Well, the opening video is playing and we are getting started…

Briane has introduced Martin Nally, CTO, IBM Rational talking about GIS in Enterprise Applications.

• Discussion on business growth
• RFID IBM commercial…you know the one with the truck
• What if scenarios
• “GIS for enterprise is just beginning”
• Moving to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for integration
• Triad: Services, processes, and data
• IBM SOA Foundation
• SOA Programming model is based on existing standards
• Discussion of existing WebSphere/Java ADF integration
• Importance of portals (Portal Principle)
• Spatial-temporal integration
• WebSphere Everyplace Deployment allows server processes to be shifted and run on client devices
• Summary…