Sessions at PACLUG on Wednesday 22nd June

This session will be a demo-focused session on how to leverage the LotusLive Cloud offering to reinvent your relationships in the cloud. The power of the LotusLive offering is that it allows you to overcome a lot of obstacles that exist in current collaboration environments. We'll show how to use this technology to better drive business results, and have dramatically deeper relationships with your customers and your business partners.

Do you want to be in business in 3 – 5 years?. Yes or No? If you answer yes, then you need to make sure this session in on your agenda! In this session we will look at what is transforming businesses to social businesses. How to develop a workforce that rapidly responds to customer demands, delivers skills to the right opportunity, and develops the next generation of creative leaders. You will see the IBM Social Business Tools in action as I take you through a look at how I use them every day and how you can make the most of them in becoming a Social Business!

Join us to learn about how to chart a course for making the right business driven decision to implement Exceptional Web Experience, Portal, and WCM solutions in the cloud. This session will showcase best practices from multiple customers with cloud based Portal/Portal NOW and WCM solutions to show you how to chart your own course in evaluating and executing Exceptional Web Experience solutions in the cloud. Come and learn the ins and outs of what you need to find the right solution scope, business case elements, and critical success factors - tapping into successful engagements from IBM and Ixion.

Context is key. The best web experiences feel custom fitted to a user's preferences, device, location, social networks, and behaviors. Recently announced, IBM Project Northstar is IBM's vision and multi-year roadmap for how organizations can create next-generation online experiences that meet the evolving needs of today's customer. During this session, we'll share the the vision and capabilities that will enable organizations to create “next generation”, differentiated web experiences that attract and retain the best customers, improve brand loyalty, and lower operational costs.

IBM Lotus Web Content Management (WCM) is a powerful browser based application designed to accelerate the creation, maintenance and delivery of business content to intranet, extranet, internet and portal sites. In this session you will learn the key capabilities of WCM, the basic WCM development concepts and how content can be developed and published without the intervention of IT. The session will include a demonstration of content authoring and editing using WCM 7 and will be presented by a WCM and WebSphere Portal expert.

Leading organizations are investing in social collaboration tools to empower their employees to be more productive, and cultivate deeper relationships with customers and partners. Dynamic professional networks and vibrant business communities foster creativity, and make available the expertise needed to bring break-thru products and solutions to market faster. Richer web experiences that enable customers to interact with other customers and your organization drive brand loyalty and increase sales. Come to this session to learn from our customers how they are realizing the value of social collaboration, and hear the exciting plans that IBM has for 2011.

Come and hear the actual steps it takes to move toward your first Mobile Solution using Mobile Portal Accelerator. Hear not only the technical implementation, but the practical business details to think through when bringing your business to mobile devices. We'll share the details of this successful implementation from business requirements definition, user design considerations, through solution rollout. We'll also demonstrate the user experience and mobile services used by the transportation drivers and staff as well as discuss integration with social into existing and new mobile solutions.

Building an interactive portal experience can be as easy as a simple point and click. Making each portal experience tailored to the roles and preferences of each user and allowing them to achieve all of their everyday business goals is even easier. By leveraging IBM Forms with Workflow to populate IBM WebSphere Portal with dynamic and customized electronic form and process automation applications, developers can provide their business with a customized, easy to use and modify portal environment. In this session, audiences will learn how to build robust applications that integrate customization through corporate directories, databases, web services and other BPM systems with absolutely no coding. The audience will see how the highly graphical, integrated eform and workflow design environment allows you to build applications and automatically creates source-code to ease complex integration and development. Finally, they will learn how to publish these applications to customized portlets in WebSphere Portal allowing businesses to work within these applications along side their critical business information and contacts.