Global WebSphere Community Newsletter — October 2011
By The Global WebSphere Community
Oct 20, 2011 11:06 AM CDT
 
WUG News and Updates
Upcoming WUG Meetings:
The GWC Announces the Launch of the French WebSphere User Group/Nous Vous Annonçons la Création d'un Nouveau Groupe Français WUG-FR (WebSphere User Group France)
Nous vous annonçons la création d'un nouveau groupe français WUG-FR (WebSphere User Group France) au sein du GWC (Global WebSphere Community), le réseau social mondial pour les professionnels des produits de la gamme WebSphere.
Nous vons conseillons vivement de vous inscrire au sein de ce groupe en cliquant ici. En effet, en tant que membre de ce groupe français du GWC, vous aurez accès à une mulitude de blogs, à des discussions, des forums, des ressources, des possibilités de vous créer un réseau professionnel dans votre domaine spécifique, à des groupes spécialisés, à des news, à des événements, à de la recherche d'opportunités, etc.
Le groupe mettra l'accent sur un mélange de témoignages, d'exemples d'implémentations, de présentations de produits et techniques du domaine JEE. Vous pourrez ainsi profiter des connaissances et expériences de chacun des autres membres (développeurs, ingénieurs de production, architectes, etc).
N'hésitez pas à contacter l'administrateur de ce groupe pour toute demande d'information en cliquant ici.
Rejoignez WUG-FR !
BPM for Growth Markets Virtual User Group
The BPM For Growth Markets Virtual User Group has been launched!
Why Growth Markets?
The growth markets have similar business problems and constraints, and it is important to provide users from across the GMU, a platform to share opinions, discuss trends, solve issues, generate new ideas & more!
In an effort to capitalize on these collective capabilities and successes in the BPMS & Decision Management space, we are launching the virtual user group, BPM in Growth Markets. The user group intends to feature content particularly relevant to the growth markets, facilitated by the expertise and experience of the users.
Congratulations to our 3Q 2011 GWC Member Rewards Winner!
Congratulations to Rajarathinam N, the 3Q @011 GWC Member Rewards winner. Rajarathinam provided quality, technical answers to numerous posts in the GWC forums, and will receive one no-charge online IBM WebSphere Education course of his choice. Thank you for your contributions Rajarathinam!
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.
GWC Member Rewards Program: Better Than Ever!
We're proud to announce some exciting updates to the GWC Member Rewards Program. Our program has been expanded to provide you, and all of our members, with exciting opportunities to contribute to the community and earn great rewards along the way.
More prizes
Each quarter, our top point earners have the opportunity to win IBM WebSphere Education, GWC merchandise, Impact 2012 awards, nomination to the IBM Champions program, and more based on their unique valuable contributions made to the GWC!
New point system
Earn loyalty points based on your activity on the Global WebSphere Community, including posting in a blog, uploading a WebSphere-related presentation, or providing a video of how your company is using WebSphere-related software and more. We've also introduced bonus points! Be on the lookout each month for the opportunity to double and even triple your loyalty points!
This month's bonus points
Submit a WebSphere-related blog post between now and the end of November, and you'll automatically earn double the normal amount of points you would receive!
Rules: Content uploaded must be unique, WebSphere-related content. Lifetime points will not be awarded for personal or non-WebSphere content or for duplicate content uploaded by the same person. Privacy setting for content must be set to "Public" where applicable. Prizes will be awarded based on value of the contribution to the community. Employees of IBM; UCG; and national, state, or local governments of any country are eligible to earn points and badges but are not eligible to win GWC Member Rewards prizes.
For more information, please click here. For a list of FAQs about the GWC Member Rewards Program, please click here.
Happy contributing!
Highlights From the October Blogs:
Recap: October Monthly Focus: New WebSphere Product Announcements Demonstrating the Power of Business Agility for Innovation, Transformation & Growth
Date: October 20, 2011
Topic: Quickly Develop, Deploy, Provision, and Manage Your Applications for Enhanced Workload Performance with New Announcements from IBM WebSphere
Time: 11:00 AM EDT (GMT -4)
Replay the video and download the presentation
The pace of change in today's business is tremendous. IT leaders are tasked with keeping pace while continuing to innovate, and their solutions and tools should serve as partners in this effort. IBM's continued investments in their application infrastructure solutions provide the tools and means of addressing this challenge of change head-on! Now you can seamlessly develop in Eclipse and deploy to WebSphere Application Server. You can enjoy expanded open source options including JEE 6 and OSGi in a CE open source environment, and you can be one of the first to experience a simplified and lightweight run-time for web applications in the WebSphere Application Server v8.5 alpha program. Ensure those new or existing applications are providing optimal response times by leveraging IBM’s enhanced eXtreme Scale solution. And build a web application that can be repeatedly and consistently deployed into your traditional or cloud IT infrastructure through our enhanced Workload Deployer v3.1 appliance. Register today to learn more!
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Date: October 27, 2011
Topic: Building an Interconnected Enterprise with New IBM WebSphere Connectivity and Integration Capabilities
Time: 11:00 AM EDT (GMT - 4)
The video replay and webcast presentation will be posted soon.
To meet the challenges of an increasingly complex world, organizations are investing in capabilities to deliver rapid process changes and accelerate services through new mobile and cloud channels. New connectivity and integration capabilities from IBM will extend the reach and security of your applications – allowing your organization to better deliver higher-level value to the business.
