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Turn information into insight
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 - 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 - 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 - 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
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Business process management
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Collaboration software
Connect your people to information, experts and each other. Explore unified communications, Web 2.0, business social software, and group productivity solutions.
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Compliance
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Content management
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Data management
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Distribution management
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Security
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Connect and collaborate
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Web experience
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Commerce
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Data protection and storage management
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Business service management
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Cloud and IT Optimization
Automate and intelligently manage cloud and virtualized environments, and do it all securely.
Turn information into insights
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Business analytics
Recognize 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. Maximize its value and improve decisions.
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Information governance
Quality, protection and lifecycle management. Create a source of trusted information for better decisions and business outcomes.
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Information integration and federation
Gain a holistic view to understand how your information impacts processes and informs decisions.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.