Carbon

Two Degrees Mobile Limited (2degrees) is proof positive that a start-up can enter a saturated market and become an industry leader. In 2008, the company bet that it could attract consumers from established mobile communications companies by offering superior services. The bet paid off. Today 2degrees serves some 800,000 subscribers—roughly one-sixth of New Zealand’s entire population.

An open web of employees, partners, suppliers, and customers drives business activities. The activities rely on reliable and timely B2B/B2C/B2E interactions; provided by APIs interconnecting business processes and data.

In this webinar, Paul Fremantle, CTO and Co-Founder of WSO2, will introduce the WSO2 Platform and Technology strategy. Starting out with core OSGi runtime, WSO2 Carbon, Paul will delve into the main aspects:Integration, Governance, Monitoring, Process Management, Identity and User Experience. From here, the webinar will explore Cloud approaches and what Cloud Native software is.

Since 2010, Russia has been implementing an e-government initiative, “Electronic Russia.” The goal of this initiative is to create and integrate the information systems of different government authorities and enable online data exchange. In support of this effort, the Saint-Petersburg Information and Analytics Center has built an open source integration layer to link together the government agencies’ many legacy systems. In her presentation at WSO2Con, Ms. Belkina described the objectives and challenges of the e-Government initiative, as well as the combination of home-grown software, WSO2 middleware, and other open source software used to implement the integration layer. Here are highlights from her talk.

Since 2007 Maria Belkina has been working as a Java Programmer for an organization which is commited into developing software for e-Government not only in Saint-Petersburg, but in other parts of the country, too. Last year she started working as a project manager on a project that aims to create a fully functional infrastructure for providing state services to citizens on-line and integrating various information systems that are involved in these processes.

The Institute of Architecture of Application Systems (IAAS), based in Stuttgart, Germany, is one of Europe’s largest service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) research institutes. In his presentation at WSO2Con 2011, Mr. Schumm described the institute’s research into optimizing BPM through the use of process views, as well as the Business Process Illustrator (BPI) tool that IAAS has developed to enable process instance monitoring. He also explained how implementing the WSO2 Carbon platform and WSO2 Business Process Server (BPS) helped IAAS to facilitate its research. Here are highlights from his talk.

David Schumm is a Ph.D. student and Research Associate in computer science since 2008. His Ph.D. supervisor is Prof. Frank Leymann. David is focusing on managing complexity in service-oriented architectures and process-based applications. Before he started to work at university he gained professional experience at Hewlett-Packard in software development and at Bosch Security Systems in global marketing and e-communication.

Carbon products has it’s own unique look and feeling. The headers, footers, menus, links look consistent among every product. While keeping this consistant look and feel, each product has it’s own theme. Sometimes it’s interesting to play around with these themes to see what we can achieve.

Current Analysis provides a competitive analysis to support many roles in your business to identify threats, take counter measurements to them and win more business. Rating criteria is based on Service/Support, Packaging/Pricing, Product Maturity and few other business elements. Current Analysis rated four stars for WSO2 Cloud platform and PaaS solutions in the cloud services market.

In this session, Paul Fremantle, CTO, will review the technical progress that WSO2 has made this year, and look forward to what is coming up. The session will cover the major enhancements in the products, customer case studies, as well as other interesting technical updates. In addition, Paul will look at the roadmap and talk about upcoming enhancements to the products, the platform and the cloud services. Specifically Paul will talk about: