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You need Smarter Software to build a Smarter Planet
In the era of “smart”, leaders are using the explosion of data to transform their enterprises and institutions through analytics, mobile technology, social business and the cloud. This new era is starting to reshape organizations who are changing how decisions are made, redesigning how their teams work, reassessing how to serve their customers, and changing the very nature of businesses, industries and governments - and the world.
At the heart of this transformation is software that powers today’s systems and processes.
It is the key to making sense of a smarter planet and harnessing its potential.
Come discover Software built to help build a Smarter Planet at the IBM TEC
The IBM TEC is simply the faster and easier way to immerse in Smarter Software that will help you conceive solutions to address your unique challenges as well as build capabilities to transform your organization. Facilitated by technology and domain experts and geared with the latest IBM Software, the TEC creates a dynamic and stimulating environment to:
- Expose to emerging technology trends and how recent Smarter Software innovations relate to current business and organizational challenges
- Explore Smarter Software solutions derived from real client engagements and learn how it is helping to build business and organizational capabilities
- Experience through hands-on guided labs on how Smarter software underlying technology helps build business and organizational capabilities
Start the conversation and move your organization towards being smarter
IBM Software helps clients build the capabilities to transform their industries and the world. What's your vision for your organization? Your industry? Your world?
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E-ANL-01 Harness the Power of BigData
Harness the Power of BigData 1 day LOB,Division Heads, Business Analysts, Architects, Project Managers, IT Managers.
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E-ANL-12 Manage and Mobilize Content for Operational Efficiencies
Manage and Mobilize Content for Operational Efficiencies 0.5 day LOB, Directors of Branch Operations, Shared Services, Claims, Accounts Payable, Business Process Owners, IT Directors/Managers |
E-ANL-19 Insights on demand: advancing business insights with the new generation of analytic tools
Insights on demand: advancing business insights with the new generation of analytic tools 1 day Business Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Architect and Line of Business
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E-CLD-01 Put your business in motion. Become a mobile enterprise
Put your business in motion. Become a mobile enterprise 5 hours Program managers, IT Directors, IT Head, Application Head, Transformation leader, IT Managers, Application leads, While explosive global mobile adoption opens significant opportunities for enterprise growth and innovation, adoption of mobile also creates new challenges. Chief among these challenges is the need to reimagine, reinvent and retool your business for a mobile-first approach. Compatibility is not sufficient—mobile must be at the core of your strategy right from the start. Success at an enterprise scale requires systems, technology platforms and even an operating model that is designed with mobile in mind. This thorough, unified approach is the only way to deliver new levels of integration while you manage all levels of complexity, including heightened security requirement and the development of seamless Omni-channel experiences. IBM® MobileFirst Platform enables you to build, enhance and continuously deliver mobile applications efficiently and effectively. It extends the development, delivery and management capabilities of IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation with the addition of scalable data services, code scanning, quality assurance and geo-location support. The result is an integrated platform that accelerates the delivery of your mobile strategy with increased productivity and security—and provides users with a more engaging experience. |
E-CLD-02 Get your idea into production in minutes
Get your idea into production in minutes 1 day Developers, IT Manager, and Project Managers, Development Head or anyone who is concerned with delivery enterprise application faster 1. Accelerate app delivery: Develop, track, plan, deploy, monitor and scale in one place. Host an open source project. Develop software for a cause or your company's next bestseller. Not coding? Plan anything, even the monthly meetup. 2. Code in the cloud: Easily edit any text file or script from within your browser. The web IDE is likely all you need, but you can also bring your own tools. And if you have existing source code in a Github repository, connect to your DevOps project to track changes. 3. Deploy with confidence: Build, scan, test and package apps before deploying, manage the continuous delivery of production code to Bluemix, and ensure fast user feedback and quality metrics at every stage of development. Are you new to Bluemix and are wondering how you could develop applications with IBM DevOps Services? Do you want to know how you could do agile project management developing on Bluemix? How do you use Bluemix for developing geographically distributed application? Consistently deliver high-quality software faster by using IBM DevOps services for Bluemix—an end-to-end solution with all the services you need to deliver your innovative ideas quickly. In this workshop will take you through IBM Bluemix DevOps Services on the cloud that supports continuous delivery. With IBM Bluemix DevOps Services, you can develop, track, plan, and deploy software in one place. We will demonstrate how a team of developers can work together from source code to a running application in minutes. |
