Explore one of the following trials online, running in a cloud
environment:
Build and run a customer loyalty
scheme to learn how to drive high-level business goals with WebSphere Business Events.
Learn how to implement a travel booking service using WebSphere
Integration Developer and WebSphere Process Server.
Note: When you start your online trial, you will
have four hours to explore the products and exercises
within the Sandbox. If you exit one trial and begin
another, you have whatever time remains of your original
four hours to complete the successive trial. To continue
working beyond the end of a four-hour session, you must
register for a new session to begin the trial anew.
Drive high-level business goals with IBM WebSphere® Business
Events. In this exercise, you will build and run a
customer loyalty scheme to correlate events that occur
within a retailer's online and physical, brick-and-mortar stores. When a customer buys an item online, your company
sends the customer a text message confirming the purchase.
Your objective is to use WebSphere Business Events to identify loyal customers and entice them to make their next purchase in one of your physical stores.
The travel booking scenario lets you try out IBM
WebSphere® Integration Developer and WebSphere
Process Server in our hosted environment. When you start
this trial session, a WebSphere Integration Developer
workspace will open for you to begin your work. The
workspace contains an Eclipse™ Cheatsheet™ that includes simple text instructions to help you through each step of the trial exercise. As a result of completing it, you will see how easily existing services can be used to build automated business processes. In addition, you will learn how business processes can be modified in Business Process Execution Language (BPEL).
Please note: Due to technical difficulties this exercise will be unavailable until further notice.
The online trial experience allows you to try software products without having to install them on your
own system. This is product-level code, with all features and options enabled.
Client software
The online trial program uses the Citrix XenApp Presentation Server (formerly known as the MetaFrame Presentation Server) to provide you a connection from your workstation to the remote server running the IBM product you are evaluating. You will need to download the latest XenApp Web plugin appropriate for your operating system.
If you are installing Citrix for the first time, you will see a popup window that asks for the address of the server hosting your published application. Leave the Server Address field blank and click Next.
If you do not have the Citrix Web plugin installed when you attempt to access the online trial, you will be prompted to install it.
Supported browsers
Microsoft Internet Explorer V6 or later and Mozilla Firefox V1.5 or later are
supported.
Connection speed
We recommend that you use a high-speed connection while evaluating software online. Because the session you will be using is running remotely over the Internet with unpredictable delays and latencies, you should not use your experience with the session as a guide to the performance of the tools when installed in a local environment.
Connectivity FAQs
Having problems getting connected? Check our connectivity FAQs for solutions to common problems. Or, visit our connectivity forum to submit technical questions about using online trials.
The SOA Sandbox trial environment for the Process entry point includes exercises and tutorials to help you gain a better understanding of business processes and how to best improve them to derive value quickly.
When you start the online trial session, your
environment will open either an Eclipse™
Cheatsheet™ or an instruction file to help
guide you through the exercise. In addition to
these help files, you can access more
comprehensive
documentation, such as recorded demos, technical
papers, architectural guidance, and IBM
Redbooks®, via the SOA
Sandbox Information Center.
Want to learn more? Click the Support tab for additional resources designed to help you explore this entry point.
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