WUG News and Updates
Upcoming WUG Meetings:
The GWC Announces the Launch of the IBM BPM A/NZ Users Group and the Re-Launch of the WebSphere Online Support Virtual Community
IBM BPM User Group A/NZ
We are pleased to announce the launch of the IBM BPM A/NZ Users Group. Meet old and new members in Australia and New Zealand, share your BPM and BRMS ideas and experiences, and discuss challenges in an open forum attended by IBM experts and a select group of peers. The group is a great opportunity to get the latest in the world of BPM, learn about IBM’s BPM product roadmap, and hear fellow users from a range of industries share their challenges and successes.
If you have any questions about the IBM BPM A/NZ Users Group, please contact group owner by Geoff Ward or group moderator Stephane Marouani.
To join the IBM BPM A/NZ Users Group, you must be a member of the Global WebSphere Community. If you are not already a member, you can sign up for your free account by visiting www.websphereusergroup.org and clicking on the Sign Up link in the upper right-hand corner. After you have signed up, go to the IBM BPM A/NZ Users Group page and click the Join This Group link under the group profile picture on the right (you must be logged in to your GWC account to complete this step).
WebSphere Online Support Virtual Community
The WebSphere Online Support Virtual Community has recently been re-launched with a new leader. The group is a worldwide, virtual community for the various tools and initiatives associated with IBM Software Support.
If you have any questions about the WebSphere Online Support Virtual Community, please contact group owner Arun.
To join the WebSphere Online Support Virtual Community, you must be a member of the Global WebSphere Community. If you are not already a member, you can sign up for your free account by visiting www.websphereusergroup.org and clicking on the Sign Up link in the upper right-hand corner. After you have signed up, go to the WebSphere Online Support Virtual Community page and click the Join This Group link under the group profile picture on the right (you must be logged in to your GWC account to complete this step).
Congratulations to Our GWC Member Rewards Program Winners!
Congratulations to the following GWC members on winning the GWC Member Rewards contest for the month of March:
- Erik Solinger
- Rene Crozier
- Joseph Amrith Raj
These members earned the most Loyalty Points in 1Q 2011 and will receive an IBM WebSphere Education course in return for their contributions to the Global WebSphere Community. Congratulations to our winners and thank you for your contributions to the Global WebSphere Community.
You too can earn valuable WebSphere Education Rewards. The GWC Member Rewards Program is designed to give back to our highest contributing Global WebSphere Community Members. You earn points in the Global WebSphere Community based on your activity and contribution to the Community. Points are earned and accrued when contributing to the GWC blogs, uploading a presentation, providing responses in the GWC Forms, and more. For more details and a listing of activities and points you can earn when contributing to the Global WebSphere Community, please visit our GWC Member Rewards Program page.
Global WebSphere Community June 2011 Monthly Focus: The Next Decade of BPM, Continued
Date: June 9, 2011
Topic: The Next Stage – IBM Business Process Manager
Time: 11:00 am EDT
View the replay, download the presentation , and view questions from the webcast in the IBM Business Process Manager forum
BPM has been on a long journey over the last Decade. And the journey has now been taken on a new path with the announcement of IBM Business Process Manager. Business Process Manager is IBM’s new unified BPM offering that combines highly usable rich capabilities for the business with powerful scalability and governance.
Join us on Thursday June 9, 2011 as we discuss:
- Gaining visibility and insight to manage business processes and begin the BPM journey
- Tangible examples and use cases of projects that have achieved their goals.
- Different approaches to technology, skills, and organizational structure that enable companies to establish repeatable models for BPM success.
- Scaling a project smoothly and easily from an initial project to a full enterprise-wide program.
- Harnessing complexity in a simple environment to break down silos and better meet customer needs.
