WebSphere – Juggling Spheres over your Web

 Tuesday , 16th April
Aeonian Training Centre, 2nd Floor, Shropshire House
2-10 Capper Street, London WC1E 6JA

AGENDA

09:00 – 09:30  Registration & Coffee

09:30 – 09:40  Welcome
 Stuart Jupe, IBM CUA

09:40 - 10:40  WebSphere Positioning and Update
Stuart Foster, IBM UK

Stuart will firstly introduce the WebSphere Software Platform, and specifically the Websphere Application Server. As the session progresses it will focus on the latest developments and directions of the product. The presentation will end with an informal question and answer session.

Stuart Foster is an IBM Certified Software IT Specialist and has worked for IBM for 16 years. He has worked in a number of IBM product and industry businesses during his IBM career and is currently working as a Technical Sales Consultant in the Software Business specialising in WebSphere "Reach and End User Experience". Because of his work with the WebSphere runtime, Stuart also has a very keen interest in the e-business development tools, previously VisualAge for Java, and more recently WSAD. He has been working with Websphere for over 4 years and is widely recognised as a technical authority in this key market segment.

10:40 – 11:20  From Vineyard to Bottlebank – WebSphere iSeries case study
Bleddyn Williams, Morpheus

Bleddyn will discuss the successful implementation of IBM's e-commerce offering, WebSphere Commerce Suite for Majestic Wines, Britain's leading by-the-case wine retailer (www.majestic.co.uk). Majestic Online was the first commercial implementation using V4 developed on the iSeries platform. Since its launch in April 2000, Majestic Online has achieved a 400% return on its initial investment and is growing rapidly. The site is soon to be re-launched using version 5 of the product, which is fully Java compliant and we discuss the reasons behind this move forward and what it means for other iseries users considering e-commerce developments.

Bleddyn has been building Internet applications on the iSeries platform, since the first webserver was developed for the platform over six years ago. Widely recognised as a leading expert in this field, Bleddyn has been commissioned by IBM's Toronto labs for the past 3 years to co-develop new version of their merchant solution WebSphere Commerce Suite. Bleddyn writes regularly for News/400.UK within their e-business section, where he is known as their 'WebSphere Wizard!'

11:20 – 11:40 Coffee

11:40 – 12:20  WebSphere Case Study (zSeries)
 John Hirst, TNT

John will give an overview on how TNT are web enabling their new and existing applications using WebSphere, the lessons he has learnt along the way, and how TNT plans to use WebSphere in the future.

John has been with TNT for 4 years, initially as a developer but for the last 3 years as a CICS sytems programmer. He is responsible for the management and admin of both CICS and WebSphere systems at TNT.

12:20 – 12:30  IBM CUA AGM
 

12:30 – 13:30  Lunch

13:30 – 14:15  WebSphere Systems Management Issu
                                Candle

14:15 – 15:00  Tea/Coffee

15:00 – 15:45  WebSphere iSeries Update
 Claus Klint, IBM UK         

There are many ways to modernize and web enable iSeries applications using the e-Business infrastructure and WebSphere technology. This session will help you recognize these possibilities. The session will cover IBM and ISV solutions. The session will also cover case studies and recent references of successful iSeries implementations

Claus Klint is the EMEA iSeries e-business Sales Manager with overall responsibility for sales and marketing of the eServer iSeries Domino and Websphere solutions across more than 130 countries in Europe, Middle East and Africa. The platform is the backbone of IBM's midmarket server offerings and more than 250.000 systems have been installed in EMEA.

15:45 – 16:15  WebSphere Case Study (iSeries)
 Stephen Way, Johnson Matthey

Johnson Matthey is using WebSphere to drive its eCommerce platforms. In this presentation, Stephen Way will cover how WebSphere is being used to do this, how ongoing development is handled and administration and monitoring of Websphere in a production environment.

Stephen Way is Divisional IT Manager for one of Johnson Matthey's three divisions, and also manager of Johnson Matthey's eCommerce projects. He has worked in computing for over twenty years, on IBM mid-range machines for the last fifteen years, and is also Director of Common-UK. Stephen is a contributor to News/400.uk

16:15 – 16:45  Panel Discussion & Close