Join this webcast to hear IBM’s Distinguished Engineers discuss these key new product enhancements including WebSphere Message Broker V8 for .NET, WebSphere MQ V7.1 enhanced security for industry regulations, WebSphere DataPower Service Gateway XG45 appliance built for web services deployments and WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration technology to connect Cloud and on-premise applications.
Date: November 3, 2011
Topic: What's new in Decision Management and BPM?
Time: 11:00 AM EDT (GMT -4)
Register now!
The new versions of WebSphere Operational Decision Management (formerly ILOG BRMS) and IBM Business Process Manager enable even tighter collaboration between business and IT.
In early October, IBM announced two key products to support business decisions and processes. WebSphere Operational Decision Management v7.5 is the new version of the ILOG Business Rules Management platform with some cool added features. The new product has gained capabilities for complex event processing, through the inclusion of the WebSphere Business Events development and runtime environments. Business rules and business events can now be defined, managed, and governed using a single web-based interface. IBM also announced a new version of IBM Business Process Manager. IBM BPM v7.5.1 adds BPMN 2.0 support for both business and IT users along with tighter integrations with IBM Case Manager.
Join this call to learn about the latest innovations in IBM's Decision Management and BPM portfolio, and how you can apply these new capabilities to improve your decisions and processes.
Additional Resources:
Interested in Becoming a GWC Business Partner?
The Global WebSphere Community reaches tens of thousands of WebSphere professionals every month – the GWC Partner Program allows companies to get their message to decision makers in the community that they may otherwise not have the opportunity to reach. “When we want to send a targeted message specifically to people working in the WebSphere platform, the GWC Partner Program makes that happen for us”, says XebiaLabs CEO Coert Baart, a recent GWC Partner Program participant. He added, “A recent email sent to the community on our behalf resulted in dozens of new leads overnight.”
The GWC Partner Program delivers value far beyond simple advertising. They work as an advisor helping partners choose the right mix of sponsored articles, white papers and webinars that are likely to deliver the desired outcome to partners in terms of brand recognition and lead generation.
To learn how the GWC Business Partner Program can help you deliver targeted messages to WebSphere professionals, contact Scott Treggiari at scott.treggiari@wispubs.com or 1-781-751-8734.
WebSphere News and Announcements
IBM Electronic Support Newsletter
Visit this month's IBM Electronic Support Newsletter for the latest information on IBM conferences, recent IBM support site updates, a list of our favorite "Tip of the Day" articles plus a highlight of IBM's best social business channels.
 Your Opinion Matters!
As a user of IBM software or as a customer or a business partner, Subscription and Support has played a role in your business. Subscription and Support (Software Licenses) are critical to business outcomes. It provides an existing IBM customer the access to the latest product version updates or releases and to technical support these are lifeline to your business. We wanted to learn and understand your experiences as these feedback helps us learn.
Subscription and Support Virtual Community is a dedicated user group for existing WebSphere product users. The user group has recently published a opinion Poll to learn and understand the users thoughts on Subscription and Support. Additionally you can post your thoughts or feedback on this subject for the blog titled "Share your experience". We look forward to learn from you. Happy to learn :)
New Feature Packs for WebSphere Application Server v.8: S&S Customers Download at NO-CHARGE!
IBM WebSphere Application Server Feature Packs are optionally installable product extensions that offer targeted, incremental new features. WebSphere Application Server v.8 has 2 new feature packs available only to customers who are current on their Subscription & Support (S&S). Here are the Feature Packs for WebSphere Application Server v.8:
- IBM WebSphere Application Server Feature Pack for Web 2.0 and Mobile- extends the reach of enterprise applications, from the desktop to mobile devices.
- WebSphere Application Server Feature Pack for Dynamic Scripting- enables efficient development of situational applications through dynamic scripting
Existing customers active in their S&S can DOWNLOAD today at NO CHARGE!
First Edition of the IBM Electronic Support Newsletter!
Welcome to the first edition of the IBM Electronic Support Newsletter! We will have lots of great news to share with you every month. This edition includes information about upcoming IBM conferences (Power Systems Technical University & IOD 2011), a recent support site release, our favorite blog articles plus a highlight of Information Management's social channels. This is the one place to stay informed about electronic support updates and activities!
SOA Software’s Policy Manager for IBM WebSphere DataPower
SOA Software’s Policy Manager for IBM WebSphere DataPower is unique in its ability to manage services, define and distribute policy, and collect and display monitoring data for clusters of DataPower appliances. It allows customers to implement and enforce consistent, uniform policies throughout their infrastructure, providing visibility into enterprise service usage, performance, and availability from network edge to application.
Policy Manager for IBM WebSphere DataPower allows customers to:
- Leverage DataPower as part of a unified governance automation solution
- Centrally define policies and apply them to services distributed across multiple DataPower appliances
- Manage a cluster of DataPower appliances as a single entity
- Gain visibility into service and appliance performance, individual messages, and business transactions from a single administration console
Developers Take Note! More Choice, Flexibility and Efficiency with WebSphere Application Server
IBM WebSphere Application Server is making your job easier and delivering more choice, flexibility and efficiency. Three new announcements are aimed at providing you with tools that match your application development needs.
