As Telecom moves forward on its Transformation journey, there are many challenges to solve and opportunities arising. One of the many challenges Telecom is actively progressing, is evolving its supporting processes and systems to not just support, but truly enable the vibrant and dynamic journey upon which Telecom has embarked. As part of this journey,Telecom is working with world class organisations like IBM to leverage their experience, knowledge, products and capabilities, all working towards achieving truly great outcomes for Telecom’s Customers and New Zealand – collectively helping build a smarter planet. Come and join Garry to understand how Telecom is applying IBM’s technology in their dynamic journey of Transformation.

In 7 years Kiwibank has grown from a small company into a large
organisation.  Under the hood the IT systems have changed several times
to keep pace with customer demand - the key to this is understanding
system performance and building a manageable infrastructure. These
topics will be covered in depth along with the technology choices
available to any organisation wanting to change its infrastructure.

Today, it is not just the threat of floods, fires, earthquakes, power outages and ICT administration hiccups that we have to think about from a business continuity perspective; we also need to seriously consider business reputation and security of information.

In order to gain the insight to deal with rapidly changing demand, resources and cash flows, today’s leading organisations are continuing to invest in innovative performance management applications. What are people doing with dashboards, logistics, pre-built analytics, business glossaries, bad data, competency centres, rebate programs, collaboration and mash-ups in a performance solution context and what value are they adding? Explore with us some of the key trends and observations around the global outlook for the business intelligence market, and the local innovative approaches that New Zealand companies are taking to their performance management needs.

In these tight economic times, everyone is looking for ways to cut operating costs. But often the biggest expenses such as database are off-limits due to high costs of migrating to cheaper more efficient alternatives. Some years ago,IBM set out to remove such barriers to give our customers freedom of choice. The results in even the more measured tones of the analyst community have been nothing short of ground-breaking. Come see for yourself what this means for your business and how it can help you achieve the significant reduction in IT cost that is necessary to survive in today's climate. 

Customers are finding new ways in which to drive better results from their existing applications through the use of business rules to guide users through the process in the most efficient way.

Organisation today face greater challenges than ever before to deliver cost savings and clear efficient business strategies to ensure they remain competitive.  As part of this ongoing quest it has become imperative for organisations to have a lean and efficient front end applications.  In order to do this it is critical to have practices and procedures in place around the effective management of Test Data and to mange the long term growth of data in applications and databases.

IBM's Optim allow you to better effectively manage the generation and management of test data as well as provide a solution to issues around database and application growth.  Optim allow's organisations to put in place simple repeatable procedures to manage test data and data growth through simple business rules and procedures.

This combined with the technology to effectively mask or de-identify test data provides a single solution to ensure that issues of data management can be dealt with simply and effectively giving those organisations a sound competitive advantage.

The rules of social interaction are being rewritten by a range of new technologies. Virtual communities are being forged around common interests using on-line forums, blogs and wikis. Technologies like tagging, feed readers, and social book-marking are providing new ways of handlyesing information more efficiently. Collaboration can now overcome geographic borders and departmental silos.  This session discusses the utilisation of IBM's Web 2.0 solutions such as Lotus Connections, to drive innovation and business value across your organisation.

SOA outlines a vision of information systems that are more responsive to the business and more cost effective to manage but SOA is simply an architectural 'pattern', an enabler.   The real value is in the understanding of business processes as they actually operate within your organisation. In this presentation we aim to show why drawing a picture of a process is not enough to unlock the value for your business and how to get started on the business process automation journey.

Resilience is an inherent benefit of Cloud Computing. We'll discuss the role of resilience in private and public clouds, and walk through two cloud- delivered data protection services available now from IBM, and how cloud delivered services can be combined with traditional business recovery services to reduce cost and improve recovery times.

This combined with the technology to effectively mask or de-identify test data provides a single solution to ensure that issues of data management can be dealt with simply and effectively giving those organisations a sound competitive advantage.

In order to gain the insight to deal with rapidly changing demand, resources and cash flows, today’s leading organisations are continuing to invest in innovative performance management applications. What are people doing with dashboards, logistics, pre-built analytics, business glossaries, bad data, competency centres, rebate programs, collaboration and mash-ups in a performance solution context and what value are they adding? Explore with us some of the key trends and observations around the global outlook for the business intelligence market, and the local innovative approaches that New Zealand companies are taking to their performance management needs.

Andrew Hewat has over twenty five years of global experience in business transformation with particular emphasis on assisting clients to execute sustainable outsourcing agreements, implement effective governance structures and realise envisioned benefits.

Over the years, many misconceptions have been formed and attributed to outsourcing. Yet, the truth is, today there are many more infrastructure and services outsourcing options available. No matter the size of your organisation, outsourcing can help your business reduce cost and remove the infrastructure and capital constraints that can restrain growth.

What is the right strategic outsourcing solution for your organisation?
Having provided specialist advice to many buying organisations, Andrew Hewat will discuss:

• Understanding the various outsourcing options available to your business
• Theory and practical learning to help define which outsourcing solution is right for your organisation
• Understanding the process and how to develop a business case for outsourcing
• Discovering the benefits and the pitfalls to watch out for
• How to balance the risk and benefits of outsourcing
• Learning how outsourcing fits into cloud computing

Did you know that 42% of business people make decisions based on the wrong information. Come along to this session and find out how you can reduce this ratio in your business and extract greater value out of your electronic systems. Bring content under control and activate the information in the context of your business processes using IBM Content Collector and IBM FileNet P8

The new economy has intensified pressure to curtail IT capital spending and reduce operating expenses, and has increased CFO scrutiny of IT projects.  To get the IT infrastructure you need, not just the operation your budget can afford, requires a strong business case built around rapid pay back and reduced financial risk.  This presentation will explore the latest trends and best practices impacting IT funding and investment today

Customers are finding new ways in which to drive better results from their existing applications through the use of business rules to guide users through the process in the most efficient way.

Successfully delivering enterprise change is something many organisations aspire to but few achieve. Through case studies, this session will discuss the building blocks for effective, lasting, process-led change, to help translate change from boardroom strategy down to the shop floor

Find out how financial excellence solutions from SAP can meet the needs to integrate disparate disciplines into a single solution that can handle the demand for unified information, collaborative decisions, and business network optimisation.

Systems for People is one of the biggest public sector transformation projects in the world, and the biggest transformation program - involving people, process and technology - undertaken by public sector in Australasia. Nico will share some of the Department's experiences in the project so far.

Claire will share with the audience her experiences in working with organisations in this space, the breadth and depth of the capability that IBM has to offer clients who are looking to truly transform their operations, and most importantly, the lessons she learned along the way. She will also reference IBM's own resilience in transforming its business model, operations and workforce to address market realities, while continuing to deliver strong business results.