InfoSys Open Day Autumn 2009 plus Lotusphere 2010

Our next event will be hosted by InfoSys and IBM, on the 2nd October in Swindon and will follow our regular Open Day format. In particular, there will be a great emphasis on:

Using collaboration in situations where traditional face to face contact has been the preferred option

Including:

• Reducing costs with affordable and approachable technology
• Prepare for winter weather and swine flu by allowing your organisation to work, even when people are not physically together
• Your new business models where contact is more intermittent
• Reduce your company's environmental footprint
• Maximising modern technology for your organisation's bottom line, including: instant messaging & conferencing software, blogs, document sharing and shared web forums/workspaces

• A sneak preview of IBM's premier event in the USA for Lotus

• IBM Lotus Quickr 8.2 with team spaces, wikis, blogs, instant messaging and document management from your favourite desktop software
• Domisphere Intranet Information Center - a ready built intranet - quick and easy to deploy - with browser-based full content management
• IBM Web Content Management 3.1.5 for building enterprise intranets, internets and portals

• New social software that brings web 2.0 and using the web to connect with people into the business environment – Lotus Connections 2.5
• New technology to help you protect your email communication increasing company resilience
• Lotus Sametime 8.5 unified communication and collaboration (UC2) bringing presence awareness, chat, web conferencing, applications and telephony together

• Reducing costs and working more efficiently by re-energising legacy applications
• Removing the need for Microsoft Office on every PC
• Reducing the number of servers and storage devices to speed up data access and lower administration and other ongoing costs.

• Software as a Service
• Outsourcing your IT services and administration in a limited way to compliment your in-house capability