Topic: Web Services & SOAs

Application Performance Monitoring - What is it? What can it do for IT and the business?
In this webcast, Will Cappelli, Research VP from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from Quest Software discuss the importance of Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and will provide valuable insight into strategies that will not only help you manage both your virtual and physical infrastructure, but also address the challenges that are plaguing your most critical IT projects. Join your colleagues for an informative and timely discussion.

Sponsor: Quest Software
Type: Video (44 minutes)

Achieve Both PCI Compliance & Web Security
Good security ensures compliance. But compliance doesn’t always ensure security. So how do you attain both? Please join Avivah Litan, Research Vice President from Featured Analyst Firm, Gartner, Inc., as she discusses the topic of PCI Compliance in an on demand Webcast available now. Ms. Litan’s area of expertise includes financial fraud, authentication, identity theft, fraud detection and prevention applications and other areas of information security and risk. She also covers payment systems and financial flows in the business-to-consumer and business-to-business markets. Joining Ms. Litan is an industry expert from Akamai Technologies, Neil Cohen, Director of Product Marketing APS/Site Products. Topics to be discussed include the best practices for addressing and overcoming today’s PCI compliance challenges. Most importantly, our experts will show you where to turn to find the right solution for your needs.

Sponsor: Akamai Technologies
Type: Audio (36 minutes)

From Systems to Solutions: Leveraging the social Web to achieve online success
With the evolution of the social Web, your online strategy needs to move beyond basic information delivery. You need to provide your Web audience with an opportunity to interact, an opportunity to communicate, and an opportunity to engage in dialogue. In short, you need to create a real-time relationship with your Web audience that allows them to learn, communicate, and share information. So how do you do this? In this program industry experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from NASDAQ OMX, and Ektron, Inc., discuss how organizations of all sizes are rethinking their overall online strategy to leverage today's Web to meet and exceed the needs, wants, and demands of their site visitors. To achieve success in your organization through the social Web, check out this new program now.

Sponsor: Ektron, Inc.
Type: Video (26 minutes)

Managing Service Delivery in Cloud and Virtualised Environments
What management disciplines and capabilities do you need to ensure highly virtualised environments, both on and off premise? How can you deliver cost savings and more agile service, while managing business risk? How do you automate both business process and resource tasks? And how can you optimise IT and non-IT assets in real-time for greater energy efficiency? To find out the answers to these questions, and more, join leading industry experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from IBM Tivoli Service Management, in this new program now.

Sponsor: IBM
Type: Video (22 minutes)

Increase Business Responsiveness with SOA and EDA
In most organizations, business processes are started, stopped, or modified based on events. The ability to realistically model these processes in software is crucial for any organization that wants to respond to events faster. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a step in this direction, but adding event processing to your SOA, through an event-driven architecture (EDA), completes the move. Learn more about making the most of your SOA deployment with event-driven architecture in this new Webcast now.

Sponsor: InterSystems Corporation
Type: Video (18 minutes)

End-to-End Enterprise E-Commerce
Today's e-commerce platform reaches well beyond buying; it must be integrated into the buying experience. It must encompass the sell side and the supply side. It must tie into your physical facilities, shipping processes, finance, and on and on. And your e-commerce platform cannot be one size fits all. Can it seamlessly move into new markets and geographic regions? Can it effectively reach each of your customers segments on their terms and target their needs? In this program, leading experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc. and opinion leaders from Intershop, reveal what your e-commerce platform should truly entail and how you can determine the right solution for your particular business needs.

Sponsor: Intershop
Type: Audio (25 minutes)

CRM as an enabler to building a customer-centric enterprise
Twitter… Facebook… Dynamic trends in society and new advancements in technology are empowering your customers to access a greater amount of information and formulate and share their opinions faster. As a result, your relationship with your customers largely depends on your ability to create customer-centric strategies that give your customers a greater voice. Watch this new program and learn how to adapt your CRM approach to address today's social customer. Go now.

Sponsor: SAP
Type: Video (19 minutes)

Effective Network Management for Distributed Environments
Does your organization have difficulty managing the quality and reliability of your IT services across your distributed environment? Would you like more information on a new and effective approach to end-to-end network management and IT service quality assurance? If so, then join industry experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from Apparent Networks, Inc., and BCS Global, as they look beyond the challenges of distributed environments to reveal the latest technologies and best practices for optimizing the management of your extended network.

Sponsor: Apparent Networks, Inc.
Type: Video (34 minutes)

Lean IT: Innovations in Managing Service Quality

Interested in overcoming the challenges associated with managing transformational technologies such as virtualization and cloud computing? Want to hear expert recommendations on how to manage your complex IT environments? Then join industry experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from CA as they show you how to solve your service assurance challenges with a very modern, very different approach that takes a top-down position to the service assurance problem.

Sponsor: CA
Type: Video (24 minutes)

Optimize your IT Costs with Automation - A Strategic Outlook
Profitable companies are turning to IT Automation to cut costs, streamline processes, and maintain, or better yet, improve their service levels. But what is IT Automation? What benefits does it offer? What challenges does it present? And where do you turn to find the right IT automation solution for your needs? To find out the answers to these questions, join industry experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from CA, as they discuss the business advantages that automation can generate.

Sponsor: CA
Type: Audio (46 minutes)

Application Performance Management: Optimizing the Economics of Web Transactions
Application Performance Management Success Rule #8 - Provide a unique view of the information to every stakeholder. Want to learn the other seven Application Performance Management rules of success? Then check out this new program and learn how to achieve true performance and availability management for your mission critical, revenue-generating applications.

Sponsor: CA
Type: Audio (34 minutes)

Software Development: A Cost Conscious Way to Outmaneuver the Competition
In this program, leading experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and Cincom Systems, Inc., reveal a solution that features a new and very rare Web-based integrated development environment that provides immediate feedback. With this solution much of the Web development awkwardness is removed, affording easier Web development that feels like regular programming. So watch this new program now and find out why more and more companies are turning to Smalltalk to realize their business goals. Go now.

Sponsor: Cincom Systems, Inc.
Type: Video (13 minutes)

The Value of Application Delivery Controllers
The latest advanced platform Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) allow IT organizations to balance the growth of data, the growth of user access, and the growth of new technologies with the pressing need to reduce costs and create an environmentally friendly data center. Check out this new program and hear leading experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and Citrix Systems, Inc., outline the benefits ADCs can bring to your organization.

Sponsor: Citrix Systems, Inc.
Type: Video (24 minutes)

Using cyber intelligence to proactively identify security threats and mitigate impacts to the enterprise
Today's enterprise security strategies must reach beyond the firewall and extend throughout the Internet. The key strategy lies in the ability to leverage cyber-intelligence to protect the enterprise. So what exactly is cyber-intelligence and why is it increasingly a vital part of any security strategy? Join the experts as they examine these questions and more for an on-demand presentation "Using cyber-intelligence to proactively identify security threats and mitigate impacts to the enterprise".

Sponsor: Cyveillance, Inc.
Type: Audio (40 minutes)