WUG News and Updates
Re-Launch of Middle East WUG
The Middle East WebSphere User Group was created to serve all WebSpherians in the Middle East in order to apply best practices and optimum scenarios in using WebSphere products in each organization by sharing knowledge and experience. Members of the former Q8 WebSphere User Group should join this group for their user group information.
Please direct questions to group owner Ahmed Abdel Monsef via email (amonsef82@gmail.com) or by clicking the Contact Group Owner link on the Middle East WUG page.
To join the Middle East WebSphere User 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 Join link in the upper right-hand corner. After you have signed up, go to the Middle East WUG 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 WebSphere MQ Survey Drawing Winner!
Thanks to everyone who took time to give us feedback in the WebSphere MQ survey we sent out this summer. We collected a lot of great input from the survey that helps us pinpoint what MQ-related topics you need more information on. Congratulations to Mike Lee, who won the WebSphere MQ Survey drawing!
October 5 GWC Lab Chat with Brian Martin: Best Practices for Integrating Elastic Caching Into SOA Environments
Date: October 5th, 2011
Topic: Best Practices for Integrating Elastic Caching Into SOA Environments
Time: 11:00am EDT (GMT -4)
Register now!
Click here for a list of lab chat dial-in numbers
In an effort to handle the increased complexity and demands of business-critical applications coupled with the dynamic nature of a rapidly evolving business climate, the traditional three-tier enterprise architecture can become costly and difficult to scale to handle these dynamic loads. Elastic caching can be used to overcome traditional scaling and performance limitations, as well as improve fault tolerance. This session will discuss the fundamentals of elastic caching. It will describe the common usage scenarios for elastic caching. In addition, we will discuss how maintaining availability and partition tolerance of a distributed cache across multiple datacenters can be accomplished via multi-master replication. Finally, we will describe how elastic caching can seamlessly integrate into an enterprise service bus to dramatically improve performance and scalability in service oriented architecture.
IMUG — Redesigned and better than ever.....
Dear IBM BPM User:
During one of last year’s sessions, the question was asked, “How can I get my business analysts to stop using Visio?” After some interactive discussions among the attendees, we wondered why IMUG was focusing on a specific tool when we could deliver even more value by broadening the topics and charter to focus on the process and discipline of collaboration between Business and IT. The goal, after all, is to get business enhancing processes deployed into production quickly and to change them as they need change, right?
In June IBM delivered the IBM Business Process Manager, Version 7.5 opening up a new range of process improvement opportunities. From the high level overview of a process to the overlaying of key factors (cost, time, participants, problems, documentation) to the social computing capabilities, the IBM Business Process Manager delivers a new range of power, collaboration and capability to users.
Wikipedia describes process management as,” a field of management focused on aligning organizations with the wants and needs of clients”. In a recent article, the CIO of a bank in Belgium said, “if you are modeling business processes… it is mandatory to involve both stakeholders in the modeling process. If not, you’ll put yourself in a very difficult position”. That made us think back to a story that talked about business and IT alignment.
A man in a hot air balloon, realizing he was lost, descended and shouted to the lady he had spotted on the ground. “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."
The woman below replied, "You're in a hot air balloon, hovering approximately 30 feet above the ground. You're between 40 and 41 degrees north latitude and between 59 and 60 degrees west longitude."
"You must be in IT" said the balloonist.
"Actually I am," replied the woman, "How did you know?" "Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you have told me is technically correct but I've no idea what to make of your information and the fact is I'm still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help at all. If anything, you've delayed my trip."
The woman below responded, "You must be in Management" . "I am," replied the balloonist, "but how did you know?" "Well," said the woman, "you don't know where you are or where you're going. You made a promise, which you've no idea how to keep, and you expect people beneath you to solve your problems. The fact is you are in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but now, somehow, it's my fault."
The IBM BPM Modeling User’s Group (IMUG) will explore the topics of business modeling, collaboration and how to get the most out of a business focused understanding. And, while the technology has changed, the bottom line is still the same. A modeled process brings value only when it is deployed into production. To join IMUG and register for the next meeting (September, 2011), go to:
http://www.emericon.com/us/usergroups/imug/imug-info.jsp.
