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Are your business processes dynamic and agile?

This morning I was talking to a customer about how to build dynamic business processes that can adapt to rapid changes in the business without having to re-implement the whole process. The answer is: WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition (WDPE), released in June of 2008, now in it's latest release (WDPE version 6.2 to match up with the rest of the WebSphere SOA tooling) is an excellent tool for businesses that are implementing business processes that are dynamic in nature. Dynamic processes are built so that the process can adapt to rapid changes in the business.

In this economy, if you want to be competitive, business change is imminent and so is the need for agility in your business processes. WebSphere Dynamic Business Process Edition provides an excellent insight into your enterprise process contents or assets (EPC) and thereby empowering you to continuously optimize your business by dynamically reacting to the changes.

Can u change the business process, without changing the underlying enterprise process assets or content that were built by IT? Yes, if you have implemented those process assets using the WebSphere Dynamic Business Process Edition.

WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition includes these products to help you with the agile process implementation:

• WebSphere Business Modeler
• WebSphere Business Monitor
• WebSphere Business Service Fabric (refer to my previous post on WBSF)
• Business Space powered by WebSphere

More on Business space soon! I am going to enjoy the glorious weather in Michigan today. It's going to be around 80 next couple of days. Yey!

Cheers,
Steve Lokam

Oh! IBM.. now you let Larry possibly take over Sun..

Follow up to my previous post on IBM acquiring Sun. We were so excited about that as that would fit very well into our long term strategy around IBM offerings. I was so down when IBM withdrew the bid to buy Sun a few days ago.

We were still wondering last week as to Why Oracle has not come out with an offer to buy Sun. Who else might need these guys other than IBM or Oracle.

Now that IBM has loosened it's grip over this deal, Larry will not let go of this thing. Meanwhile, Java stock-holders good for you.. This is gonna happen. Once he's made his decision to go after something, that's it.. he is not even going to listen to himself. IBM.. I guess, we can forget Sun for now, unless you wanna pay up your nose of more than $8B and then start a bidding war for Sun. Is Sun that much worth.. I dont know.. u guys decide that for yourselves..

Cheers,

OpenLogix

IBM Portal Excellence Conference 2009 - San Diego

IBM WebSphere Portal Technical Conference is now called the IBM Portal Excellence Conference. This year this is being hosted in lovely San Diego. We will be there. This is is one of our most important events in the year. We have been to this in the last 3 years and this is our fourth year in a row. Check out all the events that we are attending this year.

We just signed up for this conference. This event gives us an excellent opportunity to present our capabilities in the Portal space. This year, we are also announcing a new product offering in the Portal and Collaboration space. We are currently developing and deploying the product at a few pilot customers. One of our technical architects will be presenting this product as well. It is a secret until then.

Keep looking out for our blog for more information on that product offering soon.

Cheers,
OpenLogix

Visit us at IMPACT 2009 in Vegas, May 3-8

We are excited again to be at the Impact 2009 in Las Vegas during May 3-8. Visit our booth in the solution center. This is one of the biggest customer events in the WebSphere space.

Here are some of the top 5 reasons to attend the Impact conference this year. Register now in the next 1 week for an additional discount as our esteemed customer attendee. This year's event is at the Venetian Hotel and Resort (attached to the Sands Expo).

Last year, there were more than 4000 attendees at this conference and has been a great event for us to meet and greet some of our existing customers and also a great place for us to meet new customers. This year, we will be announcing a new product offering from OpenLogix catering to all the WebSphere customers. Look out for this announcement regarding this new product offering.

I love the free certifications that we can get done here at the Impact.

Cheers,
OpenLogix

IBM Buying Sun.. Wow..Exciting news. I always admired Sun so much.

I am kind of excited that IBM has a bid on the table to buy SUN. Finally Sun can stop their search for a buyer. Sun has a lot to offer that IBM can use. From a hardware perspective, they will have Sun servers and from a UNIX platform, they can add a lot of Solaris customers to their bag and eventually migrate them to AIX. But, I am not sure, how much hardware really matters to IBM, as the margins in that business are pretty slim as such.

BTW, my topic of interest - SOA and Integration: What would they do with Sun's JCAPS (from SeeBeyond). I really like that product offering from Sun. But, IBM has competing and well established WebSphere Integration toolset. Similarly, there are a lot of competing infrastructure offerings from both these players in the middleware space like the app server and the portal. I wonder what IBM would do with some of these things from Sun. I hate to see some of them fade away, though.

Most importantly, IBM would benefit from the silicon-valley innovation that Sun brings to the table. Not that IBM is short of any innovation internally, but the more the merrier. This buyout is certainly an interesting thing to watch out.. Let's see how this panes out.

Cheers,

OpenLogix Team

WebSphere Business Services Fabric (WBSF) or the SOA Fabric

Been busy with a new baby at home. U know the sleepless night and stuff. Did not get a chance to post any articles recently.

Anyway, lately have been hearing again a lot about SOBAs (refer to my previous post  on SOBAs). IBM is showing some heat again in this space with it recent acquisition of Webify and by branding it as part of their Flagship brand WebSphere. IBM's WebSphere® Business Services Fabric (WBSF - formerly the SOA Fabric from Webify), is the new name for the acquired product SOA Fabric from Webify.  WBSF provides a complete process integration solution with SOA governance added to that. Using the WBSF, common business services can be used across multiple business processes across the enterpise, which enables IT to deliver solutions that can dynamically provide customized content based on the business context of the services in use.

BTW, you are in luck if you are in Insurance Industry or if you are in the Healthcare industry - as you can take advantage of WBSF's pre-built industry SOA content. These industry specific content packs are only avaialble for these two industries and they are building more soon, I guess. The content in these packs include various industry specific commonly used business services & SOA models to make it easy for interoperability among IT systems &  partners; to facilitate SOA reuse and to achieve industry standards compliance like HIPAA and ACORD.

Cheers,
Steve Lokam

WebSphere Portlet Factory and Rational Application Developer RAD 7

I have been quite amazed at what WebSphere Portlet Factory could do. I love what it has to deliver in terms of rapid development and testing of portlets. WebSphere Portlet factory lovers out there, if you are migrating to Rational Application Developer 7 (RAD 7) from RAD 6, make sure your Portlet Factory works with RAD 7. One of my techies mentioned earler this week that RAD 7 and the current version of the Porlet Factory are not compatible. He had to get back to RAD 6. However, I am sure IBM already has a patch for this.

BTW, heard the new RAD 7 is awesome with some of it's features including a Web Services wizard. Check out it's features.

Cheers,
Steve Lokam