Media Alert: Gartner Events Announces Gartner Application Integration and Web Services Summit

Business Wire, Nov 4, 2004

What:  Gartner Application Integration and Web Services Summit

    When:  November 15-17, 2004

    Where: Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center,
           Orlando, Florida

    Details:

    --  Gartner Application Integration and Web Services Summit
        include more than 50 in-depth sessions, providing strategy
        insights, best practice discussions, case studies and panels
        addressing the current and future trends in application
        integration and Web services.

    --  Detailed analysis on the latest issues and future trends in
        business process management (BPM), service-oriented
        architecture (SOA), event-driven architecture, .NET, Java and
        open-source.

    --  Gartner-led sessions on standards including a Power Panel with
        leading standards organizations.

    --  Live demos by several standards organizations showcasing real
        world examples of what standards can do.

    --  Post-conference workshops that drill down into the practical
        application of standards, and how to use them right now.

Keynote speakers will provide their vision for the next steps for integration and Web services. Keynote speakers include Peter Weill, director of The Center for Information Systems Research, MIT; Tom Davenport, president's distinguished professor of information technology and management, Babson College; and Dr. Mani Chandy, professor of computer science, California Institute of Technology.

More information about the Gartner Application Integration and Web Services Summit is available on Gartner's Web site at www.gartner.com/us/aiws. Members of the media can register by contacting Tom McCall at 408.468.8312 or e-mail at tom.mccall@gartner.com.

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