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Webinar: The Data Center of Tomorrow

February 26, 2013 By

In partnership with CloudNOW, the SIIA and CloudNOW webinar series features thought leadership and best practices from some of the greatest minds in the industry.

Webinar Description
Software Defined Network introduces a new breed of computer network that exists only as software so that you can control it independently of the physical switches and routers running beneath it. Apart from hardware independence, SDN promises better scale and provides a single point of control for all network policy. With the network being virtualized, it now becomes possible to deliver a data center that can be delivered as a service. The control and management of the data center can by automated by software. In this talk we discuss the current developments in software defined networks and software defined data centers, what users can achieve today and identify challenges that they may face.

Featured Presenters:
Seema Jethani
Director of Product Management, EnStratus

Vanessa Alvarez
Cloud Thought Leader & Director of Product Marketing, Gridstore

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Executive Profile: Feyzi Fatehi, Chief Executive Officer, Corent Technology

February 14, 2013 By

SIIA Software Division Executive Profile

 

  Name: Feyzi Fatehi
Title: CEO
Company: Corent Technology, Inc.

 

Bio:
Feyzi Fatehi is a Silicon Valley veteran with 25 years of leadership experience building high performance teams at HP and multiple software start-ups that commanded more than $1 billion in valuation. He has been a speaker at Harvard Business School, Wharton, Stanford, Pepperdine and UCLA Anderson School of Management. Feyzi is a member of the IBM Partner Advisory Council, as well as the UC Irvine Chief Executive Roundtable and serves as the chairman of the Technology Council of Southern California/ Orange County. He has a BS in Solar Engineering, an MS in Software Architecture and an MBA in International Management.

Home town: Laguna Niguel, California

First job:  Software Engineer at HP Cupertino, as a member of the small and elite team that invented the first ever commercial Real-Time Database, the HP Real-Time Database.
What are you currently reading?  Aleph; by Paulo Coelho, Mojo, by Marshall Goldsmith

All-time favorite music:  Imagine, John Lennon

What is the best meal you have had recently? Eggplant Parmesan, at Mama Cella’s Italian Kitchen, Rancho Bernardo, San Diego

What is your next (dream) career? Anything that would push me beyond my comfort zone, and would allow me to learn as well as contribute, while having the privilege of working with genuine, driven, energetic, visionary, and innovative people.

Hobbies: Reading, movies, golf, ski, ocean … and spending quality time with my family and good friends.

What do you think is the hot button issue for the software & services industry going into 2013? Recognizing that the “Cloud” is much more than just a set of virtualized systems hosted by third parties, and start looking at the next gen software platforms that help deliver the promises of the “Cloud” such as tangible and timely benefits that would accelerate and amplify SaaS success.

Why is your company a member of SIIA? The high quality of member companies, a first-class management, and the top SIIA industry events and programs.

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Webinar: 2013 Federal IT Predictions

February 4, 2013 By

Webinar Description
The past several years have brought a great deal of change to the federal IT market, and 2013 will be no exception. One thing is for sure, 2013 will bring a convergence of issues impacting agencies from budget uncertainty, IT mandates and acquisition policies, to oversight and human capital issues. With all of those issues at hand, what will be the top federal IT predictions for 2013? Listen to this pre-recorded webcast to find out.

Panelists:
Susie Adams
Federal Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft

Kevin Plexico
Vice President Information Solutions, Deltek

Mike Binko
President and CEO, kloudtrack

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Announcing All About the Cloud 2013’s Program Committee

January 14, 2013 By

The Software & Information Association (SIIA) is excited to announce All About the Cloud’s (AATC 2013) Program Committee. Being represented by executives of SIIA’s Software Division members, the advisory group will provide strategic advice to shape the conference theme, networking events, workshops, and content.  You can view a complete list of the executives representing the Program Committee on the AATC 2013 website.  The event takes place from May 7-9 in the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, California.

The Program Committee for the industry’s most comprehensive ISV conference, AATC 2013 includes executives from:

CorSource Technology – the leading provider of strategic consulting, development services and technical staffing that businesses need to succeed in the fast-moving, highly competitive world of software development and IT.

FPX - the pioneering innovator of cloud-based Configure-Price-Quote® solutions that improve sales efficiency and effectiveness.  We enable salespeople to respond to customers faster by aligning sales processes with customers’ decision-making behavior.

