BEA Arch2Arch Media Center is an online technical media center bringing together live webinars, podcasts and both downloadable and on-demand training events and presentations. BEA Arch2Arch Media Center is focused on educating and training developers, architects, and administrators with key tips, tricks, best practices, and in-depth "how-to" sessions from top BEA engineers and customers.
The Synapse Group, a leading provider of customer management and acquisition services to magazine publishers, overcame that challenge with an Information-as-a-Service (IaaS) strategy that helped to deliver real business value from its SOA, reducing the costs and complexities of customer support and service and improving customer care.
In this webinar, don’t miss out on your chance to learn:
The best data services technologies for building an IaaS platform, including Synapse’s “best of suite” approach for core SOA infrastructure components
How an IaaS strategy fits in with your SOA efforts to support continuously evolving business logic and reduce time-to-market for new capabilities
How to expose key enterprise data as shared services to provide a consistent view of the data across channels
Farmers Insurance, a division of Zurich Financial Services, has been there and done that -- reducing time to market by 80% with an enterprise-wide SOA initiative powered by BEA AquaLogic Service Bus to achieve maximum reuse.
In this unique Webinar you’ll learn from people directly involved in that effort, as they discuss in detail the best practices that made the Farmers’ Insurance Enterprise SOA effort such a success – practices that you can apply to take your SOA initiative from early projects to high-value enterprise-wide adoption for true business transformation.
You’ll learn:
The top reasons for SOA project failures
The challenges of growing from project to enterprise-wide SOA
Best practices to avoid common mistakes and achieve business transformation
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to gain valuable information and insight from the professionals who made it happen.
BEA's Quinton Wall explains how line-of-business managers can add search, inspecting data quality, gathering business intelligence and BPM tools to SOAs for true IT and business alignment that supports the emerging trend of Information as a Service.
Business Agility: Taming the Challenges of SOA IntegrationMar 27 2008 Webinar Originally presented on 27 March 2008
Challenges, trends and blueprint for successful SOA integration The choice for any enterprise operating in the global marketplace is simple: adaptation or extinction. In today’s dynamic business environment, inflexible infrastructure can result in lost customers, lost revenue, late entry into emerging markets, and a lot of other bad news. SOA Integration helps to clear the path to business agility by transforming brittle IT systems, applications, and data sources into highly flexible, reusable services that can be shared across the enterprise.
The Changing World of Application PlatformsFeb 20 2008 Webinar All organizations are faced with the need to create innovative solutions and offerings that add value to their company and customers. This increasingly means applications need to be more accessible and adaptable; for some organizations, this is a fundamental requirement for maintaining and enhancing market share.
The Changing World of Application PlatformsFeb 20 2008 Webinar Learn how to ensure your application platform can be fit for future requirements by registering for this complimentary webinar today.
SOA Governance: The First 100 DaysDec 18 2007 Webinar Stephen Bennett, BEA Systems, and featured guest Larry Fulton, Forrester Research, discuss best practices for kick-starting SOA governance initiatives.
SOA Governance @ Work: Zurich Financial ServicesDec 18 2007 Webinar A company that has been in business since 1872 knows how to adapt to change. When Fortune 100 Company Zurich Financial Services Group launched its global SOA program, effective SOA governance played a critical role in meeting organizational challenges to drive the evolution of the enterprise.
Arch2Arch Podcast 12: Terms of Empowerment: SOA, EDA and XTPNov 08 2007 Podcast Companies today demand more agility and speed from their IT systems, and there's an ever-growing array of options to meet their changing business needs. So why are so many organizations turning to SOA, EDA and XTP? Are these solutions separate from each other or intertwined? And how do you make sure you find the right solution to address your business needs? We'll address those questions and more with Gartner analyst Roy Schulte, a leading expert on Service-Oriented Architecture, and Ruma Sanyal, director of Product Marketing for BEA Systems.
Commitment to corporate development required for SOA Governance to succeedOct 03 2007 Webinar This webinar will highlight the need and scope of an SOA governance model as well as the commitment required to deploy such a solution – including the commitment to corporate reskilling, why and when you need to reskill your internal staff versus outsourcing, best practices, and specific steps required for reskilling for an SOA environment.
