Impact 2012
Announcing the GWC Customer Recognition Awards: How a WebSphere Business Partner Solution Saved KLM Royal Dutch Airlines $1million USD Per Year in Application Deployment Costs
The Global WebSphere Community announced the second annual GWC Customer Recognition Awards this month. These awards showcase customer solutions using IBM products and technologies brought to life with the help of Business Partners. One of the previous GWC Customer Awards winners — KLM Royal Dutch Airlines — was kind enough to provide us with an update on the solution that won them the award in 2011 below.
GWC Customer Recognition Awards
If you are an IBM Business Partner whose customers have used your WebSphere related products or technologies to address a business challenge or a customer who has used an IBM Business Partner WebSphere related solution to address your business challenges head on, then you could be eligible for a GWC Customer Recognition Award.
- All IBM BP nominated customers meeting the award criteria are eligible for an award.
- Customer award winners will receive a plaque marking their achievement in a special Customer Awards Ceremony at Impact 2012 and an opportunity to have a professional video created with their IBM BP and featured on IBM.com and the GWC (a $15K value).
- Both the IBM BP and the customer award winners will be featured in the GWC Newsletter and special edition GWC Press Release during the week of Impact.
- The first 10 IBM BPs to respond with eligible customer submissions and who are also Impact 2012 exhibitors or sponsors, will receive a feature article published in the GWC Newsletter, a banner ad on the GWC web site in 2012, and a 25% discount on a whitepaper featuring their solutions hosted on the GWC in 2012. Leads resulting from the whitepaper will be provided to the IBM Business Partner.
For a full description of eligibility criteria, the nomination process, and all of the benefits that come with the award, please visit the GWC Customer Recognition page.
Business Partners can nominate their customers here. The deadline for submission is March 16, 2012. For full details, please visit the GWC Customer Recognition page.
Catching up with KLM
The KLM Royal Dutch Airlines company comprises three businesses and two airlines (KLM and Air France) and services 71 million* passengers across the entire company. KLM itself employs 30,000 people and has an operating revenue of €7.4 million (9.5 million USD).
The KLM-Air France WebSphere installation has approximately 100 systems running 50–70 permanent projects with WebSphere per year. They have 100,000 users across three data centers and approximately 1,800 applications to manage.
That KLM found that its infrastructure and application processes to be complicated would be an understatement. They found errors in 70% of their software deployments, which cost the company time and money among other valuable resources.
The solution to their problem? KLM leveraged DeployIt — an automated application release program by XebiaLabs — and found incredible results. Incorrect configurations were completely eliminated because the development environment was connected directly to DeployIt, thereby eliminating human error and manual steps. Deployments are now streamlined; applications are now configured once and developers deploy them themselves resulting in better speed and better time-to-market, which was a very important benefit to KLM.
Between manual preparation, automation, and rework savings, KLM saw duration savings between 45–369 hours per project, depending on the project size. KLM estimates their financial savings at €650,000 (1 million USD) per year on the complete project portfolio.
KLM also saw a big increase in time-to-market. They created a new class in their economy offerings with more leg space and room to recline. This idea was realized in an incredible 6 months from idea to market, and KLM feels DeployIt was instrumental in this success.
Thanks to Ronald Bosch, Manager AOS - SPL/XK, KLM Information Services for his support and resources for this article.
*Figures provided are from 2009/2010
Announcing the Annual Global WebSphere Community Button Slogan Contest!
Show us your creative side and enter a button slogan and maybe you'll see your button at Impact 2012! Each person who enters a WebSphere-related slogan will be entered into a survey for the rest of the community to vote on. The top two most popular slogans will be made into buttons that you can pick up in the GWC Community Room at Impact 2012!
Do you remember "Hug a Wuger" or "Wugly and Lovin' it"? If so, let us know what new button slogans you'd like to see at Impact this year. By voting for your favorite slogan, you will automatically be entered for the chance at a complimentary Impact 2012 pass. There will be two complementary passes given out this year, so vote today! It's fun, fast and easy!
