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Global WebSphere Community Newsletter -- August 2010
By
Celia Hamilton
12:30PM - Aug 24, 2010
August 2010
WUG NEWS AND UPDATESThe Global WebSphere Community Job Board is Now Open for Business The GWC is pleased to announce the availability of the Global WebSphere Community Job Board on our site. The Job Board is available to all non IBM GWC members for posting WebSphere related employment opportunities. Job postings should contain a contact name and email address, job description, relevant information about the job and or company and instructions on how to apply including a url link. To post a job opening on the Job Board start from the Home page of the GWC website. Select the "Job Board" icon under "Explore the Community". Click on Add New Entry. Fill out the form and be sure to include contact information and an external link for job application, sending a resume and/or to ask questions. Take the GWC Survey for Extreme Transaction Processing and you could be a winner! Ever say to yourself "no one ever asks me for my opinion or input"? Well here's your chance! With the accelerating trend toward faster, more efficient, consistent application response times, we are inviting you to participate in a survey that will help quantify the kinds of needs driving Extreme Transaction Processing (XTP) adoption and the kinds of capabilities vendors need to provide. Additionally, your survey participation will enter you in a GWC giveaway raffle! Find out more here. September 2010 GWC Monthly Focus: Enabling Cloud Computing with WebSphere Brought to you by: The Global WebSphere Community and IBM’s Smart Work Program You’re interested in cloud computing but you’ve got to have more information before making a commitment. What is it? What technologies enable cloud computing? What about my data? Will it be safe? How do I integrate cloud with my on-premise applications? How complex is this integration? Week 1 – Enabling Cloud Computing with WebSphereDate: September 7, 2010
Cloud computing is about evolving datacenters, where organizations virtualize, standardize, and automate their middleware infrastructure to improve time-to-market and reduce costs. This webcast will set the stage for the 4-week cloud series by discussing the challenges of enabling cloud computing within organizations, while providing a methodology for how customers can evolve their middleware infrastructures to become more agile through the use of cloud computing. View the replay and download the presentation Date: September 9, 2010
Cloud Computing is rapidly driving real business value. The advancements in IT virtualization, rapid provisioning, and hardened security are transforming how businesses derive benefits from IT and drive tangible outcomes in business agility, cost optimization, and efficiency. Come hear Randy Heffner, VP and Principal Analyst from Forrester and John Falkl, IBM Distinguished Engineer for SOA Governance discuss the considerations for moving to cloud and how governance will be a key requirement. Learn how a focus on strategy, provisioning, and SOA Governance can provide real business value for cloud computing environments. Week 2 – Enabling Cloud Computing with WebSphereEducational Podcasts – Cloud Building Block Technologies
Week 3 – Enabling Cloud Computing with WebSphereDate: September 21, 2010
As cloud computing enters the mainstream, savvy technology pros are looking beyond simple cloud-based applications as they seek to integrate on-premises applications with SaaS offerings. Still others desire to use the cloud as a collaboration platform for corporate employees and business partners. By leveraging cloud solutions like Cast Iron and WebSpan, IBM has your complete cloud coverage. Join this webcast to learn how to: Maximize the value of your cloud-based applications like Salesforce.com through rapid integration with SAP, Oracle and other on-premises systems Extend cloud or on-premise ERP systems and business processes to external business communities, such as customers, partners and suppliers Cut costs by up to 80% while increasing revenue with integration Listen to the replay and download the presentation Date: September 23, 2010 Join an online Q&A session with our cloud experts. Submit your questions ahead of time or join the conversation and submit your questions live. View the replay and download the presentation Week 4 - Enabling Cloud Computing with WebSphereDate: September 29, 2010 As cloud computing continues to evolve, it has become clear that the application should take center stage as the central concept supported by the cloud. This means exposing not shared hardware via virtual machines, but rather exposing shared middleware in support of your application. In this webcast, Jason McGee will discuss the evolution of cloud computing, the importance and value of application-centric clouds, and IBM's vision of Platform-as-a-Service. He'll also provide insight on ways to get started today with application centric cloud computing. View the replay and download the presentation Date: September 30, 2010 Join our esteemed panelists for an Online Jam session hosted by the GWC. This is your opportunity to get answers to any questions you may have about Cloud Computing and share insights and comments with others during this live forum. Can't make to the Jam? Feel free to post any question you may have prior to the Jam date. All questions and answers will remain available to members after the Jam.
