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Software AG’s newly named Process Forum promises to deliver the best yet in terms of exciting information on Adabas, Natural, webMethods, ARIS and IDS Scheer Consulting. Through a number of local and international speakers, you will be informed on all the latest market trends and developments within Software AG.

We all know that processes exist everywhere in your organisation. Whether you are a bank, a manufacturer, a telecommunications operation, an insurance organisation or a government department, processes are what drives your business. Join us at ProcessForum 2011 where we will address the pressing questions facing all of our customers and where we will help you:

  • Operate smarter, better and faster
  • Deliver on your organization’s vision while budgets are tight and staffing is lean
  • Address your business challenges through the use of market leading software

It’s a must-attend event for all Software AG and IDS Scheer customers and partners. We look forward to seeing you there.
AGENDA
Time   Plenary session
08:00 - 08:45   Registration
08:45 - 08:50  

Welcome Address

Speaker: Emma Murray, Vice President Sales, Software AG
08:50 - 09:30  

Topic: The Transformation to Business Process Excellence

In today's demanding economy, progress requires change. Globalization, intense competition and commoditization of products force organizations to re-evaluate how they operate and how they innovate. Join Karl-Heinz Streibich, CEO of Software AG, on a journey to Business Process Excellence and beyond. Through practical experience, proven technology and innovative methodologies see how Software AG customers align business and IT departments around common, achievable business goals - and most importantly how they apply both a service and process orientation to rapidly achieve those goals.  
Speaker: Karl-Heinz Streibich, Chairman of the Group Executive Board
09:30 - 10:10  

Topic: Software AG Product Roadmap & Vision

As webMethods users you may be wondering when is the right time to upgrade and what benefits will the latest release offer you?  This session will cover our next release in March, webMethods 8.2 in detail and provide you with insight to the future of the webMethods platform and the rest of the Software AG portfolio in the rest of 2011 and 2012.
Speaker: Morne Rossouw, CTO

10:10 - 11:10  

Topic: Customer Presentation: African Bank

Managing a successful BPMS project, including one of the most important components: Change Management and creating the right climate for a successful implementation between business and IT
Speaker: Yusuf Jardien, CIO, African Bank
11:10 - 11:40   Tea Break
11:40 - 12:40  

Topic: Mind of a Fox

If anything has supported our approach of thinking like a fox as opposed to a hedgehog, it is the series of momentous events that have rocked global financial markets since September 2008. Virtually everything about the future is uncertain and beyond the control of individual players in the economic game (other than their own responses to the changing environment).

Isn't it therefore amazing that most of the leading business schools as well as best-selling business authors in the world still advocate the hedgehog approach of focusing on a single path into the future? Jim Collins in his book 'Good to Great' says, "for a hedgehog, anything that does not somehow relate to the hedgehog idea holds no relevance".

We would respectfully suggest that there are plenty of big picture uncertainties that are of huge relevance in figuring out the best strategy for handling the medium to long-term future. Moreover, it is precisely because CEOs of certain financial institutions have behaved like hedgehogs that these institutions have disappeared.
Speaker: Clem Sunter

12:40 - 14:00   Lunch

Breakaway sessions

   
Room 1 - Vodacom Dome
Room 2 - Talk 100
Room 3 - Talk 200
14:00 - 14:30  

Topic: to be confirmed (BCX)


Speaker: to be confirmed

Topic: Wesbank - follow-up from 2010

WesBank will share their lessons learned from the successful implementation of a modernisation and migration project and how this has set them on the SOA road, together with Software AG
Speaker: Kobus Hecter, Wesbank

Topic: Compliance and Risk Management for Aris


Speaker: Dawie Jacobs, CEO, CPI

14:30 - 14:50  

Topic: Santam - follow-up from 2010

Santam will talk about how they have used ARIS to create and maintain their Enterprise Architecture and to enable their Systems Development Life Cycle through the very effective use of the ARIS platform.
Speaker: Ettiene Venter, Santam

Topic: Exxaro - Process

Standardisation Excellence
Why did Exxaro choose ARIS?
The advantages of using ARIS
Business impact of using ARIS
Process standardisation using ARIS: the bigger picture with regards to Exxaro (the vision and goal)
Challenges and how they were overcome …
Speaker: Antoinette Wagner, Manager, Enterprise Applications Information Management, Exxaro

Topic: SAG Global Consulting Services – Empowering your IT organization to produce measurable business value

Have your recently delivered IT solutions produced the ROI promised in the business case? Or have your latest IT projects missed the mark? What’s missing is resource leverage. Software AG Global Consulting Services (GCS) offers practical expertise in Service Oriented Architecture, Business Process Management, Process Excellence and Enterprise Architecture transformation that can you can use to leverage your existing IT and business resources. In this short presentation, GCS will provide you with simple tips and approaches that you can take back and immediately apply to your IT & business organisations and begin your journey of becoming a solution delivery organisation that produces measurable business value.
Speaker: Patrick Shields, GCS Senior Principal Consulatant, Software AG
14:50 - 15:10  

