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Think of a call-in radio talk show with interviews and content from ZapThink's leading experts. Now throw in an ever-growing network of influential SOA implementers. Add insightful commentary from guest speakers, and you have a ZapForum Podcast - the hottest new concept for people interested in SOA today!
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Every month ZapThink will host the online ZapForum Podcast. Each Podcast will start with thought-provoking content lead by ZapThink SOA experts. After this introduction, the ZapForum Podcast will feature guest experts who will speak and take Q&A from ZapThink analysts.

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Location-Based Data Mashups for SharePoint (Apr. 21, 2008)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: Location-Based Data Mashups for SharePoint
ZapForum Podcast for April 21, 2008 features Guest Expert Ian Clemens, Chief Technology Officer and Cofounder, IDV Solutions.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • learn what an enterprise mashup is
  • understand what it means for a mashup to be enterprise-ready
  • Learn why location and visualizations are important for mashups
  • Get an understanding of why Microsoft SharePoint makes for a good mashup platform.

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ZapThink Podcast: Practical SOA: London, UK - April 25, 2008... (Apr. 14, 2008)
Title: ZapThink Podcast: Practical SOA: London, UK - April 25, 2008 - Sneak Peek
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


Listen to this Podcast and you will get a "Sneak Peek" at what all the presenters will be speaking about at our Practical SOA: London, UK event on April 25, 2008.

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The Value of Runtime Governance (Mar. 16, 2008)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: The Value of Runtime Governance
ZapForum Podcast for March 17, 2008 features Guest Expert Al Aghili, Chief Technology Officer, Managed Methods.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Learn about how runtime governance is impacting Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementations
  • Understand why runtime governance is an important consideration for all SOA implementations
  • Learn about the relationship among SOA governance, policy management, and security.

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ZapThink Podcast: Practical SOA : New York / New Jersey - Fi... (Mar. 3, 2008)
Title: ZapThink Podcast: Practical SOA : New York / New Jersey - Finance, Pharma, Media, Governance, Quality, and Management Sneak Peek
Special ZapThink "Sneak Preview" Podcast for January 8, 2008 features:

Ron Schmelzer, Managing Partner, ZapThink

Ben Moreland, Director, Foundation Services, The Hartford

Kush Mishra, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Boehringer Ingelheim

Mike Kavis, Executive Director, Architecture, Catalina Marketing

Jim Mackay, CMO, iTKO

Al Aghili, CTO and Founder, Managed Methods

Martin Milani, CTO, Tidal Software

Dan Finerty, Director, Product Marketing, DataDirect


Listen to this Podcast and you will get a "Sneak Peek" at what all the presenters will be speaking about at our Practical SOA: New York / New Jersey - Finance, Pharma, Media, Governance, Quality, and Management event in Newark, New Jersey, on March 25, 2008.

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UI as a Service (Feb. 24, 2008)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: UI as a Service
ZapForum Podcast for February 24, 2008 features Guest Expert Edwin van der Sanden, Chief Technology Officer, Corizon.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Understand what a user interface (UI) Service is
  • Learn about situational applications and fit-for-purpose applications and their relationship to composite applications
  • Compare UI Services to mashups, portlets, and widgets, and place them in the SOA context

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ZapThink Podcast: Practical SOA Energy & Utilities Sneak Pee... (Jan. 25, 2008)
Title: ZapThink Podcast: Practical SOA Energy & Utilities Sneak Peek
Special ZapThink "Sneak Preview" Podcast for January 24, 2008 features:

James Jones, Director, Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), BP

Rusty Foreman, DCT Enterprise Architecture, BP

Patrick Bhirdo, Endigo Energy

Richard Green, Principal Analyst, DTE Energy

David Anderson, Solution Architect, BEA Systems, Inc

John Michelsen, Founder & Chief Architect, iTKO

Dan Finerty, Director, Product Marketing, DataDirect Shadow

Jason Bloomberg, Managing Partner, ZapThink


Listen to this Podcast and you will get a "Sneak Peek" at what all the presenters will be speaking about at our Practical SOA: Energy and Utilities event in Houston, TX on February 5, 2008.

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Converging Data & Documents in SOA (Jan. 11, 2008)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: Converging Data & Documents in SOA
ZapForum Podcast for January 11, 2008 features Guest Expert Jake Sorofman, VP of Marketing, JustSystems.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Learn about the role of documents in SOA
  • Get an idea of the role XML has in the creation of content
  • Understand how dynamic documents that display application functionality can help implement document-centric business processes in the context of SOA

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ZapThink Podcast: Practical SOA Frankfurt Sneak Peek (Jan. 8, 2008)
Title: ZapThink Podcast: Practical SOA Frankfurt Sneak Peek
Special ZapThink "Sneak Preview" Podcast for January 8, 2008 features:

Ron Schmelzer, Managing Partner, ZapThink

Ingo Arnold, Enterprise Systems Architect, Novartis Pharma AG

Wolfgang Otto, Principal Systems Engineer, BEA Systems

Florian Mösch, Vice President Enterprise Integration & Architecture, T-Mobile Deutschland GmbH

Jason English, iTKO, iTKO

Dr. Waldemar Lohrer, Senior Berater, Swiss Life

Tim Hall, SOA Center Product Management, Hewlett-Packard

Lars Drexler, VP Sales Enablement, Software AG


Listen to this Podcast and you will get a "Sneak Peek" at what all the presenters will be speaking about at our Practical SOA event in Frankfurt, Germany, on January 15, 2008.

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The Management Discipline of SOA (Dec. 26, 2007)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: The Management Discipline of SOA
ZapForum Podcast for December 26, 2007 features Guest Expert Uli Kalex, VP of Product Line Management, alfabet.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Understand the issues and activities that are relevant to the management side of SOA as opposed to the technical side
  • Learn why the business issues are so important when implementing SOA
  • Get an idea which areas of the business can benefit the most from SOA

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How Much SOA Do You Need? (Dec. 14, 2007)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: How Much SOA Do You Need?
ZapForum Podcast for December 14, 2007 features Guest Expert Kyle Gabhart, Director, SOA Technology, Web Age Solutions.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Learn how a "Selective SOA" approach can reduce the risk of a SOA initiative
  • Understand how a limited scope SOA project should handle infrastructure and governance issues
  • Learn about how to train SOA architects as well as details on the ZapThink/Web Age Solutions partnership for delivering Licensed ZapThink Architect credentialing sessions

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OpenAjax: Standardizing the Web 2.0 Client (Nov. 15, 2007)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: OpenAjax: Standardizing the Web 2.0 Client
ZapForum Podcast for November 15, 2007 features Guest Expert John Ferraiolo, Web Architect within IBM's Emerging Technologies Group and manager of operations at the OpenAjax Alliance.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Get an introduction to the OpenAjax Alliance, what its role is, and who its members are
  • Understand the challenges facing interoperability among Ajax toolkits
  • Learn the distinction between Ajax components and Ajax applications

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Mergers & Acquisitions Made Easy with SOA (Oct. 30, 2007)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: Mergers & Acquisitions Made Easy with SOA
ZapForum Podcast for October 30, 2007 features Guest Experts Richard Sides, Senior Vice President, Global Services, and Raghuram Devalla, Chief Technology Officer, Ramco Systems.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Gain an understanding as to the technical challenges behind corporate mergers and acquisitions
  • Learn how SOA can help organizations during mergers
  • Understand the role of SOA governance in mergers and acquisition

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A Multi-Role Approach to SOA (Oct. 18, 2007)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: A Multi-Role Approach to SOA
ZapForum Podcast for October 18, 2007 features Guest Expert Jim Murphy, Vice President of Product Management, Mindreef.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Identify the various roles that people must play to form an effective SOA team
  • Understand the various relationships that SOA fosters, for example, between architects and quality assurance personnel
  • Learn to recognize and avoid the pitfalls that diverse SOA teams can introduce

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Tidal Software Podcast: SOA Management: Myth or Reality? (Oct. 4, 2007)
Title: Tidal Software Podcast: SOA Management: Myth or Reality?
This Podcast is an informative and lively debate between two well-recognized industry experts about the state of performance monitoring and management for SOA applications.

