Webinars

May 6, 2008

Visibility and Tracking for Critical Applications — Optimize Application Performance and Increase Revenue
Speaker: Julianna Cammarano, Sr. Product Marketing Mgr, Progress Software

Optimal performance is a number one requirement for mission-critical applications in today’s tough competitive landscape. For example, in an order-entry system or on-line booking application, performance issues or failure can quickly translate to lost business. As enterprises increase their level of SOA adoption and incorporate mission-critical applications into the portfolio of systems being serviced by this infrastructure, the quality of service delivered becomes paramount.

Fortunately, you can now control and ensure QoS--by applying Web services and SOA management. This can provide end-to-end visibility into the QoS you're delivering to customers--enabling you to measure, control and secure all the moving parts that your mission-critical applications depend on. In fact, technology can now support business goals by delivering the precise level of performance to customers, partners and business stakeholders you've agreed on.

Register for this webinar and learn:

• How companies are using SOA management to support mission-critical applications
• How you can achieve end-to-end visibility above and beyond monitoring Web services
• How you can measure and control the customer experience
• How you can create SLAs and alerts that align with business requirements and revenue streams
• How you can dynamically optimize application service delivery to protect your business from potential application issues

April 29, 2008

1+1=3: Marrying Best-of-Breed Tools for Business Process Governance
Speakers: Marc Smith, Director of Product Marketing, Lombardi Software, and David Bressler, Actional Product Evangelist, Progress Software

Communication is the basis of any successful relationship, including that between business people and technologists. Bringing together BPM and SOA Governance enables business drivers to be translated quickly to SOA implementation, with full accountability, lower cost of ownership, and business-level SOA optimization. Register today for this online event.

April 22, 2008

The Risks, Strategies and PayOff: SOA Runtime Governance
Speaker: Dan Foody, VP of Actional Products, Progress Software

Cut through all of the confusion around SOA governance to learn the ins-and-outs of the two key aspects of SOA runtime governance: visibility and policy enforcement. Hear the challenges and strategies for addressing them. By learning how SOA runtime governance can directly impact your business, you will have the key information needed to build a business case to justify the investment in SOA solutions.

Register for this archived webinar and hear about:

• Key challenges that drive the need for better visibility
• Components of end-to-end SOA governance
• Common pitfalls of manual governance approval processes
• Using visibility to move from being the problem to being the solution
• Key challenges that drive the need for more effective policy enforcement
• Understanding and controlling the cost of security and compliance
• What they don't tell you in vendor sales pitches...

April 17, 2008

ESB Lessons Learned

Listen as Larry Fulton, Sr. Analyst at Forrester Research, Inc., and David White, Sr. Product Marketing Manager for Progress Sonic, discuss key insights on ESB adoption led by today's business-driven agility model. Learn how to run a successful pilot project and how to build and gain wider adoption in the business community. You'll also hear about key challenges and critical factors to achieve successful adoption, and hear real-world examples of best practices by leading Progress customers running successful SOA and ESB implementations today.

April 10, 2008

What's New in Progress Sonic 7.6

Listen to David Millman, Kimberly Palko and Wayne Lockhart from Progress Sonic as they explore the exciting new capabilities of Sonic 7.6. In this archived webinar, you'll learn about increased developer productivity with Sonic ESB enhancements and an improved workbench interface, sample tutorials for "batch to real time" and "remote information access" use cases, Actional integration with SonicMQ and improved instrumentation of BPEL and ESB, and improved adapter and client support—including the addition of a JCA adapter for BEA WebLogic.

March 18, 2008

Socially Oriented Architecture: Technical Opportunities, Social Challenges

Are you finding it difficult to align your SOA across your extended enterprise?

Join Hub Vandervoort, CTO of Progress Software, for an exclusive Webinar focused on achieving a successful SOA federation—technically and socially.

As discussed in Hub’s eBook, "Socially Oriented Architecture", SOA is expanding the management challenges for IT executives as they try to build applications for their different constituents–using a federated multi-party approach for all interactions. Hub will share the three critical factors that will determine the success of an SOA initiative: free connection of interactions, active mediation of policy, and precise control of semantics. And he will share success stories of how organizations who are focusing on the social challenges are gaining SOA success.

