Intelligence from the Cloud
The computing cloud is forming on top of the web. It's going to change the way we develop and use applications. This event, "Intelligence from the Cloud" will look at the connection between the cloud and web intelligence. The focus will be the new infrastructures available today that are enabling easy creation and consumption of web intelligence and semantics in the cloud.
Wesley Chun from Google AppEngine Team will introduce Google App Engine platform, an application development and hosting platform that lets you build & deploy web applications on Google's high-traffic infrastructure. App Engine executes apps (written in Python or Java) on servers that use the same technology that powers Google's websites for speed and reliability. There is no need to think about virtual machine images or disk requirements... you just provide the code. This is a high-level talk introducing attendees to Google App Engine, including its components and architecture as well as some of its most popular developer APIs, such as memcache, users (Google accounts), email, URLFetch, XMPP, Blobstore, etc. Time-permitting we'll go through a simple example using Python.
The terms “Business Intelligence,” “Semantics,” “Analytics,” and “Cloud” mean a variety of things to different audiences. Andrew Lampitt from Jaspersoft and zAgile will give a sweeping view of these topics and show how they mesh together to solve real-world problems today. Jaspersoft enables easy deployment of business intelligence to the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud as well as a semantic layer to shield business users from technical jargon of the underlying physical database. zAgile delivers an ontology-driven context server that enables semantic integration of enterprise information across tools and applications, and it can also act as the comprehensive semantic description of the complete information architecture. A combination of Jaspersoft and zAgile technologies delivers the most leading edge semantically driven business intelligence solution as well as deep, contextual collaboration for business intelligence consumers. Case studies will explore how customers are applying the latest techniques to solve painful problems in an elegant and affordable way, that simply were not possible just a couple years ago.
Wondering what's behind the Cloud? Aliens and Intelligence.
Agenda:
6:30pm - 7:30pm Registration / Networking / Refreshments / Pizza
7:00pm - 7:10pm Introduction by AJ Chen (Moderator)
7:10pm - 7:50pm Wesley Chun: Google App Engine
7:50pm - 8:30pm Andrew Lampitt: Enterprise Business Intelligence in the Cloud
8:30pm - 9:00pm Joint Q&A.
Speaker Bios
Wesley Chun, Developer Advocate, AppEngine Team, Google
WESLEY J. CHUN, MSCS, is author of Prentice Hall's bestseller, "Core Python Programming" (http://corepython.com), its video training course, "Python Fundamentals" (LiveLessons DVD), and co-author of "Python Web Development with Django" (http://withdjango.com). In addition to being a software architect and Developer Advocate for Google, he runs CyberWeb (http://cyberwebconsulting.com), a consulting business specializing in Python software engineering and technical training. He has over 25 years of programming, teaching, and writing experience, including more than a decade of Python. While at Yahoo!, he helped create Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! People Search using Python. He holds degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Music from the University of California.
Andrew Lampitt, Director of Business Development, Jaspersoft
Andrew Lampitt juggles duties between Jaspersoft and zAgile. Jaspersoft is the leader in commercial open source business intelligence. zAgile is the first company to provide contextual collaboration for any software engineering environment. As Director of Business Development at Jaspersoft, he is responsible for strategic initiatives and partnerships including cloud business intelligence, advanced analytics, and analytic databases. As co-founder at zAgile, he drives marketing, sales, and business development. Prior to Jaspersoft and zAgile, Andrew led the Asia Pacific region of Sunopsis, the leading ETL/E-LT for data warehouses; Sunopsis was acquired by Oracle in 2006. Prior to Sunopsis, Andrew was the GUI program manager for Business Objects’ WebIntelligence, the world’s first web-based business intelligence tool. Andrew began his career in sales and product marketing for PowerDesigner, the Gartner Magic Quadrant leader for data modeling. SDP was acquired by Sybase/Powersoft in 1995. Andrew earned a BS in engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
Location:
Cubberley Community Center
4000 Middlefield Road, Room H-1
Palo Alto, CA 94105
Price:
$15 at the door for non-SDForum members
No charge for SDForum members
No registration required
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