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Access the industry’s best training on SOA disciplines and methodologies with the flexibility to learn on your terms. Take a single course to enhance your skills, become a member for discounts on training and events, or become a SOAIP by earning your Certificate of Training.

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Choose a course from the list below. Then roll over the link to see the details. You have the flexibility to select an On-Demand course, attend Live Online, or at an upcoming BrainStorm Event in a nearby city. Whatever training you’re looking for, we deliver what you want exactly how you want it.

IT Professional Learning Path:

Recommended Core:

SOA 101

The Foundation for Cloud Computing Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a hosted service over the Internet - the cloud. To take advantage of these services, organizations need to understand Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Recent tactical success in the utilization of Web services and the value proposition of Cloud Computing has brought renewed...

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BrainStorm San Francisco - 06/25/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm DC - 09/17/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm New York - 11/05/2012 - 09:00

Live Online

August 13 & 14 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

December 10 & 11 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

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SOA for Architects

Defining a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the current challenge of many enterprise IT organizations. The emergent popularity of Web services, and the ease of implementation, has enabled most organizations to adopt an incremental approach to SOA via Web services. However, the larger architectural issues must be analyzed and addressed in order to expand SOA. SOA is first and foremost, an enterprise architecture discipline. Service...

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BrainStorm San Francisco - 06/26/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm DC - 09/18/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm New York - 11/06/2012 - 09:00

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August 15 & 16 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

December 12 & 13 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

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Service Oriented Integration

Standards, Technologies, and Best Practices IT managers have been under increasing pressure to migrate a portfolio of independent "stovepipe" applications to an integrated set of business services that can be aligned with changing business requirements and support new business processes faster and with reduced cost. Today, corporations have to choose from a number of integration products such as Integration Brokers, J2EE Application Servers, and...

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BrainStorm San Francisco - 06/27/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm DC - 09/19/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm New York - 11/07/2012 - 09:00

Live Online

August 20 & 21 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

December 17 & 18 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

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Designing Service Oriented Solutions

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has emerged as the dominant architectural style, especially for enterprise solutions. The potential benefits of SOA in terms of flexibility, agility, cost, and time to market have secured its position, and most software organizations are planning to or are currently adopting SOA. But is the marketing hype just setting up SOA to deliver another major disappointment (remember ERP, BPR, Objects, Components)?...

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BrainStorm San Francisco - 06/28/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm DC - 09/20/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm New York - 11/08/2012 - 09:00

Live Online

August 22 & 23 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

December 19 & 20 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

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Process Modeling, Analysis and Design: As Is, To Be

Modeling, analysis and design skills are essential to BPM success. In this course you will acquire a solid understanding of practical techniques for modeling, analysis and design. The section of this lesson on modeling provides insight on how to depict business processes via maps and models in order to prepare for the analysis and improvement of business process performance. You will learn the significance of creating the right context for...

Events

BrainStorm San Francisco - 06/26/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm DC - 09/18/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm New York - 11/06/2012 - 09:00

Live Online

June 4 & 5 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

October 8 & 9 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

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Process Modeling With BPMN

The Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is a standard for business process modeling, and provides a graphical notation for specifying business processes in a Business Process Diagram (BPD), It is based on flowcharting techniques similar to activity diagrams from the Unified Modeling Language (UML). The objective of BPMN is to support business process management for both technical users and business users by providing a notation...

Events

BrainStorm San Francisco - 06/27/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm DC - 09/19/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm New York - 11/07/2012 - 09:00

Live Online

July 9 - 12 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

October 29 - November 1 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

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Developing Process Improvement Initiatives with Your BPMS

Are you realizing the promise of BPM and of your BPMS investment? Many companies expected that purchasing a BPMS tool would facilitate the transformation to a process-centric organization by instigating a series of process improvement initiatives. Unfortunately, a majority of companies are not seeing this promise and need best practices to make the goal a reality. In this course you will learn how the tools can be used to help...

Events

BrainStorm San Francisco - 06/25/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm DC - 09/17/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm New York - 11/05/2012 - 09:00

Live Online

August 27 & 28 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

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Business Information Semantics & Rules

Is your enterprise defining a business transformation led by value chain analysis or a balanced scorecard? Are you having trouble finding data to serve as measures? Are you having a problem communicating the transformation details? These are symptoms of a missing business information architecture. Business information architecture is an aspect of business architecture that defines the terms that business people use to talk about business...

