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CENTER WELCOMES CLAIRE
KAHROBAIE, NEW MANAGER, CLIENT SERVICES PUB: THURSDAY, MARCH
7, 2002
THINK TANK SESSION: WEDNESDAY,
MARCH 13, 2002 PUB TALK: THURSDAY, MARCH
14, 2002 CENTER ANNOUNCEMENT:
WINTER 2002 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 http://www.cw.com/th_03.asp?ID=ems_us
The Center is very pleased to announce Claire Kahrobaie as the Center's new Manager of Client Services. In this role, she will be responsible for managing the Center's invitation-only and open-to-the-public programs and events. Please join us in welcoming Claire on board! ABOUT CLAIRE KAHROBAIE Please join us on Thursday at the Pub for networking with other professionals from the bay area and other areas. The speaker and topic for the evening are currently being considered. See you Thursday! PROGRAM The management of HCOs is plagued with challenges that keep increasing. Integration and inter-operability, information duplication, and medical errors account for a large part of business inefficiencies found today in HCOs. Limited revenue, increasing costs, continued provider and consumer dissatisfaction with health care financing and delivery, and an uncertain financial environment have led boards of directors and shareholders of HCOs to be more demanding that IT investments deliver adequate business value. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations of 2001 place additional pressures on HCOs to embrace the Internet economy. Security and privacy dimensions have been recently elevated due to the September 2001 terrorist attacks. Enabling technologies -- such as the Internet, XML, workflow, business process automation, mobile technologies and other technologies -- can be applied to many areas in health care to reduce business inefficiencies, comply with HIPAA regulations, address security concerns, and directly increase productivity and return-on-investment (ROI). The business risks to HCOs of not adopting these technologies, proven in other industries, into a long-term eBusiness strategy, is considered to exceed the technology risk in attempting to deploy them. BENEFITS OF PARTICIPATION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION & POSSIBLE PARTICIPATION Dr. Venilde Jeronimo
As eBusiness and its related requirements grow at "Web speed," a critical issue is whether the IT infrastructure supporting the Web sites has what it needs to provide available, scalable, fast, and efficient access to the company's information, products, and services. More than ever, CIOs and their teams struggle with the challenges to minimize downtime and bottlenecks and maximize the use of the hardware and software that comprises their eBusiness infrastructure. Configuration planning for large Web servers in this environment is becoming an increasingly difficult task. The hardware and software structure of large Web sites is becoming complex and the behavior characteristics of the workloads are at best poorly understood, or, at worst essentially unknown because the workload has yet to be implemented. The infrastructure supporting most high-volume Web sites (HVWSs) typically has multiple components, which include clients, the network, and multiple layers of machines within the Web server. These multiple machine layers are frequently called tiers with each tier handling a particular set of functions, such as serving content, providing integration business environments, or processing data base transactions. While actual customer implementations can vary widely, the simulator uses the following generalized view of the infrastructure options. IBM Patterns for eBusiness & Workloads: These are built in workloads for the major business patterns: shopping, trading, and banking. The user can use these pre-built workloads or modify them based on customer's requirements. Users can also define a very specific workload if pre-built workloads do not fit customer environments. We have also developed special algorithms to handle bursty web traffic, which can occur during holiday season or stock market storm. User can define the degree of burstiness in the terms of burst/peak ratio. The user can set a specific performance objective for items such as (1) user visit rate, (2) resource utilization, (3) response time, (4) # of concurrent users, and (5) page view rate. The model will estimate the performance and recommend configurations. ABOUT NOSHIR C. WADIA ABOUT THE IBM ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY &
JULY CONFERENCE
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 SHOWCASE FOCUS 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 • 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.
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...
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, the Senior Director, Client Services (mailto:venilde@worldinternetcenter.com). For inquiries about upcoming Center programs, send an email to mailto:venilde@worldinternetcenter.com EXECUTIVE
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