BEA.Participate.08 Is Next Week

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Arch2Arch Editor's Blog | May 7, 2008   8:05 AM | Comments (0)

People in the Arch2Arch and Dev2Dev communities have been talking about BEA.Participate.08 for months. Now, it's about to happen (next week, May 12-15, in Chicago, Illinois). BEA.Participate is "a celebration of innovation, exploring the marriage of technology and ideas. BEA.Participate.08 unites developers, architects, IT strategists, line-of-business leaders and executives in a unique business-oriented and technology-infused forum to learn, share and establish relationships with fellow practitioners."

Registration for BEA.Participate.08 is still open. The agenda includes more than 60 business and technology breakout sessions, in addition to industry roundtables and birds-of-a-feather product discussions.

Alex Toussaint first wrote about this year's event in his BEA Participate 2008 - Social Computing, BPM, User Interaction, and more... blog post. Chris Bucchere talks about the unique social computing experiment that will be ongoing at this year's BEA.Participate in his Announcing the Launch of the Social Applications for BEA Participate.08 post.

BEA.Participate.08 looks to be an exciting event for the Arch2Arch community.

Quinton Wall's Rethinking Connectivity is our most recent Arch2Arch Article. Quinton describes how organizations can approach the problem of connectivity through defining four dimensions of connectivity: internal, external, industry, and hosted. Reorganizing our thinking about connectivity into these dimensions can lead to increased adaptability by the organization to changing trends.

In Measuring AquaLogic Enterprise Security Performance William Dettelback talks about performance aspects when AquaLogic Enterprise Security (ALES) is applied to handle visitor entitlements for a WebLogic Portal application.

Take a look at these if you haven't yet done so, and browse the full archive of Arch2Arch Articles for more architect insight.

In the Arch2Arch Blogs, Peter Laird has provides an excellent reference in his Understanding the Cloud Computing/SaaS/PaaS markets: a Map of the Players in the Industry post. Kent Dickson is also credited on the map of the market space that's included in the post. Peter even provides the map drawing file assets for your use, if you'd like to make edits or create your own vision of the Cloud Computing/SaaS/PaaS space.

Alex Toussaint provides a preview of the improvements in the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) capabilities in AquaLogic BPM Suite 6.1 in his post AquaLogic BMP 6.1 - BPMN. The post includes diagrams that illustrate the BPMN enhancements.

As you might expect, the Arch2Arch Event Calendar features BEA.Participate.08, which I discussed above. To recap, BEA.Participate.08 takes place next week (May 12-15) in Chicago, Illinois. This year's event will feature an experiment in social computing: registered conference attendees will be provided an iPod Touch to interact on-the-fly with the conference agenda, session speakers and content, and each other.

This month's Arch2Arch Poll asks:

Is event-driven architecture (EDA) a component of your enterprise systems?

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Our previous poll asked "Are you using business process management software in your enterprise architecture?" 39% of respondents (11 votes) said "yes"; 46% (13 votes) said "no, but I plan to"; and 14% (4 votes) selected "no, it's not necessary".

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