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Tuesday, September 14, 2004
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
FROM OUR CORPORATE SPONSOR, SAP: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2004
"EXTREME DEMOCRACY" SPECIAL SALON AT SAP LABS
6:00 - 7:00 p.m. Networking & Refreshments
7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Presentations
Location Note: This special session will be held at SAP Labs, Building
D, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
Please RSVP directly to SAP through Mona Bhardwaj: mona.bhardwaj@sap.com.
Further information below.
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POWER PUB: WEDNESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 29, 2004
"THE FUTURE OF ANALYTICS"
Pub Master: Mr. Richard Probst, Senior Consultant, SAP
5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Open to the Public.
Fee: $15 (cash or check, payable at the door). No fee for Corporate
Sponsors.
Pre-registration is highly recommended. Registration information
below.
This Power Pub will be held in the Cyprus Room at the Crowne Plaza
Cabana Hotel, 4290 El Camino Real, Palo Alto.
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SUMMARY: POWER PUB: TUESDAY,
AUGUST 17, 2004
"AUTONOMIC DATA MANAGEMENT: ANYTIME, ANYWHERE,
ANYHOW….IS IT A REALISTIC EXPECTATION, EVEN TODAY?"
Pub Master: Mr. Collin Bruce, Vice President, Worldwide Marketing,
Solid Information Technology
Summary and links below.
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
FROM OUR CORPORATE SPONSOR, SAP:
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2004
"EXTREME DEMOCRACY" SPECIAL SALON AT SAP LABS
6:00 - 7:00 p.m. Networking & Refreshments
7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Presentations
Location Note: This special session will be held at SAP Labs, Building
D, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
Please RSVP directly to SAP through Mona Bhardwaj: mona.bhardwaj@sap.com.
Further information below.
On Thursday, September 16, SAP Labs is hosting a special session
of the Future Salon on the topic of "Extreme Democracy" featuring
some of the movements leading thinkers. "'Extreme Democracy' is
a political philosophy of the information era that puts people in
charge of the entire political process. It suggests a deliberative
process that places total confidence in the people, opening the
policy-making process to many centers of power through deeply networked
coalitions that can be organized around local, national and international
issues." (- Excerpt from the upcoming book, "Extreme Democracy".)
(http://www.extremedemocracy.com/)
SPECIAL PRESENTERS INCLUDE:
TOM ATLEE, author of "The Tao of
Democracy: Using a Co-Intelligence to Create a World That Works
for All" and founder of the non-profit Co-Intelligence Institute
in Eugene, Oregon. Tom has written and spoken for twenty years on
social issues, innovations in democracy, and cultural transformation.
His resource-packed websites -- co-intelligence.org
and democracyinnovations.org
-- are used by over 18,000 people every month. His articles on public
issues, dialogue, democracy and social philosophy have appeared
in National Civic Review, Communities magazine, Noetic Sciences
Review, and many other publications.
ROSS MAYFIELD, the CEO of Socialtext,
an emerging provider of Enterprise Social Software that dramatically
increases the productivity of employees and the value of knowledge
assets in the enterprise. Socialtext claims to be the first company
to adapt wikis and weblogs for corporate use. Ross is also the author
of chapter 8 of Extreme Democracy.
ZACK ROSEN, who kicked off the "DeanSpace"
volunteer open-source development project for the Dean campaign
last year during his summer break from the University of Illinois.
He then took a job at the Dean Campaign headquarters to work as
a web developer and technical volunteer coordinator. He was responsible
for servicing the web technology needs of the state campaign offices,
constituency groups, and grassroots web developers. After the campaign
ended, he received funding to create a foundation (CivicSpaceLabs.org)
to continue work on the "DeanSpace" project building "CivicSpace",
an open-source grassroots organizing web-application toolkit.
We hope you can join us for an evening of socializing, networking
and extreme democracy. If you plan to attend, please RSVP by emailing
Mona Bhardwaj at mona.bhardwaj@sap.com.
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POWER PUB: WEDNESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 29, 2004
"THE FUTURE OF ANALYTICS"
Pub Master: Mr. Richard Probst, Senior Consultant, SAP
5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Open to the Public.
Fee: $15 (cash or check, payable at the door). No fee for Corporate
Sponsors.
Pre-registration is highly recommended. Registration information
below.
This Power Pub will be held in the Cyprus Room at the Crowne Plaza
Cabana Hotel, 4290 El Camino Real, Palo Alto.
Business analytics have been providing tangible benefits to companies
for a number of years. But not all approaches to achieving true
business intelligence are created equal. In fact, despite the relative
maturity of the industry there continues to be significant debate
on a number of fundamental issues - everything from technology standards
to best practices for implementation to measuring return on investment.
