SOA & Web Service Webinars
After nearly a decade in the business, Actional has developed proven methodologies for executing SOA and Web services management. Learn the secrets behind implementing a successful SOA pilot, how to employ SOA securely, and how to make sure your Web services are compliant with government regulations and other policies.
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June 12, 2008 
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Faster than a speeding bullet - are you ready for event-driven business?Your systems can’t keep up with the ever-increasing velocity of business. Financial trade settlement has accelerated from three days to two hours in just a few years; the trend towards real-time business is repeating itself in almost every industry. |
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May 6, 2008
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Visibility and Tracking for Critical Applications – Optimize Application Performance and Increase RevenueWhether you have one or 500 web services, learn why Web Service and SOA Management is becoming "required insurance" for any enterprise that has mission critical applications that rely on these services. See first hand how customers are using Web Service and SOA Management to stay two steps ahead of the competition. |
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Apr 29, 2008
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1+1=3: Marrying Best-of-Breed Tools for Business Process GovernanceCommunication is the basis of any successful relationship, including that between business people and technologists. Bringing together BPM and SOA Governance enables business drivers to be translated quickly to SOA implementation, with full accountability, lower cost of ownership, and business-level SOA optimization. |
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Apr 22, 2008
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The Risks, Strategies and PayOff: SOA Runtime GovernanceCut 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. |
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Sept 12, 2007
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SOA and Web Service Management – Why Planning Now Is Vital for SuccessAs 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! |
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June 28, 2007
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SaaS Architecture for Extreme Agility and ScalabilityHow 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. |
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June 27, 2007
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Socially Oriented Architecture: A world where architecture and infrastructure enable dynamic execution of businessHub 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. |
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June 27, 2007
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Continuous Service Optimization: How to Use SOA to Better Serve Your Business GoalsLearn 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. |
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June 6, 2007
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SOA Security and Compliance: How to Avoid the RisksIf 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. |
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May 16, 2007
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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. |
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March 2, 2007
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Jumpstarting SOA in Your SAP EnvironmentLearn 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. |
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February 6, 2007
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Key Reasons for Implementing SOA Runtime GovernanceYour 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. |
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