For those who participate, please send your slogans to GWCUserInfo@websphereusergroup.org no later than January 31. To see a list of last years button slogans please click here!
Read Button Slogan Contest Rules
Attend the Unconference and Let Your Voice be Heard
Developers: Set the agenda, submit and vote on the topics you want to discuss--online and onsite.
You Could Win an Impact 2012 Pass for Contributing an Unconference Topic
Submit your Unconference topic and then blog about your idea on the GWC site between February 1 and February 29, 2012 to be entered into a drawing to win one of two complimentary passes to Impact 2012. GWC Members who blog on the GWC site about their Unconference submission during February also receive 100 GWC Member Rewards bonus points. Each quarter, the GWC rewards its top contributors one complimentary IBM WebSphere Education course for adding valuable content to the community. Blog about your ideas, and you could win too. How easy is that??
The WebSphere Unconference, May 2, 2012, is an IBM Impact 2012 event where developers like you set the agenda. You submit and pick the topics. You attend the discussions. You and your peers present.
Help set the agenda. Submit a topic for the Unconference that you want to present.
Vote for other topics you’d like to see covered.
Offer to give a lightening talk (five-minute speech) on a topic.
It’s Unstructured: What happens in Vegas…isn’t known yet. We won’t have a schedule until the day before the Unconference—voting will be open online and onsite until May 1st.
It’s Uninhibited: We don’t control the content…this isn’t us telling you what we think you need to know; it’s you deciding what you want to know more about. Peer discussions at Unconference are often where the juiciest stuff happens.
It’s Unbelievable: What an opportunity to attend sessions with your peers on just what you’re interested in! It’s not only yours to create—the Unconference will also sport a couple of development rock stars like Grady Booch, Greg Truty, and Andrew Glover speaking on great topics in addition to peer-led sessions.
Make your voice heard—Submit your ideas and vote for your favorite Unconference topics today!
Read the contest rules
Impact 2012 GWC Activities You Don’t Want to Miss
This year at Impact, the Global WebSphere Community is giving all it's members a chance to win some great prizes. All you have to do is participate!
GWC New Member Contest: April 30-May 4
We want to welcome any and all who attend Impact to become a member of the Global WebSphere Community. By signing up, you will automatically be entered into a daily drawing for a $50 gift card. The best part is, you don't even have to be at Impact to win! If you are already a member, help out a friend or colleague by inviting them to join and give them the chance to win! Read the contest rules.
GWC Daily Chirp Challange Contest: April 30-May 4
While attending sessions or other events at Impact, we want to hear your thoughts and interests. Post WebSphere- or Impact-related content to the GWC site, LinkedIn, Facebook, or Twitter and you will be entered into a daily drawing for a $50 gift card! If you are unable to attend Impact this year, but would still like to contriubate, you are also eligible to win! Use #GWC in your post in any of the following to be included in the drawing:
- Blog on the GWC site
- Post to your Facebook page
- Tweet on Twitter
- Post to LinkedIn
Read the contest rules
GWC Shout Out Interviews: April 30-May 4
We on the GWC Management Team love to hear the opinion and feedback of those members of the community. While at Impact, stop by the GWC Room and give a short interview about the most valuable thing you have learned. The first 10 members to share their story will be rewarded with a nice GWC gift as a thanks for your contribution.
Impact 2012 Global Conference Shaping Up as Boon for Business Partner Sponsors
Attendance at the Impact 2012 Global Conference is expected to exceed that of 2011, meaning even greater opportunities for event sponsors. If that weren’t enough, there’s more exciting news for Business Partners. In addition to the many benefits enjoyed by last year's sponsors — including hosting Summit sessions and a Solution Center Welcome Reception, both of which drew thousands of attendees — there are new conference locales, new discounted EXPO passes, enhanced pre- and post-event marketing opportunities and enhanced turnkey booth packages.