March 13, 2008

Best Practices in Designing for Scalability with Sonic ESB

One of SOA's promises is to enable highly scalable, distributed applications. But, how do you make the promise real for your organization? Replay this webinar and hear how hundreds of customers have benefited from Sonic ESB's out-of-the-box scalability for their mission-critical SOA projects. Gain insight into best practices for ESB implementations that must span system and divisional boundaries seamlessly.

During this archived webinar you will learn:

• The key design principles of Sonic ESB that enable painless scalability.
• Best practices for the distributed deployment and execution of independently scalable integration services.
• Real-world case studies of mission-critical ESBs in action.

February 20, 2008

Oppenheimerfunds Learns the Right Way to Invest in SOA

Listen to this webinar and learn why Oppenheimerfunds chose Progress Software as the foundation of their service-oriented architecture. Hear how their SOA is bringing them the agility required to keep pace in their highly competitive industry.

Listen as key people from the Oppenheimer team reveal:

• Why they adopted a SOA strategy
• How they developed their first SOA application, contact information update, using Sonic ESB; and how they chose their subsequent projects
• Best practices for SOA development and deployment gained from their experience

October 24, 2007

Extreme Transaction Processing: Electronic trading at NYMEX

How did NYMEX drive 10x growth in their enterprise messaging throughput? They deployed a SonicMQ enterprise messaging infrastructure. With future growth threatened by the limitations of their existing messaging infrastructure, it was time to trade up. Listen as Mark Francetic, Vice President of Software Development at NYMEX, explains how they used SonicMQ to increase messaging capacity ten-fold - with zero message loss and high availability.

October 11, 2007

Improving Development and Integration Agility

True IT responsiveness comes from the ability to develop and integrate solutions that meet current business needs. Listen as industry leaders Progress and Lombardi discuss the benefits of using best-in-class BPM and event-driven SOA technologies to reduce application development cost and maintain flexibility for change. Whether you’re a business analyst, developer or integration architect, having the right SOA infrastructure to support your initiatives is critical. Replay this webinar and hear how technology partners Progress and Lombardi are delivering customer success by uniting BPM with an ESB.

September 12, 2007

SOA and Web Service Management
Why Planning Now Is Vital for Success

As organizations frame their strategies, a key measure of success is how well critical applications - from online sales to call center applications - are being served. To ensure success, complete visibility and tracking service interactions to meet SLA's are required. Monitoring transactions in real-time provides visibility into who is experiencing problems, the type and magnitude of problems, and the business transaction impacted. Setting up these fundamental management principles enables the organization to take action before the business is affected, before the SLA is violated and before you've lost control!

June 28, 2007

SaaS Architecture for Extreme Agility and Scalability

How does Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) prevent $1 billion in fraud annually? The answer is, a SaaS Architecture.

When you provide software, processing and fraud prevention services to 7,800 global financial institutions and 47,000 retailers, you learn a thing or two about SOA flexibility and scalability. Listen as Progress Sonic ESB customer, Ron A. Whyte, VP Risk Technology at Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), and Progress CTO Hub Vandervoort discuss FIS' business and the SaaS architecture they built to meet varied and fast-growing client needs.

June 27, 2007

Socially Oriented Architecture Introduction
A world where architecture and infrastructure enable dynamic execution of business.

Hub Vandervoort, CTO of the Enterprise Infrastructure Division of Progress Software, discusses the social impact of SOA on IT culture. SOA is expanding the management challenges for IT executives as they try to build applications for their different constituents – using a federated multi-party approach for all interactions. If you’re delivering software on a scheduled release basis or trying to manage SOA governance in a top-down command and control fashion, stop and listen to this 30 minute analysis of the social implications of SOA on IT management thinking.

June 27, 2007

How to Optimize SOA to Better Serve Your Business Goals

Listen as guest speaker Sandy Rogers from IDC and Dan Foody from the Progress Actional team discuss the critical steps necessary to ensure that your most vital business concerns-- your enterprise and its customers, channels, and partners-- will get the best service, resulting in a true competitive edge.

