Welcome to the SOA Society.
The SOA Society is a group of professionals, gathered from both the corporate management and information technology areas. The purpose of the SOA Society is to educate and inform it's members about the policies and practices surrounding Service Oriented Architecture. Further, the SOA Society seeks to keep it's members informed by providing exposure to the tools and technologies available today, and to talk about the trends for tomorrow.
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Next Meeting - May 27, 2008
Portals -- Collaboration by People Who Put It All Together!
Portals are one of the key technologies in service-oriented
architecture. They are used to provide a unified view of multiple, often
disparate, applications. SharePoint Services (Microsoft) and WebSphere Portal
(IBM) are realizations of the Portal pattern (a.k.a. mechanism).
There are significant differences between the products offered
by these two major contributors to the state-of-the-art of MD SOA. But they do
not extend to the Portal pattern itself.
This is technology that is
increasingly in your customers’ faces.
That makes it very important for all of us to be on
the same page with respect to fundamental features and patterns.
Portals or “Dashboards” have been recognized as so useful that
they are becoming pervasive. They are the surface for email, enterprise
application integration, customer resource management, executive information
systems, and a growing list of advanced applications.
There are also some interesting capabilities that make
collaboration more productive. For instance, full-text search capabilities are
advancing rapidly. An example is “Stemming”. It makes key word search more
natural by analyzing the key words’ various meanings in spoken languages.
The folks from ACP Incorporated will illustrate the key
features of portals with some of their notable collaboration projects. Those
implementations were done on the Microsoft platform. However, the remarks about
portals and their features pertain to both the SharePoint Services (Microsoft)
and WebSphere Portal (IBM) realizations.
AGENDA for SOA Society Meeting
Tuesday May 27, 2008
·
Introduction
- Danny Smith, ACP Business Development Director
·
Overview – Mark
Carter, ACP President
·
SharePoint Demo
– Lola Flippo, MCTS; ACP-Practice Director
(Pam Noble,
MCTS, Sr. SharePoint Architect & Jamie Robinson, SharePoint Engineer)
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Demo Highlights: (The demo will be using live websites)
o
Team Collaboration
- through portals to centrally store, manage and access documents, keep
documents secure through detailed, extensible policy management. Office
SharePoint Server 2007 is tightly integrated with familiar client desktop
applications, e-mail, and browsers to provide a consistent user experience that
simplifies how people interact with content, processes, and business data.
o
Workflow
- Streamline everyday business
processes, initiate workflows for tracking, reporting common business activities
such as document review and approval, issue tracking, and signature collection.
Tight integration with browsers, e-mail, and familiar Microsoft Office system
client programs simplifies the user experience
o
Smart, Electronic
Forms Without Coding -
Without coding any custom applications, you can use smart,
electronic forms–driven solutions to collect critical business information
through a Web browser. Built-in data validation rules help you gather accurate
and consistent data that can be directly integrated into back-end systems to
avoid redundancy and errors that result from manual data re-entry.
o
Share Secure Data-
Share business data without divulging sensitive information. Give employees
access to real-time, interactive Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets from a
browser through Excel Services running on Office SharePoint Server 2007. Use
these spreadsheets to maintain and efficiently share one central and up-to-date
version while helping to protect proprietary information embedded in the
documents (such as financial models).
o
Dashboards /
KPI - Provide
centralized access to business-critical information. Create live,
interactive business intelligence (BI) portals that assemble and display
business-critical information from disparate sources, using integrated BI
capabilities such as dashboards, Web Parts, scorecards, key performance
indicators (KPI), and business data connectivity technologies.
o
Search
– Find the documents that you when you need them. Use natural
language queries and enhanced full-text search capabilities to find relevant
documents in your files.
·
Q&A Session
Join us Tuesday, the meeting is as usual free but please R.S.V.P. We want to be sure that there will be pizza enough to go around.
Meeting Time: Gather at 6:00 PM, Presentation @ 7:00 P.M.
New Horizons Learning Center, Birmingham, AL 35209; Get Directions to New Horizons Birmingham, AL http://www.newhorizons-bhm.com/directions.htm
Host: Bill Ivey mailto:william.ivey@newhorizons-bhm.com (205) 533-9714
Coordinator: David Cain mailto:davecain@msn.com
Refreshments: Pizza
Meeting Fee: FREE
RSVP: David C. Cain mailto:davecain@msn.com
At the Introductory Meeting a presentation meeting was given, it can be downloaded in PDF format via this link.