Subject: The Right ESB for Your SOA, Featuring Forrester Analyst, Ken Vollmer

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Date: 13 Jul 2006 10:50:07 -0400

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LIVE WEBINAR
Criteria for Selecting the Right ESB to Launch Your SOA Initiative
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Date: Thursday, July 20, 2006

Time: This webinar will be offered live twice on this day:
11:00AM EDT/8:00AM PDT
2:00PM EDT/11:00am PDT

REGISTER NOW:
http://www.capeclear.com/register/forresterwebinar001.html
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WEBINAR ABSTRACT:
According to Forrester, an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is "the most straightforward way to get started with service-oriented integration today. ESBs are also typically less costly than other ways of doing integration..."

Join leading Forrester analyst Ken Vollmer and Cape Clear’s vice president of Product Management, Jim Rivera, in a discussion of the top criteria for evaluating and selecting the right ESB for your environment.
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WHAT YOU WILL WALK AWAY WITH:

- Criteria for comparing ESB providers based on your environment
  requirements
- An understanding of connection, mediation, control and change:
  critical ESB success factors
- Findings from The Forrester Wave, Enterprise Service Bus, Q2 2006
- Use Case Example: How ESB enabled one company to improve
  connectivity to their customers, suppliers and partners
- An overview of Cape Clear 6.6: Leveraging your existing infrastructure
  investments for the fastest path to Service Oriented Architecture
- Your questions for Ken Vollmer and Jim Rivera answered

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DOWNLOAD THE COMPLIMENTARY REPORTS NOW
Forrester Research recently published The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Service Bus, Q2 2006, authored by leading infrastructure software analysts Ken Vollmer and Mike Gilpin. We invite you to download these reports below and discuss them further with Ken Vollmer on the webinar on July 20. Register today!
http://www.capeclear.com/register/forresterwebinar001.html

The Forrester Wave(TM) Vendor Summary, Q2 2006: Cape Clear
"One of Cape Clear's advantages in the market is the clarity of a single, focused vision from its founder, Annraí O'Toole, who has stayed well aligned with, and even ahead of, industry trends..."

Read the complete vendor summary.
http://www.capeclear.com/analyst/forresterwave1.html
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The Forrester Wave(TM): Enterprise Service Bus, Q2 2006
"One of the early innovators in the ESB market, Cape Clear has grown its offering to a broad suite by adding service orchestration and some management features...."

Read the complete Forrester Wave report.
http://www.capeclear.com/analyst/forresteresb1.html
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SPEAKER BIOS
KEN VOLLMER is a principal analyst in Forrester's Application Development & Infrastructure research group, covering trends, issues, and strategies related to all forms of integration, including business process management (BPM), enterprise application integration (EAI), B2B integration (B2Bi), and electronic data interchange (EDI).

JIM RIVERA is responsible for guiding the strategy of Cape Clear's SOA platform, including the market leading Cape Clear Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). Jim has 14 years of software development experience, including his recent responsibility for BEA Systems' flagship product, WebLogic Server, playing a key role in defining their SOA and open source product strategies.
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ACCORDING TO THE WAVE REPORT
"Cape Clear retains its leading position in Forrester's latest review of the standalone ESB market. The vendor is one of the pioneers in the enterprise service bus (ESB) category and continues to be among the leaders in technology innovation and strategic vision in this space. Aggressive pursuit of emerging Web services standards and communication protocols, coupled with good tools for developing and deploying services, make Cape Clear a good choice for companies looking for an advanced ESB that can meet many service-oriented architecture (SOA) requirements."

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