Since the advent of Web 2.0, there has been a debate in the business community over the real economic benefits of virtual environments. Is Second Life the next main street, or mainly a waste of time? The debate may rage on for the next decade, but for now ebizQ has found that there is real value in virtual environments for one segment of business professionals: conference goers.

ebizQ has launched a new virtual environment for online conferences, which will premier on May 7th with a conference on Event Processing. What are the benefits of a virtual conference environment? Without leaving their desk, attendees can interact with presenters, including Gartner and Forrester analysts, and network with their peers. They can visit virtual booths to chat live with vendors about requirements and solutions And most importantly, business professionals can get their questions answered by industry experts, without taking too much time out of their busy schedules.

Event processing, the subject of the May 7th conference, is an exciting technology being used in conjunction with several technological disciplines such as SOA architecture and process monitoring to increase business agility. Event Processing can improve decision making, reduce costs, and help companies respond quickly to competitive threats and opportunities in the marketplace.

ebizQ's May 7th conference will address burning questions such as: What makes event processing different from conventional application design? What are the different styles of event processing? And how can mainstream companies realize the benefits of event processing?

Registration for ebizQ's Event Processing conference is free to attendees, thanks to sponsors IBM, BEA, IWay Software and Aleri.

For more information, visit http://www.ebizq.net/events/event_processing or visit www.ebizq.net/events/ for a complete schedule of ebizQ's virtual events.

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ebizQ's SOA In Action 2007 virtual conference launches tomorrow! Have you heard what we're giving away?

Visit each virtual booth in the conference and automatically be entered to win an Apple iPhone!

Attend the panel discussion "SOA and Web 2.0" or "SOA Trends" for a chance to win one of 4 books on SOA!

Are you registered for all the events you want to attend?

Visit >http://www.soainaction.com/agenda to sign up for presentations from your favorite SOA experts, including David Linthicum, Roy Schulte, Beth Gold-Bernstein, Joe McKendrick, Randy Heffner, Dana Gardner, Brenda Michelson, and many, many more!

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Check it out!

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Today, I am extraordinarily pleased to welcome two new writers to the ebizQ blogosphere, Alex Fletcher and Krissi Danielsson.

Alex Fletcher, author of the enormously popular Open Source Unleashed blog over at ebizQ's sister site, IT Gumbo, joins us today in syndication in our main ebizQ blog box, and you can also find him in our Open Source tab, working alongside veteran ebizQ senior open source software analyst Dennis Byron.

In his non-blogging life, Alex is lead analyst over at Entiva Group, a research and analyst firm which specializes exclusively on the open source software industry. Alex's main focus is working to help clients of all sizes formulate approaches to governance, strategy and policy surrounding use of open source software as a competitive differentiator within the enterprise. Alex has prior experience as a consultant, software engineer and start-up founder.

I am also thrilled to welcome ebizQ contributor Krissi Danielsson, who is taking over the SaaS Week blog from Prakash Kannoth, and she will be expanding the SaaS topic for ebizQ, as well as contributing to our editorial lineup of features. Like Alex's, Krissi's blog will also be syndicated in our center main blog box on ebizQ and you can bookmark her right now at SaaS Week.

Krissi is a podcast producer with ebizQ and this week joins us as contributor to ebizQ's SaaS Week. Krissi started following the IT market while working as an assistant editor with TechTarget, where she spent four years covering a variety of technology areas, from Web services to enterprise Linux. As a freelance writer, she has also written for sites such as TechSpend, ComputerBits, and the iParenting network. Krissi is the author/co-author of four nonfiction books.

Welcome Alex and Krissi! I hope your association with ebizQ will be long and successful.

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Last night, when RIM had a system failure, reportedly cutting off mobile email service to all BlackBerry users in the Western Hemisphere, you can bet I felt it here at ebizQ.

Because I receive a lot of email every day, and because I commute to New Rochelle (37 minutes to and from Manhattan!), I certainly noticed the outage that reportedly started at about 8:15pm Eastern time, and ended sometime this morning, around 10:00am, I think. Ten hours overnight, the New York Times reports.