E-CLD-03 Accelerate business innovation with integrated and scalable DevOps
Accelerate business innovation with integrated and scalable DevOps 1 day CIO, Operation Manager, Development Manager, Enterprise Architect, Operation Engineer. The challenge is clear: many organizations, including those that adopted agile development practices, struggle to deliver quality applications to production in the time required. Enterprises now have the option of combining on-premise, private and public clouds with the collaborative DevOps capabilities they need to deliver apps faster -- along with the data security, control and integration. Continuous release and deployment practices help organizations relieve bottlenecks in application delivery, accelerate the delivery of complex applications, and decrease time to feedback. In this workshop IBM expert will demonstrate key features and capabilities of IBM UrbanCode Release and Deploy solutions, part of a suite of IBM® DevOps offerings, to help organizations achieve continuous delivery of multiple interdependent applications into complex environments such as cloud, mobile and mainframe. These solutions are designed to help organizations achieve the benefits of continuous release and deployment, including reduced risk, faster time to market and improved productivity. |
E-CLD-04 Think, develop and monetize your ideas at the speed of light
Think, develop and monetize your ideas at the speed of light 1 day Developers, Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, Innovation leader, Head of Application Development, Application Development Managers IBM has led the way in embracing new technologies to provide business solutions that benefit enterprises. Now, IBM is helping to define this new era of cloud computing via the IBM open cloud architecture, which reduces concerns of vendor lock-in and fosters an open API economy. Through Bluemix and SoftLayer, IBM has introduced the core capabilities necessary to enable the enterprise for the world of systems of interaction and cloud-centric applications. IBM continues to enhance Bluemix and continues this journey of innovation for its clients. Learn how IBM Bluemix – Digital Innovation Platform, helps you to innovate your business and revolutionize the way you think and bring to life disruptive ideas. Through the presentation of a variety of use cases in the Public Sector, underpinned by fundamental design principles of direct applicability to many other Industries, you will explore how to create sophisticated software applications and develop a key API-driven ecosystem of developers and 3rd-parties to boost revenues and brand engagement. |
E-CLD-05 Aspera High Speed File Transfer
Aspera High Speed File Transfer 1 day IT Managers, Operations team, LOB teams, Network Operations team. IBM Aspera FASP is a next-generation protocol for reliable data transfer in file systems and applications that are presently impaired by the poor performance of TCP. FASP demonstrates end-to-end WAN data movement speeds that are up to hundreds or thousands of times faster than today’s network file systems or transfer protocols over the emerging 10Gbps wide area networks and offers an exciting, ultimate end-to-end solution for data migration, disaster recovery, workflow optimization and management in varied industries such as media entertainment, pharmacology, academia, government, and national laboratories. Join us to find out how you can transfer large files 10x, 100x or even 1000x faster than normal TCP transfer tools. With Aspera, you can transfer unlimited numbers of files of any size and transfer large files and data sets at high speed predictably and reliably, at long distances, and with complete security. |
E-MW-02 IBM Performance Management - The Most Comprehensive Performance Management Solution For The IBM Middleware Stack
IBM Performance Management - The Most Comprehensive Performance Management Solution For The IBM Middleware Stack 1 day Operation support specialists, System administrators, Data center managers, IT directors and architects, Line of Business Owners Middleware is the critical component of enterprise applications. It simplifies application development and ties disparate applications together. It is important to assure the health of this software layers for enterprise application integration, data integration and message transaction. In today digital world, customer churn rate is very high. Please join us the session to explore IBM Performance Management.
