With this post, we complete our 2010 webinar series and make the final webinar presentation available for download and replay.

Our fall webinar sires covered topics ranging from:

• Sun Java CAPS Integration Options
• Converting Monk to Java
• HIE Architecture
• EMPI Etiquette
• Java CAPS Etiquette
• Event Tracker and Manager

This last webinar on event tracking and management was held last week and the replay is now available.  But all presentations and replays are available on our Webinars page.

We will continue this series into the new year so stay tuned for details.  If there are topics or subjects you’d like to see us address, please contact us at webinars@nextgate.com.

We look forward to hearing from you and meeting you on a future webinar.

We are well into our November/December webinar series having just completed our HIE Architecture webinar last week.  We have several more scheduled before the end of the year but one has had a schedule change we wanted to make you aware of.  Here is the full schedule which you can always find on our Webinars page:

• Wise Men to the Rescue: MONK2J, simplifying the migration of Monk integration components to Java code.
  • Nov. 17, 1 pm Pacific – Register
• EMPI Etiquette – Implementation guidelines, tips, and tricks.
  • Dec. 2, 10am Pacific – Register
• Java CAPS Etiquette – Implementation guidelines, tips, and tricks.
  • New Date! Dec. 9, 10am Pacific – Register
• Enterprise Message Tracker – Effectively manage and monitor integration infrastructures.
  • Dec. 16, 10 am Pacific – Register

As a thank you to those that attend our webinars, we will be randomly selecting one attendee from all of our remaining webinars this year to win an iPod.  The more webinars you attend, the better your chances of winning, so attend as many as you can.

Remember, if you miss a webinar we post the presentations for download and are also posting replays of the webinars themselves so you can benefit from hearing the speaker.

We will continue this series into the new year so stay tuned for details.  If there are topics or subjects you’d like to see us address, please contact us at webinars@nextgate.com.

We look forward to hearing from you and meeting you on a future webinar.

We held the first webinar in our fall webinar series last week providing a deep dive into Monk2J including a demonstration. We’ve had requests for the presentation and it is now available here.

The webinar series continues next week on 11/4 at 10am PT with a discussion of the benefits of integrated registries in a Health Information Exchange. Register now to reserve your seat for what will be a great event.

We’ve added another webinar, this one with our partner Wise Men on 11/17 at 1pm PT, on simplifying the migration of Monk integration components and other SeeBeyond, ICAN, and Java CAPS related migration issues. Join us to learn how NextGate and Wise Men can help you.

As a thank you to those that attend our webinars, we will be randomly selecting one attendee from all of our remaining webinars this year to win an iPod.  The more webinars you attend, the better your chances of winning, so attend as many as you can.

The full list of webinars the rest of the year is listed on our webinars page and you’ll also see links to download presentations from prior webinars there too.

Last, we want to continue to share our insights and solutions with you as we begin 2011 and are presently planning our webinar schedule for the first quarter.  If there are topics or subjects you’d like to see us address, please contact us at webinars@nextgate.com.

We look forward to hearing from you and meeting you on a future webinar.

We’ve been busy making updates to our collateral and web-site for some of the recently released products so here is a guide for where to find what is new.

With the release of MatchMetrix 7, we now have new datasheets for the MatchMetrix MDM Platform and MatchMetrix EMPI Suite.  Both are available on our Resources page as well as the respective product pages.  Besides having new content for the release, we hope you like the new look we’ve given our datasheets.

On the web-site, we gave it a minor facelift with some new imagery (look closely and you might see similarity to the datasheets!), but more importantly we now have updated product pages for all the MatchMetrix platforms and suites.

Take a look and let us know what you think.

At our recent webinars on options for Sun/SeeBeyond integration customers, Gevik delivered a great presentation summarizing the options and pros/cons of each.  In response to popular demand, we’ve made the presentation available on our new resources page on the NextGate web-site.  Now if you attended the webinar and want a refresher on the options, or if you missed it and would still like to see the presentation, you can do so.

You will see a few other items on the resources page including links to some of our datasheets and a summary of our social networking resources.  We will be adding much more here so come back and visit often, or watch this blog.

A key topic of the webinars we recently held on options for Sun integration customers is how do deal with investments that have been made in Monk, the specialized programming language STC/SeeBeyond developed as part of the e*Gate Integrator product.  This language was not carried forward in the ICAN J2EE or Java CAPS product line, and so customers wanting to migrate to the newer products were forced into rewriting the collaborations and transformations from Monk to something else.  Until now!

NextGate has developed and launched Monk2J, a conversion program that converts Monk code into Java code, enabling clients to reuse the translation logic without having to perform a rewrite.  Better yet, the Java code is not specific to any particular middleware platform or application server meaning it can be used in the container or server of the clients choice.

Interested in learning more?  Visit the gotmonk.com where you can learn more, see examples, and contact us to give it a try.  Or join the gotmonk Yahoo group.  Or feel free to contact us directly at info@nextgate.com.

We held a webinar today covering what options customers of DataGate, eGate, ICAN, SRE, TRE, and Java CAPS have for their integration strategy going forward and how NextGate can help.  In particular, we addressed how investments in Monk can be leveraged and converted resulting in a 50% cost savings over a complete rewrite of those artifacts.  We had a fantastic turnout and many attendees asked great questions we were happy to answer.

If you missed the webinar today, you are in luck as we have a second one scheduled for next Wednesday June 30th at 8:00 am PDT.  Click here to learn more and register.  If you did attend but still have questions, feel free to contact us at info@nextgate.com.

Since our last blog we have made significant progress towards our newest product: a cost effective and pragmatic interface engine that contains one of the world’s strongest parsing technologies!  Yes, that’s right.  We have developed the NextGate Integration Platform, a powerful, flexible and affordable interface engine combined with full featured parsing technology reminiscent of the capabilities of Monk. Needless to say, the customers and partners we have spoken with recently are ecstatic about what we have available and what is planned on our roadmap.

A) On the Parsing technology — We are code complete and have a full, industry grade, generic message parsing technology in Java which lends itself to faster and optimized (some may call it compact) coding in Java. Those of you who know Monk remember all the cool features such as Node-to-Node copy, data-map, indexed-based-leaf-data-access, and the like. Well, those are now available to you, today, in Java. As a major added benefit, the parser facilitates conversion efforts for STC/SeeBeyond eGate/SRE customers.  The parser enables:

1) Monk Message Structure (SSC/ETD) conversion to Java Classes (100% ready and available)

2) Monk Code (TSC/Monk) conversion to Java Classes (75% of Tier 1 Monk functions converted, including “iq-put”, “iq-get” and “event-send”).

B) On the Interface Engine — We have decided to use JBoss ESB as a base, pragmatic platform for all the value-added features an organization would need in order to have an efficient and affordable interface engine. So, we’ve taken JBoss ESB, added our parsing technology, added HL7 adaptors, and added our Tracking and Monitoring technology for useful, actionable, and user-friendly alerting and troubleshooting procedures.  The system will be ready to roll out in a few short months.

We will be scheduling a webinar soon. Stay tuned for updates and details on the webinar and other product news.

On another note, I must say that I’m a bit miffed at why Apple and Adobe, two companies I deeply respect, are going head to head on Flash. You may have read recently that Steve Jobs claims Flash is more closed than the iPhone and Apple technologies. I love my iPhone and I love Flash and I don’t know how to react. I think these smart people will eventually put their not-so-different differences aside and do what’s good for the users of both technologies.

Happy coding!