IBM Events for May 2009


5/1/09 | 8:30 - 4:30 | Discovering the value of Business Process Management for Dynamic Change | IBM Technical Exploration Center, 650 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55402 | Contact me to register. | Click here to learn more about this event. | IBM is the industry leader in Business Process Management enabled by SOA. Through a combination of business expertise, software, services, industry templates & workplace forms we help you understand, define, execute, & optimize the core business processes that generate value for your company.

5/3/09 | All Day | Impact 2009 - The IBM Smart SOA Conference | The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino - Las Vegas, NV | Click here to learn more about this event and to register.

5/5/09 | 10 - 11 | Requirements in an Agile Process - It Is Critical to Get It Right; How We Do It | Webinar | Click here to register.

5/5/09 | 9 - 4:30 | Discovering the value of IBM Information Server - Proof of Technology | IBM Technical Exploration Center, 650 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55402 | Contact me to register. Click here to learn more about this event. Information Server provides a comprehensive, unified foundation for enterprise information architectures with simplified scalability at lower cost to manage current and future data requirements. Accelerates time-to-value with proven, industry-aligned solutions and expertise combined with consistent, reusable information services. Click here to watch a short video demo about IBM Information Server.

5/5/09 | 8:30 - 5 | IBM DB2 DBA Integrated tools - Technical Workshop | IBM Technical Exploration Center, 650 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55402 | Contact me to register. Click here to learn more about this event. IBM offers an excellent set of integrated tooling in the eclipse-based Data Studio family that is designed especially for the database administrator. This Proof of Technology will highlight the key functionality of each of these tools: InfoSphere Data Architect, Data Studio Administrator, DB2 Workload Manager, and Performance Expert. This session consists of both presentations and hands-on lab exercises.

5/12/09 | 8:30 - 4 | Collaborative software development using IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) | IBM Technical Exploration Center, 650 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55402 | Contact me to register. | Click here to learn more about this event. | IBM Rational Team Concert is a collaborative software delivery environment that empowers project teams to simplify, automate and govern software delivery. Dynamic project provisioning enables day one productivity, while real-time collaboration helps significantly reduce scrap and rework.

5/12/09 | 9:30 - 4 | Twin Cities Tivoli User Group (TCTUG) Meeting | Blue Cross Blue Shield MN 3535 Blue Cross Road Eagan, MN 55122 | Click here to learn more about this event and to register.

5/12 - 13/09 | All Day | Secure360 Conference | Saint Paul RiverCentre - 175 West Kellogg Boulevard - Saint Paul, MN 55102 | Click here to learn more about this event and to register. | The Upper Midwest Security Alliance(UMSA) serves business, government, and education professionals in the center of the American landscape. Brought together in 2004 to explore professional security integration opportunities, the UMSA member organizations created Secure360.

5/12 - 15/09 | All Day | IBM Cognos Forum | Rosen Shingle Creek Hotel and Convention Center - 9939 Universal Blvd - Orlando, FL 32819 | Click here to learn more about this event and to register.

5/13/09 | 8 - 9 | Visualize IBM WebSphere Commerce Applications; Without Coding. Conducted by Ascendant, an IBM BP. | Webinar | Click here to learn more about this event and to register.

5/13/09 | 10 - 11 | Eliciting Requirements in an Agile World, Using IBM Rational Requirements Composer | Webinar | Click here to register.

5/13/09 | 8:30 - 4 | Discovering the value of IBM Rational Quality Manager | IBM Technical Exploration Center, 650 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55402 | Contact me to register. | Click here to learn more about this event. | Rational Quality Manager provides quality assurance teams with a means to track all aspects of the quality assurance effort. Enables collaboration distributed teams through a Web 2.0 interface. Life cycle test plan which defines the roles, processes and deliverable ownership, automates the flow of work and assets. Click here to view a demo of Rational Quality Manager.

5/14/09 | 10:30 - 12 | TSM FastBack Live Demo & Presentation | Webinar | No registration needed. | Click here for instructions to access webinar. TSM FastBack is a next-generation data recovery and data protection software solution that gives clients the power to quickly restore any amount of Windows data, anywhere in the organization, from any previous point-in-time, following any type of data loss. Click here for a brief and here for an extensive video overview of TSM FastBack.

