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The Global WebSphere Community Newsletter -- March 2010
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Attention Members and Leaders
We would like to encourage our user groups to send any updates or information to share with the rest of our Global Websphere community. We can share your information in the monthly newsletter, or you can post items yourself online.
To submit group updates to the newsletter, send information to websphere@groupintelligence.com
Global WebSphere Community Statistics:
There are over 32,000 members and 140 WebSphere User Groups worldwide. Refer a friend today!
Meeting Ideas
Need a meeting Idea? The Detroit WebSphere User Group is holding a meeting on: WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition technical overview and benefits and WebSphere Application Server Performance Best Practices. Get ideas from other groups and register to attend a meeting.
Nominate our Next Leader Spotlight
Is the leader of your group doing an exceptional job? Nominate your area user group leader to the GWC Leader Spotlight! Get details here.
Join the WebSphere DataPower User Group Community
WebSphere DataPower is creating new DataPower User Groups for our customers in each geography. If you are interested, go to our new group page and join. Your name will be added to the list for a DataPower User Group in your area.
Attend our first face to face meeting at IMPACT 2010 in Las Vegas, NV, from May 2 to 7 and be part of this new endeavor!
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Impact 2010: Information Technology for the World Today
 Impact 2010 is an extraordinary opportunity for you to learn how the best companies in the world are using cloud computing, SOA, BPM and social computing. The Smart SOA and BPM Technology Program offers more than 400 sessions, plus workshops, and hands-on labs, all designed to maximize the skills of IT executives and professionals. The Interactive Symposium will bring LOB and IT together to discuss and collaborate on key business and IT issues within your industry.
Whatever your needs, Impact 2010 is the place for you to develop new skills and find answers to the challenges within your enterprise.
Here's just a small sampling of how you can take your skills to the next level:
- Explore 25+ WebSphere products in open labs at your own pace
- Learn how to leverage, create and deploy clouds, and how to develop cloud-based applications
- Discover the latest updates to WebSphere Application Server infrastructure and support for Web 2.0 and SCA programming models
- Get the most from your enterprise CICS® deployment to ensure agile online transaction management and connectivity
- Attend a dedicated BPM Track - meet leading BPM technologists and check out the new WebSphere BPM Suite V7
- Visit our Product Technology Center and get access to open labs, tech zones, and product demos while meeting with the technology experts
Impact 2010 is THE one conference you cannot afford to miss. Seize the opportunity to interact and receive advice from some of IT world's most renowned Chief Architects on your critical business and technology issues.
And don't forget to invite your business colleagues to the Forbes Business Leadership Forum on May 3-4. It's a unique Impact 2010 program for executives and business leaders that includes talks from Rich Karlgaard, Publisher, Forbes Magazine, and Bridget van Kralingen, General Manager, IBM North America Sales.
GWC members receive $125 off of the standard rate of $2150. GWC or WUG members, when registering for Impact on the registration form either select you are a member of the GWC or that you belong to a local WUG. If you belong to a local WUG, enter the WUG(s) you are a member of.
What are you waiting for? Register today for Impact 2010!
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New White Paper: Accelerate ROI for Business Process Management with IBM Solutions Designed for Rapid Deployment. Get Started with BPM
This WhitePaper describes how you can get started with BPM using a prescriptive approach with proven results. For many organizations, the first step in leveraging the advantages of BPM is the deployment of a solution addressing process issues that are prominent for one department. By starting with a clear process area, an initial BPM solution can help prove the value of BPM and support a rapid ROI. Properly developed, a BPM solution can also be scaled to support multiple departments, a division, a functional area or enterprise-wide BPM requirements in the future.
Getting Started with BPM in 2010 - BPM BlueWorks Blog Series
The BPM BlueWorks 'Getting Started' blog is kicking off 2010 with a series devoted to helping you get the most out of your BPM projects in 2010. Whether you are starting your first BPM project or a seasoned BPM veteran you will find something in these posts that will help you have more success in 2010.
