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A report from Information Age's Future of Software 2008 event

INDUSTRY AGENDA
Old wine in new bottles
A clear set of new technologies is heading company software agendas. But to what extent do they represent genuine business opportunity?
Neil Ward-Dutton, Macehiter Ward-Dutton

IT IN BUSINESS
Embedded value
How Standard Life has transformed its relationship with IT by embedding the team within its pensions operation and exploiting agile development
Garry Morrison & Ian Muir, Standard Life

IT IN BUSINESS
Clear for take-off
In overhauling its critical maintenance operations, Monarch Aircraft Engineering
had to convince the business to “own and lead the IT project”
Charlie Mayes, DAV Management

PANEL DEBATE
The new software agenda
Vic Hansen, Unilever; Eric Guilloteau, Corizon; Marek Suchocki, Mouchel; Roger James, University of Westminster

USER INTERFACES
Fixing the interface
The benefits of service-oriented architecture are being pushed down to the end-user interface
Eric Guilloteau, Corizon

CLOUD COMPUTING
Converging nebulae
The online model of software delivery is allowing organisations to leave integration up to their suppliers
Woodson Martin, Salesforce.com, & Robert Whiteside, Google

SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE
Service economics
The SaaS model is finding fertile new territory as companies start to have their IT service management delivered on demand over the Internet
Kevin Kimber, Service-now.com

NETWORK COMPUTING
Into the blue
Cloud computing has triggered a ‘blue shift’ in corporate IT, enabling technology adoption cycles to run faster than Moore’s Law
Steve Elliott, Sun Microsystems