The outtage was apparently due primarily to a data backlog/system failure, and in this era where data management, integration, backup and recovery really affect our core business dealings, it could have been much worse. This kind of downtime, if it took place during an entire workday, or extended past 24 hours, would have been quite a lot worse.

RIM caught a lot of heat last night and today for not discussing the outtage publicly however, and even now, at 4:30pm, there's nothing on their website that discusses the failure. Following along the line that this is the "data era," it is also the Post-Enron transparency era, and lots of people were quite upset at RIM's lack of palpable response to its user base.

But I guess part of the problem with this situation, and even with the bandwidth problem, is that RIM has done very well lately and is extremely busy dealing with its increasing business, of which reliability is a cornerstone. But, like all large (and not so large) business these days, RIM probably is feeling the heat in terms of junk email. Spam is out of control, as ebizQ's Peter Schooff recently confirmed after he talked to Postini and they told him that spam accounts for something like 95% of all total email. This just goes to show that this kind of thing can happen to any enterprise, anywhere, and we are all potential victims.

According to InfoWorld, the outtage comes at a time of continued rapid growth for RIM:

"It added 1.02 million subscribers in the quarter ended March 3, for a total of approximately 8 million BlackBerry subscribers worldwide. Revenue for the quarter was $930.4 million, up 66 percent from a year earlier. Net income for the quarter before adjustments was $187.9 million."

"The rapid subscriber growth, plus the runaway junk e-mail boom, equals a disaster in the making," telecommunications analyst Jeff Kagan said in an e-mail analysis [also to InfoWorld]. Networks work fine until they reach their capacity, then all sorts of strange things happen."

I was interviewed about this today, as a CrackBerry user for the New York Times.. The Grey Lady, wow! I told them about how the outtage reminding me of the distant past.... like 2004. I'll link to it if it gets in!

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Well, today I was all set to blog live from the SOA/Web Services on Wall Street Conference, and in my previous blog entry, I said I was going to try to break my personal record of publishing five (sensical) blog entries in the same day.

But there was no wifi, so I will report, in a slightly lame Web 1.85 fashion, tomorrow. Having said that, I had some excellent conversations with representatives from companies such as Ramco, HP, Active Endpoints, Vitria, Lab 49, Unisys, webMethods and iTKO, and I'll look forward to sharing some of their news here.

There was one piece of news released at the conference that was especially interesting, regarding a new partnership between webMethods and iTKO. The release appears here.

[iTKO]
[webMethods]
[SOA/Web Services on Wall Street]

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Today I am absolutely thrilled to introduce you to ebizQ's newest blogger, Dennis Byron. Read his inaugural entry here!

Dennis will be blogging on Open Source Solutions, or OSS, as it relates to integration issues, and he comes to us with absolutely tons of analytic experience and is currently principle analyst at IT Investment Research, which is aimed at institutional and individual investors in information technology (IT), or just anyone who likes to peer under the covers of "the financials" where both large companies and emerging IPOs like to bury their most interesting facts.

Dennis has more than 30 years experience researching and analyzing all areas of information technology and information-systems use. He is a former researcher with the Datapro division of McGraw-Hill and at IDC.

He has conducted over 500 specific information-systems case studies, and has contributed to Application Development Trends magazine, ebizQ and other publications.

We have been working for some time to get the right blogger in here to write about OSS, and we are really happy and honored that Dennis has chosen to join us!

Please visit and bookmark his blog today!

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...As in, yes, we totally rocked Google Blog search last week.

If you plugged in the word "Antepo," a recent Adobe acquisition, you got this. (At press time) Number three, baby!

If you plugged in "Softek," a recent IBM acquisition, you get this.

If you plug in "BPM," guess who's number one? The Rocking Michael Dortch!

And if you ask for BPM on Topix, you get this. The whole top three!

Basically, it's just fun to remind ourselves that with fewer print editions every year, people still see us all over the Web, and we're conceivably more read now than ever, due to our placement in enterprise searches.

