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George Parapadakis

George Parapadakis - ECM Business Value Advocate

Over 15 years specializing in ECM and leading the ECM Strategic Innovation Council, George can help you turn content into strategic advantage.

Manage risk and security

Calvin Powers

Calvin Powers - Security Architect, IBM Tivoli

Calvin's experience can help you take a comprehensive approach to security, risk management and compliance.

Connect and collaborate

Jacques Pavlenyi

Jacques Pavlenyi - IBM Collaboration Solutions, Market Segment Manager

Worldwide market manager for IBM Collaboration Solutions, focusing on unified communications and social collaboration.

Enable business service

Grady Booch

Grady Booch - IBM Fellow, Research Scientist

Recognized internationally for software architecture, engineering, and collaborative development, Grady can help you innovate and improve your software delivery.

Drive enterprise operations

Doug McClure

Doug McClure - Enterprise Architect, IBM Tivoli

Doug is an expert in business service management. Contact Doug to gain greater insight into your services, processes and transactions.

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Solving your IT Issues

  • Business process management (BPM)

    Business process management

    Improve effectiveness of the systems and services that connect customers, partners and suppliers.

  • Collaboration software

    Collaboration software

    Connect your people to information, experts and each other. Explore unified communications, Web 2.0, business social software, and group productivity solutions.

  • Compliance

    Compliance

    Best practices protect business assets; ensure business continuity, confidentiality, and security standards.

  • Content management

    Content management

    Transform enterprise information into business value. Capture, manage, integrate and deliver all forms of content across the enterprise.

  • Data management

    Data management

    Deliver data on demand to optimize business usage and governance across the enterprise.

  • Disaster recovery and business continuity

    Disaster recovery and business continuity

    Protect your assets, keep the business running, and take advantage of opportunities while mitigating risks.

  • Distribution management

    Distribution management

    Promote speed and accuracy through demand-driven processes.

  • Energy efficiency

    Energy efficiency

    Address energy concerns: energy supply, consumption, and environmental impact are now part of the IT decision process.

  • Enterprise application integration

    Enterprise application integration

    Link applications, services, databases and legacy systems.

  • Enterprise architecture

    Enterprise architecture

    Align IT investments with business priorities. Translate strategy into effective change.

  • Information governance

    Information governance

    Adopt a supply chain management approach to meet compliance, sustain growth, reduce risk and anticipate future trends.

  • IT cost management

    IT cost management

    Assess the most cost-effective way to deliver on key stakeholders’ current and future needs.

  • Security

    Security

    Enable innovation, protect your enterprise and meet compliance demands with a holistic, business-driven security approach.

  • Systems management

    Systems management

    Provide effective administration of IT assets, improve availability and enable business resiliency.

  • Virtualization

    Virtualization

    Simplify your IT infrastructure, reduce costs, increase utilization, improve management.

  • Workforce productivity

    Workforce productivity

    Drive business value with Web portals. Improve efficiency, find answers, make decisions and complete tasks.

Bridge the gap between your goals and the capabilities needed to meet them. The IBM Software products and brands you may already know are included in these capabilities and solutions.

 

Connect and collaborate

  • Social collaboration

    Social collaboration

    Twenty-two percent of time online is spent on social networking. Integrate social capabilities into your business.

  • Unified communications

    Unified communications

    Create a unified communication and collaboration environment that’s easy for IT to manage and users to use.

  • Web experience

    Web experience

    The face of your business is the web. Deliver an experience that helps you market, sell, operate and manage.

 

Drive business integration and optimization

  • Application infrastructure

    Application infrastructure

    Deliver applications efficiently. Boost performance. Maximize security. Control costs.

  • Business process management (BPM)

    Business process management

    Leverage processes to exceed expectations, anticipate change, control costs and become more agile.

  • Commerce

    Commerce

    Commerce is more complex and customers are in control. Improve their experience in the age of the empowered customer.

  • Connectivity and integration

    Connectivity and integration

    Integrate processes, applications, people, information and systems to improve business agility.

  • Enterprise marketing management

    Enterprise marketing management

    Create a unified communication and collaboration environment that’s easy for IT to manage and users to use.

 

Enable product and service innovation

  • Application lifecycle management

    Application lifecycle management

    Coordinate the flow of people, processes and information to build better products and services and control costs.

  • Business planning and alignment

    Business planning and alignment

    Align your business with your planning and strategy. Transform strategy into prioritized execution, optimize performance and mitigate risk.

  • Complex and embedded systems

    Complex and embedded systems

    A complete, collaborative approach across the engineering lifecycle helps you deliver differentiated, more competitive products.

  • Design, development and deployment

    Design, development and deployment

    Turn innovative ideas into reality. Bring diverse, distributed teams together to deliver new products and services faster.