What most can agree on, however, is that analytics, done well, enable
companies to unlock the insight hidden away in back-end systems.
Done really well, they can help companies prepare smarter business
strategies well ahead of the competition and in anticipation of
changing conditions.
But if analytics are so strategic and mission-critical, why has
the business intelligence (B.I.) market failed to meet bullish growth
projections over the years? Why has the market not kept pace with
the growth in transaction systems? Why is there no clear leader
today in the business analytics space? And what of the state of
the technology? Is there anything new on the horizon from a technology
standpoint, or has BI innovation hit a wall?
What role, if any, should large enterprise players like SAP play
as the analytics market evolves? Since launching its business information
warehouse (SAP BW) in 1998, the company has achieved more than 3,500
production installations. With the recent introduction of the SAP
NetWeaver platform, SAP has added significant heft to its analytical
foundation, which now includes a planning engine, dashboards, OLAP
and advanced reporting.
As SAP plots its BI future, it seeks a lively industry dialogue
during this Power Pub around several key questions:
- What are the differences - if there are differences - between
business intelligence, balanced score card and analytics?
- Is the real-time enterprise really achievable and what role
do analytics play?
- Who should be using analytics? (Are they just for the king,
or can the common man play too?)
ABOUT RICHARD PROBST
Before joining SAP in 2004, Mr. Probst spent 9 years driving product
strategy for three venture-backed startups. Calico Commerce pioneered
online product configurators, with Cisco and Dell as customers,
leading to a $2 billion IPO in 1999; Calico was later acquired by
PeopleSoft. Ejasent invented utility computing for transactional
web sites, for Charles Schwab and other surge-prone sites, and was
acquired by Veritas for $59 million. Nominum is developing a new
generation of name management infrastructure, led by the inventor
of DNS. Mr. Probst was founding VP of Marketing for Ejasent and
VP of Product Marketing for Nominum.
Prior to his startup experience, Mr. Probst was at Sun Microsystems
for 10 years. From 1985 to 1990, he managed development of Sun's
user interfaces, including SunView, XView, and Open Look. Over the
next 5 years, he helped bring CORBA into existence, as program manager
for Sun's Project DOE, as business development for Sun NEO products,
and as a member of the board of directors of the Object Management
Group. In 1991, Mr. Probst coined the acronym "CORBA".
Mr. Probst has an MS in Computer Science from the University of
California at Berkeley, where he was a PhD candidate until he left
to join Sun. His undergraduate degree in psychology is from Yale
University.
ABOUT SAP LABS
Headquartered in Silicon Valley and started in 1996, SAP Labs
North America (http://www.sap.com)
is the company's first development lab established outside of Germany
and is designed to take advantage of Silicon Valley's rich culture
of innovation and entrepreneurialism-to infuse "start-up" thinking
and business practices into a multi-billion dollar global enterprise.
The Lab, which pioneered SAP's efforts to globalize development,
employs more than 750 tech professionals at its main campus in Palo
Alto, Calif., and another 500 via a network of 11 offices located
across the United States. Labs' field offices are strategically
situated to better learn from and serve the needs of SAP's customers
by delivering industry-specific and customized solutions. The alignment
of development resources around industry and customer needs is indicative
of the unique approach Labs employs to drive innovation where it
can have the most impact. SAP Labs is responsible for several major
tec! hnology developments, including SAP NetWeaver, the company's
core technology platform that now serves as the foundation for SAP's
overall enterprise software and services strategy and SAP xApps,
a family of packaged, composite applications.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Pre-registration is highly recommended. There is a $15 fee (cash
or check only), which will be collected at the door. Please make
checks payable to Silicon Valley World Internet Center. To pre-register,
please send your name, title, company name, telephone number, and
email address to:
Ms. Claire Kahrobaie
Manager, Client Services
T: 650.565.8070
E: kahrobaie@worldinternetcenter.com
DIRECTIONS TO THE CROWNE PLAZA CABANA HOTEL
Address: 4290 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, California
General Hotel Number: 650.857.0787
>From Highway 101 - North or South
- Take Highway 101 to San Antonio Road/Los Altos exit.
- Proceed on San Antonio west, approximately 2 miles.
- Turn right on El Camino Real and proceed 1/2 mile.
- Turn left at Dinah's Court stoplight into the Crowne Plaza
Cabana hotel entrance.
- Parking is available in the front and back of the hotel. Ask
for the Cyprus Room.
>From Highway 280 - North or South
- Take Highway 280 to the Page Mill Road exit.
- Proceed on Page Mill east, approximately 3 miles.
- Turn right onto El Camino Real.
- Continue for 1 mile to Dinah's Court stoplight.
- Turn right into the Crowne Plaza Cabana hotel entrance.
- Parking is available in the front and back of the hotel. Ask
for the Cyprus Room.
