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Jack Verstappen - Rational Technical Sales Team Leader
Jack Verstappen is Rational Team Leader and Rational Architect for IBM Benelux.
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Laurent Boes - Messaging & Collaboration Solutions Leader
Laurent Boes has been in the Collaboration business since 2000 at IBM.
Business Leader Rational Systems
Rien Schot - IBM Software Group, South and West Europe
IBM Rational Systems delivers solutions for the development and delivery of Smarter Products and Systems As Rational business leader, Rien Schot is responsible for the business of the Rational brand in South and West Europe for these more technical oriented markets, like Aerospace, Defense, Automotive, Electronics, Energy, Utilities, Telecommunications, etc.
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Accelerate product and service innovation
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Application lifecycle management
Coordinate the flow of people, processes and information to build better products and services and control costs.
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Complex and embedded systems
A complete, collaborative approach across the engineering lifecycle helps you deliver differentiated, more competitive products.
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Enterprise modernisation
Leverage existing investments, reduce maintenance costs and re-assign resources to meet new business requirements.
Deepen engagement with customers, partners and employees
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Commerce
Commerce is more complex and customers are in control. Improve their experience in the age of the empowered customer.
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Enterprise marketing management
Engage buyers in relevant, interactive dialogs across digital, social and traditional channels.
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Smarter City Operations
Leverage information. Anticipate problems. Improve resource management. Make city life more livable.
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Social collaboration
Twenty-two percent of time online is spent on social networking. Integrate social capabilities into your business.
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Unified communications
Create a unified communication and collaboration environment that’s easy for IT to manage and users to use.
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Web experience
The face of your business is the web. Deliver an experience that helps you market, sell, operate and manage.
Manage security, risk and compliance
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Security
Strengthen security to reduce costs, improve service, manage risk and enable innovation.
Deliver enterprise mobility
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Mobile development and connectivity
Develop HTML5, hybrid and native applications for mobile platforms. Connect to back-end systems and the cloud.
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Mobile management and security
Gain control, visibility and guarantee enforcement of an effective security posture for mobile initiatives.
Enable the agile business
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Application infrastructure
Deliver applications efficiently. Boost performance. Maximise security. Control costs.
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Business process management
Leverage processes to exceed expectations, anticipate change, control costs and become more agile.
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Connectivity, integration and SOA
Gain fast, flexible and reliable access to processes, applications and information and thrive in the interconnected world.
Optimise IT and business infrastructure
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Asset and facilities management
From truck fleets to power plants -- maximise the value of your assets and operate more efficiently.
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Cloud and IT optimisation
The cloud can help you balance cost, risk and the need for innovation to improve your IT agility.
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Enterprise endpoint management
Combine endpoint and security management to see and manage physical and virtual endpoints. From servers to smart phones.
Turn information into insights
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Big data
Transform the exploding volume, velocity and variety of data into opportunity with analytics, visualisation and more.
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Business analytics
Recognise trends and patterns that help you respond and anticipate events and changes to achieve breakthrough results.
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Data management
Lower the cost of data while improving insight to enable better business decisions.
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Data warehousing
Designed exclusively for advanced analytic processing to get answers fast and keep costs low.
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Enterprise content management
Unstructured information makes up 80 percent of the world's information. Maximise its value and improve decisions.
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Information integration and governance
Achieve a single version of the truth, protect databases and enable regulatory compliance.
Jack Verstappen is Rational Team Leader and Rational Brand Architect for IBM Benelux. Jack works with customers around their software engineering strategy and process improvement through the IBM Rational's software delivery platform. In his role Jack reports to the European Rational CTO on product strategy and evolution. Jack's primary interest is in achieving continuous improvement of IT performance through Agile & Lean principles.
Laurent Boes started his career in the collaboration space at Lotus Development Corporation in 2000. Once integrated in the IBM Software Group he has continued to work in this area until today. In 2006 he took over the management of the Belux Collaboration Solution sales team and since 2011 he took the role of Program Leader for Messaging & Collaboration Solutions in Southwest Europe. In this role he helps out the local teams in Social Business - and Collaboration projects at our clients. Laurent is an active speaker at Collaboration seminars and very present on social networks around the topic.
The world around us, with all the products, gadgets, devices, etc., is getting more and more complicated. Products and Systems therefore need to be smarter and smarter and so must be the engineering of this. The combination of hardware and software is driving the next wave of innovative products and engineering. To cope with this increasing complexity and demand IBM Rational Systems delivers solutions for the development and delivery of software and systems engineering. Rien Schot studied electronics, computer science and management at Delft University of Technology. Over more than 20 years he built a broad experience in software engineering and software engineering processes and, after having integrated the Telelogic company in the IBM Rational division, is now leading this division in South and West Europe for the more technical oriented markets, like Aerospace, Defense, Automotive, Electronics, Energy, Utilities, Telecommunications, etc.