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e-Business World©
+ Software Solutions©
(Fall) 2000
October 17-18, 2000,
Toronto Congress Centre, Hall D, Canada
Tuesday, 17th October, 2000 ~ Conference Agenda
CONFERENCE ROOM 1
CONFERENCE
ROOM 2
9:00 Chairman's Opening Remarks.
Conference Chairman is Bob Pritchard, Chief Technology spokesman for 680NEWS radio (Computer Insider) and President of CyberTV.to, specialising in broadcasting to the Internet.
9:05 E-tail Vs. Retail: the Dinosaurs are Winning, Now What?
Nathan Rydyk, Vice-President, Retail Solutions, nurun inc. Online Presentation.9:30 Supplier Product Integration in eProcurement Portals & eMarketplaces
Viv Penninti, President & CEO, Innovative Resource Group, Inc. Online Presentation.
10:00 Trade Show Opens - Visit the Trade Show
11:00 Guiding the transition of your "brick & mortar" business into the eBusiness World
Jim Coker, Vice President, Strategic Direction, interBiz, eBusiness Applications Division, Computer Associates11:15 UP & RUNNING: Why do some ERP implementations succeed where others fail?
Michael Carlo, President, Profit Solutions International Inc.11:30 e-Commerce made easy.
Dave Repchuk, Vice President of Product Development, Bravo Software Group. Online Presentation.11:45 Quick Response Manufacturing: Cost and Cycle-Time Reduction Across the Value Chain. Ken Boyd, Director of Industry Marketing, ROI Systems.
12:00 Rules of the Road: The 10 Ways to Navigate PKI Success
Gene Lee, Senior Systems Engineer, RSA Security12:15 Leveraging the Internet for MRO Purchases: How to Maximise Savings.
Frank Schindler, Director, FindMRO
Lunch ~ Visit the Trade Show
2:00 e-Customer Land Grab is On - Are You Ensuring Your Success Photo to follow
Walt Rossi, Vice-President, Product Marketing & Alliances, Broadbase Software, Inc.2:15 FindMRO Product Demonstrtion
2:30 New B2B Integration Technology -- The Acta eCommerce Data Platform
Jeff Coombs, Vice President, Worldwide Market Development, Acta2:45 interBiz Product Demonstration
3:00 Acta Product Demonstration
3:15 nurun Product Demonstration / Service Showcase
Wednesday, 18th October, 2000 ~ Conference Agenda
CONFERENCE ROOM 1
CONFERENCE
ROOM 2
9:00 Chairman's Recap and introduction to today's conference.
9:05 Data Analytics Drive Success in E-Business
Dr. Linda M. Jones, Director of Marketing, Freedom Intelligence. Online Presentation.9:30 What does the Internet mean for my business?
How do I know when or where to use it? Where do I start?
Kyle Um, Associate Partner, marchFIRST. Online Presentation.
10:00 Trade Show Opens - Visit the Trade Show
11:00 eEnabling B2B Information Flow in the Supply Chain: The Next Millennium
Peter Burke and Michael Maloni of ECOutlook.com11:15 How an ASP solution can cut costs, lower risk and improve ROI
Ivan Zasarsky, President and Chief Technology Officer, EC-Gate11:30 Event Driven e-Business: Maximizing the New Paradigm in Customer Interaction
Ross Sedgewick, Director of Industry Marketing, Delano Technology Corporation11:45 The ASP Model - An Overview
Ilmar Arviko, Vice President of Business Development at Daedalian Systems12:00 Managing the Services Supply Chain: Effective service delivery models for the e-B2B economy. Gary A. Martin, Director of Sales for Canada, Changepoint Corporation
12:15 Mission Critical e-Business Infrastructure with ERP, eCRM Systems
Steve Shine, President of Pyramaz, division of Geac Computer Corporation
Lunch ~ Visit the Tradeshow
2:00 Customer-centric processes and fulfillment in B2B e-commerce.
David Leichner, Vice President, Worldwide Marketing, Magic Software Enterprises2:15 Futurelink Product Demonstration
2:30 e for Every Business.
