ADVISORY/LogicLibrary and CNA Insurance Co-Present Implementation Case Study at IBM's WebSphere Technical Exchange Conference.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ADVISORY...for Tuesday (July 22) PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 16, 2003 Presentation will Outline how Global Insurance Organization Built a Service-Oriented Architecture See SOA. for Real-Time Business Environment Brent Carlson, vice president of technology and co-founder, LogicLibrary, Inc., Dmitry Tyomkin, enterprise architect, CNA (Certified NetWare Administrator) See Novell certification. Insurance, and Boris Lublinsky, enterprise architect, CNA Insurance, will co-present a case study, "CNA: Implementing Service-Oriented Architectures," at IBM's WebSphere Technical Exchange. The presentation will be given on Tuesday, July 22, 2003 beginning at 10:15 a.m. Pacific time and will detail experiences with implementing service-oriented architectures (SOAs), technology partnerships CNA used to build an SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. and how to achieve real-time business on demand.
Who: Brent Carlson, vice president of technology and co-founder,
LogicLibrary, Inc.
Dmitry Tyomkin, enterprise architect, CNA Insurance
Boris Lublinsky, enterprise architect, CNA Insurance
What: LogicLibrary and CNA Present "CNA: Implementing
Service-Oriented Architecture"
When: Tuesday, July 22, 2003, 10:15 a.m. Pacific time
Where: The Las Vegas Hilton
3000 Paradise Road
Las Vegas, NV
If built correctly, an SOA is a flexible, reliable and scalable infrastructure for conducting e-business globally and in real-time. To make that happen, systems need to be integrated, existing IT assets leveraged and the SOA must respond quickly and efficiently to changes in the business environment. CNA, with the help of partners LogicLibrary and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , is building an SOA that delivers on its true vision while using component-based development and services for integration to accelerate time-to-market and provide significant competitive advantage. In this presentation, Carlson, Tyomkin and Lublinsky will present timely information on how to effectively use components and services to help build SOAs, save money and support key business initiatives. Dmitry Tyomkin, enterprise architect, CNA Insurance Dmitry Tyomkin has over 15 years of industry experience. Dmitry's career spans such diverse computing areas as mainframe programming, embedded systems and Web development. He has worked in various industries, including telecommunications, retail, finance, pharmaceuticals and software. Currently, Dmitry specializes in J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems. technology, XML-based communications, Agile Software Development Methodologies for designing software that have proven to be more effective in dealing with business realities such as changing requirements during development. It promotes industry best practices that emphasize teamwork, customer involvement and the frequent creation of small, working , Portals and Wireless Computing. As an Enterprise Architect at CNA, Dmitry spearheads the effort to raise the level of reuse across CNA IT. This effort addresses such formative architectural concepts as distributed component-based architecture (CBA See Capital Builder Account. ), service-oriented architecture (SOA), J2EE application frameworks, enterprise information portals and abstract asset management. Boris Lublinsky, enterprise architect, CNA Insurance Boris Lublinsky is an enterprise architect at CNA Insurance where he is involved in design and implementation of CNA's integration strategy, building application frameworks and implementing service-oriented architectures. Previously, he was a Director of Technology at Inventa Technologies, where he oversaw and actively participated in EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) Refers to various techniques used to share data and business processes in large enterprises. When companies acquire another organization, disparate information systems have to be made to work together. and B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business integration implementations and development of large-scale web applications. He additionally served as Technical Architect at Platinum Technology and SSA (Serial Storage Architecture) A fault tolerant peripheral interface from IBM that transfers data at 80 and 160 Mbytes/sec. SSA uses SCSI commands, allowing existing software to drive SSA peripherals, which are typically disk drives. , where he was involved in component-based systems development and design. Boris has over 20 years experience in software engineering and technical architecture. He has written for multiple technical publications, including Distributed Computing, Nuclear Instruments and Methods, Java Developer's Journal, XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. Journal, Web Services Journal and eAI Journal. Brent Carlson, vice president of technology, LogicLibrary Brent Carlson is co-founder and vice president of technology at LogicLibrary, Inc. He previously worked at IBM for 17 years, where he was the lead architect for the WebSphere Business Components project and also held numerous leadership roles on the "IBM SanFrancisco Project." His achievements include 16 issued hardware and software patents, with eight additional under evaluation. Brent is considered an industry expert having co-authored two books--SanFrancisco Design Patterns: Blueprints for Business Software, co-authored with James Carey and Tim Graser, and Framework Process Patterns: Lessons Learned Developing Application Frameworks, co-authored with James Carey. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University Academics ISU is best known for its degree programs in science, engineering, and agriculture. ISU is also home of the world's first electronic digital computing device, the Atanasoff–Berry Computer. . About CNA Financial Corporation CNA is the country's fourth largest commercial insurance writer, the ninth largest property and casualty company and the 51st largest life insurance company. CNA's insurance products include standard commercial lines, specialty lines, surety, reinsurance The contract made between an insurance company and a third party to protect the insurance company from losses. The contract provides for the third party to pay for the loss sustained by the insurance company when the company makes a payment on the original contract. , marine and other property and casualty coverages; life and accident insurance; group long term care, disability and life insurance; and pension products. CNA services include risk management, information services See Information Systems. , underwriting, risk control and claims administration. For more information, please visit CNA at www.cna.com. About LogicLibrary LogicLibrary is a leading provider of software and services that get companies started with Web services enablement. The company's patent-pending technology and methodology provide enterprises with a comprehensive, effective approach to identifying how existing software development assets can be used in their Web services initiatives. Recently named to the SD Times 100 list of leaders and innovators in the software development industry, LogicLibrary is also an IBM Advanced PartnerWorld Partner and a member of IBM's Web Services on WebSphere Advisory Council, as well as a Microsoft Visual Studio Microsoft Visual Studio is Microsoft's flagship software development product for computer programmers. It centers on an integrated development environment which lets programmers create standalone applications, web sites, web applications, and web services that run on any platforms Integration Partner and a Sun Microsystems Partner. Integration partners include Borland/TogetherSoft and IBM/Rational. For more information, visit www.logiclibrary.com. |
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