Integration is a topic that continues to gain mindshare of
information professionals around the world. The supplier community is
demonstrating an increased focus with more and more solutions, and new
solution providers are entering the market on a weekly basis. Open source
solutions are springing up on collaboration sites at the rate of dozens
per day. Educational institutes are increasingly focusing on integration
and middleware as a distinct discipline. Standards organizations are
creating more interoperability standards than ever. And most important,
integration is consuming an increasingly larger percentage of end-user IT
budgets.
With all this attention, you might think the field is saturated with
answers to whatever question you might have. Unfortunately, all this
activity does not always translate into practical answers. What is needed
is bold leadership to break through the rhetoric and to demonstrate
effective real world solutions. Leadership often means challenging
the status quo or tackling the tough problems that exist in business
today. The market is now demanding a shift from analytical textbook
solutions to tried and tested successful integration deployments. It is
for this reason that we have selected ?Real World Integration? as the
theme for the 2005 Global Integration Summit.
The Integration Consortium is calling on integration thought leaders,
practice leaders, business leaders, and product leaders to present at the
2005 Global Integration Summit. These presentations will help the
industry achieve a higher degree of integration maturity and application
interoperability. If you are such a leader, you are invited to submit a
whitepaper, presentation abstract or case study by January 15, 2005, to
the GIS Program Committee for consideration at the 2005 Summit. A
peer-review process will select the best submissions which will be
published in the Summit Proceedings (copies of the 2004
Proceedings can be ordered by clicking
here). Of the
accepted papers, the best ones (the best of the best) will be invited to
present their papers at the Summit in Banff and to defend their
perspective at a plenary of their peers. The top three presentations as
voted on by attendees at the Summit will also receive a cash award ($1K,
$2, or $3K) at the annual awards banquet.
Enjoy!
François LETELLIER
INRIA Rhône-Alpes - ObjectWeb Consortium Executive Committee
email: francois.letellier at objectweb.org - phone: +33 (0)6 84 64 00
24 http://www.objectweb.org
- ObjectWeb middleware : provide your applications with the kind of freedom they deserve !
Call for proposals: Integration Summit (deadline January 15, 2005),
Francois Letellier