Kevin Hollis, AccPac International, Inc. Business Partner Account Manager
2:45 Are you trying to change your business to fit your software? Product Demonstration
Karin Budhwani, CMA, Product Manager, Navison Software Canada3:00 AccPac eTransact Product Demonstration
3:15 Freedom Intelligence Software Product Demonstration
Tuesday, 17th October, 2000 ~ Detailed Conference Agenda
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9:00 E-tail Vs. Retail: the Dinosaurs are Winning, Now What?
Nathan Rydyk, Vice-President, Retail Solutions, nurun inc.
In the first quarter of 2000, the game is stacked. The E-tailer Gazelles have speed and (market-cap) size in their favour. The Retail Dinosaurs came in slow to move, cautious and unused to the new rules and playing field. But at half-time, the dynamic has changed. The Gazelles have fumbled their early lead with bad fulfillment, confused branding plays and seem stuck on a one-channel strategy that the guys in the booth at Forrester Research say will lead them to ruin. What's the state of the game today and what can you learn to take back to your team? Find out with Nathan Rudyk, Vice President of Retail for nurun Inc., a Quebecor company and Canada's largest Web services firm with more than 1,100 employees, international offices and global clients.
As Vice-President, Retail Solutions, Nathan Rudyk develops e-commerce solutions in the retail sector. Mr. Rudyk has acquired extensive marketing experience as a strategic marketing consultant for international organisations with large distribution networks and e-commerce ambitions.
His background includes high technology advertising/promotion, journalism and publishing. Nathan has consulted on new media marketing strategy for organizations such as International Thomson, Royal Canadian Mint, IBM Canada, Nortel Networks, and the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation.
He is author of Free $tuff from the Internet: Canadian Edition, a contributing author to "Marketing Masters: The Best Ideas, Tips & Strategies from Canada's Savviest Marketers", and a technology marketing lecturer at Algonquin College.
Nathan was co-founder of Mindshare Marketing Group Inc. He was also Vice President of Bedford House Publishing, a Toronto-based magazine, newsletter and book publisher. Nathan is a guest on CBC's Morning Show in Ottawa every two weeks as a consultant on different topics relating to the Internet World, particularly e-commerce.
9:30 Supplier Product Integration in eProcurement Portals & eMarketplaces
Viv Penninti, President & CEO, Innovative Resource Group, Inc.
Most B2B digital exchanges and procurement portals are plagued by the problems associated with 1) the cleansing and normalization of supplier data during the initial creation of an eCatalog, and 2) the maintenance of this data in the eCatalog on an ongoing basis. There are numerous catalog management tools and smart search engines, but few businesses have been able to solve the issue of seamlessly exchanging and normalizing product information between buyers and suppliers. With special attention to to AI, XML and other technologies, this session will focus on IRG's cost effective, approach to solving this problem and reducing the liquidity crisis in today's electronic marketplaces.
Viv Penninti is the President & CEO and founder Innovative Resource Group, Inc. an internet data aggregation firm. Viv was also the President & CEO of Management Science Associates, a pioneer in information management solutions from 1991-1997. He has a Master's in Business Administration, and a Master's in Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.
10:00 Trade Show Opens ~ Visit the Trade Show
11:00 Guiding the transition of your "brick & mortar" business into the eBusiness World Jim Coker, Vice President, Strategic Direction, interBiz, the eBusiness Applications Division of Computer Associates
The rapid shift to the eBusiness paradigm promises greater opportunity then ever before, but is not without its own risks. Understand the latest technologies available to support global command and control of your extended enterprise and learn how to leverage your existing assets to create a unique advantage on the web.
Jim Coker is Vice President, Strategic Direction for interBiz, the eBusiness applications division of Computer Associates International, Incorporated. Jim speaks frequently at industry trade shows and conferences, user group meetings and executive conferences, both domestically and internationally. He is widely quoted in trade and business publications, as well as having several articles published in national and international magazines.
11:15 UP & RUNNING: Why do some ERP implementations succeed where others fail?
Michael Carlo, President, Profit Solutions International Inc.
By definition, ERP is built on large enterprise-wide concepts. But PSI s Mike Carlo explains how the success of ERP is really rooted in the nitty-gritty details: developing an intricate definition of your business processes; focusing your solution on unique operational requirements; addressing needs and expectations one user at a time.
11:30 e.Commerce made easy.
Dave Repchuk, Vice President, Product Development, Bravo Software Group
e.Commerce can be a pretty scary venture for companies whose focus has been on their core competencies such as manufacturing or distributing. We are going to teach you the 7 steps to e.enabling your company, simply and cost-effectively. We specialize in EC and EDI integration to accounting systems such as ACCPAC, Great Plains and more, and with the release of RemoteDesk e.Commerce we will show you how you can integrate ALL your remote source orders from web based shopping carts, PocketPCs, laptops or PC's to a central office accounting in just a day! Come and CE how you can dot.com your business without breaking the bank.
Dave Repchuk has been in the industry for over 25 years. Originally from Computer Associates as Senior Development Manager, he programmed and designed the ACCPAC Plus series of accounting software products including the multi-currency components. In 1992 he left to become Vice President of Product Development for Bravo Software Group, where they have been providing leading edge Electronic Commerce, EDI and internet solutions since 1985.Following a varied international career as an electronics engineer, Thierry Arnaud has entered the world of manufacturing and associated computer technologies more than 10 years ago.
11:45 Quick Response Manufacturing: Cost and Cycle-Time Reduction Across the Value Chain.
Ken Boyd, ROI Systems' director of industry marketing.
Audience: Senior Design and Manufacturing Engineers, Managers and Executives
More than ever, manufacturers, especially those in industries such as high tech, need to reduce lead-imes and accelerate responsiveness across their entire value chain - from concept to customer fulfillment. Success, competitive advantage and cost reduction depend on minimizing or eliminating non value-added (NVA) activities and lead to extraordinary productivity improvement across the entire value chain. NVA activities, which show up as waste, rework, scrap, and excessive queue-time, increase costs, decrease quality and block the achievement of competitive time advantage.
QRM strategies can reduce lead-time and cycle-time in all areas including engineering, manufacturing, and even the office environment. This session will provide an overview of techniques and technologies to use to facilitate QRM, cross-functional collaboration and communication, and reduced cycle-time; how and where to apply Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Product Data Management, Workflow. Discussions and cases studies will be used to illustrate successful enterprise-wide collaboration and cost reductions.
Ken Boyd has 15 years experience in the high-tech industry. Boyd, who joined ROI in 1997, is responsible for product management and developing the company's industry marketing strategies in particular for the electronics industry. Prior to joining ROI, he worked for 12 years at IBM as a software marketing strategist. Boyd earned a Master's degree in industrial relations from University of Minnesota.
12:00 Rules of the Road: The 10 Ways to Navigate PKI Success
Gene Lee, Senior Systems Engineer, RSA Security
Learn how to use PKI as the enabling technology for e-business, how to make sure that PKI will be interoperable with the applications you use, and how to build a PKI that is scalable and easy to use. This presentation uses real-world examples to demonstrate the successes and pitfalls of "navigating the PKI highway".
Gene Lee is a Senior Systems Engineer at RSA Security, specializing in host and network security, and strong authentication technology. He has worked at IBM Canada with an exclusive focus on PKI, firewalls, antivirus, intrusion detection and security technology. Gene has provided consulting andimplementation services to many banks, and financial institutions in Canada. He has authored several articles for industry publications and has given seminars across North America and the Caribbean. Gene holds a Bachelors of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo.
12:15 Leveraging the Internet for MRO Purchases: How to Maximize Savings
Frank Schindler Director, Business Development, FindMRO.com
The Internet is changing the way companies do business. The savings potential is enormous, both in product price savings and process costs. By effectively harnessing technology to link customers, suppliers, and information more efficiently, companies can leverage traditional strengths with new ecommerce approaches.
Sound simple? The MRO (maintenance, repair, and operating supplies) marketplace is made up of tens of millions of very diverse and highly application-specific products and services. These goods and services go from thousands of sources to millions of customers in complex, unrehearsed, and often time-sensitive situations. Historically, the process resulted in highly fragmented, inefficient supply chains organized around one-to-one relationships.