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E-MW-03 Application Performance Management for Hybrid Cloud in Current Digital Transformation
Application Performance Management for Hybrid Cloud in Current Digital Transformation 1 day LOB, IT Operation and Application Team Today website is no more a marketing channel, it is a critical component that generate revenue. Good digital experience is the key to the success for the enterprises. Today customer are well informed and they know what things cost and where they're cheap and good. The enterprise needs to rapidly reconfigure business capability to create value for their customer to provide good experience. This will allow enterprises to deliver an engaging digital experience, thus maximizing revenue and improving brand loyalty. Otherwise customers will quickly abandon one firm for another if it better integrate into their world. Enterprise are turning to hybrid cloud to cater for the dynamics workloads needed to support their customers. Hybrid cloud provides more architectural flexibility and control at a more cost effective manner that helps enterprises achieve their goals. However, with cloud involvement in the enterprise's IT infrastructure, the traditional IT operation role and responsibility will be shifted toward coordinating and ensuring service availability. They now need an APM solution that provide single Dashboard to manage both on premise and cloud resources.
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E-MW-04 Optimising IT Operations with Hybrid Cloud Application Platform
Optimising IT Operations with Hybrid Cloud Application Platform 1 day IT Infrastructure, DC Operations, System/Solution/IT Architect As information technology moves to the strategic centre of business, organizations can no longer ignore the challenges in today’s approach to computing:
Therefore, organizations must embrace new business models and disruptive technologies to remain competitive, meet business need, and innovate. If you fall in this category of organizations, try answer following questions. If the answer is ‘Yes’ for any of the questions, this session is for you. We will look at how the above challenges you face can be resolved with IBM Systems PureApplication System, Software and Service. This session will empower you to accelerate application delivery through dynamic run-time environments across a fluid hybrid cloud landscape. You’ll also get to know the key concepts, technologies, and design consideration using private, public or hybrid cloud solutions. |
E-MW-07 Improving operational agility and efficiency with Netcool Operations Insight
Improving operational agility and efficiency with Netcool Operations Insight 1 day IT Operators, IT Administrators and Application Team IBM® Netcool® Operations Insight V1.3 combines the market-leading real-time event consolidation and correlation capabilities of IBM Tivoli® Netcool/OMNIbus and the transformative power of IT operations analytics applied to all of the alerts and events managed by Netcool/OMNIbus. The analytics capabilities can also be applied to data from other applications, including application and system logs, Windows event logs, support information, and other types of unstructured data. Netcool Operations Insight provides operations with context and insight that increases operational agility and efficiency. New event seasonality and related event analysis assists in detecting regularly occurring events and groups of events, enabling more proactive automation and resolution. Version 1.3 also provides real-time enrichment and sophisticated correlation to enable agile responses to alerts raised across disparate systems. Social media interactions help extend operational visibility to the business, providing dynamic incident and service information to key stake holders through IBM Connections. |
E-MW-08 Exploring IBM Operation Analytics - Log Analysis
Exploring IBM Operation Analytics - Log Analysis 1 day IT Operators, IT Administrators and Application Team IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis is one of the key offerings of the IBM Operations Analytics family of solutions. IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis provides the ability to ingest vast quantities of IT data, logs, events and more; slice and dice and index them in real time; and facilitate ad-hoc searches and presentation of those search results in various rich forms. This solution delivers the power of automated analysis and reporting technical issues quicker than could be achieved by IT team members alone. In addition, IBM Operations Analytics for z Systems enable users to rapidly search, visualize and analyze the vast amounts of structured and unstructured operational data across z Systems operating environments, including log and event data, trouble tickets and performance metrics. This harness the domain expertise of IBM z Systems through domain-specific out-of-the-box insights and Expert Advice. |
