AT THE CENTER
The electronic newsletter of the
Silicon Valley World Internet Center
Wednesday, June 18, 2003
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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AUTO I.D. SALON: MONDAY,
JUNE 30, 2003
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. -5:30 p.m. registration and reception.
5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Salon
Salon Master: Mr. Dean Frew, President, Xterprise Corporation
$15 Fee to attend (cash or check at the door). Open to Public
Register at manager@worldinternetcenter.com
with name, title, company/affiliation.
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
SAP BECOMES FOUNDING MEMBER OF SMART ITEMS BUSINESS FORUM
Further information below.
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NEXT PUB: AUGUST 7, 2003
Note: Due to the holiday, there will be no Pub in July.
See you on August 7th!
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SUMMARY:
TECHNOLOGY BRIEFING: TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 2003
"Business and Technical Objectives for Low Cost Smart Items"
By Dr. Richard Swan, Technical Director for Auto-ID, SAP Corporate
Research
Summary and Presentation link below
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SUMMARY:
EXECUTIVE BRIEFING: TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2003
"Challenges and Rewards of Driving Innovation: Taking the Thought
Leadership Approach"
By Prof. Dr. Lutz Heuser, Vice President and Chief Development Architect,
SAP Corporate Research, SAP AG
Summary and Presentation link below.
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SUMMARY: CHALLENGE-THE-EXPERT:
THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2003
"IBM's Vision for the Next Generation Data
Center Enabled by Commercial Grids"
By Mr. Mark Cathcart, IBM Distinguished Engineer; Member, IBM Academy
of Technology; IBM On Demand Systems Environment Architecture and
Design, IBM Corporation
Summary Below.
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AUTO I.D. SALON: MONDAY,
JUNE 30, 2003
"Adoption and Applicability of RFID in Supply Chain Management"
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. registration and reception.
5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Salon
Salon Master: Mr. Dean Frew, President, Xterprise Corporation
$15 Fee to attend (cash or check at the door). Open to Public
Register at manager@worldinternetcenter.com
with name, title, company/affiliation.
The Auto ID Salon offers the community of innovators in the Valley
an informal opportunity to spin ideas around topics specific to
the Auto ID market. The second in a series of evening "salons,"
this session will focus on the adoption and applicability of RFID
technology in supply chain management. The Salon will open with
a reception from 5:00 p.m - 5:30 p.m. At 5:30 p.m. the Salon Master,
Mr. Dean Frew, will call the attendees to order for a discussion.
Experts in this space are most welcomed, as are end-users and other
innovators interested in the potential of this hot market. There
is no "formal" presentation expected. The Salon benefits from your
insights and input.
There are a number of questions that are swirling regarding RFID
adoption and applicability in the various supply chain markets.
In this Salon we will focus on the following 3 questions:
- Does next generation RFID products have enough performance
improvement to address the "real" supply chain problems?
- How can RFID solutions impact inventory management across product
life cycle?
- What are the top 3 issues that suppliers are dealing with regarding
RFID compliance?
ABOUT THE SALON MASTER: DEAN FREW
Dean Frew, President, Xterprise Corporation, (http://www.xterprise.com)
has developed and delivered innovative supply chain solutions for
clients across multiple market segments, helping his clients develop
real-time enterprises and saving money. For the last 8 years, he
has led supply chain execution solution deployment teams delivering
to Ford, Anheuser-Busch, Dell, U.S. Department of Defense, Service
Master, Ikon, Imagistics, Exel Logistics, Lionize Logistics, among
others. Mr. Frew's subject matter and solutions expertise provide
the pragmatic view his clients are looking for in a solution integrator.
Previous to starting Xterprise (an Incucomm portfolio company),
he was the Vice President of Customer Solutions and Operations for
the mobile enterprise firm GlobeRanger and was responsible for all
customer engagements and OEM relationships with supply chain system
providers such as i2, Symbol, and EXE. Prior to that, Mr. Frew had
over 16 years in various executive positions at Texas Instruments
where he developed core technology and managed systems business
units, including initiating the acquisition of RFID pioneer Savi
by TI in 1995. To contact Mr. Frew, please send an email to dfrew@xterprise.com.
