Sessions tagged as Business
Consulting - How to
Location: Franz Hall, Room 108
Ever want to live the lifestyle of a consultant? Interested in creating your own business? Consulting can be an incredibly challenging and rewarding experience. This session is a reprise of one presented by Richard Hundhausen a few years ago. The session that gave me my start in consulting.
Data Architecture – a "Corner Stone" of EA
Location: Shiley Hall, Room 123
Data Architecture – a 'Corner Stone'of Enterprise Architecture -As the organizations across the globe, aggressively pursues their strategic objectives; a key strategy and method is required in this pursuit, and that is 'Data/Information Availability'. Accurate, reliable and available information enables the organization to make timely and better business decisions. We have seen many differing methodologies over the years with CRM, Portals, B2B efforts and score carding capabilities. The need for well structured and quality information is more important than ever. As a result, we are seeing a significant acceptance and synergy relative to the importance and value having a robust Data Architecture. Most organizations today have a co
Portland Mayor Sam Adams and SAO President Matt Nees: A Conversation with Developers
Location: Buckley Center, Auditorium
Portland's Mayor Sam Adams will be at Portland Code Camp and SQL Saturday. Mayor Adams will be joined by Matt Nees, President of the Software Association of Oregon (SAO). Last December, the Mayor engaged with executives of regional software development companies at a 'Fireside Chat' sponsored by SAO. Now the Mayor and SAO are reaching out to engage software developers to continue an informal conversation about how the City of Portland can best support the Portland metropolitan area becoming one of the top regional venues for software development. Join the Mayor and Matt as they roll up their sleeves and dig in to find out about the needs and desires of the software development community. During this lunchtime session, the Mayor will discuss some of the City’s initiatives related to software. He will also respond to questions from software developers about the City’s plans to identify and expose resources that are available to engage the software development community. Do you have questions about what the City of Portland and SAO can do to enhance the regional software development community? Tweet your questions to #devsat-mayor before noon Saturday.