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*********** The electronic newsletter of the ***********
********** Silicon Valley World Internet Center
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************* Wednesday, May 8, 2000 *************
The Silicon Valley World Internet Center thanks its Executive Sponsors
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IBM, SAP, Sun Microsystems, Deutsche Telekom, Hewlett-Packard Company,
and Amdocs, Inc.-- for their continuing support.
***PANEL DISCUSSION: WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 2000
"ePROCUREMENT AND THE FUTURE OF INTERNET TRADING COMMUNITIES
/ ONLINE EXCHANGES"
Note: Last chance to register! See below.
***PUB TALK: THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2000
"THE INTERNET AS THE FOURTH MASS MEDIUM"
By Max Mühlhäuser, Full Professor, Darmstadt University of
Technology,Germany; Visiting Professor, SAP Labs Inc., Palo Alto
***PUB TALK: THURSDAY, MAY 18, 2000
"GROWING YOUR BUSINESS WITH REALTIME eBUSINESS INTELLIGENCE"
by Charles Sciandra, Vice President of Marketing, Informative, Inc.
***THINK TANK SESSION: THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 2000
"HOT B2B2C PERVASIVE COMPUTING BUSINESS SCENARIOS FOR THE NEXT
12 TO 18 MONTH MARKETS"
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***MAY PUBS and PROGRAMS
Our main focus for our monthly Pubs, Think Tank Sessions, and other
programs for May is on eBusiness and eServices for both B2B and
B2C.
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***PANEL DISCUSSION: WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 2000
"ePROCUREMENT AND THE FUTURE OF INTERNET TRADING COMMUNITIES
/ ONLINE EXCHANGES"
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Limit: 60 audience participants
$10.00 fee
(Payable by cash or check at day of event. No fee to Sponsors.)
Space is limited. There are a few seats left!
Please RSVP to Venilde Jeronimo, the Center's Director of Programs,
(venilde@worldinternetcenter.com).
Moderator
George Sidman, Founder & President, Monterey Network Center
Panel of Experts
Mr. Kenneth Campbell, CEO, Centegy Corporation
Mr. Bob Jewell, President, PFN, Inc. (Formerly Thundercloud Networks)
Mr. Robert Biczek, Director, Business Development, Casbah Corporation
Dr. Cosimo Spera, CEO, Saltare.com
Competitors and technology are moving quickly and business rules
are being thrown out. The winners will be companies that understandand
take advantage of the rapid shifts in market conditions. Online
exchanges, also known as trading communities, are a B2B approach
that is being adopted at an astounding rate. These trading
communities aim
to deliver on needs of both buyers and sellers. Ultimately,
they provide a platform to collapse the entire supply chain from
a linear model that is slow and rigid to a collaborative model that
can handle realtime information sharing.
By joining trading communities, buyers can expect to streamline
the procurement process, gain access to new market opportunities,
and reduce transaction costs. Suppliers can expect to increase
revenues by expanding outside of their traditional channels and
offloading excess and obsolete inventories. The realtime information
exchange lets buyers and sellers reduce time and country or regional
barriers. In many instances, trading communities also enable a more
level playing field for smaller buyers and suppliers. However,
online exchanges are more relevant to some industries than others.
Joining a trading exchange can be as simple as accessing membership
through a Portal service. Yet, these very thin exchanges do not
provide all the benefits of a fully developed dynamic trading community
that encompasses every element of the supply chain process, from
buying and selling and transaction clearance to inventory visibility
and logistics. Basically, trading exchanges fall into two business
models. The first is the private trading community. The private
trading community is centered around a specific manufacturerand
enables customers, suppliers, logistics companies and the manufacturer
to share critical information about demand and inventory in a defined
supply chain. The second model is known as a hosted or public exchange.
There are many different types of hosted exchanges depending on
the complexity of the buying and selling relationships as well as
the depth of technology supporting them.
What is the future of these online exchanges/trading communities?
To take advantage of these trading communities, what challenges
do companies face? How do companies evaluate private versus private
online exchanges and their benefits? How do companies maximize the
value of their information flow within an organization? What
technologies/solutions are available and how do companies choose
an internal eInfrastructure to maximize the benefits of joining
a trading community? What are the costs? What process does a company
need to go through to join a dynamic trading community?