June 6, 2007

SOA Security and Compliance: How to Avoid the Risks

If your business has substantial security or regulatory compliance requirements, chances are you have concerns about enforcing appropriate measures, while keeping overhead and costs to a minimum. Ensuring security and compliance won't bring in additional revenue, but failure to enforce such measures can result in substantial risk and cost. Join Progress Actional and Partners HealthCare for this webinar and learn how a decoupled approach to service development and centralized security management can help you manage the risk across your enterprise SOA.

May 16, 2007

Operating your SOA-Are you up to the challenge?

Join Progress Actional's Mike Gero and David Schwartz from University of Phoenix as they discuss fundamental SOA management principles that help enterprises recognize the full potential of an SOA with end-to-end visibility that quickly translates into more efficient and cost-effective SOA operations. Highlights include service governance through automatic discovery of services and dependencies, increased IT efficiency through root cause analysis and enterprise scalability and high performance without increased costs.

May 15, 2007

Faster SOA Integration with Progress Sonic ESB

Despite SOA's mission to break down the barriers between silos of legacy and packaged applications, too often SOA projects bog down when SOA development needs to cross application boundaries.

Listen to this webinar and learn:

• How you can use the new Sonic BPEL Server for fast, sophisticated, standards-based service orchestration, not only of Web services.
• How you can tackle the problem of point-to-point transformations with new common data model lifecycle management, transformation and validation capabilities.
• We will demonstrate how the Eclipse-based Sonic Workbench distributed debugger gives you the visibility and control you expect from BPEL.

Learn more about Sonic BPEL Server.

March 28, 2007

Advanced Portal Integration with an ESB

How can you share critical information across multiple channels without compromising privacy or organizational autonomy?

Today's portals make it easy to connect locally provisioned databases and Web services. But integration challenges mount when back-end resources run in another data center or remote site.

Listen to our archived webinar and hear Marullus Williams, President and CEO of Limbic Systems, discuss implementation best practices for portal integration in government projects.

February 27, 2007

Jumpstarting SOA in Your SAP Environment

Join SAP consultant and author Scott Campbell of MomentumSI and Progress Software's Mike Gero as they discuss the advantages of SAP's enterprise SOA approach, steps to effective SOA adoption, how to quickly integrate with various SOA standards, how to secure, manage, govern and enforce policies around non-SAP applications and services, and how to avoid rogue services and clients from entering your enterprise SOA landscape.

This presentation will provide pragmatic recommendations and best practices for balancing your approach to SOA and enterprise SOA.

February 22, 2007

Drive Operational Excellence with SOA

Everybody knows batch transfers and manual intervention cost the business time and reduce its operational efficiency. Call it what you will—straight-through-processing (STP) in financial services, just-in-time (JIT) inventory management in manufacturing, or self-service provisioning in telecommunications—the drive for operational excellence makes legacy batch and manual processing a target for modernization across every industry today.

In this webinar you will hear from Progress and its customer Laurent Blain of Pacific Blue Cross to learn how using a leave-and-layer approach with an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) can help you quickly meet your SOA goals.

November 16, 2006

Six Critical Factors When Embedding a Messaging System

For most packaged applications and hardware systems, failure is not an option. Lost messages, service delays, and incomplete transactions lead to high support costs, SLA fees and possible legal action by your end users. Meet your customers demanding requirements by embedding the most robust and resilient standards-based enterprise messaging system.

Attend this webinar to learn:

• How you can increase the performance, reliability and availability of your application
• Six important considerations when embedding message-oriented middleware (MOM)
• Why Charles River Development selected SonicMQ Continuous Availability Architecture after reviewing all major providers in this software category

Featured Speakers:
David Chappell, Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist and Rajeev Kotyan, Product Manager from Charles River Development

November 2, 2006

SOA Worst Practices: How to Secure the Health of Your SOA from the Start

Join Mike Gero, Director, Product Management, Progress Software and Alex Rosen, SOA Practice Manager, MomentumSI on November 2 to discover the secrets of SOA success. Don't fall victim to common SOA mistakes: learn from the dubious design, development
and deployment practices of some not-so-fortunate IT organizations.

September 26, 2006

Faster SOA Development with Sonic ESB 7

Fast and agile system delivery is the SOA vision. The challenge is to make it real.

Despite SOA's mission to break down the silos created by monolithic architectures, most SOA-enablement products are still stuck in the world of silos. That's because they are limited to small-scale projects where everything is built by one team and runs in one place.

