Technical Skill Building
Technical Skill Building 2008
Program details are subject to change.
IBM Information On Demand global conference 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 with IBM technology.
The technical program is expected to include over 600 sessions - plenty of opportunities to learn about new topics, dive more deeply into products and technology, provide input to IBM's development community, and get hands-on with IBM products and solutions.
Our specially-designed roadmaps will help you pick and choose topics and skill areas that interest you or that fit your job role or industry. Anywhere you go at this conference, 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.
2008 Technical Skill Building Tracks
- Birds of a Feather
- Business Intelligence & Performance Management
- Data Management: Application Development
- Data Management: DB2 and Tools for Linux, UNIX, Windows
- Data Management: DB2 for z/OS and Tools
- Data Management: IMS and Tools
- Data Management: Informix Dynamic Server (IDS)
- Developer Den
- Enterprise Content Management
- Information On Demand Infrastructure
- InfoSphere: Information Server
- InfoSphere: Master Data Management Solutions
- InfoSphere: Threat, Fraud and Risk Detection
- InfoSphere: Warehousing Software and Appliances
- Integrated Data Management
- Technology Futures
- Usability Sandbox
Birds of a Feather
Meet up with other IT professionals who share your interests by attending Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions. Join your peers for informal discussions based on your particular topic of interest. Led by a moderator, BoFs are a great way to wind down after a full day to discuss technology topics, share information and ideas, and get answers to specific questions in a relaxed setting.
Business Intelligence & Performance Management
Business Intelligence is the top priority for CIOs and Financial Performance Management is a top priority for CFOs. 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.
Good decisions are the building blocks of great business performance. With the acquisition of Cognos, IBM now delivers a complete BI and performance management platform, fully integrated on an open-standards-based service oriented architecture (SOA). This performance management system provides a common understanding and enables accountable actions based on answers to your performance management questions:
How are we doing? See how you can measure and monitor performance with scorecards and dashboards that track your key metrics.
Why? Learn how reporting and analysis lets you see data, gain context, understand trends, and spot anomalies.
What should we be doing? Understand how planning, budgets and forecasts allow you to set and share a reliable view of the future.
Attend the Business Intelligence and Performance Management sessions to understand how to unlock the business value of your information, allowing you to:
- maximize the value of your information
- optimize your business processes
- deliver trusted information in real-time
- achieve higher performance across the enterprise
Data Management: Application Development
The application development track provides a selection of topics of interest to developers working with IBM Information Management products. The track has been enhanced this year to provide 60-minute sessions, allowing the presenter and attendees to fully explore the topic at hand, whether it is XML, SQL, data modeling, SOA or Java. After the session, wonder over to the Developer Den to continue discussion on your development challenges or hang out with other like-minded professionals.
Sample topics include:
- A Look at New and Advanced SQL in DB2
- REST vs SOAP - Does It Matter?
- Working Stored Procedures within Microsoft Visual Studio
- SOA Access for IBM Databases Using Eclipse
- Rapid Application Development on .NET for IDS
- 10x Productivity Increase in Java Development with New IBM Data Studio pureQuery
- Introducing Microsoft LINQ with IBM Data Servers
- Put Yourself on the Map: Google Maps API, DB2/Informix and PHP on Linux
- SQL on Fire
- Introduction to Developer Workbench
- Overview: DB2 pureXML and .NET
- Updating and Transforming XML Data with DB2 9 pureXML
- Fully Loaded Database JDBC Driver with Hybrid Power
- Web 2.0 and Mashups - How They Affect the Enterprise
Data Management: DB2 and Tools for Linux, UNIX, Windows
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 will learn tips, tricks and best practices to ensure that you are getting the most out of your data and systems. Hear how the industry-leading innovations such as pureXML™ and deep compression found in DB2 9 have impacted enterprise architecture and technology strategy. Get the latest information about DB2 Viper 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.
Data Management: DB2 for z/OS and Tools
The DB2 for z/OS and Tools track includes sessions with tips and tricks to get more out of your data and systems, best practices to help you save time and effort, and information on the latest technology, which you can incorporate into your enterprise architecture. Hear the news about the exciting new features and capabilities in DB2 9 that can help your business grow, and what's coming next to improve your TCO. Learn how DB2 Tools for z/OS support your infrastructure with best of breed functionality in performance, recovery, auditing, and utilities. Take a test drive and get first-hand experience with tools at our Hands-on Labs. Whether you´re new to z/OS or looking for advanced insights, this track is a must for DB2 for z/OS users. Also hear from your peers about their experiences with DB2 for z/OS and the Tools.
Data Management: IMS and Tools
Your IMS systems are the workhorse of your organization, and these sessions are designed to explore the possibilities when you integrated existing IMS applications and data into your Service Oriented Architecture Strategy. Learn how IMS can help your organization to respond to rapid changes in market, capture new markets, improve products, better address regulatory issues, strengthen business partnerships, lower IT overhead, increase profits and better align IT with long-term business goals. Get the latest information about IMS & tools, including best practices for upgrading to IMS 10 and the newest IMS tools that have been added to the IMS Tools portfolio. Take advantage of the Hands-on Labs for in-depth training and gain a better appreciation of how, in handling over 2 million transactions per day, the world depends on IMS.
