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Business Leadership
Developed for executives, managers and key decision makers in the world's top industries, the Business Leadership program is a comprehensive, 2.5 day curriculum delivering relevant and thoughtful topics on a number of business issues, including customer care and insight, risk and compliance, and operational efficiencies related to proper management of content and data.
Discover innovative ideas and successful strategies to grow your business, improve customer service, reduce costs, manage risk and tackle leadership challenges you face in your managerial role. Many of the concepts are illustrated by real life stories told by people like you who made it happen. They got IT right and leveraged information for smarter business outcomes.
Significant operational efficiencies and cost reduction were achieved from the early adoption of Information Technology. Today however, many institutions are wrestling with the unintended consequences associated with the rapid tactical implementations of disparate “line of business” automation silos. Compounding these challenges is the unprecedented world wide financial crisis, together with a dazzling number of merger and acquisitions, bank failure and nationalization.
This track will focus on ways to overcome these challenges and develop an overarching, enterprise architecture, implementation strategy, use of best practices and transparency standards to improved security, fraud detection and credit decisions, risk assessment and regulatory compliance. This track will explore new techniques for developing an Information management roadmap that will guide future deployments of technology to address the growing need for improved customer service, intelligent customer care and establishing a comprehensive Information Agenda.
IBM’s Information on Demand portfolio enables clients across industries to leverage enterprise information in real-time or near real-time. Information On Demand solutions can help create business value by unlocking information from repository, process and application silos and by delivering trusted information — in context — to improve revenue, reduce risk and improve operational efficiencies.
The Information On Demand 2009 cross-industry Business Leadership sessions provide opportunities to learn about Information On Demand, benefit from key client experiences, and gain deeper insight into how an Information Agenda can help you move your business forward even during the most challenging times.
Providers contending with technology convergence, mergers, partnerships, geographic expansion, new service delivery and customer retention must find more efficient means of utilizing information throughout the enterprise. This track will emphasize solutions for business activities such as churn management, interconnect charge processing, single view of the customer, contact center optimization, product optimization and the underlying importance of information quality, consistency and lifecycle management to support associated line of business decisions.
Consumer products companies face an increasing need to manage their information as a strategic asset in order to build brand awareness and loyalty, drive innovation with deeper consumer insight, improve value chain collaboration and operate in an efficient, responsible and sustainable manner. IBM’s broad and best in class portfolio of Information On Demand capabilities and comprehensive Information Agenda program for the consumer products industry will enable you to optimize your business performance. Our approach is to work hand-in-hand with you to help define or refine your enterprise information management vision, establish an enterprise information management reference architecture, enable you with proven solution assets, define a roadmap of short and long term projects to take you from current state to an optimal future state and assist you with information governance best practices. At Information On Demand 2009, the consumer products industry track will address the most pressing issues and challenges your organization faces today, present real-life case studies from your industry peers and share the latest practical ideas from information management experts.
Never before has there been a time when so much change is taking place in the E&U market. Dealing with environmental issues, meeting increasingly stringent Cyber Security regulations, managing complex rate cases, installing an intelligent utility network, creating an automated metering infrastructure, and managing a changing workforce require creative solutions while finding ways to improving financial performance. Innovative Energy & Utility companies will share best practices they have developed in these Business Leadership tracks.
The Information On Demand 2009 Energy & Utilities Business Leadership sessions provide opportunities to learn about the Information On Demand market, benefit from innovative customer experiences, find out more about current thought leadership and areas to explore for business value, and gain deeper insight into how an Information Agenda can help you move your business forward even during the most challenging times.
Government-focused sessions in the Information On Demand 2009 Business Leadership program deliver education to help you become more responsive to government challenges - from services improvement opportunities to security threats - while leveraging existing investments. These sessions will help you discover how to transform your information and provide you the unique opportunity to interact within IBM's greater government community and to collaborate with the largest network of information specialists.
Information On Demand 2009 Healthcare and Life Sciences Business Leadership sessions provide opportunities to learn techniques for innovation, network with your peers, and hear from healthcare industry visionaries about the future of healthcare. Create business value by unlocking information from clinical, financial and claims data silos. Deliver trusted information in context to cost-effectively grow new business and to improve healthcare delivery, metrics and clinical outcomes by leveraging the exponentially growing volumes of data.