We look forward to your participation and contributions to the IBM BPM Modeling User’s Group.
From the September Blogs:
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.
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.
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 about 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
This 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.
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.
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
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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.
Upcoming Webcasts, Seminars, and Events
Don't Miss These Upcoming and On Demand Webcasts:
October 13: Business Agility Webcast: 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.
October 26: 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.
Attend the IBM Software for Business Agility Webcast
New and enhanced IBM Software for Business Agility helps make processes and systems even more flexible so businesses can work faster and seize new opportunities. It also helps them empower people across their organizations to manage continuous change.
The upcoming IBM Software for Business Agility Launch includes key announcements and messages from WebSphere, Rational, Tivoli, Enterprise Content Management, and other SWG solutions.
Learn more about these announcements at the live InformationWeek videocast, “Maximize the Power of Business Agility to Innovate, Transform and Grow Your Business,” on Thursday, October 13 at noon ET.
During the webcast, Nancy Pearson, VP of IBM Global Marketing, Application Integration Middleware, will be joined by Peter Hinssen, co-founder of Across Group and CEO of Across Technology, and Denise Hatzidakis, CTO of Premier Healthcare Alliance.
On-Demand: 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 can also submit a question to experts in advance of the TechChat.
On-Demand: 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 on demand replays.
Part 1: NACCO Increases Engineering Productivity by Managing Change Effectively in 15 days
NACCO Materials Handling Group implemented new BPM processes for Engineering Change Notice (ECN) and Product Cost Authorization, using IBM WebSphere Lombardi Edition and Lombardi Edition for Microsoft Office, because the existing platform was inefficient and manual-intensive. The new system increased the productivity of NACCO engineers by reducing their manual hand-offs and interactions with legacy systems. One process was selected for implementation before wider roll-out.
Attend this webcast to learn how the ECN was designed, developed and deployed in 15 days, and how NACCO extended this process to all ECNs (both new and existing).
Part 2: How to Efficiently Deploy and Virtualize your Application Environment
Wondering if your organization can leverage cloud in the midst of flat or tightening budgets? Don't miss this webcast to learn how you can begin enjoying the cost saving benefits of efficient application deployment to private Clouds with WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance, regardless of your enterprises size, industry or internal expertise. Additionally, enhance server utilization and efficiently manage application workloads with WebSphere Virtual Enterprise. Don't miss this time and investment saving session!
Part 3: Intelligently Manage your Application Environment and Deliver Rich User Experiences Faster with WebSphere Application Server v8
Do you struggle with the business demands for fast delivery of innovative, high performing applications and services and the concurrent need to manage costs? Learn how a strong, flexible application foundation, based on the new WebSphere Application Server v8, helps you quickly deliver on business needs while balancing key considerations such as security, scalability and manageability. Control costs and improve TCO in homogenous and mixed infrastructures, from distributed to z/OS environments. Listen to the webcast to learn more about how IBM's market leading application server can promote the agility you need for business success today.
Part 4: Decision Automation Pilot: "Improve the Timing and Quality of your Most Important Operational Decisions Within Key Business Processes"
Imagine being able to implement 20% of your business rules that cover 80% of your business transactions; allowing you to double the pass-through rate of all billing transactions in just 9 weeks. One major transportation company in North America did just that. With this Quick Win pilot, you start small, with meaningful business rules, deploying a subset of your business decisions to demonstrate and validate the value of the technology and implementation methodology. Through this pilot, you will directly and measurably experience how intelligent decision automation can improve your business before making a larger investment.
Part 5: Making Vital Business Connections Faster and More Effectively
Did you think you could onboard a new business partner 50% faster, or reduce the time and cost to change your IT systems by 50%? You can.
By leveraging an incremental approach to SOA, you can begin to make faster, better, and richer connections across your business network in less than 9 months. Watch this webcast to learn how.
