Fox IT Symposium
Enterprise Integration:
A realistic objective or a myth?
February 12, 2003
7:30 to 10:00 AM
Fox/Gittis Foyer
Liacouras Center
Temple University Main Campus
Panelists
Dianah L. Neff, CIO, City of Philadelphia
Jason Glazier, Senior VP and CTO, Lincoln National Corporation
Arnold Kurtz, VP, CTO, Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company
Kathleen M. Walters, VP, Exelon Energy Delivery
Moderator
Kent Seinfeld, CIO, Commerce Bank
Event Goals
The goal is to focus on the difficulties and promises of
integrating applications across the enterprise. In the 70's and 80's
companies started on major integration projects so that their
disparate applications such as accounts receivable and accounts
payable would be integrated together. In the 90's vendors such as
SAP and Peoplesoft were successful in helping many organization
integrate their applications. However, the rapid rise of ebusiness
meant that in many organizations integration efforts were often
abandoned so that web based systems could be rapidly deployed.
Starting from simple web sites to complex transaction processing
systems companies now (again) have to face new challenges in
integrating their web projects with traditional systems.
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