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How to Learn WebSphere in 31 Days - Part One: Introduction. In the early spring of 2010, I got a call from a relative, a very experienced senior electrical engineer with top notch expertise in chip design.

How to Learn WebSphere in 31 Days - Part One: Introduction

He was laid off. He had tried very hard, but could not land on a chip design job. After a number of discussions and serious research, he decided to learn WebSphere engineering and prepare himself to be a WebSphere system engineer. Then, I was working for a large financial services company, on my 9th year as a senior technical manager working in the area of WebSphere engineering. I found that I was having an increasing need to refresh my technical skills as a WebSphere system engineer to be a better job and, to put it candidly, to get ready in case that I was laid off as well. Fortunately for both of us, after 10 years of phenomenal growth, WebSphere was still a fast growing area that had many job opportunities with respectful salary.

First, we looked at our technical background. The training tasks are listed below. Integrating IBM Web Sphere Portal With Web Analytic Hosted And Non ... Ader - IBM Press WebSphere Business Integration Primer Process Server BPEL SCA and SOA Dec (Ashok Iyengar, Vinod Jessani, Michele Chilanti) IBM WebSphere Business Modeler Process Simulation & Analysis ok.

The rise of the enterprise architect. Daljit Roy Banger, principal consultant, White Knight Management. 'Architectural realization is a way of thinking and not a concrete technology implementation.' It is however, supported by frameworks, patterns and best practices that complement the mindset.

The rise of the enterprise architect

It is the role of the enterprise architect (EA) and his team to both define and deliver a technical roadmap that supports the short and long-term strategic objectives of the business. Thus, the EA must be one who understands all the architectural forces and more importantly the technology components that allow him/her or them to deliver a transitional and target architecture.

Over the past decade a new function / job title has risen in prominence, i.e. one of the 'architect'. Taking BI beyond the Business Analyst. The Open Group's Architect Certification Programs. Web Services Description Language for Ja. New to SOA and web services. Whether you are an IT architect, a developer, or an administrator or you just want to find out more about what SOA is and how it can help your organization, you can learn a lot by following along in this article as JK Enterprises, a fictional company, goes through the process of implementing SOA solutions.

New to SOA and web services

First, let's take a general look at SOA and the method IBM offers to help you adopt SOA solutions and advance them if you've already started. Introduction: Aligning IT with your business, increasing business agility Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an IT architectural style that supports the transformation of your business into a set of linked services, or repeatable business tasks, that can be accessed when needed over a network.

This may be a local network, it may be the Internet, or it may be geographically and technologically diverse, combining services in New York, London, and Hong Kong as though they were all installed on your local desktop. Architecture in practice, Part 2: An introduction to SOA solution scenarios. Introduction In the first article of this series, you learned about the IBM SOA Foundation life cycle (the SOA life cycle) and how you can use IBM tools and technologies to deploy an SOA-based solution and manage the life cycle of services.

Architecture in practice, Part 2: An introduction to SOA solution scenarios

You learned about the four phases that constitute the IBM SOA life cycle: ModelAssembleDeployManage Collectively, these phases can be referred to by the acronym MADM. The SOA life cycle helps you to organize a project plan around the four phases and the activities and tasks that constitute them. IBM organizes these scenarios around five distinct yet interrelated entry points that help enterprises get started and succeed with SOA. Each of the entry points includes one or more of the scenarios, which in turn provides a roadmap for implementing the entry points. The scenarios fall into two categories: functional or supporting. Architecture in practice, Part 1: Realizing Service-Oriented Architecture. The Architecture Journal. Enterprise Architecture. MSDN Library Servers and Enterprise Development Architecture Architecture 101 Microsoft Architecture Overview Architecting a Knowledge-Management System Architecting Mobile Applications: Same Questions, Different Answers Architects: Why Do We Need Them?!

An A-Z Guide to Being an Architect. By Mark Bloodworth and Marc Holmes Contents IntroductionA-Z Guide to Being an ArchitectConclusion Introduction Being an architect isn't just about baffling people with unusual diagrams that only make sense when the author is in the same room.

An A-Z Guide to Being an Architect

The Open Group's Architect Certification Programs. By Leonard Fehskens Contents IntroductionThe Open Group Architecture FrameworkA New IT Architect CertificationAccredited Certification ProgramsBoard Review Certification ProcessRequirementsRecertificationBenefits of CertificationMore Information Introduction How do you know if someone is really an architect?

The Open Group's Architect Certification Programs

This has become an increasingly important question as the context and nature of information systems have evolved into their present forms. Many people have come to believe that the discipline of architecture is a powerful tool to address this daunting challenge. The Open Group Architecture Framework The Open Group, a consortium of IT vendors and users, was formed in 1996 by the merger of X/Open and the Open Software Foundation (OSF).