Keeping up with Business Demand in Tough Times

Delivering Dynamic Apps with Agility

Broadcast Date: Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 10:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM CT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: One hour

Speakers:
John Rymer, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Paulo Rosado, CEO, OutSystems
Patrick Egan, Publisher, Agile Journal

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Today’s economic situation has forced many organizations to rethink their priorities in order to keep pace with these difficult times. More than ever, attention needs to be paid to how business applications can keep up with evolving markets, policies, regulations, and regulations and business models in the most economical way. Most business applications are too inflexible to keep pace with the businesses they support. Today's applications force people to figure out how to map isolated pools of information and functions to their tasks and processes, at the same time forcing IT pros to spend too much time and resources.

Now is the time to invent a new generation of enterprise software that adapts to the business and evolves with it. Forrester calls this new generation Dynamic Business Applications, emphasizing close alignment with business processes and work (design for people) and adaptability to business change (build for change). At this stage, the requirements for Dynamic Business Applications are clearer than the design practices needed to create them. But the tools are at hand, and pioneers in service-oriented architecture (SOA), business process management (BPM), and business rules - including independent software vendors (ISVs) - have begun showing us the way. If you have not taken the road to Dynamic Business Applications, the time to start on this journey is now.

This session will share an insightful view on Dynamic Business Applications explaining why they are more important than ever before and a key to business survival. You will learn how Agile methods and technology are an imperative to successfully delivering Dynamic Business Applications.

About the Presenters:

John Rymer,
Vice President, Principal Analyst,
Forrester Research

John Rymer serves Application Development & Program Management professionals. He is a leading expert on the market for application platforms and infrastructure software for building and running applications. Included in his coverage are the Java/J2EE application servers from BEA, IBM, JBoss, Oracle, SAP, and Sun Microsystems and the equivalent portions of Microsoft's .NET platform. John also covers the business rules platforms market.

Paulo Rosado
CEO
OutSystems

Paulo Rosado is a founder of OutSystems and has been its CEO since 2001. Before OutSystems, Paulo was Executive VP of Global Marketing at Altitude Software, a CRM company present in 32 countries. Before joining Altitude, he co-founded Intervento, an e-business software infrastructure company, acting as its CEO until the company was successfully sold in 1999. Previously, Paulo worked in Silicon Valley for Oracle Corp, where he held multiple positions in R&D and Product Management.

Paulo Rosado has participated in multiple Executive Education programs, and holds a Master's in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Computer Engineering degree from Universidade Nova, Lisbon.

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OutSystems is a software company providing the industry leading All-in-One Agile Suite, the first unified solution to address the full life cycle of delivering and managing web business applications, based on agile methods. The Agile Suite is comprised of the Agile Platform and Agile Network.

www.outsystems.com