On October 18, Scott Morrison, CTO and Chief Architect with our strategic partner Layer 7 Technologies, will be delivering a keynote presentation at the Mastering Business Intelligence with SAP conference in Sydney.
At Layer 7, Scott is leading a team developing the next generation of security infrastructure for SOA, Web and Cloud. He has extensive technical and scientific experience in a number of industries and universities, including senior architect positions at IBM. He is also one of the four co-editors for the WS-I Basic Security Profile.
Following the conference, Scott will be joining First Point Global (Oct 20-26) on a roadshow around the country. If you’re planning to attend the conference be sure to look out for Scott (his slot is 6.45PM on the Monday) and Jan Zeilinga from First Point Global, or send me an email if you would like to arrange a meeting later in the week.
Here’s the abstract of Scott’s presentation in full:
BI is Dead. Long Live BI. The Future of Business Intelligence in the Cloud
Will cloud computing really change IT? Despite all of the attention that cloud computing commands, this deceptively simple question has been largely overlooked. The promise of shifting capex dollars to lower opex is certainly compelling and the overnight success of some of the large Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) vendors, such as Salesforce.com is undeniably impressive. But once the hype dies down, what will be the real impact of cloud computing to mission-critical applications such as BI?
Cloud will transform BI, much as it is currently transforming CRM. Cloud isn’t only about a cheaper new delivery model; when done right, cloud also radically changes how applications are composed and where data can reside. These changes are driven both by necessity-acknowledging the realities of latency, privacy and compliance – but also by opportunity and the rapidly evolving best practices that show us how to build applications better and deliver these faster. BI must change to be successful in the cloud and cloud is an irresistible forcing function that will make this change inevitable. If your career is centered around BI, you need to be ready for this revolution.
