The opening keynote of this year’s CONQUEST was held by Bjoern Brauel, Vice President and Deputy CTO of Software AG. His speech “Bringing Innovation and Quality together in highly distributed systems – A practical view“ focused on the requirements of an efficient “Governance Automation” so that distributed systems will meet the challenges of the future. His four central points were “transparency, process clarity, policies and measurement of results”. For everyone keen to learn more or who needs a gift for his boss, Brauel recommended his book “SOA for Dummies”, which will be released in November. In there you will learn more about the advantages of maximum clarity and simplicity in the requirements formulation – definitely worth reading, not only for Dummies.