AT
THE CENTER
The electronic newsletter of the
Silicon Valley World Internet Center
Tuesday, February 12, 2002
The Silicon
Valley World Internet Center thanks its Sponsors for their continuing
support:
EXECUTIVE
SPONSORS
Amdocs, Inc. Cable & Wireless
Deutsche Telekom Fujitsu IBM Corporation
SAP Sun Microsystems
KNOWLEDGE
NETWORK PARTNERS
Halleck IC Growth, Inc.
Internet Wire
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are held at the Center unless otherwise noted.
The Silicon
Valley World Internet Center thanks its Sponsors for their continuing
support:
CABLE
& WIRELESS ANNOUNCEMENT: JANUARY 2002
Cable & Wireless eMessaging Solutions.
For more information:
(http://www.cw.com/th_03.asp?ID=ems_us).
CHALLENGE-THE-EXPERT:
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2002
"The Importance of Extranets for Your Business"
By Mr. Deane McIntyre, Director, Online Channel, Cable
& Wireless
Open to the Public. No fee. 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Pre-registration highly recommended due to limited seating.
WORKING
GROUP MEETING: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2002
"Data to Cash: Feedback Loop for Business Decisions"
First meeting of a Working Group on "Dynamic Information
Integration: The Role of the Feedback Loop"
Invitation-only. No fee. 4:00 - 6:30 p.m.
NO
PUB: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2002
Due to Valentine's Day, there will NOT be a Pub this
week.
Join us on Wednesday, February 13th instead for the Cable &
Wireless program.
Happy Valentine's Day! Pub will resume on Thursday, February 21,
2002.
CENTER
ANNOUNCEMENT: WINTER 2002
Showcase Your Company at the Center's Thursday Pub
Winter 2002 Company Showcase: Mobility and Information Management:
Metaware for 2002 & Beyond
Fee: $1,500. A special time-restricted offer to companies associated
with the Center's Community.
CABLE & WIRELESS ANNOUNCEMENT:
JANUARY 2002
Cable & Wireless eMessaging Solutions.
For more information: (http://www.cw.com/th_03.asp?ID=ems_us).
Cable & Wireless,
an Executive Sponsor of the Center, would like for your business
to run more efficiently with eMessaging Solutions provided by Cable
& Wireless.
Communicate
more effectively via eMail - keep in touch with customers, prospects,
shareholders or any other community with Cable & Wireless eMessaging
Solutions. Cable & Wireless has the capacity to handle your largest
eMail broadcasts by providing personalization tools to create messages
that build a one-to-one relationship with your audience as well
as having the accountability of the industry's most comprehensive
delivery reports, allowing maximum reach with minimum expense.
FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information, please visit the following:
http://www.cw.com/th_03.asp?ID=ems_us
CHALLENGE-THE-EXPERT:
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2002
"The Importance of Extranets for Your Business"
By Mr. Deane McIntyre, Director, Enterprise Online Channel,
e-Enablement Team, Cable & Wireless
Open to the Public. No fee. 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Pre-registration highly recommended due to limited seating.
Cable & Wireless
is using a combination of Extranets and Web services to deliver
the Internet promise to companies. This entails changing the way
we look at the way service is delivered and blended, as well as
the new ways of managing business' expectations online. During the
first hour, Mr. Deane McIntyre will explore some of these new business
models and show the importance of Extranets for making the most
from this new environment. An interactive discussion with the audience
challenging Mr. McIntyre on his views will take place during the
second hour.
ABOUT
DEANE MCINTYRE
Deane McIntyre is Director of Online Channel for enterprise
customers at Cable & Wireless. He has worked at Cable & Wireless,
targeting Global Fortune 500 companies. In his role, Mr. McIntyre
manages activity on the main enterprise and government public portals
as well as having responsibility for driving revenue through over
100 customer facing Extranets. Mr. McIntyre joined the Cable and
Wireless group following the takeover of Optus in Australia, having
started work with the country's second service provider in1995.
He was born in New Zealand and is currently based in London. His
previous roles and experience include running a software start-up
company and working as a telecoms analyst during deregulation in
New Zealand in the early 90s. Mr. McIntyre is completing a Master's
degree in Internet Technology at Greenwich University, England.