Featured are Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions, and Jason Bloomberg, Managing Partner with ZapThink. Both bring deep knowledge and unique perspectives about application management SOA, web services, and the relevant technologies and standards to this debate.

Whether you are simply deploying web services or building out a complete service-oriented architecture, come hear these analysts’ views on tough questions such as:

  • What should management look like in the world of service based applications?
  • How does SOA change the landscape of application and systems management?
  • Can traditional monitoring tools be effective managing tomorrow’s SOA deployments or is something new needed?
  • What standards are needed to make SOA adoption a success, or do they already exist? What role do they play and what are the alternatives?
  • As enterprises increasingly deploy SOA-based applications and infrastructure, the lingering question remains: how do current plans and approaches to application management stack up to managing these mission-critical deployments?

This Podcast was produced by Tidal Software and is presented as a 13.8 MB mp3 file. Running time 1:00.21. Recorded on September 14, 2007 at the Harvard Club, Boston.

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Case Study: Web Services at a Midsize Bank (Sep. 21, 2007)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: Case Study: Web Services at a Midsize Bank
ZapForum Podcast for September 21, 2007 features Guest Experts Mike Zink, Database Analyst & Developer, Roger Lanka, Manager of Client/Server Development, Shawn King, Programmer/Analyst, and Jason Bowling, Programmer/Analyst, First Merit Bank.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Get a real-world sense as to how a midsize bank is leveraging Web Services
  • Understand how mainframes play in a Microsoft environment
  • Gain insight into how reusable Web Services can reduce costs and provide agility

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ZapThink Podcast: Practical SOA Financial Services (Sep. 20, 2007)
Title: ZapThink Podcast: Practical SOA Financial Services
Special ZapThink "Sneak Preview" Podcast for September 20, 2007 features:

Jason Bloomberg, Managing Partner, ZapThink

Michael Poulin, Head of Business Analysis & Web Delivery, Fidelity Investment International

Jim Mackay, Chief Marketing Officer, iTKO

David Davies, Vice President, Products, Corizon

William Morgan, Lead Technical Architect for Financial Services in the UK, LogicaCMG

David Wright, Director, Global Financial Services Software AG webMethods


Listen to this Podcast and you will get a "Sneak Peek" at what all the presenters spoke about at our Practical SOA for Financial Services event in London, England, on September 27, 2007.

Hear from these speakers on the following topics:

  • Jason Bloomberg -- SOA Adoption Trends for Financial Services and the World
  • Michael Poulin -- Case Study in SOA: The Next Steps in the Organically Growing SOA
  • Jim Mackay -- SOA Quality and the Financial Services Industry
  • David Davies -- Agility at the User Interface
  • William Morgan -- SOA Case Study: Homeserve GB - Composite applications for insurance customer care
  • David Wright -- Real Value from SOA and BPM: How Financial Institutions can transform their Businesses and Get There Faster

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Collaborative & Iterative Service Development (Sep. 16, 2007)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: Collaborative & Iterative Service Development
ZapForum Podcast for September 16, 2007 features Guest Expert Jack Kennedy, Founder & Vice President of Product Delivery, Skyway Software.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Learn what collaborative development means
  • Understand the connection among modeling, methodology, and development
  • Grasp the role of Model-Driven Development in the context of SOA

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Understanding Identity & SOA (Sep. 1, 2007)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: Understanding Identity & SOA
ZapForum Podcast for September 1, 2007 features Guest Expert Toufic Boubez, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Layer 7 Technologies.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Learn what identity is and how it fits into SOA
  • Understand the relationships between identity and governance and between identity and policy
  • Grasp the nature of federated identity, and the standards that support it