Software Subscription and Support for your Websphere products IBM invests millions of dollars every year in your WebSphere software products – developing and delivering new technologies, supporting standards, making it easier for you to handle the increased complexity of today’s environment and take advantage of new opportunities. You can access these improvements immediately, if you are current with Subscription and Support for each of your WebSphere products. You’ll enhance your SOA environment that enables dynamic, interconnected business processes and deliver a highly effective application infrastructure for all business situations. You are entitled to the very latest updates, new release or new version of each covered product at any time during the year – you gain the latest technology at your convenience and any technical support you may need. To learn more about WebSphere Subscription & Support benefits,watch this:
NEWS ON THE WEBInnov8: CityOne -- IBM's first "City-Sim" Style Game A Smarter Planet game continues to gain media momentum as we get closer to its launch in Oct. This is IBM's first "city-sim" style game that will feature IBM software and industry solutions in banking, energy, retail, and water management. Check it out here. More CityOne information
WebSphere CloudBurst and the Intelligent Management Pack The new Intelligent Management Pack for the WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition enables you to create highly dynamic WebSphere clouds. You can now create and deploy patterns which leverage the intelligent, autonomic management capabilities provided by WebSphere Virtual Enterprise. Watch this video for a short demonstration of these exciting new features. WebSphere Application Server V8.0 Beta is now available WebSphere Application Server V8.0 Beta offers an initial glimpse into the future of the industry’s leading standards based, high performance, proven and trusted application foundation optimized for developer and operational productivity. Beta versions of WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment and WebSphere Application Server for z/OS are available as part of this Beta program. Click here to access the beta WebSphere Process Server Hypervisor Edition Starting in WebSphere CloudBurst 2.0, you can leverage the new WebSphere Process Server Hypervisor Edition. This new virtual image enables you to build, deploy, and manage WebSphere Process Server environments in your on-premise cloud using WebSphere CloudBurst. Watch this demonstration to learn more about the new WebSphere Process Server Hypervisor Edition. WebSphere CloudBurst plus Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere Building, deploying, configuring, then recreating middleware application environments are critical tasks for IT organizations, but inefficiency often surrounds this set of tasks. It can take too long to build and deploy; require too much experience to configure; be next to impossible to consistently recreate middleware application environments. In this article, the author shows you how WebSphere® CloudBurst and the Rational® Automation Framework for WebSphere can be combined to harden your dynamic WebSphere cloud application infrastructure. Enable a collaborative experience for HTML forms With the Communications Enabled Applications (CEA) Feature Pack for the WebSphere® Application Server you can deliver a more collaborative web experience to your users. Integrate click-to-call functions directly on your web pages, and allow your customers to jointly browse and navigate your site. In this article, learn to create two-way HTML forms where your users can collaborate to complete and submit their information. Explore how to drastically improve user satisfaction and the accuracy of data they send your way. Visit the IBM SOA Sandbox to check out what's new
SoaML 1.0 The overall purpose of SOA is to create a business level description—a model—of the services that are needed by or are available to the business entities that are interacting. SoaML can be used by business communities that want to establish consistent methods of working together. Read about it here. BPM Center of Excellence (CoE) Methodology When considering a BPM Center of Excellence Methodology it is important to focus all efforts on business objectives. Read it here. The beautiful game…not so much anymore Like in business, when you play “European” soccer against the Europeans, you’re doomed to fail. Read it here. Business processes and technology architecture must be dynamically aligned with the business strategy in order to support Business Agility and deliver differentiating business value. Read it here. BPMN 2.0 Finalization Complete In June, 2010, the OMG Architecture Board approved the finalization of the BPMN 2.0 specification. Read about it here. NEW VIDEO: BPM Helps Organizations Discover and Design their Processes 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. Click here to register. NEW VIDEO - IBM BPM Blueprint – Product Overview NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTSConnect Cloud and On-Premise Applications Using IBM’s Cast Iron Integration Platform It's easier than ever to migration to WebSphere Application Server with the new Migration Toolkit V1.2 The new version of the WebSphere Application Server Migration Toolkit further streamlines the process of migrating from other application server such as Oracle WebLogic Server and JBoss Application Server. This latest version enhances existing WebLogic migration capabilities by adding support for WebLogic Server EE5 deployment descriptors. It also adds the generation of IBM bindings and extension files for JBoss J2EE 1.4 applications, supports for JBoss EE5 applications, and includes globilization support. Click here to access the toolkit. Have you tried IBM Support Assistant Lite lately? New automated ISA Lite collectors are ready to download. Updates and addtions include: WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Integration Developer, WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance, WebSphere Voice Response, IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition, IBM Maximo for Oil and Gas, IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler 8.5.1, IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business. Make automated data collection part of your support process and save time. Just download it for your product and go! IBM has beaten its own SPECjEnterprise2010 record! New Solution Brief: IBM BPM FastPath IBM Closes Acquisition of Coremetrics ARMONK, N.Y. & WALTHAM, Mass. - 13 Aug 2013: IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Unica Corporation (NASDAQ: UNCA) today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for IBM to acquire Unica in a cash transaction