E-MW-09 Achieving Digital Enterprise End-To-End Quality with IBM's Multi Platform Testing solution : For Web, SOA, Mobile and Cloud
Achieving Digital Enterprise End-To-End Quality with IBM's Multi Platform Testing solution : For Web, SOA, Mobile and Cloud 1 day Test Teams, Software developers, Solution architects, Project Manager Today's applications typically include multiple technologies ranging from mobile and web front ends, to middleware applications (SOA) hosted on distributed platforms, to legacy back end services. There are more and more interfaces for the same application due to the combination of devices (tablets, phones, laptops, desktop computers) and ways to interact with them (device-specific "apps," browsers, and traditional client applications). More and more, we are seeing a convergence of wanting all the same capabilities on all of our devices. If your organization is meeting this challenge with multiple, independent test teams, you'll want to hear how you can meet this challenge with a smarter testing approach. This session will provide an overview of the integration testing capabilities of Rational Test Workbench and Rational Quality Manager and how it can improve software quality by allowing testing to take place earlier in the lifecycle. |
E-SCL-01 IBM Verse - A New Way to Work
IBM Verse - A New Way to Work 0.5 day LOB, Business Partners Imagine email that works for you instead of email that makes you work. The half-day session will allow participants to view the way mail is disrupted with beautiful design focused entirely on the user. Guided by analytics, IBM Verse learns your behaviors to adapt to the way you work, wherever you work. And because it's built for business, it understands you have special security and privacy needs, too. With built-in intelligence and a user-first, user-tested design, IBM Verse offers a faster, better way to manage your communications across devices, organize inbound and outbound information, and focus on what you need most. A seamless array of social and mobile capabilities delivered from the cloud helps IBM Verse open up intuitive new ways to share valuable information with colleagues, co-workers and customers. It's never been easier to be mobile, secure and connected. Participants will see how the various roles we find ourselves in: Multitasker, Prioritizer, Sharer, Researcher, On-the-Go Worker, IT Professional, Assistant, and the Business Leader are enabled with a powerful new paradigm in mail. |
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E-ANL-02 Spark: A Data Scientist's new toolset!
Spark: A Data Scientist's new toolset! 1.5 days Data Scientists, IT Managers, IT Architect, Software Developers
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E-ANL-03 Modernizing your Data Warehouse for Big Data Analytics
Modernizing your Data Warehouse for Big Data Analytics 2 days Data Warehouse Architect
Come and experience how IBM BigData & Analytic Technology can help to modernise your Big Data project.An organisation today faces challenges in expanding their existing data warehouse for Big Data adoption. Two majors challenges i.e. cost of expanding the existing data warehouse infrastructure or unable to accommodate nor analysis various raw data format (structure, unstructured, semi structure) for initial and fast exploration. Hence the need for Data Warehouse Modernization. |
E-ANL-04 Discover The Value of Cloud Data Services - Cloud based content, data and analytics solution
Discover The Value of Cloud Data Services - Cloud based content, data and analytics solution 2 days IT Manager, Database Developer, Cloud Developer, Data Scientist, Analytic Developer |
E-ANL-05 Building Mobile & Web Application for Business Agility with IBM Cloudant
Building Mobile & Web Application for Business Agility with IBM Cloudant 1 day IT Manager, Database Developer, Cloud/Mobile Developer IBM® CloudantTM Data Layer delivers high availability, elastic scalability and innovative mobile device synchronization. Cloudant's JSON cloud-based data service allows mobile and web developers to quickly and easily store and access the rapidly increasing amount of mobile data using an application programming interface (API) that is significantly easier to use than alternatives.Cloudant Local is a database management system (DBMS) platform that addresses the hybrid cloud demands of mobile application data management. It runs on premises to complement the IBM Cloudant Dedicated Cluster on-device and in the cloud. Increasingly, developers have embraced NoSQL databases because of their flexibility, and JSON has become the predominant NoSQL database technology for mobile and web app developers. This session consists of both presentations and hands-on lab exercises.IBM® CloudantTM Data Layer delivers high availability, elastic scalability and innovative mobile device synchronization. Cloudant's JSON cloud-based data service allows mobile and web developers to quickly and easily store and access the rapidly increasing amount of mobile data using an application programming interface (API) that is significantly easier to use than alternatives. |
