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)

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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!

Additional Resources:

• IBM Workload Deployer Demo: This brief video demonstrates building, deploying, and managing Virtual Application Patterns using the IBM Workload Deployer

• IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Alpha: This Alpha release is focused on a new, lightweight profile of the application server for web applications, along with a simplified configuration approach for the development environment

Meet the Presenter:

Don Boulia, Director; Product Management, IBM WebSphere

Don Boulia is a product management director with responsibility for IBM's private cloud and application infrastructure products, including the WebSphere Application Server family of products.  He brings over 15 years of experience delivering software in a variety of business and technology roles.  In his current role Don leads the private cloud and virtualization product strategy for IBM.

Date: October 27, 2011
Topic: Building an Interconnected Enterprise with New IBM WebSphere Connectivity and Integration Capabilities
Time:  11:00 AM EDT (GMT - 4)

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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.

Meet the Presenters:

Bill Hines, Executive I/T Specialist and World-Wide Tech Sales Leader for DataPower

Bill Hines is an Executive I/T Specialist and World-Wide Tech Sales Leader for DataPower, working out of Hershey, PA (Chocolatetown, USA). He has many years of DataPower experience in both customer engagements and developing and delivering internal DataPower training to the IBM consulting, engineering, support, QA, and technical sales teams. He also has WebSphere Application Server experience dating back to 1998. He is the lead author of the acclaimed IBM Press book IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance Handbook and co-author of IBM WebSphere: Deployment and Advanced Configuration as well as many articles published in WebSphere Technical Journal and developerWorks.

Date: November 3, 2011
Topic: What's new in Decision Management and BPM?
Time: 11:00 AM EDT (GMT -4)

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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.

• Whitepaper: Why WebSphere Operational Decision Management? A Case for Business Users of Information Technology

• Book Preview: Decision Management Systems: A Practical Guide to Using Business Rules and Predictive Analytics

Meet the Presenters:

Laurent Tarin, Sr. Product Manager, WebSphere ILOG BRMS

Laurent Tarin has been working for ILOG for almost 15 years before the IBM acquisition. 10 years ago, Laurent joined the ILOG Strategic Business Development group to position ILOG software in the BPM market. Starting with the ILOG Visualization products, he saw the great advantage of connecting business rules management systems to BPM solutions. Laurent is currently working as a Product Marketing Manager in the Business Rules and Business Event product marketing team within IBM WebSphere.

Marc Smith, Sr. Product Manager - IBM BPM

Marc Smith is a senior product manager for IBM’s Business Process Management (BPM) products.  For over 25 years, Marc has been involved in research, development, and architecture of enterprise software solutions for managing databases, business objects, business rules, and business processes.  In 2003, Marc joined Lombardi Software, a company exclusively focused on delivering products, solutions and thought-leadership in Business Process Management – Marc built and led their Solutions Architecture team, and later led Technical Product Marketing.  In 2010, Lombardi was acquired by IBM, and Marc has been heavily involved in the integration of Lombardi’s innovative technology into IBM’s BPM products.