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This week, we bid farewell to David Ogren, the originator of BPM-Blog, and we welcome Kiran Garimella, who will be "BPM-blogging" in the same location.

David, a BPM thought leader who has hung his hat with several enterprise technology vendors; with Sun, with Fuego, and most recently with BEA after its acquisition of Fuego, has decided to take a break from blogging. We very much look forward to hearing more of him and from him in the future. For posterity, we want to leave David's blogging archives in place.

But starting today, we welcome Kiran Garimella, a VP of webMethods, as a new blogger on ebizQ. Kiran has a flair for the dramatic, having recently published a novel about BPM, called The Power of Process: Unleashing the Source of Competitive Advantage.

You will see what I mean about a flair for the dramatic when you read Kiran's first entry in BPM-Blog.

Happy reading!

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Joining a VIP tour of IBM's Second Life island was an ebizQ associate, Dana Gardner. I found Dana's comments about the tour very compelling, and it has helped me form some of my own opinions about the future of technologies likes Second Life for business purposes.

Some of Dana's comments:

"It took about an hour before I finally switched from thinking that my initial experiences with Second Life were a waste of time to actually finding them being productive in new ways. I was one of a 3D flurry of invited "VIPs" on Friday to enter an IBM pavilion inside Second Life. With my unique personage avatar seated (took me five minutes to figure out how to sit down) in the front row I read a chat sequence as IBM executives (some virtually knee-deep in the stage) told of how we're at the beginning of something big and Blue.

"Using such virtual environments, a company's best minds and communicators can reach far more people directly, rather than sitting in airports or viewed only remotely from a far-off podium. This is a killer application of evangelism, sales, and implementation support — and you never leave home."

Read Dana's entire blog post here.

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Happy Holidays!

Whether you’re celebrating Christmas, Hannukah or Kwanzaa, we at ebizQ.net would like to wish you and all of your families the joy of health, happiness and professional success this holiday season and for the new year.

The ebizQ Team

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Interesting article today from K.C. Jones on CMP's Techweb, saying that blogging and community contributors will peak in the first half of 2007. Interesting, because we here at ebizQ have seen strong growth on all our collaborative channels, and we are constantly getting comments about our excellent bloggers and inquiries about how to join the ranks or contribute.

I think collaborative communities that support virtual conferences for real business reasons, like Second Life, are going to start replacing blogs, but I think blogs still serve a very important purpose for thought leadership in specialized industries like ours. I don't think that good blogs, and people who excel at the blogging medium, are going away anytime soon.

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Next week, IBM is debuting an SOA island in Second Life. If you don't know what Second Life is yet, read this, this or this, and get ready to have your mind blown. This is not just the future of technology, it's the future of commerce.

If you don't believe me, visit the site of the Reuters' Second Life reporter, Adam Pasnick, who spends all his time reporting on things that occur inside Second Life. Also, for a special ebizQ look, here's a screencast video of the virtual me trying to fly, and totally hitting my head on the ceiling! Nice to know that I can be a virtual klutz in addition to an actual klutz!

Get yourself an Avatar right now! And when you do, look around for ebizliz Bohm! That's me!

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Over the past couple of months, ebizQ has begun to feature the research and writings of those three IT geniuses over at Macehiter Ward-Dutton. In addition to hosting an MWD Blog on ebizQ and including their research in our analyst corner, we've also been running an editorial series on identity management by Neil Macehiter.

Today we present the final installment of Neil's four-part article, titled "Identity Management End-to End."

Neil recommends developing an identity management architecture as part of broader enterprise architecture and SOA initiatives. He warns that identity management initiatives will be unmanageable and unsustainable without identity management lifecycle processes in place that are well documented and understood by the relevant stakeholders. Neil also talks about the developing standards for identity management technologies, and warns companies not to become too dependent on standards early on, as they are still in the process of development.

If you missed any of the earlier parts of Neil's most excellent analysis, here there are:

Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV

Enjoy.

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Developing a service-oriented architecture without the appropriate governance tools and techniques is like trying to make a peanut butter sandwich without the peanut butter.

