Core Systems Competencies Can Drive Competitive Advantages

September 4, 2008

Agenda  

Welcome
Erik Fenijn Sales Manager Fusion Middleware Oracle NL

Core Systems Competencies Can Drive Competitive Advantages
Peter Farley, Managing Director, IDC Financial Insights

• Discover why you need to renew your core systems to sustain competitive advantage
• Examine which new initiatives can shorten the time to market and increase profit margins
• Understand the impact of increasing your flexibility

Transforming to the Next-Generation Architecture
Maximo Diez, Senior Director, Oracle FSGBU

• Learn how open architecture adoption can be an enabler to core banking transformation
• Investigate how you can minimise implementation risks and smooth out IT investments over time
• Understand how BPM can be used for progressive core system renewal
• Get an evolutionary replacement roadmap that will help you transform to the next-generation architecture

A Process-Centric Approach to Transformation
Vijay Alexander, Managing Principal, i-flex Consulting

• Uncover how you can capture the roles, locations and underlying risks associated with a business process
• Find out if the same process map provides your business and IT divisions with the critical information each needs
• Learn how process-led implementations can save time and cost
• Consider how an effective process framework can be the backbone for your journey to continuous improvement and an SOA environment

Workshop: Practical Steps to Transformation
Delegates will explore how they can leverage the ideas gathered during the morning to transform their legacy core systems. Delegates will be given the opportunity to share best practices in the adoption of open and standard-based architectures and how these can be used to create a scaleable and reliable foundation platform that delivers increased flexibility.