Moreover, too often SOA business process modeling gets bogged down with technical implementation details. Time is wasted flipping from tool to tool and in low-level coding; and testing and debugging—hard enough in prototype projects—is near impossible in a live, distributed SOA environment.

In this webinar, you will learn how you can accelerate turnaround on the complete ESB development lifecycle. With advanced SOA infrastructure and an integrated Eclipse-based SOA toolset, we will address the real-world challenges of SOA that users confront once they move into large-scale, widely distributed deployments.

We will demonstrate how Sonic ESB 7 literally brings distributed SOA development to the desktop. Find out how you can rapidly configure, test and debug processes and services locally, and then run them live in the network using real-time tracking and step-through debugging tools.

Don't miss this opportunity to find out more.

July 11, 2006

Modernize Batch and ETL Processes with an ESB

Overnight batch processing of files is as old as IT itself. However, with data volumes increasing, batch windows decreasing and ETL systems becoming a bottleneck, this tried and true method of running IT processes in support of the business is becoming a problem for everyone.

Besides the brittleness of these processing methods, there are business errors and costs incurred when making decisions based on out-of-date information; like yesterday's prices and last week's inventory.

From an operational perspective, there are growing costs for finding and fixing failed transfers and incomplete imports, including the extremely painful act of reversing errors caused by such failures.

You will learn:

• How you can modernize your batch and ETL systems using an ESB, enabling IT to respond faster to business requests for change.
• How new drag and drop tools allow you to model, configure, test and deploy multi-step distributed file processes.
• How the Sonic Management Framework provides the visibility and control needed to support both operations and business users in their daily management activities.

Featured Speakers:
Jon Bachman, Sr. Director of Product Marketing and Dmitry Lelchuk, Principal Architect for Financial Services

June 28, 2006

SOA Governance: Where the Rubber Meets the Runtime

Now that the enterprise has embraced service-oriented architecture (SOA), how do you keep track of what's really happening?

Runtime governance is typically focused on monitoring, securing, and controlling registered services. But you need to manage the entire runtime environment – whether documented or not.

Learn how leading organizations have evolved to "expect the unexpected" in their SOA production environments.

Join Sonic for this discussion on runtime governance and ask yourself:

• Do you really know how your services are being re-used in your runtime environment?
• Do you know the impact that rogue service usage has on your SLAs and service versioning?
• Can you assess and mitigate the risks of ungoverned, rogue services in your production environment?
• Can you control unintended service re-use through process-aware security?

Featured Speakers:
Gordon Van Huizen, VP of Sonic and Actional Products & Mike Gero, Director, Product Management, Actional Products

May 3, 2006

SOA – Now!
Part 2: Analysis of Implementation Methodologies and the Sonic Technology
This webinar is presented in Italian

In the second of this 3-part series, we describe how to get business value out of a SOA strategy by enabling true service-oriented architectures using Sonic technologies.

Fare SOA da Subito
Parte 2: Analisi di Dettaglio Sulle Tecnologie e Sulle Metodologie di Implementazione di SOA
Questo webinar si propone di analizzare in maniera operativa gli aspetti legati a:

• definizione ed elementi costituenti Sonic ESB
• connessione alle applicazioni di business: dalle tecnologie legacy o mainframe agli ýopen standardý
• tecniche di mediazione, controllo e orchestrazione dei servizi
• il Complex Event Processing: oltre il Business Process Management
• il Business Process Visibility: non solo Web Service management
• esempi pratici

In particolare questo webinar esplora in dettaglio le caratteristiche dell'Enterprise Service Bus ed i sui componenti quali, per citarne alcuni, i Service Container e il backbone di messaggistica in alta affidabilità, gli adapters e i bridge di messaggistica, l'orchestration server e il collaboration server per il B2B.

April 25, 2006

First Look: SonicMQ Release 7.0

View this archive to learn how SonicMQ 7.0 has been enhanced and how it will continue to power thousands of applications across the world.

Learn all that SonicMQ 7.0 has to offer:

• Increased message throughput of Sonic Continuous Availability Architecture through non-persistent replicated delivery.
• Easier management with shared durable subscriptions.
• Increased productivity by publishing or subscribing to many topics with one call.
• Enhanced application security with expanded firewall and proxy server support.
• An Event Monitor that can output thresholds and alerts to email and beepers and easily integrate SonicMQ with traditional systems management tools like IBM Tivoli and HP OpenView.

