IBM Technology Expert Labs ADVISE Offerings for webMethods Integration

IBM Technology Expert Labs will provide deep, technical consultants specializing in webMethods Integration to work alongside your business and I/T stakeholders to provide end-to-end planning support for a solution or use case(s) that can be deployed rapidly, with minimal risk and with all the desired functionality.

Business Drivers may include:

• Need to augment your internal team's skills for a short term project (e.g., under-staffed while growing your technical teams)
• Staff augmentation needs in general and possibly ad hoc
• Acceleration to adopt best practices from experts while implementing to improve productivity
• Inability to investigate issues and concerns on current initiatives and gain confidence in your webMethods environment (another set of "eyes")
• Need to gain hints and tips based on multiple engagement experience on how to leverage webMethods Integration capabilities
• Requirement to reduce trial and error

Scope Activities and Key Deliverables may include:

• Recommending and mentoring on "how to" optimize your solution implementation
• Providing insights and guiding on best practices methodologies
• Instructing on "how to's" to mitigate risks
• Leading a series of workshops and documenting high level requirements, success criteria and creating a solution design overview for webMethods Integration
• Documenting a plan, architecture and/or approach

Outcomes Desired may include:

• Any tried-and-tested solution template(s) that help to accelerate deployment
• Custom design assistance with best practices applied to handle complex hybrid integration orchestration needs
• Any integration automation best practices recommendations
• A plan, recommendations and/or architecture presented and documented