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Global WebSphere Community Newsletter -- July 2010
July 2010 Don’t lose out on a great deal of value from your GWC membership. Join your local WebSphere User Group now! There are more than 100 user groups in the GWC and, as a local user group member, you get to exchange ideas – face-to-face and online – with people who deal with the same challenges as you. Interested in becoming a User Group leader? The GWC is looking for leaders in several key cities around the globe. As a user group leader, you have an opportunity to network with the world's foremost WebSphere experts and learn about the most critical WebSphere learning resources. For more information on joining a local user group or learning how you can become a user group leader, contact Celia Hamilton, GWC Community Manager at celia.hamilton@WebSphereUserGroup.org. For information about the August promotion for GWC business partners, please click here or contact Scott Treggiari, Partner Program Director, at scott.treggiari@wispubs.com or 1-781-751-8734 for more details.
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Conduct Your Own Business Agility Assessment Assess your current business agility with a quick, easy-to-use assessment tool. Compare your business agility to other customers and gain insight into how you can improve it. Working Smarter with a Smart SOA Foundation
Forrester Study: Total Economic Impact of WebSphere Application Server
Forrester Ranks IBM a Leader Among Elastic Caching Platforms The Forrester Wave™: Elastic Caching Platforms, Q2 2010 report was released in May 2010. In it, independent research firm, Forrester Research, Inc., cites IBM as one of the vendors that “lead the pack”, and describes the market space in general. To view the report, and IBM's positioning, download it today!
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BPM Discover and Design for Greater Insights 3D Animation Yesterday’s best in class is not good enough. Tomorrow’s leading organizations need to fuel new growth while optimizing costs and driving greater business agility, and to do so, they are strategically focusing on the business processes that are the everyday expression of their companies’ visions. This video shows how collaborative process discovery and modeling helps companies discover and design innovative solutions that better manage core business processes like order-to-cash, which are the lifeblood of a company. It looks at Best Home Store, a home improvement retail company struggling to keep up with its competitors, and how it used IBM BPM to bolster top line growth, reduce costs and improve customer service. Remaining agile in our rapid-fire marketplace means aligning business strategy, business process management, and service oriented architecture technology, along with business rules, events and analytics, to help companies achieve better business outcomes. For more information, contact Sophia Lopez. New BPM Blog posts from BPM BlueWorks In June, 2010, the OMG Architecture Board approved the finalization of the BPMN 2.0 specification. BPMN 2.0 seems to be the next big thing in the world of BPM, but should we really care from a business perspective?
The agility imperative for modern enterprises is not only to change fast but rather to enable the right changes at the right time and in the right way. Cloud computing continues to be a topic of interest and confusion. In this blog, Max discusses the differences between public and private clouds and when businesses should choose one over the other. Chris Anderson refers to "selling more of everything" as the long tail of demand - see Amazon and Netflix and their ability to stock and profit enormously mainly from titles that will never generate enough demand to make it worth while for a brick and mortar store chain to carry them. Well the answer to this question is - it depends. It depends on how it can contribute towards achieving your enterprise’s strategy and goals. This, in large part, will influence what your CoE looks like and the functions it will perform. Reading blogs and articles and reports these days, one could easily think that being successful in the post recession business environment is all about being fast…well, let us examine that perception closer. How do we overcome the tribal nature of a complex organization and evolve to a nation, working together towards common goals based on each our specialties and skills? A prime example of this is that once BPM and EA practitioners recognize the need to work together for better business outcomes, then it becomes much easier to set up appropriate collaboration patterns for guiding and governing change. Application Environment Migration with WebSphere CloudBurst In this tutorial, the authors demonstrate how to use WebSphere® CloudBurst to build patterns you can use to represent the configuration of both your application and application infrastructure. They also show you how to use these patterns to consistently deploy the application environment as it moves through the four lifecycle stages — development, test, QA, and production. The tutorial offers a complete, step-by-step example of using patterns to handle changing topologies, underlying platform architectures, and configuration properties. Develop High-Volume, Low-Latency Finance Solutions with IBM WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging In today’s financial world, IT organizations face tremendous pressures to automate, integrate, and optimize the transaction lifecycle. The underlying messaging systems must be able to support extremely low latency and very high message throughput with reliability, high availability, flexible message delivery, fast message filtering, and effective congestion control. This white paper discusses how IBM WebSphere® MQ Low Latency Messaging addresses the current challenges of the financial markets industry with solutions designed for reliable multicast and unicast messaging; high performance, efficient, fine-grained message filtering; message acknowledgement to increase desired reliability; message persistence; automated failover for high availability; and monitoring and congestion control. For more information, please click here. To download the white paper, please click here.
