I am very pleased to announce that BEA has invited me to speak at their first-ever ALUI and ALBPM user conference, BEA Participate.

Here is the title and abstract for my talk:

Portals and SOA: Portals in a Service-Oriented Architecture

Why is a Service-Oriented Architecture important to an IT infrastructure and what are the elements and products needed to build out an SOA? These

Here's some more shameless self-promotion (isn't that what blogging is all about?) -- we've just been confirmed as a sponsor for BEA Participate 2007.

Look for more details about our role in the upcoming conference here.

Hope to see you there!

The bdg Plumtree podcast returns with a nice little segment on Enterprise 2.0 and, specifically, how it relates to BEA and bdg.

So, if you're wondering what all this Web 2.0 hubbub is about and how it actually fits into the corporate/enterprise world, give Episode 6 a listen. Let us know what you think at podcast@thebdgway.com.

We're very pleased to announce that we've finalized the date for our next ALUI/Plumtree training course, scheduled for the week of April 9th, 2007.

We're changing the lineup a tad to provide three days of ALUI administration training followed by three days of developer training, but all in a five day week. So how do we plan to pack six days of training into five? The answer is "super Wednesday,"