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The information overload on SOA largely describes the merits and principles of SOA and the variety of products intended to address SOA needs. There is, however, an acute dearth of information on bridging the gap between wanting to get started and actually deploying an SOA implementation game plan. This document is written to help fill that gap. Separating hype from reality, distilling the essential from the desirable, explicitly addressing the how-to, nuts and bolts of SOA implementation is addressed. It's about getting started, showing the incremental rewards of SOA adoption and continuing to link deployment of technology with business goals. |
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| Achieving Interoperability with Windows CardSpace in the Open Enterprise | ||||
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Today's identity management systems help organizations gain control over identity information in the enterprise, however, these systems are silos - and despite industry standards, there is very little interoperability. The Bandit project provides open-source identity services that reduce the challenges of identity silos to provide a consistent approach to identity management for users and administrators, regardless of underlying systems. To continue this evolution in open-source, Bandit has partnered with the Higgins project to deliver an open-source identity system that is interoperable with Windows CardSpace. This session will demo this development milestone and explain its significance in the identity community. |
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| Adaptive Infrastructure - Dead Bare Metal to Live Connected Servers in Five Minutes or Less | ||||
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Join us for an interactive discussion presented by Scalent Systems, as we address the big three challenges facing server failover – software configuration, network connectivity, and storage access – and contrast several different approaches, from traditional backup to the use of virtual machines, to the next generation of adaptive infrastructure. |
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As your infrastructure becomes virtualized - storage, server and network - your flexibility and usage increases. This is a good thing. But what about the applications? Do the configuration management struggles that are related to applications today go away in the context of a virtualized infrastructure? They don't - and this is where application virtualization comes in. Application virtualization software has been developed to help IT departments liberate applications from the underlying OS and manage them as independent, moveable objects. |
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| Application Virtualization: Instant Migration to Vista, Fast Delivery, Secure Access, Side-by-Side Deployments | ||||
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Application virtualization is a technologically elegant solution that isolates applications and reduces conflicts. That's good for IT management and has the additional virtue of being financially alluring. From legacy to the latest enterprise business applications, virtualized deployment eases management and supports secure access. Companies save money and boost efficiency using application virtualization within any IT infrastructure. Attendees will learn details of how, when and why application virtualization is a best practice for enterprise IT. This talk covers the fundamentals of application virtualization and technical issues from terminal server to desktop. Using case instances to illustrate benefits in various architectures, the discussion includes scenarios that detail migration and IT architectural shifts incorporating application virtualization. |
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| Bandit: Interoperability with Windows CardSpace in the Open Enterprise | ||||
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Today's identity management systems help organizations gain control over identity information in the enterprise, however, these systems are silos - and despite industry standards, there is very little interoperability. The Bandit project provides open-source identity services that reduce the challenges of identity silos to provide a consistent approach to identity management for users and administrators, regardless of underlying systems. To continue this evolution in open-source, Bandit has partnered with the Higgins project to deliver an open-source identity system that is interoperable with Windows CardSpace. This session will demo this development milestone and explain its significance in the identity community. |
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| Be Where the Green Grass Grows: Why Continuous Testing Is Important to Meet the Growing Needs of Life-Cycle Governance | ||||
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To deliver quality SOA applications, enterprises need to focus their efforts on complete, collaborative, and continuous testing. The continuous aspect of testing is of specific importance due to the perpetual changes that occur as services evolve. Continuous testing is essential not only because bugs are particularly costly and time-consuming to fix when they appear later in the development process, but also because it reduces misunderstandings between interdependent service providers. Continuous testing is imperative to meet the growing needs of life-cycle governance, ensuring that policy, performance, and quality expectations are being met for SOA. |
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| Best Practices for Open Source Evaluation and Adoption | ||||
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Expanding the use of open source software within an organization requires significant changes in software evalution and acquisition policies, often affecting many different groups within the organization. This talk covers some of the key issues, including the determination of whether an open source component is suitable for its intended use, comparative evaluation of proprietary and open source alternatives, adjustment of internal IT processes, and consideration of the business and legal issues associated with such use. Part of the talk describes differences between commercial open source offerings and community-based open source projects, including both managed and unmanaged projects. This includes a description of evaluation frameworks for open source software that provides for evaluation not only of the functionality of the software, but also available support and documentation, as well as the quality of the software and its development process. |
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| Bottom Line SOA | ||||
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This session will explore the vastly different cost models of SOA and traditional point-to-point architecture and present a simple but powerful ROI model that can be used by anyone to justify SOA expenditures and even guide implementation. This exciting model unearths the dark secret of traditional architecture spending and illuminates the potential for exponential returns from well-placed SOA investments. The audience will come away with a firm understanding of how SOA, when executed properly, can dramatically reduce IT maintenance spending, allowing valuable resources to be directed toward revenue-generating activities instead. |
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| Building SOA with Apache Tuscany | ||||
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Apache Tuscany provides an open source services infrastructure for building SOA. It's based on the widely supported Service Component Architecture (SCA) specification. With the Tuscany implementation of SCA, application developers can easily create or reuse services in different languages (BPEL, Java or various scripting languages) and assemble and deploy them in a distributed environment. This session will introduce SCA and explain how this open source implementation of SCA will simplify the building of SOA solutions. |
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| Building SOA-Compliant Business Logic Without Programming | ||||
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According to IBM, Gartner, and other industry pundits, SOA applications will usher in a major replacement of the legacy systems that currently power organizations and commerce around the world. ZapThink, by contrast, sees SOA as a technology that will extend the value of existing legacy applications. While SOA architectural components are well understood and available from a variety of vendors, organizations are fundamentally on their own to create the business logic essential to introducing an SOA-compliant application. Many organizations experience a Trough of Disillusionment, as business satisfaction with IT declines, after the embracing of SOA actually slows the arrival of the next important application because of the problems associated with conceiving, designing, building, and testing business services. TenFold and its founders are business applications specialists and are pioneering a model-driven approach that exploits model-driven metadata to specify business logic without programming. A model-driven approach offers a tenfold improvement in applications development time and cost as it replaces the traditional requirements-design-develop (program or generate)-compile-deploy methodology with describe-render-publish. A recent pilot project yielded a new-generation application in two months compared to the prior J2EE-application that took over 24 months to build and deploy - a 12 to 1 improvement in cost. |
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| Business Mashups: Crossing the Next Frontier in Corporate-Consumer Technology Crossover | ||||
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Businesses are increasingly looking to early-adopter consumer communications technologies for new approaches to enhancing corporate practices and processes. Already CEOs are blogging and sales departments are communicating with customers through wikis. The next frontier of business-consumer crossover is that of mashups, where IT managers see an ideal means of implementing collaborative capabilities, applications, and information that will allow knowledge worker teams to be more effective. In this presentation, the WebEx speaker will discuss the trend toward businesses adopting mashup technology as a means of facilitating two-way integration between multiple applications as well as creating an online community that links people across an entire enterprise ecosystem. He/she will describe how businesses can build mashups by stitching together and customizing business applications, merging business processes and data from several sources in order to give knowledge workers an easy way to access and use critical data. The speaker will also discuss how mashups enable existing software to be integrated with on-demand collaboration and business applications. |
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| Connecting SOA with BRMS (Business Rule Management System) | ||||