Featured Speakers:
Jon Bachman, Sr. Director of Product Marketing & Hub Vandervoort, VP of North American Sales

April 11, 2006

SOA – Now!
Part 1: SOA - The Strategy: Risk and Opportunity
This webinar is presented in Italian

In the first session of this 3-part series, we describe expected benefits and value on the "path to SOA" as well as the risks and costs of this strategy. We demonstrate how to start doing SOA in the short term, how to perform runtime governance of your "as-is" architecture, and how to evolve to higher levels of SOA maturity.

Fare SOA da Subito
Parte 1: La Strategia SOA: Rischi ed Opportunità
Analisi critica sulle SOA: perché conviene ma quali sono le criticità da sapere.
In particolare questo webinar introduce i principi fondamentali delle architetture orientate ai servizi e costituisce la base per una discussione più ampia sull' infrastruttura tecnologica e gli aspetti di sviluppo ed implementazione.

March 30, 2006

First Look: Sonic ESB Release 7.0

Now, Sonic ESB 7.0 brings new levels of convenience and productivity to ESB projects, leveraging an Eclipse environment to make it easy to develop and deploy wide-area SOA using advance Web services. Don't miss this first look at the Sonic Release 7.0, including:

• A demonstration of the new Eclipse-based tooling
• Advanced Web services support
• And performance benefits of the new "fast-forward" Continuous Availability Architecture

Featured Speakers:
Jon Bachman, Sr. Director of Product Marketing & Hub Vandervoort, VP of North American Sales

March 21, 2006

Implementing a Successful SOA Pilot Program

Service-oriented architecture is not easy to do right: IT teams must overcome technical, organizational, political and other hurdles on the path to SOA nirvana. Actional and key partners share their real-world experience to help you avoid the most common pains associated with implementing SOA for the first time.

March 15, 2006

Next Generation SOA Management:
Introducing Business Process Visibility for SOA

Join Actional to learn how the next generation of SOA management will connect technology and business views of your operational environment.

Actional 6.0 is the first SOA management platform that allows you to manage your SOA from a business perspective. Actional 6.0 introduces Business Process Visibility™ (BPV), providing IT and business users' process-centric visibility and governance. With BPV, you can:

• Automatically discover "process flow maps" by observing real business transactions
• Easily correlate infrastructure and business views of a process
• Author, apply, and enforce process-level policy

Featured Speakers:
Dan Foody, CTO, Actional and David Gehringer, VP of Product Marketing, Actional

February 16, 2006

Building an SOA Roadmap in State & Local Government

Over the years, state and local agencies have selected or built applications tailored to meet functional or departmental requirements. While highly effective in this context, they are often unable to serve the state's need to develop cross-agency business processes which require operational automation or visibility beyond single agency boundaries.

Attend this webinar and learn how state and local agencies have successfully implemented Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). You will hear from Steve Smith, CIO Tarrant County, Texas on their use of SOA to integrate their Jail Management System, which links workflow across police, court, Sheriff, and District Attorney's offices.

Featured Speaker:
Hub Vandervoort, CTO, Sonic Software and Steve Smith, CIO Tarrant County, Texas

February 9, 2006

Building an SOA Roadmap in the Federal Government

For many years, government information technology has been managed by individual agencies to the specific goals of federal funding streams, and agencies' desires for autonomy, flexibility and security.

This Webinar, which is co-sponsored by immixTechnology, will demonstrate how federal agencies have successfully implemented Service-Oriented Architecture to share critical information across agencies, realize reduced costs and automate manual processes, rapidly complying with Homeland Security. An introduction of "The New SOA Maturity Model" will also be included helping you to assess your staff, manage projects and set the vision for corporate SOA adoption.

Speaker: Jonathan A. Bachman, Director of Product Marketing

January 24, 2006

Setting the Standard: A Formal Definition of the Enterprise Service Bus

While the enterprise service bus (ESB) has been called out as "core" to deploying SOA, the debate continues on what an ESB is and exactly how its architecture provides rapid response to business demands. In this presentation, Sonic Software will present a formal definition of ESB using industry standard notation, and share - through a number of customer examples - why it should be at the core of your SOA.

