DCI to Present the Enterprise Portals & Web Services Conferences, April 15-17, 2003 in San Francisco.Business Editors and High-Tech Writers The Enterprise Portals & Web Services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. Conferences ANDOVER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 19, 2003 (Note: Press registration now open-- see below) DCI (Display Control Interface) An Intel/Microsoft programming interface for full-motion video and games in Windows. It allowed applications to take advantage of video accelerator features built into the display adapter. is pleased to present The Enterprise Portals & Web Services Conferences, April 15-17, at The Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . This duet of conferences will provide today's senior business and IT executives with the most well rounded portals, Web services, content management, collaboration and business integration education possible. Now in it's 5th year, The Enterprise Portals Conference has become the definitive forum on planning and implementing portals. Known as a key component of the IT technology stack A Technology stack refers to the layers of components or services that are used to provide a software solution or application. Traditional examples include the OSI seven layer model, the TCP/IP model and the W3C technology stack. , successful portal deployment is crucial to business success. And with the Portal marketplace rapidly evolving, the importance of understanding the impact of new portal technologies and choosing the best portal product for an organization is yet another crucial element to achieving success. The Enterprise Portals Conference will provide attendees with the details on: -- A seven-step process to design and deploy a portal -- Effectively categorizing, managing and integrating both the information and content enterprise application business users need to do their jobs -- Expanding the portal to external trading partners, consumers and employees -- Combining personalized information delivery via the Web with collaborative services for business user communication and integration -- Ensuring that the portal is fully integrated as well as scalable -- Determining the ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). and TCO (1) (Total Cost of Ownership) The cost of using a computer. It includes the cost of the hardware, software and upgrades as well as the cost of the inhouse staff and/or consultants that provide training and technical support. See ROI. for portal applications -- Exploiting the power of Web services in the portal environment The Web Services Conference, produced by both DCI and META Group, is geared toward providing a broad range of unbiased and practical information focusing on examining the key challenges and opportunities of Web services. With Web services enabling the reinvention of application architecture from component-based architecture to service-oriented architecture See SOA. , this conference will provide insight into how Web services will expand the innovation of the Web within an organization. Attendees will receive information on: -- Discovering revenue-generating products and services offered via Web services -- Automating complex business processes without massive re-engineering of core applications -- Demonstrating the Web services revolution to upper management -- Discovering ways in which Web services can reduce the time and expense of systems integration -- Learning how Web services enable utility-grade computing -- Understanding the role and value of standards proposed IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Microsoft and BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. -- Applying Web services to integrate the supply chain For more information on attending or exhibiting at The Enterprise Portals & Web Services Conferences - April 15-17, 2003, contact confReg@dci.com. For information, www.dci.com or call 978-470-3880. PRESS REGISTRATION NOW OPEN Qualified press are invited to attend this event, including the full conference and exposition, at no charge. To apply for press credentials, please go to: www.dci.com/pr/press. |
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