WebSphere News and Announcements IBM Agrees to Acquire Sterling Commerce from AT&T for $1.4 Billion ARMONK, N.Y. & DALLAS - 24 May 2010: IBM (NYSE: IBM) and AT&T announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for IBM to acquire Sterling Commerce from AT&T for approximately $1.4 billion in cash. The acquisition of the Dublin, OH-based company will expand IBM's ability to help organizations create more intelligent and dynamic business networks by simplifying and automating the way they connect and communicate with customers, partners and suppliers both on-premise or through cloud computing delivery models. IBM Announces zEnterprise for a New Dimension to Hardware and Software Integration This week IBM announced zEnterprise™, the world’s fastest and most scalable enterprise server, designed to address the challenges of complex multi-architecture data centers and improve their efficiency. This “system of systems” unifies heterogeneous environments and makes clouds ready for business. The technology goes beyond improvements to mainframe software to usher in a new dimension to computing, one that will bring long-term advantages to Websphere users, including cost savings and improved qualities of service. Open Beta Program Announced: IBM WebSphere Application Server V7 Feature Pack for Modern Batch The IBM WebSphere Application Server V7 Feature Pack for Modern Batch provides support for a Java Batch programming model. It offers tools and operational controls for Batch workload execution, enables development and deployment of batch applications, and allows concurrent execution of batch and OLTP workloads. Additionally, it addresses the challenge of integrating today's OLTP environment with a Batch environment in the most cost-efficient manner to deliver an agile, efficient, and high-performance middleware infrastructure. RAD Tooling for OSGi and JPA 2.0 Applications
WebSphere DataPower XC10 Appliance is Here IBM WebSphere® DataPower XC10 appliance is a purpose-built, easy-to-use appliance designed for simplified deployment, exceptional performance, and hardened security at the caching tier of your enterprise application infrastructure. WebSphere Virtual Enterprise Online Trial Creating a dynamic infrastructure. This trial exercise demonstrates how WebSphere Virtual Enterprise (WVE) enables users to make smooth, interruption-free application changes. Users will roll out a new edition of a Web service application that is running in a cluster using WebSphere Virtual Enterprise. Have You Seen the Enhancements to the WebSphere Cloudburst Appliance Version 2.0? Check out this YouTube series of self-running demos for WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance. It reviews some of the newest enhancements with version 2.0, including support for multi-image patterns and the availability of the WAS HV-Intelligent Management Pack. Optimized IT with the Next-Generation IBM WebSphere DataPower Integration Blade
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Webcasts, Seminars, and Events The Global WebSphere Community Announces the Continuation of the 2010 IBM Hursley Comes to You WebSphere Connectivity Webcasts View the replay and download the presentation Did you miss the June and July IBM Hursley Comes to You webcasts? Click here to listen to the replays and download the presentations. Make Sure to Cash in with Distributed Caching in 2010!!! The "Cash In with Distributed Caching" exclusive set of events for the Global WebSphere community includes 5 webcast replays and upcoming WebSphere User Group briefings. Participate today by watching a webcast replay on the new DataPower XC10 appliance, eXtreme Scale v7.1, and/or Forrester's analysis of the marketspace to learn how you can help your organization develop WebSphere based applications that scale cost-effectively and take performance up a notch. Looking for Information on BPM? Check out these BPM Webinar Replays! To Register, please click here. BPM-CON will show how architects are delivering BPM solutions that enable business managers to rapidly react to changing business conditions To register, please click here. Today's global environment requires businesses to work smarter and to improve the coordination between planning and execution to continuously improve business processes and optimize costs. While Business Process Management (BPM) and Enterprise Architecture (EA) each have value on their own, they are also naturally synergistic, and together provide better business outcomes and strategic alignment of business and IT. When done together, BPM provides the business context, understanding and metrics, and EA provides the discipline for translating business vision and strategy into architectural change. Both are needed for sustainable continuous optimization. Download this webcast and hear from Claus Jensen, STSM & Chief Architect, and Jasmine Basrai, Senior Product Manager at Webshere as they discuss how WebSphere and IBM Rational work together to help businesses achieve strategic objectives with reduced risk and cost. Please click here to register. BRMS insurance webcast presented by Celent analyst Craig Weber will be speaking during