Governance is the glue that holds SOA together. This Webinar is live!

SOA governance combines policies and technologies to help you effectively manage and evolve your SOA throughout its lifecycle. With SOA governance, you can develop the right applications efficiently, achieve reliability through impact analysis and change control, and meet new business requirements.

Join us right now for a discussion of governance with Software AG's John Fitzgerald. And hey, check it out, John recently wrote an article for ebizQ!

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ebizQ is proud to sponsor a talk during today's SOA in Action conference from a practioner from the Ohio Bureau of Worker's Compensation, on how to build an Integration Competency Center.

In this session, we introduce you to Rajeshwer Subramanian, a developer of an SOA Competency Center, and author of the recent ebizQ article, "SOA: IT's Strategic Inflection Point?"

Please join us at noon for this exciting, from-the-field presentation.

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It's Day Two of our groundbreaking, virtual, attendence-driven, live SOA in Action Conference and Tradeshow.
You don't have to sleep in an uncomfortable hotel room, stand in line for coffee, and you certainly don't have to wear a silly name tag around your neck. But you do get all the exciting keynotes, panel Q&As and interactions with others that you need about SOA, whether you're in the planning, building or managing stage of your journey.

This morning's keynote with Forrester Research's Ken Vollmer, "What Is The Relationship Between BPM and SOA and Why Should You Care?" starts at 10:30! Click here to sign in, and see you there!

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Log on to the Understanding ESBs panel this afternoon at 2:00 PM and get a chance to interact with a true industry visionary.

Dave Chappell is vice president and chief technology evangelist for Sonic products. Chappell has over 20 years of experience in the software industry covering a broad range of roles including R&D;, code-slinger, sales, support and marketing. He is well known for his writings and public lectures on the subjects of the enterprise service bus (ESB), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), message oriented middleware (MOM), enterprise integration, and is a co-author of many evolving standards for advanced Web sServices standards and service-oriented architecture.

As I've said before, Dave literally WROTE THE BOOK that the industry uses to understand ESBs. As a great incentive, if you attend the session, you have a chance to win a copy of this very book, Enterprise Service Bus: Theory and Practice.

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"The real benefits of SOA are not just about sharing. They have to do with this notion of being able to maintain applications incrementally.

"Judge the success of your SOA by how fast you can change your business processes.

Listen to the archived Roy Schulte presentation here.

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Browsing the ebizQ SOA in Action trade show booths, the personal message I was greeted with from Sean Walsh, CTO and President of Skyway Software, really makes an impact.

Walsh said that Skyway's development platform helps organizations build and integrate software applications quickly - oftentimes twice as fast. "Using our proven techniques of Model-Driven Services Development combined with Open Application Composition and agile Platform Independent Delivery, developers are able to demonstrate immediate business value, reduce IT development backlogs, and deliver pragmatic SOA."

Check it out.

Skyway's Webinar at 1:00 PM today is on how Enporion Eliminated its IT Backlog Via SOA.

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Today's SOA in Action Keynote, kicking off ebizQ's cool new interactive SOA in Action virtual conference, is the talk featuring Gartner analyst extraordinaire Roy Schulte, with his talk entitled, "Meeting the Challenges of SOA Adoption."

Schulte says that companies pass through four stages as they adopt SOA, from experimentation through widespread use. At each stage, different issues arise and must be conquered. This presentation, he said, will present problem-solving approaches that will help mainstream enterprises succeed at each stage of SOA maturity.

Sign up right here and don't even thinking about missing it!

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ebizQ announces that its ground-breaking virtual conference, SOA in Action: Plan It, Build It, Manage It, opens today, November 15th, and continues through November 16th, 2006. >Click here for more information.

SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) is an architectural concept that has the potential to fundamentally change the way IT plans, builds and manages systems. SOA makes it easier to change and reconfigure IT systems, leverage and repurpose existing IT investments, and enable systems to be more closely aligned with the business processes of the organization. The goal of SOA is to enable companies to become more agile at adapting to market opportunities and changes, and achieve competitive advantage as a result.