BPM Business Value Analyzer Tool
An excellent first step as you start the BPM journey is to use the IBM BPM Business Value Analyzer. This smart assessment tool will help you gain a clearer understanding of your business goals, so you may prioritize and achieve them. The results can be instantly viewed online for your convenience.
Redbook: BPM Solution Guide
This IBM® Redpaper™ publication provides a practical bridge toward achieving successful BPM solution implementation within 60 days. It is based on an approach using phases and specific activities outlined in the IBM Business Process Management Prescriptive Guide to Solution Implementation.
What's New in WebSphere CloudBurst 1.1?
The IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance is a revolutionary offering that allows you to create, manage, and deploy WebSphere Application Server environments in a private cloud. The first release of this product, version 1.0, introduced capabilities in each phase of this application environment lifecycle. WebSphere CloudBurst version 1.1 expands on the initial set of functionality offered by the appliance to introduce broader platform support.
Innovations within Reach: Stretching the Limits with Elastic Software
New concepts and strategies require changes in vocabulary. With a move toward lower cost, highly flexible, cloud-friendly architectures, the concept of elasticity has been established for an enterprise IT solution. This article explores a specific definition of elasticity by describing examples present in IBM® WebSphere® eXtreme Scale, an elastic in-memory data grid.
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Open Beta version of the WebSphere OSGi Application and JPA Feature Pack
Open Beta Here: The Feature Pack for OSGi Applications and JPA 2.0 provides a lightweight, simplified application framework to increase developer productivity and time to value. Through this feature pack, organizations can realize many of the benefits found in other non-standard open source frameworks in a standardized, WebSphere integrated fashion. Specifically, this feature pack delivers open community and standards-based implementations of the OSGi Blueprint service specification and Java EE 6 JPA 2.0 along with the ability, optionally, to assemble, deploy and manage applications as a collection of versioned OSGi bundles.
Subscription and Support - it's part of IBM's Total Software Solution IBM First Delivers Value through IBM Software Products.
But it doesn't stop there. IBM continues to deliver value to clients after the software purchase through subscription and support. A whole new set of IBM teams are in place and ready to ensure each client's success using the software. And electronic support tools and resources are part of the added value, helping clients customize and streamline their support experience. Betsy Matthew, V.P., IBM AIM Technical Support describes it best. Take a few minutes to watch her Subscription and Support video.
NEW EKIT - IBM BPM & SOA: Better Together for Achieving Business Agility
This whitepaper series describes the principles for the convergence of BPM and SOA. While BPM and SOA each have value on their own, IBM believes that they are naturally synergistic, and best when done together for business and IT agility, optimization and alignment. From an information systems perspective, combining BPM and SOA yields excellence in business execution through horizontal transaction processing from BPM and scaling brought by SOA. Both BPM and SOA are fundamentally dependent on a reliable and robust infrastructure upon which you can deliver solutions that ensure the integrity of the information, processes and tasks that serve the core of your business.
Learn how IBM's software products are designed to create a mission-critical infrastructure that exhibits key transactional strengths in support of BPM and SOA objectives.
White Paper: Software & Systems Delivery as a Dynamic Business Process
Software is the invisible thread in today's innovation, delivering differentiating capabilities in the processes and systems that define a business -- and in the smarter products and services that it takes to market. Similar to other business processes, software and systems delivery encompasses practices and techniques that flow through a process lifecycle. This provides opportunities for organizations to reduce costs, and improve precision, time-to-market and quality through measurement and continuous improvement of the processes. For more information, read the new white paper, "Software and systems delivery as a dynamic business process."
Creating a Scalable and Efficient Infrastructure for SOA and BPM: Smart Work in the Smart Enterprise
This white paper is the third in a series of three about how combining BPM and SOA increases business agility.The separation of process logic and service logic increases cohesion and tolerance to change at a system level, while intelligent and policy controlled business services increase the flexibility and potential reuse of the enterprise service library. Yet both BPM and SOA are fundamentally dependent on a reliable and robust infrastructure upon which we can deliver solutions that ensure the integrity of the information, processes and tasks that serve the core of our business. Mission-critical business activities require mission-critical information systems. This paper outlines how IBM's software products are designed to create a mission-critical infrastructure that exhibits key transactional strengths in support of BPM and SOA objectives.