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Supporting Business Change with a Model-Driven Approach to ... (Jun. 26, 2007)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: Supporting Business Change with a Model-Driven Approach to SOA
ZapForum Podcast for June 26, 2007 features Guest Expert Barbara Angius Saxby, Chief Marketing Officer, Ramco Systems.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Understand how to support changing business processes with a model-driven approach
  • Learn what a business Service is in the context of business processes
  • Grasp the relationship between business process and SOA

Setting the Stage: ZapThink Analysts
ZapThink analysts Jason Bloomberg and Ron Schmelzer set the stage by discussing the challenge IT organizations face when they implement SOA to support business change.

Next, Barbara Saxby explains the model-driven approach to SOA, and takes a business process-centric perspective on business Services. She then delineates the Service-oriented approach to business process that supports ongoing business change. She also discusses the granularity of business Services as well as the requirements for an agile Service composition environment.

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The Service-Oriented Business Analyst (May. 25, 2007)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: The Service-Oriented Business Analyst
ZapForum Podcast for May 25, 2007 features Guest Expert Kyle Gabhart, SOA Practice Lead, Web Age Solutions.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Learn what a business analyst does and how SOA is changing the role of the business analyst
  • Understand the skills a business analyst needs within organizations implementing SOA
  • Discover the prerequisites for becoming a Service-oriented business analyst.

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Semantic Integration & SOA (May. 21, 2007)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: Semantic Integration & SOA
ZapForum Podcast for May 21, 2007 features Guest Experts Ken Rugg, Vice President Products, DataXtend, Progress Software.

and Bradley Falk, Chief Architect, Western Region, Online Business Systems.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Define semantic integration, semantic models, and ontologies
  • Understand the relationship between semantic integration and SOA
  • Learn about the limitations of semantic integration

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Enterprise Mashups: The Face of SOA (Mar. 31, 2007)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: Enterprise Mashups: The Face of SOA
ZapForum Podcast for March 31, 2006 features Guest Expert John Fitzgerald, Senior Manager, Crossvision Product Marketing, Software AG.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Learn how is SOA changing the composite application landscape
  • Understand the role of legacy in the SOA/composite application world
  • Relate composite applications and Enterprise Mashups to Rich Internet Applications, Ajax, and Web 2.0.

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Model-Driven Design of Service Contracts for SOA (Mar. 24, 2007)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: Model-Driven Design of Service Contracts for SOA
ZapForum Podcast for March 24, 2007 features Guest Experts Doug Strombom, CEO, Tigerstripe and Eric Dillon, CTO, Tigerstripe.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Get an in-depth understanding of Service contracts
  • Understand Model-Driven Design and how it can apply to Service contract creation
  • Learn about the business impact of model-driven Service design

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Accelerating the Benefits of Mainframe SOA Enablement (Mar. 7, 2007)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: Accelerating the Benefits of Mainframe SOA Enablement
ZapForum Podcast for March 7, 2007 features Guest Experts Tom Laszewski, Technical Director, Oracle.

and Dan Finerty, Director of Product Marketing, Shadow, DataDirect Technologies.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Learn what SOA enablement is and how to SOA enable the mainframe
  • Understand which mainframe assets should be exposed as Services
  • Get pointers on how companies should leverage current skills and current mainframe technologies in the context of SOA

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The Enterprise Architect Job Market (Feb. 25, 2007)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: The Enterprise Architect Job Market
ZapForum Podcast for February 25, 2007 features Guest Expert Jordan Haberfield, Managing Director, Excel Partner.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Gain perspective on the current state of the job market for Architects with SOA experience
  • Learn which industries are experiencing the greatest demand for Enterprise Architects (EAs)
  • Understand the current "speed bumps" affecting the EA marketplace

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ZapForum Podcast - Live at the Open Group (Part II) (Feb. 15, 2007)
Title: ZapForum Podcast - Live at the Open Group (Part II)
In this second of two parts of the ZapForum Podcast series recorded live at the Open Group event in San Diego, CA on January 29, 2007, ZapThink analyst Ron Schmelzer interviews attendees and exhibitors at the event to learn more about their SOA plans, their thoughts on Enterprise Architecture and the role of the Open Group.