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SUMMARY: POWER PUB:
TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2004
"AUTONOMIC DATA MANAGEMENT: ANYTIME, ANYWHERE,
ANYHOW….IS IT A REALISTIC EXPECTATION, EVEN TODAY?"
Pub Master: Mr. Collin Bruce, Vice President, Worldwide Marketing,
Solid Information Technology
To access Collin Bruce's Power Pub presentation on the Center's
Web site:
- Click Here.
- Scroll down to the "*August 17, 2004, Power Pub" and select.
- You will see a link to the presentation in PDF format.
The Power Pub on August 17 around autonomic data management drew
a diverse group of Valley executives, technology experts and telecom
folks from SAP, HP, IBM, Hitachi, British Telecom, DeTeCon, CommerceNet
and many others. As with all the Power Pubs, the discussion opened
up to the group after Collin Bruce's initial presentation on the
current reality of autonomic data management. Here is a summary
of the key questions asked by Power Pub participants:
- Who owns the data?
- Does there need to be a trade-off between the device and the
network? What really should be "smart" in this autonomic ecosystem?
- What are we going to do to assure data integrity in a self-configuring,
self-healing system?
- What should we, as consumers, be choosing: 100% data integrity
or high performance?
- When the system is handling data from machine to machine, how
does the network deal with that?
- How much customization is required for our own application
(e.g., CRM) to work with the Solid Tech data management solution?
We have become accustomed to picking up the telephone and always
having a dial tone, whether we are at home or on the road. Turning
on a radio and hearing a traffic report or having it pushed down
to the DVD player in our car. Switching on the TV and seeing our
favorite show or start our TiVo and watch at our leisure . . . without
all the advertising! Clicking on an icon and always getting access
to the Website we want.
The original Guiding Questions for the Pub Exchange were:
- Data management is at the heart of today's "soft switched"
infrastructures/environments. But how do we manage them for high
availability -- 99.999% and better -- and still cover every device
from the data center with its terra bytes of data to diskless
mobile devices (your cell phone or Blackberry)?
- As I develop my distributed application, how do I keep all
parts synchronized as I move from device to device or place to
place?
- How do I recoup development time if I have to manage the infrastructure
or the fundamental processes required for a complex multi-media
application?
ABOUT COLLIN BRUCE
Collin Bruce is the Vice President of Worldwide Marketing for Solid
Information Technology headquartered in Mountain View, California.
He recently joined Solid after a time back in sales for CIC where
he focused on selling to major financial institutions like Wells
Fargo, Charles Schwab, Prudential Insurance, HSBC and F500 institutions.
Prior to that, he held various executive positions at Chordiant
Software, Amdahl, SCO and Memorex.
ABOUT SOLID INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Solid Information Technology Corp (http://www.solidtech.com)
is the first provider of an Autonomic Data Management Platform that
supports the development of applications that are self-configuring,
self-healing, self-optimizing, and self-protecting.
Solid provides a data management foundation for embedded and distributed
applications that ensure that the data takes care of itself. This
dramatically reduces development time and cost, reduces time to
market, reduces total cost of system ownership, and provides a robust
and flexible foundation for the development of new products and
features.
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SUMMARY & HIGHLIGHTS
OF ARCHSTONE CONSULTING'S 2004 INNOVATOR'S FORUM: THURSDAY, JUNE
24, 2004
Summary and links below.
More than sixty executives and supply chain management experts
gathered at historic Villa Montalvo in Silicon Valley recently to
explore strategies to better utilize their supply chains to drive
value for their organizations.
The event, "Make Your Supply Chain an Engine for Driving Value,"
was hosted by management consulting firm, Archstone Consulting,
in partnership with the Silicon Valley World Internet Center.
Archstone Consulting suggests that companies that outperform their
peers in this economy will do so through innovative management of
their supply chains. The afternoon of dialogue at the 2004 Innovators
Forum, the first in an ongoing series of industry-focused events,
was designed to share insights on using the supply chain as a sales
and growth engine for competitive advantage.
Please access the complete summary of the June 24, 2004 Innovators
Forum session on the Center's site:
- Click Here.
- Scroll down to the "June 24, 2004 Special Session" and select.
- You will see a link to the summary in PDF format.
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The Silicon Valley World Internet Center thanks its Corporate Sponsors
and Knowledge Network Partners for their continuing support:
CORPORATE
SPONSORS
SAP http://www.sap.com/
Archstone Consulting http://www.archstoneconsulting.com/
KNOWLEDGE
NETWORK PARTNERS
Halleck http://www.halleck.com
IC Growth, Inc. http://www.icgrowth.com
Market Wire http://www.marketwire.com
Incucomm http://www.incucomm.com
Xterprise http://www.xterprise.com
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