Register here.
BRMS campaign landing page: "Smarter Decisions, Faster"
Learn how BRMS can help businesses improve the timing and quality of their most important operational decisions in 2010. Explore the new BRMS Browser's eKit and Buyer's eKit, and attend our new 3-part webinar series "Three Operational Decisions You May Need to Make Faster in 2010."
- BRMS Browser's eKit: Contains resources for those who are just learning about BRMS or just beginning their solutions research.
- BRMS Buyer's eKit: Contains resources for those who are later in the purchase process -- evaluating solution options and vendors.
Collaborative Information Centers!
Are you familiar with Information Centers? They are Eclipse-based versions of our product documentation, available for many IBM products. Information Centers make it easy to find the content you need by letting you drill down through the table of contents, to find the topic you need. Or, you can use the search capability that is part of the Information Center to find exactly what you want. If you use WebSphere Application Server V7, there's a new collaborative capability in the Information Center for that product that lets you add comments to share your expertise to help others in the community!
Video (1:15 min) on How Oracle's acquisition of BEA has affected pricing
Are you facing a choice between IBM and Oracle Middleware for your application infrastructure? Not only is Oracle WebLogic Server Enterprise Edition 70% more costlier for first year license and support but also did you know about advantages rest of WebSphere's application infrastructure portfolio offers over Oracle?
- WebSphere eXtreme Scale deliver consistent and predictable response time for the most transaction intensive workloads and have demonstrably higher throughput and quality of service than Oracle WebLogic Coherence.
- WebSphere Virtual Enterprise helps significantly increase server utilization while meeting SLA's and unlike Oracle WebLogic Operations Control, provides policy based workload management including autonomic capabilities such as traffic shaping and flow control with support for several leading hypervisors.
- WebSphere Cloudburst Appliance helps customers speed up the dev-test-deploy cycle with best practices based dev, test, QA patterns and optimized WAS virtual images that can be deployed in minutes with no set up or install time. Oracle has no comparable offering.
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NEW Releases from IBM Press!
**REMINDER: 40% Discount on Books and eBooks from IBM Press. Log onto WebSphere.org and click on "Member Benefits" for your direct link to the IBM Press member page which will automatically list the discounted prices.
eBOOK: BPM & Connectivity eBook is Here! Achieving Business Agility with IBM BPM & SOA Connectivity
BPM & Connectivity eBook is Here! Achieving Business Agility with IBM BPM & SOA Connectivity
Today's organizations are faced with a multitude of issues - increased pace of change, global competition, greater regulation, and economic uncertainty. For businesses to not only survive, but to thrive they need to increase their business agility to respond to the ever-increasing dynamic and personalized nature of the business networks in which they work.
By transforming rigid, siloed processes into highly agile interconnected processes, organizations can:
- Increase agility to discover insights that enable innovation
- Maximize the value of their business interactions
- Optimize productivity and resources
Read how BPM and SOA Connectivity solutions can enhance your operational efficiency and embrace your dynamic business network to thrive in today's ever changing market environment. Download the eBook today!
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The Global WebSphere Community Continues "Cash In with Distributed Caching"
March 10 Webcast: "Up-Scale Your Apps in 2010 with Distributed Caching"
11:00 AM ET
Learn how distributed caching with WebSphere eXtreme Scale helps organizations of all sizes build highly scalable Web infrastructures using distributed data caching for common usage scenarios, such as HTTP session management and application state management.
Gain an understanding of the relevance of distributed caching to today's application architectures, key considerations and usage for developers and architects, as well as real life case studies with performance and throughput numbers.
Speaker: Don Boulia, Director of Product Management for WebSphere Software.
Listen to the Replay!