Data Management: Informix Dynamic Server (IDS)
With its devoted customer base and continued double-digit growth, IDS is booming. Don´t miss this opportunity to get a better look at IBM´s strategic data server for integrated high volume OLTP applications. Learn about what makes IDS resilient, agile, and invisible; then get hands on experience to speed up implementation or an upgrade to IDS 11. Develop applications using the latest open source platforms. Hear the latest about the next generation of business continuity solutions. Learn more about the security and regulatory compliance features that will allow you to sleep better at night. Get creative with location-based services to take your solutions to the next dimension. Most importantly, talk to the IDS experts and get behind the scenes 'scoop' on internals, best practices, future plans and more.
Developer Den
The Developer Den is your place to hang out with other developers, talk over the issues that are important to you as a developer, or maybe take a tutorial. Chat one-on-one with other developers in a comfortable fun environment. Check out the Application Development topics (located nearby), then adjourn with the presenter to the Developer Den to further discuss the topic and get answers to your questions. You'll get not only the perspectives of other attendees, but also insight into how they may be solving problems that you are encountering.
Enterprise Content Management
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) delivers a broad set of mission-critical solutions that help solve today's most difficult business challenges: managing unstructured content, optimizing business processes and helping satisfy complex compliance requirements through an integrated information infrastructure. Learn how to improve your workforce effectiveness by managing all types of content: images, documents, email, web content, e-records, multimedia, etc. IBM ECM enables you to deliver the right content to the right person at the right time so you can make better decisions, faster. With a continued commitment to open standards, IBM provides the largest, most integrated ECM portfolio in the industry.
To learn more about managing content and business processes, and using innovative search and discovery tools to transform your business, join us for the ECM technical and business breakout sessions developed for IT managers/executives, architects, systems administrators, and LOB managers.
Integrated Data Management
This track addresses the challenges in establishing an environment with leading innovations for each member of the team responsible for: designing enterprise and application data architectures; database development, testing, and deployment; database administration and application optimization; and data growth, security and privacy. Highlighting the broad set of IBM capabilities for governing your data and increasing developer and administrator productivity, these conference sessions include the latest information about data management technologies and best practices.
Sample Topics include:
- IBM Data Studio Family and Futures
- Data Privacy - Protect Against the Internal Threat
- Maximize IT ROI with Optim Data Growth Solution
- Administration Tooling in IBM Data Studio
- REST Me! FEED Me! I will take it from there!
- Transforming Requirements into Real Data Using Rational Data Architect
- 10x Development Productivity Increase with IBM Data Studio and pureQuery
- IBM's Java Persistence Strategy: pureQuery
- Databases and SOA - Time to reuse
- Architecting High Performance Data Governance Solutions
Information On Demand Infrastructure
Information On Demand provides a framework for understanding and measuring information management maturity, and provides insight into the associated risks, costs, and benefits of each maturity level. IBM Information on Demand provides a set of solution portfolios to assist companies in addressing their most critical information-intensive business initiatives. This technical track focuses on architecture design (with an emphasis on SOA) and best practices of implementing state-of-the-art Information on Demand infrastructure.
InfoSphere: Information Server
Join us for this track and learn how your organization can derive more value from the complex, heterogeneous information spread across your systems. The sessions in this track are ideal for you if you are interested in how to effectively integrate, profile, and cleanse information for greater insight and lower cost.
InfoSphere: Master Data Management Solutions
Master data management (MDM) is a top priority for organizations as they strive to gain control over an often overlooked asset: their data. This track will detail how and why master data (such as customer, supplier, partner, product, materials and employees) is critical for running a business. 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 and centralizes both the master data and the functionality that manages it.
InfoSphere: Threat, Fraud and Risk Detection
This track is designed for organizations that are focused on detecting and preventing criminal activity and ensuring that these unscrupulous individuals and groups do not affect your bottom line. Learn how advanced detection capabilities can help your organization see beyond deliberate attempts to hide identity and recognize cultural variations that have historically plagued attempts to fight threat, fraud and risk.
InfoSphere: Warehousing Software and Appliances
In these sessions, you will learn how IBM warehousing software and appliances are breaking new ground by delivering the integrated set of capabilities enabling organizations to go beyond traditional data warehousing to deliver more insightful, relevant information on demand for optimizing real-time business processes, transforming customer service, increasing employee productivity, reducing business risks and generating new revenue opportunities for organizations of all sizes. These sessions highlight how IBM´s approach to information management results in an information infrastructure that not only scales to meet your needs but is flexible and agile to adapt to a dynamic market place.
Discover how to evolve your current systems to meet new challenges. Get the latest information about IBM data warehousing portfolio and how you can extend your warehouse with business intelligence, information integration, master data management, UIMA and more. Learn first-hand from warehouse architects at leading companies about their experiences with dynamic warehousing and hear how IBM´s game changing leadership with dynamic warehousing can improve your business performance today.
Technology Futures
IBM Research has set the pace in the industry for database innovation since it invented relational databases. Today is no exception. Technology Futures sessions demonstrate how IBM Research is continuing to bring fresh ideas to Information Management across data servers, information integration, business intelligence, Web 2.0, and more. Don't miss these sessions that will whet your appetite for innovations to come.
Usability Sandbox
Gain insight into the future of the industry while providing IBM with valuable feedback on product usability and the functionality most important to you. Usability experts will lead a variety of interactive events, including test-driving prototypes, small-group design reviews and feedback sessions, and opportunities to vote on user requirements and prioritize them.
