Agenda

Collaboration - Making it easy to work with IBM
John Toal, OpenPSL and Austen McDonach , IBM

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IBM is one of the world's largest IT resources and so, to the casual enquirer, can sometimes be complicated to engage with when you need information fast. Johnexplains how OpenPSL can help "advisors and service providers", especially those in the mid-market sector, to reach the information and people you need - fast.

Austen explains how IBM propose to add value to advisors who are not one of the "major" consulting organisations. He will show how IBM enable advisors and service providers to be more effective for their clients and will explain the resources available to make engaging with IBM a more effective than ever before.

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Penelope Ody
Leading Independent Journalist

Penelope Ody writes regularly for "FT-IT", "Logistics Europe" and "Drapers" covering the full spectrum of requirements and issues in the wholesale, retail and distribution supply chain having written about them for 30 years. Penelope joined "Retail and Distribution Management" in 1973, later moving to "Drapers Record" before going freelance in 1983. She edited "Retail Automation" from 1985 to 1996 and launched "Retail Solutions" for Emap in 1998. This quarterly magazine soon grew into a monthly section incorporated within "Retail Week" and went weekly in late 2003.

Our collaborative experts include:

• Penelope Ody , Independent Journalist
  
• Ian Shanahan, OpenPSL
  Ian explains how OpenPSL can help "advisors and service providers", especially those in the mid-market sector, to reach the information and people you need - fast.
• Anthony Davy, Alliance Director, Taurus Informatics
  Taurus Infomatics delivers complete information technology infrastructure solutions across all market sectors, selecting and integrating products from the world's leading technology providers.
• Paul Sheppard, Business Development Director, ANIX
  Anix has specific expertise in a number of key vertical markets: Retail & Distribution - Public Sector - Financial Services - Industrial Sector. And 14 years of experience in designing, implementing, supporting and managing enterprise-scale IT infrastructure for a wide range of customers in these sectors.
• Simon Fahie, Sales Director, Red Prairie
  Red Prairie’s RFID-enabled suite of supply chain execution solutions provide the industry's leading transportation, productivity, and distribution management capabilities, integrated with process management components for real-time visibility, event management and resolution, quality control, supplier collaboration and performance measurement.
• Simon Baxendale, eServer Manager, IBM Alliances
  Simon Represents IBM's eServer product line and is specifically responsible for Alliances with consultants and integrators. He will advise on the best way to deliver competitive value to your clients by combine your business consulting and systems integration knowledge with IBM's market leading open, scalable, reliable and secure e-business technology.
• Russell Meyers, Manager, IBM Software Business
  Russel has specific responsiblity for supporting Consultants and Regional Systems Integrators (RSIs). His role is to assist with the development and enablement of RSI's around the 5 key SWG Brands, Websphere, DB2, Tivoli, Lotus and Rational. He works with the RSI to build business plans encompassing repeatable solutions, enablement, skills transfer and certification, marketing and networking.
• Guch Manku, IBM Global Services
  Channels Development Manager
  Guch represents IBM Global Services group and is responsible for Channels including consultants and systems integrators. His role is to create a foundation for IBM Business Partners to team with IBM successfully and to win together in an on demand world.
• Gerard Hill, IBM Global Financing
  IBM aim to provide innovative hardware, software and services financing solutions to business partners and their customers. Gerard is here to explain how IBM global finance can include your professional services as well as the technology to help you to better serve your customers.