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 REMINDER: SPECIAL EVENT - REMINDER: SPECIAL EVENT - REMINDER: SPECIAL EVENT

                   Object Oriented Technology Exchange
 
                            "OBJECTS AT WORK"

    to be held at the Executive Customer centre Digital Europe,
       Sophia-Antipolis , France

                         on 10-11 February 1993
                   +12 February for customer workshops

Four international recognized experts:
         Martin Fowler: international recognised expert on OO A/D methods
         Ian Wesley (OVUM): co-author of the book "Objects in use"
         Amiltar Sernadas: author of the OBLOG method 
         Les Hellenack (Hawthorn, U.S.): expert on migration issues 
and Digital experts will show you how this technology can be utilized to your 
ADVANTAGE. In addition, this panel of experts will be available to work
directly with YOU  in  small groups,  specific workshops over the 2-3 day 
symposium.

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*                                                                         *
*    The cost of that event is $1000 per day                              *
*    Please contact ALISON BLYTH, tel +33 92-95-5448                      *
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                             OBJECTS AT WORK

09:00 Objects in Use: Meeting Business Needs ..................... Ian Wesley
                                                                   (OVUM)
      Content: This presentation is  based  on  the  OVUM  report
       entitled: Objects in use. This is a detailed survey of the 
       current state of use of the OO technology in the  industry
       and  commercial  communities.  Who are the  users? Current 
       applications,interfaces to legacy systems,current pratices.
       Benefits, problems, lessons learnt. Market forecasts. 

10:30  Break

11:00   "OBJECT-ORIENTED TECHNOLOGY: basic concept ............... Martin Fowler
                        

      Objectives: at the  end of  this presentation  the attendee 
       will know what is meant by Object-Oriented technology,what  
       are the basic concepts,  how this  technology  covers  the 
       entire  application  development  paradigm  from  business 
       modelling to analysis, design and programming.


12:30 Lunch

14:00 Digital's Strategy in Object Oriented Technology ........... Sami Zahran
                                                                 Hans Rene Klaye                                                                  
Pierre Tornier
      Content: This  session  presents  Digital's  strategy  with 
       respect to Object-Oriented Technology. This strategy  fits
       into the more general context of  Software Engineering and
       begins at the business needs level down to  implementation 
       tools and methods. This is a comprehensive strategy  which
       includes services, trainings and tools. 
      

15:15  break

15:45 Real case example of an OO application at a customer site .. Serge Imbaud

      Objective: to present a project that Digital has done for a 
       large bank, using the C++ language.The goal is to describe
       why Object-Oriented Technology  was chosen,  what was  the 
       approach taken, what were the problems encountered and how 
       they were  resolved. A demonstration of the final  package 
       will be shown.


16:30 ------ split in two parallel streams: Management & Technical -------

     
*************************   MANAGEMENT STREAM   ****************************


16:30 Business Issues Workshop .................................... Sami Zahran
                                                                    Mike Cook
      Content: this  is a  shortened  version  of a service  that
       Digital offers,which provides a clear understanding of the
       benefits and risks of applying Object-Oriented  technology
       to support your business requirements.  This participative
       workshop  gives you the  ability  to decide to investigate
       further or not in Object-Oriented technology.
       

18:00 ================  END OF THE FIRST DAY ===============================

20:00 =========================  DINNER  ===================================

 9:00 ======================== SECOND DAY ==================================

 9:00 Presentation of the Worshop results ....................... Sami Zahran/
                                                                  Mike Cook

 9:15 Legacy Applications ....................................... Brent Fry

      Content: to show how legacy  applications   can be used  in 
       the  new Object-Oriented environment without loosing their
       functionalities, and being able to interoperate with other
       applications.A demonstration using ACAs technology will be 
       shown.

10:30 Break

11:00 Application Migration ..................................... Les Hellenack
                                       
     Content: To give  guidelines  on how to  plan for  migrating 
      into Object-Oriented technology. This maybe the opportunity 
      to clean the mess (code management, documentation, etc).  
      Good Software Engineering & Object-Oriented technology  are 
      the  main contributors to  a successful  work. Examples and 
      pitfalls of  migration will be  given. This presentation is
      based on real experiences at customers sites.
     

12:30 LUNCH

 2:00 Business Modelling ........................................ James SOPER

      Objectives: to explain what is  business modelling and what
       are the benefits. A real "Workflow model" is  demonstrated
       based on a Digital generic tool (GORBY).


 2:45 Object Management and Reusability ......................... Hans Rene Kldy

     Content: to explain  how  object reusability  (thru classes)
      can be achieved. To describe the status of  standards  with
      respect to the OO technology.  To  address  the  problem of 
      managing large object  libraries in  a distributed software
      development environment.

 3:45 Coffee break

 4:15 Ultimate goal: Distributable Applications ................. Daniel Serain

     Content: This  presentation  emphasizes  that  the  ultimate
      goal of the  developper is good  application design,  which  
      means nowdays distributability and portability. This is the
      best way  to take  advantage of a  multi-vendor environment 
      and to perform rightsizing. OO technology can significantly 
      contribute to reach that goal but it is not the only answer.


