WSO2 Presents Two Technical Webinars on Cloud-Enabled Enterprise Application Development Best Practices Using WSO2 App Factory

Free WSO2 webinars will show IT professionals how to collaboratively develop, manage and deliver enterprise applications using the cloud-enabled WSO2 App Factory DevOps PaaS

Palo Alto, CA – August 28, 2013 – Increasingly, enterprises are harnessing the cloud to deploy applications that extend their business capabilities across a connected ecosystem of suppliers, channel partners, distributors and customers. WSO2 will address these challenges in two technical webinars designed to help IT professionals strengthen their managed enterprise application development practices and take advantage of the modern capabilities of WSO2 App Factory, the platform as a service (PaaS) for DevOps and application lifecycle management (ALM).

September 5: Development Made Easy

Faced with a lack of integrated solutions, organizations often struggle with managing and governing their software development. This webinar will examine how WSO2 App Factory provides a seamless, all-in-one platform for managing the entire software development process and easing collaboration among developers and engineers in quality assurance (QA) and DevOps. It will explore one-click infrastructure creation, team management, lifecycle management, and resource management for data sources, databases, endpoints and APIs.

Webinar presenter Asanka Dissanayaka is a WSO2 software engineer on the WSO2 App Factory team. The one-hour technical webinar, “Development Made Easy with the WSO2 App Factory,” will be held on Thursday, September 5, from 9:00 a.m. –10:00 a.m. PDT. Visit https://wso2.com/library/webinars/2013/09/development-made-easy-with-the-wso2-app-factory to learn more.

September 12: Managing Enterprise Applications

As globalization prompts enterprises to work in a distributed manner, IT organizations face new challenges to improve visibility and maintain software compliance standards. This session will explore how the existing capabilities of WSO2 App Factory can be adopted to specific enterprise requirements, such as user management, integration of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), integration of human tasks, and the creation and publication of APIs. Additionally, the webinar will discuss ecosystem support for integration with source configuration management (SCM), issue trackers, build systems, and third-party servers.

Jointly leading the session will be two members of the WSO2 App Factory team: Punnadhi Gunarathna, WSO2 senior software engineer, and Ashansa Perera, WSO2 software engineer. The one-hour technical webinar, “Managing Enterprise Applications with the WSO2 App Factory,” will be held on Thursday, September 12, from 9:00 a.m. –10:00 a.m. PDT. Visit https://wso2.com/library/webinars/2013/09/managing-enterprise-applications-with-wso2-app-factory for more information.

About WSO2 App Factory

WSO2 App Factory provides an open source, open standards approach to cloud-enabled enterprise DevOps that enables continuous cloud delivery. It is built on—and integrates with—the award-winning 100% open source WSO2 Carbon enterprise middleware platform and WSO2 Stratos, the most complete platform as a service (PaaS) available.

A shared, self-service, multi-tenant and elastic enterprise DevOps platform, WSO2 App Factory empowers teams to collaboratively create, develop and deploy enterprise applications into cloud environments—without the delay of server provisioning. Robust governance and lifecycle management, including the ability to integrate with any software development lifecycle (SDLC) tools, ensure compliance with IT, corporate and government policies. At the same time, the ability to create an intuitive Apple or Google Marketplace-like storefront means developers can easily subscribe to and consume APIs, applications and gadgets.

For more information, visit the WSO2 App Factory Web page at https://wso2.com/cloud/app-factory.

About WSO2

WSO2 is the lean enterprise middleware company. It delivers the only complete open source enterprise SOA middleware stack purpose-built as an integrated platform to support today’s heterogeneous enterprise environments—internally and in the cloud. WSO2’s service and support team is led by technical experts who have proven success in deploying enterprise SOAs and contribute to the technology standards that enable them. For more information, visit https://wso2.com or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and FriendFeed..