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Moderator:
Joe
McKendrick, Independent Analyst and Contributing
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Seven contributing SOA
expert authors from, AmberPoint, Active Endpoints,
BearingPoint, Composite Software, Momentum SI, and
Progress Software, share their collective wisdom in a
100-page book – “An Implementor’s Guide to Service
Oriented Architecture – Getting it Right” that covers
the practical issues facing technologists when
implementing a SOA. |
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Attend this free web
conference to get an overview of the book. Joe
McKendrick, independent analyst and expert author, will
open the web event with an overview of the current SOA
landscape, and then introduce each author, who will
summarize his chapter’s highlights. |
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PODCAST: Composite Discovery |
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Presenters:
Ron
Powell, Co-Founder & Editorial Director, B-Eye
Networks
David Besemer, CTO, Composite
Software |
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| David Besemer
explains how Composite Discovery delivers quicker time
to answer for the business users and reduces overload
for IT professionals. |
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| Composite
Discovery is an integrated software and hardware
appliance that helps business analysts, managers and
analytical business professionals get the important
structured data they need when no report exists. |
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| Business users
must make good decisions and answer day-to-day questions
to resolve tough business problems from disparate
enterprise data systems that change and grow at near
exponential rates. Many business end users under-utilize
powerful, yet cumbersome BI and reporting tools because
they need a great deal of IT input and assistance before
they can be effective at extracting the structured data
that would help them most given new or unanticipated
demands. Ad hoc tools, like enterprise search, deliver
text matches, but are ineffective for revealing
structured data relationships that help these users
navigate related data in their journey toward the
ultimate answer. |
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| With Composite
Discovery you can discover your answer now. Composite
Discovery puts enterprise information at your fingertips
by letting you discover both data and relationships,
then refine and share results, simply, quickly, from
your desktop. |
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PDF Download
(FREE): “An Implementor’s Guide to SOA: |
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Getting it
Right” |
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| “This book
provides the needed clarity to the confusion over when,
where, why and how SOA efforts should begin,” observed
independent analyst Joe McKendrick. |
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| Seven
contributing SOA expert authors share their collective
wisdom in the 100-page book that covers the practical
issues facing technologists when implementing a
service-oriented architecture (SOA). |
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| The book
provides practical advice to those planning an SOA
implementation as well as those in the midst of
implementing one. Readers will learn how to avoid the
most common pitfalls of SOA implementations including
designing for reuse and error handling, understanding
registry governance over services lifecycle, evaluating
different ESBs and their impact on the SOA
infrastructure, managing effective run-time governance,
positively influencing the organizational impacts of
multiple technology teams creating different
modules/components that must work together, training
internal SOA teams for optimal effectiveness, and
setting and measuring progress during every stage of the
SOA implementation. |
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| In addition to
the free PDF, the book may be purchased for US$19.75
plus tax from Amazon.com. |
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Demo:
Composite Discovery |
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| Composite
Discovery is an integrated software and hardware
appliance that helps business analysts, managers and
analytical business professionals get the important
structured data they need when no report exists. See how
Composite Discovery helps business analysts find the
quickest way from question to answer. |
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Using Data Virtualization to Maximize Return
on Data |
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Warehousing Investments |
| DM Review |
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| Today’s
enterprises rely on the information in their data
warehouses more than ever for making informed,
business-critical decisions and complying with a myriad
of ever-increasing regulations and compliance mandates.
Data warehouses integrate and transform the complex,
disparate and globally distributed data from back-office
transaction systems and other sources into the
rock-solid information stores that support a range of
financial, customer and supply chain performance
management analytics – reporting that is critical to
helping enterprises increase revenues, decrease costs
and reduce risk. |
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these enterprises really maximizing the return on their
data warehousing investments? Might complementary
technologies provide additional performance management
insights and therefore valuable returns? In particular,
how are enterprises leveraging new advancements in data
virtualization required to achieve even greater
revenues, larger cost decreases and better risk
reduction today? |
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Data Virtualization: It Grows on You |
| Wayne
Kernochan |
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| When I
first heard the term “data virtualization” from
Composite Software, I admit, I was skeptical. Let’s face
it, virtualization is one of the all-inclusive marketing
terms of our time; it seems like everything is being
labeled as virtualized these days. But when I sat down
and tried to make sense of all of the “virtual”
technologies I knew, data virtualization fit in neatly.
In fact, it’s a logical extension of virtualization
technology. And therefore, like other virtualization
technologies, it has definite and distinct benefits to
the user. |
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SOA: It's the People, Process and
Orientation |
| Applications
Development Trends |
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| To
service-enable or not to service-enable? It's a vexing
question. All indications are that the industry is
moving – rapidly, according to some industry watchers;
slowly-but-inexorably, according to others – toward
service-enablement and (eventually) full-blown
service-oriented architectures (SOA). |
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is common with any business process consultant, or
software engineering consultant, or – for that matter –
with an increasing number of data management or data
warehousing gurus, and they'll tell you the same thing:
clients have service-enablement and SOAs on the
brain. |
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Appliance
Lets Business Users Uncover Hidden Data |
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Relationships |
| Intelligent
Enterprise |
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| One part search, one
part data integration, Composite Discovery appliance
takes another stab at providing an easy-to-use interface
for gaining business intelligence. |
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| It's an appliance-based
offering and the interface starts with a search box not
unlike that presented by Google or any other Internet
search engine. As you could guess, the key appeal of
Composite Discovery, a new offering announced today by
Composite Software, is simplicity. As an appliance, it's
easy for IT to deploy and maintain, and the search-style
interface is easy for untrained business users to master
without knowing a thing about SQL query language. |
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| That last part may sound a
lot like the BI-search combo that leading business
intelligence vendors have been pursuing in recent years,
but Composite's new offering taps the data integration
vendor's federated join capabilities to uncover data
relationships that are not yet defined in existing BI
reports and data models. |
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