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I am very excited to post a replay of an exceptionally well-received webinar we first presented on June 3, 2009. In this webinar, noted analyst, blogger and consultant Sandy Kemsley joins us to present IT-Business Collaboration on BPM.

Sandy’s riveting presentation gets to the very core of a heated, on-going debate about business process management (BPM): Can business end users actually develop and deploy complex, integrated business processes using today’s business process management systems (BPMSs)? Will they? Even, should they?

You will hear Sandy discuss the “four myths of BPM,” namely:

• Myth #1: Users will use a BPMS to create executable process models
• Myth #2: Business users and analysts can create executable process models
• Myth #3 (My favorite!): Business users want to create executable business process models
• Myth #4: IT wants business end users to use a BPMS to create executable process models

I think you will find Sandy’s detailed discussion of these issues fascinating. And, after Sandy’s talk you can see how the ActiveVOS BPMS fits how things should be: a world in which development teams composed of IT and business analysts collaborate to create integrated, end-to-end, deployable process models.

Because of the very positive feedback we received from the attendees who attended the live webinar, I am posting multiple versions of the recording to ensure that you have the opportunity to watch it. In addition to the usual iPod-formatted .m4v file (140MB), this post also contains a 437MB DivX-encoded .avi file and a 94MB Windows Media 9-encoded .wmv file. Finally, for our bandwidth-challenged readers, I have also posted a PDF of Sandy’s PowerPoint slides. I strongly recommend that you download one of the recordings so you can fully appreciate the wisdom of Sandy’s presentation.

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 VOSibilities podcast #33: BPMS, IT, business users and the real state of collaboration [77:58m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (297)
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We are pleased to post a recording of a webinar originally presented on May 7, 2009 entitled “BPMS for Java Developers.” This webinar, jointly presented by JBoss and Active Endpoints, will introduce Java developers to business process management suites (BPMS) using ActiveVOS and to the JBoss SOA Platform.

There are two files attached to this post. The first is an iPod-formatted .m4v file for our podcast feed subscribers. The second file is a DivX-encoded .avi with slightly larger resolution.

 

 VOSibilities podcast #32: BPMS for Java developers [78:51m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (794)
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This Wednesday, January 21, at Wednesday, January 21 at 2pm ET, 11am PT, 18:00 GMT, we will be presenting a free webinar (register here) in which we will “open the hood” and take a detailed look at a reference BPM and SOA application we call “Vintage Old Stock.” This webinar promises to be an excellent way for you to learn some of the latest techniques for creating BPM applications in a services-based environment.

Our ActiveVOS product manager, Mike Moniz, will detail how this fully featured business process was built using the latest SOA techniques and open standards. At the end of the demo, Mike will be taking your questions.

We encourage you to download a fully-configured version of the application, complete with extensive documentation, as a way to cement the very exciting things you will learn in this webinar.

Once again, here’s the registration link. We hope you can join us.

WSO2 and Active Endpoints are hosting a joint webinar  focusing on ESB and how to use a BPEL- and BPMN-based BPM system for best results on Tuesday, October 28 at 2pm ET, 11am PT, 18:00 GMT. Details are in the press release attached below and you can register at http://www.activevos.com/mainstream.

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We are very pleased to present a replay of a webinar that we presented jointly with the JBoss division of Red Hat entitled How to Achieve Your SOA Vision in the Real World.

Presenting along with me are Pierre Fricke of JBoss and Mike Moniz of Active Endpoints. The webinar details our companies’ joint vision and technology for how developers, managers, enterprise architects and business analysts can move beyond the debates, the complexity and the high costs that have torpedoed implementation of services-based applications for far too long.

And, Active Endpoints is very proud to show publicly for the first time the upcoming ActiveVOS 6.0 (slated to to generally available in August, 2008) which completely resets the standard for what an integrated, all-in-one development and deployment system can achieve. Be sure to check out Mike’s amazing demo. And I also recommend you stick around for the lively panel Q&A at the end of the webinar.

You may have also noticed that when we have a video podcast, I try to post both a higher resolution .avi and an iPod-formatted .m4v. The .avi is approximately 150MB; the .m4v is approximately 80MB.

There are three ways to watch the webinar replay. In ascending order of resolution they are: playing the .m4v file from the website, which results in a 320×240 image. If you download the .m4v file, it will play in iTunes or QuickTime at 640×480. Finally, if you download the .avi, the resolution is 775×582. The .avi file is DivX encoded, so most everyone should be able to view it.

As always, we’d love to know what you think of the webinar. Please email me comments at editor@activevos.com or post a comment here.

 

 VOSibilities podcast #14: Webinar replay - Real World SOA [64:34m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2445)
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We are pleased to present a recording of a joint webinar we presented on June 12, 2008 with XAware entitled How to Create and Orchestrate Services for Your SOA and Web 2.0 Applications.

Despite the imposing title, I think you will find the content — especially the lively Q&A at the end of the webinar — very interesting.

 

 VOSibilities podcast #10: Webinar replay - How to Create and Orchestrate Services for Your SOA and Web 2.0 Applications [80:19m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1043)
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