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The Global WebSphere Community Newsletter -- May 2009
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Dear WebSpherian,

Thank you for subscribing to the Global WebSphere Community Newsletter - distributed on a monthly basis and containing the latest information on Global WebSphere Community announcements and WebSphere software-related topics of interest.

Sponsor Announcement: Avada Software

Avada Software is making an Impact with Infrared360, a unique administration and monitoring portal for WebSphere MQ, JMS, ESB, and WMBI. It provides secure collaboration, enabling virtual environments for business units. Users can belong to one or many virtual environments and get secure visibility and role based permissions within each one. This provides collaboration and self-service without fear of compromise.

See why major banks, airlines, financial, industrial, pharmacuetical, utility, and retail corporations have adopted Infrared360 to manage and monitor their enterprise-messaging infrastructure. There are NO agents or clients to install. A single server solution, it is feature rich, simple to use, and offers Users a multitude of administration, management, monitoring, reporting, and utility services, any of which can be scheduled or run On Demand™.

A built-in SOA engine allows quick SOA integration to leverage external resources. Tivoli Ready, Infrared360 was awarded for Green technology at Impact 2009.

Click here for full article.




Take on a leadership role in the Global WebSphere Community
Ever thought about taking on a leadership role in the GWC community? Now's the time. User group leaders play a central role in making connections to the community and helping others make the most of WebSphere solutions. Group leaders ensure their members stay active and current through local meetings featuring interesting topics and expert speakers. IBM recently recognized the efforts of our top user group leaders at IMPACT 2009. more...

WebSphere User Group (WUG) leadership positions offer personal and professional benefits and are available to customers, business partners and IBMers. User group leadership allows you to:
  • Demonstrate your leadership skills and expertise
  • Develop a powerful network of industry professionals
  • Be a thought leader among your colleagues and in your community
  • Get access to visiting IBM speakers, executives, and partners
  • Partners can forge stronger relationships with their customers
We have leadership positions available for several existing WUG's and we're also happy to assist you in establishing a new user group. The community provides tools and resources to assist group leaders plan meetings, develop an agenda and reserve speakers. Group leaders are also assisted by an IBM Liaison who provides access to IBM resources so you're never unsupported.

For more information on becoming a WUG leader, please contact t.dizdarevic@groupintelligence.com.


WUG Leadership positions are available with the following Groups:



GWC Awards from IMPACT 2009
2009 Most Influential WebSphere User Group Leader Award
The GWC wishes to acknowledge its most proactive leaders; your leadership makes the community thrive! Thank You.

Greg Ackerman - RTP (Triangle NC) WebSphere User Group
IBM Corporation
35% WUG growth, 5 meetings in 2008



Evan Herbst - New York WebSphere User Group
Gemini Systems, LLC
14% WUG Growth, 5 meetings in 2008

Click here for more GWC Awards




WUG Austria meets on WAS
WUG Austria met in April in a meeting planned jointly with IBMers from the Vienna office. Approximately 25 people gathered to hear about an actual project in which mainframe applications written in PL/I and a 4th generation language were migrated to Java running under WebSphere Application Server. The presenter was Markus Danhel of IBM.

Click here to learn more about WUG Austria




Pittsburgh WUG meeting
The Pittsburgh WUG met in April, hearing presentations from Dave Dougherty and Pete Van Sickel. Dave gave an overview of WAS v7, and Pete shared his insight on understanding WebSphere Application Server V7 for JMS Messaging and System Integration Bus

Click here to learn more about Pittsburgh WUG
Download the Meeting slides here



Global WebSphere Community Statistics:
There are over 28,000 members and 140 WebSphere User Groups worldwide. Refer a friend today!


GWC LinkedIn and Facebook groups growing - Join today
Our new GWC LinkedIn and Facebook groups are already taking off - especially the LinkedIn group. Use these satellite communities to network with other GWC members and stay in the loop with GWC news in between newsletters!

Join the LinkedIn GWC group

Join the Facebook GWC group


Sponsor Announcement: Phurnace Software - Moving to WAS 6.1? Plans to move to WAS 7.0?
If so, are you ready for the application migration headaches?
Phurnace Software can ease the pain of migrating between WebSphere releases. Previously, your custom deployment scripts would have to be re-written to migrate to a newer version of WebSphere. No more. Phurnace Deliver™ automates the migration across WAS releases - and with no scripting whatsoever. Phurnace Deliver™ integrates directly to IBM and other build, release and operations frameworks to automate application deployment. Learn how you can simplify your IBM WAS deployments and migrations. View our webinars.

Primeur announces the opening of new offices in the USA and the appointment of Allan Brown Somerville as Director of Primeur North America
Primeur - a multinational company and one of the main providers of middleware solutions for distributed and heterogeneous computer systems - announces the opening of a new office in the United States and the appointment of Allan Somerville Brown as Director of Primeur North America. This announcement follows the expansion of Primeur in the United Kingdom, and the recent opening of a new subsidiary in the Asia Pacific region (Sydney, Australia) further demonstrating the global expansion strategy of an Italian leader in the market of Managed File Transfer, End-to-End Security and Data Movement Governance.

The North American office is based in Lexington, Virginia, and is headed up by Allan Somerville Brown who will be responsible for the development and growth of Primeur's business in the United States and Canada, as well as strengthening strategic alliances with partners.