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To ensure successful SOA implementation, companies should reconsider how they provide decision services. The unmanageable, black-box approach of wrapping legacy code does not work. BRMS (Business Rules Management System) helps companies meet the SOA promises of reuse and agility with Transparent Decision Services that are truly reusable, modeled by business analysts, maintained by business teams, and managed by IT. BRMS allows externalized decision logic, are modeled and maintained by business teams and analysts, managed by IT, allow automatic auditable capture with extensive reporting, and are easy to repurpose and maintain. |
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| Decorating Your SOA Services with Governance Enforcement Contracts | ||||
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SOA is becoming the prevailing choice for IT enterprises and the success of this transition to an SOA is based on quality of the SOA governance solution. This session will highlight why SOA governance is crucial for the successful transition to SOA. It will also discuss how to build policy enforcement contracts that can customize how service consumers and producers are able interact with existing enterprise services. The session will explore how enterprise architects and developers can build and leverage an SOA governance strategy in order to manage, share, and enforce policies around the key service artifacts across the enterprise. It will show how to effectively manage the design, execution, and management aspects of the governance infrastructure. Michael will focus on tips, best practices, and strategies on how to develop policy enforcement contracts that can be decorated across internal or external services in the enterprise enhancing the value of the SOA. The following SOA governance strategies and best practices will be addressed: Service classification and taxonomies for publishing and discovering services; managing the service life cycle; addressing version management and method customizing; policy definition and management of non-functional systemic qualities; creation and usage of governance contracts with enterprise services; and applyiing governance contracts to ESBs, BPM, and identity infrastructures. Finally this presentation will explore real-world examples of how SOA governance has improved the success rate of SOA transitions. |
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| Deep Dive into OS Virtualization Technology | ||||
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Most of today's hype revolves around hardware virtualization, also know as hypervisors or virtual machines. This session will focus on the alternative technology known as containers, or operating system virtualization. The session will explore OS virtualization at the technical level and cover its fundamental architectural differences in a comparison with server hardware-level virtualization. It will also cover core technical differences in provisioning, resource and patch management, as well as migration. |
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| Delivering Quality Results for Business: Why End-to-End Testing for Integration and SOA is Essential | ||||
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We expect a lot from SOA. We want business agility to support growth, attention to customers and efficient, collaborative operations. But you can’t expect what you don’t inspect. Composite applications that are constantly changing call for a new testing paradigm to assure that business processes will work as expected over the complex, heterogeneous environments of multiple protocols and transports. We need visibility across ESBs, across the application life cycle and across the producer-consumer community. Agility demands automation for speed and reusability. It also requires testing functions unique to integration – which is why this is a new investment for most organizations. The risk of not becoming more agile for business results is part of the drive to make quality assurance key in any SOA initiative. Hear real-world examples of what automated end-to-end testing delivers today to several Fortune 500 companies. |
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| Deploying Entitlements in an SOA | ||||
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As enterprise organizations continue to embrace SOA throughout their environments, they also must face new challenges in regards to securing applications that live outside the traditional confines of a secure network. How do you effectively administer and enforce application entitlements in a distributed environment? This session will explore the role of entitlement management in the new frontier of SOA and demonstrate why externalizing role and policy-based entitlements is critical for success. |
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Disaster Recovery 2.0 (DR 2.0), incorporates new technologies that will help organizations better prepare for a disaster, at a lower-price point. One of the main aspects of implementing a solid DR plan is adding virtualization capabilities. Virtualization is already a mainstream tool for many IT administrators to consolidate applications within their data center. In the near future, virtualization will live up to its hype - not only will it enable high availability within servers, but also desktop virtualization, which can lead the way to more use of thin client PCs. This session’s speaker will discuss DR 2.0 and how virtualization acts as a key enabler. |
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| Do I need anything else besides hardware virtualization? | ||||
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You wouldn’t know it, but virtualization has been around for quite some time. Virtually [sic] everything in the IT space has some notion of virtualization associated with it from microprocessors, to networks, to storage, and finally to servers. But, have you noticed that many of these are focused on infrastructure and IT related benefits such as utilization or decreased costs? What about business value? How do they enable realization and acceleration of business objectives? In this session we’ll discuss higher orders of virtualization, namely application and data virtualization, and how they complement traditional IT focused virtualization techniques to turn infrastructures into competitive advantages. |
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| Enteprise Integration with SOA: Achieving the Promise of EAI Without the Cost | ||||
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| Enterprise Mashups and SOBAs: Which Is the Tail and Which Is the Dog? | ||||
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The reason for much of the chatter about mashups and Service-Oriented Business Applications (SOBAs) arises from the fact that mashups, and Web 2.0 in general, are primarily social phenomena, while SOBAs, and SOA generally, are primarily business phenomena: the “B” in “SOBA” indicates their purpose is to deliver flexible IT resources to meet continually changing business needs. Does it make sense, then, to consider an enterprise mashup to be a rich, collaborative SOBA consumer environment? For a mashup to be an enterprise mashup in that it addresses a particular business problem, tight coupling between provider and consumer software would be a serious concern. Most of today’s mashups, however, care little about loose coupling. Mashups that meet business needs, therefore, will require SOA, and the SOA infrastructure necessary to guarantee loose coupling. Without that loose coupling, mashups are little more than toys from the enterprise perspective. Most important, however, SOBAs require governance. Clearly, no business would risk allowing any of its employees to assemble and reassemble business processes willy nilly, with no controls in place to ensure that the resulting SOBAs followed corporate policies. The problem is, today’s mashups are inherently ungoverned. The bottom line is, the more governed an enterprise mashup becomes, the less like a Web 2.0-style mashup it’ll be. In any case, the true promise of SOBAs depends upon user interfaces sophisticated enough for a broader business audience to use. Few such tools exist today, but the writing is on the wall: the enterprise mashup is the future of the SOBA consumer. |
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| Enterprise Web 2.0 Reference Architecture – AJAX, SOA, and Open Source | ||||
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With the gradual adoption of SOA, the rapid rise of Web 2.0 and open source, the enterprise technology landscape is getting more complicated. Here are some of the key questions facing enterprise IT managers: (1) What are the best ways to leverage SOA investment? How to build and deploy solutions based on SOA? (2) What is Web 2.0 and how does Web 2.0 fit with SOA? (3) What does rich Internet application technologies like AJAX, Java, and WPF mean to enterprise IT? (4) What if my legacy system is not SOA enabled yet? (5) How to deal with open source and commercial vendors. When to use open source projects and when to use commercial vendor products. Drawing upon the speaker’s years of experience in pioneering Web 2.0 and several thousand of enterprise engagements, this talk presents an enterprise Web 2.0 reference architecture that acts as a framework to address the above questions. Demonstrations and coding samples will be presented during the session. |
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Open Source Software is a key component of the IT world. Love it or hate it, there's no way to ignore that Open Source has arrived and must be addressed in an intelligent fashion. Utilizing Open Source at the enterprise level is different from purchasing licensing agreements from for-profit vendors. Our Enterprise Open Source Power Panel will discuss the benefits, costs, risks, and mitigations strategies successful organizations deal with when they decide how to approach EOS. |
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Open Source Software is a key component of the IT world. Love it or hate it, there's no way to ignore that Open Source has arrived and must be addressed in an intelligent fashion. Utilizing Open Source at the enterprise level is different from purchasing licensing agreements from for-profit vendors. Our Enterprise Open Source Power Panel will discuss the benefits, costs, risks, and mitigations strategies successful organizations deal with when they decide how to approach EOS. |
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Open Source Software is a key component of the IT world. Love it or hate it, there's no way to ignore that Open Source has arrived and must be addressed in an intelligent fashion. Utilizing Open Source at the enterprise level is different from purchasing licensing agreements from for-profit vendors. Our Enterprise Open Source Power Panel will discuss the benefits, costs, risks, and mitigations strategies successful organizations deal with when they decide how to approach EOS. |