Arch2Arch Podcast 9: BEA Education: SOA Costs and BenefitsSep 27 2007 Podcast In this podcast you will hear a discussion of SOA costs and benefits including the economic justification for pursuing an SOA strategy and the metrics used to track the progress of an SOA adoption. This podcast is brought to you by BEA Education.
Arch2Arch Podcast 8: BEA Education: SOA Organization and GovernanceSep 19 2007 Podcast In this podcast you will hear a discussion of SOA organization and governance including roles, responsibilities and processes needed to adopt SOA. This podcast is brought to you by BEA Education.
eCommerce Best Practices and TechnologiesAug 22 2007 Webinar Learn how eCommerce storefront best practices and the technology that enables them can help improve both customer satisfaction and store revenue.
Arch2Arch Podcast 6: What does Web 2.0 mean for Enterprise IT?Aug 08 2007 Podcast To explore what Web 2.0 really means for enterprise IT, Ajay Gandhi, director of enterprise social computing, interviews the architects behind BEA's recently released social computing products.
Arch2Arch Podcast 5: Building an SOA Skills StrategyAug 08 2007 Podcast Bill Laberis, vice president at IDG, interviews Ed Kourany, BEA's Executive Director of World Wide Consulting. This is the fourth part of a series looking at Accelerating SOA Buy-In. Bill and Ed discuss creating a plan for changing the skill sets and roles within your organization over time so that you have the skilled SOA team you need.
Consistent Service Engineering and ManagementAug 01 2007 Webinar This Webinar highlights the importance of adopting a consistent approach to service engineering and management within an SOA.
Arch2Arch Podcast 4: A Portfolio Perspective with SOAAug 01 2007 Podcast Bill Laberis, vice president at IDG, interviews Ed Kourany, BEA's Executive Director of World Wide Consulting. This is the third part of a series looking at Accelerating SOA Buy-In. Bill and Ed discuss the benefits of having a portfolio perspective when implementing SOA, possible SOA entry points, key risk factors and how to mitigate them, and best practices for creating an SOA road map.
Arch2Arch Podcast 3: Justifying SOA with the Right MetricsJul 25 2007 Podcast Bill Laberis, vice president at IDG, interviews Ed Kourany, BEA's Executive Director of World Wide Consulting. This is the second part of a series looking at Accelerating SOA Buy-In. Bill and Ed discuss how to build a business case for the strategic value of SOA, which metrics to use, roadblocks to justifying SOA, when to expect results and who should be involved in the justification process.
Arch2Arch Podcast 2: Accelerating SOA Buy-In and Selling the SOA VisionJul 18 2007 Podcast Bill Laberis, vice president at IDG, interviews Ed Kourany, BEA's Executive Director of World Wide Consulting. This, the first part of a series looking at Accelerating SOA Buy-In, looks at Selling the SOA vision and looks at just who you are selling SOA to, the role of the CIO and CFO, cost reduction versus business agility, and the difference between EMEA and North America in the adoption of SOA.
Arch2Arch Podcast 1: Trends in Virtualization and Event Driven ArchitecturesJun 05 2007 Podcast Kevin Faulkner interviews Guy Churchward, BEA Vice President of WebLogic Products - to discuss trends in the industry and new product developments at BEA around virtualization and event driven architectures. Products covered include WebLogic Server Virtual Edition, LiquidVM and WebLogic Event Server.
BEA WebLogic® Integration in a Services-Oriented WorldMar 21 2007 Webinar For companies looking to adopt a Services Oriented Architecture, how can you get the most out of your existing WLI assets? How do WLI processes relate to AquaLogic Service Bus (ALSB) and other BEA integration products
Top 5 Insights Learned from the Executive SummitsMar 20 2007 Webinar The free webcast will cover the “Top 5 Insights” learned from the recently completed SOA Executive Summit focus group meetings. Leading executives from FORTUNE 1000™ corporations, major government agencies and non-governmental organizations, provided candid feedback on the mission, vision, strategies and tactics of the SOA Consortium and participated in a lively roundtable discussion on real-world SOA implementation opportunities and challenges. The SOA Consortium is an initiative of the Object Management Group to create a community of peers focused on advocacy for service-oriented architecture and is supported by founding sponsors BEA Systems, Inc., Cisco, IBM Corporation, and SAP AG as well as participants from the Financial Services, Travel, Manufacturing, Retail and Telecommunications industries.
