ZapThink Podcast: Practical SOA Energy & Utilities Sneak Peek

Special ZapThink “Sneak Preview” Podcast for January 24, 2008 features:

James Jones, Director, Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), BP

Rusty Foreman, DCT Enterprise Architecture, BP

Patrick Bhirdo, Endigo Energy

Richard Green, Principal Analyst, DTE Energy

David Anderson, Solution Architect, BEA Systems, Inc

John Michelsen, Founder & Chief Architect, iTKO

Dan Finerty, Director, Product Marketing, DataDirect Shadow

Jason Bloomberg, Managing Partner, ZapThink

Listen to this Podcast and you will get a “Sneak Peek” at what all the presenters will be speaking about at our Practical SOA: Energy and Utilities event in Houston, TX on February 5, 2008.

ZapForum Podcast: Converging Data & Documents in SOA

ZapForum Podcast for January 11, 2008 features

Guest Expert Jake Sorofman, VP of Marketing, JustSystems.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Learn about the role of documents in SOA
• Get an idea of the role XML has in the creation of content
• Understand how dynamic documents that display application functionality can help implement document-centric business processes in the context of SOA

ZapThink Podcast: Practical SOA Frankfurt Sneak Peek

Special ZapThink “Sneak Preview” Podcast for January 8, 2008 features:

Ron Schmelzer, Managing Partner, ZapThink

Ingo Arnold, Enterprise Systems Architect, Novartis Pharma AG

Wolfgang Otto, Principal Systems Engineer, BEA Systems

Florian Mösch, Vice President Enterprise Integration & Architecture, T-Mobile Deutschland GmbH

Jason English, iTKO, iTKO

Dr. Waldemar Lohrer, Senior Berater, Swiss Life

Tim Hall, SOA Center Product Management, Hewlett-Packard

Lars Drexler, VP Sales Enablement, Software AG

Listen to this Podcast and you will get a “Sneak Peek” at what all the presenters will be speaking about at our Practical SOA event in Frankfurt, Germany, on January 15, 2008.

ZapForum Podcast: The Management Discipline of SOA

ZapForum Podcast for December 26, 2007 features

Guest Expert Uli Kalex, VP of Product Line Management, alfabet.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Understand the issues and activities that are relevant to the management side of SOA as opposed to the technical side
• Learn why the business issues are so important when implementing SOA
• Get an idea which areas of the business can benefit the most from SOA

ZapForum Podcast: How Much SOA Do You Need?

ZapForum Podcast for December 14, 2007 features

Guest Expert Kyle Gabhart, Director, SOA Technology, Web Age Solutions.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Learn how a “Selective SOA” approach can reduce the risk of a SOA initiative
• Understand how a limited scope SOA project should handle infrastructure and governance issues
• Learn about how to train SOA architects as well as details on the ZapThink/Web Age Solutions partnership for delivering Licensed ZapThink Architect credentialing sessions

ZapForum Podcast: OpenAjax: Standardizing the Web 2.0 Client

ZapForum Podcast for November 15, 2007 features

Guest Expert John Ferraiolo, Web Architect within IBM‘s Emerging Technologies Group and manager of operations at the OpenAjax Alliance.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Get an introduction to the OpenAjax Alliance, what its role is, and who its members are
• Understand the challenges facing interoperability among Ajax toolkits
• Learn the distinction between Ajax components and Ajax applications

ZapForum Podcast: Mergers & Acquisitions Made Easy with SOA

ZapForum Podcast for October 30, 2007 features

Guest Experts Richard Sides, Senior Vice President, Global Services, and Raghuram Devalla, Chief Technology Officer, Ramco Systems.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Gain an understanding as to the technical challenges behind corporate mergers and acquisitions
• Learn how SOA can help organizations during mergers
• Understand the role of SOA governance in mergers and acquisition

ZapForum Podcast: A Multi-Role Approach to SOA

ZapForum Podcast for October 18, 2007 features

Guest Expert Jim Murphy, Vice President of Product Management, Mindreef.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Identify the various roles that people must play to form an effective SOA team
• Understand the various relationships that SOA fosters, for example, between architects and quality assurance personnel
• Learn to recognize and avoid the pitfalls that diverse SOA teams can introduce

Tidal Software Podcast: SOA Management: Myth or Reality?

This Podcast is an informative and lively debate between two well-recognized industry experts about the state of performance monitoring and management for SOA applications.

Featured are Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions, and Jason Bloomberg, Managing Partner with ZapThink. Both bring deep knowledge and unique perspectives about application management SOA, web services, and the relevant technologies and standards to this debate.

Whether you are simply deploying web services or building out a complete service-oriented architecture, come hear these analysts’ views on tough questions such as:

• What should management look like in the world of service based applications?
• How does SOA change the landscape of application and systems management?
• Can traditional monitoring tools be effective managing tomorrow’s SOA deployments or is something new needed?
• What standards are needed to make SOA adoption a success, or do they already exist? What role do they play and what are the alternatives?
• As enterprises increasingly deploy SOA-based applications and infrastructure, the lingering question remains: how do current plans and approaches to application management stack up to managing these mission-critical deployments?

This Podcast was produced by Tidal Software and is presented as a 13.8 MB mp3 file. Running time 1:00.21. Recorded on September 14, 2007 at the Harvard Club, Boston.

ZapForum Podcast: Case Study: Web Services at a Midsize Bank

ZapForum Podcast for September 21, 2007 features

Guest Experts Mike Zink, Database Analyst & Developer, Roger Lanka, Manager of Client/Server Development, Shawn King, Programmer/Analyst, and Jason Bowling, Programmer/Analyst, First Merit Bank.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

• Get a real-world sense as to how a midsize bank is leveraging Web Services
• Understand how mainframes play in a Microsoft environment
• Gain insight into how reusable Web Services can reduce costs and provide agility