With keynote speakers such as Gartner's Roy Schulte and Forrester's Ken Vollmer, the SOA in Action conference is poised to turn attendees on to SOA, regardless of what stage they're in on their SOA journey.

Attendance at the conference is free. Simply log in with your ebizQ gold club membership at >http://www.soainaction.com/conference, and select which events you'd like to attend.

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Business Integration is more than products and programs; For a long time, we've known that integration requires the thoughtful attention and brainpower of technologists in collaboration with business executives. As part of tomorrow's virtual SOA in Action conference, we're going to hear a lot about the Integration-as-a-Service (IaaS) concept. Now, we've already heard of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), but can you really order up integration "as a service," just like you order chinese food or a cleaning service? That's what I want to know!

So let's find out. I'm recommending everyone sign up for SOA in Action's noon to 12:45 event, "Integration-as-a-Service (IaaS): Driving Business Value through SOA."

The 'always germaine, never mundane,' Beth Gold-Bernstein, ebizQ's vice president of Strategic Services, is the moderator of this event. It features Andrew Dent, founder and CTO of Hubspan. Sign up now! It's free!

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Considering the enormous strides taking places these days in the integration security space, and the fact that we're hosting a great security blog, Andre Yee's Security Insider, ebizQ has lauches Integration Security as a hot topic, and we're welcoming feature article submissions, new security blog coordinates (so we can link to your blog entries from the section), as well as all your security news.

Check it out and get involved!

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You might not know this, but ebizQ maintains a very interesting, comprehensive white paper library, to which people can submit their white papers, for posterity, if not fame and fortune.

Follow this link if you want to submit your paper (one per company per quarter, please). To see all the white papers in our library, sponsored and unsponsored, click here.

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I just did a podcast with Arthur Fontaine, a senior offering manager with IBM, about today's announcement that Lotus Notes is now going to run on Linux. Check out the news, and then come back in a couple of hours to hear the podcast!

The news is here!

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ebizQ's Beth Gold-Bernstein is in San Diego this week at the Gartner's Application Integration and Web Services Summit. Make sure you stop by and say hi.

If anyone is at Gartner and feels the compulsion to take pity on those who had to stay home and mann the fort, and can send in a live report on anything interesting being said there, please send it on over. I'll post your entry as a live guest blog!

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I'm pleased to share that ebizQ has started aggregating the podcasts of Dana Gartner, Interarbor Solutions' principle analyst. Interarbor Solutions is involved with strategic IT analysis, RSS communications and produces informational business-to-business podcasts.

The first podcast from Dana that we'd like to share is his recent interview with Object Management Group CEO Richard Soley, where they discuss standards and complexity.

Dana also has a ZdNet blog, that you can check out here.

We look forward to a long and fruitful relationship wtih Dana.

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Andre Yee, a security specialist and president of NFR Security, joins ebizQ today as our newest blogger. I'd like to invite you to check out and bookmark Andre's blog here.

For those who don't know him, Andre is a noted author and conference speaker on topics related to security, middleware and enterprise architectures. He is listed as an inventor on two patents, and most recently, he was recognized as one of InfoWorld's "Innovators to Watch for 2006". Andre's experience includes playing key senior management roles in three private companies that successfully achieved IPOs - SAGA Software, Landmark Systems and Best Software.

ebizQ is very happy to welcome Andre to our blogosphere.

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Beth Gold-Bernstein, ebizQ's VP of Strategic Services, signed copies of her new book, Integration and SOA: Concepts, Technologies and Best Practices (co-authored with webMethods' Gary So), today at the Integration Consortium's Global Integration Summit in Boston.

ebizQ blogger Brenda Michelson, who sent this photo and attended Beth's presentation, said “Beth's session raised the audience's awareness as to the importance of semantics and sound data management in an enterprise SOA.”

The book will be in wide release soon, and I'll provide a link for where you can get it as soon as I have it.