Date: June 23, 2011
Topic: 7 Revealing Routes to Responsive Business (using IBM Business Monitor)
Time: 11:00 am
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The visibility into your business that ties together your core processes, essential applications, business rules, and key events is essential for adapting to change and market trends – allowing for a more responsive business. This webcast will explain how you can:
- see what IS going on rather than read what WAS going on with timely business-oriented dashboards
- provide a company nervous system that enables management to act decisively
- add new dimensions to IBM BPM for deployment, authoring, playback, and reuse of processes
- consume, correlate, and visualize end-to-end across applications
- monitor from anywhere with mobile device dashboards and Web portals
- utilize fully integrated business intelligence for analysis and reporting
- use customizable role-based security levels and user interfaces
Save the Date: June 15 GWC Lab Chat with Andy Piper, WebSphere Messaging Community Lead at IBM
Date: June 15, 2011
Topic: WebSphere MQ: A Vision for Messaging
Time: 11:00 AM EDT
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The WebSphere messaging products have been at the heart of business for over 15 years, delivering data to where it is needed reliably and securely. There are increasing needs for messaging middleware to adapt, particularly in the context of a Smarter Planet. This lab chat will start out by briefly looking at the current set of technologies in this space and explore the future. What common issues do you find when considering application messaging? What aspects of a messaging infrastructure are most key to your business? And what do you think IBM could focus on in the MQ space to help to transform the way we connect our businesses and the planet?
Highlights from the May Blogs:
Recap: Global WebSphere Community May Monthly Focus: Drive Agility and Savings with Integration
Topic: The Next Evolution of the ESB for Healthcare
Time: 11:00 am EDT
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As many hospitals and healthcare institutions move towards integration of their Electronic Medical Records (EMR), many are seeking to integrate existing clinical applications to ensure that data is captured and stored within the patient records both for immediate observation and later review and analysis.
WebSphere Message Broker helps clinical IT providers address this need. Join Leif Davidsen as he discusses how you can deliver better integration in healthcare environments with:
- Time-saving pre-built patterns and connectivity for clinical applications that leverage industry standards such as Health Level Seven (HL7).
- Extensive message logging and reporting to allow operational management of clinical applications.
- Universal ESB capabilities to enable flexible and extensible connectivity between many types of applications running in the healthcare environment or beyond.
Date: May 26, 2011
Topic: Building a Reliable, Cost Effective Messaging Foundation
Time: 12:00 am EDT
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Join Brian Cope as he discusses how IBM WebSphere MQ helps your business build the reliable cost effective Unmatched Messaging Foundation. Learn how to:
- Architect stable environments with High Availability
- Decrease your cost of ownership through simplicity
- Provide reliable Web Services with auditability
- Extend your base messaging to deliver:
- Industry level security
- File transfer capabilities
- Access information from the edge
- Implement low-latency messaging
Recap: GWC Lab Chat with Host Greg Truty: How is Mobile Computing Affecting Your Enterprise Strategy?
Topic: How is Mobile Computing Affecting Your Enterprise Strategy?
Time: 11:00 AM EDT
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Mobile Smartphones and tablets are changing the way that we work in a dramatic fashion. Gartner predicts by 2013, over ½ of the web interactions will be from mobile devices. Users now have the technical capability and are being conditioned to operate in an always-connected fashion. How are enterprises coping with this phenomenon? Where should enterprises begin trying to decide how to target not just their consumers, but allow their employees to benefit from this trend? What is WebSphere doing to help facilitate this shift in the marketplace?
WebSphere News and Announcements
Impact 2011 Client Reference "ACE" Award Winners
The WebSphere Client Reference team announced the winners for the first Awarding Client Excellence (ACE) Awards at Impact 2011. The winners were selected for their success stories across these three categories:
Agility: Recognizes improved responsiveness to change as well as overall business process speed.
Winners: HUK-COBURG, Lincoln Trust, Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC
Transformation: Recognizes significant business results, turnaround or business process redesign for enhanced corporate-wide collaboration, communication, responsiveness or other process improvement.
Winners: First Citizens Bank, The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, WorkSafe Victoria
Innovation: Recognizes unique and creative use of a technology to further extend its usability, lifetime and reach.
Winners: American Well, Irish Dairy Board, Lockheed Martin
ACE Awards recipients were invited to participate in activities such as an exclusive dinner with Steve Mills, IBM Senior VP and Group Executive Software & Systems at Lavo located in the Venetian Palazzo Hotel; an “Hour with the Press” (in one of our Press Roundtables or a 1:1 interview); a client testimonial video and an ACE Awards reception party in the Client Reference Lounge (shown in the attached picture).
They also received a crystal award commemorating their achievement and were offered reserved seating at Tuesday’s main tent where the ACE Award winners were showcased.