Interviewees for this podcast include:

  • Sally White, Vice President, Business Development, Tenfold Corporation - Discussing the need for higher level tooling for non-developers, the role of composition and metadata, and declarative, model-driven approaches to Service-Oriented Business Application development.
  • Dimitri Sirota - VP Marketing and Alliances, Layer 7 Technologies. Dimitri explores the area of network-aware applications and application-aware networking, its relevance to SOA, Web Services, and XML in general, how Service-oriented architects need to concern themselves with the network, why enterprise architects need to broaden their skills and the role of the Open Group in fostering this broadening.
  • Miko Matsumura - Vice President, SOA Product Marketing - Miko explains the lack of skilled enterprise architects, critical human factors impacting SOA advancement, the SOAMasterClass.com site that provides needed education, credentialing and certification opportunities for EAs, and the role of the Open Group.

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Live at the Open Group! (Part I) (Feb. 14, 2007)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: Live at the Open Group! (Part I)
In this first of a two-part podcast Series, ZapThink analyst Ronald Schmelzer podcasts live from the Open Group event in San Diego, CA on January 29, 2007 to cover the announcement of the Open Group's Association of Open Group Enterprise Architects (AOGEA) as well as understand the future of EA, SOA, and the Open Group efforts.

In this first episode, Schmelzer interviews the following key Open Group individuals:

  • Allen Brown, President and CEO, The Open Group
  • Interview with Andras Szakal, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect, IBM Federal Software Group (still awaiting confirmation)
  • Interview with Jason Uppal, Chief Architect, QRS (founding member of first AOGEA chapter)
In the next episode, Schmelzer roams the conference to interview attendees and vendor exhibitors as to their EA, SOA, and Open Group efforts.

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Building Rich Enterprise Applications (Dec. 26, 2006)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: Building Rich Enterprise Applications
ZapForum Podcast for December 26, 2006 features Guest Expert John Crupi, Chief Technology Officer, JackBe.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Understand the terms Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, and Ajax
  • Learn how Ajax is the key to the Rich Enterprise Application
  • Explore the close relationship between Ajax and SOA

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SOA and XML Data Management (Nov. 20, 2006)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: SOA and XML Data Management
ZapForum Podcast for November 17, 2006 features Guest Expert Anjul Bhambhri, Senior Development Manager XML, DB2 XML, Information Management Software division of IBM.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Learn how XML data management is different from ordinary data management
  • Understand the technical and management issues surrounding native XML data management
  • Position XML data management in the context of Service-Oriented Architecture

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The Value of Web 2.0 to the Enterprise (Nov. 20, 2006)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: The Value of Web 2.0 to the Enterprise
ZapForum Podcast for November 17, 2006 features Guest Expert David McFarlane, Chief Operating Officer, Nexaweb.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Gain clear definitions of Web 2.0, Enterprise Web 2.0, as well as Mashups and Enterprise Mashups
  • Understand the business value of Rich Internet Applications
  • Learn how Ajax and other technologies enable organizations to use the Web as a platform for application creation

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Exploring the Relationship between Enterprise Applications ... (Nov. 5, 2006)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: Exploring the Relationship between Enterprise Applications & SOA
ZapForum Podcast for October 31, 2006 features Guest Expert Raghu Mahalingam, Vice President, Global SAP Practice, Patni.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Learn how the major enterprise application vendors, SAP and Oracle, are leveraging SOA in their product lines
  • Familiarize yourself with the SOA roadmaps of the leading enterprise application vendors
  • Explore how companies are implementing Service-oriented integration in the context of their enterprise applications