Speaker: Jonathan A. Bachman, Director of Product Marketing

November 3, 2005

How SOA Can Drive Business Results

In the second session of this two-part series, learn how Collins Stuart Tullett, H&R Block and Systinet customer Motorola are employing SOA today for real-world business benefits. Emphasis will be placed on the enabling technologies which comprise SOA infrastructure, SOA management and SOA governance, and how these support advancing SOA maturity.

After this two-part series, you will have the tools you need to assess your SOA maturity and will have heard success stories on how SOA is delivering real business value today.

November 1, 2005

The Roadmap to SOA Maturity

In the first session of a two-part series, Forrester analyst Randy Heffner will share his research on how SOA is delivering real-world business value. He will also demonstrate how the barriers to entry are low, allowing you to start today and evolve to higher levels of SOA maturity.

Following Randy will be the public introduction of "A New SOA Maturity Model" – an initiative sponsored by SOA experts at Sonic, Systinet, AmberPoint and BearingPoint. The new model provides a tool to help you assess your staff, manage projects and set the vision for corporate SOA adoption.

July 27, 2005

OSS/J Discovery API: Dramatically Reduce the Cost of Deploying Network-wide OSS/BSS Software Solutions

Get an in-depth, up-to-date overview of the OSS through™ Java Initiative (OSS/J) Discovery API - a way to end the integration nightmare by cost-effectively enabling network discovery applications to be developed and integrated with other OSS/J-enabled applications.

The Discovery API provides an access point for configuration and management of discovery applications providing the means for the production of discovery files and discovery events related to the discovery job lifecycle.

OSS/J has been at the forefront of defining, in an open standard fashion, OSS-specific APIs and design guidelines for mainstream technologies such as J2EE and XML. This work is based in part on the TeleManagement Forum's New Generation OSS (NGOSS) shared Information/Data (SID) Model and represents an implementation view of the NGOSS architecture.

Speaker: Sergio Pellizzari of Nakina Systems

May 18, 2005

ESB Meets the Business Service Registry: Maximizing SOA Agility and Reuse
Presented by Sonic Software and Systinet

In a SOA world, how do you connect, mediate and control services and their interaction? How do you govern services that are scattered across your distributed enterprise? This webinar will provide insights into how to use an ESB and a Business Service Registry together to build, operate and control a growing SOA strategy with optimum service reuse.

May 11, 2005

OSS/J Pricing API: Quickly and Seamlessly Integrate Pricing Capabilities into Your OSS

This informative seminar will explain how the OSS through™ Java Initiative (OSS/J) Pricing API can reduce implementation times, and lower integration and maintenance costs. The OSS/J Pricing API acts as a standard for defining and using complex pricing data and business rules to address usage-based business model needs for the telecommunications, entertainment and utility industries.

The Pricing API provides a central point to consult and determine offers and prices based on a variety of criteria, including the specific customer's profile, location, current promotions, other parties in the transactions, factors unique to the request, and any other set of complex, possibly inter-related points.

OSS/J has been at the forefront of defining, in an open standard fashion, OSS-specific APIs and design guidelines for mainstream technologies such as J2EE and XML. This work is based in part on the TeleManagement Forum's New Generation OSS (NGOSS) shared Information/Data (SID) Model and represents an implementation view of the NGOSS architecture

Speaker: David McNierney of Highdeal and Gabriella Chiribau of Covad Communications

May 4, 2005

The Great Debate: ESBs, Fabrics, or Something Else?
Presented by ZapThink, Sonic Software and Blue Titan

Listen to ZapThink analysts Jason Bloomberg and Ronald Schmelzer talk about The Emerging Infrastructural Patterns for SOA Implementation and discuss with experts from Sonic Software and Blue Titan the technologies, infrastructural changes and approaches that companies are looking at to make SOA a reality.

April 6, 2005

OSS/J Web Services Strategy: Patterns and Best Practices to Successfully Deploy Web Services within your OSS

Get an in-depth, up-to-date overview of the OSS through Java Initiative (OSS/J) web service strategy-a way to end the integration nightmare by cost-effectively integrating OSS/BSS with systems supporting new products and services.

