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John Mullaly
IBM Corporation
Tuesday 1:30-2:20 pm
User Interfaces are at the leading edge of software design. New interface technologies, such as speech recognition, and interface agents help users perform tasks more easily. Today’s PC "application" style of interfaces is quickly being replaced by browser-style Web interfaces. The future of interfaces will include interactive animations and agents that converse with users. Demonstrations and videos of new interaction interfaces are included and attendees leave this session a step ahead of their competition.
Matthew Perrins
IBM Corporation
Tuesday 2:30-3:20 pm
Presently, Web interfaces are in their infancy and many Websites are poorly-designed. Freedom for creativity on the Web has led to multicolored, animated, graphic interfaces that overwhelm and confuse users. This session offers guidelines for effective Web design and explains how to design Web user interfaces that are navigable, readable, and usable.
Frank Haynes, TeamConnection Development Manager
IBM Corporation
Tuesday 3:30-4:20 pm
The complexity of application development grows along with the size of your team, the number of platforms, the number of tools, the number of releases and many other factors. Learn how to manage complex client/server development by: implementing team development by sharing and communicating; building client/server applications for multiple platforms using multiple build tools, both IBM and non-IBM; knowing what fixes and features are scheduled and their status; synchronizing maintenance and new development; and controlling development assets, both code and information.
David Reich, Chief I/T Architect, Software Group
IBM Corporation
Wednesday 8:30-9:20 am
Attendees learn to make organizations more productive in the development and management of software projects by seeing how Lotus Notes was used to manage a highly complex software development project with interactions among several teams, and to share data and other information on a real-time basis. The facilities provided in Notes allow status to be communicated, deliverables to be tracked, schedules to be updated, and views of all of this data to be defined to individual needs.
Phil Ewing, Tivoli Marketing Group
Tivoli Systems, Inc.
Wednesday, 9:30-10:20 am
In a bold move in early 1996, IBM and Tivoli merged, creating the world’s most comprehensive offerings in systems and network management. Tivoli’s product family, TME 10, is the only product capable of true, multi-vendor Network Computing Management. This session explains how far Tivoli has come in the past year and how organizations can benefit from Tivoli’s Network Computing Management.
Phil Ewing, Tivoli Marketing Group
Tivoli Systems, Inc.
Wednesday 3:00-3:50 pm
This session demonstrates how the combination of the Tivoli Framework and the Application Management Initiative provides the industry's strongest solution available today for managing mission-critical business applications. Highlighted, are the details of Tivoli's application management initiative which include the Application Management Specification (AMS), applications enabled to be managed by TME 10 (i.e. SAP, Notes), and Tivoli's application management products.
Lee Schlenger
IBM Corporation
Thursday 1:00-1:50 pm
NotesView is a graphical management tool that allows users to see the status of an entire Notes system at a glance. This session demonstrates how to capture and analyze real-time statistics on server capacity, network traffic, databases, replication schemes, mail routing, Internet activity, administrative functions and much more. Attendees learn how to maximize return on a Lotus Notes investment as well as how to manage a Notes infrastructure along with the rest of the distributed environment.
Matthias Herweck
IBM Corporation
Thursday 2:00-2:50 pm
FlowMark is IBM’s workflow manager that makes use of the Internet in order to link people, information, and applications required to reengineer or fine-tune business processes. This session describes how users define, implement, track, and continually improve business processes with FlowMark. Attendees learn how this can result in improved efficiency and customer responsiveness.
Jim Colosimo, Program Director, Open Distributed
Systems Strategy
IBM Corporation
Thursday 4:30-5:20 pm
IBM’s Open Blueprint is a comprehensive, standards-based structure that was developed to help address the challenges of multi-vendor, distributed environments including those that are Web-enabled. This presentation describes some of the challenges that face designers and developers of distributed applications and systems, provides an overview of the elements of the Open Blueprint structure, and gives examples of actual customer usage and the business value that these users have gained. Attendees leave knowing how the Open Blueprint could prove to be a useful tool to help design, develop, deploy and manage network computing and distributed client/server applications and systems.