WUG 3/28 Application Integration

Those on the JUG list are welcome to attend the WUG meeting on Tuesday free 
of charge,.

This talk will include a good introduction to practical Application 
Integration, as well as a discussion and demo of  new approaches, so it 
should be suitable for all, whether new to this subject or interested in 
new developments.

Sometimes people think that talks in the WebSphere User Group are aimed 
directly at WebSphere users.  That is really not the case.  We ask our 
speakers to bear in mind that we usually have a good presence of 
vendor-neutral JUG members, and ask them to cater to that audience as well 
as WebSphere users, by discussing technologies from a broad 
perspective.  That gives a better turnout and makes the talks better for 
everyone, IBM and non-IBM users included.

Hope to see you there...

Don

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Enterprise Application Integration and its Future

Sreekumar Rajagopalan,  Rojan Jose, IBM
Tues. March 28, 2006
IBM Building 500 Cafeteria
Research Triangle Park, NC

Schedule

6:00 p.m. Gather, Networking, Pizza and Drinks
6:10 p.m. Announcements, Group Business
6:15 p.m. Main Presentation
8:00 p.m. (approx.) Questions / Discussion
8:15 p.m. (approx.) Adjournment

Admission is free of charge.  Pre-registration is helpful but not mandatory 
(see below).

Main Talk

The evolving world of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI),  more 
recently known as Process Integration or Business Integration, is very much 
on the minds of many enterprises -- large and small. Enterprises operating 
a variety of business applications need integration to ensure that 
information is consistently and efficiently maintained among these 
applications. The area of EAI has evolved more recently into Business 
Process Management (BPM) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Sreekumar Rajagopalan has over 13 year of Fortune 500 experience, spending 
the past 5 years helping customers integrate their IT applications like SAP 
R/3, Siebel, and legacy systems running on mainframes. His clients include 
Nextel, Bombardier Aerospace, Prudential Insurance, Detroit Energy, and 
Raytheon. Currently, he is working with Rojan Jose on a Composite 
Application built on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) which extends the 
concepts of EAI to include process modeling, application integration, and 
business activity monitoring. Sreekumar Rajagopalan is a past speaker at 
conferences such as American SAP Users Group (ASUG) and  WebSphere 
Integration Technical Forum.

Rojan Jose is a Senior IT Specialist at IBM with 9 years of experience in 
software design and development. His expertise includes web/enterprise 
application development, content management, collaboration and messaging. 
He is currently focusing on solutions for Business Process Management.

The first half of the presentation will give us an introduction of EAI 
(why, what, how etc.) and demonstrate integrating a packaged application 
such as SAP with a "home-grown application" running on DB2 database. Many 
enterprises have a combination of packaged and home-grown applications to 
meet their IT needs. These applications share the same kind of data 
elements and EAI is an effective way to keep these repositories consistent.

The second half of the presentation will build on the first half and 
discuss the future of EAI which is BPM and SOA and demonstrate a Composite 
Application in action (which includes integration with SAP and Siebel). The 
speakers will cover the concepts and architecture of EAI and Composite 
Applications in a technically educational and enlightening presentation.

Please join us for a technical discussion on EAI and its future on March 28.


Directions to the Meeting

Distance from Raleigh (17 miles) / Durham (8 miles) / Chapel Hill (12 miles)

 From I-40, take Exit 280 - Davis Drive. At the end of the exit ramp, take 
a right (North) onto Davis Drive. Continue straight on Davis Drive for 
about 0.5 miles. Take a right on Cornwallis road. Go about 1/2 mile, you 
will cross over railroad tracks. At the IBM gate keep to the right.

If the rightmost gate is down,  press on the intercom button and tell the 
remote guard that you are attending the WebSphere User Group meeting, and 
give him your name. He will open the gate for you.

Our IBM host is Greg Ackerman - they may ask for his name.

Go through gate, follow the road around past the first Tivoli Building, 
looking for signs leading to Building 500 or "Software Group." It should be 
the third road on the left.

It can be a little tricky, so please allow some extra time the first time.

You will see a visitors' parking lot. Turn in and park, and walk to the 
Building 500 lobby.   If that parking lot is not accessible, you would need 
to continue on and park behind the building.

See http://www.rtpwug.org/sitemap.pdf  for a map.

Pre-Registration

We have implemented a pre-registration system for meetings. While not 
mandatory for attendance, this will allow us to provide pre-printed 
attendance badges at the door that will get you into the meeting more quickly.

If you would like to pre-register,  please send email to 
[email protected]  with your
name
organization (e.g. company or school or self)
citizenship
date of birth (needed only if citizenship is other than U.S.)
email address

Please note that:
If you are a citizen of Hong Kong, Macao, or the PRC (and not an IBMer) 
pre-registration is mandatory, since your visit must be pre-approved. 
Please contact [email protected] for details.
If you are NOT a citizen of Hong Kong, Macao, or the PRC (and, again, not 
an IBMer) pre-registration is NOT mandatory, but it is quicker: we will 
need to log the information above at the door, which might take a few minutes.
IBM staff with active badges can enter the building in the usual manner, 
without pre-approval or pre-registration.

  If it's getting late, that's no problem at all.  Just show up and we will 
make out a badge at the door.