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SOA Today Web Briefings

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has the power to transform businesses into agile, efficient, and cost-effective enterprises, but potential adopters remain cautious - particularly in an economy where budgets can be cut at a moment's notice. How do you reconcile SOA's benefits with fear of failure and security risks? How do you ensure rapid ROI on a limited budget? How does cloud computing fit into the mix? Our May Web briefing series covers these questions and more of your pressing SOA concerns, delivering valuable front-line insights, lessons learned and best practices for implementation. If you're considering or in the midst of an SOA or cloud computing deployment, these compelling Web briefings will help you avoid pitfalls, reduce implementation costs and deliver rapid value to business users. Upcoming topics include:

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SOA-enabled Clouds: Enabling Global Business Services Utilities (Business Level)
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The Briefing:
As the concept of cloud computing rapidly gains momentum, it is generating a mix of excitement, fear and even confusion among the IT community. If you're struggling to separate the hype surrounding cloud computing from reality, this Web briefing is tailored specifically for you. We'll discuss the most pressing concerns of today's IT managers and CIOs including security risks, integration with legacy systems, and changing business needs; how to overcome these concerns; potential benefits; and leading practices for adopting the architecture and integrating data using SOA. Whether you're a potential consumer or provider of the cloud, you won't want to miss this insightful briefing.
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Managing Risk through Secure Business Asset Sharing (Business Level)
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The Briefing:
Risk management and security have long been concerns in the Web-based world, but for organizations contemplating or in the midst of SOA adoption, they often reach unprecedented heights. Not only must you strike the right balance between ensuring end-user transparency and securing multiplying access points, but you must also manage general risk across your SOA deployment process. Even more challenging, you must do it all in an economy where budget constraints are the norm rather than the exception. During this timely Web briefing, we'll discuss critical SOA security considerations, leading best practices for secure business asset sharing, and an iterative approach to SOA adoption that reduces your overall deployment risk and ensures rapid ROI.
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Dispelling SOA Myths with Fast and Frequent ROI (Business Level)
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The Briefing:
We've all heard the rumors that SOA is "dead," yet companies are successfully implementing SOA and realizing significant benefits every day. How do today's business leaders reconcile the very real potential benefits of SOA with the rampant failures that have been reported? During this Web briefing, Brown will explain how SOA implementation approach can be the critical differentiator between success and failure, and why it's critical to keep SOA "people- focused." He'll debunk popular SOA myths with front-lines intelligence and present an iterative, agile approach to SOA implementation that delivers value to the business quickly. If you've ever questioned SOA's viability, you can't afford to miss this compelling Web briefing.
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Recession-proof Your Business with SOA (Business Level)
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The Briefing:
The ability to rapidly modify service offerings is becoming key to success in today's turbulent economy. Many companies are turning to SOA to help their business reduce development effort and achieve agility, but implementing SOA effectively has proved a daunting challenge all its own. How can today's IT managers and CIOs realistically propose SOA and quickly deliver benefits without risking their jobs? Rolta TUSC's Brad Brown will explain why historic SOA implementations have failed, how you can benefit from innovative software that fundamentally transforms the complexity of implementing SOA to an "instant" task, and how an agile, iterative approach can deliver rapid ROI for your business and ultimately lower total cost of ownership. In a time where budgets can be cut at a moment's notice, this briefing will ensure you derive value from your SOA initiatives in weeks and become the "hero" for your business.
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The Path to SOA Using Web Services
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The Briefing:
Looking at a Service Oriented Architecture can be discouraging and for many companies it is difficult to determine if this undertaking will produce quantifiable results. We believe that seeing is believing. If you could make a few simple incremental changes and see immediate results then the path to SOA becomes more manageable. Of course there are many aspects to SOA such as Governance, Best Practices, management, etc. However, if you and your company can begin to understand and realize that the promises of service oriented IT are real and achievable then that once obscure concept comes in to focus and encourages the overall logic and reasoning for an SOA approach.

This webinar series will show you a tool that will simplify the creation of Web Services without learning a new language or for that matter any coding what so ever. We further believe that Web Services will simplify SOA. Leveraging over twenty years of IT Services experience we've learned that breaking down and simplifying complex issues such as SOA will allow you to make small incremental changes that will have enormous and lasting results.

Join us to see this true breakthrough in technology that will change the way you look at SOA and its impact on your company.

Data Accessibility and Agility - Consuming Web Services with ApEx
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The Briefing:
In our previous presentation titled "Scalable Oracle ApEx" you learned how to create an n-tier architecture for ApEx, and free up valuable database cycles. This architecture provides unparalleled scalability to your organization. In this presentation we will cover how you can consume services using ApEx. This is a technical presentation covering the specifics within ApEX to accomplish service consumption.

We will cover:

• How to create and register your services either manually or using our iPerspective™ technology.
• Consuming Your Services in ApEx


• Form with a Report
• Standalone Report
• Standalone Graph
• 2 Dimensional Array


• AJAX, LOVs, REST/JSON/XML, MTOM

Scaling Oracle's Application Express (ApEx)
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The Briefing:
The market's response to ApEx is varied. Some believe it is a great tool and use it every day for specific application needs. Some do not like the pressures it puts on the database and resist its deployment. Others rather than capitalizing on its strengths simply avoid it all together when it comes to building large scale applications.

In this session we will show how you can build applications using ApEx and dispel the concerns of those who do not believe that ApEx can be used to build large applications. Not only will you have a scalable, redundant architecture, but all of the services you create can be used by other applications! For example, the following can also consume these services:

In other words, the services that you build, using your existing data and business logic can be used throughout your business! Not only by other departments within your company, but by other companies - if you want to expose these services externally.

The Briefing:
As experienced SOA companies will attest, the scope of SOA is massive, and as companies start researching SOA, the concepts get deeper by the minute. Between all of the acronyms, terms and technologies such as buses (ESBs), Message queues (JMS, MQueue), compliance, governance and so many more - Database Administrator's and others get overwhelmed quickly. Each topic is its own Pandora's Box! The bottom line is SOA is HUGE!

But...it doesn't have to be. You don't have to boil the whole ocean to venture into SOA, you just need to dip your toe in to see how it feels first. This presentation will present the current culture in Service Oriented Architecture and demonstrate a tool to help automate much of this process for you.

The Value Proposition Behind iPerspective
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The Briefing:
Take advantage of speed to market to deliver on business requirements. iPerspective will rapidly move your organization into a full- fledged service-oriented architecture using what you've already built - no need to re- build or recode.

The benefits of SOA include:

• Increased Business Agility - respond faster, process efficiencies
  
• Integration Cost Savings - reduced maintenance, less skills required, freedom to select platform, technology, and location independently
  
• Real-time access to data (rather than stale data)
  
• Loose Coupling - increasing asset reuse
  
• Reduced risk - incremental deployment, quicker payback
  
• Freedom to select platform, technology and location independently - based on open standards
  
• Low latency, high performance
  
• Reliability, redundancy
  
• Componentization, encapsulation, separation of interface from implementation