AUGUST 2007
Arch2Arch Advisor BEA Thinkliquid
by architects, for architects
Real customers, real transformation, real results at BEAWorld

BEAWorld is coming up fast! Register now to secure your place among innovators from some of the world’s most dynamic companies. You’ll get up-close stories of business transformations and an inside view of what made them successful. You’ll have the chance for a deep dive on product information and direction. And you’ll meet other architects: speakers include senior architects from Datascan Technologies, CSC, Pacific Gas & Electric, and of course, BEA. Plus, this year we’re offering a special pre-conference SOA Forum designed for architects who are beginning to explore SOA, or have implemented a pilot project and want to scale SOA to enterprise-wide. We hope to see you on September 10-12 in San Francisco!

» Register today to secure your place
» Check out details on the SOA Forum
» Been to BEAWorld before? Save $100!
What Web 2.0 means for enterprise IT: architects weigh in

In a recent podcast, Ajay Gandhi, director of enterprise social computing, and the architects behind BEA AquaLogic Pages, BEA AquaLogic Ensemble, and BEA AquaLogic Pathways came together to discuss what Web 2.0 will mean for enterprise IT.

» Read the article
» Listen to the podcast
Webinar: Harvesting enterprise wisdom through social search

Social networks are revolutionizing the consumer Internet, and now the concepts behind Web 2.0 communities and collaboration are poised to transform your enterprise, providing solutions such as collaborative search, expertise discovery, and social networks. Attend this Webinar to learn how you can gain these capabilities using BEA’s AquaLogic Pathways.

» Register to attend August 21 at 11:00 AM PT
New release of BEA AquaLogic BPM helps drive better business decisions

The new release of BEA AquaLogic® BPM 6.0 supports both better decision-making and provides IT a more powerful process application platform. More collaborative, intelligent, and dynamic, it’s also more scalable, compatible, and more easily tested. Click below to replay a Webinar on collaborative BPM or to read a Gartner report predicting that enterprises that aggressively begin transformation for BPM in 2007 will double their chances of becoming industry leaders by 2010.

» Find out more about BEA AquaLogic BPM
» Download
» Replay Webinar: Collaborative BPM, bridging business and IT
» Download complimentary Gartner Predicts 2007: Align BPM and SOA Initiatives
» Read blog on new features
Podcast series: Accelerating SOA buy-in

In this four-part series Bill Laberis, vice president at IDG, interviews Ed Kourany, BEA's Executive Director of World Wide Consulting. They cover everything from building a business case for adopting SOA to building your SOA strategy, including how to get started, what to expect, who should be involved, and possible roadblocks.

» Part 1: Accelerating SOA buy-in and selling the SOA vision
» Part 2: Justifying SOA with the right metrics
» Part 3: A portfolio perspective with SOA
» Part 4: Building an SOA skills strategy
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BEAWorld 2007
Featured Items
» Register today for BEAWorld
» Check out details on the SOA Forum
» Been to BEAWorld before? Save $100!
» Read article on Web 2.0 and Enterprise IT
» Listen to the podcast on Web 2.0 and Enterprise IT
» Event: Innovate over and above your SAP application
» Survey: Tell us where you are with EDA
White Papers
» Dowload complimentary Gartner Predicts 2007: Align BPM and SOA Initiatives
» Read white paper: Total cost of ownership, a comparison of C/C++ and Java for EDA
Webinars
» Harvesting enterprise wisdom through social search
» SOA...what you need to know
» Replay Webinar: Event processing, competitive advantage through situational awareness
» Replay Webinar: Consistent service engineering and management
» Converging Internet and communications with BEA WebLogic Communications Platform
Downloads & Podcasts
» Download BEA AquaLogic Business Process Management
» Four-part series on Accelerating SOA buy-in
Blog
» Mashing up the bus: getting ready for the convergence of SOA & Web 2.0
» The Event Driven Architecture (EDA) programming model
» WebLogic Server Virtual Edition goes GA
 
Webinar: SOA...what you need to know

Join Paul Calento, SVP of strategic development at InfoWorld, as he and Paul Patrick, VP and chief architect at BEA, discuss the findings of InfoWorld’s latest SOA research study and how they relate to BEA’s product strategy.

» Register to attend August 21 at 10 AM PT
Event-driven architecture: an update

This month we’re conducting a survey to help us assess the current state of the event processing market. Please click on the link and answer a few questions—you’ll be entered in a drawing for an iPhone and will receive a copy of the results of the survey. While you’re waiting to see if you won, play back a Webinar on how to give your company a competitive advantage by tapping the information value hidden within the streams of real time event data, or read a white paper on choosing the best language for an EDA environment.

» Survey: Tell us where you are with EDA
» Replay Webinar: Event processing, competitive advantage through situational awareness
» Read white paper: Total cost of ownership, a comparison of C/C++ and Java for EDA
Event: Innovate over and above your SAP application

Join BEA and Accenture in a morning event to discuss how you can use SOA, business process management, and enterprise social computing to build business agility into an architecture that includes SAP and other applications.

» Register for events in Canada
» Register for events in New York, Boston, or Philadelphia
Webinar: Consistent service engineering and management

Adopting a consistent approach to service engineering and management is fundamental to executing against your SOA goals and objectives. This recent Webinar describes the elements to be addressed within a service engineering framework, and how to apply the framework to achieve consistency, increase engineering efficiency, and better manage your SOA Assets.

» Replay
Webinar: Converging Internet and communications with BEA WebLogic Communications Platform

The Internet and communications services are converging on industry-standard technologies such as Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), SIP servlets, Telecom Web Services, and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). We will discuss how a converged HTTP-SIP application server, such as BEA WebLogic SIP Server, can provide the core service creation, delivery, and management foundation for new converged services.

» Register to attend on August 15 at 9:00 AM PT
Webinar: eCommerce best practices and technologies

Effective online selling requires simplifying the customer sales experience while helping to achieve store operational goals. Attend this informative webinar to learn how eCommerce storefront best practices and the technology that enables them can help improve both customer satisfaction and store revenue.

» Register to attend August 22 at 9:00 PT
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