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Editorial Calendar 2008

ebizQ welcomes your submissions. Byline submissions for publication on ebizQ must be vendor neutral and between 1,000 and 1,500 words.

ebizQ publishes features on a daily basis according to the business goals for that day. The daily business goal also corresponds to a newsletter that goes to our subscribers on that day.

The deadline for submissions is close of business on Thursdays. While ebizQ does not request exclusive editorial rights, we retain the right to edit features to adhere to space constraints, our editorial guidelines and the Associated Press Style Book. Also, some content that appears on ebizQ.net may appear on the websites of partner publications. Many of the articles that appear on the ebizQ.net website also appear in our daily newsletters, sent to some 150,000 ebizQ Gold Club Members.

Please note the daily business goal schedule follows:

Monday	Leveraging the Connected Web & Leveraging Information and Intelligence
Tuesday	Supporting Financial Services & Securing Enterprise Applications
Wednesday	Improving Business Processes & Governing the Infrastructure
Thursday	Enabling Business Agility and Reuse & Supporting Insurance Services

The breakdown of the daily business goals and the Community Manager for each is as follows:

Leveraging the Connected Web - Phil Wainewright

ebizQ's Leveraging the Connected Web concerns enterprises' use of Web technologies and resources to keep up with the fast-paced digital economy. Enterprises today must engage with customers, suppliers and employees more closely and responsively than ever before. That means using the Web to collaborate, communicate and network 24/7. At the same time, enterprises must work more cost effectively. Web-based resources such as cloud computing, SaaS, mashups and ecommerce infrastructure can be employed to get more done with less.

Leveraging Information and Intelligence - David Linthicum

ebizQ's Leveraging Information and Intelligence utilizes real-world approaches to building efficiency into the information management infrastructure, so businesses can get the best bang for their buck when budgets are tight. Business-critical topics include systemic information management, master data management, leveraging information for business intelligence, the use of information within an SOA, information integration – and how it all fits into the forthcoming migration to the Web.

Supporting Financial Industry Solutions – Ronan Bradley

Securing Enterprise Applications – Peter Schooff

The information revolution shows no signs of slowing, and coincides with another revolution that poses a troubling risk to the enterprise: the revolution in criminal hacking. While IT solutions call for breaking down the barriers between information silos, criminal hackers are finding ever more inventive ways to break into that information. The protection of data, along with the management and assurance of user identities, is essential for the IT revolution to continue to re-invent the enterprise. This topic will also cover SOA security, service security and B2B security.

Improving Business Processes - Dennis Byron

ebizQ's Improving Business Processes focuses on two important perspectives for today's ever-evolving enterprise: BPM as a value proposition and BPM as a solution. Confuse the two, and you're likely to spend too much and get too little in return, since you'll be making the mistake of buying technology before doing the analysis. Improving Business Processes also examines BPM as a value proposition for enterprises, and how that value can be achieved using many different types of software and architectures.

Governing the Infrastructure - David Kelly

IT governance directly correlates to corporate efficiency and plays a fundamental role in an enterprise's effective use of IT. ebizQ's Governing the Infrastructure reviews governance policies, practices and technologies that can help organizations do more with less. In addition, Governing the Infrastructure looks at how organizations are making the resources they already have more effective and efficient, especially in complex areas such as SOA, risk management and compliance. The community also illustrates real-world examples of how good governance can save companies money by increasing reuse, reducing wasted efforts and providing ways to monitor IT and business objectives.

Enabling Business Agility and Reuse - Joe McKendrick

Information technology must move as fast as the business itself if organizations are going to thrive in today's challenging business climate. To better align IT with business goals, many companies are turning to SOA and related integration approaches to allow them to instantly respond to changing market conditions. ebizQ's Leveraging the Enterprise offers the latest research, case studies, news and advice from the top industry experts. Coverage focuses on how SOA promises faster and more cost-effective development of new IT assets, the ability to leverage existing IT assets, and the ability to leverage assets from across the network.

Supporting Insurance Industry Solutions - Smallwood Maike & Associates

The insurance industry is ready to transform the way it does business. Insurers and vendors that take the lead will be best positioned to dominate the market and assure long-term success. ebizQ's Supporting Insurance Industry Solutions provides leading research, fresh insights and clear perspectives on facilitating integration between strategy, process and technology to ensure that success. This community covers specific application software and hot technologies like BPM, SOA, and predictive analytics. It also reviews business and IT solutions that connect the insurance value chain of marketing, distribution, underwriting, policy administration, billing, other back-office functions of enterprise architectures.

For editorial queries or to submit a feature, please contact ebizQ's Managing Editor, Peter Schooff, at peter@ebizq.net. For advertising sales, please contact Director of Sales Lisa Benevento, at lisa@ebizq.net. For marketing partnerships, contact Leah Archibald at leah@ebizq.net.

ebizQ provides monthly editorial themes to our readers and partners, and invites contributed articles for the events listed in the calendar below:

BUSINESS GOAL	COMMUNITY MANAGER	TOPICS	2009 EVENTS/MONTHLY EDITORIAL FOCUS
Improving Business Processes	Dennis Byron	BPM Components, BPM in the Real World, BPM Platforms/Suites, Human-Centric BPM, Intelligent Process Automation, Straight-Through BPM	June 24, 2009 -- BPM in Action September 30, 2009 -- Open Source Roundtable
Enabling Business Agility and Reuse	Joe McKendrick	Development Trends, Industry Solutions, SOA in the Real World, SOA Platforms/Suites, ESB, Open Source, Event Processing	May 13, 2009 -- Event Processing Roundtable September 16, 2009 -- SOA Virtual Conference
Leveraging Information and Intelligence	David Linthicum	Business Intelligence, Data Integration, Decision Management, EII, MDM, Real-Time Business Intelligence, Semantic Integration	May 20, 2009 -- BI Roundtablee
Governing the Infrastructure	David Kelly	Best Practices and Standards, Compliance and Risk Management, Enterprise/Integration Architecture, Governance (IT and SOA), Registries and Repositories, System and Business Service Management	October 14, 2009 -- Governance Roundtable
Leveraging the Connected Web	Phil Wainewright	Cloud Computing, Enterprise Mashups, SaaS, Social Computing, Web Client Architecture, Web Content Management	May 20, 2009 -- Enterprise 2.0 Roundtable: Cloud Computing October 28, 2009 -- Enterprise 2.0 Roundtable
Supporting Insurance Services Solutions	Deb Smallwood	Insurance	Aug. 26th, 2009 -- Insurance Roundtable
Supporting Financial Services Solutions	Ronan Bradley	Financial Services
Securing Enterprise Applications	Peter Schooff	Data Security, Enterprise Identity Management, Network Security, Service Security
2009 Events by Date	May 13th -- Event Processing Roundtable May 20th -- BI Roundtable June 3rd -- Cloud QCamp Mini Conference June 24th -- BPM in Action Virtual Conference August 26th -- Insurance Roundtable September 16th -- SOA in Action September 30th -- Open Source Roundtable October 14th -- Governance Roundtable October 28th -- Enterprise 2.0 Roundtable