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
SAP: FOUNDING MEMBER OF SMART ITEMS BUSINESS FORUM
SAP Corporate Research (http://www.sap.com/research)
announced they will join the Smart Items Business Forum (SIBF) at
the Silicon Valley World Internet Center and will serve as the founding
chair of the rotating Board of Advisors. The Smart Items Business
Forum (SIBF) will convene corporate and government representatives
to identify and fully leverage Smart Items business scenarios with
the highest possible return on investment (ROI) for enterprise-scale
customers.
"It's not enough to know how Smart Items technology will work,"
says Prof. Dr. Lutz Heuser, vice president of SAP Corporate Research
and chief development architect. "We also need to understand the
business impact that this technology will generate. There are many
industry segments that will be affected by Smart Items technology.
The Silicon Valley World Internet Center is starting a Smart Items
Business Forum where we will discuss the business objectives of
such a Smart Items infrastructure in much more detail than the technical.
SAP Corporate Research has agreed to be the founding member and
chair of this Forum. We hope that others will join this Forum to
contribute to a lively discussion about how business will be impacted
and change because of Smart Items."
"We are very pleased that SAP Corporate Research had the vision
to be the founding member and chair of the Smart Items Business
Forum," said Susan Duggan, CEO of the Silicon Valley World Internet
Center. "The time is now to work across industries to glean the
business return that Smart Items technology and infrastructure will
bring to the enterprise. The Smart Items Business Forum will provide
that neutral ground for shaping the future of high business return
in this space."
The Forum will advance the understanding of the specific value
dynamics of Smart Items in order to optimize ROI, identify and promote
vertical market opportunities, identify and promote related innovative
technologies and foster strategic partnerships, especially between
software and hardware companies.
SAP Corporate Research will be the founding chair of the Forum,
which is open for membership to all companies and government officials
who will act as a rotating board of advisors and members. The founding
Board of Advisors will consist of five key companies in the Smart
Items space. Positions on the Board are available. Four sessions
are currently planned by the SIBF for the Summer of 2003. As the
membership in the Forum grows, members and advisors will inform
the creation of further sessions.
For information on institutional membership, please contact the
Center's CEO, Dr. Susan Duggan at duggan@worldinternetcenter.com
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TECHNOLOGY BRIEFING:
TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 2003
"Business and Technical Objectives for Low Cost Smart Items"
By Richard Swan, Ph.D. Technical Director for Auto-ID SAP Corporate
Research Center, SAP Labs, Inc., Palo Alto
To view Dr. Swan's presentation, click Here
and Scroll down and click onto "June 3, 2003" to view the program
information, " Business and Technical Objectives for Low Cost Smart
Items"
Auto-ID tags are an example of Smart Items aimed at low cost and
widespread use in the economy. This presentation will tackle a range
of business and technical questions:
- What are the business objectives for the trillion dollars in
market muscle pushing the deployment of a common set of hardware
and software RFID standards throughout the supply chain?
- What has been the role of the MIT Auto-ID center?
- What are the potential capabilities of a widely deployed Auto-ID
infrastructure?
- What business processes can be addressed by Auto-ID?
- What technical capabilities must be in place to make it work?
- Can it really scale?
- What full closed-loop trials are in place?
- What are the issues in connecting Auto-ID to enterprise applications?
About the Speaker
Dr. Richard Swan founded SAP's Corporate Research Center in Palo
Alto. One of the main research projects has been the development
of an extensible infrastructure to support the wide spread deployment
of "Smart Items". This technology has been deployed in two substantial
pilots by SAP, one with Procter&Gamble in the U.S. and the other
with Metro AG in Europe. Richard is guiding the setting of SAP's
product roadmap for Auto-ID and the establishment of international
public standards with the Auto-ID Center Software ActionGroup.