Sponsor / Exhibitor Application
IBM Business Partner Sponsorship & Exhibitor Package
Network. Listen. Engage.
The NEW Impact Social Playground is an exciting social hub that will bring together all the social movers and shakers. Catch the social buzz!
Impact 2012 Technology Program; Better Than Ever!
Discuss the latest technology trends and quickly build skills in WebSphere, BPM, SOA and Cloud solutions. Explore a rich array of tracks at Impact 2012.
Battle-Tested Cloud, Mobile, and Business Process Management Solutions from IBM IT Professionals:
Tune-in February 16, 2012 - 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
Register to join featured speaker Jerry Cuomo, IBM Fellow, VP, and Chief Technology Officer for WebSphere
Impact 2012 Early Bird Registration: $300 Savings
Early bird registration is still on. But it won't be forever. After March 2, the significantly discounted registration rates ($300 savings!) will cease and full rates go into effect. Encourage your clients to register early.
Impact 2012 GWC Business Partner Special Offer
Don’t miss out on this added benefit of Impact 2012 Sponsorship. Take advantage of a special promotional offering to receive a 20% discount on any new Global WebSphere Community (GWC) Business Partner sponsorship package and extend your marketing and messaging following the Impact 2012 Conference through the global reach of the GWC. Deadline for sign up is May 2, 2012.
For additional information about the Global WebSphere Community (GWC) Business Partner Program please contact Scott Treggiari (scott.treggiari@wispubs.com) or 781-751-8734. For Impact 2012 sponsorship and exhibitor inquiries, please contact Pari Lasch at 312-541-0567 ext. 654 or via e-mail at pari@corcexpo.com.
WUG News and Updates
Upcoming WUG Meetings:
Highlights From the January Blogs:
Congratulations to our 4Q 2011 GWC Member Rewards Program Winners!
Congratulations to the following GWC members, who won the 4Q 2011 GWC Member Rewards:
- Charanjeet Singh
- Gabriel Aberasturi
- Pankaj Narkhede
Charanjeet, Gabriel, and Pankaj provided quality content in the GWC blogs and forums in 4Q 2011 and were each awarded a complimentary IBM WebSphere Education course of their choice.
You too can earn valuable WebSphere Education Rewards. Anyone who blogs on the GWC site between February 1 and February 29, 2012 will receive double loyalty points – that’s 100 points per blog post! Additionally, if you submit an Unconference topic for Impact 2012 and blog about the topic on the GWC site in February, your name will be put into a drawing to win one of two complementary Impact 2012 passes! For full details, please click here.
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 forums, 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.
February 9 Webcast: Delivering the Agile Discipline of BPM Through the Agile Infrastructure of the Cloud
Date: February 9, 2012
Title: Delivering the Agile Discipline of BPM Through the Agile Infrastructure of the Cloud
Time: 11 am EST (GMT -5)
To register please click here
Business Process Management has always been about delivering value. Quickly. With IBM Blueworks Live, business and IT leaders have been collaboratively delivering significant value through the cloud for more than 4 years around the areas of process modeling and documentation. Join Bill and Mihnea in this webinar to hear about the latest announcements that will enable you and your team to extend the value you can deliver your organization through the most comprehensive end-to-end BPM solution powered by the cloud. You haven't been closer to achieving process excellence than with the IBM BPM cloud offerings!
February 15 Lab Chat: WebSphere Operational Decision Management: The Next Generation of Business Rules Platforms
Date: February 15, 2012
Lab Chat: WebSphere Operational Decision Management: The Next Generation of Business Rules Platforms
Time: 11 am EST (GMT -5)
To register please click here
What’s the right offer or price for a particular customer? How should varying levels of transaction risk be handled? Which cases or processes should be flagged for review? Every day, your organization needs to make hundreds or thousands of decisions like these, quickly and consistently. Added up across all the interactions taking place every day, these decisions affect every measure of business success — customer satisfaction, top-line revenues, profitability, risk avoidance and competitiveness.