New tools editions:
On November 18, 2011, Eclipse plug-ins for WebSphere Application Server (WAS) v7 and v8 will be available for JAVA developers at no charge. Java developers can download these and build JAVA/JEE applications using Eclipse and test in WAS. These applications can then be deployed to traditional WAS or to the Cloud environments.
Three bundles provide options for all organizational needs and:
- Simplify developers' ability to obtain tooling and build apps for WAS environments
- Provide options for Eclipse and RAD within WAS bundles
- Lower the entry cost and Total Cost of Ownership for the combination of tooling and runtimes
New alpha program and developer community:
A new WebSphere Application Server v8.5 alpha program introduces a simplified and light-weight runtime for web applications that features incredibly fast start / restart times and very small footprint to speed developer productivity. This new profile provides a great option for developers building web applications that don't require the full Java EE environment of traditional enterprise application server profiles.
A new online community is now live for WAS developers that invites lively conversation, feedback on WAS v8.5 and innovative ideas. Connect with your fellow developers and help shape the next WAS.
Download the Alpha today and join the forum at www.wasdev.net
New WAS Community Edition v3.0:
With WAS Community Edition v3.0, you can better manage the costs of developing and delivering departmental applications and simplify development with free and easy access to tooling. New features include: support for Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 6; an enterprise OSGi application programming model and OSGi modularity; and Eclipse-based development tooling to further accelerate application development. WAS Community Edition is built on Apache Geronimo and integrated with best-of-breed, open-source technology. For details click here.
Learn more about the new tools bundles, WAS v8.5 alpha and WAS Community Edition at your local GWC User Group meeting!
WebSphere DataPower Service Gateway XG45 is now Available
The WebSphere DataPower Service Gateway XG45 provides you with enhanced security for services, applications, and data with customizable, scalable and automated service visibility and governance.
Check out the release notes and information center
IBM z/OS V1R12 Communications Server TCP/IP Implementation: Volume 4 Security and Policy-Based Networking
For more than 40 years, IBM® mainframes have supported an extraordinary portion of the world’s computing work, providing centralized corporate databases and mission-critical enterprise-wide applications. The IBM System z® provides world class and state-of-the-art support for the TCP/IP Internet protocol suite.
TCP/IP is a large and evolving collection of communication protocols managed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), an open, volunteer, organization. Because of its openness, the TCP/IP protocol suite has become the foundation for the set of technologies that form the basis of the Internet. The convergence of IBM mainframe capabilities with Internet technology, connectivity, and standards (particularly TCP/IP) is dramatically changing the face of information technology and driving requirements for ever more secure, scalable, and highly available mainframe TCP/IP implementations.
The IBM z/OS® Communications Server TCP/IP Implementation series provides understandable, step-by-step guidance about how to enable the most commonly used and important functions of z/OS Communications Server TCP/IP. This IBM Redbooks® publication explains how to set up security for the z/OS networking environment. Network security requirements have become more stringent and complex. Because many transactions come from unknown users and untrusted networks, careful attention must be given to host and user authentication, data privacy, data origin authentication, and data integrity. We also include helpful tutorial information in the appendixes of this book because security technologies can be quite complex.
Executive Interview: A Look Back (and Forward) at 20 Years of Decision Management
In 2009 when IBM acquired ILOG, they were the world’s leading company for Business Rules and Operations Research tools. In this exclusive interview, the former ILOG CEO dishes on the role decision management has played in the past (see the fascinating IBM Fishkill plant story), where it stands today and how the future of decision management systems should be driven with a deliberate look back.
News on the Web
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 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.
Enterprise OSGi YouTube Channel
For those with an interest in OSGi, why not look at the Enterprise OSGi YouTube channel which contains short videos of OSGi education. Feel free to submit your own video by contacting @sjmaple
IBM Redbook: Scaling BPM Adoption from Project to Program with IBM Business Process Manager
Your first Business Process Management (BPM) project is a crucial first step on your BPM journey. It is important to begin this journey with a philosophy of change that will enable you to avoid common pitfalls that lead to failed BPM projects, and ultimately, poor BPM adoption. This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes the methodology and best practices that lead to a successful project and how to use that success to scale to enterprise-wide BPM adoption.
The intended audience for this book includes all people who participate in the discovery, planning, delivery, deployment, and continuous improvement activities for a business process. These roles include process owners, process participants and subject matter experts (SMEs) from the operational business as well as technologists responsible for delivery including BPM analysts, BPM solution architects, BPM administrators, and BPM developers.
Datasheet - IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid V8
Today’s globally integrated business environment needs smarter IT solutions that respond to changing business demands of the dramatic growth of web activity and requires cost effective business transaction processing. With rising customer expectations, businesses require 24×7 availability for OLTP processes while at the same time needing to take advantage of the cost savings available through batch processing. Traditional batch, however, suffers from the limitations of a “batch window,” which does not support the 24×7, always-on, uptime requirement of OLTP applications. To achieve the best of both worlds, IBM has introduced an integrated multifunctional and multiplatform Java batch solution that improves operational efficiency of business transaction processing, with support for batch jobs alongside online transactions. It delivers a near real-time user experience while optimizing costs.
Simple batch jobs alone may not address the challenges of the modern enterprise. Your IT team needs to repeatedly extend custom functionality to meet tactical needs. But over time, it becomes a suite of custom middleware that is expensive to maintain and draws resources away from core business objectives.