Manufacturers are under extreme pressure to increase production, reduce costs, and become more efficient (and increasingly green) in all their operations, in the face of global economic and regulatory challenges.
Faced with these challenges, some manufacturers have leveraged their information to better drive innovation, increase operational efficiency, improve the utilization of their assets, and optimize their supply chains for better cash flow and lower operating costs.
Join us at Information On Demand 2009 to gain valuable insight into how these manufacturers have optimized their business processes by leveraging information in response to an extremely challenging and competitive environment.
The financial crisis, market dynamics and continued business complexity will challenge the insurance industry to rise to the occasion. It must find new and innovative ways to reduce costs, introduce innovative new products and adjust to new business realities. Innovation in insurance products, processes and systems necessitate innovating with information - finding new and better ways to leverage enterprise information to drive real business value. To gain competitive advantage, information must be liberated from silos, shared across processes and unlocked from applications to deliver actionable business insight.
At Information On Demand 2009, the Insurance industry track will present sessions led by insurance industry experts, industry views by prominent insurance analysts and case studies from your peers that are relevant to today's insurance challenges, business drivers and key initiatives.
Media clients today are being challenged more than ever to respond to rapidly changing market conditions with agility. Exponential growth in outlets for video and music sales across multiple industries is driving demand for digitization, workflow optimization, cataloging, tracking & digital delivery. The rate of content acquisition, the desire to retain new content for future use, and the need to monetize existing media properties to meet the demands of businesses and consumers is growing even faster.
At Information on Demand 2009, the Media & Entertainment track will present sessions led by M&E industry experts to address the most pressing issues and challenges media organizations face today. Gain valuable knowledge as your industry peers and industry experts share case studies and the most current industry thought leadership ideas.
Retailers today face enormous challenges both in understanding their customers and responding to an increasingly competitive marketplace and doing so while surviving the most challenging global economy in the last 30 years. In this environment of extreme complexity and market fluctuations, there will be winners and losers. IBM can help you transform your business into one that can use information on demand to take advantage of today's opportunities and emerge a winner.
The Information On Demand 2009 Retail Business Leadership sessions provide opportunities to learn about the Information On Demand business value proposition, benefit from key client experiences, find out more about current thought leadership and areas to explore for business value, and gain deeper insight into how an Information Agenda can help you move your business forward even during these challenging times.
Travel and transportation companies face an increasing need to manage their information as a strategic asset and service in order to deliver a superior customer experience, drive innovation for new sources of revenue, optimize assets and employee productivity, and operate efficiently and responsibly while improving the bottom line. IBM's broad and best in class portfolio of Information On Demand capabilities and comprehensive Information Agenda program for the Travel and Transportation industries will enable you to optimize your business performance by working hand-in-hand with you to help define or refine your enterprise information management vision, establish an enterprise information management reference architecture, enable you with proven solution assets, define a roadmap of short and long term projects to take you from current state to an optimal future state and assist you with governance best practices. At Information On Demand 2009, the T&T industry tracks will address the most pressing issues and challenges your organizations face today, present real-life case studies from your industry peers and share the latest practical ideas from information management experts.
Technical Skill Building
Open to all conference attendees, the Technical Skill Building program at IBM Information On Demand 2009 offers the breadth and depth of technical sessions to help you build skills across a wide array of IBM technologies, learn about all of IBM's new software products and releases and get behind-the-scenes views of how others are solving their toughest information management challenges.
IBM's technology leaders provide best practices, tips and tricks, and valuable insider news. Their presentations will be illustrated through discussions by IBM customers on how they met real-world challenges with the use of IBM technology. The Technical Skill Building program offers all the real-life details you need to get IT right when it affects users, system performance, application solutions, IT infrastructure and business processes.
Companies demand solutions that provide a single, trusted view of their business to provide strategic and operational intelligence to a wide range of internal and external users. IBM delivers a complete BI and PM platform, fully integrated on an open-standards-based service oriented architecture (SOA). Attend the Business Intelligence & Performance Management sessions to understand how to unlock the business value of your information, allowing you to:
- make better, faster business decisions by understanding, analyzing and sharing information
- plan, understand and manage financial and operational performance
- drive dynamic, reliable and sustainable performance by optimizing your business processes
- leverage trusted information at the right time, in real-time prove measurable results and realize fast time to value
This track focuses on what you need to know to be successful with DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows. Targeted towards developers, DBAs and architects, you'll learn tips, tricks and best practices to ensure that you're getting the most out of your data and systems. Hear how the industry-leading innovations, such as DB2 pureXML and DB2 Deep Compression, have impacted enterprise architecture and technology strategy. Get the latest information about DB2 and the tools that support your infrastructure. Participate in our in-depth Hands-on-Labs and experience the benefits and power of DB2 up close.
