At The Hartford Hartford Plaza, Hartford, CT 06115

Tuesday, June 19, 2007 at 5:10 PM
to Tuesday, June 19, 2007 at 7:50 PM

Speaker:

Walter Silva with over 20 years IT experience, has worked as an application programmer and database administrator on Oracle since version 7. He currently works in the Corporate Office for United Technologies as an Infrastructure Architect supporting >80,000-user HR/Payroll Systems.

Presentation Synopsis

In late 2006, United Technologies' Human Resources predicted an imminent large increase in Employee Self Service application volume starting January 2007, and was expected to tax the capacity on it's current RAC infrastructure. This presentation relives the scramble of adding two nodes "live" to the existing RAC, with all the steps, tweaks, and twists encountered before, during, and after the actual event. It is a sharing of the experience and lessons-learned ... with detailed notes, tips, and tricks.


Orchestrating with BPEL: A Service Oriented Approach to Business Process

Speaker:

Dave Senak is a SOA Specialist with The Hartford. As a specialist in BPEL technologies since 2005, Dave was instrumental in implementing BPEL as an enterprise foundational platform at The Hartford. Dave prior experience includes developing J2EE solutions at Hartford Life.

Matt Sandberg is a SOA Specialist with The Hartford where he specializes in BPEL and Fair Isaac Blaze rules deployments. Matt has more than eight years of software development experience implementing XML and J2EE solutions.

Summary:

In a service-oriented architecture, business processes can be described in terms of web service invocations. Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) builds on web service specifications such as WSDL and SOAP to deliver a standards-based solution for business process modeling. This presentation discusses how BPEL can contribute to an overall SOA strategy, and demonstrates BPEL implementation using Oracle BPEL Process Manager.