Our panel of experts will address these and other challenges in
the area of online exchanges/trading communities as well as provide
insights into solutions.
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***PUB TALK: THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2000
"THE INTERNET AS THE FOURTH MASS MEDIUM"
By Max Mühlhäuser, Full Professor, Darmstadt University of Technology,
Germany; Visiting Professor, SAP Labs Inc., Palo Alto
The Internet is becoming the fourth mass medium along with
the press, radio, and television. Personalized news and video-on-demand
are only the initial types of content to be delivered via the Internet.
Like other media, the Internet will bring forth new types of content.
Professor Mühlhäuser will identify important characteristics of
future content to be carried over the Internet.
Content creation for the new medium involves software engineering
to a large extent; requirements for its support are derived.
These characteristics and requirements are backed with experiences
from experimental development of novel content, software engineering
aids, and exploration tools for the new mass medium.
ABOUT DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
Darmstadt University of Technology is a key element of one of the
most distinguished HiTech regions in Europe. The University is just
a few miles south of the Frankfurt Airport, Deutsche Telekom, GMD
(the German National Research Center for Information Technology),
and many other public and private organizations. These organizations
have set up their research and development centers around Darmstadt
UoT to make the convergence of Information Technology, Telecommunications,
and "the media" a reality.
ABOUT SAP LABS INC., PALO ALTO
An Executive Sponsor of the Center, MySAP.com, SAP's internet-ready
solution, with its "Workplace" and "Marketplace"
components enables customers to create a tailored workplace for
users. In addition, the "Marketplace" enables these
same customers as well as non-R/3 customers to create collaborative
business communities with an industry-vertical orientation. By leveraging
its pervasive industry expertise and customer base, mySAP.com makes
collaborative e-marketplaces a reality.
ABOUT MAX MÜHLHÄUSER
Max Mühlhäuser is a Full Professor of Computer Science at
Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. He received his
Doctorate in Informatics from the University of Karlsruhe and founded
a research center for Digital Equipment. Since 1989, he has worked
as either a professor or visiting professor at universities in Germany,
Austria, France, Canada, and the United States. His research area
is software development support in the following areas: distributed
multimedia, multimodal user interfaces, mobile/ubiquitous computing,
telelearning, and telecooperation. Professor Mühlhäuser has published
over 100 articles and has co-authored and edited books in the areas
of distributed multimedia software engineering and computer-aided
authoring/learning. He is currently a Visiting Professor with SAP
Labs Inc., Palo Alto.
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***PUB TALK: THURSDAY, MAY 18, 2000
"GROWING YOUR BUSINESS WITH REALTIME eBUSINESS INTELLIGENCE"
by Charles Sciandra, Vice President of Marketing, Informative,
Inc.
ABOUT INFORMATIVE, INC.
Founded in 1996, Informative, Inc. is the leading application service
provider (ASP) of real-time interactive e-business intelligence
solutions.
Informative collects essential customer interaction data across
multiple channels and distributes actionable intelligence directly
to decision-makers.
Informative removes the costs, risks and complexities associated
with installing expensive software, performing time-consuming programming
and conducting burdensome administrative operations. Informative
is based in South San Francisco.
Informative, Inc.
651 Gateway Blvd., Suite 1050
S. San Francisco, CA 94080
http://www.informative.com
ABOUT CHARLES SCIANDRA
Charles Sciandra is Vice President of Marketing at Informative,
Inc. In this capacity, he is responsible for Informative's corporate
marketing, product marketing and branding initiatives. He is a seasoned
marketing professional with over twelve years of experience managing
teams and developing programs to achieve increased revenue and market
share. Sciandra comes to Informative from Oracle Corporation where
he served as Director of CRM Product Marketing. There he developed
global campaigns in the marketing of a Customer Relationship Management
(CRM) application suite. Prior to Oracle, Mr. Sciandra served as
an Industry Marketing Manager for Siemens Information & Communication
Networks, developing strategic marketing plans and introducing new
products. Previously, he served as Director of New Business Development
and Senior Business Analyst for Stratosphere Multimedia Corporation
and IBM Global Network respectively.
