Webinars
Six Principles for Addressing Multi-site Integration
In this on-demand webinar, Larry Fulton, Independent Consultant, Experienced IT Architect and Former Forrester Analyst, discusses his Six Guiding Principles for overcoming the unique challenges of multi-site integration. Larry will take you through the problems encountered in real-world multi-site integration projects, how those problems were resolved, and how they could have been prevented in the first place.
Visibility and Tracking for Critical Applications
Optimize application performance and increase revenue. Whether 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. Hear first hand how customers are using Web Service and SOA Management to stay two steps ahead of the competition.
Virtual Appliance-based SaaS Deployment Model: Is It Right for Your Business?
The webinar discusses how you can easily expand your application deployment options to help you achieve new market opportunities. You will hear how Progress Software partner QAD recently expanded its offerings to include: On Premise, On Appliance and On Demand to its product roadmap to simplify deployment and maintenance for its customers.
Leveraging the TM Forum Solution Frameworks (NGOSS) and SOA for a Service-oriented Enterprise
The problems of optimizing the function, content and granularity of SOA services – and putting them to work in a service-oriented enterprise – have existed as long as SOA itself. Listen as John Wilmes, Progress Software, and Iwan Gramatikoff, Edelweiss Consulting, talk about how to apply a comprehensive, repeatable process that supports the design and implementation of SOA-based Business Services based on TM Forum standard process and data models. You will also hear how to construct Business Services and Platforms that maximize the effectiveness of SOA within your enterprise and its partners and suppliers.
Understanding the TEI of Progress Actional
Interested in how a company achieved a 208% ROI with a payback period of less than 12 months?
Replay this webinar to hear featured guest Randy Heffner, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research, detail the total economic impact (TEI) of Actional using in-depth interviews with Actional customers.
SaaS On Demand Delivery - The Right Solution for a Challenging Economy
Recently, Progress conducted an online, global Empowerment Webinar entitled: SaaS On Demand Delivery - The Right Solution for a Challenging Economy. More than 150 Partners from around the world participated in the Live Webinar that featured Colleen Smith -- a noted SaaS speaker and Director of the SaaS Program at Progress Software.
Reduce Order Fallout and Keep Profit in your Pocket
Has multi-play service delivery increased your IT complexity and accelerated order fallout? Multi-play service delivery, evolving products and services, and ongoing customer churn have increased order fallout exponentially for many service providers. Industry analysts have stated that more than 25% of consumer orders are lost, stalled, or inaccurate. For enterprise customers, rates can be even higher. This not only results in lost revenue and increased operational costs, it diminishes the customer experience and pushes customers to your competition.
Application Integration Using the SID (Part I)
Listen to the first in a new webinar series that will build on last year’s popular book on data interoperability, Application Integration Using the SID, co-authored by John Wilmes. In each session, John Wilmes and other experts will walk through a section of the book and present a demonstration to bring the concepts to life, highlighting how DXSI adds value to the process. The webinar will provide an in-depth explanation of scope definition and interface analysis through a review of the Enhanced eBonding Catalyst.
NGOSS Contracts: The Key to Improved Interoperability
Getting from NGOSS contract to implementation is not always clear. This webinar will provide an overview of NGOSS contracts and what role they play in enabling an adaptable OSS/BSS environment. In it, John Wilmes presents a case study that demonstrates how IBM is using NGOSS contracts as part of a solutions framework, and he'll give you an overview of SOA-based NGOSS solutions available today from IBM and Progress Software.
What is NGOSS and what can it do for you?
Presented by John Wilmes, Chief Technical Architect, Progress Software, and Ian Best, Senior Product Manager, TM Forum. During this webinar you will hear about NGOSS, the industry's only true standard for development and deployment of easy to integrate, flexible, easy to manage OSS/BSS components. Topics covered include what are the objectives of NGOSS, what are the basic concepts and building blocks of NGOSS, how is it providing value, and howcan you start applying NGOSS to your environment.
Introducing the DataXtend SID Model Browser
This webinar provides an overview and tutorial of the major features of the SID Model Browser, including a live demo of the software. You will learn how to explore the domains and classes of the SID, understand the SID model hierarchy, search the SID model, and generate HTML reports in support of OSS/BSS integration projects that are using the SID.
Reliable Data Replication for Your Mobile Workforce
Hear how Cole Systems, a leading system integration firm, enabled the distributed field sales force of the Indiana Lottery to manage the entire sales process from a single mobile device - driving increased customer employees satisfaction and substantial revenue growth. This webcast focuses on how effective data synchronization will enable your mobile employees to obtain up-to-date information from headquarters, therefore, able to make smarter decisions and increase sales.
Disconnected Doesn't Have to Mean Out of Sync
This webcast illustrates how DataXtend RE enables retail establishments to share sales activities with headquarters, and provide better point-of-sale experiences at their connected stores. The webcast focuses on problems developers face when developing and deploying an application on the edge of the enterprise, solutions to help deal with problems, and how Synchronics used DataXtend RE to solve similiar problems for Lego Group.
Why Use a Common Model for OSS/BSS Data Integration?
OSS/BSS integration for an SOA requires data interoperability. Successful data integration for SOA requires real-time mediation to keep data consistent. Listen to this on-demand webinar and learn how you can reduce the risk of incorrect results due to semantic mismatch, understand the impact of a requirement change on your SOA before it happens, and simplify the adoption and use of a common data model.
An Introduction to DataXtend CE
Listen to an overview and tutorial covering the major features of the DataXtend CE. This is a key resource for anyone evaluating DataXtend CE.
Model Driven Integration
This webinar discusses the importance of Model Driven Integration (MDI) and how it can be applied to solve critical data management challenges at various levels of enterprise infrastructure.
Data Integration with OSS/BSS
Application integration in OSS/BSS is costly and time-consuming but necessary in order to innovate to introduce converged services and enhance the customer experience. Listen as Dr. Lorien Pratt, Director, Global OSS/BSS Competitive Strategies, Stratecast Partners, and John Petrie, Progress Software, deliver an informative webinar that discusses the shift towards a data-centric approach to OSS/BSS integration.
SOA and NGOSS Contracts: A Practical Approach to Integration
Many service providers are achieving success by applying the best practices of NGOSS to their IT transformation projects. This is because NGOSS standards cover the key technical aspects necessary for success — architecture (TNA), applications (Applications Framework - TAM), process (Business Process Framework - eTOM) and data (Information Framework - SID). You can use these standards and concepts to build a service oriented architecture (SOA) to help meet your IT Transformation goals. Listen to this archived webinar presented by John Wilmes and Ian Best, TM Forum, and learn how you can apply these frameworks toward your goals and how NGOSS and NGOSS contracts support the creation of a standards-based service oriented architecture (SOA).
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.
1+1=3: Marrying Best-of-breed Tools for Business Process Governance
Communication 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.
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.
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!
Operating Your SOA
Are You Up to the Challenge? Listen as Progress Software and David Schwartz from University of Phoenix 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.
SOA Worst Practices: How to Secure the Health of Your SOA from the Start
Listen to Progress Software and MomentumSI presenters as they provide some helpful guidelines for 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.
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.
