ZapForum Podcast for January 26, 2009 features

Guest Experts Stefan Andreasen, Founder and CTO, Kapow Technologies, and Ron Yu, Head of Marketing,
Kapow Technologies.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• understand what’s wrong with traditional application development
• learn about rapid application development inthe SOA context
• understand how data access issues impact the requirements gathering process

Setting the Stage: ZapThink Analysts

ZapThink analysts Ron Schmelzer and Jason Bloomberg set the stage by discussing the role data access plays in SOA initiatives.

Next, Stefan Andreasen and Ron Yu discuss rapid application development in the SOA context, and how data access is a critical part of the application modernization benefit of SOA. Next, they discuss how the presentation layer fits into the picture of SOA-based RAD, and how that in turn ties to Web 2.0. Finally, they discuss some customer examples.

Featured Guest Expert: Stefan Andreasen

Stefan Andreasen, Founder and CTO, Kapow Technologies.

Stefan Andreasen is an entrepreneur with more than 20 years experience in software innovation using cutting-edge Java an visual programming methods. In 1998, he started Kapow which quickly became one of the largest web marketplaces in Europe. In 2001, he sold the marketplace to the largest bank in Denmark and reincorporated Kapow Technologies as the market leader in web data harvesting and service enablement. Today, many Fortune1000 companies as well as leading Web2.0 companies are using Kapow Technologies’ platform for rapid application development of web intelligence/ BI, portal integration and consolidation, SOA/ WOA enablement, and mobile application solutions. Prior to Kapow Technologies, Stefan was a systems architect with Advanced Visual Systems and head of research with Uniras. Stefan is also a frequent speaker at key industry events.

Featured Guest Expert: Ron Yu

Ron Yu, Head of Marketing,
Kapow Technologies.

Ron Yu is a Silicon Valley hi-technology marketing executive with 20 years of industry experience in SaaS, enterprise software and mobile telecommunications industries. Most recently he was Vice President of Marketing at Salesforce.com and led solutions marketing for other market leading companies such as Hyperion Solutions/ Oracle, Portal Software/ Oracle, and Openwave Systems. Ron also spent 6 years at Oracle during the high-growth years leading innovative and game changing global customer success programs.

This ZapForum Podcast is presented as a 27.3 MB mp3 file. Running time: 29:51.Download File