Impact Comes to You 2009

General Sessions:

• Smart Work for a Smarter Planet - In this session you will learn about cost optimization strategies to reuse existing assets and connect disparate systems, enhancing business agility through process improvement and smarter collaboration, using the IBM Smart SOA™ approach to build a structured plan for cost optimization and agility that prepares you for future changes. Do more with less and work smarter with IBM Smart SOA.
• Top Smart SOA projects for Today’s Economy - In today’s economic environment, organizations are adjusting, adapting and reorienting. Staying competitive and thriving today means working smarter to manage costs like never before. The key challenge moving forward is how to reduce costs and investments while increasing productivity and innovation. This is essential to survival. An investment in SOA delivers the desired results by shifting your business model for leaner times to boost agility, optimizing business processes to wring-out needless expense, and enabling flexible connectivity to drive business integration and reduce costs. Learn about real-world SOA projects that bring together business and IT to implement solutions delivering real value today.
• Drive Business Agility with Dynamic Business Processes - Global trends and economic conditions are affecting businesses around the world, and the pace of change is accelerating. Businesses must work smarter to survive…and to succeed! Dynamic business processes are at the heart of this new smart work. They enable faster response to changing customer expectations and business demands. Learn how you can implement agile business models to outmaneuver competitors. Hear how to empower business users to effectively respond to threats and opportunities. Examine how to boost your operational efficiency. And, explore how you can optimize costs by documenting, deploying and continuously optimizing dynamic business processes with IBM Business Process Management, powered by IBM Smart SOA.

In addition, each event will contain sessions on one or more of the following themes:

• Respond quickly to new requirements with BPM and on-line Commerce - Work smarter with IBM’s Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) enabled by Smart SOA. IBM provides businesses the ability to automate processes with greater efficiency and reduced costs, get real-time visibility for smarter decisions and actions and get faster, dynamic response to change. This session will show the value of BPM and Commerce in reducing risks and improving ROI.
• Shrinking IT budgets require the right infrastructure - Today’s dynamic business environments and economic uncertainty mean organizations must work smarter to remain competitive and respond to changing customer demands. Keys to working smarter are business agility and cost optimization. This session will cover how IBM delivers the application infrastructure for building, deploying and managing all types of applications, ensuring they deliver on business objectives regardless of the situation, and work within your budget.
• Enhance business agility with Connectivity and Integration - Today’s marketplace is driving the need for organizations to work smarter if they're going to remain competitive and respond to changing customer demands. Connecting your business applications is essential for delivering smarter business outcomes. This session explores how IBM delivers capabilities that modernize and simplify connecting and integrating all types of applications. This ensures a seamless and secure flow of information within your organization, with customers, partners and suppliers at a cost just right for today's economy.
• Gain Flexibility and Cost Optimization with Smart SOA - Companies today are looking to create agile and cost effective business environments with a Smart SOA approach. IBM provides the products and services at each stage of a client’s Smart SOA journey to facilitate improved agility and cost optimization; no matter what size your company is or what stage of SOA implementation. The components of Smart SOA allow companies to work smarter. This session will discuss how to successfully deploy Smart SOA into your organization.
• Accelerate Deployment with Smart Industry Solutions - In every industry, executives are demanding greater ability to deliver unique value and cost savings. IBM’s Industry frameworks are the SOA blueprints for deploying solutions faster and at lower cost. The usage of industry solutions allows companies to be more responsive and work smarter. Sessions will include examples on how to leverage SOA for business success in each of the following industries, banking, insurance, telecommunications, government, healthcare, distribution and utilities.
• Extend SOA to the Web with Social Networking - Billions of people now have instant access to one another, and as a result, your colleagues and customers expect to be able to collaborate in real time, participate in decisions that affect their work, and do so wherever and whenever they happen to be. IBM collaboration solutions empower people to use the web to erase boundaries, save money, compete successfully, and create the future. This session looks at the technology available to improve your companies’ social networking capability to allow you to work smarter.