The Austin WebSphere Users Group is being re-launched.
Mark your calendars:
Mr.Rob High (IBM Fellow and Distinguished Engineer) presenting 'WebSphere Roadmap' for Austin WebSphere Users Group
When: 10/28, 12:00 - 2:00 PM (Lunch and drinks provided)
Where: LG024 Aspen Conference Room (in the basement), Bldg 101, IBM AUSTIN, 11301 Burnet Road, Austin, TX - 78758

Are you looking for a way to spend time at your leisure to try out a few of IBM products or maybe all you need to do is ask a few questions.   Well now is your chance because IBM is having a two day “Open House” Infrastructure Technology Jam in your area.  You'll have a chance to come try one or all the following products whenever you can fit it into your schedule.  You can also come the first day and come back next day if you feel you didn't get enough information.   If you have one hour or two or three, it doesn't matter, drop into the Jam at any time to select lab sessions of interest and/or engage IBM architects and specialists in a whiteboard session..

Technologies to explore include:

-    WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance: A hardware appliance that provides access to WebSphere virtual images and patterns for easily, quickly and repeatedly creating application environments that can be securely deployed and managed in a private cloud.
-    WebSphere Virtual Enterprise: Increase flexibility and agility to ensure business process integrity, improve service and application performance, and better manage application health.
-    WebSphere Extreme Scale: Provides distributed object caching essential for elastic scalability and next-generation cloud environments. It processes massive volumes of transactions with extreme efficiency and linear scalability.
-    WebSphere Application Server: Software for SOA environments that enables dynamic, interconnected business processes, and delivers highly effective application infrastructures for all business situations.
-    Tivoli Composite Application Manager Server: Provides the capability for system administrators to view the health of Web applications and servers.  Also provides the capability to drill down into diagnostic information for specific application requests to identify the root cause of problems.
-    Tivoli Access Manager:  Provides user authentication, authorization and Web SSO for security policies the protect web applications and web services.
-    Rational Application Framework for WebSphere (RAFW): Automation framework for administering and maintaining IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM WebSphere Portal, IBM WebSphere Process Server.
-    Rational Build Forge: Multi-platform automation framework supporting a full range of deployment activities across both mainframe and distributed platforms.

Location:  IBM 11301 Burnet Road, Bldg 101, Austin, Texas
Date: October 19th  – October 20th
9am to 5pm (both days)
Register by sending an email to ffarokh@us.ibm.com and let us know the day you will drop by and the time.  
Thank you for your interest in IBM Solutions and please address any product questions to: ffarokh@us.ibm.com

Winning with WebSphere: 
Application Infrastructure, BPM and Integration

(Continental breakfast will be available at 8:30 am and the formal program will commence at 9:00 am)

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Attend this complimentary seminar and become more competitive with software solutions from IBM WebSphere. Learn how to make your business more agile by exploring ways to seize new business opportunities and quickly respond to changing business process demands. Gain insight into addressing your application integration challenges with intelligent connectivity solutions, and experience cost savings with a dynamic application infrastructure.
At this one-day technical IBM WebSphere event, you will see a variety of live product demonstrations, including real world scenarios that corroborate the value of IBM’s WebSphere software for an overall smarter approach to service-oriented architecture. Experience firsthand how IBM can deliver complete end-to-end solutions in comparison to the competition, such as Oracle, Microsoft and JBoss.

Agenda Topics

• WebSphere - Smarter Software for a Smarter Planet
• Build on a Solid Foundation for Smarter Planet Solutions – WebSphere Application Server
• Take Your Infrastructure to the Next Level of Agility and Cost Savings with a Dynamic Application Infrastructure
• Respond Quickly to Changing Business Process Management Demands
• Smarter Planet Solutions Need Intelligent Connectivity
• Accelerate Results – How to Get Started

Audience
Decision Makers, IT Professionals, Executives, Architects, IBM Business Partners or anyone who is putting a flexible IT infrastructure in place to keep pace with rapidly changing business needs. The briefing is designed for companies just getting started, as well as companies looking for advanced functionality built on existing service-oriented architectures.

Products Featured and Demonstrated at the Event

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Abstracts

9:00AM    WebSphere - Smarter Software for a Smarter Planet
IBM is bringing a new level of smartness to how the world works and how every person, business, organization, government and man-made system interacts— where each interaction represents a chance to do things better, more efficiently and productively. Smart Work emphasizes optimization and agility in taking a smarter, new and different approach. This topic provides an overview of how IBM’s WebSphere technology can be used to build smart work capabilities in your organization with the adoption of dynamic business processes, smarter collaboration, smart SOA and an agile business model. Workload Optimized Solutions are introduced with WAS and POWER7.

9:30AM     Build on a Solid Foundation for Smarter Planet Solutions – WebSphere Application Server
IBM WebSphere Application Server is the most successful and maintains the largest market share of any application server. Why? Maybe it is because IBM WebSphere Application Server offers a family of solutions that spans from the small company to the most demanding enterprise environments in the world. This topic proves why WebSphere Application Server is not only the most robust solution from small to large businesses but also provides the lowest cost solution.

11:00AM     Take Your Infrastructure to the Next Level of Agility and Cost Savings with a Dynamic Application Infrastructure
Today’s dynamic business environments and economic uncertainty mean organizations must work smarter to remain competitive and respond to changing customer demands. In order to achieve these goals, organizations need to ensure that critical applications that experience huge demand levels, require immediate response, or grow to massive scale – like online reservation, commerce, and financial trading systems – consistently deliver. In this section, we will look at some of the newest and most innovative technologies available such as virtualization, extreme scaling, cloud computing, and dynamic infrastructures that some of the most leading edge enterprises have implemented in order to scale their businesses to new levels of competitive advantage and maximized revenues.

1:15PM    Respond Quickly to Changing Business Process Management Demands
When you define your enterprise's business processes, you know that change is inevitable. With WebSphere, you can define these processes so they can be changed with minimum cost and development effort. Come and see how you can use the Lombardi TeamWorks and BluePrint solutions as well as the WebSphere Process Server (BPM) to implement your business process in an agile manner that allow you to make quick changes as well as improve your processes and reduce costs.
   
2:30PM    Smarter Planet Solutions Need Intelligent Connectivity
Application integration is the biggest challenge today for many enterprises.  Building an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is probably the quickest and most cost-effective way to address this challenge.  This module describes how an ESB or Message Broker (MB) solution coupled with WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR) can be used with service-oriented architectures to provide robust communication, intelligent routing and sophisticated translation to dynamically transform services in an infrastructure.

3:30PM    Accelerate Results – How to Get Started
This session will focus on how you can get started on a path to achieve positive results using the IBM solutions that you saw today. You don’t have to “rip and replace” what you have; you can gradually integrate just the solutions you need into your current process and begin to see the flexibility you can achieve. All of this is based on real customer experiences and it is all built on the leading best practice solutions in the market. This session will outline how to get started and what tools, self help aides and services are available to help you move to a higher level of success in your business.