performance after deployment.
12:15 a.m.
Integrate Multi-Language Apps Using .NET's CLR
Don Wagner, President and Chief Software Architect, AppsChannel
Visual Studio .NET's Common Language Runtime (CLR) provides common object and data types shared by 30 different programming languages. The flexibility of the CLR increases a developers work capacity in complex development and integration environments. AppsChannel President and Chief Software Architect, Don Wagner, will show you how to interrogate CLR and COM objects and then link them visually into business rules imbedded in multi-programming language components.
1:30 p.m.
Optimize Your Database Connectivity with .NET
John Goodson, Vice President of Product Operations, DataDirect
Optimizing database connectivity function calls within Visual Studio is an important step often overlooked. By understanding and fine-tuning ADO .NET database connectivity, developers can greatly improve the overall performance of their applications. In this presentation, you'll learn tricks for optimizing database connectivity within Visual Studio, from debugging issues to selecting and using specific ADO .NET functions to improve performance.
2:45 p.m.
Create Cross-Platform Solutions with Visual Studio .NET
Ron Johnsen, Director of Customer Services, Mainsoft Corporation
When building cross-platform applications, some people think only of Java. But when performance, scalability and an existing investment in C/C++ code and skills are major factors, there's more to consider. Join Mainsoft's Ron Johnsen for a focus on the optimum way to use Visual Studio .NET to create mission-critical applications targeted for deployment on both Windows and UNIX.
4 p.m.
Mainframe Integration
Jake Freivald, Director of Marketing, IWay
You can accelerate your E-business initiatives through the rapid integration of complex back-office systems. Find out how to use Visual Basic and C++ development skills to create a reusable integration infrastructure that leverages all of your back-end data assets, including legacy and packaged solutions.
5:15 p.m.
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