WebSphere BI User Group – March 17th at IBM Bedfont Lakes

Welcome You To



Edinburgh Event

17
th

June 2004

WebSphere

User Group (UK)


Royal Museum of Scotland


Fire/evacuation procedures.


Logistics
–

change to rooms.


No Smoking anywhere inside buildings.


Coffee / Lunch arrangements.


Remember, museum in public use.


Please vacate building promptly at 5pm.

News & Events


Certification mini
-
test


SIG’s
–

Update


Security
–

successful launch, but better next time.


Portal
–

plans to build on today.


WebSphere Optimisation
–

sufficient demand?


GSE 2
-
day Event
–

Chester, October 5
th
/6
th



WBI & MQ UG UK
–

Hursley, July 7
th
/8
th


Free IBM Middleware Event
–

London, July 14
th


Free Candle WebSphere Developer Days in June
–



Web App Performance & Tuning


Website
–

Q&A, Links, Topic Voting.

WBI & MQ UG
–

July 7
th
/8
th

at IBM Hursley

For details and registration please see
http://www.mqug.org.uk/

IBM Business Integration Trends and Directions
–

with focus on what’s next in WebSphere MQ
and WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker

Alan Powell & Mark Taylor, IBM Hursley Lab

Vodafone
–

user presentation

Steve Bolam, Integration Architect, Vodafone

User Contact and Requirements

Ed Fletcher and Nick
–

User Chair and Group Requirements secretary

WBI Adapters
–

what are they and a focus on some
of the more popular ones.


Tim Sennitt, IBM Hursley

Pub/Sub
–

what is it and how has it been
implemented


Tim Pickrell, IBM Hursley
Laboratory


Fidelity
–

Using MQ is a large re
-
engineering project
-

Dave Upton, Fidelity

Fidelity
–

Straight thru processing using Message Broker
-

Jerome Fellow, Fidelity

IBM Update

Tetti Pandelias, IBM

Web Services at BT

Jon Calledine, British Telecommunications

Implement a SOA using an Enterprise Service Bus (Residency and Redbook)

Chris Nott, IBM

WBI Message Broker

SIG

Business Process Management

What’s new in WBI Message
Broker V5


Peter Burton, IBM

Continuous Business Process Management

Using WBI Modeling


Waveney Croson,IBM


Message Broker discussion

including migration to v5

What’s new in WebSphere

MQ Workflow v3.5

Klaus Dienhart,IBM Hursley Laboratory


Day 1

12:00
–

17:30

Day 2

9:00
–

16:30

About Today


Please, please, please be prompt!


Mobile phones & pagers
–

silent, vibrate please.


IBM WebSphere Management
–

Jamie Wade.


Event handout.


Feedback forms & gifts.


Sessions
–

we can possibly repeat if demand.


Don’t be shy!


Did I mention to be prompt?

Vendor Stands & Demo’s


Bowstreet & NetInfo
–

Two companies combining to
Supercharge WebSphere Portal Development.



Candle, an IBM company
–

one of the worlds largest
software & services companies, helping companies optimize the
performance of their systems & applications, as well as reducing
solution costs & complexity.



Cyanea
–

technology providers to IBM for WSAM: used for deep
Problem Determination and Performance Improvement


within
WebSphere portfolio, including Portal, Commerce, WBI (end Q3);
CICS; IMS (end Q3); & 3rd party Java apps.



REAL Solutions

–

design, implement and support IT
infrastructure based on hardware and software solutions, driving down
your cost of ownership, making your information more available and
managing/minimising the risk to your business.

Vendor Stands & Demo’s


Salmon
–

an IT services & consulting firm that specialises in
delivering e
-
business, e
-
Commerce, CRM & enterprise bespoke
solutions on time and to budget.



Smarts
–

provides fault management featuring automated, real
-
time root cause and business impact analysis of problems across,
networks, applications and the business services they support.



Wily
–

widely regarded the leader in enterprise Java application
management through monitoring of large
-
scale & complex java
applications & portals.

Thank you & enjoy the day.

Come on England!!!


WUG UK AGM



Edinburgh Event

17
th

June 2004

WebSphere

User Group (UK)


2003/4
-

A Year in Review


New Mission Statement & Goals (see Handout).


Continual growth
–

membership, meetings,
partners.


Continual Improvement


Meetings, i.e.format, content, support.


Website, e.g.Topic voting, Q&A, Links.


A year of firsts


Biggest meeting yet


First free meeting


First collaboration with GSE


First WUG UK SIGS


2004/5
–

Looking Forward


Achieve goals
–

we’re making good progress.


Consolidate on 2003/4
–

a formula that works.


Future Improvements
–

depends on you:


More SIGs?


Website
–

More links, Forum, Review section?


More high profile speakers & more topics you vote for.


Increased collaboration with user group partners
–

WBI&MQ UG UK, GSE, GWC.


The platform’s almost in place
–

we hope for greater
participation during & between meetings.


Reduce overhead by simplify processes & improving tools.


As if it wasn’t hard enough…. WebSphere v6, Web
Services, SOA, Grid & Utility Computing, Blade, Linux,
WBI F, UML2, MDA.

AGM Business


Policy doc ratified.


Election of WUG UK Board.


Financials (audit delayed)


Income & Expenditure Account

For Year Ending 31
st

March 2004

£
Income
Meeting Subscriptions
1500.00
Exhibitor fees
1250.00
2750.00
Expenditure
Venues
1049.29
Website
181.10
Committee Expenses
550.90
Speaker Expenses
100.00
Misc Expenses
115.44
1996.73
£753.27
Excess of income over expenditure for year
WUG UK Balance Sheet


As At 31
st

March 2004

Fixed Assets
0.00
Current Assets
Current Account
8,328.18
8,328.18
Less Current Liabilities
310.90
Net Current Assets
8,017.28
Total Assets Less Current Liabilities
£8,017.28
Financed By
Accumulated Fund 01 June 2003
7,264.01
Add Excess Income Over Expenditure For Year
753.27
£8,017.28
Thank you for your time &
patience.

If you want more info or have ideas,
please let us know.


Now for the real business of today!