On-Demand: BPM: Conquering Complexity
With ever-changing customer demands, fluctuating market opportunities, global competition, and the tangled web of local, state, federal, and international laws and regulations, the business environment seems more of a challenge than ever. But companies that can see through the complexity to identify underlying opportunity stand to rise above the crowded playing field.
Available on demand, a 60-minute interactive discussion of how efficient processes help ensure that organizations can capitalize on change, rather than be overwhelmed by it.
You’ll learn:
- How Business Process Management helps companies deliver better services faster, with fewer mistakes, and at a lower cost
- Best practices for successful BPM implementation
- The key elements any BPM solution must offer
- How new features in IBM Business Process Manager enable companies to design process applications that integrate with internal systems and manage productivity in real-time
Register to listen to this important discussion today.
Comments from Attendees:
- Interesting concepts. Excited to discuss with others in the company
- Very valuable information which i'll be considering for the very near future
- Inclusive of all aspects of a business process
- Hum... My whole industry could use this to innovate
On-Demand: From Oracle to IBM: A Customer's Journey
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: IBM and XebiaLabs Discuss Best Practices for Accelerated Application Delivery to WebSphere
Deploying applications to WebSphere can be quite cumbersome and hard to accomplish. Migrating an already deployed application from WebSphere 6 to WebSphere 7 or 8 might be even harder.
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.
Guest Speaker:
Joe Bahn, cloud evangelist, at IBM will discuss IBM’s WebSphere Cloudburst Appliance and he will detail how this delivery can be accelerated by leveraging the Deployit platform and integration to the product. IT business professionals and technical WebSphere professionals will leave this webinar with an understanding of what they need to do to deliver applications faster and more accurately, in 2011.
On-Demand: Calculating Social Media ROI
Calculating Social Media ROI, With Paul Gillin & Chris Selland
The Internet is the most measurable medium ever invented, yet marketers and business leaders continue to complain that return on investment is difficult or impossible to calculate.
In fact, there are multiple ways to measure social media ROI if you know a few basic metrics and how to apply them.
Paul Gillin offers a framework for measuring ROI using three simple criteria that can be applied to everything from Twitter to customer communities. Chris Selland of Terametric then takes us through examples of companies who today are applying these principles, and showcases real-world examples of how social marketing efforts are being measured to help companies pinpoint their ROI.
Terametric will also give away personally signed copies of Paul's new book, Social Marketing to the Business Customer, to five randomly-selected attendees.
On-Demand: Are You Ready For a New Era of Business Analytics?
Are You Ready For a New Era of Business Analytics? Test Your AQ!
Analytics-driven organizations outperform their peers in every metric that matters. Now, there’s a way to know how well you're using analytics - and where to go next.
We call it your “Analytics Quotient" or “AQ" for short. It measures how ready you are to apply insight to your strategy, processes and tactics; how quickly you can re-allocate resources and re-orient your people to make better decisions; and how effectively you can act based upon your past performance, current results and future possibilities.
Are you a Novice or Builder? Leader or Master?
In this webcast, Dan Potter outlines the four stages of AQ maturity. It's a model distilled from the lessons of 30 years and thousands of successful customer outcomes. Dan will explain the steps to increase your organization's AQ.
In just 30 minutes you'll learn
- How to evaluate your organization's AQ
- The benefits of an effective Business Analytics solution
- How to develop and deploy solutions purpose-built for midsize companies, to maximize organizational AQ
It’s simple: The more you embrace analytics, the higher your AQ. The higher your AQ, the better the business outcomes - for you, your team and your entire organization. Join us to learn how!
On-Demand: The Promise and Perils of Enterprise Mobility, With Chris Pepin
Like many companies, IBM has learned about enterprise mobility by just doing it. Chris Pepin has a unique perspective on this odyssey. He was part of the IBM Office of the CIO when smart phones first began making their way into the company. As IBMers found increasingly innovative ways to harness their power, Chris helped fashion the policies and management strategies to empower mobile device users while still keeping them secure and manageable.
Today, thousands of IBMers use smart phones and tablet's for everything from customer support to sales force automation. Mobility maps perfectly to the IBM's goal of creating an enterprise in which people can access the information they need at any time and from any location. The vision of "Information at Your Fingertips" that Bill Gates laid out more than 20 years ago has finally been realized. Companies that execute quickly will gain significant advantage.