Events

BrainStorm San Francisco - 06/28/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm DC - 09/20/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm New York - 11/08/2012 - 09:00

Live Online

June 20 & 21 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

October 24 & 25 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

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Additional Electives:

Using BPM Discipline with Six Sigma & Lean Methodologies

To provide students the ability to create a Customer focused – Process Enabled Enterprise. This requires a business process framework, established enterprise architecture, creating "real-time" business intelligence, and a link between continuous improvement projects and key business processes. Most businesses need to evolve from a bottoms-up Six Sigma (DMAIC) or Lean approach, to a strategic framework that will set the foundation for growth,...

Events

BrainStorm San Francisco - 06/27/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm DC - 09/19/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm New York - 11/07/2012 - 09:00

Live Online

July 30 & 31 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

November 26 & 27 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

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Modernizing Requirements Gathering

Reshaping the Approach to Business Analysis Today's conventional approach to requirements analysis and engineering is limited in its value as organizations attempt to address demands for increased innovation, rapid product and service rollout, outsourcing and new technology enablers such as BPMS, business rules engines and SOA. Additionally, the agile development movement and IT-centric methods for analyzing and designing software...

Events

BrainStorm San Francisco - 06/26/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm DC - 09/18/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm New York - 11/06/2012 - 09:00

Live Online

July 18 & 19 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

November 14 & 15 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

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BPM 102

Getting the Most Out of BPM Tools and Technology In addition to a management discipline, BPM also provides a wide array of tools and technology. They not only allow a professional to document and analyze a company's process requirements, but also provide a software platform for continuous process improvement. These range from software for process modeling and simulation analysis to business rule definition and management, workflow automation,...

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Understanding Cloud Computing and Its Value Proposition in BPM

Enterprises large and small are drawn by the advantages of Cloud Computing – e.g. pay-for-use, self-service, elastic scalability and the elimination of hardware management – resulting in very low barriers to technology bentry and exit and high agility. Significant innovations in virtualization, and distributed computing, as well as improved access to high-speed Internet and a weak economy, have accelerated interest in Cloud Computing. Cloud...

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Data Architecture for Business Architects

Data Architecture for Business Architects is a class based on preeminent thinking of the leading researchers in the Information Architecture domain. This course addresses an integrated way of talking about (modeling) Business Value Chains, Value Streams and Business Processes and Information (Data) Architecture. More and more, organizations are taking these ideas and applying them to their organizations to help improve the basic understanding of...

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BrainStorm San Francisco - 06/28/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm DC - 09/20/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm New York - 11/08/2012 - 09:00

Live Online

August 29 & 30 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

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Map, Analyze, Improve Your Process: A Learning Lab

If you are wondering how to focus your BPM efforts this course is for you. Process modeling can take 6 months and the analysis another 6 months after that. But it doesn’t have to. This course demonstrates a structured approach that gets results faster and more effectively. You will learn how to find and work with a sponsor, how to use two guiding lights to keep you on track with your improvement objectives, and how to get the right cross-...

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BrainStorm San Francisco - 06/26/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm DC - 09/18/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm New York - 11/06/2012 - 09:00

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Moving Up the BPM Maturity Curve

How can an organization evolve on the road to process management? That is the principle question that this course addresses. Many companies start their BPM journey by executing one or two projects of small scope. That may be fine at the outset, but in order to address the larger performance issues, companies need to move up the BPM maturity curve from repeatable to defined and then to managed and optimized. This course outlines the key...

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Advanced Process Management Principles - Key to Sustainability

What do leaders want? In a word – RESULTS! And that is precisely what process management can deliver when practiced at the enterprise level.BPM is not just about technology. It is first and foremost about improving organizational performance. Major initiatives will only be optimized if senior leaders are engaged in applying process management principles and practices at the enterprise level. To make this happen, as many practitioners have...

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Business Process Management Learning Path:

BPM 101

An Introduction to Business Process Management BPMInstitute.org defines Business Process Management (BPM) as the deliberative, collaborative, and increasingly technology-aided definition, improvement and management of a firm’s end-to-end enterprise business processes in order to achieve three outcomes crucial to a performance-based, customer-driven firm: 1) clarity on strategic direction, 2) alignment of the firm’s resources, and 3) increased...

Events

BrainStorm San Francisco - 06/25/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm DC - 09/17/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm New York - 11/05/2012 - 09:00

Live Online

May 21 & 22 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

October 1 & 2 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

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Custom

Available In-house or Live

Process Modeling, Analysis and Design: As Is, To Be

Events

BrainStorm San Francisco - 06/26/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm DC - 09/18/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm New York - 11/06/2012 - 09:00

Live Online

June 4 & 5 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

October 8 & 9 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

On Demand

Available 24/7

Custom

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Process Measurement and Metrics

Process measurement skills are essential to BPM success. In this course you will acquire a solid understanding of practical measurement techniques as applied to the analysis and design of business processes. Determining what to measure and defining clear measurement criteria are at the basis of success in process measurement. This session presents key concepts and tools on the basic principles of process measurement, and how to apply these...

