As traditional views of IT get supplanted by an overarching business technology trend, companies are investing in gaining the benefits of the next generation of computing, where resources are maximized, integrated and used to deliver business results. The hottest technologies on India’s business technology radar are the ones that are not only exhibiting attributes such as cost savings, flexibility, application re-use, and faster response times, but also the ones that are charting pronounced inflection points in their evolution.

Brought to you by the proven program chair of the hugely successful Great Indian Developer Summit, the 2008 edition of Saltmarch Media’s Business Technology (BT) Summit, centered around the theme of Riding the Workhorse IT Hockey Stick, features a convergence of four co-located tracks that have been identified as the power team for Workhorse IT : SOA & Web Services, SaaS/PaaS, Virtualisation, Enterprise Content Management (ECM). These four tracks offer complimentary synergistic for a robust IT infrastructure that no IT decision-maker, manager, architect, or professional can afford to ignore in their quest for business technology success.

Success lies in business agility, and SOA can offer it in full measure. The SOA marketplace in India is witnessing a blistering growth, with large and SME organizations beginning to move beyond the planning stages to realising enterprise-wide SOA deployments. Springboard estimates the region’s 2007 SOA market amounts to US$810 million, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40%, which will bring the market to US$2.2 billion by 2010.

The SOA track at BT Summit 2008 offers strategic, technical, and business insights into developing, managing and governing a service-oriented architecture within enterprises. You will hear from the best and brightest industry luminaries, independent analysts, experienced practitioners, and of course success stories from real customers, all delivered with a level of unmatched integrity and neutrality.

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Software as a Service (SaaS) has established itself as a disruptive technology and a rage worldwide with its advantage of 'pay as you use'. Springboard forecasts the Indian SaaS market to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 77% from 2006 to 2010, to reach US$165 million by 2010. India offers immense potential for growth in the SaaS marketplace due to low penetration of software applications among Indian enterprises, especially the SMB segment.

Companies are now engaging with the IT buyer like never before, because their expertise is in understanding how to orchestrate all the applications in the enterprise to deliver business value for their clients. As SaaS permeates through the Indian enterprise, and as mission-critical applications move to the services model, users, ISV's, vendors and eco-system players are looking for answers to the new challenges and opportunities that SaaS has opened up.

At the SaaS/PaaS track at BT Summit 2008, you will find all the answers on how to leverage this disruptive technology to harness your business services, develop an in-depth understand of this model, address the customisation and integration hurdle, and much more.

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The era of virtualisation is now fully upon the technology industry. For businesses to thrive, adapting to the changing needs of their customers is paramount. For businesses to win, they must deliver the right solutions at the right time, and offer propositions that are more attractive to their customers than a competing solution. One word describes the nature of this kind of business environment: dynamic.

The ability of business and the people that constitute it is not just to survive, but thrive in the face of these dynamic demands; and that is a direct function of the capability and fitness of the infrastructure of business systems that underpin and support their work. The Vitualisation track at BT Summit 2008 offers a program, replete with technical and business insights that guarantee you the keys to a flexible and dynamic IT.

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Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is no longer just about technology, or just about content. It is about content, community, and context. The deluge of data and information, coupled with the ever-increasing need for compliance is forcing enterprises to take a strategic look at ECM and its associated disciplines. To stack up to competition, enterprises are looking up to faster, flexible, and efficient business processes that can channelise copious, unstructured information into meaningfully optimised, governed, and digitally delivered data that is available to the right stakeholders at the right time.

C-level executives, senior IT process management personnel, marketing and content managers are looking to find the precise solution that will fit the needs of their organization. What are these available solutions, and how do they stack up to the needs of a specific enterprise? What roles do strategic topics such as Governance, Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0 play in the evaluation of these solutions? What is a promising approach, and how do I find the correct partners? The ECM track at BT Summit 2008 offers strategic, technical, and business insights into all aspects of ECM, including Business Process Management (BPM), Business Rules Management (BRM), Master Data Management (MDM), Data Warehousing & Knowledge Management, and Enterprise 2.0. You will hear from the best and brightest industry luminaries, independent analysts, experienced practitioners, and of course success stories from real customers, all delivered with a level of unmatched integrity and neutrality.

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