In this presentation, Chris describes the early challenges IBM faced with the influx of mobile devices and how it crafted strategies to smoothly incorporate them into the organization. He also discusses the future of mobility and how it will transform jobs and organizations.
Flat Budgets. Increasing Demands. Competition.
Today’s IT landscape for enterprise computing is evolving rapidly with data centers having to meet ever increasing demands with flat budgets. IBM System z delivers a unique hybrid computing model that allows data centers to optimize workload deployment on best fit technologies with a common management infrastructure (for both mainframe and distributed system resources) while driving down overall costs.
As part of the 2011 System z Technical University, October 3 - 7 at Fontainebleau Miami Beach in Miami, Florida, the SWG Competitive Project Office (CPO) will be showcasing our latest System z and System Storage research in 6 different sessions, 4 of which are featured in the "Technical Strategies and Architectures" track and 2 of which are in the "Storage Systems" track. Encourage your customers to attend these sessions and learn how IBM's solutions stand out from the competition.
Don't Miss These Upcoming WebSphere Events:
CloudCamps
CloudCamp is an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas. With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions. At CloudCamp, you are encouraged to share your thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement of Cloud Computing. End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate."
It's FREE — register at cloudcamp.org
Upcoming cloudcamps:
| Athens, Greece |
Oct. 1 |
| San Fran, CA |
Oct. 3 |
| Waterloo, Canada |
Oct. 5 |
| Clerkenwell, London |
Oct. 5 |
| Boston, MA |
Oct. 6 |
| Banff, Alberta, Canada |
Oct. 7 |
| Melbourne, Australia |
Oct. 7 |
| Silicon Valley, CA |
Oct.9 |
| Washington, DC |
Oct. 11 |
| Aarhus, Denmark |
Oct. 11 |
| Foster City, CA |
Oct. 13 |
| Toronto, On, Canada |
Oct. 24 |
| Quebec, Canada |
Oct. 26 |
| Dakar, Senegal |
Oct. 29 |
| Toronto, Canada |
Oct. 25
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October 2–6: JavaOne 2011
Oct. 2–6, 2011
San Francisco, CA
Dr. Poddar is speaking on:
1. Persistent Object Graph as REST Resources
2. Second-tier cache as in-memory object database
October 4: CPO Lunch and Learn — Eliminating Redundant Software
Speakers:
- Vic Leith, Senior Software Engineer, SWG System z Competitive Project Office
- Dave Hayslett, Advisory Software Engineer, SWG System z Competitive Project Office
For all event details go to: http://ibmurl.hursley.ibm.com/24Q8
Join us in October for the Innovate Conferences
Software. It's Everywhere!
What do we mean by everywhere? In every corner of the globe, across every part of your business, software is the invisible thread that's connecting everyone by integrating the systems that touch our lives. With the power to transform products, companies, industries, and even societies, software is changing the way we work, live and play.
At Innovate 2011, you will learn how software and systems engineering can help your company stay competitive, seize new business opportunities, and execute with reduced risk and cost.
October 5, Belgium: Register Today!
October 6, Amsterdam: Register Today!
October 11, Milano: Register Today!
October 13, Italy (Roma): Register Today!
October 18, France: Register Today!
October 20, Madrid: Now in its third year in Spain, Innovate 2011, hosted in Madrid on October 20, will be filled with customer stories, business partners presentations, executive session on topics including Agile, Cloud, Application Lifecycle Management, Smarter Products, Jazz, System z and more.
Register today!
Innovate 2011
IBM Forum
C/ Corazón de María 44
Madrid (Spain), 28002
October 6: CPO Lunch and Learn — Improving Service Delivery with Private Cloud Computing
Speakers:
- Dr. Fehmina Merchant, Senior Software Engineer, SWG System z Competitive Project Office
- Dave Hayslett, Advisory Software Engineer, SWG System z Competitive Project Office
October 9–14: GOTO Conference Aarhus (formerly known as JAOO)
Oct. 9–14, 2011
Jaoo, Aarhus
Erich Gamma will be speaking on "Living Architectures - From Eclipse to Jazz"
IBM Exceptional Web Experience Conferences 2011
Leverage the power of two events with a single conference ticket!