A batch solution that takes into account your requirements and uses your existing infrastructure is now available. The solution incorporates best practices and lessons learned from the emerging paradigms of High Performance Computing, GridComputing, and Utility Computing. Today’s infrastructures must easily adapt, incorporating future technologies, and the applications hosted within it need to be able to use modern tooling and programming best practices.
IBM® WebSphere® Extended Deployment Compute Grid V8 is a next-generation batch processing system, designed to meet the requirements of any industry and company size.
With WCG v8, your organization can:
- Optimize cycle time—provide flexibility in business processes to run bulk or real-time activities, depending on business needs
- Simplify architecture and manage costs with shared service infrastructure for batch and OLTP
- Improve time-to-market of deliverables with a standardized programming model, tools and a shared infrastructure for developing batch and OLTP services
- Experience “batch as a service,” an emerging service paradigm for using Java batch front-ended with web services
- Simplify end-to-end batch management across different execution environments such as WAS (V6, V7 and V8) and CICS
- Reduce costs by executing batch processing in Java and off loading to zAAP engines on z/OS®
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Figure 1: Customers need near real-time information and an always-on OLTP system. The IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid
solution enables the interleaving of OLTP and batch workloads 24×7, as shown in this diagram (click image to enlarge). |
Benefit from a proven batch architectural framework for modernization:
IBM has created an architectural framework that provides a platform for meaningful integration between OLTP and batch applications. This approach allows continuous batch execution using shared business logic on a shared infrastructure between batch and OLTP applications without impacting response time requirements for OLTP applications, providing you with a near real-time experience.
WCG is an integral part of this architectural framework for batch modernization. It offers a consistent and systematic integration strategy across multiple business components. It allows for continuous batch processing, enables SOA transformation through reuse of services, uses in-house Java skills for batch modernization projects, reduces cost through use of specialty processors and improves hardware efficiency by utilizing unused capacity during OLTP processing for batch windows.
The WCG, in combination with WebSphere Application Server (WAS), offers multiple configuration options and support for multiple business models and deployment platforms. It also supports a wide range of scenarios, from open source projects with no up-front budget, to simple administration of a single server environment, to a clustered, highly available, high-volume environment with edge-of-network services.
WCG can address a number of usage patterns:
- Share services and reuse code between OLTP and batch
- Reduce batch windows or compress time using the Parallel Job Manager
- Run batch workloads in a 24x7 mode in conjunction with OLTP applications
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| Figure 2: WebSphere Application Server is a powerful Java execution platform. WCG extends the WebSphere Application Server to provide a managed batch execution container environment. It is designed to run on both IBM System z® and distributed platforms. (click image to enlarge). |
The new version of WCG v8 provides a managed batch execution environment that enables the entry, execution and management of Java batch processing in distributed or on mainframe environments.
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IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid v8 provides an end-to-end managed batch execution experience by combining enterprise-strength qualities of services with developer and data center productivity tools to bring time-to-value benefits into a pre-integrated framework for batch workload execution.
For more information:
To learn more about the IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid v8, please contact your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner or visit: ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/extend/computegrid/. Additionally, financing solutions from IBM Global Financing can enable effective cash management, protection from technology obsolescence, improved total cost of ownership and return on investment. Also, Global Asset Recovery Services help address environmental concerns with new, more energy-efficient solutions. For more information on IBM Global Financing, visit: ibm.com/financing
Don't Miss These Whitepapers:
Enterprise-Class Application Release Automation: A Best Practice
CIOs are under pressure to understand how to deliver IT projects that enable business growth and innovation, while successfully maximizing existing resources and investments. CIOs are under the gun to achieve the operational excellence needed to enable the speed and agility that is imperative to win in a web market place.
Savvy businesses are transforming the application release process and automating release lifecycles, with Deployit, by XebiaLabs. Implementing Deployit promises better resource utilization, reduced time to market and significant reduction in OPEX for your business. Deployit offers one tool for accelerated application delivery across all major middleware and cloud platforms. Finally, one Deployment Best Practice can be achieved across your entire organization.
This whitepaper will demonstrate a proven Best Practice for Application Release Automation. It will describe a practice that is noted as excellent, by experts, and delivered by a company that is noted as a ‘Cool Vendor’, by Gartner analyst research.
Demystifying Middleware for DevOps
Today’s application environments require coordination and collaboration across virtually all silos, and this is typically accomplished with teams of senior specialists from both Development and Operations. Tools play a key role in DevOps, and the right ones can be a bridge supplying a “common language” across teams with diverse capabilities and “technology languages”.
Too often, the development team lacks critical access to the tools they need to reproduce production problems. This is particularly true of management tools for middleware solutions, such as IBM WebSphere MQ (WMQ). Typically, testing teams must interact with WMQ administrators to request WMQ-specific information, since they have no direct access of their own.
In this whitepaper you will learn EMA’s perspective on enabling development and QA teams with high quality tools that deliver visibility to WMQ messages. Nastel’s “freemium” AutoPilot® On-demand for WebSphere MQ gives these teams access to a production-grade MQ diagnostics solution using a web browser, and without impacting production systems.
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The new self-paced virtual course ZB728 IBM Business Process Manager Basics is a comprehensive overview of IBM Business Process Manager. After completing the course you will understand Business Process Manager and its features; the benefits of using Business Process Manager for project development; understand the three Business Process Manager configurations and how they differ in scope; and apply the appropriate Business Process Manager configuration to organizational needs.
