SOA & Web Service Webinars

Webinar Archives

Apr 22, 2008

The Risks, Strategies and PayOff: SOA Runtime Governance

Cut through all of the confusion around SOA governance to learn the ins-and-outs of the two key aspects of SOA runtime governance: visibility and policy enforcement. Hear the challenges and strategies for addressing them. By learning how SOA runtime governance can directly impact your business, you will have the key information needed to build a business case to justify the investment in SOA solutions.

Sept 12, 2007

SOA and Web Service Management – Why Planning Now Is Vital for Success

As organizations frame their strategies, a key measure of success is how well critical applications, from online sales to call center applications, are being served. To ensure success, complete visibility and tracking service interactions to meet SLA's are required. Monitoring transactions in real-time provides visibility into who is experiencing problems, the type and magnitude of problems, and the business transaction impacted. Setting up these fundamental management principles enables the organization to take action before the business is affected, before the SLA is violated and before you've lost control!

June 28, 2007

SaaS Architecture for Extreme Agility and Scalability

How does Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) prevent $1 billion in fraud annually? The answer is: with ab SaaS Architecture. When you provide software, processing, and fraud prevention services to 7,800 global financial institutions and 47,000 retailers, you learn a thing or two about SOA flexibility and scalability. Listen as Progress Actional customer, Ron A. Whyte, VP Risk Technology at Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), and Progress CTO Hub Vandervoort discuss FIS' business and the SaaS architecture they built to meet varied and fast-growing client needs.

June 27, 2007

Socially Oriented Architecture: A world where architecture and infrastructure enable dynamic execution of business

Hub Vandervoort, CTO of the Enterprise Infrastructure Division of Progress Software, discusses the social impact of SOA on IT culture. SOA is expanding the management challenges for IT executives as they try to build applications for their different constituents – using a federated multi-party approach for all interactions. If you’re delivering software on a scheduled release basis or trying to manage SOA governance in a top-down command and control fashion, stop and listen to this 30 minute analysis of the social implications of SOA on IT management thinking.

June 27, 2007

Continuous Service Optimization: How to Use SOA to Better Serve Your Business Goals

Learn what Sandy Rogers from IDC and Dan Foody from Progress Actional say about the critical steps necessary to ensure that your most vital business concerns—your enterprise and its customers, channels, and partners—get the best service, resulting in a competitive edge.

June 6, 2007

SOA Security and Compliance: How to Avoid the Risks

If your business has substantial security or regulatory compliance requirements, chances are you have concerns about enforcing appropriate measures, while keeping overhead and costs to a minimum. Ensuring security and compliance won’t bring in additional revenue, but failure to enforce such measures can result in substantial risk and cost. Join Progress Actional and Partners HealthCare for this webinar and learn how a decoupled approach to service development and centralized security management can help you manage the risk across your enterprise SOA.

May 16, 2007

Operating Your SOA — Are You Up to the Challenge?

Join Progress Software’s Mike Gero and David Schwartz from University of Phoenix as they discuss fundamental SOA management principles that help enterprises recognize the full potential of an SOA with end-to-end visibility that quickly translates into more efficient and cost-effective SOA operations. Highlights include service governance through automatic discovery of services and dependencies, increased IT efficiency through root cause analysis and enterprise scalability and high performance without increased costs.

March 2, 2007

Jumpstarting SOA in Your SAP Environment

Learn the advantages of SAP's enterprise SOA approach, steps to effective SOA adoption, how to quickly integrate with various SOA standards, how to secure, manage, govern and enforce policies around non-SAP applications, and more.

February 6, 2007

Key Reasons for Implementing SOA Runtime Governance

Your organization is committed to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) - You've put in place procedures to govern your Design-time processes - but do you know what is really happening within your SOA infrastructure – at Runtime? Progress Software's Director of Technology Dr. Giles Nelson discusses the key reasons for implementing SOA Runtime Governance and shows how other organisations have used Actional to strike the balance between encouraging reuse of services at Design-time and ensuring that policies for access, security and performance are enforced at Runtime.