He holds a Bachelors degree in finance and marketing and is a member
of the New Zealand Chartered Accountants.
ABOUT
CABLE & WIRELESS
Cable & Wireless (http://www.cw.com)
is a major global telecommunications business with revenue of over
£8 billion (US$11 billion) in the year to 31 March 2001. It has
customers in 70 countries and consists of two core and complementary
divisions: Cable & Wireless Regional and Cable & Wireless Global.
Cable & Wireless Regional offers a full range of telecommunications
services in 27 countries around the world.
Cable & Wireless'
Global focus for future growth is on IP (Internet Protocol) and
data services and solutions for business customers. It is developing
advanced IP networks and value-added services in the US, Europe
and the Asia-Pacific region in support of this strategy. With the
capability of its global IP infrastructure and its financial strength,
Cable & Wireless holds a unique position in terms of global coverage
and services to business customers.
REGISTRATION
Due to limited seating, pre-registration is highly
recommended, but not required. To register for this program, send
your name, title, company name, telephone number and email to:
Ms. Glenda Garcia
Operations Assistant
mailto:garcia@worldinternetcenter.com
WORKING GROUP MEETING:
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2002
"Data to Cash: Feedback Loop for Business Decisions"
First meeting of a Working Group on "Dynamic Information
Integration: The Role of the Feedback Loop"
Invitation-only. No fee. 4:00 - 6:30 p.m.
As a result
of a series of programs last fall, the Center is hosting a Working
Group this winter and spring on "Dynamic Information Integration:
The Role of the Feedback Loop." A group of 12 invited participants
will analyze and discuss various aspects of dynamic information
integration over the next several months, including:
The
role and importance of explicit models
How to achieve a working feedback loop
Existing technologies and components
Relevant standards
FIRST
WORKING GROUP MEETING
The first Working Group meeting on February 14 will
focus on "Data to Cash: Feedback Loop for Business Decisions." So
far decision support systems do not have a well-defined feedback
loop about the success or failure and the impact of a business decision.
These and other questions will be discussed, over wine and light
hors d'oeuvres:
How
can we integrate this feedback loop of results and impact of business
decisions into the systems to optimize future decision process?
Is this just another data source we have to integrate or
do we have to go step by step back along the line knowledge to information
to data?
How can we describe the success of business decisions?
In which way can we handle the dynamic nature of the result
of a business decision (a decision can be successful in the short
term but may have a negative long-term impact)?
FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information on this program, please contact:
Dr. Venilde
Jeronimo
Senior Director of Client Services
Em: mailto:venilde@worldinternetcenter.com
CENTER ANNOUNCEMENT:
WINTER 2002
Showcase Your Company at the
Center's Thursday Pub
Winter 2002 Company Showcase: Mobility and Information
Management: Metaware for 2002 & Beyond
Fee: $1,500. A special time-restricted offer to companies associated
with the Center's Community.
The Silicon
Valley World Internet Center is offering metaware-related companies
(those with applications, tools, and frameworks that attack the
complexity of enterprise information management) the opportunity
to showcase themselves during Winter 2002 at the Center's Thursday
Pub -- a serious, weekly networking event for mid- to high-level
executives, technologists, and investors in the bay area. The fee
of $1,500 includes promotional activities on behalf of the company
and other benefits. This is a special, time-restricted offer, reduced
from the normal Pub Talk fee of $2,500. There is LIMITED availability
for a few companies to present their metaware.
Companies with
an interest should submit an executive summary with contact information
to:
Dr. Venilde
Jeronimo
Senior Director of Client Services
Em: mailto:venilde@worldinternetcenter.com
SHOWCASE
FOCUS
Chief Information Officers have a tough time these
days managing an enterprise's information infrastructure as information
needs grow increasingly complex.
For one thing,
the velocity of information has increased with new software packages
and business processes being implemented to offer realtime data
availability. The challenge of maintaining such realtime information
-- that is complete, current, and consistent across different IT
systems -- is significant. It requires a major overhaul of an enterprise's
information infrastructure. At the same time, the "walls" of enterprises
are falling; that is, software-enabled intra-enterprise collaboration
cuts across functional silos. Business partners, vendors, and customers
are allowed selective access to and control over the enterprise's
resources, linked by collaborative commerce, supply-chain optimization,
and other applications. Furthermore, handheld and mobile devices
are proliferating with most of us depending on cell phones, personal
digital assistants, or other "smart" gadgets to keep us plugged
in. Taken together, these developments add up to some major headaches
for the IT department.