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Runtime Governance & Transaction Management for SOA (Nov. 5, 2006)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: Runtime Governance & Transaction Management for SOA
ZapForum Podcast for November 2, 2006 features Guest Expert Al Aghili, CTO and Founder, Managed Methods.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Understand the relationship between Web Services Management and Runtime Governance of Web Services
  • Learn about transaction management and its relevance to SOA
  • Understand the importance of visibility across long-running transactions

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The Role of Security Appliances for SOA (Oct. 10, 2006)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: The Role of Security Appliances for SOA
ZapForum Podcast for October 10, 2006 features Guest Expert Scott Morrison, VP Engineering and Chief Architect, Layer 7 Technologies.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Understand the context for Web Services security, and security in a SOA environment
  • Learn about XML threat prevention and its relationship to SOA
  • Get an understanding of the role of security appliances in a SOA implementation

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SOA Consulting Expert Roundtable (Sep. 14, 2006)
Title: SOA Consulting Expert Roundtable
ZapThink's ZapForum Podcast for September 14,2006 features Guest Experts: Ken Dschankilic, Director, Eastern Region Integration Practice, Online Business Systems; Dr. Udaya Bhaskar Vemulapati, General Manager, Enterprise Architecture and Consulting Practice, Wipro Technologies; and Peter Graef, Partner, [ipt].

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Get a clear picture of the pros and cons of both top-down and bottom-up approaches to SOA
  • Understand how to build the right Services at the right level of granularity
  • Learn about the relationship between IT governance and SOA governance, as well as the cultural aspects of governance
  • Understand why some organizations believe that they should buy a product to implement SOA, and why that's not generally a good approach

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SOA Quality & Reliability (Jul. 25, 2006)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: SOA Quality & Reliability
ZapThink's ZapForum Podcast for July 25,2006 features Guest Experts: Dr. Prabhakar Malireddy, Information Architect, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, and Frank Grossman, Chief Technology Officer from Mindreef.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Hear a first-hand account of building the justification for SOA as well as embarking on a SOA initiative
  • Understand how a government organization built Services to eliminate redundancy and migrate off of aging legacy systems
  • Gain insight into how to leverage tools like Mindreef SOAPscope and Infravio X-Registry to deal with quality issues
  • Tie together the concepts of SOA testing, quality, and governance in a real-world situation

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An Enterprise Architect Speaks (Jun. 5, 2006)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: An Enterprise Architect Speaks
ZapForum Podcast for June 5, 2006 features Guest Expert Todd Biske, Enterprise Technology Architect, A.G. Edwards Technology Group, Inc.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Learn what it means to be a "Service provider" in the context of SOA
  • Understand the difference between product management and project management approaches to SOA
  • Get a clear picture of the role of a SOA Competency Center in the enterprise
  • Receive useful advice on how to resolve many of the organizational issues SOA presents

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Demystifying SOA Governance (Mar. 31, 2006)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: Demystifying SOA Governance
ZapForum Podcast for March 31,2006 features Guest Expert Miko Matsumura, VP of Technical Standards, Infravio.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Understand SOA governance and why it's important
  • Learn about business policies and technical policies
  • Understand the various roles people take when implementing SOA governance
  • Get a brass tacks view of how to implement SOA governance

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Practical Advice for the SOA Registry/Repository Buyer (Mar. 16, 2006)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: Practical Advice for the SOA Registry/Repository Buyer
ZapForum Podcast for March 16,2006 features Guest Expert Chris Warner, Director of Technical Marketing, Software AG.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Understand what a registry/repository is
  • Learn who should use a registry/repository
  • Understand what should be placed into a registry/repository
  • Get a good idea what processes companies should use to leverage the assets in their registry/repository

