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SOA Implementation Roadmap Poster
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Information and Registration for ZapThink Events
Thank your for your interest in a ZapThink conference, event, or Licensed ZapThink Architect (LZA) boot camp! See below for more information on the event or conference you are interested in. Want more information on the LZA Program? Click here! Looking forward to seeing you there!Information and Registration for ZapThink Events
Select an Upcoming Event for More Info & To Register:
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| May. 16, 2008 | Practical SOA: Insurance - Co-Located with ACORD LOMA 2008! | Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, NV | ||||||
| May. 20, 2008 | LZA Boot Camp -- Bangalore India - May 20-23, 2008 | Bangalore India | ||||||
| Jul. 08, 2008 | LZA Boot Camp -- Tel Aviv, Israel, July 8 - 11, 2008 | Tel Aviv, Israel | ||||||
| Jul. 29, 2008 | LZA Boot Camp -- New Jersey July 29 - August 1, 2008 | New Jersey | ||||||

Location-Based Data Mashups for SharePoint using Visual Fusion Suite®
May 28, 2008 12:00-1:00 pm EDT
Geospatial, the portal, and enterprise mash-ups -- Jason Bloomberg will present on enterprise mashups in the SOA context. Learn how IDV Solutions has combined these concepts into a platform for building web-based, visual composite applications.
Scott Caulk will present on how the Visual Fusion Suite empowers the enterprise to consolidate structured and unstructured data found inside the organization with Web services and feeds of value found in the cloud to create location and time based interactive visualizations.
This Webinar will inform on how Visual Fusion capitalizes on the location and time aspects of information, geospatially enables enterprise data and the portal, serves as a geospatial CMS, complements in-house GIS, and ultimately brings greater levels of insight to the enterprise for better and faster decision making.
ebizQ's Event Processing Virtual Conference
Event procesing is the next leading-edge technology for building an implementing more flexible and scalable solutions and SOAs. Join Gartner’s Roy Schulte, Forrester’s Charles Brett and a panel discussion with David Luckam and Mani Chandy to discover what event stream processing, complex event processing, and event-driven SOAs can do for your enterprise.For more information and to register, visit http://www.ebizq.net/to/EEBZAPTHINKVCEP

ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum: Register Today
Online Registration Now OpenOnline registration for the 2008 ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum is now open. You can also make your hotel reservations at Mandalay Bay online from a link on the travel page.This year's Forum will be Tuesday, May 13 through Thursday, May 15, 2008. Be sure to check back in the new year for session listings and additional information.Visit the travel page
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Check Out The Hottest, Latest Podcasts!
| ZapForum Podcast for April 21, 2008 features
Guest Expert Ian Clemens, Chief Technology Officer and Cofounder, IDV Solutions.
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| Special ZapThink "Sneak Preview" of Practical SOA: London, UK event on April 25, 2008 features:
Jason Bloomberg, Managing Partner, ZapThink
Nicolas Farges, Technical Architect, GE Capital Solutions Europe
Roy Varughese, Chief Architect, ABN AMRO (Global Clients)
Francois Lascelles, Director of Client Solutions, Layer 7 Technologies
Rix Groenboom, Parasoft
Peter Steel, EMEA Technology Manager, DataDirect
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| ZapForum Podcast for March 17, 2008 features
Guest Expert Al Aghili, Chief Technology Officer, Managed Methods.
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DataDirect’s Architect Tutorials | Expert Series 2008
Innovations for Software Architects: Data Connectivity Design Considerations for SOA and Virtualized Environments
Organizations are leveraging SOA and server virtualization to realize additional development and run-time efficiencies. SOA is being used to more efficiently design and develop applications while the goal of server virtualization is to maximize the use of available hardware resources.
The implications of data connectivity as it relates to data access, mainframe integrbation and XML processing are substantial. SOA initiatives can fail to realize the development savings and application performance, flexibility and reliability and reliability goals if a sound data services strategy is not designed into the foundation of the application architecture. For virtualized environments, a sub-par data connectivity strategy will result in resource contention issues that will undermine the advantages of virtualized computing resources.
In this half day seminar, software architects will learn about the design considerations that should be included in a successful architecture approach for both SOA applications and virtualized environments. The seminar will provide the insight to navigate the complexities of data access technologies and the practical know-how to enhance application performance, flexibility and capability right away.
The information provided in this seminar will be applicable to architects regardless of whether they are designing for Java, .NET, or other development platforms. It will address an increasingly typical situation where an enterprise is dealing with a heterogeneous mix of data – relational, XML, proprietary data formats that reside on a combination of different platforms including Windows, UNIX, Linux and the mainframe.
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