Paul Allen
Principal Consultant
Everware-CBDI
Paul Allen is a principal consultant, and educator with Everware-CBDI International. Paul is widely recognized for his innovative work in component-based development, business-IT alignment and service oriented architecture. His detailed knowledge stems from over 30 years experience in the management and development of large scale business systems, and combines with a uniquely practical understanding of the problems companies face as they apply new technologies in search of business value. Paul is a widely published author whose current focus of interest in helping organizations transition to service orientation is detailed in his most recent book - Service Orientation: Winning Strategies and Best Practices – published in April 2006.
Paul Brown
Principal Architect
TIBCO Software Inc.
Dr. Paul C. Brown is a principal software architect at TIBCO Software Inc. and the author of Succeeding With SOA: Realizing Business Value Through Total Architecture and the upcoming Implementing SOA: Total Architecture In Practice. His model-based tool architectures are the foundation of a diverse family of applications that design distributed control systems, process control interfaces, internal combustion engines, and NASA satellite missions. Dr. Brown’s extensive design work on enterprise-scale information systems him to develop the total architecture concept: business processes and information systems are so intertwined that they must be architected together. Dr. Brown received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Bret Martin
Principal Enterprise Architecture
Delta Technology Inc
Bret Martin is a Principal in Enterprise Architecture with Delta Technology, the wholly owned technology subsidiary of Delta Air Lines, based in Atlanta, Georgia. Bret has more than 20 years experience in various areas of Information Technology including application development, enterprise messaging and event systems, web service and service oriented architectures, as well as database management systems. In his role at Delta Technology, he has responsibility for the development of operational event systems, service oriented architecture, enterprise messaging, and architectural strategies for each of these areas that make up the Delta Nervous System.
John R. Rymer
Vice President, Principal Analyst
Forrester Research
As an analyst, John primarily contributes to Forrester's offerings for the Application & Program Management professional. 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.
Raghu Thiagarajan
Sr. Director, Product Strategy
TIBCO Software Inc.
Raghu Thiagarajan is responsible for directing TIBCO Software's Product Management and Strategy across the company's SOA, BPM and Business Optimization product families. He has 16 years experience in the software industry, and has previously held positions in engineering, product management and product strategy at Sybase, CrossWorlds Software and IBM. He is primarily interested in the convergence of integration, data access and application developer technologies as SOA and BPM architectures evolve.