at a price of $21 per share, or at a net price of approximately $480 million, after adjusting for cash. A publicly held company in Waltham, Mass., Unica will expand IBM's ability to help organizations analyze and predict customer preferences and develop more targeted marketing campaigns. Additional information can be found here. Application Development for IBM WebSphere Process Server 7 and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus 7 Authors:Salil Ahuja, Technical Enablement Specialist, AIM Early Program Adoptions, and Swami Chandrasekaran, Chief architect for the IBM SWG Industry Solutions Services - Communications Sector This book provides an overview of the fundamentals on BPM/SOA and is aimed for beginners to get started with BPM. The book can be purchased from Amazon.com or Packt Publishing and is also available to IBMers from Buy on Demand (BOND). Redbook: Version-to-Version Migration to IBM WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition V7 This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides concepts, details, and examples related to the migration process for Business Process Management (BPM) products. It describes three migration patterns for migrating earlier versions (Version 6.0.2, Version 6.1, Version 6.1.2, and Version 6.2) of the following BPM products to IBM WebSphere® Dynamic Process Edition: IBM WebSphere Process Server This book includes planning information and leading practices for the migration of these products. It provides information about the steps required to perform the migration, and includes two scenarios that walk you through example migrations on distributed and IBM z/OS® platforms. Access the RedBook here. New Article: Integrating WebSphere Process Server V7 and Lombardi Teamworks Author: Marc Fasbinder, Consulting I/T Specialist, IBM On December 12th, 2009, IBM® announced the acquisition of Lombardi®, a leading provider of business process management (BPM) solutions. This article will show you how to integrate Lombardi BPM with your existing WebSphere® BPM solutions. You will learn how to model and implement a process using the Lombardi tools, and then integrate them with WebSphere Process Server V7. Access the article here. EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION
Get a Lenovo netbook compliments of IBM software training Here's a deal that's too good to miss! Get a complimentary Lenovo netbook after completing an eligible IBM software training class. Choose from over 100 classes in Cognos, Data Management, Enterprise Content Management, IBM InfoSphere and IBM WebSphere. Simply register for an eligible U.S. class by October 29th and complete the class by December 17th. Click here WebSphere/SOA/XML Certification Train and Certify PromotionDistinguish yourself in this highly skilled marketplace by joining our elite group of IBM Certified Professionals. With every qualifying course you attend, you will receive a certification promotional code that will enable you take the aligning eligible certification exam free of charge. Each exam is valued at $200 USD in developed countries and $100 in emerging market countries. This offer is available worldwide. More information and valid certifications can be found here. The Value of IT Certification IT Certification is an important component to your career. To understand the impact certification can make on both an individual and businesses, read this whitepaper Intermediate level certification: Integration Developer - WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus V7.0 -- Click here for more information Associate Administrator - IBM BPM Blueprint; IBM WebSphere Lombardi Edition V7.1 -- Click here for more information UPCOMING WEBCASTS AND SEMINARSWebcast: Turbo-Charge Cloud Apps by Connecting them with Your Enterprise and Supply Chain Date: August 26, 2010 Webcast: Opening New Routes to Market Using Web Channels Date: September 01, 2010 The Wasserstrom Company is the world’s leading restaurant supplier and distributor of foodservice supplies and equipment including kitchen, catering and dinning supplies. A leader in B2B online buying experience and customer service, Wasserstrom recently expanded its online business to the consumer market.
Register NOW for this online webinar. Date: September 14, 2010 Discover how SOA can help you align IT and business goals in this full-day educational event. Get on the right track with SOA – the right implementation will add immediate value, delivering true flexibility and responsiveness to changing business needs – while optimizing costs. IBM knows what it takes. IBM technical experts will provide the practical knowledge you really need for a successful implementation, in a professional interactive learning environment. You’ll also have the opportunity to network both with your peers and leading IBM strategists, architects and technical experts at this flagship event for the architect community. Click here for more information. Webcast: Easily Connect Your Enterprise to the Cloud Date: September 15, 2010 Register to Attend NOW! WebSphere Application Infrastructure Summits and WebSphere Foundation & Connectivity Summits Date: 11-15 October 2010 Attend the WebSphere Technical Conference and expand your knowledge of BPM, CICS, Messaging , WebSphere Application Servers and Infrastructure, including a focus on SOA and Cloud Computing topics. You will also gain insight into current IT trends and learn how to keep pace in todays rapidly changing business climate. With over 200 unique sessions and 20 hands-on labs, the WebSphere Technical Conference will feature key themes in today's technology trends. Agenda is available now! Visit the Web site today to learn more about the content we plan to deliver. A new section has been added to highlight the Agenda and Abstracts. Be sure to check back regularly for updates Participate in the Solution Village at the IBM European WebSphere Technical Conference, 11-15 October 2010, Düsseldorf, Germany Do not miss the Solution Village at the IBM European WebSphere Technical Conference 2010. Why Exhibit?
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WEBINAR REPLAY: The role of BPMN in a linked world and how that relates to doing BPM and EA together ON DEMAND WEBINAR: Starting a Company Wide BPM Initiative in the Cloud with IBM BPM Blueprint IBM BPM Blueprint enables every employee, partner and supplier to participate in communicating and improving an organization's business processes, ideas and initiatives.
In this webcast you'll learn the different ways MedImpact is using the cloud-based solution BPM Blueprint to start on their path to process excellence, profitable growth, and agility. Attend this webcast to learn more. Access this webinar here.
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