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Avoiding Complexity in SOA (Mar. 3, 2006)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: Avoiding Complexity in SOA
ZapForum Podcast for March 3,2006 features Guest Expert Charles Stack, CEO Flashline.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Be able to deal with the inherent complexity of IT
  • Understand how to organize your enterprise architecture initiative to meet business needs
  • Learn how to avoid the pitfalls with enterprise architecture
  • Learn about three core patterns for SOA
  • Understand the relationship between governance and architecture

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End-to-End Compliance and Policy Management for Web Service... (Feb. 15, 2006)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: End-to-End Compliance and Policy Management for Web Services & SOA
ZapForum Podcast for February 15,2006 features Guest Expert Eyal Ma'or, Founder and CEO, Silverkite.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Understand what a business policy is, and how policies relate to Services
  • How to translate business policies to IT policies
  • What the relationship is between policies and Service contracts
  • The relevance of policies to compliance a
  • What end-to-end policy management is, and how it differs from compliance management

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Collaboration in the Service Lifecycle (Jan. 30, 2006)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: Collaboration in the Service Lifecycle
ZapForum Podcast for January 30,2006 features Guest Experts: Frank Grossman, President and CTO, and Jim Murphy, Software Architect from Mindreef.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Understand what the Service lifecycle is and how it's different from a traditional software development lifecycle
  • Identify the parts of the Service lifecycle
  • Explore the problems that companies are having today when implementing, testing, deploying, and supporting Services
  • Learn how teams can best collaborate when implementing SOA

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Business-to-Business Data Integration in a SOA World (Jan. 11, 2006)
Title: ZapForum Podcast: Business-to-Business Data Integration in a SOA World
ZapForum Podcast for January 2006 features Guest Experts: Jerry King, VP of XML Products, DataDirect Technologies, and Patrick Smith, Director, Product Line Management, Xenos.

Listen to this Podcast and you will:

  • Learn about XQuery and current data integration challenges
  • Understand why SOA doesn't solve the semantic challenge
  • Learn about new approaches for data integration in the context of SOA
  • Dive into a deep discussion of the data integration "shell game"
  • Get a deep understanding of the hard work that's still necessary for successful data integration

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Recent Podcasts & Webcasts

Top Five SOA Governance Issues (Dec. 1, 2005)
Thursday December 1, 2005
10:00 PT / 13:00 ET

"Top Five SOA Governance Issues"

Guest Experts: Andrew Nash, CTO, Reactivity and Sean Kline, Director of Product Marketing, Systinet

Topics:

  • The process to define and aggregate policies across infrastructures
  • The options to create an SOA system of record that centrally aggregates service characteristics
  • The short- and long-term architecture requirements to enforce security, routing and integration policies
  • The mechanism through which services, connections and policies will be iterated
  • The best evidence that SOA governance pays off for your enterprise


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Implementing a Reliable SOA Lifecycle (Nov. 2, 2005)
Wednesday November 2, 2005
10:00 PT / 13:00 ET

"Implementing a Reliable SOA Lifecycle"

Guest Experts: Michael Morris, CTO, MW2 Consulting, and Avrami Tzur, Senior Director SOA Strategy, Mercury

Topics: Audience will learn:

  • Learn how to identify points of reliability and assess your SOA using new best practices and approaches.
  • Learn an SOA Blueprint that might help you quickly implement SOA solutions that deliver business value.
  • Understand SOA reliability in the context of the SOA lifecycle (decide, define, create, test, deploy, maintain, and retire)
  • Learn how to reduce risk for SOA implementations through dashboards and scorecards
  • Overview of disciplines required for each stage and the tools to help IT enforce those disciplines (governance, quality and performance, SLA)


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Practical Approaches To Optimizing SOA Performance (Oct. 5, 2005)
Wednesday October 5, 2005
10:00 PT / 13:00 ET

"Practical Approaches To Optimizing SOA Performance"

Guest Experts: Michael Leventhal, Sr. Director, XML Products, Tarari and Tim Triemstra, VP, Product Strategy, Rogue Wave Software