To manage
this complexity, what infrastructure, applications, tools, and frameworks
-- "metaware" -- exist that will restore order and remove some of
the complexity?
What
metaware needs to be developed?
"Simplicity"
and "integration" are hot concepts for 2002. How are these concepts
being incorporated with metaware?
Are
Web Services and Extensible Markup Language (XML) enabling the distribution
of intelligence across the network?
Recent market
developments are targeting such questions. Companies like Ipedo
with its XML database and XML cache are achieving performance improvement
over relational database approaches in achieving dynamic, personalized
content across the network. KnowNow and Kenamea are creating "application
routers" for a world in which Web services are the default mechanism
for business-to-business (B2B) collaboration. Centerpost, a metaware
company addressing the application layer by hiding the complexity
involved in managing heterogeneous devices or transport layers,
lets customers manage customer relationships easily across platforms
by defining the interaction and the expected actions and letting
Centerpost worry about the rest of it. Not surprising, Microsoft
is trying to become a standard fixture of the XML Web services infrastructure
through its .Net and HailStorm initiatives while Sun Microsystems
is focusingon Sun ONE (Open Net Environment).
SHOWCASE
BENEFITS & DELIVERABLES
The market is wide open. How is your company addressing
the above-related questions? By introducing your metaware-related
application, tool, or framework that attacks the complexity of enterprise
information management, to the Center's community, your company
will benefit from the following:
Promote
Pub Talk in the Center's eNewsletter for three weeks. Listing includes,
title, summary, name and bio of presenter, and information on the
company (including a link to the company's URL), and any company
contact information. Newsletter goes out to 5,500+ individuals.
Promote
of Pub Talk on Center's Website. Pub Talk will be posted for three
weeks on the home page and from then on archived in the Programs
section on the Center's Web site, accessible to anyone viewing Center
past programs.
Promote
company collaterals and materials, including powerpoint presentation
delivered at the Pub Talk in PDF format, on Center's Website alongside
the Pub Talk announcement.
Promote
Pub Talk two weeks prior to the Pub date at the Center's weekly
Pub.
Company
presentation at the Center, delivered to 80-100 key executives,
technologists, and investors from Silicon Valley (and from elsewhere).
Q&A with
and feedback from those in attendance.
Marketing
collaterals distributed during the evening.
Attendance
by company representatives, networking the crowd during the two
hours to generate leads for business opportunities.
Invitations
from the Center to companies from the Pub company's database to
attend, if appropriate.
Wine
and non-alcoholic beverages as well as finger foods served during
the evening.
Set-up
and cleaning fees.
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 at 6 p.m. The Pub gathers 80-100 mid- to
high-level executives every week and, as always, is a great place
to come and meet people from the Silicon Valley and all over the
world. Representatives from small start-ups and major companies
to venture capital and academic join in the exchange at the Center's
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.
The dress is
casual and there is no fee to attend. Just bring your good ideas!
Companies with
an interest in giving a Pub Talk should contact
Venilde Jeronimo, Senior Director of Client Services (mailto:venilde@worldinternetcenter.com).
For inquiries
about upcoming Center programs, send an email to mailto:venilde@worldinternetcenter.com
To unsubscribe
from this eNewsletter, contact Ms. Glenda Garcia at mailto:garcia@worldinternetcenter.com
EXECUTIVE SPONSORS
Amdocs, Inc. http://www.amdocs.com
Cable & Wireless http://www.cw.com
Deutsche Telekom http://www.dtag.de/english/index.htm
Fujitsu http://www.fujitsu.com
IBM Corporation http://www.ibm.com
SAP http://www.mysap.com
Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com
KNOWLEDGE
NETWORK PARTNERS
Halleck http://www.halleck.com
IC Growth, Inc. http://www.icgrowth.com
Internet Wire http://www.internetwire.com
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