As a starting point, the two-day workshop centers around these questions:

• The Adaptive Enterprise Architecture - What’s involved?
• The Business Integration (BI) stack - What is it?
• What are the characteristics of inter-enterprise business integration?
• What are the characteristics of intra-enterprise business integration?
• Service-oriented Architecture - What does it mean?
• What would an enterprise architecture, encompassing inter-enterprise and intra-enterprise business integration, and implementing a services-oriented architecture, look like?
• How can we make the architecture adaptable to an incremental investment strategy driven by business users?
• How can we make the enterprise architecture ‘change-tolerant’?
• How is the process-oriented view different from an application-oriented view?
• There is a proliferation of industry standards. Which standards will win in the long term?
• How mature are current public standards?
• What standards should you base your enterprise architecture on?
• What specific challenges threaten successful progress towards technical and semantic interoperability?
• What are the major strengths and shortcomings of Web services technology?
• What are the benefits and practical implications of ebXML?

The above agenda can be tailored to your specific needs, and, of course, items can be added, so that issues specific to your organization can be addressed.

The workshop is targeted at members of CIO staff, business and IT strategists, business analysts, IT architects, and system designers.