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SOA and ESB Intermediation & Validation - Eliminating the Controversy Webinar
August 21, 2008 12:00 pm, Central Daylight Time (GMT -05:00, Chicago)
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?
This private webinar, for iTKO contacts only, offers valuable insight into a common problem in today's leading enterprises: the need to incorporate ESBs into a well-designed and managed SOA application infrastructure. As we've discovered, this can be a hot topic for many SOA experts in the market, so how can you cut through the controversy to better use ESB as an enabling technology driven by business needs? Real-world examples of critical events such as mergers, platform migration and organizational shifts will be demonstrated.
In this session, you will learn:
- The defining events like mergers, migrations and partnerships that lead to having one or more ESBs to consider within your SOA strategy.
- How to assess the risks and strengths of your Integration servers, ESBs, Service management platforms and legacy technologies.
- Methods for Testing, Validating and Virtualizing ESB and SOA layers for higher quality and faster time to market.
- Examples of how the world's leading companies are Intermediating ESB and other important technologies to achieve SOA success.
Learn from the experts at iTKO -- we've been supporting a heterogeneous world of integration platforms from the beginning!
Featured speakers:
John has over fifteen years of experience as a technical leader at all organization levels, designing, developing, and managing large-scale, object-oriented solutions in traditional and network architectures. He is the chief architect of iTKO's LISA automated testing product and a leading industry advocate for software quality.
Before forming iTKO, Michelsen was Director of Development at Trilogy Inc., and VP of Development at AGENCY.COM. He has been titled Chief Technical Architect at companies like Raima, Sabre, and Xerox while performing as a consultant. Through work with clients like Cendant Financial, Microsoft, American Airlines, Union Pacific and Nielsen Market Research, John has deployed solutions using technologies from the mainframe to the handheld device.
Chris is an expert testing and architecture strategist, with a 17 year background in computer software development, product management, and sales support for enterprise software. As Product Manager for iTKO's LISA SOA Testing software suite, Chris applies both project management and development experience to refine LISA features to best suit customer quality needs throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
Chris was previously a Retail and Manufacturing Industry Manager at the enterprise software platform firm webMethods, overseeing requirements, customer presales and training for the $16M annual group. At supply chain software provider i2 Technologies he worked in i2's infrastructure group, with responsibility for the release of business process, workflow and monitoring engines. Prior to i2 at Software AG, Chris specialized in cross platform product installation and administration. As a software engineer, project manager, and solution architect, Chris has a great breath of industry knowledge from working with companies like Citi, TD Ameritrade, Lenovo, Tandy, Rubbermaid, TI, and TxDoT to ensure quality application delivery lifecycles.
What's on the agenda?
- iTKO introduction and company overview
- Demonstration of new LISA Testing & Validation workflow and features
- Demonstration of LISA Virtual Services Environment for Load & Performance test labs
- Q&A session (bring your questions or just ask us later!)
Here's how it works.
After completing the form on the right, we will send you a validated link to the webinar launch page and call information.