Updates from IMPACT 2011 - Day 2
Day 2 - Business Partners Summit - Tuesday, April 12th 2011
Day 2 of IMPACT started where we left off at Day 1. Steve Mills (Senior VP and Group Exec, Software and Systems) spoke about business Agility and how IBM is helping solve some of the problems of the increasing complexity that we face in today’s environment. On the same topic, IBM IMPACT this year has 8000+ people attending. Which leads me to think, when do these conferences become too big? I guess the level of interaction will drop as the size of the gathering increases. Of course, social networking is helping to increase our ability to handle larger and larger number of interactions without losing the ability to connect individually.
Phil Gilbert (VP, Business Process Management) followed this up with a talk on the velocity of change. 50 billion connected devices by 2020. How many devices per person is that going to be! He also demoed the newly unveiled Business Process Manger v 7 5. The seamless integration of the Process Designer (Lombardi) with the Integration Designer (WID/WPS) using the common repository is impressive. However I am sure there are going to be a number of challenges when we actually put it into actual customer engagements. However the roadmap seems to be much clearer now.
The panel discussion was interesting. Information and device explosion is both a real problem and a great opportunity. Also loved Scott’s session on leadership. Lot of food for thought there for me.
By the way, we managed to get center stage seats in the morning thanks to IBM reserving seats for its sponsors (Infosys is a Gold sponsor this year). The funny thing though is I kept turning to the screens as against the main stage as it gives me the chance to look at the presentation content as well.