Congratulations to all our ACE Award winners!
Smarter Questions Gives Options for Those Running Oracle Software on Itanium Systems
Since Oracle’s decision to stop supporting Intel Itanium-based systems will force customers to make a change, IBM can help them improve their IT environment, lower costs and reduce the risk of future disruptions.
If Oracle's Termination of Itanium Has Left You Unsupported, Find Out How IBM Can Help
After Oracle terminated Itanium support, Itanium /HP-UX clients have asked Forrester about other options. Forrester recommends IBM for those needing to migrate to another UNIX system that supports future versions of their Oracle and application stack. Analyst Richard Fichera says, "IBM can easily run the Oracle workloads on its POWER servers, and has a viable option in DB2 UDB for migration from Oracle." Read his Forrester blog.
Doctor Jeffrey Burns Blogs About His Impact 2011 Keynote
Thought leader Doctor Jeffrey Burns has taken his Impact keynote and adapted it to a three part blog series. A priceless endorsement for the AIM team and something that can be used by the sales team.
News on the Web
Don't miss these new whitepapers:
IBM Business Agility Study: Cutting Through Complexity with Business Agility
This Business Agility study surveyed companies in the financial, insurance and healthcare industries. Each company surveyed described themselves as agile and achieved significant business results. The study reveals a strong correlation between business agility and success, and agility can be a powerful tool for cutting through the complexities dominating the corporate landscape to seize opportunities.
Download the white paper to gain greater insights into these industry leading companies and understand what these companies discovered and how they realized greater agility to achieve success.
Getting Cloud Computing Right
The key to business success in cloud adoption is a robust, proven architecture.
TM Forum Case Study with IBM and Mobitel
TM Forum, the communication industry's leading standards body, recently published a case study book highlighting the partnership between IBM and Mobitel, a European service provider. Learn more aabout how IBM helped Mobitel streamline its order management process and launch new services to the market faster than ever before.
EBOOK: IBM Smart SOA Foundation: Application Foundation from WebSphere
EBOOK: IBM Smart SOA Foundation: Application Foundation from WebSphere features use cases and examples for Banking, Insurance, and Telecom industries. Learn more how the WebSphere Application Foundation can help increase business agility in your organization.
IBM Support Portal — Updated Based on Your Feedback!
IBM significantly updated the IBM Support Portal support site, with improvements to make this worldwide one-stop site for technical resources for all IBM products even more effective and useful for you. Details available in the IBM Electronic Support blog.
Education and Certification
WebSphere Portal 7 Classes from IBM Lotus Education
All new classes from Lotus Education to help you skill up for delivering exceptional web experiences. Select from IBM WebSphere Portal System Administration or Application Development course(s) and register today.
Visit the WebSphere Portal Training website for all Portal curriculum, course descriptions, availability and registration information.
The Global WebSphere Community Announces Exclusive, No Charge Education: IBM CloudBurst Appliance Video Course
IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance speeds application deployment to cloud and virtualization environments. This education video, based on five online lectures and five online demonstrations, provides in-depth information about the 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.
This video training teaches networking and storage requirements for implementing an ESX and Power VM cloud environment, how to configure cloud resources such as hypervisors and IP groups on the appliance as well as how to create, deploy and monitor virtual systems created from predefined patterns. Additionally you’ll learn resource management procedures for both virtual systems and the CloudBurst Appliance.
View the IBM Cloudburst Appliance Video Education Course Now!
Upcoming Webcasts, Seminars, and Events
Big EARs and OSGi
Earlier this year, the Enterprise OSGi YouTube channel was launched. The channel was created as part of the Evangelism strategy for OSGi applications and is dedicated to bringing latest OSGi news and WebSphere OSGi applications updates and new features. The first video uploaded was presented by Ian Robinson titled “Big EARs and OSGi”. Updates will be made over the coming months covering WAS v8 and the new features that were included. Many more videos have since been uploaded. If you would like to contribute to the Enterprise OSGi channel, please contact Simon Maple (@sjmaple).