The DB2 for z/OS and Tools track is targeted at technical professionals and managers that want to grow and develop their skills during the tough economic conditions and stay ahead of the game! This track will enable you to broaden your knowledge, highlight best practices and give you an opportunity to hear real customer experiences. At a time of restrictive resources, every business is striving to compete and differentiate - learn how the latest DB2 for z/OS technology not only helps you reduce downtime and achieve greater cost advantages, but also enables you to accelerate application development and innovate. DB2 for z/OS is the most robust and cost effective data server for your environment. It is a proven market leader in availability, scalability and reliability, and drives mission critical data around the world. Take advantage of the exciting DB2 for z/OS Hands on Labs for in-depth training. Don't let your business fall behind - stay on track!
Your IMS system is the workhorse of your organization. These sessions are designed to show you the value you can receive when you integrate existing IMS applications and data into your Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) strategy. You will learn how IMS can help your organization respond to rapid changes in market, capture new markets, improve products, better address regulatory issues, and strengthen business partnerships. In addition, you'll see how IMS can help lower IT overhead, increase profits and better align IT services with long-term business goals. Hear the latest information about IMS, including best practices for upgrading to IMS 10 and IMS 11, and learn the news about IMS Tools. Take advantage of the Hands on Labs for in-depth training and gain a better appreciation for why companies around the world depend on IMS to handle more than two million transactions a day.
With its devoted customer base and continued double-digit growth, Informix is booming. Don't miss this opportunity to get a better look at IBM's strategic data server for transaction intensive solutions, delivering near hands free administration, high availability and low cost clustering. Learn about the latest features and delve deeper into the capabilities that make IDS resilient, agile and invisible. The latest tips, tricks and best practices will be shared by product experts, including customers and partners who will share their real-life experiences with Informix.
solidDB™ is known worldwide for delivering data with extreme speed, thanks to its relational, in-memory database technology that performs up to ten times faster than conventional, disk-based databases. This track focuses on the solidDB product family: (1) solidDB - a fully-featured, relational, in-memory database that delivers extreme speed and extreme availability to meet performance and reliability demands of real-time applications; and (2) solidDB Universal Cache - the industry's first relational, in-memory caching software that accelerates IBM DB2 and Informix, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and Sybase databases up to ten times.
Attendees will learn how solidDB delivers tens of thousands of transactions per second, with response times measured in microseconds. Product experts will share best practices along with customer use case scenarios.
Businesses today need to do more with less. And if that's not enough, you need to solve your increasingly complex business problems faster than ever before. What's more, you need to be responsive amid huge volumes of expanding business content, a wide variety of content types, hundreds of business processes and a myriad of regulatory challenges. Join us and learn how you can deliver the right information at the right time every day, so that everyone-across your organization-has what they need to make smart decisions. The sessions in this track deliver the information, updates and expertise you need to optimize the management of content and business processes, along with details on innovative search and discovery tools to help transform your business.
The Information Agenda is a roadmap to help you achieve your Information On Demand objectives. Through a comprehensive approach, Information On Demand helps you manage your data and content, pull together trusted information that cuts across diverse silos, and gain valuable insights to optimize your business. This technical track focuses on architecture design with an emphasis on:
- Data Discovery
- Real Time Data Integration and ETL/ELT
- Data Quality
- Data Models
- Metadata Management
- MDM
- SOA
- Shared Service Grid Computing
- HA
- DR
- Cloud Computing Infrastructure
- Advanced Data Warehousing
- Best practices for implementing and tuning state-of-the-art Information on Demand infrastructure.
Get the in-depth skills you need, along with expert advice from IBM technologists to develop an open, flexible platform that supports heterogeneous environments, and helps you gain control over the ever-expanding demands for fast, accurate and relevant information.
