About Us
Purpose
The user group is an independent body, whose purpose is to promote the understanding of WebSphere Integration technologies, and industry trends. These technologies include IBM's Messaging, ESB and BPM technologies, and products include:- WebSphere MQ
- WebSphere Message Broker
- WebSphere ESB
- WebSphere DataPower
- WebSphere Cast Iron
- WebSphere ILOG JRules
- WebSphere Business Process Manager
- WebSphere Process Server
- WebSphere Lombardi Edition
- IBM Blueworks Live
- SOA
- Governance
- Patterns
Events
Our premier event is held once a year at IBM Hursley, the home of WebSphere MQ & IBM WebSphere technologies. A normal year will involve three events in total; for example:- WebSphere Integration User Group at IBM South Bank, London - typically half-day
- WebSphere User Group at IBM Bedfont Lakes, near Heathrow - collaborative: March
- WebSphere Integration User Group at IBM Hursley, near Winchester - indepth: June or July
Dates are for guidance - please see the next event and future events for actual schedules.
Requirements
The user group community can channel product change requests (requirements) through the user group. These requirements will be processed and most of them will then be raised on your behalf with IBM. More detail can be found in the Requirements section.
Policies
The user group is a non-profit making organisation. We predominately service the UK community, and as such normally expect our members to be UK based. Currently we don't expect members to register, but we will be reintroducing this facility soon.
Our Sites
We have three sites:
- mqug.org.uk - this site, used for information, events etc
- websphereusergroup.org - we have a satellite site on this user community web site. The site is administered by IBM.
- LinkedIn - this site is more dynamic, and provides for community discussion, help requests to be posted and job adverts or notes of interest
For more detail on our web site, including our Privacy Policy, follow this link.
Committee
The committee meets several times a year to plan and organise the events. We are always interested to know if anyone would like to join us - if you would, then please contact us or see us at one of our events for a face-2-face chat.
The current committee is:
- Chairman/Treasurer - Mike Wyvill
- Vice-Chairman/Requirements Secretary - Keith Guttridge
- Secretary/Communications - Dharmesh Patel
- Committee Member - Michael Sarni
- Committee Member - David Wicks
- Committee Member - Shailen Devani
- IBM Representative - Tetti Pandelias