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***PUB TALK: THURSDAY, MAY 25, 2000
"FRANKFURT: BUILDING THE TELEKOM & INTERNET HUB OF
EUROPE"
By Hartmut Schwesinger, CEO, Frankfurt Economic Development GmbH
Hartmut Schwesinger will discuss technical and business opportunities
in the Frankfurt region for your company to take advantage of one
of Europe's most dynamic and future oriented clusters of the Telecom
and E-Businesses. With major international telecom-companies,
such as MCIWorldCom, Deutsche Telekom, Colt Telecom, Level3,
Metromedia Fiber Networks, Frankfurt offers plenty of opportunities
for new market entrants. Adding to this excellent infrastructure
is Continental Europe's largest internet knot, the so called "DE-CIX",
which amounts to 85% of all German internet traffic, Frankfurt therefore
truly is the "heart" of the German Internet.
ABOUT FRANKFURT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GMBH
The Frankfurt/Rhine Main region is strategically located in the
center of Europe. As most major European cities are accessible
within two hours by plane car or train, you can do business in almost
every European market in "one" business day. Through the
largest airport on the European continent with the most connections
to North-America (280 per week), the concept of international business
becomes more practical. San Francisco is just 10 hours away from
Frankfurt.
Frankfurt is the No. 1 location for financial services in Europe.
The European Central Bank and the Deutsche Bank are the largest
of 375 banks located in this region. This strong financial
presence gives you fast access to capital for your investments.
The Frankfurt Stock Exchange - one of the most important in Europe,
with its Neuer Markt, offers going public as the perfect continuation
of and conclusion to Venture Capital investments in young and growing
companies. The Neuer Markt is Europe's No.1 trading place
for technology stocks.
ABOUT HARMUT SCHWESINGER
Dr. Hartmut Schwesinger has been Chief Executive of Frankfurt Economic
Development GmbH since January 1, 1994. Dr. Schwesinger was
the first to introduce an Internet homepage for Frankfurt in 1994/95,
picking up early trends from the Silicon Valley he called this platform
"Frankfurt Digital Marketplace." (http://www.frankfurt-business.de).
Prior to this, he worked for Deutsche Shell AG of the Royal Dutch
Shell Group.
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***THINK TANK SESSION: THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 2000
"B2B MOBILE COMPUTING: A DREAM OR A REALITY FOR THE NEXT 12-18
MONTH MARKETS?
This Think Tank Session on June 1 will focus on business scenarios
in themobile workplace for the next 12-18 month markets. Twenty-five
by-invitation-only participants will have the opportunity to discuss
the challenges and obstacles of real world case studies in this
area, including case studies from the transportation and financial
markets,among other possibilities. Through facilitated discussions,
participants will exchange knowledge and gain insights into the
following questions through the use of case studies:
- Now that we live in a mobile workplace, what applications for
mobile devices will permeate the marketplace in the next 12-18 months?
- More importantly, what applications need to be developed in order
for the mobile marketplace to become mainstream?
- What logistical or information problems can now be resolved in
the New Economy's mobile marketplace through the development of
these applications?
- What new technology problems do we face in the mobile marketplace
and which ones can we still not resolve?
- How do we integrate and deliver information from traditional,
centralized communications systems to mobile devices?
- How can we better implement existing mobile applications?
What are the obstacles?
- What challenges can we expect for the deployment of mobile applications
and how can we prepare to meet and implement them?
For possible participation, contact the Center's Director of Programs,
Venilde Jeronimo, by email (venilde@worldinternetcenter.com).
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***JOIN US FOR OUR WEEKLY PUB
Come join us for our weekly pub, every Thursday from 5:00 - 7:00
p.m.
The Pub Talk begins around 6 p.m. As always, the Pub is a
great place to come and meet people from the Silicon Valley and
all over the world.
Representatives from small start-ups to major companies join in
theexchange at the Center Pub. It's...
"The best reason to take off work early on Thursdays."
For directions, please visit http://www.worldinternetcenter.com
and click on "directions" in the navigation bar.
The dress is casual and there is no fee. Just bring your good ideas!
Pub Talks are by invitation only, but companies with an interest
in giving a Pub Talk should contact Venilde Jeronimo, the Center's
Director of Programs, by email (venilde@worldinternetcenter.com).
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