Integration World Program

Product Focus Groups

Participate at Integration World 2005 in one of the many Product Focus Group sessions we will offer around the following topics!

All Product Focus Groups are being held November 14, 2005

Your Future with Integration
Area: Roadmap
Type: Discussion Forum
Time(s): 1-2:30pm, 3-4:30pm
This open forum provides an opportunity to directly discuss emerging trends in IT and their impact on your organization. The goal is to create an exchange of information to educate participants on future integration trends. Additionally we will take the opportunity to allow you to guide and direct the webMethods product roadmap.
webMethods Adapters and Solutions Roadmap
Area: Roadmap
Type: Discussion Forum
Time: 3-4:30pm
Every webMethods implementation uses several of our application adapters. Many organizations purchased webMethods because of our broad support for industry standards. In this session you'll have the opportunity to review the webMethods adapters and eStandards roadmap and interact directly with the team responsible for bringing these solutions to your integration projects.
The Competition is Heating Up
Area: Competition
Type: Discussion Forum
Time: 1-2:30pm
Integration is a hot business and as the industry has discovered this, competitors have entered this space in droves. They may be even knocking on your door. In this session we'll talk about some of the ways you can continue to advance your integration efforts while keeping the heated conversations around vendor selection honest and cool.
Best Practices in Bringing Business Into Your Integration Solutions
Area: BPM
Type: Discussion Forum
Time: 1-2:30pm
webMethods 6.5 enables collaboration between business people and IT but offering software is just a start to a successful working relationship. In this session we open the floor to you, our customers and partners, to help each other learn from your successes, and even your failures, in the quest to empowering business people.
Advanced Prediction
Area: BAM
Type: Advanced
Time: 3-4:30pm
Current and future webMethods BAM customers can use this session to learn about webMethods advanced BAM capabilities and prediction capabilities. Additional we will foster an exchange between customers to understand examples of applying these innovations to your business.
Ask the Architect
Area: Arch
Type: Advanced
Time: 3-4:30pm
An effective, efficient architecture is a key element to successfully deploying integrations that meet objectives and deliver value to your organization. This session with webMethods lead architects will take your questions on architecting for performance, scalability, high avaialbility and any other architectural topic of interest to you. Participants are encouraged to bring detailed technical questions for the panel.
SOA is Everywhere
Area: SOA
Type: Discussion Forum
Time: 1-2:30pm
Does it feel like everyone under the sun is talking about SOA these days? Does every vendor who contacts you want to tell you that their product is the SOA solution you need? In this session we'll help you cut through the weeds and give you practical advice for understanding what is real and needed with respect to SOA based solutions.
Web Service Trends in the Real World
Area: SOA
Type: Advanced
Time: 3-4:30pm
How many web services does your organization have? How are you managing them? In this session we will give you a sneak peak at webMethods web services management solutions. We'll tell you what we are hearing from our customers around their needs in the area of web services. And finally, we'll open the floor to you to tell us what you need from the web services management platforms of the future.
Leveraging Your Integration Assets
Area: PD
Type: Advanced
Time: 1-2:30pm
Over the years you've developed thousands of services in webMethods. Come to this session to learn about a new utility that will enable you to view relationships and dependencies across these assets. You can also hear about where we plan to take this in the future.
Effective Management Of Your webMethods Implementation
Area: PD
Type: Discussion Forum
Time: 3-4:30pm
Fixes, Service Packs, New Releases...Oh My. In this session you can learn about how webMethods is simplifying your interaction with technical services and product development and how we are working to offer you more timely releases and bug fixes.
Shaping webMethods Product User Experience
Area: Monitoring
Type: Discussion Forum
Time: 1-2:30pm
webMethods 6.5 delivers task based monitoring and management. In this usability & design review you'll help drive our future design for the remaining webMethods admin and configuration solutions.

Building Applications with webMethods
Area: Portal
Type: Advanced
Time: 3-4:30pm
The industry is buzzing about rich client support for your applications. In this session we'll talk to you about how our plans around process focused applications is driving our roadmap to merge our modeling, UI design and user task management into one seamless tool. We'll take your real world feedback on what you need to deliver rich solutions to your customers.
Trends in B2B
Area: B2B
Type: Discussion Forum
Time: 1-2:30pm
Some people think B2B is passe. While webMethods and our customers have known for years about the real business benefits to robust B2B solutions. In this session we'll open the floor to topics you want to discuss with respect to your B2B solutions. We'll cover topics like the emerging XML Standards and future use of web services in B2B solutions. We encourage you to attend this session if you can provide attendees with insight to how you've used webMethods EDI and B2B solutions to solve tough problems for your business.
The Power of Messaging Today and In The Future
Area: Broker
Type: Advanced
Time: 3-4:30pm
In this session we'll discuss all things messaging including our JMS 1.1. support, the differences between Broker 5, 6.1 and 6.5 and the benefit to upgrading, as well as where we are going with respect to messaging solutions in the future.
Leveraging webMethods Advantage for Self Service Support
Time(s): 1-2:30pm, 3-4:30pm
The Advantage website is truly a "community" website, and we look to our members for guidance on adding new features and improvements. Many of the recent improvements on Advantage are a direct result of feedback and suggestions we've received from community members. Learn about recent enhancements, Interact with Customer Care professionals and the Advantage team, and participate in discussions on the future direction of Advantage. Advantage is your community and your resource. Join us and learn how to get the most out of Advantage.