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Ovum Strategy Briefings are high-level, business-to-business events that bring leading IT suppliers and solution providers together with senior-level decision makers from end-user organisations. The format is quite unique, consisting of a keynote introduction by
Ovum, followed by presentations from the Primary Sponsors and other participating sponsors. The day concludes with a Forum Debate, chaired by
Ovum, which will also have representatives from the Primary Sponsors.
In addition to the presentations, all participating sponsors will exhibit at the event, and during the course of the day there is ample opportunity for attendees to examine the exhibition area for more face-to-face discussions.
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Information Privacy and Protection
Protecting the Business and its Information Systems
Within many organisations, access to information systems and the movement of data between users and systems happens with little control. There are few policies and rules over what activities are and are not allowed. Access management to the data is often weak, while the only control over the movement of data is basic content filtering.
Tuesday 07 September 2010, London
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Managing Unstructured Business Information
New approaches for Search, Discovery and Applications
We have entered the age of ‘big data’. When making decisions in business, the line “we don’t have enough information” no longer holds true. With corporate information doubling every 18 months in developed countries, and expanding by the same proportion in developing countries in a 12 month period, the previously envisaged tsunami of data that heralds the maturity of the information age is truly upon every organisation. Moore’s law in technology and the effectively infinite repositories in the cloud have addressed the problem of storage capacity. However accessing, retrieving, analysing and understanding the data and information that has been captured and stored, has become the challenge for the decision maker, and thus the CIO whose systems need to deliver that data and information
Wednesday 8 September 2010, London
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Software Asset Management
Recognising and Addressing the Need to Effectively Manage Corporate Software Assets
Software assets are increasingly important to many organisations. Not only are they a vital element of the IT services that enable business critical service, they now also represent a much larger proportion of total IT spend. Many companies, however, still manage their software assets with ‘a lighter touch’ than other vital business assets and, unfortunately, poor software asset management can cost organisations in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as financially.
Wednesday 15 September 2010, London
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Software Testing and Performance Management
Eliminating Problems to Ensure Business Requirements are Met
Recognition is growing of the crucial role of Software Testing within the Application Lifecycle, and the value of treating this activity as integrated with Requirements Management, Configuration and Change Management, and Build and Deployment. Test results also play a vital role in Project Management.
Wednesday 22 September 2010, London
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Mobile Applications
Extending the reach of corporate information and enterprise software
Enterprises are beginning to realise the significant benefits of mobility and are starting to integrate mobile technologies into the IT infrastructure. In the past, many enterprises have considered enterprise mobility to be about devices and mobile e-mail. However, with remote working becoming more popular and the amount of work conducted outside of the office environment increasing, the solutions demanded are becoming more complex. There is now the need for mobile solutions capable of enabling process improvement and innovation.
Wednesday 29 September 2010, London
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Harvesting the Potential of Cloud Computing
Understand the benefits and challenges of moving to a cloud computing model for IT delivery
The data centre has become an expensive corporate resource comprising many different systems executing a variety of operating systems with varying levels of business priority. According to Datamonitor, labour is the biggest cost involved in the provision of IT support, accounting for up to 80% of the budget, and the data centre with its heterogeneous environment consumes a significant proportion of that cost.
Wednesday 13 October 2010, London
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Getting Started with MDM
Embarking on an MDM project is more than just implementing software; it’s also about people and process, so expect a few bumps along the way
Master data management (MDM) helps business organizations better leverage their corporate data by providing internal processes and tools for ensuring that data is consistent across all systems and it stays that way.
However, MDM projects, like any data integration initiative, require significant preparation since they are often politically challenging, architecturally complex, time intensive and expensive. In particular, companies need to
carefully evaluate and prioritize their data management needs according to business needs. That requires a delicate balance of negotiation and cooperation between the business and IT sides of the organization. While IT might own and manage the enabling technology infrastructure, business should act as the gatekeepers of data and should seize responsibility for ownership of the MDM effort. The MDM technology landscape is also very busy and noisy. Organizations also have a multitude of MDM architectures and tools to choose from, with proponents each shouting loudly to be heard. For example, there are a number of MDM approaches depending on either operational or analytic application requirements. And within this context there are several architectural styles of MDM hub to choose from – registry, transactional, and hybrid. The challenge for IT user organizations is knowing which one fits their specific use case context? Adding to the technical complexity, MDM is also being implemented less as a standalone tool and increasingly as part of an end-to-end data integration process. As such it needs to blend easily with other data integration technologies, notably ETL and data quality, data profiling tools.
Thursday 14 October 2010, Central London
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Successful WCM - The Final Frontier
Standing out from the Cloud
For many organisations a web presence has become more than just a point to ‘display their wares’, it has become a primary interface and channel of communication to customers, suppliers, and the wider world. Given this new perspective a static website is no longer acceptable. Customers expect and even demand a positive, engaging, responsive, interactive experience with a corporate website.
Wednesday 20 October 2010, London
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Information Management in the Public Sector
Driving Efficiency and Productivity and Building Shared Services
As the public sector copes with tighter budgets, the drive towards shared services, higher efficiency and productivity in the delivery of services makes this a critical time to review and update the information management and collaboration (IM&C) capabilities of the organisation. Poor information management and low levels of collaboration inside the organisation and with partners costs money, and builds in barriers to efficiency by making it more difficult for staff to get the information they need to do their jobs. Staff get demoralised and de-motivated in inefficient environments, thus perpetuating the downward spiral of waste and inefficiency. These experiences go against the grain in the public sector because public servants take great pride in delivering high quality services to the public.
Thursday 21 October 2010, London
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Desktop and End User Device
Maximising the Business Value of Enterprise End User IT Infrastructure
The corporate PC, in its many guises, continues to be something of a bug-bear to the corporate IT manager, as while it undoubtedly provides a platform of unparalleled flexibility, it also serves as a significant drain on scarce IT resources. The challenge, therefore, is for IT managers to maximise the business value of these corporate assets by ensuring that they are provisioned, deployed, managed, and maintained as efficiently and effectively as possible.
Tuesday 02 November 2010, Central London
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Search Across the Enterprise
Exploiting the Organisation's Information Assets
As organisations endeavour to maximise the use of their information assets and minimise their operational costs, the need for enterprise-wide search, discovery and information access becomes incrementally more important. The big challenge is that generally organisations are not short of information, rather that whether it is customer details, inventory or transaction data, it can be assumed that such information is available in abundance, but will be scattered across multiple disparate repositories and systems, in multiple formats and potentially with different controls oversecurity. Litigation and compliance continue to be major external drivers for deployment of enterprise search solutions, whether public sector Freedom of Information requests, or disclosure as part of a legal process.
Wednesday 03 November 2010, London
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Agile and Agility
Beyond One Size Fits All
Agile practices have given developers a better means of producing quality products but there are many diverse environments in which software is developed: the scale from a small co-located team to globally distributed teams; the use of partners, suppliers, contractors, and consultants; the use of near and offshore services; the use of cloud services. Then there is a host of different contexts in which the IT people are applying Agile techniques: custom software developers in-house, IT operational staff, maintenance teams, software modernisation teams, software developers contributing to industrial products, mobile device developers, infrastructure developers delivering a service to external customers, and so forth.
Wednesday 1 December 2010, London
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