December 1, 2004 Seminar Minutes and Presentation Download
The Fall meeting was a success!
Thanks go out to our vendor sponsors, Nastel and Compuware Corporation,
for providing the breakfast and lunch. As
usual, the facilities provided by ISO were first rate.
Without the support of companies and vendors, we would not have the
exchange of ideas, not to mention the networking, that take place at these
meetings. Thanks also go out to the
members who work hard behind the scenes to make it look easy.
PRESENTER:
Rolando Franco, Chief Architect - Travel & Car
Rental Project
Rolando discussed the value of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and how Web
Services technologies were employed to provide the foundation of an enterprise
On Demand solution for a large client in Travel & Transportation Industry.
The power of an enterprise middleware infrastructure and service oriented
application framework to front-end existing real-time rental, reservation and
billing legacy system supporting the large travel provider over thousands of
worldwide businesses was readily apparent. The value of the Enterprise Service
Broker architecture was seen showing how it provided a flexible, loosely coupled
architecture built upon standards-based messaging using SOAP over HTTP and JMS/WebSphere
MQ.
George highlighted the need to consider customer service level requirements at
the same time the application functionality needs are being addressed.
Designing clear application tiers provide independent functional layers
that encourages functional independence, isolated testing, and minimal
dependency between tiers. A number
of challenges with suggestions for solutions were provided for managing the gap
between development and production deployment.
PRESENTER: Albert Mavashev, Vice President of Research
& Development for Nastel Technologies
PART I: Leveraging IBM Support
PRESENTER: Shiretta Shaw, IBM WebSphere Technical
Sales Manager, NY/NJ Metro
We were introduced to Shiretta Shaw, Jenny Chow’s manager.
Shiretta has responsibility for technical marketing support for the
WebSphere MQ Family & Business Integration products.
She discussed many of the free and fee options available to the user
community highlighting a variety of programs that were available.
She also provided insight into ways to use the support system
effectively.
PART II: WebSphere
Business Integration Modeler for Business Process Improvement
PRESENTER: Jenny Chow, IBM WebSphere Business
Integration Solution Specialist
Jenny reviewed the importance of business processes and the value of modeling
for the business executive. She then
reviewed the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Modeler highlighting many of the
benefits. This session also included
a live demonstration showing the capabilities to not only model processes, but
also to simulate live environments and provide in depth reports.
MODERATOR: Dean Keister, Director of Business
Integration, Centerprise Services
ABSTRACT:
- Application scenarios using MQSeries, workflow, integrator
- A problem solved – A problem and how it was solved.
- Help needed - A current problem – hoping for suggestions.
We were fortunate to have Pavel Tolkachev from Deutsche Bank talk
about how they developed a solution for managing administrator access to MQ
objects. There was a lively
discussion with many ideas and creative suggestions given for solving this and
similar operational problems.
The focus of the business meeting
was to encourage participation and volunteering to assist in many of the tasks
that make these meetings a success. In
addition, a request was made for topics and presenters for the ‘Application
Showcase’ session at the next meeting.
Prizes were awarded to the
presenters at this session as well as a drawing for those attending the business
meeting. The prize was a full
function copy of MQExerciser (www.mqexerciser.com)
Presentation Prizes: Pavel
Tolkachev
Irina Yagudayeva
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Some presentation materials are available to be downloaded:
Large Travel Provider On Demand SOA.zip
IBM Software Support_120104.zip
IBM WBI Modeler Overview_12-04.zip
Application Showcase