IASA New England Chapter Meeting - March 2009 March 26, 2009

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Our next meeting will feature Hub Vandervoort, CTO of Progress Software, speaking to us about the velocity of todays business, what he calls 'The Event Driven Business'.
Hub Vandervoort has more than 25 years of experience as a consultant and senior technology executive in the networking, communications software and Internet industries. As CTO of Progress Software, Hub is responsible for assessing market trends and partner requirements to formulate the strategic technology direction for companys high-growth portfolio products, including the Progress brands: Sonic, Actional, FUSE, Apama, DataXtend, Shadow, and DataDirect. Before assuming the CTO position, he served in multiple roles within Progress including VP of Strategic Services and CTO of Financial Services for Sonic Software, leading a number of strategic growth initiatives.
Prior to Sonic Software, he co-founded three start-up ventures and held senior management positions with early pioneers in the emerging message-oriented middleware market. Among these, he was CEO of Horizon Strategies, Inc., which he co-founded and merged with Momentum Software Corporation, where he then served as EVP, Strategic Planning. He was also co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of TSCentral, Inc., a leading Exchange Portal and ASP solutions provider.
Hub is a frequent speaker at industry events and contributor to numerous industry publications. He also co-founded and served on the boards of several industry associations, including the Message-Oriented-Middleware Association (MOMA).
Faster than a speeding bullet - Ready for event-driven business?
Your systems cant keep up with the ever-increasing velocity of business. Financial trade settlement has accelerated from three days to two hours in just a few years; the trend towards real-time business is repeating itself in almost every industry.
Are you operating on the right data? Can you identify exceptions or fraud while theres time for correction? Hub Vandervoort discusses the role of event-driven SOA in keeping provisioning and visibility ahead of todays business velocity.
Date
March 26th, 5pm-8pm
New Location
Progress Software Corporation14 Oak Park DriveBedford, MA 01730
Directions
http://www.progress.com/openedge/about_us/directions/index.ssp
Agenda
05:00pm-06:00pm Networking06:00pm-06:15pm Chapter Announcements06:15pm-07:30pm Faster than a speeding bullet - Hub Vandervoort
We are looking forward to seeing everyone at the upcoming meeting.

Organized by IASA New England
The New England chapter of IASA exists to provide a forum to established, practicing and emerging IT architects in the Boston and surrounding areas, for communication, learning, exchange of ideas, professional support and to contribute to the development of IT architecture as a profession.

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Ticket Info:  Attendee, Free

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