In last month’s issue, we provided a brief overview of event-driven SOA. In this issue, we invite you to take the next step: Robin Smith, senior engineering product manager of WebLogic Time- and Event-Driven Computing, talks you through the concepts and technologies that support building your own event-driven SOA.

The 2007 BPTrends Research Report on business process management (BPM) suites is in—and it’s well worth reading for the experts' view on what you should expect from a BPM suite. Especially if your organization has high-volume, mission-critical transactional processes, a BPM suite could be just what you need for continuous optimization of your business process lifecycle.

You’ve heard about the benefits of SOA and about the benefits of BPM. Now learn first-hand how innovative companies are greatly increasing their agility by taking the best of BPM and SOA and making them better together.

Come join innovators, liquid thinkers, thought leaders, and other members of the BEA community to gain fresh perspectives on your business, your challenges, and your opportunities. Don’t miss this year’s event!

Three market waves—SOA, BPM, and enterprise social computing—are converging to enable a more agile IT enterprise. This white paper explains how you can leverage their combined power for new levels of business agility.

A recent white paper from IDC explains how new approaches to virtualization enable you to gain optimum utilization, availability, and scalability benefits that have previously been too costly and difficult to achieve in Java.

To fully leverage portals in a service-oriented architecture, you need to understand portal federation: the aggregation of portal components across the business or across the enterprise. This paper reviews the benefits and technical requirements of practical federation. It also provides an overview of portal federation in BEA WebLogic Portal, and of the federation extension that enables portlet publishing to Web applications.

In this Webinar, we will look at various mechanisms that can be used to make portlets Web 2.0 capable, without necessarily rewriting existing portlet applications. This Webinar will cover a lot of ground, but the key take-away will be how to leverage existing investments in Web 1.0 portlets and add Web 2.0 capabilities.

Web 2.0 social software such as blogs, wikis, social networks, and mashups is being adapted for business use with the potential for far-reaching productivity gains. Attend this Webinar to find out how enterprise social computing can dramatically improve business user productivity, increase your leverage of information and staff skills, and drive increased ROI for your existing portal infrastructure.

Architects are discovering a new way to give their companies a competitive advantage: tap the value of information in the streams of real-time event data from Web click streams, financial transactions, sensor networks, and supply chains. Attend this Webinar to find out more.

Adopting a consistent approach to service engineering and management is fundamental to executing against your SOA goals and objectives. This Webinar explains how to apply the service engineering framework to achieve consistency, increase engineering efficiency, and better manage your SOA assets.