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webinar iTKO and Forrester Webinar Archive: "Removing ALM Obstacles for Greater Agility, Cost Savings, and Lower Risk" June 18, 2009
Experts from iTKO and Forrester Research present trends / technologies behind automated testing and validation to streamline ALM for higher productivity, accuracy and agility. Attend and Learn how Testing, Validation and Virtualization are being employed to support the best practices of Dynamic SQA (Software Quality Assurance). With with strong Dynamic SQA in place, enterprise IT teams are poised to deliver predictability, patterns and reuse to better manage complex software projects.
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iTKO and CSC Webinar Archive - Building your SOA Center of Excellence April 29, 2009
SOA-based enterprise application projects today struggle with ever increasing complexity while being asked to deliver up against extremely difficult cost and time constraints. CSC and iTKO have collaborated to offer a SOA testing service and SOA Testing Center of Excellence so that SOA-based application development projects achieve higher quality, faster time-to-market, and lower costs.
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Webinar Archive: Realizing the Benefits of Enterprise Integration and SOA at Lower Costs. Practical Webinar presented by iTKO and Perficient  members
Experts from iTKO and Perficient will share how you can make powerful adjustments to your software development lifecycle to cut complexity, save costs and cut time for testing and deployment. You'll also learn how to assure your software and SOA services are always agile and meet high-quality, mission-critical requirements.
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iTKO Webinar Archive: Reducing SoftwareAG Implementation Costs and Risks with Collaborative Quality Across the Lifecycle  members
Enterprise software implementations today are up against extremely difficult cost and time constraints. The need for greater cost savings, risk mitigation, quality, and end-to-end control for SoftwareAG/webMethods implementations is driving more customers to evaluate new solutions to optimize their software testing and delivery lifecycle.
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iTKO Webinar Archive: Eliminating Risk, Cost & Dependencies from SOA Jan 2009  members
Are you in the process of adopting SOA to more flexibly meet business needs? If so, chances are you have already encountered serious roadblocks in getting the access and quality coverage you need for all of the layers in these complex, interconnected application workflows.
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Podcast: SOA & Virtualization Futures - Michelsen with Schooff, Dec 2008
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eWeek Podcast with Mike Vizard and John Michelsen: Application Development in the Clouds, Nov 2008
webinar Virtual Conference: eBizQ SOA Governance Online Summit
SOA crosses departmental and organizational boundaries. The ability to reuse existing services developed by disparate development organizations requires comprehensive governance. Policies need to be consistently defined and managed for how services are designed and utilized during production. This full day virtual conference will cover the full range of governance issues and solutions including IT governance, SOA governance, data governance, registries, repositories, and run-time service governance.

Watch the "Roundtable: SOA Governance" in the Conference to hear from iTKO's John Michelsen and other SOA experts, and visit the iTKO booth for more information!
webinar CM Crossroads Webinar: "Test, Validate & Virtualize for Agile SOA"

SOA is a method for aligning technology around the needs of the business that is Agile by nature. However, this decentralized, service-based model will change how we design, develop and deploy enterprise software. With SOA, we are constantly subject to a changing set of services and new business requirements, which introduces huge risks and productivity issues, in terms of quality and interdependency among teams.

What does Agile mean in today's Service-Oriented world? And how will Agile teams break the barriers of quality and dependencies that reduce the value of going to SOA? Join iTKO's John Michelsen, Rally Development's VP Products Zach Nies, and the experts at Agile Journal for a unique educational session on SOA Testing, Validation and Virtualization for the Agile practitioner. Learn about the new methods and tools companies are using for flexibly delivering business functionality, while ensuring quality -- without the burdensome constraints of limited access to needed resources.

In this Webcast, you will learn:

  • How to build agility and collaborate effectively within distributed SOA testing and development teams
  • Best practices for mitigating the risks of delivering and managing software within an ever-changing SOA environment
  • Methods for SOA testing, validation and virtualization to overcome interdependencies in SOA projects
webinar iTKO's John Michelsen Explains Roles and Methods for SOA Validation Across Complex Integration Lifecycles, 2008 September
Join iTKO founder and Chief Architect John Michelsen, and Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, on ZDnet's BriefingsDirect, for this podcast discussion about integration, validation, and testing for services-oriented architecture (SOA) and middleware -- particularly for business process management and to extend business processes more efficiently. Download and listen later, or play the podcast on your computer.
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Webinar Archive: SOA and ESB Intermediation & Validation - Eliminating the Controversy  members, August 21, 2008
Are you using or migrating to or from a leading integration solution from a platform vendor, such as SoftwareAG/webMethods, TIBCO, Oracle, IBM MQ, SOA Software or Sonic? Have questions about how ESB/messaging layers and Integration servers fit into your SOA plans? Learn from the experts at iTKO -- we've been supporting a heterogeneous world of integration platforms from the beginning!
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Podcast with John Michelsen: Minimizing Business Risk with SOA Testing, Validation & Virtualization, 2008 August
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Webinar Archive: Bringing Performance Validation "Into the Lifecycle" with a Virtual Service Environment (VSE) with Theresa Lanowitz, voke and John Michelsen, iTKO LISA
Today's enterprise apps are both complex and ever-changing, which makes delivering high performance difficult. By Virtualizing the behavior of application services and data in a VSE, teams can answer this challenge with Load & Performance validation best practices, and test tools like LoadRunner, to ensure solid performance throughout the development and integration lifecycle. Join leading Application Lifecycle analyst Theresa Lanowitz, voke, and iTKO LISA founder & Chief Architect John Michelsen, for this online event May 28, 2008.