To read more please click here.



WebSphere Case Study: Mobitel to lower costs, boost competitiveness with IBM WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition Components
IBM recognized Mobitel for their outstanding dedication to building and implementing innovative, high-value Business Process Management (BPM) powered by Smart SOA solutions on a WebSphere platform and presented them with an IMPACT SOA Industry Customer Case Study Award at IMPACT 2009, IBM's worldwide customer event focused on the SOA market.



Redbook available for Download
The IBM Business Process Management Reviewer's Guide provide an overview of the IBM BPM V6.2 portfolio to BPM market watchers who have a keen interest in understanding the most current BPM technology releases and how they can be used together. Specifically, the guide covers the key benefits and capabilities of the WebSphere® Dynamic Process Edition V6.2 of the IBM BPM Suite. For more information, please contact Luc Chamberland/Toronto/IBM.



IBM welcomes you to try its new Support Portal!
Now there's one place for technical support information for all the IBM hardware and software products you use.

Based on the WebSphere Portal product, this technical support gateway puts you in control over the display. You add, move and delete portlets; you choose multiple products, and focus the information for all, some, or one of the products. Search for information and additional filters help you narrow the results. Task-based navigation scopes information to tasks and eliminates extraneous content. All the links available on the current support pages are available in the Support Portal as well.

Support Portal demos are available. In mid-June, access the IBM Support Portal from WebSphere product support pages using the Preview button. Use your IBM ID and password to log in so that you can arrange the portlets on the pages. As you use the IBM Support Portal, join the Community or use the feedback link to send us your comments and suggestions.



Announcing IBM Support Assistant V4.1!
Download this complimentary problem determination workbench to help you simplify software problem analysis and accelerate the time to resolution. It offers even more components and tools to help you find solutions faster. It is more intuitive and easier to use. Enhancements to this release include increased usability and improved automated collector tools that ease the time-consuming tasks associated with collecting troubleshooting files. A comprehensive data collection viewer is available to allow you to review and analyze collected data. Some of the tools available through the IBM Support Assistant include: Log Analyzer, IBM Dump analyzer for Java and Visual Configuration Explorer. Learn more about the IBM Support Assistant.



Announcing IBM BPM BlueWorks: A new set of cloud-based BPM tools, content, and community for Business Leaders, Business Analysts, Business Professionals
IBM BPM BlueWorks, a set of cloud-based BPM tools and content, can help organizations develop the critical expertise necessary to build and deploy truly dynamic processes necessary for success today. With BPM BlueWorks Business Leaders, Business Analysts, and Business Professionals can create, share, and collaborate - leveraging pre-built BPM content and contributions from BPM experts and users around the world to move quickly from strategy mapping to process execution. With BPM BlueWorks users can:

Learn about BPM: Learn strategies, trends, and best practices for making smart process decisions
Experience BPM: Capture business intent, understand capabilities, and sketch processes
Collaborate with the community: Leverage community insight and access share content
Optimize processes: Extend strategy to drive process improvement and deploy with the IBM BPM Suite

With BPM BlueWorks it's never been easier to get started.


WebSphere Technical Conference
The 2009 European WebSphere Technical Conference is a 4.5 day event held 19-23 October 2009 in Hamburg, Germany. This conference has earned the reputation for delivering deep technical content targeted at architects, developers, integrators and administrators by offering lectures and hands-on labs that focus on the best practices and practical skills required to run today's enterprises. This year will be no exception!

With over 100 unique sessions, you will:
  • Expand your knowledge of WebSphere administration, architecture, development and integration, including a focus on the IBM SOA fundamentals and advanced topics.
  • Gain insight into IBM's software strategy and learn about the latest development directions for the products in the WebSphere software platform.
Tracks:
  • Architecture
  • Development
  • Portal and Collaboration
  • Application Infrastructure
  • Business Process Management



Transaction & Messaging Technical Conference
The 2009 European Transaction & Messaging Technical Conference is a 4.5 day event held 19-23 October 2009 in Hamburg, Germany. Don't miss the opportunity to :
Expand your knowledge of CICS and the WebSphere Messaging family of products. Learn how new features of these products enable SOA, and support implementation of a robust ESB with high volume transactional support

Tracks:
  • Architecture
  • CICS
  • Messaging and Connectivity



IBM Portal Excellence Conference 2009 - Four Worldwide Locations
New agenda broadens software, business and industry content

Our popular IBM WebSphere Portal Conference has a new name -- IBM Portal Excellence Conference 2009. This renaming reflects a broader conference agenda that spans our IBM software portfolio. Topics include integration across mashups, Lotus Web Content Management, collaboration, Filenet, Cognos, security and Business Process Management (BPM). Join us at the following locations worldwide this year:
  • July 6-8 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • August 5-7 in Macau, China
  • October 12-15 in San Diego, California
  • October 26-28 in Salzburg, Austria
Get the details







CICS Web Services Structure and Debugging
Date: June 18, 2009
Time: 11 AM EDT (GMT-4)


External messaging clients for the Service Integration Bus in WebSphere Application Server
Date: June 24, 2009
Time: 11 AM EDT (GMT-4)


New IBM Support Portal User Interface
Date: June 25, 2009
Time: 11 AM EDT (GMT-4)

 


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