Sponsor: IBM
Featured Analyst Firm: Gartner, Inc.
Speakers: Larry Bowden, David Gootzit, Matt Porta, Bill Paris
Type: Audio (50 minutes)
The enterprise of the future is characterized by accelerating, pervasive and unrelenting change. Check out this new program and hear a panel of experts discuss how to ready your enterprise for the future.
Learn how to create an enterprise that is hungry for change and innovative beyond your customer’s imaginations. Discover the steps you need to take to position your infrastructure to be ready to move and adapt to any market situation. And find out how to create an enterprise that stands apart from your competition.
Join experts from IBM, TransMontaigne, and featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., as they discuss:
- How to profit from the intersection of business and technology
- The new role of the CIO as a catalyst for change across the enterprise
- Managing nonlinear structures, fuzzy boundaries, and fluid roles
- Portals and dashboards in the hyper-connected enterprise
- New forms of collaboration - mashups, social networking, shared authoring
The hyperconnected enterprise of the future is headed your way. Check out this new program now and learn more.
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About Larry Bowden
Larry Bowden, Vice Present, IBM Portal and Mashup Technology Group, IBM: Larry has over 2 decades experience in IBM helping customers exploit the opportunities provided by information technologies. He currently is Vice President, Portals and Mashups where he is responsible for the development and delivery of web based products help customers create differentiated web experiences for their customers, partners, employees or citizens. Larry is known for his ability to successfully bring new products to market and rapidly achieve market leadership. IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Content Manager are among the products that have become market leaders under his direction
About David Gootzit
David Gootzit is a research director for Gartner's application integration and middleware team, where he focuses on the enterprise portal market, vendors and deployment issues. He also monitors the impact of Web 2.0 on enterprise Web deployments. He is based in Arlington, Virginia. Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Gootzit worked as a consultant in the aerospace/defense field while finishing his degree.
About Matt Porta
Matt Porta, Global Leader of IBM's Technology Strategy Consulting Practice: The Technology Strategy practice is focused on helping clients drive better business performance through technology, and Mr. Porta brings 20 years of consulting experience, focused on helping clients drive major change through aligning their strategy, organization and technologies. Specific areas of expertise include Service/Solution Transformation, Alliances/Partnership, Organizational Restructuring and Business & IT Alignment. Mr. Porta joined IBM with the acquisition of PriceWaterhouseCoopers Consulting.
About Bill Paris
Bill began working for TransMontaigne in March of 2003 as a senior developer. He was involved in the selection process and implementation of both WebSphere Portal and the Dashboard products, and has led several successful projects to help transform his business. Bill Graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Salem State College, Salem MA, in 1981.