Transition Your Administration Skills to WebSphere Application Server V8
Administrators familiar with WebSphere Application Server V7 can now get up-to-speed quickly with the new standards and functions in WebSphere Application Server V8. Enroll in the self-paced virtual course ZU801 Transition to WebSphere Application Server V8 for Administrators to learn about new administration features, including flexible management, administrative console extensions, security enhancements, and logging.
New Why IT Certify Website
In recent IDC studies, 66% of managers said certification of their employees improves levels of service and support offered to both IT end-users and customers? Certified staff are empowered to adapt, deploy, and deliver better and faster than competitors who don’t understand just how much certification can do for them.
This is just one of the many proof points available on the new Why IT Certify site. Sections devoted to IT professionals, IT business partners and IT decision makers make navigation easy and provide only the most relevant data to each group. This site is not just devoted to those who are still questioning the value of professional certification, there are links to IBM Certification sites, exams and easy access to test registration. Everything needed to get started - or continue - on the road to certification.
So take some time to view the site, including the Top Ten IT Certification FAQs, you may learn something you didn't know you should know about the Value of Professional Certification!
Developing Multichannel Applications with IBM Web Experience Factory
IBM® Web Experience Factory (WEF) supercharges application development with tools and technology for creating, customizing, deploying, and maintaining portlets, widgets, and web and rich clients. This course is designed to help you develop the skills needed to create and assemble multichannel applications easily and rapidly using WEF, formerly known as WebSphere® Portlet Factory.Learn more/
New - Advanced IBM Web Content Manager 7.0 Course
This is a new intermediate course for developers that need a deeper understanding of Web Content Manager APIs and how to extend the authoring and rendering interface. It also includes foundational information about administration aspects of Web Content Manager that is useful to developers. View this course in your country.
Upcoming Webcasts, Seminars, and Events
Don't Miss These Upcoming and On Demand Webcasts:
On-Demand: From Oracle to IBM: A Customer's Journey
Date: On Demand
Duration: 60 Minutes
Please join us for a webcast “From Oracle to IBM: A Customer's Journey” to hear from D+H, a premier integrated solutions provider to Canadian banks and financial institutions. The webcast will outline the rationale behind their decisions to migrate from Oracle/Sun technology to IBM technology within a key line of business.
With over 4500 employees in over 20 locations, D+H offers a diverse set of solutions including cheque programs, lending solutions, student loan processing, and registry services.
In this webcast, D+H will share the key differences between the IBM and Oracle solution offerings, customer experiences, and the tangible business benefits of their evolving relationship with IBM from vendor & customer to strategic partner.
On-demand: XebiaLabs Discusses Best Practices for Accelerated Application Delivery Highlighting Delivery to IBM Workload Deployer
Middleware environments are becoming increasingly complex. Developers search for ways to eliminate time spent waiting for others to deploy new application code, administrators cope with the emergence of clouds and ever-faster software release cycles by automating the deployment process, and managers know they can save significantly in time and money by eliminating inefficiencies in the IT workflow.
In this webinar, you will learn how Deployit, the XebiaLabs release automation platform, optimizes the delivery of applications to IBM’s WebSphere and cloud environments.
Join us and:
- Learn about Application Release Automation trends and Best Practices.
- Hear how you can optimize the delivery of your WebSphere applications via the Deployit platform.
- Learn the pitfalls of creating your own deployment scripts and get more insight into the managing of applications outside of the WebSphere stack.
On-Demand: How to Evolve from a Red-Line Budget Item to a Top-line Revenue Generator
It’s a new day for marketers at mid-size companies. Nowhere is this change more dramatic than in the direct revenue contribution assigned to today’s CMO and other senior marketers. They are being asked to directly contribute to revenue and to show exactly how that contribution has occurred and will occur. And, quite frankly, it is an uncomfortable place for many given their lack of experience and training in this new direction.
Debbie Qaqish share her insights on the Journey of the Revenue Marketer and how to move from a cost center to a revenue generator. She'll tell how modern analytics and CRM can turn marketing ROI from art to science, and how successful companies are learning to leverage these four principles:
- Tightly integrated marketing automation and CRM
- Marketing accountability for funnel management and conversion metrics deep in the pipeline
- Reporting on past results and forecasting future results
- Variable compensation tied to revenue-oriented metrics
On-Demand: Maximize the Power of Business Agility to Innovate, Transform and Grow Your Business
Rising change and complexity are the new normal. Uncertainty from marketplace shifts and surprise disruptions is part of our business life. To manage this new reality, successful companies are turning to the power of business agility to drive the transformation and growth they are seeking.
Think about the processes that make your business run.
- Do they fuel innovation?
- Are they interconnected and adaptable enough?
- Can you make the right decisions quickly or even automate them?
- Does your infrastructure perform optimally amidst change and uncertainty?
- Can you embrace new application and service delivery models like cloud and mobile?
Our speakers tackling these questions for you will be Peter Hinssen, an expert in IT as a source of business innovation and keynote speaker at the Global CIO Forum, Denise Hatzidakis, CTO of Premier Healthcare Alliance, along with Nancy Pearson Vice President of IBM BPM and SOA for IBM Software Group and resident expert on Business Agility. Moderating the talk will be Editor-in-Chief of Events at InformationWeek, Brian Gillooly.