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Complex Event Processing software provides the foundation for making an SOA event-driven. CEP software in an SOA environment offers re-usable processing and analysis services that are available for all applications to leverage. This approach de-couples event processing logic from the business applications enabling faster application development. Centralized, dynamic management of the event processing logic in the CEP repository and service enables rapid change without disruption to the business applications. This presentation will examine how complex event processing applies to an SOA environment. Also presenting will be Sallie Mae, a multi-billion dollar financial services firm, who is using CEP to event-enable their entire suite of service-oriented customer management applications. |
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Complex Event Processing software provides the foundation for making an SOA event-driven. CEP software in an SOA environment offers re-usable processing and analysis services that are available for all applications to leverage. This approach de-couples event processing logic from the business applications enabling faster application development. Centralized, dynamic management of the event processing logic in the CEP repository and service enables rapid change without disruption to the business applications. This presentation will examine how complex event processing applies to an SOA environment. Also presenting will be Sallie Mae, a multi-billion dollar financial services firm, who is using CEP to event-enable their entire suite of service-oriented customer management applications. |
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In this session Frank Cohen will introduce the technologies that go into a SOA development stack, including composite applications, application servers, ESBs, Master Data Management, registry/epository, XML parsers, Workflow engines, databases, and protocols. Called the Base Computing Stack, Frank teaches about the stack and the scalability, performance, and developer productivity problems in this environment. |
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Lost in the hype around Web 2.0 and AJAX is the fact that your visually attractive Web 2.0 application actually needs to do something useful. In this session we'll illustrate an AJAX application generated from XML-based models. Given that standards-based starting point, we'll illustrate how to generate XForms applications that handle data and workflows. Even more important, we'll change the business process definition and the data structures underlying the application, then use XSLT to regenerate the interface. This ensures that the beautiful AJAX interface stays synchronized with the model of the application. |
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| Getting the Most from Your SOA: Using a Modeling Approach for Application Performance Management | ||||
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With SOA, companies are deploying a new class of increasingly complex, mission-critical applications. SOA allows quick changes and reactions to business needs. But this flexibility comes with a cost – the inability to effectively manage production application performance. Companies need successful application performance management (APM) to ensure this, and the best way to ensure APM success in SOA environments is through modeling. This presentation will address: why modeling is uniquely able to handle SOA applications complexities; real-world examples of traditional versus model-based APM approaches; and how IT organizations can significantly improve the ROI of their APM systems. |
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| Going Open – A Guide for Software Vendors and Their Customers | ||||
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The success of open source software has been placing pressure on the business models of proprietary software vendors. In response, many software vendors have shifted from a paid-for license model to an open source business model. This presentation will explore the emerging trend of proprietary software vendors transitioning to an open source business model – the elimination of software licensing fees, source-code transparency, and a reliance on services as the revenue engine. It will cover the impact on software vendors and end users alike, and will include best practices from a number of companies that have already made the transition, including failed attempts. |
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| How Commercial Organizations Can Work with the Free Software Community | ||||
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Ubuntu is the darling of the Linux desktop space. Voted #16 in PC World's Top 100 Products for 2007, millions of users and now coming as an option for Dell users straight out of the box, this Linux distribution is increasingly being deployed on corporate networks. With a free server edition, a professional support organization and a growing band of enthusiasts in and around the IT divisions of enterprises it is becoming the Linux distro of choice for all types of user. But how does a commercial organization engage with a community built product like Ubuntu? How are licensing and other commercial and legal issues resolved? And how does an organisation protect the code it needs to keep proprietary from that it is happy to put open source? |
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| How to Get Richer Faster with an AJAX RIA and SOA Strategy | ||||
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Two trends in applications architecture - AJAX RIA on the client side and service-orientation on the server side - are enabling powerful enterprise solutions that can be leveraged in diverse business environments. In this session, Michael Peachy will use real-world case studies to demonstrate how organizations are taking advantage of both of these advancements in application architecture to provide AJAX rich Internet applications that double the applicability of SOA investments. Attendees will hear how to deliver feature rich, high-productivity end-user applications to the business desktop. |
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| How to Make Your SOA Work:10 Steps for Establishing a Successful, Automated Regression Testing Strategy | ||||
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As enterprises evolve toward SOA, many underestimate the impact a proper testing strategy has on the enterprise agility and successful realization of the SOA ROI. In fact, the distributed nature of SOA demands a new paradigm on how reusable services are developed, tested, and evolved along the changing business demands. This session will explain the reasons why an automated regression testing process that is tailored for SOA is critical for organizations applying SOA, and explores 10 activities that serve as the necessary pillars for a streamlined, efficient and predictable development and testing process for SOA services. |
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Many large SOA deployments face two major challenges: how to promote service reuse and how to manage the complexity of a heterogeneous, distributed SOA that includes Java, .NET, and various legacy and packaged applications deployed across the enterprise. The solution is to implement service virtualization to make services portable and protocol independent. This session will cover the different architectural components of service virtualization – mediation, deployment, governance, and service management – and the standards that make service virtualization possible. |
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| Improving Customer Experience Through SOA and Web 2.0: A B2B Telecom Use Case | ||||
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British Telecom Openreach Portal is one of new breed open-source portal platforms that have embraced new and futuristic technologies to provide an unparalleled service to end customers. BT Openreach Portal provides the facility for UK-based communication providers (CPs) to manage and service their end-customer orders ranging from a simple phone connection and Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) to fiber-based private circuits. Being largely a B2B portal, it provided Openreach standardized, silo-based services to the CPs. This provided too rigid a framework for the CPs to manage and access their orders as well as carry out the required order journeys and did not provide a CP oriented view of data and execution. In this session we will examine how the SOA and Web 2.0 technology-based platform developed in Openreach Portal, by wiring up the existing rigid flows and deploying them for execution through Web and Web service interfaces real-time and zero down time, gave the power to end users to define their own services and flows. |
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British Telecom Openreach Portal is one of new breed open-source portal platforms that have embraced new and futuristic technologies to provide an unparalleled service to end customers. BT Openreach Portal provides the facility for UK-based communication providers (CPs) to manage and service their end customer orders ranging from a simple phone connection and Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) to fiber-based private circuits. Being largely a B2B portal, it provided Openreach standardized, silo-based services to the CPs. This provided too rigid a framework for the CPs to manage and access their orders as well as carry out the required order journeys and did not provide a CP-oriented view of data and execution. Further, the rigid deployment architecture hindered the CPs from personalizing their order journeys as well as prevented BT from deploying new or customized services. In this session we will examine how the SOA and Web 2.0 technology-based platform developed in Openreach Portal by wiring up the existing rigid flows and deploying them for execution, through Web and Web service interfaces in real-time and zero down time, gave the power to end users to define their own services and flows. |
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Hal Stern will lay out thought-provoking possibilities, constraints, and some key social and technological implications of Web-next, open source and virtualization for data & application development, security & identity. |
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| JBOWS* or SOA? – A Reality Check (*Just a Bunch of Web Services) |
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Anyone listening to or reading many of the vendor statements and pundit analysis these days can be forgiven if they think that SOA is pervasive across all organizations large and small. However, most complete SOA efforts are still few and far between. In most cases, organizations are wrestling with a spaghetti architecture of Web services. In this session, we will examine the results of recent survey data** to get a picture of the progress of SOA in organizations, and work that still needs to be done. This session will explore findings such as:
o Web services runs wide, but not deep: For a number of years, Web services has seen widespread adoption across enterprises, but only for select applications
o Reuse is gaining traction: The value seen in SOA is service reuse across more than one business unit; survey confirm that this is beginning to take place
o The blurry line between JBOWS and SOA: The journey to SOA is a gradual process, most companies are in stages in between.