November 10, 2006

SOA Worst Practices: How to Secure the Health of Your SOA from the Start

Join Mike Gero, Director, Product Management, Progress Software and Alex Rosen, SOA Practice Manager, MomentumSI on November 2 to discover the guidelines of SOA success. Don't fall victim to common SOA mistakes: learn from the dubious design, development and deployment practices of some not-so-fortunate IT organizations. Viewers may also download the SOA Worst Practices white paper.

June 28, 2006

SOA Governance

What is SOA governance? Find out how it relates to policy-setting and compliance in your Web services environment – and how it is essential to the functioning of your network from development through deployment and test – and especially during runtime.

March 21, 2006

Implementing a Successful SOA Pilot Program

Service-oriented architecture is not easy to do right: IT teams must overcome technical, organizational, political and other hurdles on the path to SOA nirvana. Actional and key partners share their real-world experience to help you avoid the most common pains associated with implementing SOA for the first time.

March 15, 2006

Next Generation SOA Management: Introducing Business Process Visibility for SOA

Find out how Actional breaks down the silos that separate business functions – and knocks down barriers that have hitherto hidden business processes from the underlying IT systems upon which transactions execute. Business Process Visibility from Actional finally makes it possible to align IT goals with those of the business.

December 15, 2005

Optimizing the SOA Lifecycle from Design Time to Runtime with Comprehensive Governance

Discover how – from design time to runtime – Actional achieves comprehensive SOA governance. This webinar offers an understanding of Actional Web services management, and the Systinet registry, combined with a valuable perspective on the inter-relationships between the various components of a SOA – and how those elements impact each other in the event of change.

November 15, 2005

Runtime Governance

What every IT manager needs to know about SOA governance. And then some. How IT governance is different from SOA governance. What's special about Runtime governance. The centrality of compliance – and how to make it happen. How to get ROI from your SOA governance implementation. Why service-reuse is essential. And more.

October 4, 2005

What Does The Government Know About SOA That The Commercial Sector Does Not?

You might be surprised how much governments in the Asia-Pacific region have accomplished in the realm of SOA. Actional shares SOA secrets gleaned from hands-on work with its government customers in Hong Kong and elsewhere in the Pacific Rim. This webinar presents detailed use cases.

September 29, 2005

Will SOA Benefit The Energy & Utility Industry?

Hear about the cost savings and key benefits SOA is providing to utilities directly from an Energy Central vice president and a consultant with years of IT performance evaluation and gap analysis at Florida Power and Light, NSTAR and Exxel Energy.

September 13, 2005

Web Services Versioning Made Simple

Your Web services architecture is a success: you've got employees, customers and partners consuming services of all kinds across your network. But how do you handle versioning – especially in the case of mission-critical services where down-time is virtually out of the question? This webinar gives you the answers you need.

August 11, 2005

How Enterprises Can Leverage SOA To Share Information Securely

Explore the intricacies of security in today's evolving SOA environments. The CTO of Actional and other industry luminaries discuss key issues such as: network-based security, the "trust model," the lack of separation between security and functionality – and the notion that applications must demonstrate trustworthiness in order to participate in the SOA.

July 14, 2005

The Top 5 Things Your Agency Should Know About SOA Management & Visibility

Find out how Actional has helped the federal government and state and local agencies to adopt SOA implementations. Contrary to popular notions, government agencies, with Actional's assistance, have taken the lead in designing and rolling out information-sharing and application-integration solutions founded on service-oriented architecture. Learn the secrets to these agencies' success.

May 6, 2005

End-To-End Visibility Of Consumer Services Use: SOA Governance in Action

Learn from Actional CTO Dan Foody about the company's unique technologies for auto-discovering both: a) consumers of Web services on your network and b) providers of Web services on your network. Find out how information obtained at runtime by Actional SOA management is used to apply policy and govern your Web services.

April 2, 2005

Taking Control Of SOA

As organizations implement Web services and SOA, they are quickly finding technology is not the primary hurdle. To the contrary: services are so easy to deploy that IT managers are finding themselves awash in "invisible" services – bogging down their mission-critical applications. Find out how to employ Actional SOA governance to avoid this pain.