Hi SOA Groupies - Here's something we thought you might enjoy. Join ZapThink for TWO great ZapForum Webcats for September! Register at http://www.zapthink.com/zapforum.html today to participate!
* September 7: Transformation and Semantics * September 21: SOA - Crossing the Network and Application Boundary ************ WEBCAST: TRANSFORMATION AND SEMANTIC PROCESSING Wednesday September 7, 2005 10:00 PT / 13:00 ET Theme: "Transformation and Semantic Processing" Setting the Stage: ZapThink Analysts Ever wonder how you can deal with two of the biggest and most significant challenges of dealing with data: transformation and semantics? Want to know how to massage the information such that any two parties can understand its context, or at the very least, have the tools to be able to enable that capability? Learn from two experts about how to optimize transformation and semantic processing on your network and turn information into a real asset. Guest Expert: Nash Palaniswamy, Director of System Architecture, Conformative Systems Paul will explain the various techniques available for XML parsing, transformation and validation. Learn about the impact of XML processing on application servers and become aware of some real-world examples of transformation acceleration. Key Takeaways: * Learn about the XML Processing Burden * Understand XML Processing options * Find out transformation Use Cases Guest Expert: Arvind Sinha, VP Business Development, Xambala Real-time processing of data streams has become an expanding area of IT activity.Arvind will explain what are current application aware computing requirements and what options are available for content routing, application acceleration, and application security. Key Takeaways: * Understand semantic processing of applications in the network * Learn about a low-latency infrastructure for real-time processing of arbitrary content including XML * Learn about event stream capabilities to query, filter and process streaming content including VLM (very large messages) You Participate! Call in with your SOA and Web Services-related questions. Talk to the Guest Experts. Quiz the ZapThink Analysts. Communicate with your peers - and learn how to make SOA happen! Register at http://www.zapthink.com/zapforum.html today to participate! Attend and get a chance to win a XBox! ********* WEBCAST: SOA - CROSSING THE APPLICATION / NETWORK BOUNDARY Wednesday September 21, 2005 10:00 PT / 13:00 ET Theme: "SOA - Crossing the Application / Network Boundary" Setting the Stage: ZapThink Analysts ZapThink senior analysts Jason Bloomberg and Ronald Schmelzer will explore how the application / network boundary is increasingly blurring as application tasks increasingly impact how the network runs, and how distributed computing on the network changes the way applications are built. Learn how SOA helps the bring the formerly separate worlds of application and network together to build a cohesive enterprise architecture. Guest Expert: Jeff Browning, Product Manager, iControl (SOAP/XML API for network devices) Jeff will cover how SOA is helping IT adapt to quickly and efficiently to changing business models. He will show how SOA is bridging the gap between applications and the network allowing business process to cross application boundaries furthering application develop efficiencies. In most situations, complexity reduction results in living with ‘one size fits all’ solutions. Jeff will show how SOA reduces network and application complexity while actually creating greater opportunities to customize applications to fit unique business needs. Key Takeaways: * Learn how SOA is helping IT adapt efficiently to changing business models * Understand the business impact of allowing business processes to cross application boundaries * Reduce complexity without sacrificing uniqueness Guest Expert: Steve Orrin, Chief Technology Officer, Sarvega Steve will discuss the benefits of SOA implementations and explore the new challenges that they introduce. As Enterprises begin to treat their business applications more as services to be leveraged for the information and value they contain, there are strategic things an Enterpise can do now to get the most out of their SOA implementation. SOA's require a new way of thinking about application security and performance, new methodology, and closer collaboration across organizational boundaries. Key Takeaways: * What are some of the fundemental challenges introduced when using SOA * Ways to approach SOA implementations to secure and protect them * Learn about products and tools that can help Enterprises achieve their SOA objectives. You Participate! Call in with your SOA and Web Services-related questions. Talk to the Guest Experts. Quiz the ZapThink Analysts. Communicate with your peers - and learn how to make SOA happen! Register at http://www.zapthink.com/zapforum.html today to participate! -- _____________________________________________________________ Ronald Schmelzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Analyst ZapThink LLC Direct: 781-577-2779 / Main: 781-207-0203 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/NhFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! 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