Join us for this interactive look at WebSphere Operational Decision Management, the next generation of IBM's market leading business rules platform that enables the intelligent automation of a wide range of transactional decisions across business processes and applications, combining the situational awareness of business events with rules-based decisioning.
February 23 Webcast: Better Together (More Than Ever): BPM & SOA with IBM BPM and WebSphere Message Broker V8
Date: February 23, 2012
Title: Better Together (More Than Ever): BPM & SOA with IBM BPM and WebSphere Message Broker V8
Time: 11 am EST (GMT -5)
To register please click here
BPM and SOA have always been better together. At the heart of an SOA are services — repeatable business tasks — like “new account opening” or “customer credit check”. These services can then be used (and re-used) in the context of multiple business process or combined to deliver new, composite processes. The key for mid-market and departmental users is that this integration approach must be easy to implement and manage. Too often enterprises have shied away from the necessary SOA approach vital to many BPM use cases because the solution has been too complex, the enterprise has been too strapped for resources or the project simply doesn’t mix with their current staff or set of skills. The combination of IBM BPM and the new WebSphere Message Broker (WMB) V8 looks to change this tune for good. Join Joe Speed and Bill Hahn as they delve into the new features and functions of WMB V8 that, when combined with IBM BPM, help deliver real business agility.
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
Increase the Value of Your WebSphere SOA with Governance Automation
IBM and SOA Software
SOA Software’s products provide Ready-to-use SOA Governance Automation for the IBM WebSphere SOA foundation. This allows the automation of your SOA framework from service conception all the way to service consumption. With SOA Software, you can install and configure a comprehensive SOA Governance solution for your IBM infrastructure without having to integrate a broad array of components through custom development or professional services.
IBM WebSphere customers add SOA Software’s Ready-to-use SOA Governance Automation solution to the IBM WebSphere SOA foundation to realize the following key benefits:
Ready-to-use Governance
SOA Software’s solution creates an end-to-end SOA framework from Rational, Tivoli and WebSphere products without forcing you to develop your own labor-intensive integrations. SOA Software’s products will help you make maximum use of your IBM product stack by automating the entire lifecycle of planning, building, running, and sharing services. It is ready-to-use right out of the box. You can install individual components, or the entire suite and start enjoying the benefits of an automated and governed SOA framework right away.
SOA Unification
From architects to developers to engineers, providing a unified governance solution to fuse together all the functions and technologies in your IT environment, SOA Software delivers an end-to-end solution that addresses the needs of all the constituents of your SOA family. Built by one team with a common appearance and integrated features, SOA Software provides the answer to unifying your SOA foundation.
Integrates Heterogeneous Environments
Despite the proliferation of IBM products involved in Service Oriented Architecture, most customers do not have the luxury of working in a pristine environment provided by only one vendor. And since SOA is about connecting a broad array of your IT assets it stands to reason that the application of policy and governance, as well as the automation of services requires and environment that can support not only your IBM core but also a wide array of other vendors such as SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, and open source (Redhat, etc.).
Ready-to-use SOA Governance for IBM WebSphere
IBM customers are adding SOA Software’s Portfolio Manager, Repository Manager, Service Manager and Policy Manager to provide Ready-to-use SOA Governance for their IBM platform to enhance their investment in the following ways:
- Uniform lifecycle and policy governance across existing platform investments
- Lifecycle workflows that automate all phases of service existence (plan, build, run and share)
- Seamless, heterogeneous SOA Governance, security and management integration with IBM middleware infrastructure and technologies provided by other vendors
- Enhance performance and reliability management at service level granularity
- Automate service contract provisioning and negotiation amongst consumers and business organizations
- Support standards for governance automation (UDDIv3, WS-MEX)
- Federation of business services and business organizations through a unified SOA Governance system
- Enable functional and organizational collaboration through all phases of the service lifecycle
SOA Software offers a comprehensive Ready-to-use SOA Governance Automation solution for IBM:
Get the entire story about Governance integration and automation for IBM
API Management for IBM WebSphere
APIs (public or corporate) represent a logical extension of the assets in your Service Oriented Architecture and many IBM customers are motivated to leverage these assets for broad consumption as APIs.