 5:00 OBJECTworks: an office tool ............................... Luc Vogeleer

     Objectives: To show how efficient and easy to use an OO tool
      can be in the office world. This tool emulates  the  user's 
      real desk by providing assistance to many functions.It runs
      on PCs, under Microsoft Windows,  Presentation Manager  and
      Motif. This session is mainly a demonstration of the tool.

 5:45 ================== END OF THE SECOND DAY =======================

*************************** TECHNICAL STREAM *************************
                               First day

16:30 Technology Issues Workshop ................................ Pierre Tornier
                                                                  Erman Sielker
 
      Content: This is a shortened version of a set of services 
       which deal with such things as a feasibility  assessment
       (organisation readiness, technology availibility), envi-
       ronment design, planning and managment.
       This participative workshop is aimed at showing you  the
       issues associated to the introduction of  OO  technology
       into an existing development/production environment.

18:00 =================== END OF THE FIRST DAY =======================

20:00 ========================== DINNER ==============================

 9:00 ======================== SECOND DAY  ===========================

 9:00 Results of the technology Workshop ........................ Pierre Tornier
                                                                  Erman Sielker


 9:15 Objet Specification with Pictures: OBLOG .................. Pr. Sernadas
                                                                 
   Objective: to describe the OBLOG (Object-Oriented Analysis and 
     Design) Method and stress its strengths and advantages. Prof.
     Sernadas is the "father" of this method which has been deve-
     loped at a  university of  Lisbon. A  demonstration  of  the 
     OBLOG Workbench will be performed.

10:30 Coffee break 

11:00 A Comparison of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Methods 
      ........................................................... Martin Fowler

    Content: The main OO analysis and design methods are compared 
      from three viewpoints: data, behavioural and architectural.
      This is a magistral work done by an expert in the field  of 
      OO, which will  give you a very good understanding  on  the 
      positioning of the various OO A/D methods.  

12:30 lunch

 2:00 Set of tools to support the entire Development  Life  Cycle 
      ........................................................... Nick Hills

    Content: The purpose is to show that Digital has the A/D tool 
     (DECdesign) which supports OO methods (Coad/Yourdon & Ptech) 
     and that the generated C++ code can  be handled by  a set of 
     programming tools (DEC FUSE) that exists today. This session
     will focuse on demonstrating those tools.

2:45 Rapid Prototyping .......................................... James SOPER

    Objectives: To show that Object-Oriented technology  provides
     powerful means to perform rapid prototyping. A demonstration
     using a tool (GORBY) will show  how fast  one can  develop a 
     prototype.

3:30 Coffee break

4:00 How to deal with legacy database ........................... Manfred 
                                                                  Schlueter
    Content: In Germany Digital has  done  several projects which
     had to deal with  moving data from an existing database into
     a newly structured database. Object-Oriented technology  has
     been used to build  a meta-data  model in order to allow  an 
     easy data transfer.  A demonstration of the  tool used  will 
     convince you how powerful this approach is.   
     

4:45 Object-Oriented Database and Repository .................... Andrew                                                                                                                                                                                        
               Buchanan
    Objective: Object-Oriented databases are a reality today.This
     presentation  emphasizes  the importance of this technology,  
     explain the problems that it help solving, and show where it
     does apply. A good example  is the  Digital repository tool,
     which will be described. A  Multi-media  demonstration  will  
     show the capabilities of this technology.

5:30 ================= END OF THE SECOND DAY =========================

9:00 ====================== THIRD DAY ================================
 

     Here is a list of proposed topics for 2-3 hour workshops from 
     which customers could planned to attend 3 or 4.Those sessions 
     will be interactive and are intended to focuse on  customers' 
     issues.  

      * Business Issues workshop (S. Zahran, M. Cook)

      * Technical Issues workshop (P. Tornier, E. Silker)

      * Modelling the Business Process (J. Soper)

      * Legacy applications (B. Fry)

      * Application Migration / Moving into OO (L. Hellenack)

      * Software re-usability: how do I manage my Object libraries?
            (H.R. Kldy, L. Hellenack)

      * Analysis and Design Methods ( A. Sernadas, M. Fowler, M. Aksit)

      * Tools detailed demoes: DECdesign, DECFUSE, Object/db
                  (N. Hills, A. Buchanan)

      * Designing Distributed Applications (D. Serain)


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 External Speakers c.v.

  Martin Fowler is a recognized autority in the OO domain. He has 
     published many papers, the last one at OOPSLA 92 entitled: 
    "A comparison of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Methods"

  Ian Wesley is a principal consultant at Ovum. He has more  than 
     20 years of experience in the IT industry,  specialising  in 
     software product and project  management.He is the co-author 
     of a book entitled: "Objects in use: meeting business needs"

  Les Hellenack is President of Hawthorn  Consulting  Group  Inc.,  
     which specializes in assisting  companies  in  planning  and 
     implementing Object technology including migration planning.   
     He has more than 20 years of experience in analysis,  design,  
     development and implementation of engineering and commercial  
     software projects.

 Amilcar Sernadas is the author of the OBLOG method developed  at 
     a LISBON university. This  method has been implemented  on a 
     workbench tool by ESDI. Prof Sernadas is a recognised expert 
     in the OO field.


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