Sometimes, it is hard to separate the wheat from the chaff in discussions of SOA or ESB. This will be wheat.
I hope to see everyone there.
Regards,
Don =================================================== Service-oriented architecture and the Enterprise Service Bus Martin Keen, IBM ITSO Tues. Apr. 26, 2005 IBM Building #500 Cafeteria Research Triangle Park, NC
Agenda
Demo
5:15 p.m. Actuate Formula One Technical Demo (with IPod mini giveaway!) for all interested
Main Meeting 6:00 p.m. Free Refreshments sponsored by Actuate 6:15 p.m. Group Business, Actuate Brief Remarks 6:30 p.m. Main Presentation: Martin Keen on SOA and ESB. 8:00 p.m. Questions and Discussion 8:15 p.m. (approx.) Adjournment
The meeting is FREE to ALL - NO RSVP OR RESERVATION IS NEEDED
Many of us have been waiting for an understandable technical explanation of SOA and ESB. As lead author of the main IBM Redbook on the subject, our speaker is one of the best qualified people anywhere to communicate the concepts involved. Redbooks are IBM's most accessible guides to technical subjects, and you can be sure that IBM made a very careful choice of who to author this book, and made sure that he had all the contacts and help needed to articulate their approach to this most strategic architecture. So we are very excited to have Martin talk to us on this topic. We promise an articulate and useful presentation.
Speaker Biography
Martin Keen is Project Leader -- Patterns for e-business & WebSphere, at the International Technical Support Organization, Raleigh Center.
He is lead author of the main (five-star-rated) IBM Redbook on SOA and ESB. (See http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/cgi-bin/searchsite.cgi?query=SOA )
He writes extensively about WebSphere products and Patterns for e-business. He also speaks at conferences, and teaches IBM classes worldwide about WebSphere and business process management. Before joining the ITSO, Martin worked in the EMEA WebSphere Lab Services team in Hursley, UK. Martin holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Studies from Southampton Institute of Higher Education.
Sponsor
Actuate is our meeting sponsor. They are perhaps the leading Enterprise Reporting vendor there is. Their tools are often embedded in other products (such as True Portal for one example). They will demo their embeddable reporting engine, and the e.SpreadSheet engine in particular, starting at 5:15 p.m., prior to our main talk. This demo is optional, but we urge those who can to attend to help support our sponsor.
See the directions below and map at http://www.rtpwug.org/sitemap.pdf
Directions to the Meeting
Distance from Raleigh (17 miles) / Durham (8 miles) / Chapel Hill (12 miles)
From I-40, take Exit 280 - Davis Drive. At the end of the exit ramp, take a right (North) onto Davis Drive. Continue straight on Davis Drive for about 0.5 miles. Take a right on Cornwallis road. Go about 1/2 mile, you will cross over railroad tracks. At the IBM gate keep to the right.
If the rightmost gate is down, press on the intercom button and tell the remote guard that you are attending the WebSphere User Group meeting, and give him your name. He will open the gate for you. Go through gate, follow the road around past the first Tivoli Building, looking for signs leading to Building 500 or "Software Group." Our IBM host is Greg Ackerman - they may ask for his name.
Go through gate, follow the road around past the first Tivoli Building, looking for signs leading to Building 500 or "Software Group." It should be the third road on the left. It can be a little tricky, so please allow some extra time the first time.
It can be a little tricky, so please allow some extra time the first time.
You will see a visitors' parking lot. Turn in and park, and walk to the Building 500 lobby.
Be careful not to go too far (the second Tivoli building is too far) or you will find yourself on a one-way exit ramp and have to drive back around.
See http://www.rtpwug.org/sitemap.pdf for a map for this location.
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