To leverage the ecommerce opportunity, companies must first “clean house” internally to ensure that current inefficient processes are not transferred electronically. This entails rationalizing and cleansing MRO inventory content, supplier consolidation, and process identification / simplification.
Frank Schindler, a member of FindMRO.com's leadership team, is responsible for developing international and domestic syndication strategies and alliances to increase FindMRO.com's reach and revenue. As a Senior Consulting Manager in (WW) Grainger Consulting Services, Frank successfully led cost reduction initiatives around managing maintenance, repair, and operating (MRO) supplies. Frank's experience with clients and MRO suppliers, has made him an expert in identifying cutting edge solutions around procurement processes, inventory management and supplier rationalization / consolidation in the MRO arena. Frank has a B.A. degree in marketing from Northern Illinois University and an M.B.A. from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management.
Lunch ~ Vist the Trade Show
2:00 e-Customer Land Grab is On - Are You Ensuring Your Success
Walt Rossi, Vice-President, Product Marketing & Alliances, Broadbase Software, Inc.
In today's massive land grab for online customer loyalty; speed, accuracy and technical capabilities are extremely critical. The ability to attract site visitors, capture their attention and keep them coming back -- building customer 'stickiness' -- is the lifeblood of business. This presentation will focus on eCRM - customer intelligence, marketing technology, and eMarketing best practices that build e-commerce stickiness. It will describe how an e-business can rapidly integrate all sources of customer data, including the web site, online stores, email, and call centers to get a 360 degree view of customers. It will discuss the latest advances in marketing technology that automate the planning, execution and measurement of personalized and targeted eMarketing campaigns. It will highlight eMarketing tips-and-techniques that build eCustomer stickiness.
Walt Rossi joined Broadbase in February 1999 and currently serves as Vice President of Product Marketing & Alliances. Mr. Rossi is responsible for driving Broadbase's product positioning, demand creation, business alliances and sales support activities. Prior to Broadbase, Mr. Rossi held marketing, sales, consulting and alliance management positions with PeopleSoft, Intrepid Systems, Kelly Information Systems, NCR and Teradata.
2:15 FindMRO.com Product Demonstration
2:30 New B2B Integration Technology -- The Acta eCommerce Data Platform
Jeff Coombs, VP Worldwide Market Development, Acta
The Acta eCommerce Data Platform is the first and only solution designed to make enterprise data eCommerce-ready for all channels in the Networked Economy. With Acta’s highly scalable data platform, enterprises can maintain a real-time, online dialogue with customers and partners- providing them the critical information they need for transactions and business analysis. Acta focuses on the business and technical advantages of integrating ERP systems with B2B eCommerce applications via an eCommerce cahced data platform to deliver full collaborative interaction with customers and suppliers.
Jeffrey Coombs joined Acta in August 1997 as Vice President, Worldwide Marketing. Prior to joining Acta, he served as Group Director, Worldwide Partner Alliances of Business Objects, where he managed the worldwide strategic partners program and served as Director of Channels, growing the company's Americas channel business from zero to 25 percent ($5 million) in two years. Prior to Business Objects he spent five years with Informix Software, and as Director of Market Development sold client/server relational database software into specific market segments. Mr. Coombs holds a BA degree from Williams College and an MBA from Harvard.
2:45 interBiz Product Demonstration
3:00 Acta Product Demonstration
3:15 nurun Product Demonstration
Wednesday, 18th October, 2000 ~ Detailed Conference Agenda
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9:05 Data Analytics Drive Success in E-Business
Dr. Linda M. Jones, Director of Marketing, Freedom Intelligence
In the digital economy, customer and product data is being created and collected at an unprecedented rate. At the same time, there has been a dramatic increase in the value of the information contained within the data. rganizations must develop strategies to efficiently analyze the huge volumes of data and extract the right information.
Systems that were adequate in the bricks-and-mortar economy cannot keep pace with the fundamental needs of web-based businesses. Freedom Intelligence drives high-speed analysis of e-commerce data – both about customers and for customers. Wherever there is a need for fast data analytics, Freedom Intelligence is essential to the competitive advantage of any business.