LogiXML – offers the fastest way to create BI applications, deploy scalable dashboards and reports, and embedded analytics into existing applications – all for a fraction of the cost of other solutions. Unlike traditional Business Intelligence platforms that are complex and costly, LogiXML’s agile technology allows organizations to rapidly develop, refine, and adapt BI applications that serve any number of users on any platform, all without extensive development or professional services.

SoftServe – the global provider of proven high quality software development, testing and consulting services. SoftServe is committed to bringing the best commercial software to independent software vendors and enterprises. We combine our unmatched experience with best practices delivering SaaS/Cloud, Mobility and SDLC innovative solutions.

Corporations or individuals interested in registering, sponsoring, speaking opportunities at AATC 2013, please contact: Rhianna Collier, VP, Software Division, +1.408.884.3834, rcollier@siia.net or visit: http://siia.net/aatc/2013/.

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Beware the Business Intelligence Bigot

January 3, 2013 By

Today’s guest post was contributed by Steven Schneider who is the contributor to Slinging Software, a blog focused on the adventures in scaling a business, selling software, and the business intelligence market.  To read further contributions, check out the blog at SlingingSoftware.com

One of the key successes in working with large enterprises is understanding the different types of prospects that one encounters, and segmenting them based on the level of experience with BI products.

Through this effort, we have developed a system that will tell us, in the early stages of an opportunity, if we have a good fit, if it is going to take some work, and when it might make sense to walk away from an opportunity.

Check out the rest of Slinging Software’s blog here.

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Simplifying SaaS and Multi-Tenant Application Developmnet

January 3, 2013 By

Today’s guest post was submitted by SIIA member Techcello, which helps you build multi-tenant applications 30-40% faster and 50% cheaper.

e-Book Part 1 : Simplifying SaaS & Multi-tenant Application Development

A lot has been written about SaaS as a business model for monetizing software applications. But there is another dimension to SaaS – which is the technical and architectural dimension. If we have to host a separate server instance for each customer, if we have to maintain a separate code base for each customer, it still remains an ASP model not SaaS.

So SaaS automatically implies Multi-tenancy, Configurability, Scalability and a distributed Data Architecture. And a tenant need not mean a customer. Countries, Distributors or SBUs could be virtual tenants with a hierarchical relationship with the actual customers / user groups using the application. Whether it is for an ISV, Enterprise or Government, whether it is for hosting on-premise, private cloud or public cloud, techcello understands the real challenges of engineering a Multi-tenant SaaS application in all its depth and complexity.
Like we have productized the engineering and architectural expertise in the form of a platform, Techcello is proud to share this expertise in the form of an e-book.

Click here to download a full copy of the e-book.

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Breakthrough Talk: Navigating Transformation

December 13, 2012 By

Marc Strohlein, Agile Business Logic

In a relatively short period of time, technology has moved from the back office to the front office, and then out the door to the mobile Internet, all the while growing in impact and disruptive potential. In the process, technology moved from a business strategy-enabling tool, to one of transformation, at least for those information companies that have figured out how to truly leverage it.

It’s no secret that Google, Apple, and Amazon have mastered using technology to transform their businesses-not just once or twice, but continuously. Information publishers, on the other hand have often struggled to achieve such transformational effects. That’s because the challenges of selecting and exploiting transformative technologies are significant. So are the people and cultural issues that come with major technology shifts.

Executives are lulled by vendors’ siren songs of big data, cloud computing, tablets and mobile computing, semantic technology-the list goes on and on. But which ones will deliver breakthrough business impact and have staying power? And how do technology executives manage complex transitions from legacy environments without disrupting business operations?

The answer, and the subject of this upcoming panel at the SIIA IIS conference, “Navigating Transformation,” is that technology and business strategy need to become intertwined and embedded in the DNA of publishing firms. In effect, those businesses need to become technology firms that publish-ot just newspaper, book, journal, or online publishers.

The panel is comprised of Richard Belanger, Chief Information Officer, ProQuest, Peter Marney, Senior Vice President, Thomson Reuters, along with myself, Marc Strohlein, Principal of Agile Business Logic as moderator. Expect a lively discussion about the opportunities afforded by new technologies as well as their challenges and our collective wisdom about how to ensure success.  Our goal is that attendees will leave with clear ideas about how to leverage the transformative potential of information technology.

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