5/19/09 | 11 - 2 (lunch included) | Learn How to Mix and Mash Content in Dynamic Business Applications with IBM Mashup Center | IBM Technical Exploration Center, 650 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55402 | Click here to learn more about this event and to register. IBM Mashup Center is designed to provide an easy to use business mashup solution, supporting the line of business assembly of dynamic situational applications – with the security and governance capabilities IT requires. With this lightweight mashup environment, organizations can unlock and transform enterprise, Web, personal and departmental information into consumable or “mashable” assets, including information feeds and widgets. These assets can then be dynamically assembled, at-the-glass, into new applications that address daily business challenges.

5/19/09 | 2 - 3 | What's new in IBM's Information Server. Conducted by Alpine Consulting, an IBM BP | Webinar | Click here to register. | Information Server provides a comprehensive, unified foundation for enterprise information architectures with simplified scalability at lower cost to manage current and future data requirements. Accelerates time-to-value with proven, industry-aligned solutions and expertise combined with consistent, reusable information services. Click here to watch a short video demo about IBM Information Server.

5/19/09 | 12 - 7 pm & 5/20/09 | 7:45 - 3 | IBM ECM (Enterprise Content Management) Spring 2009 Regional Usernet Series | Minneapolis Marriott Southwest - 5801 Opus Parkway - Minnetonka, MN 55343 | Click here to learn more about this event and to register.

5/21/09 | 1 - 4 | 3 - 1 Hour Web Demonstrations on the following Tivoli products: SVC , TPC & TSM. Conducted by Sirius Computer Solutions, an IBM BP. | Webinar | Click here to learn more about this event and to register.
• IBM Storage
SAN Volume Controller (SVC) is designed to combine storage capacity from multiple disk systems into a single reservoir of capacity that can be better managed as a business resource and not as separate boxes and to help increase storage utilization by providing host applications with more flexible access to capacity.
• IBM
TotalStorage Productivity Center (TPC) provides basic storage resource management, extends existing management of a single storage system, provides capabilities such as storage reporting, monitoring, policy-based management, and storage provisioning.
• IBM
Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) delivers a broad range of storage management capabilities, including backup, archive, recovery, space management, database and application protection, enterprise resource planning (ERP), bare machine recovery, and disaster recovery planning.

5/27/09 | 11 - 12 | Lotus Protector for Mail Security | Webinar conducted by Mercury Consulting, an IBM Business Partner | Click here to learn more about this event and to register. Highly effective Lotus Domino spam control technologies with complete preemptive protection that combine multiple analysis and detection methodologies for optimum accuracy and analyze email content in many different languages, including double byte characters.

5/27 - 29/09 | 8:30 - 4 | pureXML Boot Camp - Technical Workshop | IBM Technical Exploration Center, 650 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55402 | Contact me to register. | DB2 pureXML revolutionizes the management of XML data. It eliminates much of the work typically involved in the management of XML data, and it serves data at unmatched speeds. If you work with XML data, then you need to know about DB2 pureXML. Click here to see a video demo about pureXML.

5/27/09 | 3 - 4:30 & 5/28/09 | 10:30 - 12 | TSM FastBack Live Demo & Presentation | Webinar | No registration needed. Click here for instructions to access webinar. | TSM FastBack is a next-generation data recovery and data protection software solution that gives clients the power to quickly restore any amount of Windows data, anywhere in the organization, from any previous point-in-time, following any type of data loss. Click here for a brief and here for an extensive video overview of TSM FastBack.

5/31 - 6/4/09 | All Day | Rational Software Development Conference 2009 | Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Hotel - Orlando, FL | Click here to learn more about this event and to register.

Twin Cities SVC/TPC User Group | No meeting scheduled at the moment. Please click on the hot spot above to learn more about this user group.

Central Region Security Tivoli User Group | No meeting scheduled at the moment. Please click on the hot spot above to learn more about this user group.

Minnesota WebSphere User Group | No meeting scheduled at the moment. Please click on the hot spot above to learn more about this user group.

MNNotes411 (MN Lotus Notes User Group) | No meeting scheduled at the moment. Please click on the hot spot above to learn more about this user group.

Twin Cities Rational User Group (TC-RUG) | No meeting scheduled at the moment. Please click on the hot spot above to learn more about this user group.

North Central Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) User Group | No meeting scheduled at the moment. Please click on the hot spot above to learn more about this user group.