In October, the Exceptional Web Experience Conferences, both in Germany and Australia will be co-located with the WebSphere Technical Conference. Your conference pass will allow you to attend any session on the Exceptional Web Experience or WebSphere Technical Conference agendas without additional fee. Choose from over 275 unique sessions across 12 conference tracks: Design your individual conference agenda to make the most of this one-stop education opportunity!
Here is the schedule of upcoming Exceptional Web Experience Conferences. Register now.
October 11–13: BAI Retail Delivery (Bank Administration Institute Retail Delivery)
Oct 11–13, 2011
Chicago, IL
John Armstrong will be speaking about the following:
As one of the largest financial institutions with a large customer base, Bank of America is taking a renewed focus on managing customer interaction with an emphasis on creating deeper relationships and greater value for their customer. The institution has initiated a new customer-focused strategy and corresponding emphasis on customer segments as a peer-partner to their product and channel heritage. This session will provide an inside view of the four business breakthroughs that Bank of America is delivering to affect the relationship transformation, including; a new analytics-based approach to customer communications management, implementation of an event-detection capability leveraging analytics to determine significant customer changes, new approaches to customer value measurement, and the integration into, and across channels.
- Hear innovations in applying an analytic, event-based interaction approach to depending customer relationships
- Address the challenge of operationalizing a segment-based operating model to manage banking relationships
- Gain insights into how to bring together complex business and technology based transformation.
October 12: IBM Cloud Launch Virtual Event
On October 12, IBM will host a one-hour live videocast to share some of the most powerful ways we are seeing our clients succeed with cloud across the globe. Through panel discussions, demonstrations, and interviews with clients and partners from around the world, you will learn why they are choosing cloud and hear about best practices and projects that can help you begin and progress cloud initiatives.
Afterwards, explore our Cloud Virtual Briefing Center for insights into today's most compelling cloud topics. See presentations on repeatable best practices and projects to begin and progress cloud initiatives. Discover videos and other content that describe how our clients are using cloud to address their organizations' needs, or have your cloud questions answered by IBM experts.
October 18–20: VM World Europe
Oct. 18–20, 2011
Copenhagen
Peter Kisich and Carlos Lizarralde will be speaking on: "Data Protection for the Cloud."
October 19: New York — Business Agility Executive Forum
Get the latest expertise on what IT capabilities are needed to transform business performance in today's ever-changing business environment. IBM executives and industry experts will be available on site to provide strategic business and in depth technical insights needed for process improvement.
Join us and invite your peers to network with IBM experts at an upcoming Business Agility Executive Forum, co-sponsored by InformationWeek.
October 27–28: ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing
Oct. 27–28, 2011
Cascais, Portugal
Anees Shaikh and Sambit Sahu will be speaking from IBM Research, TJ Watson team.
October 31–November 2: JAX London Autumn
Oct. 31–Nov. 2, 2011
London, UK
Tim Ellison will speak on Java 8 and OSGi Modularisation:
"The talk will cover a bit of background first to set things up: what is a module, why do we need a module system, summary of Java's existing support for modularity. Then it will move on to give a comparison of OSGi's and Jigsaw's dependency models. Pros and cons of each model in different environments will be discussed. Finally, opportunities and challenges for interoperability: from the perspective of both application developers (who may need to integrate modules from both kinds) and from library module developers (who may need to target both module systems)."
Emily Jiang will speak on OSGi Best Practices:
"OSGi is a dynamic Java modularity technology that originally was exploited mostly by constrained Java runtime systems. With the release of OSGi Enterprise 4.2, the role of OSGi has been extended into the enterprise, alongside what has traditionally been developed using JEE. This session will cover the best practices for developing OSGi Enterprise applications and OSGi bundles."
