Chris Bucchere Invited to Speak at BEA Participate

I am very pleased to announce that BEA has invited me to speak at their first-ever ALUI and ALBPM user conference, BEA Participate.

Here is the title and abstract for my talk:

Portals and SOA: Portals in a Service-Oriented Architecture

Why is a Service-Oriented Architecture important to an IT infrastructure and what are the elements and products needed to build out an SOA? These questions answered, plus a discussion on how portals are the practical starting point to leveraging SOA.

As a BEA customer, fellow systems integrator, or if you're just BEA-curious, I'd love to hear suggestions about what you think I should include in my session. Thus far, it's shaping up to be a demo of a concrete realization of SOA using ALUI, ALESB (Enterprise Services Bus) and ALDSP (Data Services Platform). As those who have heard me speak before -- and listeners of my podcast -- can attest, I'll do my best to avoid "buzzword bingo" and include a lot of rubber-meets-the-road info to describe how SOA actually "gets done" in the real world.

If you're interested in going to BEA Participate, but you're still on the fence about whether or not you should make the investment, here's the kicker. BEA has posted the complete breakout agenda, and it's shaping up to be one killer conference, jam-packed with all the information you wish you would have gotten out of last year's BEA World, but didn't.

P.S.: I always love to meet my blog readers and podcast listeners in person, so feel free to engage me after my talk or stop by the bdg booth at BEA Participate and introduce yourself!