Peter S. Kastner is the Vice President and Research Director, Information Technology with Aberdeen Group. His research areas include enterprise integration including software architectures and middleware including SOA, EAI, and EDI; application development; core architecture; information management; and, enterprise business process and technology management. He is the co-founder of Aberdeen Group and sits on the board or directors. He has spent over 18 years in market research experience related to software and hardware technologies. In 2003, he was named one of the top five most sought after analysts by MediaMap. Less   View all posts

David Buckholtz is the Vice President, Enterprise Architecture and Planning with Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE). Before joining SPE, David spent five years at the General Electric Company (GE). His roles at GE included chief architect for application services at GE Information Services, technology lead for several GE corporate digitization initiatives, and lead for various strategic customer initiatives as a Six Sigma Blackbelt. He also served as a Senior IT Architect at IBM Global Services where he worked primarily in the financial industry with customer Internet applications. Less   View all posts

Ronald Schmelzer is the senior analyst and founder with ZapThink. He is a renowned expert in the field of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, and XML-based standards. Ron Schmelzer was the lead author of XML And Web Services Unleashed (SAMS 2002) as well as co-author of Service-Orient or Be Doomed (Wiley 2006) with Jason Bloomberg, due to be released in 2006. Ron has served as the chair of the RosettaNet Cluster 1 Workgroup, working group member of CPExchange, member of the UDDI advisory group, and was a member of the CompTIA Electronic Commerce Standards Board (ECSB). Prior to ZapThink, Ron was founder, CTO, and "ePostle of Partners" of ChannelWave Software, as well as founder and President of VirtuFlex Software, and founder and CEO of VirtuMall, one of the first online eCommerce sites in 1994. Ron was named "Geek of the Week" in Internet Magazine and was listed in Boston Magazine's Internet Top 40. Less   View all posts