These sessions focus on how the InfoSphere Information Server plays a critical role in building a scalable and flexible architecture to integrate enterprise data for Trusted Information. Organizations that are upgrading or consolidating enterprise applications, migrating data from legacy applications, building a data warehouse or integrating data for master data management need the power and flexibility offered by InfoSphere Information Server to ensure information is trusted wherever it is needed.
Join this track to understand how InfoSphere Foundation Tools and IBM Industry models enable you to analyze, design, and govern information assets for Trusted Information. Listen to customers describe how these products enable them to identify information gaps, design target structures, capture business specifications, monitor data lineage and efficiently integrate, cleanse and deliver information to support business innovation.
In these sessions, you will learn how IBM's Data Warehousing software and appliances go beyond traditional data warehousing to deliver more insightful, relevant information across your organization. Get the latest information about IBM's data warehousing portfolio and how you can extend your warehouse with business intelligence, information integration, master data management, UIMA and more. Learn firsthand from data warehouse architects at leading companies about their experience with dynamic warehousing and hear how IBM's game changing leadership with dynamic warehousing can improve your business performance today.
Do you really know your customers? Your citizens? Employees? Partners? These are questions executives and government leaders must grapple with everyday, but they are not easy to answer. People change identities, re-arrange, steal, modify, or invent them Identity fraud schemes are sophisticated, and so too is the IBM solution to overcome them. This track will explore IBM's identity resolution technologies: what they are,and how customers are using them to mitigate their risks.
This track will detail how and why master data management provides the strategic architecture you need to manage customer, account and product data centrally. Learn how MDM is moving beyond previous attempts at centralizing control of data to allow users to fully manage data with multiple domains and multiple styles Find out how IBM MDM solutions can help improve customer satisfaction, reduce costs, enhance the ability to cross-sell services and deliver new services.
Traceability - the ability to capture, verify and share information about the location, status and history of an item/product/asset, - is a critical focus areas across many industries today, including pharmaceutical, life sciences, automotive, manufacturing, retail, consumer package goods This track will focus on how companies around the world are leveraging traceability solutions to meet regulatory compliance, optimize their supply chain, and protect consumers. Get the details on how to architect and implement a standards-based, scalable, secure, information-sharing platform for traceability applications.
Organizations today rely on complex, heterogeneous IT infrastructures - multiple, related applications, databases and platforms - to execute their critical business processes. This track addresses the challenges in establishing and managing an enterprise data environment, and provides a selection of topics of interest to developers working with IBM Information Management products. Learn how your peers address data management issues such as: data modeling; application development with XML, SQL, SOA or Java; testing and deployment; database administration; application upgrades and retirements; data growth management; data privacy; and data retention. Learn how IBM solutions can help you manage data seamlessly across each phase of the lifecycle, from requirements to retirement. Get the latest techniques and best practices that empower today’s application and data management teams to develop and deploy enterprise-ready applications faster, with better performance and lower risk. In between sessions, wander over to the Developer Den to continue discussion on your development challenges and hang out with other like-minded professionals.
Reach new heights of technical proficiency by working alongside the experts in the Information On Demand 2009 Hands-on Labs. These instructor-led mini-courses are designed to get you up to speed quickly with hands-on interaction directly with Information Management products.
Work through your questions with experts and learn tips, tricks and strategies to make your job easier and faster. Labs are typically three hours long, and take place at the same time as other electives during the week.
These sessions are very popular. To reserve your seat in a lab session, please enroll via the Personal Agenda Builder when available starting September 1 and arrive on time for the lab.
Do you have experience with specific IBM products? Want to provide feedback about future directions for those products or comment on current problems or concerns? Come participate in a small hands-on usability session and provide IBM with valuable feedback on product usability and the functionality most important to you in your current products. Usability experts will lead you through a variety of interactive sessions, including test-driving prototypes, small-group design review and feedback sessions, and opportunities to vote on user requirements and prioritize them.
Topics range from current, released products to prototypes and glimpses of early code of new products or releases now in development. You will see specific new feature proposals and alternative design ideas at a product or component level - your ideas and feedback can help shape IBM’s direction.
Activities will run throughout the length of the conference, and sessions will be repeated at different times across the week. If you are an experienced product user, we’d love to have you participate at the Usability Sandbox. You’ll find a welcome atmosphere to share your ideas, your gripes, and your wishes for future product enhancements.
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