Plan, Build, Run, Share: the first 3 elements of the SOA life cycle are critical to a successful adoption of the SOA pattern, but the most important element in realizing the top line business benefit of this investment is share. Sharing your services as an API (public or corporate) requires technical management of the service interface, as well as the social management of the API (interface and documentation), it’s consuming developer community, and the related APIs that help developers create new and exciting applications.
Atmos.phe.re combines the best elements of collaboration, security, analytics and automation together to form an industry leading enterprise API management solution. Automation is one of the keys to this pattern as many of the services that will become APIs are hosted by the IBM SOA foundation. Merging the SOA core with an API layer via automation of publishing, documentation, security, analytics and community management significantly reduces the time, cost and complexity of public or corporate API programs. For more information on Atmos.phe.re (powered by SOA Software) and to understand how to supercharge the ROI of your SOA service investment, please visit www.soa.com/ibm.
To learn more, go to www.soa.com/ibm. To register for our white papers, datasheets and webcasts, please register. And to contact an SOA Software representative to discuss your SOA requirements based on IBM systems, please contact us.
WebSphere S&S: WebSphere MQ Version 7.1 Helps in Lowering Your TCO and Increase Business Value
When it comes to upgrading WebSphere MQ to the next version some of the key parameters in mind would be on the TCO, Business Value, supporting diverse environment – both existing and new messaging environments and reliability.
WebSphere MQ recently announced the release of the latest version 7.1. There have been significant technology enhancements in these products. The enhancement are in the areas of Multiversion install capability on distributed platforms and increased performance in the distributed platforms, Enhanced security, Cloud support, Enhanced clustering, Multicast capability.
The WebSphere Subscription and Support home page provides latest information on the product, comparison scenarios and performance information. If you are existing WebSphere MQ users you can take advantage of this enhancement and value the product provides to your business, you can download the latest version at no charge with a current S&S account.
New on the Web
IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Beta and the Developer Focused Liberty Profile
IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Beta and the Developer Focused Liberty Profile are available for download NOW!! This new beta includes the IBM Rational Application Developer V8.5 Beta as well as server adapters for Eclipse development environments.
With Liberty, comes freedom. Freedom from longer times spent downloading, installing and building applications.
Download the WebSphere Application Server v8.5 Beta (traditional WAS and the new Liberty Profile) and participate in the open forum at www.WASDev.net!
The WAS v8.5 Beta - Liberty Profile delivers a simplified and light-weight runtime for web applications. It is easy to use and has an extremely small footprint. In addition, it is:
Lightning fast! The server startup time is amazingly fast. Your server would have already restarted before you finish reading this sentence
Tailored for developers. Designed by developers, for developers! The server has been built from day one to make development easier and more productive
Modular design. Architected in a modular way, the server only enables and starts the features required by the applications and configuration. If you're not using a feature, it won't start in your server runtime.
Download the Beta version at: www.wasdev.net. Talk to your clients about downloading it too and get involved in the forum by contributing input to our development process.
Blackboard Customer Testimonial Video
Jon Lal, Sr Application Engineer at Blackboard, details the challenges they faced connecting their ERP system (Peoplesoft) with 2 separate Cloud and on premise CRM applications. He details his evaluation process, namely custom code, and how choosing WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration became integral to:
- Data quality
- Streamlining business processes
- Overall adoption of the new CRM system
Jon also summarizes how Cast Iron's Template Integration Processes (TIPs) reduced the learning curve and provide best practices which allowed Blackboard to integrate quickly and efficiently.