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This session will compare and contrast available options to integrate .NET and Java components in a mixed portal environment, including Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) and .NET extensions for WebSphere Portal. Attendees will learn about the impacts of each approach on the end-user experience, speed-to-deployment, and ease of maintenance. Laurence will also deliver a step-by-step demo of porting an ASP.NET starter kit on a WebSphere Portal Server. The C# portlet will have direct access to IBM's rich set of end-user features, including single sign-on, as well as universal branding a single set of navigation menus. |
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Server virtualization has caught the attention of many IT professionals for the cost savings and agility afforded via consolidation, business continuity and test/dev. However, Microsoft customers and Microsoft IT have moved beyond the traditional datacenter uses of virtualization and have begun innovating around the desktop and alternate software delivery models. Virtualization will help the industry accelerate the move towards a services-oriented model by enabling a broad set of offerings – from the OS to applications – to be portable and, therefore, available on demand. Greschler will provide examples and best practices of how organizations are leveraging virtualization beyond the datacenter. |
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According to Gartner, 80 percent of data transfer is done via FTP. A time-consuming and unreliable process born from the mainframe, FTP regularly impacts e-commerce and supply chain orders and processes, unnecessarily disrupting business and jeopardizing revenue. ESB alleviates the latency of batch data processing, eliminates data transfer inefficiencies, and is reliable even in the "chattiest" networks. There will also be discussion of how enterprises can best leverage the benefits of ESB within their SOA strategy. |
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Server virtualization is becoming increasingly popular as a strategy to reduce costs and streamline operations, and is often seen as a relatively simple way to reduce personnel requirements, save money on software licenses, and increase reliability. In reality, however, virtualization raises technical and resource issues that require careful planning, as well as coordination with business users. Ideally, virtualization is only one component of a broader resource optimization strategy, rather than an end in itself. This discussion will examine some of the common misperceptions surrounding server virtualization, and outline the basic elements of an optimized approach to infrastructure management. |
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In traditional application architectures, the design phase in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) plays a critical role in enabling well-architected solutions. Yet there hasn't been much discussion about the design or the modelling phase of SOA-based applications. Translating the business requirements into services and service models allows for leveraging services throughout the life cycle. This also allows for mapping the services to an implementation architecture of the right nature, which could be based on a component model like EJB or a simple database infrastructure. SOA is all about reuse and leveraging existing investments and a model-driven SOA allows for an intersection between requirements established as services and their implementation based on existing infrastructure and new components. This enables the business visibility into IT by making the changes visible in both directions: requirements and implementation. A demo will be using Sybase WorkSpace. |
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| Money Can't Buy an Open Source Community | ||||
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As a small start-up, Interface21 has developed a large, loyal community around the Spring Framework and Spring Portfolio projects. Venture capitalists have invested millions in open source companies and large vendors like IBM and BEA have spent millions of dollars attempting to crank up their marketing machines around their open source projects. In general, these efforts have not resulted in successful communities. In this presentation, we will explore the characteristics that all successful open source communities share as well as unsuccessful open source projects and how these characteristics are changing over time. |
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| OASIS, SOA, Open Standards, and Open Source | ||||
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OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, http://www.oasis-open.org) is a member-led, international, non-profit standards consortium focused on global e-business. OASIS drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. It was founded in 1993 and now operates with over 500 member organizations and over 5,000 participants in over 80 countries. There are over 60 OASIS Technical Committees producing royalty-free and RAND standards. The open OASIS technical process is expressly designed to promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. OASIS cooperates with over 50 other standards and industry organizations to reduce duplication and promote interoperability for OASIS Standards. This presentation will give an update on the latest OASIS standards relevant to the SOA community and discuss the correlation between open standards and open source. |
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| Open and Closed Source SOA | ||||
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The two biggest trends affecting IT today are SOA and open source. Many developers and architects are looking to speed adoption of SOA by leveraging open source. Because both SOA and open source offer long-term reductions in cost coupled with an increase in flexibility and innovation, it is natural that SOA and open source are being used as a powerful combination for new IT initiatives. While open source provides many benefits, there are still many scenarios where a combination of open and closed source software are required. This session will provide an overview of open source projects and products for SOA and discuss how to effectively use open and closed source software together. |
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| Open Source Content Management in the Enterprise - Ready to Integrate? | ||||
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In corporate environments, being able to integrate with existing systems is of extreme importance. Due to its nature, the open source development methodology forces software developers to be prepared to interoperate and integrate with whatever is already there. This is a big difference from the more traditional black box software mentality, and a huge benefit for enterprise customers. In this session, Hippo CTO Arjé Cahn will introduce Hippo CMS, an Open Source Enterprise Content Management system, and dive into the details of fitting a CMS into your environment. |
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| Open Source Penetration and Use in SOA Deployments | ||||
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Open source has made signficant inroads into middleware deployments in the enterprise. More and more, open source is being used to deliver the benefits of SOA and open source to the enterprise. This session explores where open source is getting the most traction in SOA deployments and illustrates this by describing some of the customer SOA solutions the speaker sees at Red Hat. |
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| Open Source SOA Realized | ||||
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This session will dive straight into the middle of a real-world spen source SOA implementations, showing how all the facets of how the SOA Big Rules are attained within the solution. This will cover an in-depth walkthrough, by example and demos, of: How to implement large XML Schema-driven document/literal Web services using partly Java EE 5 and partly J2EE 1.4; How security is enabled through certificate-based authentication with WS-Security; How the services are orchestrated with WS-BPEL; and how JSR-168 portlets leverage the end-user experience and how these are exposed using WSRP. The solution is based strictly on open source software and a guide for picking the right frameworks and the right products in the myriad of these will be addressed as well. Prerequisites: Knowledge of Java technology, IDEs, XML, and an interest in SOA. |
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| Open Source Trends in Systems Management: A Group Discussion | ||||
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The Group will discuss open source trends in systems management. Panel participants will discuss both the benefits and precautions to take when investigating open source management software. |
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The Group will discuss open source trends in systems management. Panel participants will discuss both the benefits and precautions to take when investigating open source management software. |
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The Group will discuss open source trends in systems management. Panel participants will discuss both the benefits and precautions to take when investigating open source management software. |
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The Group will discuss open source trends in systems management. Panel participants will discuss both the benefits and precautions to take when investigating open source management software. |
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| Orienting your SOA Initiative: Case study in SOA Governance | ||||
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Apache Tuscany provides an open source services infrastructure for building SOA. It's based on the widely supported Service Component Architecture (SCA) specification. With the Tuscany implementation of SCA, application developers can easily create or reuse services in different languages (BPEL, Java or various scripting languages) and assemble and deploy them in a distributed environment. This session will introduce SCA and explain how this open source implementation of SCA will simplify the building of SOA solutions. |
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| Policy-Driven SOA | ||||
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The original goal of the service-oriented architecture (SOA) concept was to build flexible, loosely coupled systems. That meant removing or lessening the runtime dependencies between components or endpoints. One of the best, if overused, examples of loosely coupled systems is the way the Web works today. Routing, DNS, cookies, SSL handshakes, authentication, redirection, etc., are all handled by the infrastructure at runtime. Only a URL is typically required. In order to achieve this in the SOA world, contracts, requirements, and capabilities need to be defined and automated through a declarative and manageable mechanism. WSDL is far from being adequate as a complete contract language for SOA. The required level of abstraction for SOA sits at the policy level. Policies contain assertions about the operational interfaces for components in an SOA. These include credential preferences, authentication and authorization mechanisms, signature and encryption preferences, identity sources, routing, transformations, versioning, reliable messaging, and others. This talk will introduce the concept of Policy-Driven SOA and discuss Policy and the WS-Policy specification as the new contract abstraction for SOA. |
