New York City, NY (PRWEB) Monday, 10 December, 2007-- Colabria® in collaboration with Google, Jackbe, Kapow Technologies, Mashery, The Programmable Web, University of Southern California and many others announces the Open Enterprise 2.0 Mashup Summit East – Expanding Customer Value Networks on Friday, 1 February, 2008, in New York City, NY.This Open Enterprise 2.0 Mashup Summit provides the deep expertise, open tools and relationships to achieve mastery of enterprise mashups (EMU) and value networks. It is tuned and optimized for CIOs, business leaders, business users, information strategists, IT architects, programmers, developers and knowledge management professionals. The Open Enterprise 2.0 Mashup Summit is a seminal gathering of experts, practitioners, sponsors, leaders, users, and members of the broad industry Value Networks Consortium. All are welcome."Software must be designed to allow, and where possible support, rapid modification of sophisticated inter-company processes. It must be capable of mapping not only value chains but entire value networks in order to keep pace with changing conditions." - Dr. Henning Kagermann, Chairman and CEO, SAP AG. SAP is the central nervous system of 47,000 companies worldwide.Open enterprise mashups and value networks are the future of corporate computing. They are fundamentally redefining operations, tactics and strategies in the smartest organizations. They provide the roadmap to transform yesterday’s process orientation into our network-centric future. Enterprise mashups achieve mastery of information for the knowledge workers, managers, leaders, and above all, the knowledge economy.Enterprise mashups and value networks are the fastest growing ecosystem on the Web by far. They are becoming commonplace in and between top global firms. Enterprise mashups drive improvements in resource utilization, productivity, innovation and sharply improved corporate performance overall. Firms have discovered the spectacular business advantages of transforming from a function and application mentality to an enterprise mashup philosophy and value networks mindset.Value networks and enterprise mashups fundamentally expand and redefine the scope, value and importance of information to individuals, business, economies and civil society. They contribute to innovation and growth in the world’s largest companies and most productive civil societies.Now that I know the value networks methodology, I would not consider doing a six sigma, lean, or any other kind of project without first doing the value network analysis (VNA) to provide the "systems" context for the initiative." – Glenda Turner, Supply Chain Integrator, Value Networks, Boeing Integrated Defense SystemsThe Open Enterprise 2.0 Mashup Summit was conceived and is sponsored by participants only. Sessions are open, low-cost, practical and conversational. Participation is capped to optimize interactions. Join the conversation to improve performance, growth, greater effectiveness, faster innovation, customer delight and mastery of network-centric enterprise mashups for business. Pricing and Availability Registration for the Open Enterprise 2.0 Mashup Summit is open and available now. All are welcome. The event tuition, the full-day learning experience, meals, refreshments, materials, discounts and registration is $499.00. Secure, online Website registration in advance required. There is no on-site registration. All are welcome. There is a 20% tuition discount until 31 December 2007.

NYC Seminar & Conference Center
71 West 23rd Street
New York, NY 10010

Friday, February 1, 2008 from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (ET)

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