The OSS through Java Initiative has been in the forefront of defining, in an open standard fashion, OSS-specific APIs and design guidelines for mainstream technologies such as J2EE and XML. These patterns are directly applicable to the web services domain and offer an ideal framework to roll out OSS SOA in a low risk, high value fashion. Indeed, OSS/J is in a perfect position to define guidelines and patterns for web services within the OSS space.

March 22, 2005

SOA: From Pattern to Production
Part 3 - Successful ESB Deployments

Has service-oriented architecture (SOA) lived up to its promise to simplify IT integration? Learn lessons from enterprise service bus architects who run SOA on a daily basis. Through case studies, we will examine post-deployment and SOA management issues, both business and technical.

Speaker: Hub Vandervoort, Sonic's VP of Strategic Technical Services, is a 25-year veteran of the messaging and integration software business.

Guest Speaker: Damian Walton, Global Integration Manager of Collin Stewart Tullett.
Damian will present his use of Sonic ESB as the SOA infrastructure for trade notification between investment banks involved in multi-million dollar trades.

March 15, 2005

SOA: From Pattern to Production
Part 2 - ESB: The "A" in SOA

Building out an enterprise SOA brings with it specific architectural challenges. In this second webinar you will learn how an ESB can provide the infrastructure to meet the requirements of even the most sophisticated SOA deployments.

Speaker: David A. Chappell. A leading author and renowned technology evangelist, David has book credits including Enterprise Service Bus (O'Reilly, 2004), Java Web Services (O'Reilly, 2002), and Java Message Service (O'Reilly, 2001).

March 10, 2005

The Shortest Path to Enterprise SOA

Announcing Sonic Release 6.1 and the new Sonic SOA Suite™

For years, the rate of business change has outstripped IT's capacity to manage it. New technologies, changing regulations and continual M&A activity have stretched IT architectures to the breaking point. What is needed now is a new approach, one which supports pervasive interoperability – not just invasive integration.

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) provides the promise of improved agility for both IT and business organizations. However, architecture alone is not enough – what is needed is a robust SOA Infrastructure which implements and makes these architectures come to life. Sonic Software is the inventor and leading provider of ESBs, the defacto standard infrastructure for Enterprise SOA.

March 9, 2005

OSS/J Core Business Entities: A Common Information Framework for OSS through Java Initiative APIs

Get an in-depth, up-to-date overview of the OSS through Java Core Business Entities by attending this informative online seminar. OSS/J is improving the efficiency of API developers and maintaining consistency across APIs by defining, modeling and implementing core concepts such as product, service, resource, customer and so forth. These concepts form the basis of the Core Business Entities model and associated Java packages.

This work is based on part on the TeleManagement Forum's New Generation OSS (NGOSS) Shared Information/Data (SID) Model and represents an implementation view of the NGOSS architecture.

March 8, 2005

SOA: From Pattern to Production
Part 1 - SOA: First Principles

Why is service-oriented architecture making that rare leap to industry-wide adoption? The first webinar in this series will answer this question with a discussion of the key architectural elements of an enterprise SOA and the emergence of enterprise service bus technologies as the best implementation strategy for connecting and orchestrating enterprise services.

Speaker: Gordon Van Huizen. Named one of 2004 InfoWorld CTO 25, Gordon has received broad industry recognition for his pioneering vision with regard to the enterprise service bus (ESB).

February 23, 2005

SOA: Making the Right Choices
Presented by EbizQ

Listen in to this Webinar to find out the critical success factors for SOA implementation, identify the types of technologies and solutions that are ideal for implementing SOA, and hear from experts about the selection criteria and best practices for implementing the SOA solution that's right for your business.

February 23, 2005

OSS/J Order Management API Puts You in Charge
Presented by IP Value

Learn how the OSS through Java Initiative (OSS/J) Order Management API gives service providers precise control over their service provisioning, coordinating their back-office systems and people to ensure fast, accurate delivery of service. The Order Management API is built on leading J2EE and XML technologies and matches the maturity and scale of any service providers' OSS environment. This API can be used for any telecom service domain, and is deployed worldwide by large service providers for IP, wireless, ATM/FR, optical and voice services.