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| Pragmatic SOA: Governance by Consent | ||||
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There is much talk about policy and governance and in many organizations, governance by fiat is the norm. Some end users refer to it as "management by showing the door," or "my way or the highway" management. As SOA expands beyond the scope of IT and into business federations, life-cycle groups and into business processes, a profound shift in emphasis happens. Despite the need for "Control" asserted by central IT organizations, the nature of the "Service Delivery Contract" or enforceable agreement can be used as a template to drive bilateral or multi-party SOA. Learn how federating policy can be seen as the process of identifying, documenting, enforcing, and auditing the value of integrity of agreements and relationships. This less coercive model of governance not only accelerates adoption, but decreases the risk of resistance and infighting that dooms many SOA projects. |
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| Presentation & Demo by IBM: The Case for an SOA Foundation | ||||
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SOA has moved beyond a technology initiative. It is fundamentally about creating an alignment between business and IT -- about driving IT design and deployment decisions from a clear understanding of the business design being automated by IT. Doing so creates an economic context in which to measure the value of trade-offs in IT design. By recognizing the basic constructs of business design, we can identify critical elements of our information systems, and how information technology contributes to enabling business goals and priorities. IT innovation is at its best when it adds value to those that use or depend on it. All of this calls for a framework in which to structure SOA based applications -- an open and consistent set of principles in which we can meaningfully innovate. We refer to this framework as an SOA Foundation -- identifying the key components, relationships, programming models and infrastructure that enable SOA-based enteprise architectures. In this presentation we will describe the SOA Foundation, motivations for standardizing the key elements of that framework, and some of the strategic business and technology issues that will evolve within that framework. |
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| Presentation & Demo by Laszlo Systems | ||||
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Parasoft SOAtest is the most comprehensive and complete tool for testing Web services. SOAtest allows users to verify all aspects of a Web service, from WSDL validation, to unit and functional testing of the client and server, to performance testing. SOAtest addresses key Web service issues such as interoperability, security, change management, and scalability. |
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Parasoft SOAtest is the most comprehensive and complete tool for testing Web services. SOAtest allows users to verify all aspects of a Web service, from WSDL validation, to unit and functional testing of the client and server, to performance testing. SOAtest addresses key Web service issues such as interoperability, security, change management, and scalability. |
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Today's Web service providers must understand Quality of Service, filtering techniques and implement QOS and access list filters on their networks. A proper QOS and filtering design helps to avoid network bottlenecks caused by worm and virus infections, sudden spikes in traffic, broadband users, file sharing, and other network conditions. Service providers can use QOS and filtering techniques to align network usage with business policies and requirements, all while still serving customers and supporting their own back office needs. This presentation covers the key concepts of quality of service and access-list filtering using open source tools. The presentation includes an explanation of filtering using Linux's iptables tool and standard queuing methods as defined in the Differentiated Services RFC as well as applications of these methods through generic case studies. |
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| Securing Your SOA: Entitlement Management in a Service-Oriented Architecture | ||||
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As companies embrace SOA and begin breaking apart monolithic applications, the question of how to control and secure access becomes mission critical. How do you take advantage of the flexibility inherent in a SOA while ensuring that component services are properly secured and managed through established access control policies? By decoupling the access control logic from the component services and administering it centrally, tomorrow's enterprise will be both agile and secured. This session will introduce the concept of entitlement management and demonstrate why emerging standards such as XACML are crucial to administering and enforcing policies in a SOA. |
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| Service Virtualization and the Large-Scale Service-Oriented Application | ||||
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As enterprises gain comfort with the principles of service orientation and begin adopting SOA for large-scale, business-critical applications, they must invariably grapple with the traditional "ilities," e.g., reliability, scalability, and agility that challenge the architects of demanding applications. In this presentation we explore an emerging solution to these challenges — grid-based service virtualization frameworks. By providing a runtime distributed service container that abstracts service instances from the infrastructure on which they run, service virtualization approaches are enabling savvy enterprises to achieve high qualities of service for their Java, .NET, and C/C++ services. |
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| Service-Oriented Patterns and Anti-patterns | ||||
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The momentum behind service-oriented systems is intense and the hype machine is in full swing. Consequently, it is tempting to believe that if you slap a SOAP/REST/JSON/etc., wrapper around all your enterprise systems, you will be able to cash in on the service-oriented ROI. The fact is, there are right ways and wrong ways to design a SOA. In this session, you will learn about SOA patterns for system integration, message brokering, and data management to name of few. SOA Quality of Service (QoS) and the top five SOA anti-patterns will also be discussed. |
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| SOA – Does the Shoe Fit? | ||||
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This session will discuss the feasibility of adopting SOA in an organization, and what needs to be in place in order to undertake a successful SOA implementation. The discussion will include applicability of SOA standards; incorporation of technologies such as BPM, business rules, integration software, and client technologies ranging from thin to rich to thick clients. Examples from the real world will be presented for undertaking successful SOA projects, including phases of adoption and organization and cultural changes that are needed to be successful. |
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| SOA and Rich Internet Applications (RIA) | ||||
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With the immediate need for exposing Web services from portals and Web applications, the various RIA (Rich Internet Application) development environments are proving to be rapid enablers. This session takes a look at AJAX techniques and Microsoft ASP.NET SharePoint Webparts that facilitate SOA enablement, and addresses key related issues - including security - that are inherently involved in these approaches. |
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Service-oriented architecture concepts have been around for a while and all of the benefits and promises it offers look good on paper. The complexity of implementing and deploying SOA in large enterprises is, however, often overlooked. The problems get further exacerbated when trying to migrate from existing monolithic Web applications and its infrastructure to a SOA model, rather than starting fresh from the ground up. In this session, after a brief recap of the SOA model and its benefits, some of the real challenges in moving to the SOA model in a large enterprise are discussed. These challenges are technical as well as operational. The session will then cover how we are addressing some of these challenges in building the SOA platform at eBay, without getting into eBay specifics. The session concludes with some key takeaway points to keep in mind when considering a SOA model. |
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| SOA Orchestration: Using BPEL to Power Your Composite Apps | ||||
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It’s time to get busy. With WS-BPEL 2.0, the SOA community now has a robust, pervasive orchestration standard. Using BPEL, it’s fast and easy to integrate service endpoints and deliver high-powered composite applications. Learn how organizations are putting BPEL to work to drive real value from their Web services and Web 2.0 development projects. This session will combine use cases, best practices, and a discussion of adjacent standards to provide a complete picture of the rapidly evolving SOA orchestration landscape. |
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SOA Power Panel: Service-oriented architecture is an old concept, with new technologies and strategies that take it out of the realm of technology and move it into the world of business processes. SOA is not free - it has costs and risks associated with it, but also provides great benefit when successfully deployed. Our SOA Power Panel will discuss measuring ROI, implementation strategies, security concerns, SOA Governance, and other key issues that determine the success or failure of an SOA implementation. |
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SOA Power Panel: Service-oriented architecture is an old concept, with new technologies and strategies that take it out of the realm of technology and move it into the world of business processes. SOA is not free - it has costs and risks associated with it, but also provides great benefit when successfully deployed. Our SOA Power Panel will discuss measuring ROI, implementation strategies, security concerns, SOA Governance, and other key issues that determine the success or failure of an SOA implementation. |
