In this interactive IBM Impact session, Daniel Selman and Joel Cheuoua from ILOG, an IBM Company, really put themselves on the spot and offer to build a running BRMS demo using a scenario picked from the audience, all within the hour they have.
Dan runs through the audience and finally picks an example of a product [...]

How to Get Your Customers to Say “WONDERFUL!” (and mean it)
“WONDERFUL. It is more logical and works the way I think when I’m planning a vacation.” Group RCI customer
 
Join us to learn how Group RCI, the global leader in vacation exchange and largest European vacation rental provider, modernized their mainframe applications – extracting 35 years of [...]

At IBM Impact last week, I had the opportunity to learn more about an IBM initiative that is interesting from a Web 2.0 development and cloud computing perspective: the Websphere sMash project. Rob Nicholson, a Senior Technical Staff Member ran over the key features of sMash.
What is IBM Websphere sMash?
According to their blurb, Websphere sMash [...]

Learn how to align and automate business decisions across systems and channels with JRules 7
Update: Over 150 registrations.  Live broadcast May 28.   Register today.
Multi-channel strategies can introduce new levels of technical complexity to the business of delivering value to customer segments. This one-hour webinar will illustrate how adding a business rule management system (BRMS) to your [...]

Ronan O’Donovan, Product Manager, Supply Chain Applications, ILOG, an IBM Company, starts this presentation at IBM Impact by detailing some common supply chain issues:

Due to seasonality of demand and/or production capabilities, should product inventory be pre-built and stored in anticipation? When should final assembly be completed?
Which suppliers work out best for each plant?
What should each [...]

Sandy Carter, as well as being  VP for SOA & WebSphere Marketing, Strategy, and Channels is also well known as a social media expert and advocate. She has recently published The New Language of Marketing 2.0 and at this year’s IBM Impact led a lively discussion on the topic of personal branding and networking online.
When [...]

Earlier this week at IBM Impact, I had a chance to catch up with Phaedra Boinodiris, SOA & Web 2.0 product marketing manager for the Innov8 virtual learning platform. She was here to demontrate the just-launched Innov8 2.0 platform that is now Web based–but more of that later.

What is Innov8?
Innov8 is a business process [...]

This presentation is co-hosted by:
Wee Seong Yeo of ILOG, an IBM Company
Sandeep Gupta of Equifax
Wee Seong starts things off by explaining how enterprise risk management (ERM) has become a major buzzword, and that it’s one of the areas where IT spending continues to rise Why? because fraud detection in banking could have prevented [...]

Daryl Plummer from Gartner delivered another formidable speech in a lively, fast-paced presentation on cloud computing at IBM Impact. Daryl does a great job of explaining these concepts to those (who like me) are new to this area.
He laid his position out clearly to get things going: He is a strong advocate of SOA and [...]

One-hour consultations on insurance automation with BRMS are available at ACORD, May 17-19 in Orlando (in person or by teleconference).