Dr. Linda M. Jones is Director of Marketing for Freedom Intelligence, a company specializing in fast data analysis. A veteran of the software industry, Dr. Jones was involved in the groundbreaking project to computerize the twenty-volume Oxford English Dictionary and was Vice President, Business Development at Open Text Corporation, the developer of the first internet search engine.
9:30 What does the Internet mean for my business?
How do I know when or where to use it? Where do I start?
Kyle Um, Associate Partner, marchFIRST
These questions plague most of today's managers. Considering the wealth of opportunity the Internet offers, what is the best starting point? How do you stage e-business transformation activities for your company so that you can rapidly seize and maintain a competitive advantage? Using e-Vision (marchFIRST's structured discovery approach) Kyle will articulate the process of moving from a traditional bricks-and-mortar organization to a thriving on-line business. He'll show you how to prioritize and plan your organization's e-business initiatives and create a comprehensive e-business transition plan. Each organization's distinctive makeup will have a significant impact on their Internet strategy. marchFIRST uses e-Vision to help its clients craft an approach that's as unique as their business.
Kyle Um is an associate partner in the strategy group in the Toronto office of marchFIRST. Kyle assists clients to develop strategic and tactical plans to transform their businesses by leveraging Internet, telecommunications and software technologies.
For 3Com, Kyle helped to develop the business plan and worked as part of an international team to develop web-enabled customer relationship management solutions for call centre and customer interaction centre markets. For an emerging Ontario-based data service provider alliance group, Kyle facilitated a business visioning session and helped to develop the group's strategic business, marketing and technology plans. For the Government of Ontario, Kyle led a technology strategy benchmarking study to support its information & information technology strategic planning process.
Prior to joining marchFIRST, Kyle was a senior management consultant at Ernst & Young, the product manager at a start-up Internet commerce software vendor and the business development & marketing manager at an enterprise resource planning software vendor. Kyle holds a BASc engineering degree from the University of Waterloo and an MBA degree from the Richard Ivey School of Business.
10:00 Trade Show Opens ~ Visit the Trade Show
11:00 eEnabling B2B Information Flow in the Supply Chain: The Next Millennium
Peter Burke, and Michael Maloni of ECOutlook.com
Driven by enhanced information flow, eCommerce increases your company's ability to streamline processes, reach new markets, and extend value-added services to your customers. One of the most significant eCommerce challenges, however, is to enable integration between your company's systems and that of your trading partners and digital marketplaces. With special attention to EDI, middleware, and ASP models, this session will explore the challenges of B2B connectivity and explore cost-effective, flexible solutions to support your company's B2B technology infrastructure.
Peter Burke is a Director of Business Development at ECOutlook.com. He has worked in the area of Supply Chain and Logistics for over nine years with Andersen Consulting Strategic Services, Perseco and Canangaigua Corporation. Michael Maloni is also a Director of Business Development at ECOutlook.com. He has a Ph.D. in Operations and Logistics Management and previously worked for Anderson Consulting's Supply Chain Practice.
11:15 How an ASP solution can cut costs, lower risk and improve ROI
Ivan Zasarsky, President and Chief Technology Officer, EC-Gate
The ability to acquire e-commerce services via a subscription model allows nearly any company, regardless of size to reap the benefits quickly. EC-Gate's solutions weigh in at between 25% to 40% less than the price of building an in-house B2B solution and can be live within 30 90 days. The result for clients is lower risk, faster time to market and dramatically reduced start-up costs. Once an application is up and running, clients will benefit from lower transaction costs, fewer errors and reduced purchased cycle time. EC-Gate's core service provides an Integrated Supply Chain application for specific business communities through a custom branded portal on a subscription basis.
Ivan Zasarsky is a co-founder of EC-Gate. As President and CTO, Ivan's role encompasses the design and management of EC-Gate's advanced technical systems. His other specialty is WAP technology, which has enabled EC-Gate to become a leader in Mobile Collaborative Commerce. Prior to EC-Gate, Ivan co-founded 3Di and A.I. Solutions.
11:30 Event Driven e-Business: Maximizing the New Paradigm in Customer Interaction Ross Sedgewick, Director of Industry Marketing, Delano Technology Corporation
Event driven e-business is a powerful new paradigm that has come to the forefront in the Internet era. It not only drives a company's ability to automatically react and respond to important business situations, but can also determine a company's success or failure as an online business.