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SOA Power Panel: Service-oriented architecture is an old concept, with new technologies and strategies that take it out of the realm of technology and move it into the world of business processes. SOA is not free - it has costs and risks associated with it, but also provides great benefit when successfully deployed. Our SOA Power Panel will discuss measuring ROI, implementation strategies, security concerns, SOA Governance, and other key issues that determine the success or failure of an SOA implementation. |
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SOA Power Panel: Service-oriented architecture is an old concept, with new technologies and strategies that take it out of the realm of technology and move it into the world of business processes. SOA is not free - it has costs and risks associated with it, but also provides great benefit when successfully deployed. Our SOA Power Panel will discuss measuring ROI, implementation strategies, security concerns, SOA Governance, and other key issues that determine the success or failure of an SOA implementation. |
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SOA Power Panel: Service-oriented architecture is an old concept, with new technologies and strategies that take it out of the realm of technology and move it into the world of business processes. SOA is not free - it has costs and risks associated with it, but also provides great benefit when successfully deployed. Our SOA Power Panel will discuss measuring ROI, implementation strategies, security concerns, SOA Governance, and other key issues that determine the success or failure of an SOA implementation |
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| SOA Reality Check | ||||
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The landscape of Web Services, and the shape of the SOA Infrastructure is changing. Widespread adoption of SOA concepts has gripped the attention of IT organizations worldwide, causing most to charge headfirst into strategic architecture and planning efforts that will have their long reaching effects into the next few decades. Different standards, new technology, and performance and security requirements all have an influence on the outcome of these initiatives. This session will identify the current trends, capabilities and limitations of implementing an SOA, along with the best and worst practices learned from early adopters. |
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Java expert Mark Hansen provides a practical introduction to using Java Web services and AJAX to implement SOA. Mark covers creating, deploying, and invoking Web services that can be composed into loosely coupled SOA applications. He begins by reviewing the "big picture," including the challenges of Java-based SOA development. Next, he introduces the latest Java EE 5 Web services APIs and discusses how they work with AJAX. He concludes by showing how AJAX and Java Web services can be used to integrate Yahoo Shopping, eBay, and Amazon to create a universal shopping application. |
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When an enterprise starts moving in a SOA direction, probably the most important question is how to get buy-in from your business users, who most likely don't know what SOA is and could care less what technology IT uses to get them the data: just get the things done. Unless you work in a perfect enterprise, your business users are not too happy with time-to-market when it comes to deployment of new projects, ad hoc reports, and changes in the workflows. In this session Yakov Fain will show you how introducing Rich Internet Applications, married with rapid application development and online reporting created on the fly by your end users, can help your enterprise, your career, and SOA/RIA adoption in your organization. |
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| Social Networking for Service-Oriented Archictecture | ||||
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As organizations introduce service orientation as a computing theme formally supported through enterprise architecture, they are encountering several obstacles. Service orientation promotes the sharing of capabilities across traditional enterprise system, information, and application boundaries. In this session we will review how we can reduce friction and manage the organizational change associated with the introduction of an enterprise SOA program and the common governance models that are emerging. We will also discuss how the discipline of enterprise architecture governance is being applied to SOA and provide an overview of how governance automation systems are evolving to support the "socialization of service orientation" through an "early-cycle" governance model and "closed-loop" SOA infrastructure. |
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| Solving the Last Mile of SOA with Enterprise Web 2.0 | ||||
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Enterprises continue to look for return on investment of their service-orientated architectures, and it is Enterprise Web 2.0 that makes this possible by connecting the last mile of SOA to end-users. This is a win-win-win solution for the enterprise; where not only IT, and end-users benefit but businesses benefits as well, from increased ROI and enhanced use and IT productivity. The last mile of SOA needs to be bridged in order for IT to fully reap the benefits of their efforts by squeezing the last bit of ROI out of their infrastructure. To achieve this, IT needs to make SOA tangible to end-users, while maintaining enterprise control and reliability. This session will explore: Service Oriented Architectures: Meaningful to IT, Intangible to End-Users?, Rich Internet Applications: Meaningful to End-Users, Intangible to IT?, Enterprise Web 2.0: Meaningful to Both, Controlling the Desktop Environment, Good Communication is a Must for any Relationship,Ubiquitous Consumption of Services. Attendees of this session will be able to identify the best solution to meet their SOA needs. |
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| Speaking the Same SOA Language: OASIS Reference Model for SOA | ||||
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The Reference Model for SOA is an OASIS standard. It provides a vocabulary for service-oriented applications that allows people to achieve a common understanding when they talk about services. This talk will explain how to use the reference model in discussions with vendors, stakeholders, development staff, business analysts, and others who participate in the development of services. This will permit everyone to speak the same language when planning, architecting, developing, and using a SOA. |
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| Sustainable Innovation Through the Prism of Society - Humans Do Matter! | ||||
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Over the past half century, IT has provided enormous value as a tool for improving enterprise efficiency. This will continue to be an essential role for IT. However, IT will provide even greater value in the future by serving as a tool for enabling sustainable innovation within and across enterprises. To realize this vastly more ambitious objective, IT must embark on a transformational journey to harness and integrate the uniquely human aspects of innovation. This is where SOA and social computing, aka Web 2.0, take center stage. Service Orientation and SOA will provide the architectural foundation for sustainable service delivery while social computing will play a pivotal role in humanizing IT through consumer-led IT innovation. Unleashing the synergy between SOA and Web 2.0 will culminate in fueling the rise of the nascent “Consumerization of the Enterprise”. |
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| Techniques for Exploiting – and Protecting – Web Services | ||||
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The adoption of Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA) paradigms to perform more critical online transactions has resulted in the urgent need to audit and assess these applications for security vulnerabilities. Many enterprises are currently developing new Web Services and/or adding and acquiring Web services functionality into existing applications, and with cyber crime also on the rise, Web services security is more important than ever and businesses must incorporate security best practices into application development. In order for Web services to reach its full potential, inherent security issues must be recognized and addressed. This session will demonstrate common Web services vulnerabilities, techniques for exploiting and protecting Web services and the attacks that they can enable. Participants will learn, through an interactive demonstration, what vulnerability indicators hackers look for and the various methods used to exploit them. Due to the fact that enterprises continue the push to build and deploy Web services to meet future online security changes, the audience will learn how to discover vulnerabilities within their own Web services applications as well as tips and techniques for building and securing next-generation applications. |
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| Tenacious Defense: Security-Oriented Architectures | ||||
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Convincing stakeholders that security should be a central precept in SOA lifecycle processes can be challenging. It requires using working, hands-on examples to shatter preconceptions and then demonstrating effective, layered defenses to establish belief in the practices. Laying down defenses invariably costs development and runtime resources, often reducing flexibility in the name of protection. This is distasteful to many and counter to the principles of service-oriented architectures. Champions must be nurtured to carry the flag and apply a consistent measured approach to tenaciously defending vulnerable services. |
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| The 'A' in SOA Should Be AJAX | ||||
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‘Services’ are everywhere, from internally focused SOAs to public services from Federal Express, eBay, Amazon and Google. But there’s no ‘User’ in ‘SOA’. And delivering services to business users can get harder when enterprise application requirements for security and availability are added to the requirements list. AJAX (and Web 2.0 in general) represents a vast improvement of client applications in terms of usability. AJAX is the future of rich enterprise application development. Developers have the opportunity to deliver new, advanced methods for data manipulation and visualization. Most important, AJAX complements the loosely coupled nature of Services perfectly. AJAX can make the perfect delivery medium for services to business users, but this synergy requires a proper architecture. JackBe’s unique combination of AJAX and SOA expertise will help attendees understand the needs and solutions to create truly Enterprise AJAX solutions using AJAX and SOA. |
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| The Business Value of Bringing XBRL into the SOA Fold | ||||