E-ANL-06 Explore the power of data warehouse on cloud
Explore the power of data warehouse on cloud 2 days IT Manager, Database Developer, Cloud/Mobile Developer
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E-ANL-07 Reduce Data Management Cost for Your Organisation
Reduce Data Management Cost for Your Organisation 2 days LOB, Oracle Developer, Oracle DBA, Data Management Architect, IT Manager
If you're an Oracle database administrator or database developer, you know that expanded skills mean expanded professional opportunities. Come and experience in this proof-of-technology session through presentation and hands-on lab. In this session, participants will learn :
In overall, learn and experience how IBM Db2 can help you lower cost of data, improve ROI and services level. |
E-ANL-08 Transforming Information Into Business Insights
Transforming Information Into Business Insights 2 days LOB Users, Business Analyst, Data Modeler, Data warehouse Architect
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E-ANL-09 Managing Data Explosion and Protecting Data Privacy In Your Enterprise
Managing Data Explosion and Protecting Data Privacy In Your Enterprise 2 days LOB Executives, IT Managers, Database Administrators, Developers
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E-ANL-10 Implementing Data Governance in the enterprise
Implementing Data Governance in the enterprise 1 day Enterprise Architects, Data Governance architect, Data Stewards, Data Quality Managers |
E-ANL-11 Managing Customer Experience with 360 Degree view of your customer
Managing Customer Experience with 360 Degree view of your customer 1 day LOB Users, Division Heads like CMO, Data Architect, Business/Data Analysts. |
E-ANL-13 Drive Cost, Operational and Service efficiencies with automated data capture solutions
Drive Cost, Operational and Service efficiencies with automated data capture solutions 2 days LOB, Directors of Branch Operations, Shared Services, Claims, Accounts Payable, Business Process Owners, IT Directors/Managers
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E-ANL-14 Drive successful Case outcomes with IBM Case Manager
Drive successful Case outcomes with IBM Case Manager 1 day Business analysts, project managers, management decision makers, |
E-ANL-15 Shape the Outcomes with Informed Decisions at Every Level of the Enterprise
Shape the Outcomes with Informed Decisions at Every Level of the Enterprise 1 day Business Users, Business Analysts, IT, Data Warehouse Administrators/Developers
This session will show through hands-on experience to:
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E-ANL-16 Budgeting and Forecasting for Better Business Outcomes
Budgeting and Forecasting for Better Business Outcomes 1 day Finance Managers, Planning/budget Managers, LOB heads, Senior IT managers
Come learn more about IBM planning, budgeting and analytic solutions that help you deliver timely, reliable forecasts and plans. Discover how you can rapidly analyze and model planning requirements for your entire organization and use them to anticipate the correct course of action for better business outcomes. Through presentations and hands-on exercise, this session will show how:
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E-ANL-17 Smart Data Discovery Services on Cloud
Smart Data Discovery Services on Cloud 0.5 day Business Users, Business Analytics, Data Scientists |
E-ANL-18 Content Management On Demand
Content Management On Demand 1 day LOB, Directors of Branch Operations, Shared Services, Claims, Accounts Payable, Business Process Owners, IT Directors/Managers
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E-MW-01 Streamline Business Processes with Intelligent Decision Automation for Better Business Outcomes
Streamline Business Processes with Intelligent Decision Automation for Better Business Outcomes 1 day Business Process Designer, Business Analyst, Business Operations Team, Process Automation Team, Business Process Improvement / Change Management Team IBM Smarter Process is the key to address the full spectrum of business process challenges. Smarter Process is powered by key offerings such as IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) and IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM). These capabilities enable organization to streamline business processes to rapidly respond to changing market conditions with intelligent decision automation & process optimization involving people, applications, decision & information.