This session will guide attendees through the benefits of event-driven e-business, address implementation challenges, and outline the results that can be achieved by implementing an event-driven e-business strategy. Attendees will take away insights into the results that can be achieved by driving more effective communications and interactions with customers, fully automating complex interactions, improving customer service, and making faster and better decisions based on business rules.
Mr. Sedgewick brings to Delano Technology Corporation over 11 years of marketing, sales and channel management experience in the IT industry. In his role as Director of Industry Marketing, Mr. Sedgewick drives initiatives and programs to increase Delano's penetration of the CRM and e-business marketplace worldwide.
11:45 The ASP Model - An Overview
Ilmar Arviko, Vice President of Business Development at Daedalian Systems
This presentation provides an overview of the Application Service Provider model. The concept of renting software rather than purchasing has taken hold in the US and is becomming more common in Canada as well. This presentation reviews the market and addresses some of the questions related to the decision-making process for companies considering the use of an ASP for software. Among the topics to be discussed are: Why use an ASP? What kind of organizations are best suited to use an ASP? What should an organization look for in a supplier of ASP services? The presentation will also review the high level advantages and disadvantages of renting software. This will assist companies in their consideration of how to approach this new service offering.
Ilmar Arviko is Vice President of Business Development at Daedalian Systems, a Toronto based E-commerce professional services firm. He has over 20 years experience in a variety of sales, marketing and consulting roles in the information technology sector. As a member of the Daedalian E-Business team, Ilmar speaks extensively on E-commerce and the challenges faced by organizations as the web-enable their operations.
12:00 Managing the Services Supply Chain: Effective service delivery models for the e-B2B economy. Gary A. Martin, Director of Sales for Canada, Changepoint Corporation
Corporate IT departments and professional services organizations are experiencing unprecedented demand -- both internally and from external clients -- for advanced, high-quality services. IT organizations are faced with shorter deadlines, higher customer expectations, increased complexity of IT projects and an ongoing shortage of skilled IT professionals. This presentation will introduce a new breed of software called Professional Services Automation (PSA) and discuss strategies on how PSA solutions can help your organization streamline the service delivery process, increase resource utilization rates and revenue and enhance customer relationships. You will also view the results of the industry's first ROI study on PSA, conducted by International Data Corporation (IDC).
Gary Martin is responsible for managing and leading the national sales organization in driving sales of Changepoint Professional Services Automation software within the Canadian IT services market. Mr. Martin has 14 years of experience in the industry and is a results oriented professional with very strong interpersonal, organizational and leadership skills.
Prior to joining Changepoint, Mr. Martin held the position of Director of Sales with DMR Consulting Group Inc., where he played an integral role in sales and revenue growth and was a key player in the development of several strategic partnerships for the organization, including Microsoft, HP and Vitria. Mr. Martin also held various senior positions in sales and marketing during his 8 years with IBM.
Mr. Martin resides in Toronto with his family and is an active member of the community, currently serving as a Cabinet Member and Division Chair of the Toronto United Way Campaign
12:15 Mission Critical e-Business Infrastructure with ERP, eCRM Systems
Steve Shine, President of Pyramaz, division of Geac Computer Corporation
Stephen M. Shine, formally president of Geac's SmartEnterprise Solutions business now leads Geac's wholly owned Pyramaz division, an ASP (application services provider) company specializing in ERP e-business infrastructure solutions and other e-business services. Before joining Geac, Steve held various international sales and management roles for Dun & Bradstreet Software. Prior to Dun & Bradstreet Software, Steve was a manager at Andersen Consulting's UK Office for six years and also spent three years prior to that as a specialist oil field services engineer with Gearhart Wireline Services. Steve has an Honors Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics from Manchester University in the United Kingdom.
Lunch ~ Visit the Trade Show
2:00 Customer-centric processes and fulfillment in B2B e-commerce
David Leichner, VP Worldwide Marketing, Magic Software
The special needs of business customers do not end in pricing structures. Enterprise customers expect a level of personalization not currently standard on the web. In addition, B2B sites must support customers' complex business processes, integrating these processes into the merchant enterprise's own back end.