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Steven Minsky, a recognized visionary in BPM and a risk expert, who has written a column called Executive Vision for ebizQ for the past year, has developed a following on his topic of enterprise risk management (ERM). Today, I'm pleased to welcome Steve to ebizQ's blog roll, where he will continue to provide executive-level analysis on the intersection between business, IT and risk. Bookmark Steve here: http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/chief_risk_officer/

Steve's blog, entitled "New Era of Risk Management," will highlight the differences between traditional risk management and true enterprise risk management, which most importantly is about helping something happen - not preventing something from happening. Steven's blog helps you think about risk in a new way and how to benefit practically from this rapidly evolving new field.

In his recent columns, Steve has highlighted what has become a huge market trend, the fact that large enterprises have started to think holistically about risk, to prioritize activities and allocate resources from the board room to the mail room. Standard and Poor's has even debuted an ERM component to their traditional credit score, and many companies are hiring Chief Risk Officers, or are developing teams to look at risk from an enterprise perspective.

For those of you who aren't familiar with Steve's work, Steve was formerly the CEO and Founder of RulesPower which was acquired by Fair Isaac in 2005. At Kodak's Eastman Software subsidiary, Minsky conceived and executed their enterprise workflow software solution for the banking, insurance, brokerage and health care industries that has become Global 360, a BPM industry leader. He is currently the CEO and Founder of LogicManager.

Please join me in welcoming Steve to ebizQ's community, and if you've missed his columns over the past year, they're permanently available at: http://www.ebizq.net/executive_corner/exec_vision/

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A hearty, hearty welcome to Brenda Michelson, who today brings her new blog, Business-Driven Architect, to ebizQ.

ebizQ has been publishing Brenda's incisive analysis for almost a year, in the form of excerpts of work she's done with her employer, the , and also from her blog, Elemental Links.

Please check out her inaugural entry and leave a note to welcome Brenda to the ebizQ community of practitioners (her words!)

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A few notes on some new ebizQ features:

*ebizQ is now aggregating the most recent entries from ebizQ bloggers (in the order of newest to oldest), on our main site.

*We're also featuring one of our fantastic bloggers each day.

*ebizQ is aggregating podcasts (like this one!) from both our in-house sources and ones of interest around the Web. Check out the right side of our main site, a bit "below the fold."

*in addition to new ebizQ feature articles each week, we're also aggregating integration articles of particular interest around the Web in our "More Top Stories" section, and putting them on an RSS page for your easy reference.

*topic-based blog entries from outside ebizQ are also visible in our topic pages. Click on the red tabs from the main site: SOA, BPM, ESB, BAM, EII and Executive Corner.

I hope you enjoy the changes, and please let me know your feedback!

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A new edition of Steve Minsky's monthly column is up, entitled "The Elephant at the Enterprise Risk Management Party."

Check it out here.

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James Taylor joins ebizQ's blogroll today with his new Weblog, Decision Management. James is an ebizQ feature contributor and a vice president of Fair Isaac with a blog here. We welcome James' well-presented commentary on business rules, decision automation, Business Activity Monitoring, business agility, compliance, and Business Process Management.

James reports that his ebizQ blog will provide perspective for planning, developing and integrating the technologies of today and for the next 10 years.

James is widely considered to be one of the leading experts and visionaries in the area of enterprise decision management. We're honored to bring his commentary to the ebizQ audience.

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Ronan Bradley, most recently the CEO of PolarLake and former vice president of product management for IONA, joins ebizQ today, with his brand new Roads to SOA blog.

One of our industry's top visionaries, Ronan continues to impress us with his clear thinking, ahead-of-the-curve sensibilities and accessible communications skills. A widely published writer and consultant, Ronan now focuses on addressing the key business and technology issues associated with the adoption of SOA, in addition to lecturing at The Dublin Institute of Technology.

We look forward to hosting Ronan on ebizQ as we continue to bring you daily postings from the best and brightest thought leaders in the integration industry.

