Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:09:09 +0000 (CUT) From: IBM Software Newsletter Subject: IBM Software Newsletter, 2003 Issue 4 **IBM developerWorks Live! special offer** IBM Software Newsletter 21 February 2003 Welcome to your new edition! We hope you'll take advantage of the early bird special offer going on right now for the IBM developerWorks Live! premier event. Also included in this newsletter are topics, such as Web services, autonomic computing, multimodal technology, e-business on demand, and new mid-market software. Please let us know if there is anything you would like to see in this newsletter, or on our IBM Software Web site, by contacting us at swnewsatus.ibm.com If you'd like to subscribe, unsubscribe, change your e-mail address, or switch to an html format, we urge you to visit the IBM Software Newsletter Web page: http://www.ibm.com/software/mailing-lists/newsletter/ We look forward to continue building our relationship. Enjoy. In Today's Issue: ================= Feature o Developer's roadmap to e-business on demand ------------------------------------------------------------ Feature ------------------------------------------------------------ Developer's roadmap to e-business on demand Snapshots from an essay by Alfredo Gutierrez, Manager, IBM developerWorks Developer Skills Program Phases of e-business on demand>> e-business on demand evolves in phases. In each phase, the Internet transforms the business processes: 1. Access to digital information. This phase is all about publishing content, most of it of the static "look-up" variety. Simple database queries allow us to check a bank account, look up airline flight information, or see where our overnight package is. It's pretty easy to get in the game here. All an enterprise needs is a home page. All an individual needs is a browser. 2. Real transactions, real e-business. Don't just look at your bank account, move some money. Don't just check a flight departure time, book your seat... Doing this requires more than a Website, this requires behind-the-scenes integration of technologies and business processes. 3. Advanced stage of e-business. In a fluid system of customer, suppliers, partners, and employees, the Internet is the primary way to communicate, transact, and connect. Business processes shift from manual to automated. A relationship could last only as long as a single transaction. The environment is real-time computing. You form networked communities... Here's how to get there. Technology roadmap>> A. Open standards and Java*: You don't want to rip and replace. Instead, you want to link together your disparate, distributed, heterogeneous systems, and you can do this using open standards. You can use open standards to ease your integration burden and tie new products and technologies into your existing infrastructure easily and at low cost. B. Linux: Why choose Linux? First, it's reliable, scalable, and secure. It's an enterprise-quality operating system, and you can trust Linux with your enterprise applications because it's a stable and mature base. Second, Linux is about the lowest-cost alternative on the market... It's easy to migrate your code from UNIX to Linux... Plus, the applications you write for Linux can run on any platform. You can choose the server that's right for the application instead of the application that's right for the server... Finally, Linux provides an open, standards-based application platform, especially when combined with J2EE and Web services. C. Web services: Web services focuses on simple, Internet- based standards to address heterogeneous distributed computing. Applications designed within a Web services architecture can seek each other out, integrate, and execute transactions, all in an automated fashion... A manufacturer could automatically connect with the supplier that best meets its cost and technical demands, while that supplier in turn could connect automatically with manufacturers that have similar needs. D. Grid computing: A grid is a collection of distributed computing resources available over a network that appear to an end user or application as one large virtual computing system. A grid can span locations, organizations, machine architectures, and software boundaries to provide unlimited power, collaboration, and information access to everyone connected to the grid. E. Autonomic computing: Autonomic computing systems are self- configuring, able to adapt to dynamically changing environments; self-healing, able to discover, diagnose, and act to prevent disruptions; self-optimizing, able to tune resources and balance workloads to maximize use of IT resource; and self- protecting, able to anticipate, detect, identify, and protect against attacks. F. Utility computing: The concept of e-sourcing is simple. It's Information Technology as a utility. Think of electricity, or telephone service. You don't need a generator to get electricity to your home or office. You just plug into the electrical grid, use what you need, and pay for what you use... Where's the data center? It's in the enterprise. It's outside the enterprise. Or it's shared between them. It doesn't matter where, because the infrastructure becomes a pool of resources available on demand. Add them together. You have applications and systems integrated using open standards. Plus Web services that provide definitions, discovery, and access to self-managing, autonomic IT resources on a grid. And what do you get? You get computing resources capable of being shared globally and managed end-to-end. You get an infrastructure that's incredibly flexible and that will allow new capabilities to be deployed with relative ease. This is the technical environment on which an on-demand enterprise depends. Find this complete article at http://isource.ibm.com/cgi-bin/goto?on=swnl22/full More on e-business on demand. Special offer -- Until March 16th! Learn in-person about these technologies and more. Try out the latest. Discuss with other developers. At IBM developerWorks Live! premier event 9-12 April, New Orleans, LA USA http://isource.ibm.com/cgi-bin/goto?on=swnl22/feature1 View Webcast -- Today! The next step: e-business on demand Irving Wladawsky-Berger 11-12:30 ET (Available on replay after this time) http://isource.ibm.com/cgi-bin/goto?on=swnl22/feature2 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Top Stories ---------------------------------------------------------------- Web services incorporated into software and programs WebSphere software is incorporating the industry's most advanced Web services support to help you respond faster to ever-changing demands. Also, new programs, resources, and communities have been created for developers, business