Sandy Carter: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) -- Off the Record

I had the great pleasure to attend BlogHer for the first time this year. How did I get to attend? A perfect storm really. 3 things happened that allowed me to attend: first, a customer had asked me to support them in their session and...

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Great news. We have just launched a promotion to help your Business Partners save money on their Technical Sales Mastery tests. All they need to do is go to an Authorized Prometric Center use the code 20free4me and they will save 20% on any Technical Sales Mastery...

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I have now talked to about 130+ partners! (Thanks for your time and honesty!) A big request was how partners participate in Smarter Planet references! So IBM has now announced The IBM Smarter Planet Midmarket Business Partner reference selling guide. This interactive PDF is a great resource ...

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Gang, The PartnerWorld Smarter Planet home page now has been packed full of great deliverables for you on smarter planet! Smarter Planet for our Partners! In particular an overview deck of the announcement for BPs plus a "why IBM?" brochure which highlights the role of business partners. ...

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Big news! First the backdrop, our IBM Payments Framework provides industry specifics with accelerators and best practices, for deploying payments solutions offered by IBM and our business partners. A new redpaper is now available on ibm.com that describes a business pattern for deploying a Corporate Payments solution using the...

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IBM, also known as Big Blue, is as big and distributed as any company in the IT industry. In fact, you could say IBM is the New York City of technology companies. Huge. Diverse. Proud to call itself No. 1, though not everyone may agree. And just as the Big...

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IBM's channel initiatives made CRN's top 10 stories of the year (so far). What's really impactful to me is that we are the only vendor who is called out as making strides in helping channel partners in tough economic times with new programs, education and training...

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While in Costa Rica, I had the pleasure of meeting with an innovative team for IT at Credomatic. Their leader & CTO, Alfonso Salvo, approaches the business with a focus on value. Who is Credomatic? The company is a leader in Central America. Credomatic began its operations in...

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I am here in Costa Rica meeting with our Partner GBM and customers and had the honor of being able to meet the President of Costa Rica -- Oscar Arias Sanchez. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his efforts to end civil wars in Central American...

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Here is a whole set of things around Governments becoming more effective that I just learned and wanted to share!!!IBM has helped the DVLA to become the largest provider of electronic services in the UK public sector and one of Britain's top 10 online retailers. More than 40% of UK...

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Great news! The organization has received 5 Hermes Awards! This is me celebrating in our crazy hat day!Platinum Awards:Impact 2008 (Event Marketing category)Smart SOA Widget (Electronic Media/Other category)IBM Smart SOA Newsletter (E-Newsletter category)Gold Awards:Smart SOA World Tour (Integrated Marketing/Other)World Tour "Get Smart" Videos (Viral Marketing category)Hermes Creative Awards...

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YEA! IBM Receives the 2009 ACORD Innovation Implementation Award & ACORD Infrastructure Platform/Middleware Award The yearly ACORD award recognizes organizations that are implementing XML standards in unique and exceptional ways and organizations that enhance the utilization of ACORD Standards. The IBM team continued the 2008...

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IMPACT is coming to India on May 21st! Please join us! And you can contribute your thoughts on SOA here! And sign up here! India IMPACT!...

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It was a pleasure to meet Peter Segdwick at IMPACT from Primeur! Primeur is a Silver Sponsor at IMPACT 2009! I took a few minutes to chat about how Primeur tools compliment the WS software offerings.Sandy: Do you offer tools for WMQ file transfer--that work with...

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I had the pleasure of chatting with Audrey at IMPACT 2009! We discussed the benefits of using WebSphere instead of open source. Check out the work they have done!Sandy:Tell me something about Summa and the solutions you have been involved in?Audrey:Summa has been an IBM Premier Business...

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Our customers are really cool and I have had the privilege of working with them and learning from their success stories. Miami Dade County is a great example of working smarter with SOA. Carmen Suarez, Acting Division Director for Enterprise Architecture Services joins me on the...

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Audi's success story is a highlight of our Day 2 keynote and Armin Buttner, CTO of Audi AG graciously agreed to be interviewed for this blog. I love their route 2015 strategy featured in the keynote and here Armin succinctly summarizes the highilights of their SOA journey and...

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At IMPACT 2009 on Day 1, it is all about our customers and their success stories. We just heard from our customer, Russell Irwin of Standard Life talk about his company's soa journey and I thought it would be great to get a follow up Q & A...

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Hey Gang! We just pre-announced 2 major announcements before IMPACT -- both around SOA-enabled Clouds!Our strategy is to enable organizations to create middleware and application clouds in the enterprise. Cloud services can be either private, on premises services or they can be public, externally hosted, such as Amazon's EC2...

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Quite excited today to be sharing my conversation with James Governor, a good friend and co founder of RedMonk, the first open source analysis firm. James is an opinion leader in the enterprise middleware space and green technology. His blog Monkchips !Click Here! was recently...

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DataDirect Technologies is an IBM partner and provides data connectivity and mainframe integration software for corporate enterprises and independent software vendors. DataDirect Shadow is mainframe middleware software that accelerates the participation of mainframe systems with Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), data access or business intelligence (BI) initiatives, and/or composite...

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ZSL is a sponsor at this year's IMPACT 2009! They are one of over 50 partners that clients can visit in our Solution Showcase of economic busters and agility enablers this year in Vegas. I had the pleasure of chatting with Shiv Kumar, Executive Vice President, ZSL,Inc. There are...

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Ascendant is a premier IBM business partner and an end to end solution provider and software reseller dedicated to our IBM technology specializing in web-based solutions. I spoke to Jim Deters, Ascendant's President on our partnership and for a preview on the exciting announcements coming up at IBM...

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Social Media Guru at IMPACT 2009! I got to know Jeremiah at a Social Media thought leadership event in the Valley. He is truly a leader and visionary in this space. I had the pleasure of interviewing Jeremiah and wanted to share what he has planned for...

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Silver Sponsor, Phurnace Software, Inc. talks about SOA, IMPACT and the Cloud Computing buzz. This will be Phurnace's second year of participation at IMPACT demonstrating their WebSphere and WebSphere Portal application deployment tool. I had the pleasure of speaking with Larry Warnock, CEO of Phurnace Software. Sandy:...

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Hostbridge Technology focuses on the development and delivery of software products that integrate existing and emerging technologies within large organizations. I chatted with Russ Teubner, Hostbridge CEO about their CICS campaign and their presence at IBM IMPACT 2009.Sandy: HostBridge regularly consults and collaborates with the CICS Group at...

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Rocket Software is focused on developing and delivering software solutions to IBM mainframe customers deploying IBM DB2. In the first five years all of Rocket's products were rebranded and licensed to enterprises through IBM's worldwide sales channel. Rocket Software will be at IBM IMPACT 2009 and Sam Elias provides...

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Mobitel chose IBM and BPM powered by SOA to better align business and IT. Meet this IBM IMPACT speaker in Vegas next month to learn more about their SOA and BPM journey!I had the pleasure of talking to our customer, Boštjan Robežnik, Director of IT at Mobitel...

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Diamond Sponsor, Miracle Software talks about their decision to participate at IBM IMPACT and why SOA is more important to adapt to business change in today's economy.Miracle is our Diamond Sponsor this year for IMPACT 2009! This will be their 3rd year of sponsorship! I had the pleasure of speaking...

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