Released on: July 14, 2008, 10:51 pm

Press Release Author: Saltmarch Media

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: The power team for Workhorse IT -- SOA & Web Services,
SaaS/PaaS, Virtualisation and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) - will be center
stage at Saltmarch Media\'s Business Technology Summit (www.btsummit.com). The
premier annual gathering for business technology stakeholders from across the world,
the 2008 edition of Business Technology Summit will be held September 22-26 in
Bangalore and Mumbai. Expected to attend the four day conference and expo are nearly
800 decision makers, analysts, product managers, architects, engineers, project
managers, designers, developers, programmers, entrepreneurs, VC, marketers and
business strategists - who are embracing the opportunities created by these mature
and workhorse enterprise technologies. The attendee spectrum will also encompass the
IT Channel - Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), Original Equipment Manufacturers
(OEMs), Value Added Resellers (VARs), System Integrators (SIs), and Distributors.The
Call for Participation has opened; deadline for submission of speaking proposals is
July 31, 2008.

Press Release Body: Saltmarch\'s Summit on SOA/Web Services, SaaS/PaaS,
Virtualisation & ECM. Call for Participation Closes 31 July.

Bangalore - July 15, 2008 - The power team for Workhorse IT -- SOA & Web Services,
SaaS/PaaS, Virtualisation and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) - will be center
stage at Saltmarch Media\'s Business Technology Summit. The premier annual gathering
for business technology stakeholders from across the world, the 2008 edition of
Business Technology Summit will be held September 22-26 in Bangalore and Mumbai.
Expected to attend the four day conference and expo are nearly 800 decision makers,
analysts, product managers, architects, engineers, project managers, designers,
developers, programmers, entrepreneurs, VC, marketers and business strategists - who
are embracing the opportunities created by these mature and workhorse enterprise
technologies. The attendee spectrum will also encompass the IT Channel - Independent
Software Vendors (ISVs), Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), Value Added
Resellers (VARs), System Integrators (SIs), and Distributors.The Call for
Participation has opened; deadline for submission of speaking proposals is July 31,
2008.

As traditional views of IT get supplanted by an overarching business technology
trend, companies are investing in gaining the benefits of the next generation of
computing, where resources are maximized, integrated and used to deliver business
results. Saltmarch Media\'s Business Technology (BT) Summit features a convergence of
inteliigence on the hottest technologies on India's business technology radar are
the ones that are not only exhibiting attributes such as cost savings, flexibility,
application re-use, and faster response times, but also the ones that are charting
pronounced inflection points in their evolution.

TECHNOLOGIES THAT MEAN BUSINESS

Centered around the theme of Riding the Workhorse IT Hockey Stick, BT Summit
features four co-located tracks - SOA & Web Services, SaaS/PaaS, Virtualisation and
ECM, which offer complimentary synergistic for a robust IT infrastructure that no IT
decision-maker, manager, architect or professional can afford to ignore in their
quest for business technology success. Attendees to the summit will be able to
attend talks from all four tracks.

"The Summit chair is putting together a program that offers attendees a unique
opportunity to learn and assimilate technology know-how, augment executive
decision-making, understand best practices, and absorb the innovation excellence of
experts, in focused settings," said Shri. M. N. Vidyashankar, Former Principal
Secretary, Information Technology, Government of Karnataka, India. So while the Big
Tent Technology Edition will be held in India\'s tech capital Bangalore (Sep 22-24
2008) the Executive Edition will be in India\'s financial capital Mumbai (Sep 26
2008). \"At the Executive edition, some of India\'s topmost CIO\'s will hold forth on
the business technologies and solutions they are deploying and implementing to craft
the success of their enterprises, besides elaborating on what they did right to keep
their business on top consistently,\" said Dilip Thomas, Chairman & CEO, Saltmarch
Media.

SUBMIT SPEAKING PROPOSALS

The conference committee is seeking proposals on issues, technologies, projects and
innovation that is relevant and informative to the SOA & Web Services, SaaS/PaaS,
Virtualisation, and ECM domains from among the topic areas listed for each track,
here: www.btsummit.com/conference.html#tracks. If you have a topic that fits the
bill, don\'t hesitate to send in your proposals via
www.btsummit.com/callforpaper.html#onlinecfp.

The preliminary speakers, handpicked by the BT Summit chair, include:

* Alan Pelz-Sharpe - ECM Analyst: Author of ECM Suites and E-Mail Archiving and
Management reports. Former ECM Consulting Director, Wipro and VP North America,
Ovum. 19 year veteran of the document technology industry. Frequent expert guest on
the BBC, CNN and ABC television.
* Chris Harding - SOA Visionary: Forum Director for SOA and Semantic
Interoperability, The Open Group. Works on semantic interoperability and SOA.
Certified TOGAF practitioner
* Robert Marcus - Grid Visionary: Leader for SOA and Distributed Virtualization
standards at NCOIC.org. Senior Research Engineer at SRI International. Former
Director of Technology Transformation and Deployment at General Motors, CTO of Rogue
Wave Software, VP of Technical Strategy at the MCC Research Consortium, Director of
Object Technology at American Management Systems, Coordinator of Object Technology
at Boeing, and Knowledge Systems Engineer at HP.
* Matjaz B. Juric - BPEL Mentor: Specialist in projects on SOA Maturity Model, SOA
in Telco, performance analysis and optimization of RMI-IIOPMember of BPEL Advisory
Board.
* Ravi Gururaj - Founder, VMLogix: Over 17 years of product development, management
and marketing experience. Formerly with Trilogy, UberWorks and Dialogic, and founder
of two software start-ups.
* Ismael Ghalimi - Father of Office 2.0: Founder & CEO of Intalio. Technology
visionary and strategic industry leader. Spearheaded major partnerships and industry
alliances, most notably the founding of the Business Process Management Initiative
(BPMI.org), the standards body for BPM technologies. Author of IT|Redux-a weblog
covering the transformation of the IT industry. Coined the term Office 2.0.
* Sasa Ana - SOA Researcher: Career dedicated exclusively to the field of SOA and
implementation of SOA solutions. Works on IT projects for government agencies and
large companies. Specialized knowledge and experience in the technical, business and
organizational aspects of SOA.

In addition to keynotes, power panels, focussed sessions, and hands-on workshops
over four days, one of the best reasons to attend BT Summit is the vibrant
exhibition, which features leading business technology companies and their projects
and services. Business Technology Summit sponsorship packages are also now available
at www.btsummit.com/sponsorsPartners.html. Early Bird attendee registration is also
open from here: www.btsummit.com/registration.html.

About Saltmarch Media

Saltmarch Media is a revolutionary new media company that provides industry-leading
Web Sites, Conferences, and new media platforms focusing on diverse sectors such as
IT, Energy, Human Resources, Manufacturing, Retail, Biotechnology, and BFSI.
Saltmarch's media properties aim to inform, network, and serve professionals and
executives in these diverse sectors with information, opportunities, evaluation and
guidance they need to excel in their jobs from keeping pace with emerging trends and
technologies, to evaluating products and solutions, to developing strategies, to
making cost-effective purchase decisions and effectively managing and leading their
organizations\' projects. More information: http://www.saltmarchmedia.com/

For further information, please contact:

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P: +91 80 22218743, E: info@saltmarchmedia.com
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