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Webinar: How to Manage Business Performance in an SOA: Baking in BI

Date: This event took place on April 19 2006

Presentation:

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Description:

The WebLogic Platform is application infrastructure that's been tailored for the consumption of business intelligence (BI) services into enterprise Java applications, and the surfacing of BI content through enterprise portals. Learn why the SOA-ready Business Objects BI platform is a prime candidate for such 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. Reports that run directly against XML and Web service data sources provide a flexible and convenient means for users to consume report data from disparate programming environments encountered within an SOA.

Service infrastructure's broad reach, across programming environments, business units, geographies and sometimes even entire organizations, introduces new challenges apt for BI to tackle. Enterprise service buses (such as AquaLogic Service Bus) are the backbone of service infrastructure and the place where BI technology can tap the volumes of information produced by BI services, telling users about how the system, and thus the organization, is performing. Learn how to deploy and register Business Objects BI services onto AquaLogic Service Bus, and how doing so can widen the both the reach and field of view of your organization's BI infrastructure.

Presenter:

Matt Schumpert is a senior systems engineer in BEA's Global Alliances organization, responsible for supporting the business intelligence needs of BEA customers, and guiding BEA's long-term BI integration strategy.

Kiet Trang is a technical alliance manager with Business Objects' Global Alliances organization and helps manage the close partnership between the two companies. Kiet is an advocate for the J2EE solutions jointly developed by Business Objects and BEA and serves as a technical resource to help customers successfully deploy BI solutions on the BEA WebLogic platform.

Frederic Vanborre has worked at Business Objects for the past seven years, and is currently the Product Manager for the platform web services. He has over ten years experience in the software industry, and holds a master's degree in computer science from the Université de Nantes in France.