Topics:

  • Understand where the performance bottlenecks are
  • What are the tricks and techniques for surmounting efficiency problems?
  • Learn about software, hardware, and other means for optimizing performance


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  • SOA - Crossing the Application / Network Boundary (Sep. 21, 2005)
    Wednesday September 21, 2005
    10:00 PT / 13:00 ET

    "SOA - Crossing the Application / Network Boundary"

    Guest Experts: Jeff Browning, Product Manager, iControl (SOAP/XML API for network devices) and Steve Orrin, Chief Technology Officer, Sarvega

    Topics:

  • What impact does SOA have on the network?
  • How can application developers consider network assets as a Services and resources they can consume?
  • How can application folks and network admins get along in the new world of SOA?


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  • Transformation and Semantic Processing (Sep. 7, 2005)
    Wednesday September 7, 2005
    10:00 PT / 13:00 ET

    "Transformation and Semantic Processing"

    Guest Experts: Nash Palaniswamy, Director of System Architecture, Conformative Systems and Arvind Sinha, VP Business Development, Xambala

    Topics:

  • What are the key challenges of semantic integration?
  • Why is transformation important and difficult?
  • What are the keys to enabling efficient semantic processing and transformation?


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  • SOA Practitioner's Experience - From Theory to Deployment (Aug. 3, 2005)
    Wednesday August 3, 2005
    10:00 PT / 13:00 ET

    "SOA Practitioner's Experience - From Theory to Deployment"

    Guest Experts: Steve Field, Vice President, Enterprise Integration Consulting, Tier1 Innovation and Adil Soofi, Managing Consultant, Adea Solutions

    Topics:

  • Learn from real-world SOA deployments
  • What are some of the unexpected roadblocks to SOA adoption?
  • What real ROI are companies realizing from their SOA implementations?


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  • Building Composite Applications with Legacy Systems (Jul. 13, 2005)
    Wednesday July 13, 2005
    10:00 PT / 13:00 ET

    "Building Composite Applications with Legacy Systems"

    Guest Experts: Ardy Franssen, Product Management, Seagull Software and Arjen Westerink, Product Marketing, Cordys

    Topics:

  • Top-down vs. Bottom-up SOA
  • How can you leverage legacy systems in an SOA?
  • How are SOA-based composite applications different?


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  • End-to-End Metadata Management - Registries, Repositories, a... (Jun. 8, 2005)
    Wednesday June 8, 2005
    10:00 PT / 13:00 ET

    "End-to-End Metadata Management - Registries, Repositories, and Governance"

    Guest Experts: Miko Matsumura, VP Marketing, Infravio and Brent Carlson, CTO, Logic Library

    Topics:

  • Learn how registries are key to making loosely-coupled SOAs work, and provide the necessary infrastructure for SOA governance
  • Learn about metadata management and metadata-first development
  • Leverage Service and software development assets across the enterprise


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  • The Great Debate: ESBs, Fabrics, or Something Else? (May. 4, 2005)
    Wednesday May 4, 2005
    10:00 PT / 13:00 ET

    "The Great Debate: ESBs, Fabrics, or Something Else?"

    Guest Experts: Gordon Van Huizen, CTO, Sonic Software and Frank Martinez, Chairman and Chief Architect, Blue Titan

    Topics:

  • The Emerging Infrastructural Patterns for SOA Implementation
  • Learn what an ESB really is
  • Learn how an SOA Fabric can be used to create integrated Services networks that are adaptable, scalable and resilient


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  • Take Control of Your SOA (Apr. 7, 2005)
    Thursday April 7, 2005
    10:00 PT / 13:00 ET

    "Take Control of Your SOA"

    Guest Experts: Dan Foody, CTO, Actional and John Derrick, CEO, Conformative Systems

    Topics:

  • Structuring Your Organization to Take Control of your SOA projects
  • Achieving true command and control of your SOA environment
  • Control over the performance and business return of SOA


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