the broadcast, discussing the top business and IT priorities for insurers in 2010. We'll examine technologies like Business Rule Management Systems (BRMS) and Business Process Management Systems (BPM), addressing their role in modernization projects across a wide variety of environments. An HTML invitation is attached below. Follow-up assets: "Smarter Decisions, Faster" landing page "Smarter Insurance Processes in 2010" solution brief Click here to register for the webcast. Today's global environment requires businesses to work smarter and to improve the coordination between planning and execution to continuously improve business processes and optimize costs. While Business Process Management (BPM) and Enterprise Architecture (EA) each have value on their own, they are also naturally synergistic, and together provide better business outcomes and strategic alignment of business and IT. When done together, BPM provides the business context, understanding and metrics, and EA provides the discipline for translating business vision and strategy into architectural change. Only when supported by appropriate collaboration and governance processes can BPM and EA roles work effectively together towards the common goals of the enterprise. Join us to learn the principles for aligning and interconnecting BPM and EA from a business catalyst to drive toward continuous business improvement. Click here to go to BPM BlueWorks and view the replay! This BPM BlueWorks webinar offers a new perspective on business architecture: a confluence of strategy, operating and IT models. What role does Business Process Management (BPM) play in business architecture? What is the linkage between business strategy and goals and BPM? Is there a convergence between Service Oriented Architecture and BPM? Kerrie Holley, IBM Fellow and Chief Technology Office of IBM's Business Performance and Service Optimization Center of Excellence and Sam Antoun, Chief Architect for Business Process Management, answers these questions and others on what makes Business Architecture actionable. The discussion will focus on three perspectives: strategy and transformation (S&T), business process management (BPM) and service oriented architecture (SOA). Learn how an Actionable Business Architecture in concert with other strategic initiatives can help your organization realize competitive advantage and revenue growth.
Solution Brief: IBM BPM FastPath IBM BPM FastPath provides a quick on-ramp to business process management (BPM) success. Employing a proven prescriptive approach, IBM BPM FastPath accelerates time to value by providing a BPM solution that can be deployed within 90 days. Working Smarter in Banking: Close the Complexity Gap with BPM Working Smarter in Banking: Close the Complexity Gap with BPM is written by Eric Jacobsen, BPM Marketing Manager in Banking & Insurance. For the full article, please click here. New Redbook: Version-to-Version Migration to IBM WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition V7 Revised: June 30, 2010. SDA Links: Collaborative Business Process Discovery and Improvement BPMN 2.0 Advances Process Modeling This article discussed the origins of BPMN, BPMN basics, and the new features of BPMN 2.0. providing you with updated information on BPMN 2.0 and understanding of why it is being developed. New Analyst White Paper by Bruce Silver "BPM Collaborative Business Process Discovery and Improvement" This analyst whitepaper by Bruce Silver, a leading independent industry analyst, shows how to align business and IT strategies and priorities, using collaborative process discovery and modeling to get started with BPM and to obtain BPM project success. This paper introduces a prescriptive approach that starts by examining larger questions such as: Which processes are strategic to the business? How do the goals of this BPM project relate to the organization’s strategies and business objectives? If we adopt the proposed to-be process, how much faster, cheaper, or better do we expect it to be? Specific examples and an analytical approach provide tangible guidance for collaborative process discovery to drive better business outcomes. New Competitive White Paper: Comparing BPM from IBM, Software AG and Pegasystems Business Process Management (BPM) has become a key focus for many companies, and this high level of interest has withstood the recent economic upheavals pretty well. Take a high-level look at BPM solutions from three of the top industry players in this new white paper by Lustratus Research, which compares BPM capabilities and strategies from IBM, Software AG and Pegasystems. The three vendors considered in this report, each take a significantly different approach to the whole area of BPM, and this is likely to be a major factor in the purchasing decisions of potential BPM adopters. Download this and read what this analyst has to say. "...IBM is excellent solution for a more comprehensive solution that supports both process improvement and business innovation..." New Redbook: z/OS: WebSphere Business Process Management V7 Production Topologies Published: June 7, 2010
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