Finally, the B2B merchant enterprise must integrate its customers into the merchant's partner relationships, to avoid estranging partners through centralized web efforts. Through real-life case studies, attendees will learn how to tailor their business customers' experience while integrating these business customers and customer processes into their supply chain and bringing partners into B2B site efforts.
David Leichner has been with Magic Software since 1994, and has been Vice President of Worldwide Marketing since 1998. Prior to joining Magic in 1994, Mr. Leichner held various marketing and technical positions at Information Builders of New York, Bezeq Communications of Jerusalem and TRW Space and Defense in California. David Leichner holds a B.A. and an M.B.A. from the City University of NY.
2:15 Futurelink Product Demonstration
FutureLink Canada Corp (formerly Charon Systems) www.FutureLink.ca
Neil Hussey, Marketing Manager, FutureLink Canada
Navision Software’s Web Shop
– fast, affordable, integrated “e” Transform your
business into a global enterprise, ready to do business anywhere,
anytime, with anyone. No matter what business you're in, no matter
what size your company is, becoming "e" is essential to
staying competitive and, quite soon, staying in business.
Neil brings an extensive background in marketing and sales to Futurelink Canada’s Navision ERP team. His previous experience includes selling and marketing enterprise application software, customer relationship management software and e-commerce solutions to mid-sized companies. Neil possesses a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Western Ontario.
2:30 e for Every Business.
Kevin Hollis, AccPac International, Inc. Business Partner Account Manager
This Seminar describes the three key business areas of developing an eCommerce strategy: Selling on the Web, Buying on the Web, and Empowering Employees on the Web. We will also address the primary barriers to implementing an e.Business strategy and how to address the issues on Adaptability, Affordability, Flexibility, and Integration.
Mr. Hollis comes to present with over 12 years on accounting and technology experience. With a balance of hands-on implementations, sales and consulting of complete business management systems for small to medium size enterprises (SMEs), Mr. Hollis now works with Value Added Resellers and System Consultants assisting with training and pre-sale consulting on accounting and e-business solutions. Mr. Hollis is regularly invited to speak on e-business at industry events across Canada.
2:45 Are you trying to change your business to fit your software? Product Demonstration
Karin Budhwani, CMA, Product Manager, Navison Software Canada
Are you trying to change your business to fit your software? Navision Software will demonstrate the ease with which our products adapts to your business needs, for faster and easier access to information. Navision Software is a leading developer of business management solutions that let mid-size businesses run “their way.” Offerings include Navision Financials, Navision Manufacturing and Navision Advanced Distribution, plus Navision Financial Analyst and Navision Web Shop. Navision products are designed for Windows 2000, available on Microsoft SQL Server, and offer international functionality yet localized for the unique business requirements of the Canadian Marketplace.
3:00 AccPac eTransact Product Demonstration
ACCPAC eTransact is a complete Web store solution that integrates closely and easily with ACCPAC's accounting and e-business management solutions. This powerful package provides businesses with powerful business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce capabilities in a single, robust, and easy-to-use business-to-everyone (B2E) solution.
eTransact makes your e-commerce transition easy by providing out-of-the-box integration with your ACCPAC accounting system, adaptability to the way you do business today, and flexible deployment options. And, of course, eTransact offers all the customization features you expect from a premier Web store solution.
3:15 Freedom Intelligence Software Product Demonstration
Freedom Intelligence is the leading analytical database developed specifically for advanced information retrieval. Selected as the best Fast DBMS of 1999 by Computerwire, Freedom Intelligence delivers consistently fast response times to both simple lookups and complex questions. Providers of high performance websites or data marts derive critical benefit from Freedom Intelligence's analytical power.
Freedom Intelligence enables organizations to outperform competitors in two ways. First, Freedom Intelligence can extract information about customers faster, supporting dynamic marketing campaigns and personalized service. Second, Freedom Intelligence can instantaneously respond to customer inquiries – e.g., searching directory listings or product catalogs – building new levels of consumer satisfaction and loyalty.
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