Don't miss these upcoming events:
June 13-14: IBM Hursley Comes to San Jose
Don't miss Hursley Comes to You (HCTY) in San Jose, CA on June 13-14. This briefing brings the best Hursley lab speakers with deep technical skills, and in many cases are the architects that designed the products that they are speaking about. These sessions will not just focus on Connectivity and MQ, but many of our complementary products like Cast Iron, Sterling, ILOG and BPM. If you want to have an deeper private conversation with one of our Hurlsey lab experts, attend the briefing and request a 1:1 meeting at the registration desk. To view the agenda and list of speakers, visit: ibm.com/events/Hursleyevents2011/SanJose
The Excitement of Impact Comes to You!
Learn how to transcend the complex business environment with an efficient and agile organization based on technology geared for both business and IT. Attend one of over 40 Impact Comes to You events in a city near you.
Access Now! Smarter Systems Virtual Event On-Demand
As the amount of data continues to grow, IT departments need to be more agile. Organizations in all industry segments are taking advantage of IBM's economical and efficient approach to integrated systems to handle their transactional and analytical workloads. Today's IT solutions require systems that can quickly and dynamically respond to changing needs. Sign up for this virtual event to hear how IBM can help you get past speeds, feeds, and misleads and into smarter systems for better decision-making.
- Attend the keynote presentation and hear from an IBM client and independent industry analyst as they share their perspective on Smarter Systems
- View the top eight presentations from the live Global Smarter Systems Tour
- Chat in-person with IBM Smarter Systems experts
- Experience key sessions on-demand…at your leisure
Register Now
Attend the Enterprise Cloud Workshop — Sponsored by IBM
Business leaders are asking IT to provide an environment that responds quickly to business needs. Public Clouds have demonstrated their value; now Private Clouds are beginning to emerge. Join us for a workshop where experts from the field will share their experience and help you assess the risks and benefits of moving your application to public or private clouds. You propose an application you want to run in the cloud and you'll receive a personalized assessment by one of the facilitators...it's that easy. Join us in Boston on June 2 or Seattle on June 16. Register Now!
Don't miss these upcoming and on-demand webcasts:
Now Available: IBM TechChat Series for Monthly Online Chat with IBM Experts
The IBM TechChat Series provides IT professionals and practitioners with an opportunity to chat online “live” with IBM experts worldwide, in three different time zones. Each TechChat is scheduled for 30 minutes monthly between April–Nov. 2011 and features built-in translation so users can chat freely and easily without a language barrier between them. A one-time registration for one or more chats is available at www.ibm.com/smarter/techchats, where users also can submit a question to experts in advance of the TechChat.
5 Small Scale IT Projects for Big Time Business Results
Webcast Series
How to pilot your way to greater business agility and near term ROI.
This Webcast series features five proven IT projects for greater business agility and flexibility, designed to deliver faster ROI by taking a practical and incremental approach to implementation.
Each project:
- Targets a key initiative where IT can expand its business impact as a value creator and cost cutter: process improvement; operational decision-making; business connections; cloud and virtualization; build, deploy and manage applications.
- Provides assurance of a successful initial implementation with actual business results; establishing the proper infrastructure for expansion and preventing wrong and costly redesign and changes down the line.
- Register to watch one or all 5 of the IT projects and if you miss the live date, you can watch to on demand replays.
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Business Process Management on System z
Join us for this webcast which will focus on the different objectives of Business Process Management on System z, the way business activities can be streamlined, existing applications can be complemented and extended and real time visibility can be achieved, and all of this using BPM on zEnterprise.
Free Upcoming June 2011 WebSphere Support Technical Exchange Webcasts
The Upcoming links will work for two days past the presentation. A week after the webcast, an audio replay of the exchange will be available on the Previous Webcast tab on the WebSphere Technical Exchange home page. Participation is easy and free — no registration required.
Date: June 1, 2011
Time: 11 AM EDT (GMT-4)
Title: Understanding your CICS Interdependency Analyzer (IA) Data
Presenter: Emyr James
Presenter Title: CICS Tools Technical Specialist
Abstract: This session covers topics on CICS IA overview, what data does CICS IA capture, how to load your CICS IA data, and using the CICS IA Explorer plugin to view your IA data.
Date: June 2, 2011
Time: 11 AM EDT (GMT-4)
Title: Facilitating Collaborations in a Secured WebSphere Business Compass Environment
Presenter: Ying Zhao
Presenter Title: WebSphere Business Process Management Customer Service Specialist
Abstract: WebSphere Business Compass is a web-based environment for authoring and communicating business direction with others inside and outside the organization. This presentation discusses its innate access control mechanism that ensures secure, flexible and efficient collaborations.