Leveraging SCA to Implement Next Generation SOAFeb 28 2007 Webinar Service Component Architecture (SCA) represents an important industry initiative to produce next-generation service infrastructure. This talk will provide an overview of SCA, focusing on how SCA will impact technology strategy over the next two years.
Taking Fine-Grained Authorization Deeper into the EnterpriseFeb 13 2007 Webinar Gerry Gabel, a leading Burton analyst, and Geoff Charron from BEA Systems, will talk about how fine-grained authorization can help you to centrally manage security policies and deliver more consistent security while eliminating application security silos across your heterogeneous IT environment.
Constructing a Data Virtualization Layer using BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform (ALDSP)Jan 24 2007 Webinar Join this webinar to see how ALDSP can be used to rapidly create a data virtualization layer above relational and service-oriented sources. See how ALDSP introspects metadata from sources and how its drag-and-drop GUI can be used to construct complex data integration scenarios without writing code.
Secrets of SOA Success: Attainable Enterprise IntegrationNov 28 2006 Webinar The Secrets of SOA Success Webinar series is an easy way to learn about the latest SOA strategies and best practices - featuring industry experts from BEA and Forrester Research. This session looks at integration, business processes and IT efficiency, and productivity.
WebLogic Portal and SOA - your window to business visibilityNov 22 2006 Webinar Why do recent analyst reports consistently place BEA as a leader in the portal market? We will provide inside details on this new groundbreaking WebLogic Portal 9.2 release and what it all means for your organisation.
Apache Tuscany: Not the Same Old ArchitectureNov 08 2006 Webinar This webinar will provide an overview of how Apache Tuscany simplifies the task of creating and assembling service-based applications using SCA. It will also cover where the Tuscany project is headed and how it will help developers build tomorrow's applications today.
Secrets of SOA Success: Who Moved My Service?Nov 02 2006 Webinar The Secrets of SOA Success Webinar series is an easy way to learn about the latest SOA strategies and best practices - featuring industry experts from BEA and Forrester Research. This session covers the enterprise service bus and service mediation.
JSR 235 Service Data Objects (SDOs)Aug 13 2006 Presentation In this JavaOne 2006 presentation you will learn
how Service Data Objects will simply and unify your SOA data access architecture and code.
Architectural principles for a successful RFID deploymentJun 20 2006 Webinar In this webcast you'll learn how to meet this new demand with a foundation based on three fundamental architecture principles: edge computing, service-oriented architecture, and open standards.
Secrets of SOA Success: Reusable Information as a ServiceMay 20 2006 Webinar The Secrets of SOA Success Webinar series is an easy way to learn about the latest SOA strategies and best practices - featuring industry experts from BEA and Forrester Research. This session covers data management, the information fabric and delivering information as a service.
How to Manage Business Performance in an SOA: Baking in BIApr 19 2006 Webinar Learn why the SOA-ready Business Objects BI platform is a prime candidate for integration, with an extensive Web services Java SDK and the ability to leverage SOA-enabling technologies such as XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI. Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence and other reporting engines running remotely and across firewalls can be accessed and controlled from WebLogic applications using the Business Objects' Web services SDK.
BEA TechStart Seminar: Data Services Layer, The Foundation For A Service-Oriented ArchitectureFeb 01 2006 Webinar BEA Systems invites you to a technical webinar designed to help you address your evolving Service-Oriented Architecture strategy and how to benefit from data services. This BEA TechStart Webinar Series promises real, practical uses for emerging technology with no sales or marketing spin.
The Implications of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) on SecuritySep 07 2005 Webinar Security is often viewed as a gating item barring successful deployment of an SOA. Traditional security technologies are simply not enough to address loosely coupled Web services communicating with SOAP messages over an HTTPS connection. This talk will provide an overview of the security requirements and technologies necessary for successful SOA deployment and will discuss how BEA's solutions assist an organization in achieving their SOA objectives. The talk will also cover emerging security standards related to this effort, such as WS-Security and SAML, and their importance to achieving success.
