WebSphere Education

Building your WebSphere and SOA skills with IBM WebSphere Education is only the first step in setting yourself apart in the marketplace. Take the next step with IBM Certification to validate and demonstrate your new WebSphere and SOA skills to your employer or clients.

Available Certifications

• Websphere
• SOA
• XML

Certification Roadmaps

• Websphere
• SOA
• XML

Business Partner Strategy Technical Enablement and WebSphere Education deliver Complimentary SOA Skill Building

Available worldwide and delivered by WebSphere Education Instructors, IBM Business Partners can receive complimentary in-depth technical training on the most current WebSphere products and SOA. This unique program provides IBM Business Partners the opportunity to enable one or several members of your company with in-demand SOA skills and the WebSphere products that underpin an SOA Infrastructure. These same courses available publicly save IBM Business Partners thousands in training dollars.

Additional courses are added to meet skill demands to complement core learning in classes, including:

• SOA Solution Design and Development
• WebSphere Business Modeler and WebSphere Business Monitor
• WebSphere Application Server V6.1
• WebSphere ESB
• WebSphere Process Server
• WebSphere Business Services Fabric
• WebSphere Commerce
• WebSphere MQ

Learn more about the WS Education offerings from Business Partner Technical Enablement and WebSphere Education and view current course offerings and registration.

Impact 2009
May 3-8, 2009
Venetian Resort Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, NV

Join us in Las Vegas for Impact 2009 at the Venetian Resort Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. It's sure to be an action-packed, five-day event with comprehensive SOA and WebSphere education to help you overcome pressing business and IT challenges!

• Get all of the great technical education you've come to count on! 400+ Technical Sessions
• Enjoy role and industry-based curricula in over 500 sessions
• World-class entertainment to make Impact 2009 an unforgettable experience

Registration is now open.

• Train On Your Terms: IBM WebSphere Education Self-Paced Courses (296KB)

  How can you balance both your budget, productivity and skill priorities at the same time? IBM WebSphere Education Self-Paced Virtual training strikes a balance providing budget savings and increased employee productivity. Self-Paced Virtual courses allow you to train on your terms. These Web-based courses provide deep technical content—the same as our classroom courses—but with added flexibility to meet the demands of your business.

• WebSphere MQ V7 Curriculum (317KB)

  With training from IBM WebSphere Education specific to you role as a WebSphere MQ Administrator or Application Developer, you can harness these new capabilities into tangible infrastructure and performance improvements for your WebSphere environment, including SOA and Web 2.0. Our comprehensively updated curriculum of courses provides training options for both the new or seasoned WebSphere MQ user. Many of the courses below are available as instructor-led online so you can train without traveling or in a traditional classroom. And, both learning options include access to WebSphere MQ V7 hands-on labs that provide practical experience.

• IBM WebSphere Education CICS Curriculum: Training to leverage the power of CICS in an SOA environment (314KB)

  The convergence of CICS innovation and SOA technology helps make flexible information infrastructures possible, while preserving the qualities of performance and reliability that your enterprise depends on. The IBM WebSphere Education CICS curriculum can help you build the skills needed to leverage the new functionality of the CICS V3.2 Transaction Server and tools for the integration, application transformation and enterprise management capabilities that enable an SOA.

• Get Started with Business Process Management Training from IBM WebSphere Education (336KB)

  Key products, such as IBM WebSphere Business Modeler, WebSphere Business Monitor, WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Integration Developer can help your organization leverage the BPM tools and skills that underlie a business's capability to respond to unexpected challenges in the marketplace. The BPM-oriented WebSphere curriculum mirrors IBM's holistic approach to BPM with a deep set of courses across the WebSphere productline and the IT and business roles that enable BPM.

• Accelerate Your e-Commerce Platform with IBM WebSphere® Commerce Training (335KB)

  IBM WebSphere Education offers a complete WebSphere Commerce curriculum that can help you set a solid foundation for your organization's success with WebSphere Commerce. Whether you want to launch a simple online store or implement a fully integrated, multi-channel sales network, a full lineup of WebSphere Education Commerce courses covers the basic to advanced skills needed by both business and technical roles.

• Onsite training from IBM WebSphere Education leads to Sears Canada's SOA implementation success story (156KB)

  About 20 to 30 Sears Canada staff took part in the SOA education effort, with about six participating in the onsite WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus: Implementing an Enterprise Service Bus class. The training provided by IBM equipped Sears Canada's developers with a deep understanding of the WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) software's capabilities.

• IBM WebSphere Education WebSphere Application Server Curriculum (340KB)

  The WebSphere Application Server curriculum provides a broad array of courses for many of the roles involved in deploying services and applications across your WebSphere infrastructure. This curriculum offers several courses for application developers based on IBM Rational Application Developer that help build skills from servlet and Java Server Pages (JSP) to Web services development.

• WebSphere Education Overview Brochure (91KB)

  This brochure provides a concise overview of the training formats and curriculums available from WebSphere Education.

• WebSphere Education SOA Curriculum (320KB)

  From introductory to advanced SOA solution design and development, this brochure overviews the currently available WebSphere Education SOA courses. Additionally, the WebSphere product courses that help you to implement your SOA are also listed.

• Let the Classroom Come to You with IBM WebSphere Education Instructor-Led Online Training (328KB)

  This brochure discusses the cost savings available with IBM WebSphere Education Instructor-Led Online learning. Many WebSphere Education courses are now available in this format---that include hands-on labs---without having to travel to a classroom location.

• IBM WebSphere University Expert Arena: Experience WebSphere (457 KB)

  With the IBM WebSphere Education Expert Arena offering, you can experience WebSphere products and learn by doing—change product configurations, explore features or experiment with code. In addition to being a great learning tool, an IBM WebSphere University Expert Arena can be used as a test environment to help you avoid costly issues as you deploy your project. IBM WebSphere University Expert Arenas are not simulations or canned presentations. You log in to live versions of WebSphere or CICS® software and interact real-time.

New & Improved WebSphere Education: Now With Certification Included!

Free WebSphere Certification testing now included with most WebSphere Education Courses

IBM WebSphere Education is making certification easier than ever before by including no-charge certification testing with many courses. With every qualifying classroom or instructor led online training course you attend, you will receive a certification promotional code that will enable you take the aligning eligible certification exam valued up to $150 USD free of charge. This offer is available worldwide.

• Get started by viewing the courses and certifications available with this offer.