Dr. Mark Nuttall will speak on Modular enterprise applications:
"Enterprise applications are often long-lived, traditionally becoming more difficult and expensive to maintain over time. This talk will show how modular design and OSGi technology can help prevent this 'system rot' and enable more dynamic behaviour. We will outline the programming model and demonstrate running applications being maintained and extended on WebSphere Application Server version 8."
Tim Ward will be speaking on Modular EJBs for Enterprise OSGi:
"Enterprise OSGi is all about enabling Java EE technologies in an OSGi environment. Modular EJB provides support for Enterprise Java Beans running inside OSGi, taking advantage of the framework's modularity. See how to:
- Package EJBs for use in an OSGi environment
- Make use of EJBs from other OSGi bundles
- Consume OSGi services directly within your EJBs
- Flow transactions between EJBs and OSGi
November 1: London — Business Agility Executive Forum
Get the latest expertise on what IT capabilities are needed to transform business performance in today's ever-changing business environment. IBM executives and industry experts will be available on site to provide strategic business and in depth technical insights needed for process improvement.
Join us and invite your peers to network with IBM experts at an upcoming Business Agility Executive Forum, co-sponsored by InformationWeek.
November 8: Chicago — Business Agility Executive Forum
Get the latest expertise on what IT capabilities are needed to transform business performance in today's ever-changing business environment. IBM executives and industry experts will be available on site to provide strategic business and in depth technical insights needed for process improvement.
Join us and invite your peers to network with IBM experts at an upcoming Business Agility Executive Forum, co-sponsored by InformationWeek.
November 15: Mumbai — Business Agility Executive Forum
Get the latest expertise on what IT capabilities are needed to transform business performance in today's ever-changing business environment. IBM executives and industry experts will be available on site to provide strategic business and in depth technical insights needed for process improvement.
Join us and invite your peers to network with IBM experts at an upcoming Business Agility Executive Forum, co-sponsored by InformationWeek.
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.
Don't Miss These Whitepapers:
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 WMQ gives these teams access to a production-grade MQ diagnostics solution using a web browser, and without impacting production systems.
Read this whitepaper from Enterprise Management Associates to learn how:
- Users in development and testing can download a Freemium WMQ diagnostics tool with zero installation
- Gain the ability to reproduce production problems without depending on simulation
- Test message management by moving, copying, editing, routing, replaying and creating messages without impacting production
- DevOps can be enabled to work across test and production, speak the same language and test the same cases
Whitepaper: IBM WebSphere Application Server v7 versus Oracle WebLogic 11g
This document briefly covers key differences between IBM® WebSphere® Application Server and Oracle WebLogic Server. While both products are of high quality and will perform well even in demanding mission-critical environments, there are still some differences in their efficiency and resulting total cost of ownership.
In this document we will briefly cover the following capabilities:
- Performance
- Administrative and management tools
- License and support costs
- Licensing policies
- Virtualization and cloud support
- Standards support
- Operating System and DBMS support
Whitepaper: Elastic Caching for Scalability, Dynamic Growth and Performance
Elastic caching can help minimize redundant transactions and improving response time. For example, one IBM customer observed a dramatic drop in response time—from more than 100 milliseconds when accessing the back-end systems—to less than one millisecond with elastic caching.
This paper discusses how elastic caching significantly improves our customer’s Connectivity, Commerce and Portal solutions. It describes how the technology is used and the benefits it delivers to customers. Benefits include reduced memory requirements, better scalability, greater fault tolerance and improved system response time—leading to greater cost savings.
Whitepaper: Building Business Agility and Efficiency with Batch Processing
Bulk or batch processing applies to almost every business use case, including shipping, processing payments, mailing, analytics or managing inventory and claims. In addition, bulk processing is a key feature of many IT operations.
A balanced approach for Business Process Optimization can effectively support changing customer demands without driving exponential growth in business and IT costs.
This white paper examines the ways that WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid (WebSphere Compute Grid) can be used to create and evolve a batch strategy. Build or migrate your batch applications with capabilities and patterns that leverage:
- Service oriented architecture (SOA)
- Business process management (BPM)
- Cloud computing
- Legacy integration
- Modernization for business transformation