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Steven Minsky, a recognized visionary in BPM who has written a column called Executive Vision for ebizQ since March of last year, has developed a following on his topic of enterprise risk management (ERM). In his most recent column, he has highlighted what has become a huge market trend, the fact that large enterprises have started to think holistically about risk, to prioritize activities and allocate resources from the board room to the mail room. Standard and Poor's has even debuted an ERM component to their traditional credit score, and many companies are hiring Chief Risk Officers, or are developing teams to look at risk from an enterprise perspective.

For those of you who aren't familiar with Steve's work, Steve was formerly the CEO and Founder of RulesPower which was acquired by Fair Isaac in 2005. At Kodak's Eastman Software subsidiary, Minsky conceived and executed their enterprise workflow software solution for the banking, insurance, brokerage and health care industries that has become Global 360, a BPM industry leader. He is currently the CEO and Founder of LogicManager.

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Welcome to David Ogren, who's brought his blog on the business and technology of Business Process Management to ebizQ. In recent weeks, David was blogging from Fuego as it was being acquired by BEA.

Read David's inaugural post here.

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Even though, he's been live for only about a week and a half, Keith Harrison Broninski's IT Directions Blog is long on impact. He's gotten eighteen comments so far on his third blog entry, titled BPMN will kill BPEL. Will it kill BPM too?

Keith is a Human-Centric BPM expert in his own right, and currently works at CTO of Role Modellers Ltd in the UK. Read more about Keith here.

Keith's blogging has evoked comments from not just your average reader, but cool people like Phil Gilbert, the CTO of Lombardi Software, and John Pyke, CEO of The Process Factory.

Considering that Keith's only been in the ebizQ blogosphere about five minutes, I'm looking to see a lot more exciting posts from him!

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This weekend, ebizQ upgraded its site to better highlight our key features, to make it more intuitive for you, the discerning integration executive. You'll still view our excellent Webinars, read our stellar White Papers, listen to CIOaudio, and read all sorts of interesting features (from inside and outside analysts) as well as breaking news items. You'll also see our training center growing by leaps and bounds.

But most exciting, you're going to see our fantastic ebizQ bloggers blogging in real-time in our six main subject areas, SOA, BPM, EII, BAM, ESB and Executive Corner.

Give us a little bit of time to iron out all the kinks, and email me with your comments at editor@ebizQ.net.

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ebizQ's fantastic forum of bloggers include decision-makers and analysts in the Integration space. Not only do our bloggers make news, they comment on it and incisively deliver the kind of messages that our readers need to understand the fast pace of technology strategy today.

Sandy Kemlsey's Column 2: Sandy, a successful BPM consultant and analyst in her own right, brought her popular blog to us in January, and focuses on business process management, enterprise architecture, business intelligence and technology in business. In the last few days alone, she's blogged about the BEA-Fuego acquisition, the Ovations BPM Framework, Mashup Camp, and Forrester's Wave of Human-Centric BPMS.

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Over the last year or so at ebizQ, we've been moving from a traditional Web and print publishing environment about the technologies that power business, to a more community-focused, interactive site about the next generation of technologies that will enable us all to power our businesses, collaboratively.

My current favorite tool at work is my RSS feed blog aggregator, part of the wonderful world of Web 2.0, where I've plugged in virtually every blogger in the integration space. At the touch of a button, I have a fantastic dashboard view of what's going on on the Web, integration-wise. And I'm ready to share the fruits of my labor with you.

For example, last week's annoucement of BEA's acquisition of Fuego hit fast and furious, and ebizQ was able to quickly get some news up on the Web, not just in our Vendor News section (sign up for our ebizQ news RSS feed here), but in our Industry Watch.

This weekend, ebizQ will get a facelift with the launch of our newly designed site, which will hopefully bring you even more exciting news on the integration space, faster. We'll still be offering you access to the best and most interesting Webinars and white papers, but our topic sections: SOA, BPM, ESB, Executive Corner, BAM and EII will be new and improved, with blog entries, podcasts, news and Webinars conveniently housed in each specific section. This blog will replace my other blog on the site, but I'll be doing essentially the same thing, highlighting and pointing you to blog entries of note around the Web in the Integration space.

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