March 23 Webcast: "Smarter Scalability: A Practitioner's Perspective"
11:00 AM ET
Hear about interesting customer case studies where distributed caching techniques were used to address performance issues and the amazing end results.
Speaker: Billy Newport, IBM Distinguished Engineer and WebSphere eXtreme Scale Chief Architect
Listen to the Replay!
March 30 Webcast: "Technically Speaking: Real World ISV Solutions Leveraging WebSphere eXtreme Scale"
11:00 AM ET
This webcast session will demonstrate how innovative solutions built around the latest scaling technologies provide business value in the distributed caching space.
Speakers: Joseph Lea, IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale Product Manager with MSI System Integrators
Register to Attend Now!
Banking Infrastructure Transformation and the Mandate for Change in 2010
Join us for this interactive, round table webcast where the audience can drive the content by submitting questions in advance for our experts to discuss. First, Ovum will describe the 2010 business priorities driving IT spending of the world's leading retail banks as they transform and simplify their core infrastructure. Next, IBM will discuss the strategic transformation projects that have helped banks of all sizes innovate and reduce the cost of their existing infrastructure through game changing technology. The types of infrastructure transformation topics we plan to discuss in this format include real-world integration with heritage banking applications; software virtualization; application innovation; streamlining payments processing; simplifying core banking infrastructure and more. We look forward to hearing from you to discuss the topics that are on your mind.
Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010, Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET, Duration: 60 minutes
Join here.
WAS Security Wildfire and z/OS Basics Workshop
When: Tuesday, May 25th through Thursday, May 27th
Time: 9:00am to 5:00pm
Where: IBM, Hyatt Center, Downtown Chicago 71 S. Wacker Drive, 6th Floor
Cost: FREE!!!
For more information & where to register, please contact:
Ahsan Saiyed at aksaiyed@us.ibm.com
Patrick Knott at gpknott@us.ibm.com
WEBINAR REPLAY: BPM BlueWorks Webcast Kickoff
Join us on the BPM BlueWorks Webcast Series to learn how you can make better use of BPM BlueWorks. With BPM BlueWorks from IBM®, it's never been easier to get started with BPM. Using cloud-based business design and discovery tools, BPM BlueWorks enables you to capture and collaborate on strategy, capability and process maps, discover and contribute industry-specific BPM content, and participate in the community.
In this webcast you will learn how to:
- Navigate BPM BlueWorks
- Participate in the BPM BlueWorks community
- Use Business Discovery and Design capabilities to build strategy maps, capability maps and process maps
This webcast is for beginning BPM BlueWorks users. Leverage this webcast for department and team training to help get started with BPM BlueWorks. This webcast will be recorded and will be made available for replay.
Join here
WEBINAR REPLAY: BPM Prescriptive Guide Webcast
The BPM Prescriptive Guide is a 60 day simple, usable guide on how to use IBM's BPM products to deliver a solution into production within 60-90 days, assuming a commensurate scoped process. This guide is focused on line of business, departmental projects that are weighted towards interactive process design and human-centric processing scenarios.
Invite your Customers: "Reduce your WebSphere Administration Costs" Webcast
Are your customers finding it challenging to innovate and differentiate in the face of rising operational costs, shrinking teams and reduced budgets? Invite them to this webcast to discover howIBM solutions can help to .cut operational costs, automate administration efforts, automate compliance, and improve quality and consistency. Join speakers Leigh Williamson, Eric Kristiansen and Ruth Willenborg on March 30th to learn of actions you can take today to reduce your operational costs by optimizing your WebSphere Application Server and Portal environments, enabling you to redirect funds towards other areas in your business. Help your clients take their budget further to support your innovation and differentiation efforts!
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Podcast Series: Smarter Banking Processes with ECM and BRMS
IBM banking and technology experts talk about the role of ECM, BPM and business rules in streamlining operations and building stronger customer relationships. This series includes four podcasts focused on customer onboarding, customer service, dynamic tailored correspondence and loan application processing.
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