Topic: Santam - follow-up from 2010 ... continued

Speaker: Ettiene Venter, Santam

Topic: Breaking Down the Silos - Towards a Customer-Driven Banking Reference Model

ARIS provides a head start in documenting, analysing and improving industry-specific processes through a comprehensive toolkit of healthcare, telecoms, defence, supply chain, and IT reference models.
To date, a reference model for banking has not been offered on the ARIS platform as no such industry standard has been forthcoming. The complexity that has been created through the multitude of products and services offered through diverse channels to a wide variety of segments may account for the difficulty in creating a meaningful model that caters for all.
Southpaw Solutions has applied the latest thinking in Enterprise Business Process Management to put forward a radical approach to developing such a model solely from the point of view of the customer needs.
This Outside-In view seeks to overcome the functional silos that traditionally impede process design in many organisations and offers an opportunity to simultaneously reduce costs, increase revenues and improve customer service.
Speaker: Gavin Beckett – Solution Owner for Process Based Transformation, Southpaw

Topic: Business Excellence - Providing Process Automation and Insight using webMethods

If you’re like most of our customers, globalisation, intense competition and the commoditisation of products are forcing you to re-evaluate how you manage your organisation. Expectations are higher and budgets are tighter. You are asked to do more with less. Exploit opportunities. Be strategic. Processes are at the core of almost every business function in an organisation and if you want to achieve the expected business results, you must have the ability to optimise and adapt your processes rapidly. This can only be achieved by the right operating platform that allows you to integrate, automate, optimise and provide critical visibility at the dizzy pace of business today.
Join us for an exploration of the webMethods family of products and a demonstration of how the products can be used to solve real business problems rapidly.
Speaker: Pieter Potgieter, Pre-Sales Manager, Software AG

15:10 - 15:30  

Topic: ARIS MashZone as a dash-boarding tool for ARIS related MIS solutions

ARIS MashZone as a dashboarding tool for ARIS related MIS solutions. One scenario will be the deployment of ARIS MashZone at one of our clients for reporting on ARIS repository management and related KPIs. In the second scenario he will explore the use of ARIS MashZone as an extension of ARIS IT Architect to provide MIS information for the application architecture and application portfolio management scenarios. He will share the approach that they followed and some of the lessons learnt.
Speaker: Mike Steyn, Director, triVector

Topic: Ekuruleni

BPM in Local Government - During this session, Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Council will take us through the process they followed and considerations thereof in awarding their BPM tender to Software AG
Speaker: Ike Kunene, Head: Public Sector and Lazarus Sikhwetha

Topic: Business Excellence - Providing Process Automation and Insight using webMethods ... continued

Speaker: Pieter Potgieter, Pre-Sales Manager, Software AG
15:30 - 16:00   Tea Break
16:00 - 16:30  

Topic: Progress made towards a new SOA-enabled BPM SDLC in Transnet Freight Rail

Over the past 2 years, Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) made significant progress towards the definition and acceptance of a new IT SDLC that is based on SOA and BPM principles. We developed a customised BPM / BAM methodology, a new method of compiling a BPM / SOA functional specifications, a TFR SOA Reference Architecture, and a set of TFR-specific SOA design principles and standards. All of these artefacts were integrated into a new SOA-enabled BPM SDLC that also incorporates a number of Enterprise Architecture reviews at pre-specified gates to ensure that SOA / BPM analysis, design and development criteria were adequately met. TFR has already started using the new SDLC as basis for implementation of new BPM solutions and Business Services. We believe that consistent implementation of this SDLC will help to shorten further BPM / BAM projects’ timelines and improve the quality of deliverables. This presentation will provide a summary of the new TFR SDLC and updated BPM / BAM / SOA methodology; with a view of how to use them to ensure future effective governance and implementation.
Speaker: Jánis Myburgh, Senior Manager Business Architecture, Transet Freight Rail

Topic: Ackermans

So many enterprises sit in a position of requiring visibility and automation into key processes but are daunted by the thought of jumping into the first initiative. Our rare experience with Ackermans shows where IT constructively led business into understanding that their requirements could be met iteratively – without ever taking the ownership of the process away from business. The CIO and IT Systems Manager will share their story behind the delivery of business’ requirements which ultimately resulted in embarking on this journey with the support of business.
Speaker: Michele Lamers, GM Information Technology, Ackermans & Renee Jain, IT System's Manager, Ackermans

 

Topic: ARIS as part of Application Life Cycle Management

It is important to ensure a “single truth” of the information used to manage the application life cycle. If this is not achieved the chances of misalignment between business requirements, business processes and system configuration are high, resulting in solutions that do not optimally enable business
Speaker: Dina Jacobs, CEO, triVector
16:30 - 16:35   Closing
16:35 ...   Cocktails and Networking

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