IBM is helping organizations successfully achieve business agility to transform and grow in today's challenging market environment.
On-Demand: Succeeding with Business Agility: Five forward-thinking Organizations
Attend this webcast series to hear from Nationwide, Aetna, Premiere Healthcare with Parker Hannifin and AXA Seguros -- five companies that took different paths to becoming more nimble and creative in how they deliver new policies and products, enter new markets, serve clients and comply with new regulations. Listen to their experts discuss business goals, what challenges they needed to overcome, what they needed to focus on and how they got results.
Consider this a mini-course in Business Agility taught in the best possible way – by example. This webcast series is sponsored by IBM.
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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.
Attend an Impact 2011 Regional Event or Impact Comes to You Seminar
Couldn’t get to Impact 2011 in Las Vegas? There are still plenty of regional events and seminars coming to cities around the globe. Attend one near you to learn about the latest IBM WebSphere, BPM, SOA and cloud technologies that can transform your business for greater agility and growth.
Turn Change and Complexity into Advantage: Attend an Upcoming Business Agility Exective Forum
Change is inevitable - and the most successful organizations embrace it. Don't miss the chance to learn more about turning change and complexity into advantage by registering to attend an upcoming Business Agility Executive Forum. These events begin Oct. 19 and take place around the world.
IBM executives will present an update on WebSphere announcements and identify how IBM's products stand out from the competition. Global Business Solutions, Lab Development and IBM Software Services for WebSphere experts will share insights gained from thousands of recent engagements. Hear firsthand how other organizations have successfully implemented process improvement solutions for strategic business results and gained in-depth, technical insights.
The events also include WebSphere solution stations and each forum concludes with either a networking luncheon or reception.
October 31-November 2: JAX London Autumn
JAX London Autumn
Tim Ellison, Emily Jiang, Dr. Mark Nuttall, Tim Ward from IBM will be speaking.
November 2, 8, and 10: SOA Architect Summits
The IBM SOA Architect Summit is a full-day SOA event focused on the important role architecture plays in aligning IT and organization goals by enabling greater integrity, scalability, performance and agility across the enterprise. IBM technical experts will provide the practical knowledge you need in a professional interactive learning environment. You’ll also have the opportunity to network with your peers and leading IBM strategists and architects at this flagship event for the architect community.
Topics include:
- Keynote: Driving the Value of SOA in an Enterprise
- Organization Optimization and Integrity
- Architecting your SOA Infrastructure with Cloud and other Best Practices
- Architecting SOA Solutions in Depth
- Developing SOA Solutions in Depth
- A Smart SOA Solution Path to Turn Change and Complexity to Your Advantage
Wednesday, November 2 - Reston, VA
ASCE Bechtel Center
Registration and Agenda
Tuesday, November 8 - Nashville, TN
Embassy Suites Cool Springs
Registration and Agenda
Thursday, November 10 - Denver, CO
The Brown Palace Hotel
Registration and Agenda
November 8-10: TM Forum Management World - US
TM Forum Management World - US
Orlando, Fl
Pamela Isom and Robert Segat from IBM will be speaking.
Pamela Isom-Executive Architect, Cloud Strategy, IBM Corporation
Pamela K. Isom is an Executive Architect at with IBM Global Business Services. Pam joined IBM in June, 2000. She is a member of the GBS Cloud practice where she leads cloud strategy and implementations for communications service providers. Pamela is known for co-creation of cloud service portfolios with her clients and driving effective enterprise cloud adoption. She is the author of the book "Is Your Company Ready for Cloud"; a practical guide to cloud decision making that is based on practical client experiences. External to IBM, Pam is an active contributor to TM Forum's SDO Liasions and CSI Initiative. She is a member of The Open Group™ where she is a recognized Distinguished Chief/Lead IT Architect where she led development of Cloud business use cases and is the lead author of the publication “Strengthening Your Business Case for Cloud”. In addition, Pam actively conducts seminars with students and professional organizations on Green enterprise adoption strategies and global transformation.
Robert Segat-Business Solutions Executive Advancing Customer Experience Management Through Analytics – Proving ROI and Demonstrating the Business Benefits for Your Organization
As competition increases, organizations need to focus on ensuring the best possible customer experience whilst also managing costs related to maintenance and improvement of the network, as well as the challenges associated with managing a burgeoning portfolio of third-party content and interconnected partners. Mobile data traffic congestion, increases in signalling traffic from the explosion of always-on Smartphones, and an inability to proactively invest in timely network optimization can lead to customer churn and missed marketing and revenue opportunities. This session will examine the progress of one of the TM Forum’s Catalyst teams who are working towards building an enhanced CEM model that can successfully manage complex data sets and provide the C-suite in your organization the holistic view of customers that they require.
- Determining how to manage large volumes of loosely structured and distributed data to create a centralized view that enables to you to respond to customers more effectively
- Defining a series of KPIs that enable you to analyze data in a meaningful timeframe and demonstrate ROI on your analytics activities
- Integrating KPIs with TM Forum’s existing Frameworx data models to ensure you are following industry-adopted best practices
Abstract:
Two Clients with Two Distinct Go-To-Market Strategies: Sharing Practical Experiences as a Cloud Service Provider, Broker, and Integrator
There is certainly a difference between developing a Cloud business model for a mid-market provider versus developing a business model for the enterprise Cloud provider. This session examines the commonalities as well as the distinct characteristics of both categories of CSP's. Participants will explore the techniques that were applied to develop the right Cloud business service portfolio, including detailed discussions on risk mitigation and pricing considerations. The intensive’s nature is to propel ideation and strengthen your ability to gain the most from your investment in leveraging Cloud, as well as becoming a Cloud service provider. Following a review of the case study, there will be 2 parallel breakout sessions.