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SUMMARY: EXECUTIVE
BRIEFING: TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2003
"Challenges and Rewards of Driving Innovation: Taking the Thought
Leadership Approach"
By Prof. Dr. Lutz Heuser, Vice President and Chief Development Architect,
SAP Corporate Research, SAP AG.
To view Dr. Heuser's presentation, visit the Center's Website.
Scroll down and click onto "May 13, 2003" to view the program information,
""Challenges and Rewards of Driving Innovation: Taking the Thought
Leadership Approach."
In a shifting economy when many enterprises lean towards tried-and-true
solutions, business progress is attained through pushing innovation
forward, even in a time of uncertainty. Dr. Lutz Heuser's Executive
Briefing addressed how to optimize and extend business processes
utilizing innovative technologies.
Dr. Heuser, Vice President and Chief Development Architect of SAP
Corporate Research, will conducted an Executive Briefing illustrating
how processes for IT innovation can be supported by business-driven
technology research. His briefing illuminated key areas of research-driven
innovation being conducted at SAP worldwide, looking at optimizing
existing business processes through, for example, Adaptive Supply
Chain Networks and Smart Vending, as well as identifying new business
processes arenas which enterprise-level applications can support,
such as Homeland Security.
As a producer of IT solutions, to become a trusted innovator you
have to identify the right technology along with the most excited
early adopters to experiment and place a first product in the market
with certainty - all in a timely fashion. Rising to this challenge
reaps great rewards: gaining momentum and market share. Dr. Heuser
addressed SAP Corporate Research's approaches to these challenges,
outlining specific areas of innovation.
As Smart Items business-enabling technologies like RFID and ad
hoc sensor networks are gaining momentum, SAP will sponsor a series
of briefings and working groups specifically designed to identify
and leverage new enterprise business opportunities across industry
sectors.
Dr. Heuser will specifically addressed SAP's Smart Vending initiative.
The ability to connect machine data sources, better known as Smart
Items, to SAP systems is becoming an important topic for SAP customers
as the number of devices with the ability to collect and distribute
data grows. SAP is embracing the evolution of Smart Items and their
information. By allowing SAP customers to incorporate data from
diverse sources, customers can optimize existing business processes
that improve the bottom line. The SAP Smart Vending initiative is
one such example. By collecting and exchanging data with vending
machines in the field, customers will be able to reduce logistics
costs while promoting sales. Together with its partners, SAP Corporate
Research is setting up a vending demo center that allows interested
parties to evaluate the ROI opportunities at a minimal risk.
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SUMMARY: CHALLENGE-THE-EXPERT:
THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2003
"IBM's Vision for the Next Generation Data Center Enabled by Commercial
Grids"
By Mr. Mark Cathcart, IBM Distinguished Engineer; Member, IBM Academy
of Technology; IBM On Demand Systems Environment Architecture and
Design, IBM Corporation
Grid technology has made a big impact through its application
in a small number of computing applications. The search for life
in the universe, mapping the universe, looking for a Smallpox cure,
seismic analysis, and calculating 401k values are all important
- but are niche computing applications. The next generation of Grid
technology is based on a standard open source architecture and will
have standard definitions of the services available on the Grid,
which can be accessed via Web Services. All well and good, but why
all this effort for a small set of applications?
At this session, participants learned why discovery and common
resource models, together with enterprise clustering and data center
virtualization, are likely to change computing as we know, understand,
and use it today. Think utility computing is just ASPs warmed over?
Think again! The commodity business transaction is on its way. Pay
for your computing as you need it, how you need it and most importantly,
when you need it.
At this Challenge-the-Expert, Mr. Cathcart discussed what "underware"
is and why the Open Grid Services Architecture will become a meta-OS,
delivering services far beyond the current Grid realm. Mr. Cathcart's
presentation will be available on the Center's website in the near
future.
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For further information on the Center's Sponsors and Knowledge
Network Partners, visit their Websites:
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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