  • Enterprise modernization

    Enterprise modernization

    Leverage existing investments, reduce maintenance costs and re-assign resources to meet new business requirements.

 

Manage security, risk and compliance

  • Security

    Security

    Strengthen security to reduce costs, improve service, manage risk and enable innovation.

 

Optimize the impact of business infrastructures and services

 

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George Parapadakis

ECM Business Value Advocate

George Parapadakis photo.George Parapadakis is an ECM Business Value Advocate in the ECM segment team in the UK and is founder and leader of the ECM Strategic Innovation Council in the UK. His role is focused on supporting IBM customers in maximising the value from their investment in ECM technologies, and in providing insight into new market trends such as Enterprise 2.0 and Social Media technologies. Previously, George has specialised in the use of ECM technologies to support Risk & Compliance solutions. George holds a BSc (Honours) in Computing Science and an MSc in Interactive Systems Design. He sits on the management committee of Intellect UK’s Document Management Group and is certified as “ECM Practitioner” as well as being awarded the title of “Master of Information Technologies (MIT)” by AIIM. He is a frequent speaker in conferences and regular writing contributor in various industry publications.


George's blog

George's opinions, thoughts, news and trivia around Information Management*


Other ways to connect with George:


*Postings on non-IBM sites are independent of IBM and do not necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.

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Calvin Powers

Security Architect, IBM Tivoli

Calvin Powers photo.Calvin Powers is a technology project manager in the IBM security strategy team. His current focus is on applying IT security technologies to IBM's Smarter Planet initiative and on cybersecurity projects for the IBM Institute for Advanced Security. He's a member of IBM's risk management community and has a special interest in risk management methods applied to IT environments. Previously he worked on privacy management, public key infrastructure, and network security projects in IBM.


Calvin's Blog: Visible IT

Improving transparency and control in IT.*


Other Ways To Connect


Calvin also recommends:

IBM Security Community Online community to discuss IT security issues.


*Postings on non-IBM sites are independent of IBM and do not necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.

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Jacques Pavlenyi

IBM Collaboration Solutions, Market Segment Manager

Jacques Pavlenyi photo.Since joining IBM in 1998, Jacques Pavlenyi has launched web-based data services to the chemical industry, marketed WebSphere products to SMBs, supported the telecom and M&E industries, and is currently market manager for IBM collaboration solutions. He is passionate about the intersection of IT, marketing, and social media.


Jacques' blog - The SametimeBlog

Get a direct line into the IBM Lotus Sametime Product team! Join our bloggers as we discuss the unified communications marketplace and technology trends, where Sametime is going, and what's new with our partners, clients and more.*


Other ways to connect with Jacques


Jacques also recommends - The Collaboration Soapbox

This community is about furthering adoption of social software. Our members share their insight, experiences, and best practices encouraging the use of Lotus Quickr, Lotus Connections, and Lotus Sametime.


*Postings on non-IBM sites are independent of IBM and do not necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.

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Grady Booch

IBM Fellow, Research Scientist

Grady Booch photo.Grady is recognized internationally for his innovative work in software architecture, software engineering, and collaborative development environments. He has devoted his life's work to improving the art and the science of software development.


Computing: The Human Experience, the story of the technology that changed humanity

A transmedia project engaging audiences of all ages in the story of the technology that has changed humanity.*


Other ways to connect with Grady


*Postings on non-IBM sites are independent of IBM and do not necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.

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Doug McClure

Enterprise Architect, IBM Tivoli

Doug McClure photo.Doug is a Solutions Architect in Tivoli software development where he leads the architecture, design and implementation of large Business Service Management deployments for IBM worldwide. He is an industry recognized thought leader and subject matter expert in the area of BSM and publishes a widely followed blog on the subject.


Doug's Blog - BSM & ITSM

Doug shares his thoughts, ideas and commentary about Business Service Management and Information Technology Service Management and offers insight on how businesses can map their way towards getting to the next level in their quest for continuous improvement. He also comments on industry activity and assorted success stories.*


Other ways to connect with Doug

Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/dmcclure


Doug also recommends the following communities:


*Postings on non-IBM sites are independent of IBM and do not necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.

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Pierre Milcent

Executive Consultant Social Business

Pierre Milcent photo.Responsible for promoting social business and collaboration solutions in enterprises. He developed business value approach to demonstrate to customers how social business can provide innovation, knowledge sharing and better cooperation inside and outside the firewall. Pierre has been involved in many workstation projects since 20 years, from the desktop to portal technologies. He is present in many conferences and forums about social networking and its impact in organizations.


Pierre Milcent's blog

The blog is related to all news informations about enterprise 2.0 and social_networking transformation in the organizations.*


Other ways to connect with Pierre


Pierre also recommends: The Collaboration Soapbox


*Postings on non-IBM sites are independent of IBM and do not necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.