Date: June 9, 2011
Time: 11 AM EDT (GMT-4)
Title: Understanding and Troubleshooting WebSphere Application Server Administrative Console
Presenter: Kumaran Nathan
Presenter Title: IBM WebSphere level 2 Customer support
Abstract: This WebSphere Support Technical Exchange describes the new enhancements from the WebSphere Application Server V7 administrative console, and information on how to troubleshoot problems related to the administrative console.
Date: June 15, 2011
Time: 11 AM EDT (GMT-4)
Title: Troubleshooting Tips and Hints for WebSphere Siebel Adapter
Presenter: Paula Jones
Presenter Title: WebSphere Adapter Level 2 Support
Abstract: Have you ever encountered problems with the WebSphere Adapter for Siebel? Well, this presentation should give you a few hints and tips on resolving those issues with the WebSphere Adapter for Siebel. Some helpful technotes that have solved customer issues are also shared with the audience.
Date: June 21, 2011
Time: 11 AM EDT (GMT-4)
Title: Server Administration within WebSphere Integration Developer
Presenter: Jason M. Ancrum
Presenter Title: WebSphere Business Process Management
Abstract: This presentation discusses server startup inside WebSphere Integration Developer, settings that could influence startup behavior, effective troubleshooting, guidance around performance and tuning, HOT deployments, differences in connection type options, and startup alternatives.
Date: June 22, 2011
Time: 11 AM EDT (GMT-4)
Title: Windows Native Memory Problem Determination Techniques and Tools for WebSphere Application Server
Presenter: Kevin Grigorenko
Presenter Title: IBM WebSphere Application Server SWAT, Software Engineer
Abstract: This presentation covers native memory issues for WebSphere Application Server, particularly native OutOfMemoryErrors and leaks on Windows. It covers theory, detecting and monitoring, isolating and avoiding, and finally analyzing leaks with UMDH, LeakDiag, DebugDiag, VMMap and windbg.
Date: June 23, 2011
Time: 11 AM EDT (GMT-4)
Title: WebSphere Transformation Extender (WTX) Logs - Where to Find them and How to Use Them
Presenter: Paul Brett
Presenter Title: Senior Enterprise Support Analyst, IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender (WTX) Level 2 Customer Support EMEA(UK)
Abstract: This WebSphere Support Technical Exchange covers the diagnostic logging capabilities of the IBM WTX product set. It is aimed at users who wish to know more about which logs to activate, to self diagnose and/or provide the key docs to IBM WebSphere TX Customer Support team for problem determination.
Date: June 28, 2011
Time: 11 AM EDT (GMT-4)
Title: Using SSL to Connect to a WebSphere Application Server with a WebSphere MQ Queue Manager
Presenter: Miguel Rodriguez & Angel Rivera
Presenter Title: WebSphere MQ L2 Support
Abstract: This webcast focuses on how to configure the use of use of Secured Sockets Layer (SSL) to connect a WebSphere Application Server with a WebSphere MQ queue manager.
Date: June 29, 2011
Time: 11 AM EDT (GMT-4)
Title: Live Demo - Troubleshooting for WebSphere Adapter for iSeries
Presenter: Adrienne Lee
Presenter Title: Staff Software Engineer
Abstract: This WebSphere Support Technical Exchange presents troubleshooting information for WebSphere Adapter for iSeries. A demo is also included to show participants how they can troubleshoot their own Adapters.
Date: June 30, 2011
Time: 11 AM EDT (GMT-4)
Title: Ask the Experts - Key Functions of the WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances
Presenter: Alfred Williamson, Dorine Yelton, Moses Allotey-Pappoe, Chin Sahoo, Dominic Micale & Paul Megani
Presenter Title: IBM Datapower Level-2 Support Engineers
Abstract: This presentation answers frequently asked questions on the WebSphere DataPower SOA appliances relating to SFTP, MQ, ITCAM for SOA, XSLT, DNS, request/response headers, and encryption and decryption. Audience are also encouraged to interact with our panel of experts during the Q/A period.