Elkay Manufacturing Customer Testimonial Video
Brandon Yackle, Application Systems Architect from Elkay Manufacturing, recounts how WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration enabled them to quickly and easily integrate their Cloud CRM application (Salesforce.com with ERP systems (Peoplesoft among others) as well as other websites and data sources from around the globe.
Grizzard Communications Customer Testimonial Video
Mark Litherland, Architecture and Integration Director of Grizzard Communications, discusses his Cloud computing adoption strategy during the process of mergers and acquisitions, and the importance of integration across the hybrid world of Cloud and on premise applications.
Mark details how WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration rapidly connects his newly adopted Cloud CRM, Salesforce.com to a myriad of disparate systems, including B2B from external partners and vendors, contributed to an increase of 30% to their bottom-line.
Case Study: WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration at the Museum of Modern Art
Nucleus Research Study: Cloud integration: Benefit Case Study
This case study outlines how The Museum of Modern Art recently used WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration to integrate its Salesforce.com deployment and AS400 system. When Nucleus examined the deployment, analysts identified benefits that included:
- Avoided three new hires in the IT department
- Reduced integration project cycle time by 66 percent
- Improved data quality
- Avoided report building
Whitepaper: AITE Research Analyst Report WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration in Banking and Financial Services
Cloud Computing Through Integration: Realizing the Value Proposition
Banking IT executives are faced with delivering more with less. Cloud computing offers the following tangible benefits:
- Reduction in total cost of ownership
- Moving from capital expenditure (CAPEX) to operating expense (OPEX)
- System scalability
- High availability
- Disaster recovery and test environments
This white paper, prepared for IBM by Aite Group, analyzes how chief information officers (CIOs) and banking IT executives should look at integrating cloud computing as part of their IT strategy. It also describes scenarios in which cloud computing can be effectively leveraged.
Education and Certification
Kick Off the New Year with a Plan for Success
Trying to figure out what class to take to build a specific skill? Then check out our Training Paths. These flowcharts map out the sequence of classes you need to attain a skill or certification. If you want a blueprint for training your entire department, an IBM Training expert will work with you to create a complimentary Team Training Plan.
View our Training Paths
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Upcoming Webcasts, Seminars, and Events
Don't Miss These Upcoming and On-Demand Webcasts:
February 16: Battle-Tested Cloud, Mobile, and Business Process Management Solutions from IBM
Date: February 16, 2012
Title: Battle-Tested Cloud, Mobile, and Business Process Management Solutions from IBM
Time: 11 AM PT (GMT -8)
For more information and to register please click here
Are you interested in tools and methodologies that will help you deliver innovative solutions faster and reach customers in new ways in order to increase customer satisfaction, reduce costs and build competitive advantage?
Would you like to understand how emerging technologies, including Cloud Computing, mobile computing, and agile management have the potential to transform and deliver IT services, driving innovations across the business?
In this webcast you will learn about:
- Software and solutions that provide a secure, reliable and scalable way to connect within and beyond your business and into the Cloud.
- Proven IT strategies that you can apply right away and build on in the future to overcome your most critical IT challenges.
- Forward-looking development options in a cloud computing environment, including how to improve software delivery in virtualized environments.
- Technology that enables process improvement, visibility and automation, to help companies get started on projects for specific initiatives or adopt broader Business Process and Decision Management programs for wider transformation.
Join IBM for a discussion about how savvy IT Professionals are leveraging the investment in IT for greater business value and agility.
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.
Don't Miss These Upcoming Events:
January 31: IBM Software Business Partner Kickoff Virtual Summit
The 2012 IBM Software Business Partner Kickoff Virtual Summit on January 31 will help IBM Business Partners discover how to turn opportunity into profitability with IBM software. As part of the Virtual Summit, WebSphere will offer a session hosted by David Wilson, Vice President of Worldwide Business Partner and General Business Sales. David will discuss top WebSphere Business Partner priorities for 2012, explain how to increase profits in deals and review upcoming events. There will also be a WebSphere virtual booth where attendees can chat with subject matter experts throughout the event and join a live, interactive group chat at 12:00 noon.