- The first team will discuss and exchange ideas on ‘What should be in your Cloud service catalogue and how to go about making such decisions?'
- The second team will discuss and exchange ideas on ‘Developing partnership models including experiences establishing investment risk and reward strategies’.
The second part of the session requires interactive dialogue and is derived from burning CSP Cloud specific issues brought forward by session attendees. Participants will also collectively address the hot issue of ‘What is the real value of Cloud Service Brokers?’. The session concludes with an interactive wrap up of key session takeaways.
Participants are asked to consider a question or experience that stems from working with Cloud service providers and bring to the intensive for collaborative dialogue.
November 7-11: ApacheCon NA 2011
ApacheCon NA 2011
Vancouver, BC
Kevan Miller from IBM will be speaking.
November 14-15: QCon 2011, San Francisco
Richard P. Gabriel from IBM will be speaking.
Richard P. Gabriel overcame a hardscrabble, working-class upbringing in the dreadfully industrialized and famously polluted Merrimack Valley of eastern Massachusetts to become one of the few genuine Renaissance men to emerge from the OO milieu: scholar, scientist, poet, performance artist, entrepreneur, musician, essayist, and yes, hacker…
Though somewhat less well-endowed of the effortless intellectual incandescence, easy charisma, and raw animal magnetism of so many of his generation of future object-oriented luminaries, he was able, with discipline, determination, and hard work, to survive the grueling demands of elite, first-tier academic institutions such as MIT, Stanford and UIUC to earn his PhD and become a leader among the burgeoning legions of Lisp-dom during the early nineties.
However, after a series of the inevitable, endemic startup setbacks that the Internet boom all too often left in its wake, Gabriel grew weary of the cold, cloistered, celibate tedium of engineering culture, and fell willing prey to the lure of the exotic social and intellectual stimulation and blandishments that only the Liberal Arts could offer.
And they, in turn, embraced this gruff emissary from the exotic, intimidating, but newly chic world of technology. Gabriel’s dissonant, desiccated, plainchant blank verse was dark, disturbing, distant, candid, calculating, and desperate, at once florid yet monochromatic. It could “cons-up” a soul in a single haunting, searing stanza and remand it remorselessly, insouciantly to the heap in the next. It was like nothing that could be heard on the stale, staid, inbred Writers' Workshop circuits of those times.
But then, as always, poetry alone seldom pays the bills, so the prodigal poet, like a salmon to spawn, returned to his object-oriented roots, proselytizing a newfound artistic sensibility to an aesthetically impoverished community.
His technological audiences, who had subsisted on bland, austere stylistic pabulum born of their collective status as a poor stepchild of mathematics, physics, and engineering, embraced his audacious set-piece guerilla performances and this novel aesthetic dimension in a manner akin to that in which Medieval European palates had embraced the infusion of spices from the East Indies.
His considerable successes in synthesizing the "Two Cultures" in this software setting will likely stand as his enduring legacy.
Gabriel lives in Redwood City, CA, and works for International Business Machines Corporation as an itinerant enforcer. He likes to unwind by playing his electric guitar. Oddly enough though, his passions for riff and verse have yet to beget any lyrics.
It’s been a quarter of a century since objects really arrived on the software scene, with great fanfare, lofty expectations, and more than a little hype. One can argue, and there are those who do, that objects have won. That their triumph is complete. That object-oriented programming has become, well, programming. And yet, the case can be made that this “victory” has come at a cost that must be measured against the conceptual complexity these highbrow languages have brought with them, the architectural Balkanization and “Trail of Tiers” they have wrought, and the impedance mismatches that have resulted from the Babel of languages that O-O has spawned, and its defeat in the data tier.
Have objects met the transformative promises made for them a generation ago? Or have they done more harm than good?
The time has come to put them on trial. We’ll remand objects themselves to the dock, and hear from a panel of distinguished, expert witnesses for the prosecution and the defense, before letting the You, the Jury, decide their fate.
November 14-18: Devoxx - the Java Community Conference
Devoxx - the Java Community Conference
Antwerp, Belgium
Neil Richards will be speaking on OpenJDK from IBM.
November 15-16: The Internet Summit 2011
The Internet Summit 2011
Raleigh NC
Jerry Cuomo will be speaking from IBM on a cloud panel.
Jerry Cuomo is an IBM Fellow, VP and Chief Technology Officer for WebSphere. He provides technical direction to the WebSphere portfolio and leads IBM technical executive leaders and development teams to cultivate the future of WebSphere. Jerry drives innovation into IBM products and works across IBM's product portfolio and brands to ensure that products work together to deliver high customer value. He is engaged in a number of advanced technology studies for next generation innovation focused on areas including Cloud, Mobile, Virtualization, Workload optimization and advanced analytics. Jerry is a breakthrough innovator of solutions in high-performance transactional systems, middleware appliances and enterprise cloud computing.
November 26: London JUG
London JUG
An IBM speaker will be presenting at this London JUG.
