Cloud Computing in the Snow for IBM Connectivity Summit
Posted by Stuart Lisk on February 10, 2011
This week, my colleague and I attended and presented at the IBM WebSphere Foundation and Connectivity Summit in the beautiful and snowy up-state New York community of Palisades. Other attendees who made it through the east coast’s arctic winter to get here included IBM customers, partners and personnel wanting to learn more about IBM’s connectivity solutions. The customer contingent consisted of government agencies and companies across multiple sectors, with particularly strong representation from finance and retail.
My colleague, Max Coburn, Hubspan’s chief architect, and I presented a session, titled: “Get off the Van and into Cloud EDI integration”. As we were in the last time slot of the day, we had fewer people in the session than expected, but the audience was interested and enthusiastic about the topic and seemed to appreciate the mix of business and technical information. In addition to giving real-world examples of how companies have moved from traditional EDI VANs to cutting-edge cloud B2B integration, we gave a quick overview of Hubspan’s joint solution with IBM, the WebSpan SaaS Integration Platform, which leverages components of WebSphere software.
Max Coburn delivering his provocative B2B Integration message
As this was primarily a WebSphere event, there were multiple technical sessions on WebSphere MQ FTE, Message Broker, and WebSphere TX as well as how to develop service based architecture (SOA) leveraging IBM technologies.
Being the Seattleites that we are, trudging through the large amount of snow and battling the five degree wind chill factor was enough for us to appreciate our moderate albeit rainy winter in the Pacific Northwest. Next time, Max and I are going to hold out for the Southern California assignment, like some other colleagues enjoyed this week.
Next week, Hubspan will again be a featured speaker at the IBM WebSphere Connectivity Summit in Toronto, Canada. Hope you’ll join us there!
Tags: B2B Integration, EDI, IBM, Integration Platform, WebSpan, WebSphere
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