partners, and customers to improve their Web services skills and speed up Web services adoption. http://isource.ibm.com/cgi-bin/goto?on=swnl22/web Express software to help mid-sized businesses Small and medium businesses (SMBs) can now take advantage of a broader portfolio of infrastructure software. In consultation with Business Partners, IBM has developed IBM Express offerings for DB2, Lotus, and Tivoli software, aimed in helping your mid- sized firm address core e-business requirements. http://isource.ibm.com/cgi-bin/goto?on=swnl22/express New features delivered in Lotus Notes/Domino 6.0.1 IBM Lotus Notes and Domino Release 6.0.1 is currently available, the first maintenance release of the IBM Lotus Notes/Domino 6 family of products. The release includes fixes to enhance the quality and reliability, as well as a limited set of new features, such as single copy template and roaming user support. http://isource.ibm.com/cgi-bin/goto?on=swnl22/notes ---------------------------------------------------------------- Developers ---------------------------------------------------------------- Note: Information on IBM developerWorks Live! conference is in Feature and Events sections. Early bird special ends March 16th! Turn your Lotus applications into Web services This tutorial will show you how to turn your existing Lotus applications into portable Web services. Use the Application Developer configuration of WebSphere Studio to develop and test the Web service, and then deploy the Web service to WebSphere Application Server. The Web service created will access a Lotus Domino database through an agent written in LotusScript. http://isource.ibm.com/cgi-bin/goto?on=swnl22/learn Customizing WebSphere Studio V5 wizards In order to help users develop their software faster and better, you could generate code for them. WebSphere Studio V5 includes about a dozen wizards, and you can use simple, JSP-like templates called content generation models (CGMs) to customize and extend their output. This article gives you all the details. http://isource.ibm.com/cgi-bin/goto?on=swnl22/wiz Accessing federated dbs with application server components A key aspect of e-business on demand is "virtualization" -- the ability to hide the disparity of data sources from a user or application. This experienced-based article describes how a federated DBMS, such as DB2 Information Integrator, and Web application server technologies can be combined to provide Java developers with new options for integrating data from a variety of sources. http://isource.ibm.com/cgi-bin/goto?on=swnl22/dbs ---------------------------------------------------------------- Innovations ---------------------------------------------------------------- IBM leadership in multimodal technologies -- Learn more IBM recently announced the latest software tools and middleware for the development of multimodal technology. Multimodal access is the ability to combine multiple modes or channels in the same interaction or session. Information on a device can be both displayed and spoken. Learn more about the X+V specification, read related whitepapers, download the multimodal beta, and experience multimodal demos today. http://isource.ibm.com/cgi-bin/goto?on=swnl22/multi Education Centers for IBM Software offer new opportunities Eligible Business Partners will now be able to establish an Education Center for IBM Software (ECIS) and join a select community authorized to deliver end user and technical training. These education Business Partners will be using coursework developed by IBM and designed to provide skills that will help customers more effectively leverage the functionality of IBM software for their business needs. http://isource.ibm.com/cgi-bin/goto?on=swnl22/ed Software trials and betas -- Try them out Link yourself to the latest trials and betas. Choose from select software and initiatives displayed on the page now or do a search to find more. You could either type in a keyword or select a product category. Get the software catalog, as well, to help research software products. http://isource.ibm.com/cgi-bin/goto?on=swnl22/beta ---------------------------------------------------------------- Success Stories ---------------------------------------------------------------- Audi steers a new road with integrated e-commerce solution Audi had decided to take advantage of its brand equity by marketing lifestyle articles, such as jackets, shirts, key chains, and jewelry branded with the Audi logo. It created a new online store using WebSphere Commerce and WebSphere Application Server. IBM Business Partner divine, Inc. implemented the site and built an editing tool to provide Audi with an interface for changing product information and gathering statistics for marketing decisions. http://isource.ibm.com/cgi-bin/goto?on=swnl22/try DocNet revolutionizes content distribution DocNet went live with the goal of becoming the leading-edge outsource solution for content providers. It needed to develop and implement a Web-based content management system to do so. The service would enable clients to produce and distribute electronic or bound documents on demand through direct integration with print production houses. DocNet used IBM Content Manager, DB2 Universal Database, WebSphere Commerce, and WebSphere Application Server. http://isource.ibm.com/cgi-bin/goto?on=swnl22/doc Izumiya checks out with IBM Aiming to create an online grocery shopping Web site with same-day, low-cost delivery service, Izumiya sought an e-commerce infrastructure that would enable the company to keep development costs under control. WebSphere Commerce, DB2 Universal Database for AIX, and its IBM Net.Data component work together to execute the online shopping transactions. Tivoli Storage Manager backs up the DB2 data from the server. http://isource.ibm.com/cgi-bin/goto?on=swnl22/check ---------------------------------------------------------------- Event Listings ---------------------------------------------------------------- Access various IBM e-classes Virtual classroom with hands-on labs and live instruction. Software-specific courses available. http://isource.ibm.com/cgi-bin/goto?on=swnl22/class WEBCASTS The next step: e-business on demand Irving Wladawsky-Berger 21 Feb - Today! 11-12:30 ET (Available on replay after this time) http://isource.ibm.com/cgi-bin/goto?on=swnl22/cast1 Opportunities in the IT market place Shaping IBM's software strategy Steve Mills Replay on demand http://isource.ibm.com/cgi-bin/goto?on=swnl22/cast2 Managing and understanding tomorrow's data today Pat Selinger 05 March 11-12:30 ET http://isource.ibm.com/cgi-bin/goto?on=swnl22/cast3 EVENTS IBM developerWorks Live! 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