The Virtual Summit offers a full agenda including a general session, 18 breakout sessions covering a range of brand and cross-brand topics, an Expert Pavilion with experts on hand to answer your questions, and a networking lounge.
Enhance your ability to deliver value to your clients by participating in the Virtual Summit and the WebSphere session.
Register today and mark your calendars for this valuable event.
February 23: IBM Hursley Lab Comes to San Juan, Puerto Rico
IBM software experts are coming to San Juan for an exclusive briefing showing how to untangle costly and debilitating IT complexity, improve the flow of information across your organization, and reduce integration costs all by working smarter.
You are cordially invited to this complimentary seminar where you will:
- Understand how organizations of any size can increase business flexibility and interoperability of systems with an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
- Learn about Public, Private and Hybrid Clouds and how to integrate them into your enterprise application.
- Hear other customers describe how this technology has made a difference in their businesses.
- See a demonstration showing how you can address integration problems while providing the reliability and security that your business demands.
- Understand how to streamline your IT infrastructure which has been complicated by point-to-point integrations.
- Network with industry leading peers from other companies.
Don’t miss the opportunity to meet IBM’s experts to learn how connectivity and integration solutions can help your business deliver greater value. We sincerely hope you will join us at Ruth’s Chris.
Ruth’s Chris Steak House
Inter-Continental San Juan Resort and Casino
5961 Av Isla Verda
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00979
February 28: SOA Architect Summit Montreal
The IBM SOA Architect Summit is a full-day SOA event focused on the important role architecture plays in aligning IT and business 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.
SOA Architect Summit Montreal
Tuesday, February 28
Hilton Montreal Bonaventure
900 Rue de La Gauchetiere W.
Montreal, Quebec H5A 1E4
8:30am - 4:30pm
Sommet des concepteurs d’architecture orientée services (SOA) de Montréal
Le Sommet des concepteurs d’architecture SOA d’IBM se penche principalement sur le rôle important que joue l’architecture dans l’harmonisation des objectifs TI et organisationnels, en améliorant l’intégrité, l’évolutivité, la performance et l’agilité au sein de l’entreprise. Au cours de cette journée, des experts techniques d’IBM vous transmettront les connaissances pratiques dont vous avez besoin dans un en-vironnement d’apprentissage interactif professionnel. À l’occasion de cet événement phare pour la communauté des concepteurs d’architecture, vous pourrez également échanger avec des pairs ainsi qu’avec d’importants stratèges et concepteurs IBM.
Le mardi 28 février 2012
Hôtel Hilton Montréal Bonaventure
900, rue de La Gauchetière Ouest
Montréal (Québec) H5A 1E4
De 8 h 30 à 16 h 30
March 4-7: Pulse 2012 Optimizing the World's Infrastructure
Pulse 2012 Optimizing the World's InfrastructureRemove the barriers to innovation and foster a business without limits…
As a leader in your industry, you recognize the critical role an agile infrastructure plays in fostering business without limits. In fact, leaders who have successfully applied cloud, mobility, smarter physical infrastructures and other advances for strategic advantage have not only driven new levels of innovation in their own organization -- many have irreversibly transformed entire industry business models. With this, however, where do today’s business infrastructures really begin and end? The infrastructures, products and services we rely on have grown more open, complex, and dynamic than ever before presenting a unique set of challenges. To make new things possible, technology and operations leaders must overcome these challenges and play a more strategic role in driving innovation across the business. IBM has helped leaders across industries remove the barriers to innovation, helping them gain the visibility, control and automation needed to embrace complexity, drive innovation, and foster a business without limits. Invite your clients to register now and secure their space among more than 7,000 attendees who will take part in Pulse.
