ebizQ Launches Online Training Center Focused on Service Oriented Architectures for It Professionals; ebizQ SOA-Integration Curriculum Uses Online Expertise, Top Authors and Experts to Provide Much Needed Vendor Neutral Education

Business Wire,  Oct 3, 2005  

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NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. -- ebizQ, an interactive online community (www.ebizQ.net) focused on business integration, today announced the launch of its ebizQ Training Center, a new choice in independent business integration training. Unlike most integration training courses which are developed to teach about a specific technology solution, the ebizQ SOA-Integration Training Courses focus on the vendor-neutral education needs of IT Architects, Developers, Business Analysts, and Managers. This fills a marketplace need to help IT professionals in choosing, implementing and optimizing integration solutions to address critical business challenges.

The ebizQ Training Center will offer IT and business executives at all levels a fresh and innovative integration curriculum that will help students understand a wide variety of SOA-integration challenges, concepts, solutions, and technologies. Courses will focus on what decision makers and implementers need to know to make sound business and technology decisions and minimize risk when choosing and implementing an SOA-integration solution.

"For years, we have been developing online Webinars addressing important SOA-integration issues with leaders from the analyst, business and technology communities," said Beth Gold-Bernstein, Vice President of Strategic Products and Services for ebizQ. "Businesses around the world are beginning to understand that high-quality online training provides a unique opportunity to improve the skill-sets of their workforce without removing critical people from their offices. We see an opportunity to fill an important need, by offering a highly relevant and innovative business integration curriculum taught by industry thought-leaders."

Leveraging its years of expertise in online communications and education, the ebizQ SOA-Integration Curriculum is staffed by prominent industry thought-leaders including Beth Gold-Bernstein, Dave Linthicum, Roger Burlton and Kathy Long. All are noted authors and educators. Ms. Gold-Bernstein, the Training Center's lead instructor, is a recognized expert in e-business integration technologies and technical architectures, as well as the co-author of Enterprise Integration: The Essential Guide to Integration Solutions.

"Unfortunately, many people think that buying the right technology will guarantee success - but that is not the case," added Mr. Linthicum. "People need to understand what they want to do with the technology first. They need to understand the design concepts, and what the implementation issues could be, such as security, optimizing business processes, etc. That's why the ebizQ approach is so important, because it lays the foundation people need before deciding what technologies they will select to solve business problems."

ebizQ Training Center will hold an Open House Webinar for
potential Training Center students on October 20, 2005 at 2:00 PM
Eastern. The instructors will be available to answer questions and
share their views about SOA technologies. To register for free,
students should visit http://www.ebizq.net/openhouse.html

The ebizQ SOA-Integration Curriculum is a new program that will teach students how to select, optimize, architect, and implement integration solutions for maximum business agility. Specially designed courses are available for team members at all levels including:

--Enterprise Architects

--Business Analysts

--IT Managers

--Integration Specialists

--Web Service Developers

--Executives/CIO/VP

The ebizQ SOA-Integration courses are available on-line, or on-site. They may also be customized to meet specific corporate needs. Course pricing ranges from $295 to $495 per student with corporate discounts for 5 or more registrants. Currently available courses include:

--Enterprise Integration Primer - A two-hour course suited for all levels in the organization. Provides a fundamental understanding of Enterprise Integration and its role and importance to the business.

--Fundamentals of SOA - A two-hour course suited for all levels in the organization. Provides a fundamental understanding of Service-Oriented Architectures, their impact on business agility, design principles and technologies.

--SOA Design Workshop - This course includes two hours of presentation, and two hours of design workshop. Learn an event-driven method for defining services optimized for reuse.

--Integration Architecture - This course defines the components of an Integration Architecture and provides templates designed to guide architecture process and decisions.

--Information Integration - This half-day course defines an Information Service layer, which provides metadata management, semantic integration and data aggregation services to the rest of the SOA architecture.

--Process Integration - This two-hour course describes a process architecture that utilizes the services of the application integration, information integration and technical integration service layers, enabling business managers to have real-time visibility into business processes, and the opportunity for process optimization.