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Zapthink Video Presentation Archive: iTKO's Chris Kraus speaks
Video presentations from the Practical SOA: Newark, NJ event on March 25, 2008
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Videocast: "Testing Challenges in a Virtual Environment" on Network World
Join iTKO Chief Geek and founder John Michelsen on the Network World Whiteboard, for a walkthrough on the challenges and opportunities of Testing, Validating and Virtualizing services and IT components in a service-oriented world.
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SD Times Webinar Archive: Three Steps to SOA Trust: Testing, Validation and Virtualization with John Michelsen, iTKO, and Dave Rubenstein, bzMedia (Moderator)

Adopting a service-oriented approach allows companies "do more with less" and gain agility, by integrating new and existing technologies around business goals. However, dancing with SOA comes with an increase the level of complexity in ensuring quality across the lifecycle of these highly interdependent and heterogeneous applications. Often, development and QA teams do not even have access to all of the components they need to design and develop Services that meet the expected business goals. This webinar will provide best practices and real-world examples of teams that are taking three key steps on the road to SOA, and gaining sure footing as well as trust across teams.

  • Testing: Continuous testing of the application to ensure that all components are meeting expected service levels of Performance, Reliability and Scalability.
  • Validation: Invoking and verifying that business behaviors are being carried out accurately not just at the Service layer, but within systems of record.
  • Virtualization: Freeing teams from the burden of dependency on live applications by allowing them to flexibly simulate their behavior in their own environment
webinar iTKO Webinar Archive: "Virtualizing SOA Behavior - The Next Chapter in Agility and Quality for IT" with Theresa Lanowitz, Founder and Analyst, voke, inc. member
Testers continually ask for ways to make their life easier for Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) testing in an SOA environment. Since we have such a high interest level, we are presenting best practices for ESB and JMS testing and demonstrating against a webMethods virtual instance.
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webinar John Michelsen speaks on "Continuous Testing of SOA Applications is Important: Be Where the Green Grass Grows: Why Continuous Testing Is Important to Meet the Growing Needs of Life-Cycle Governance."
webinar Podcast: Network World - John Michelsen on SOA vs. Web 2.0
webinar eBizQ Audio Interview with John Michelsen: iTKO's "Three C's" of SOA Testing
First Look - Listen in on ebizQ's product manager Gian Trotta as he talks with iTKO Chief Architect John Michelsen about the 3 C's of SOA Quality and how LISA offers a uniquely relevant way for companies to truly test SOA software throughout the development lifecycle.
webinar iTKO Webinar Archive: SOA and Integration Testing with iTKO and Software AG (webMethods) Implementations member
Testers continually ask for ways to make their life easier for Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) testing in an SOA environment. Since we have such a high interest level, we are presenting best practices for ESB and JMS testing and demonstrating against a webMethods virtual instance.
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eos iTKO Webinar Archive: LISA for TIBCO Integration and SOA Quality member
The testing experts at iTKO present this 50-minute overview of how the architecture and deployment of TIBCO SOA and Integration solutions are driving a shift in our best practices for software quality. This session will explain how LISA fits into development, QA and support efforts for TIBCO integration layers, and the heterogeneous technologies that they wrap together.
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webinar A Live Webinar with ZapThink, ManagedMethods and iTKO LISA: 'Governance, Quality and Management: The Keys to Trusting SOA' July 18, 2007 Archive member
Migrating to an SOA strategy offers cost and flexibility advantages for the enterprise. However, to avoid business risk and achieve trust, teams must approach SOA as a continuous lifecycle and not a one-time implementation event. Proper SOA Governance requires continuous testing and management throughout the lifecycle of your applications, not just during development, but beyond deployment.
webinar iTKO and Aberdeen Group Webinar: 'SOA Governance and the Continuous Quality Lifecycle of Service-Based Applications' February 27, 2007 Archive member
Is SOA Testing the final frontier of SOA Governance? In SOA and composite application environments, research shows that the tools and practices to ensure quality may often lag behind the enterprise's ability to deploy initial Services. What will the impact of this difference be, and how can you take steps to counteract the quality challenge and trust your architecture?


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