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Users of financial data, including investors, analysts, financial institutions, and regulators, will learn how to receive, compare, and analyze data much more efficiently via the XBRL standard. A key component of the XBRL Solution is a visual mashup layer; the dynamic visual display and ease-of-use technology adds value by making it simpler for business users to digest complex data and pass it on in the same format. In this track, Hideki will further explain the importance of visualizing financial data and controlling the information channels with dynamic XBRL software. In addition, he will illustrate XBRL's value through case examples. He will show members how to easily manipulate financial data from the Internet and from legacy enterprise systems to bring that information into one browser where it will be viewed and reviewed under multiple lenses, bringing new information to light as different factors are added to the mix. |
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| The Business Value of Bringing XBRL into the SOA Fold | ||||
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Users of financial data, including investors, analysts, financial institutions, and regulators, will learn how to receive, compare, and analyze data much more efficiently via the XBRL standard. A key component of the XBRL Solution is a visual mashup layer: the dynamic visual display and ease-of-use technology adds value by making it simpler for business users to digest complex data and pass it on in the same format. In this track, Hideki will further explain the importance of visualizing financial data and controlling the information channels with dynamic XBRL software. In addition, he will illustrate XBRL's value through case examples. He will show members how to easily manipulate financial data from the Internet and from legacy enterprise systems to bring that information into one browser where it will be viewed and reviewed under multiple lenses, bringing new information to light as different factors are added to the mix. |
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| The Convergence of SaaS and Open Source: Enterprise Software's Emerging Business Model | ||||
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The two most powerful forces shaping enterprise software today are software as a service (SaaS) and open source software (OSS). Previously separate, they are now converging into a powerful "SaaS + OSS" model destined to become the dominant business model for enterprise software. Using case studies, the session will review how vendors can use this model to scale rapidly, use capital efficiently, and acquire customers for a low marginal cost. The presentation will also address how the model delivers unprecedented value to end-customers through lower total cost of ownership, higher quality, faster deployments, improved support, enhanced collaboration, and greater transparency. |
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While enterprise open source vendors continue to debate the definition of "open," customers are listening. Not because they care as much about what open source business model a particular vendor uses but because our debates give them reason to be confused and to consider the FUD that is pushed into the marketplace. The Open Solutions Alliance is a nonprofit vendor neutral organization that exists for one purpose: to address CIOs most pressing issue today - interoperability among open solutions. While the customers have been listening to us, the OSA has been listening very intently to them. This session will discuss what CIOs are looking for in open solutions vendors and how they expect it to be delivered based on real discussions and work sessions. |
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Corporations pour millions of dollars into IT systems, yet many are still plagued with lack of visibility into business processes and difficulty collaborating with partners in real-time. However, with three words, organizations can instantly obtain ROI and increase adaptability in constantly changing market conditions: track and trace. In this session, learn the ins and outs of track-and-trace technologies, how to use your SOA as a foundation for track-and-trace and how to create the ultimate collaborative business environment with the technology. Using real world cases, find out how enterprises overcome challenges in implementing track-and-trace to establish a flexible and scalable organization. |
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Companies are finding it increasingly difficult to manage their enterprise data centers. They’re highly complex, expensive to build out, and difficult to reconfigure. The net result is a high cost of ownership for a resource that is poorly positioned to meet the needs of businesses. Enter in server virtualization - the benefits of which are well documented, but there has been poor adoption to date due to cost and complexity. This session will explore the latest industry standards and open source technologies that are helping to open up the benefits of virtualization to a new segment of the market - enabling users to expand their virtualization initiatives. |
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| The New SOA Synergy: How Runtime Governance, Triage, and Security Must Work Together | ||||
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The success of any SOA project requires that one must gain an understanding of the true nature, performance characteristics, and availability of the business transactions that flow in real time through these highly distributed services and their supporting IT infrastructure. Taking an architectural approach, this session will discuss the requirements for runtime governance in such an environment and the affect that these requirements will have on security. For example, SOA services can be vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks and other problems resulting in costly service-level failures. Only the synergy of transaction-oriented operational and security management can achieve visibility into such problems before they grow serious. This session will discuss best practices so that you can be prepared to deliver verifiably reliable and successful services, and effectively triage SOA business-transaction failures and risks in real time. |
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With mounting pressure to decrease data center costs while staying on top of IT infrastructure, enterprises are pitted with the challenge to optimize their data centers. To meet this challenge, many are embracing virtualization. While this provides answers to IT managers’ challenges, mapping out a methodical approach with complete analysis and evaluation of all opportunities is critical. Participants will learn: 1. Key considerations in planning for a more virtualized data center; 2. What are unexpected costs and complexities moving to virtualized environments? 3. How does virtualization impact compliance? 4. What should you be thinking about prior to making the plunge? |
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| The Proper Design of Interoperability Solutions | ||||
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The release of Microsoft's Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) together with the evolution of the J2EE Web Services platforms are some of the factors that have significantly increased the software architect's options for Web services interoperability scenarios. Although interoperability is just one facet in the SOA proposition, it is one that has become more complex due mainly to the proliferation of WS-* standards, as well as the evolution of the core Web sServices standards of SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, etc. Today, ensuring interoperability between the dozen or so available Web services platforms, e.g., WCF, Oracle, BEA, IBM, Sun Microsystems, HP-Systinet, and WS02, requires that you carefully address issues such as version compatibility as well as the proper design of service, data, and message contracts. When you factor in the first implementations of J2EE's Software Component Architecture (SCA) and Java Business Integration (JBI) standards, Web service platform interoperability becomes one of the most interesting challenges in the software architect's horizon. The session will also present best practices, patterns, and techniques for proper design of interoperability solutions between the different Web services platforms implemented by Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, HP-Systinet, Sun Microsystems, BEA, and WS02. The demonstrations will illustrate a set of multi-service, multi-vendor scenarios using a variety of WS-* protocols like WS-Security, WS-SecureConversation, WS-Addressing, WS-ReliableMessaging, and MTOM. |
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The releases of Microsoft's Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) together with the evolution of the J2EE Web services platforms are some of the factors that have significantly increased the software architect's options for Web services interoperability scenarios. Although interoperability is just one facet in the SOA proposition, it is one that has become more complex due mainly to the proliferation of WS-* standards, as well as the evolution of the core Web services standards of SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, etc. Today, ensuring interoperability between the dozen or so available Web services platforms, e.g., WCF, Oracle, BEA, IBM, Sun Microsystems, HP-Systinet and WS02, requires that you carefully address issues such as version compatibility as well as the proper design of service, data, and message contracts. When you factor in the first implementations of J2EE's Software Component Architecture (SCA) and Java Business Integration (JBI) standards, Web service platform interoperability becomes one the most interesting challenges in the software architect's horizon. The session will also present best practices, patterns and techniques for proper design of interoperability solutions between the different Web services platforms implemented by Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, HP-Systinet, Sun Microsystems, BEA, and WS02. |
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| The Real Deal: Comparing & Contrasting Interoperability Standards and Trends | ||||
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The integration approaches of today's content management systems, where solutions are individually programmed against each of the proprietary APIs, cannot scale and the Enterprise Content management (ECM) industry is answering that call through the development of standardized programming interfaces for ECM systems. In this session, attendees will review the resulting initiative to produce a Web services-based standard for ECM and develop a better understanding of both existing and developing standards including XML, BPEL, JCR (JSR-170), XForms, and XML Schema. Attendees will also analyze and discern the suitability of each standard to various deployment architectures and problem domains. |
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| The Transformation of the Software Industry | ||||
