Media Casts

Implementing SOA During an Economic Downturn
If your budget is tight, you may be thinking of slowing down or even stopping your SOA initiatives. Think again. Dan Foody suggests looking for the quick wins that will allow you to continually enhance your SOA infrastructure. In this podcast, he talks about business-critical issues such as security and compliance, and SOA governance that can't be ignored even during a weak economic environment.

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Gain Better Enterprise Visibility of Your SOA
What if you could gain better visibility of your SOA infrastructure? Listen as Giles Nelson presents his observations on the challenges that many enterprises face when trying to identify business requirements and deploy smart solutions that will support these requirements.

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Data Integration in SOA and the Common Model
As you begin to plan or enhance your SOA, don't forget about the data! Below are 3 podcasts presented by Ken Rugg, VP of Products for DataXtend & ObjectStore, that discuss the importance of planning for data integration and deploying a common information model in SOA.

• Data Integration in SOA
• What is a Common Model?
• Common Models Being Used Today

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Managing your Service Level Agreements
Improperly managing your Service Level Agreements can mean incurring fines, losing a customer, or even tarnishing your reputation as a SaaS provider. It is crucial for companies to overcome the challenges of managing their SLAs to avoid these consequences. In this podcast Colleen Smith, director of SaaS for Progress Software, describes the challenges companies face when managing their SLAs and how they can over come these obstacles. Listen now (mp3) >
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Risks of Unmanaged SaaS Applications
The SaaS model offers organizations a cost effective way to implement critical business applications without the upfront costs associated with a client-server based application. However, the SaaS model requires careful management, and an unmanaged SaaS application can lead to potential risk in three major areas: service level agreements, securing and governance. There are a variety of strategies for dealing with the first two areas of risk, but companies have traditionally struggled with SaaS application governance. Listen now (mp3) >

ISVs Winning with SaaS
Opportunities abound for independent software vendors (ISVs) that comprise what some term "The Long Tail" of the industry. Colleen Smith discusses trends and best practices for Software as a Service (SaaS) with Interarbor Solutions' president and principal analyst Dana Gardner. Listen now (mp3) >

SaaS Heads Toward Vertical Business Networks
Colleen Smith, Vice President of SaaS for Progress Software, recently joined Krissi Danielsson for a discussion on the SaaS trend for vertical business networks. Listen now (mp3) >

How Do You Measure SOA Success? Try IT Backlogs
Hub Vandervoort discusses a simple, direct way to measure SOA success—check out the level of IT backlogs. Joe McKendrick interviewed Hub prior to the recent InfoWorld Executive Forum. For many companies implementing SOA, the overall backlog of IT requests is shrinking. Companies are seeing drastic reductions in project cycle times and consolidation in purchasing across the enterprise. Listen now (MP3) >

7 Points of SOA Mediation
Hub Vandervoort shares the 7 Points of SOA Mediation that will enable companies to achieve better business results, faster. In this podcast, Hub details how transport, semantics, location, sequence, error recovery, quality of service, and interaction will help SOA integrators connect data sources and enhance enterprise application flexibility. Listen now (mp3) >

SOA: Time to Value for IT
Hub Vandervoort discusses the steps for bridging the gap between formulating new business plans for change and creating the information technology in an SOA to support them. Listen now (mp3) >

Is SOA a Step Closer to the Code Reuse Panacea?
Progress Software has been touting code reuse dating back to the days of client/server application development. How does Software Oriented Architecture (SOA) expand those goals and move developers a step closer to true code reuse? Progress CTO Hub Vandervoort explains on this edition of Network World Panorama. Listen now (mp3) >

BI Network Editor Ron Powell interviews Dr. Larry Harris on Search-oriented BI
Dr. Larry Harris discussed search oriented BI. Listen now (mp3) >

Journalist Lisa Morgan interviews Dr. Larry Harris on Operational BI
Dr. Larry Harris discusses the importance of brining business intellegence to operational level employees. Listen now (mp3) >

In Search of… Enterprise Search
This episode of DM Radio features several industry experts explaining the ins and outs of this relatively new arm of business intelligence. Forrester Analyst Leslie Owens; Thunderstone CEO John Turnbull; and Dr. Larry Harris, General Manager of Progress EasyAsk discuss the tools and techniques for finding the discrete bits of information everyone needs to perform their job on a daily basis.

The Evolution of Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence has evolved over the years. However, after years of using expensive implementations, business users still struggle to get information. Dr. Larry Harris of Progress EasyAsk discusses the evolution of BI and the strides being made to deliver BI to the masses. Listen now (mp3) >

How the Implementation of EasyAsk Impacts Organizations
Progress EasyAsk has simplified the delivery of business intelligence to the masses. In this podcast, Dr. Larry Harris provides real life examples of the positive impact EasyAsk has had on organizations that have implemented EasyAsk to help business users query, analyze and share information. Listen now (mp3) >

How EasyAsk Helps Financial Institutions Get Timely Information
It's no secret that the financial industry is in the midst of huge change. Listen to this podcast to hear how Progress EasyAsk helps financial services organizations become more agile and more competitive by empowering their employees with access to pertinent information and an improved ability to analyze and share data on demand. Listen now (mp3) >

Why Usability is Key to Making BI Pervasive
Usability has been a significant barrier that has prevented most business users from adopting BI tools and 'self-serving'. As search-oriented solutions have been adopted to enable access to existing reporting assets it has become clear that the casual business user's needs also encompass specific ad hoc reporting requirements that cannot be fulfilled by a search-based solution. While a 'search box' provides a user friendly interface for a business user to be able to search and generate an ad hoc report, there remains the need to deliver some guidance into the value that can be derived from the underlying data. Listen to this podcast to learn how EasyAsk assists users to discover the value that is locked in their data and provides a vehicle through which organizations can gain a better understanding of what their business users need to make better decisions. Listen now (mp3) >

The Impact of Web 2.0 on Operational Business Intelligence Description
Dr. Richard Wood describes the impact Web 2.0 has on Operational Business Intelligence and how companies can take advantage of this new concept. Listen now (mp3) >