Applications running on z Systems are often legacy applications written in COBOL languages where business rules are buried in the actual COBOL codes. This sometimes can make it challenging and time consuming to change the rules due to the lengthy change process and testing time required. However it does not have to be the case. This session covers smarter process and decision automation solutions we have on the z system and how z system makes a good option for a process hub with high qualities of services, high availability and co-location with the key mainframe applications. IBM Smarter Process capabilities are available on premise as well as SaaS and Hybrid cloud offerings. SaaS and Hybrid cloud capabilities of Smarter Process enable companies to effectively scale up, leverage cloud capabilities for both new and legacy workloads, and achieve higher level of business agility and automation to enable true business innovation. IBM BPM on Cloud is a comprehensive and consumable, BPM cloud service that delivers visibility and management of your business processes in a cloud environment. This Software as a Service (SaaS) product includes tooling and runtime to design and run processes. It provides capabilities to monitor and optimize work that is run within the platform. It is specifically designed to enable process owners and business users to get started with business process improvement quickly with a ready-to-use, cloud-based environment that is hosted in IBM cloud data centers and managed by IBM. IBM ODM on Cloud is a cloud service that helps you capture, automate and manage frequently occurring, repeatable rules-based business decisions. It enables business users to quickly initiate business rules management projects at lower costs by reducing the need for IT assistance and hardware and software acquisitions. IBM Operational Decision Manager on Cloud is packaged in a monthly subscription and includes tooling and run time for building and deploying rules-based applications. It is available exclusively on the IBM cloud infrastructure, which is managed by IBM to help ensure security and availability. This 1-day workshop will provide participant a quick solution overview of IBM Business Process Manager, IBM Operational Decision Management and an overview of its SaaS and Hybrid cloud offerings. Participant will have the opportunity to experience the solution through the hands-on lab exploration of BPM. At the end of the workshop, the participant will gain better understanding of the IBM Business Process Manager and IBM Operational Decision Management concepts and be able to create, modify, manage, automate, monitor and govern the processes and decisions in a highly iterative agile development approach. |
E-MW-05 API Economy : Fuel Innovation and extend your business services to new channels and markets
API Economy : Fuel Innovation and extend your business services to new channels and markets 1 day Solution Architects, Business Analyst, Software Developers, Innovation team Increasingly, businesses of all sizes are transforming themselves to offer their services in a digital form to drive new sources of revenue, acquire more customers or partners, and achieve business growth. Through the presentations, discussions and hands-on labs, this Technology Exploration session will provide the fundamental knowledge to hit the ground running in the fast growing API economy leveraging capabilities of IBM API Management and StrongLoop. The session would also provide an overview of how existing z/OS based assets can be exposed as REST and SOAP APIs with zOS Connect. |
E-MW-06 Smarter, Better, Faster Integrated DevOps Platform :Understanding IBM's Collaborative Lifecycle Management with focus on Agile Collaboration
Smarter, Better, Faster Integrated DevOps Platform :Understanding IBM's Collaborative Lifecycle Management with focus on Agile Collaboration 1 day Software developers, Solution Architects, Project Manager, Analysts, Testers Software delivery is getting more complex with the technology nowadays and yet the business requires IT to deliver application fast to beat the competition. The pressure to deliver complex system requires IT to be smarter in process and collaboration, at the same time eliminate waste in the development.
IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management solution helps to you to implement DevOps and Agile to overcome the challenges in delivering complex multi-platform system involving mobile, web, SOA, legacy systems and cloud. With IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management solutions, organizations can:
This session will provide an overview of the capabilities of IBM Rational Collaborative Management where you can experience the solution yourself with hands-on lab implementing Agile project to develop hybrid cloud solution. We will also cover how you develop legacy application and how you leverage our IBM Rational CLMaaS offering. |
E-SCL-02 IBM Digital Experience - Hands On With Self-Service Management and Dev Tools
IBM Digital Experience - Hands On With Self-Service Management and Dev Tools 2 days LOB, Business Partners, Web Developers, IT Administrators, IT Architects Drive business growth using uniquely designed IBM Digital Experience solutions to:
This hands on session will show how the line of business user is empowered to maintain the digital experience with agility and maximum focus on the customer experience. It also demonstrates to the web developer and IT professional how they can bring modern responsive digital experiences with stability and controlled deployment characteristics. The participants will leave with a clear view on how mobile, analytics, content, social and cloud are infused into the platform. These modern and critical abilities all combine in IBM's Digital Experience to produce highly successful and satisfying customer experiences. |
E-SCL-03 IBM People-Centred Collaboration
IBM People-Centred Collaboration 1 day LOB, Business Partners, Web Developers, IT Architects See what Social Collaboration can do for you through the enabling of a people-centric approach. The advance of Web 2.0 and social networking technologies has now shifted the focus to people networks: It's as much about and relationships as it is about the technologies. In this hands-on session see how the IBM offering that spans multiple delivery models (on-premise, hybrid, cloud) but more importantly supports real business use cases for organizations sharing and communicating key information. The session's participants will see the options that can change the speed and quality of collaboration with explanation of these components and more:
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