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In the mid-1990's, just before the dot-com boom and the growth of the Internet as a platform, virtually all software used by companies and individual consumers was packaged and commercially licensed. In the meantime, we have seen the dot-com boom and subsequent bust, consolidation of packaged software vendors, major advances in software technology, a new wave of technology startups, and a "flattening" of the world. These developments have led to the rise of Software as a Service and open source software, as well as new business models for software companies, and the emergence of new companies based on those concepts. This talk gives an overview of these developments, including their implications for software companies and users, along with some speculation about what's ahead. |
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| Troubleshooting SOA, Web Services and J2EE Source Software Stacks | ||||
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Applications continue to become more on-demand and application environments continue to grow in complexity and scale. Real-time troubleshooting is now a requirement for every application administrator, developer, and support person. How can developers, data center professionals, and support staff understand what's happening with their distributed applications and troubleshoot problems more effectively? This session will highlight the challenges of troubleshooting modern application environments. We'll examine tools and techniques and provide practical advice through real-world troubleshooting examples. Attendees will learn more effective approaches to common and complex problem identification, analysis, and resolution. |
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| Virtualization Leverages Enterprise SOA | ||||
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Virtualization helps to run SAP solutions with more flexibility and lower TCO. SAP is working with a variety of different partners to offer optimal integration of virtualization products, technologies and concepts with enterprise SOA and SAP NetWeaver. You will learn how a virtualized enterprise SOA looks and how IT business cases can be optimized by using virtualization technologies. |
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Virtualization is fast becoming a key requirement for every server in the data center, enabling workloads such as server consolidation, efficient software development and testing, resource management for dynamic data centers, application re-hosting and compatibility, and high-availability partitions. The Virtualization Power Panel will discuss all the latest issues and implementation strategies for Virtualization technologies. |
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Virtualization is fast becoming a key requirement for every server in the data center, enabling workloads such as server consolidation, efficient software development and testing, resource management for dynamic data centers, application re-hosting and compatibility, and high-availability partitions. The Virtualization Power Panel will discuss all the latest issues and implementation strategies for Virtualization technologies. |
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Virtualization is fast becoming a key requirement for every server in the data center, enabling workloads such as server consolidation, efficient software development and testing, resource management for dynamic data centers, application re-hosting and compatibility, and high-availability partitions. The Virtualization Power Panel will discuss all the latest issues and implementation strategies for Virtualization technologies. |
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| Virtualization: State of the Union | ||||
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Watching virtualization industry's evolution since 2003 with its blog virtualization.info, Alessandro Perilli will report on today's market status, highlighting tough challenges in technology adoption, and on tomorrow's trends, providing insight on directions vendors are taking for the near-term future. This session will include a Q&A about the industry, its players, and is highly recommended for both virtualization newcomers and experienced adopters. |
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| VM Ware and Storage Virtualization – A Comprehensive Approach to Manage, Allocate, and Protect Virtual (VMware) Data | ||||
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In light of today’s explosive IT infrastructure growth and complexity, organizations are increasingly adopting virtualization as a means of consolidating IT resources, simplifying management, and minimizing overhead. One of the most complex issues facing VMware users trying to fully capitalize on virtualization is managing, allocating, and protecting virtual data as they would actual data. Chris will discuss a three-pronged approach to tackling issues around virtual data in VMWare. He will provide insight on how to create a single, integrated, comprehensive and centralized interface for administering VMware data through a virtual storage infrastructure that complements VMware virtualization technology. |
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| Wake Up to the Power of ActiveBPEL: The Foundation You Need for Standards-based Orchestration and Workflow | ||||
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You’ve heard about WS-BPEL 2.0 and the value that it adds to your SOA foundation. But what tools are out there to make this a reality? Come learn about the market-leading ActiveBPEL Designer and how to leverage its productivity features to build complex, robust service orchestrations. It works for processes that are entirely automated, include people, or require a mix of both. |
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| Web 2.0: The Rise and Fall of the User Experience | ||||
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The Web was a 20-year setback for user experience. Only now are technologies and products emerging that can bring us the interactivity we traded away for access to distributed information when the Web took over. This session will present the possibilities for a highly interactive user experience, including industry best practices and war stories from the career of the speaker. In particular, he will review Web 2.0 technologies as well as the new capabilities of Microsoft's Vista operating system. |
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| 'Web 2.0'? – It's the Universal SOA | ||||
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In this session we’ll talk about the notion of the Universal SOA, and how to prepare your SOA to see the outside world, and the emerging Web. It's clear that many of the services we consume and manage going forward will be services that exist outside of the enterprise, such as subscription services from guys like Salesforce.com, or perhaps emerging Web services marketplaces. This is "outside-in" SOA, in essence reusing service in an enterprise not created by that enterprise, much as we do today with information on the Web. Thus, those services outside of the enterprise existing on the Internet create a "Universal SOA" - ready to connect to your enterprise SOA, perhaps providing more value. This is nothing new, by the way; we've been talking Universal SOA for some time now, at least the notion, and we are just seeing bits and pieces appearing today. |
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| Web 2.0's Impact on Business: The Consumerization of Enterprise IT | ||||
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This is happening right now in many organizations and it extends beyond the introduction of collaboration technologies, such as wikis and blogs, to the next level of workplace interactions. Business – New software products will allow information workers to freely mix application data with publicly available Web content, in a variety of convenient formats. People – Employees, led by a new wave of Generation Y-ers entering the workforce, will forever change the way people interact with enterprise applications and information systems. Technology – Popular Web 2.0 data delivery and sharing technologies, like RSS/ATOM, AJAX, personalized homepages, tagging and social bookmarking, are open and inherently insecure. |
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| webMethods/Software AG Customer – SOA at National Bank of Canada | ||||
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Discover how a webMethods’ customer, the National Bank of Canada (NBC), revitalized its SOA adoption strategy by taking a design-for-change approach. NBC’s approach identified service requirements to address business needs. As a result, NBC has developed services that support an agile and flexible IT architecture that can now keep pace with the speed of business. By using an iterative approach to services development, NBC has implemented a strategy that incorporates BPM, quality assurance using a SOA testing strategy, change-time management for service versioning using policies, and a registry and repository as a centerpiece for lifecycle governance. |
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| WebSphere Process Server Drives End-to-End SOA: Integration for a Real-World Application | ||||
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This presentation will demonstrate a fully integrated and secured service-oriented architecture (SOA) using WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere ESB, WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere MQ, Workplace Forms, WebSphere Portal and Tivoli Access Manager - all integrated together. We will explain the various technical challenges, integration points, and implementation details of the project. Our “Consumer Bank Account Opening Framework,” a real-world application for financial organizations, will be showcased; this includes complex forms processing, workflow, and human tasks. This session is designed to not only expand your technical knowledge of key emerging technologies but you will also learn how to leverage these technologies for industry. |
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| Wikis and the Lightweight Software Movement | ||||
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Everyone is talking about the popularity of wikis, and why they are great for collaborating. While wikis are great for collaboration and knowledge sharing, they are popular for another reason that's discussed less frequently: wikis represent a new movement in software called “lightweight software.” What do we mean by lightweight software and what is significant about this movement? This movement has produced two clear killer apps: blogs and wikis. Blogs can claim killer app status by their simple pervasiveness across the Internet, but are wikis really a killer app and why? Wikis and the movement in lightweight software are gaining ground with customers not just because they are useful but also because they offer customers a different way of buying software. Customers want a different software experience both in the product and from software companies. What do these new business models look like, and what’s in it for the customer? |
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| WorkSpace Services: Creating, Orchestrating and Using | ||||
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Stay Tuned for Additional Sessions Shortly!