Free Upcoming November 2011 WebSphere Support Technical Exchange Webcasts
Upcoming and Previous held webcast can be found on the WebSphere Support Technical Exchange webcasts home page. The links below 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: November 1, 2011
Time: 11 AM EDT (GMT-4)
Title: Using Headless Build ANT Script to Generate Deployable EAR File for Server Deployment
Presenter: Richard Gregory
Presenter Title: Staff Software Developer, WebSphere Business Integration Tools
Abstract: This session covers building, generating and deploying artifacts from the command line using both WebSphere Integration Developer and serviceDeploy. Topics discussed include recommended practices in automated builds, common user errors, and resolving problems that may be encountered.
Date: November 2, 2011
Time: 11 AM EDT (GMT-4)
Title: Integrating WebSphere JMS Publish/Subscribe Features with WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance
Presenter: Chin Sahoo
Presenter Title: Advisory Software Engineer
Abstract: WebSphere Application Server provides Service Integration Bus (SIB) as a messaging platform. This service supports JMS as the provider that enables publish/subscribe messages. This presentation describes how to configure SIB and WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance to support publish/subscribe features.
Date: November 3, 2011
Time: 11 AM EDT (GMT-4)
Title: WebSphere Data Interchange (WDI) for z/OS - Converting from a DB2 DBRM Based Plan to a DB2 Package Based Plan
Presenter: Jon Kirkwood
Presenter Title: Senior Software Engineer
Abstract: Are you prepared to use DB2 packages with WDI V3.3 on z/OS? Releases of DB2 for z/OS after V9.1 may not support DBRM-based plans. This session covers how to convert a current WDI installation from using the product provided DB2 plan based on DBRMs to a plan based on packages instead.
Date: November 8, 2011
Time: 11 AM EST (GMT-5)
Title: Adding a Graphical User Interface to your WebSphere Application Server Jython Scripts with Swing
Presenter: Bob Gibson
Presenter Title: Advisory Software Engineer
Abstract: There are times when it would be really useful to have the output of a wsadmin script use a Graphical User Interface (GUI). This presentation demonstrates how to use Jython to access the Java Swing class hierarchy to do just this.
Date: November 9, 2011Time: 11 AM EST (GMT-5)
Title: WebSphere Service Registry & Repository - Common Installation Topics & Resolution
Presenter: Prasad Imandi & Kailash Peri
Presenter Title: Senior Software Engineer & Advisory Software Engineer
Abstract: This session covers most of the common topics encountered during the installation of WebSphere Service Registry & Repository V7.5 and how to resolve them. This session highlights all the different logs that are generated during the installation process, and how to use them in resolving installation related issues.
Date: November 10, 2011Time: 11 AM EST (GMT-5)
Title: Introduction to Web Server Debugging in IBM HTTP Server
Presenter: Harold Fanning & Jim Eberwein
Presenter Title: Support Engineers
Abstract: This WebSphere Support Technical Exchange reviews debug strategies and concepts for the IBM HTTP Server Web Server and the use of the WebSphere Plug-in.
Date: November 15, 2011Time: 11 AM EST (GMT-5)
Title: WebSphere MQ for z/OS - Performance Topics
Presenter: Beverly Brown & Lyn Elkins
Presenter Title: WebSphere MQ z/OS Level 2 Customer Support
Abstract: This exchange covers common causes of performance issues with WebSphere MQ for z/OS. It also lists resources to use in diagnosing performance problems.
Date: November 16, 2011
Time: 11 AM EST (GMT-5)
Title: Using TCP/IP Based Applications with WebSphere Message Broker
Presenter: Vivek Grover, Minsung Byun & David Brickell
Presenter Title: Software Engineers, WebSphere Message Broker L2 Support
Abstract: This presentation discusses the characteristics of TCP/IP nodes, shows how to configure them, demonstrates the TCP/IP based application, and looks at some common problems reported by customers and how to resolve them.
Date: November 17, 2011
Time: 11 AM EST (GMT-5)
Title: WebSphere MQ and SSL - Working with Tools to Manage Digital Keys and Certificates
Presenter: Belinda Fuller
Presenter Title: MQ Level 2 Software Support Engineer
Abstract: This presentation focuses on some of the tools that are typically used to create and manage digital keys and certificates that will be used by WebSphere MQ. The session also includes examples on using both the GSKit and OpenSSL tools where necessary.
Date: November 29, 2011
Time: 11 AM EST (GMT-5)
Title: WebSphere Partner Gateway V6.2.0 - Update Installer (UPDI) Validator Utility
Presenter: Max Terpolilli
Presenter Title: Advisory Software Engineer
Abstract: This webcasts demonstrates how to download the WebSphere Partner Gateway UPDI and UPDI validator, how to configure the UPDI, how to deploy the Validator changes to the WPG console, and how to update attribute values and run the verify option to correctly build the response file. A lab activity is included with screen shots documenting the actual step-by-step process.
Date: November 30, 2011
Time: 11 AM EST (GMT-5)
Title: Understanding and Configuring the dtx.ini in WebSphere Transformation Extender
Presenter: Arun Ramamurthy & Philip Van Baelen
Presenter Title: Technical Support Professional
Abstract: This presentation helps you understand and configure the different parameters of the dtx.ini configuration file used by the WebSphere Transformation Extender Launcher and Command Server.
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