Events

BrainStorm San Francisco - 06/27/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm DC - 09/19/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm New York - 11/07/2012 - 09:00

Live Online

June 11 & 12 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

October 15 & 16 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

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Establishing Business Process Governance & Centers of Excellence

As process management begins to blur the traditional boundaries of the organization, a more transparent and accurate decision making process is necessary. This course builds a comprehensive understanding of how to best address this challenge with a focus on developing a firm understanding of the emerging roles of process owner, process council, and the process office. It instructs the student how to: Define the function of process...

Events

BrainStorm San Francisco - 06/28/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm DC - 09/20/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm New York - 11/08/2012 - 09:00

Live Online

June 18 & 19 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

October 22 & 23 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

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Business Architecture Learning Path:

BA 101

An Introduction to Business Architecture What does Business Architecture mean to your organization? Most organizations lack a well articulated blueprint of their business. While everyone can see their small piece of the puzzle, no one has visibility into the enterprise as a whole. This in turn constrains the organization’s collective ability to visualize the root cause of critical issues and rapidly craft viable solutions. To address this lack...

Events

BrainStorm San Francisco - 06/25/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm DC - 09/17/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm New York - 11/05/2012 - 09:00

Live Online

June 8 - 9 AM to 5 PM ET

October 3 & 4 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

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Building a Business Architecture using Value Chains and Value Streams

The Building a Business Architecture Using Value Chains and Value Streams class describes an approach and method for building an architecture of the business. It explains how to build and integrate your customer centric cross-functional business processes, which are sometimes called value streams. It formally captures the intellectual capital from your BPM initiatives in an “architectural type” blueprint or model of the business that is...

Events

BrainStorm San Francisco - 06/26/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm DC - 09/18/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm New York - 11/06/2012 - 09:00

Live Online

June 6 & 7 - 1 ro 5 PM ET (each day)

October 10 & 11 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

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Business Architecture / IT Architecture Alignment

Cross-Disciplinary Alignment Strategies for Business & IT Most organizations lack a well articulated blueprint of their business. While everyone can see their small piece of the puzzle, no one has visibility into the enterprise as a whole. This in turn constrains the organization’s collective ability to visualize the root cause of critical issues and rapidly craft viable solutions. To address this lack of enterprise visibility, organizations...

Events

BrainStorm San Francisco - 06/27/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm DC - 09/19/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm New York - 11/07/2012 - 09:00

Live Online

June 13 & 14 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

October 17 & 18 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

On Demand

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Custom

Available In-house or Live

Business Information Semantics & Rules

Events

BrainStorm San Francisco - 06/28/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm DC - 09/20/2012 - 09:00

BrainStorm New York - 11/08/2012 - 09:00

Live Online

June 20 & 21 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

October 24 & 25 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)

On Demand

N/A

Custom

Available In-house or Live

The SOA knowledge you need - exactly how you need it

IT Professional Learning Path:

Recommended Core:

SOA 101

Events

Live Online

On Demand

Custom

SOA for Architects

Events

Live Online

On Demand

Custom

Service Oriented Integration

Events

Live Online

On Demand

Custom

Designing Service Oriented Solutions

Events

Live Online

On Demand

Custom

Recommended Electives:

Process Modeling, Analysis and Design: As Is, To Be

Events

Live Online

On Demand

Custom

Process Modeling With BPMN

Events

Live Online

On Demand

Custom

Developing Process Improvement Initiatives with Your BPMS

Events

Live Online

On Demand

Custom

Business Information Semantics & Rules

Events

Live Online

On Demand

Custom

Additional Electives:

Using BPM Discipline with Six Sigma & Lean Methodologies

Events

Live Online

On Demand

Custom

Modernizing Requirements Gathering

Events

Live Online

On Demand

Custom

BPM 102

Events

Live Online

On Demand

Custom

Understanding Cloud Computing and Its Value Proposition in BPM

Events

Live Online

On Demand

Custom

Data Architecture for Business Architects

Events

Live Online

On Demand

Custom

Map, Analyze, Improve Your Process: A Learning Lab

Events

Live Online

On Demand

Custom

Moving Up the BPM Maturity Curve

Events

Live Online

On Demand

The SOA knowledge you need
- exactly how you need it