Pakistan Events

IBM PureSystems Launch

Everyone talks about the future of IT. IBM is delivering it.

May 31, 2012 at Sheraton Hotel, Karachi
May 29, 2012 at Serena Hotel, Islamabad

Shift the ratio of IT resources from mundane, status quo issues to growing your business. Let your IT brain focus on innovation, not stewardship. Get ready to do things you didn’t have the time or resources to do.

Join IBM at the PureSystems event to discover how you can simplify the IT experience, upend the economics of the data center and put the conventional wisdom of how it all works into an industrial shredder.

Agenda:
09:00 Registration & Welcome Refreshments
09:30 Introduction & Overview by IBM Executive
09:40 A New Era of Computing: Launch of IBM PureSystems
10:20 IBM PureFlex System Details & Demonstration Video
10:30 Networking & Tea Break
10:50 Simplicity with IBM PureApplication Systems
12:15 Q & A
12:30 Networking & Lunch

Speakers:
Stephan Navarro
Power Systems Software Solution Architect
Software Group

Lee Allcorn
PureSystems Expert, Middle East & Africa
IBM Systems and Technology Group

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WebSphere Summit 2012, Optimize for Growth. Deliver Results

21 February, 2012 at Marriott Hotel, Islamabad
22 February, 2012 at Sheraton Hotel, Karachi

Today, more and more businesses require the 'IT function' to lead change; the kind of change that adds to flexibility and optimizes growth. This is your opportunity to take the lead for this change. Join us for the WebSphere Summit and learn how to transform your organization from within by using the latest technology to redefine business agility, improve processes and streamline operations.

Attend this executive event and understand how:

• Business Process Management enables your organization to maximize on business opportunities, through continuous optimization of your business processes.
• Business integration and Connectivity solutions can help your organization untangle IT complexity, increase flexibility and reduce your operational cost.
• Decision management solutions would greatly enhance the effectiveness of your business processes and operations.
• Portal enhances employee productivity through rich user experience and help employees to share Ideas, Inspire and Innovate by connecting to the experts.

Speakers:
Joe Kaczmarek, Worldwide Sales Executive IBM BPM
Ovidiu Bastea, WebSphere Connectivity Tiger Team

Information you can trust for customer relationships you can count on

December 19, 2011 at PC Hotel, Lahore

IBM can help you identify the best way to use Customer Relationship Management (CRM) technology to redefine the way you interact with your customers, increase trust and improve the customer experience. Achieve higher profits by better understanding your customers to improve service-quickly and at a lower cost. Today, smarter companies are pursuing and realizing this vision with the CRM On Demand, or Software as a Service (SaaS), solution from IBM - the leading provider of CRM solutions. Join IBM at the Smarter Customer Management Solutions Showcase to discover the unparalleled set of solutions that enable information-driven sales, service and marketing for your business.

Reshape unstructured data according to your IT needs

December 7, 2011 at PC Hotel, Karachi

Organizations that collect a constant flow of data know how challenging it is to oversee all those images, documents and other content. IBM Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions can help companies arrive at better business decisions more quickly, by managing all their unstructured information. Once organized, IBM ECM can access requested intelligence. So you can leverage insights without deviating from your IT objectives.

Join us for IBM's Smarter Content Management event, the biggest IBM ECM knowledge exchange to date. Network with other IT professionals and engage with IBM experts so you can learn how to maximize your ECM investment and will transform your operations.

IBM Smarter Solutions Day

November 16, 2011 at Sheraton Hotel, Karachi

IBM's global reach, industry experience and services capability differentiates it from its competitors. Leveraging its vaunted Research arm and software assets, IBM has driven significant improvement in its services margins over the past years by rapidly automating labor-based processes and creating repeatable software-like assets.

Join IBM at the Smarter Solutions Day to discover the IBM Technology Services leadership and rich array of services capability that help the businesses in a way that no other technology partner can do.

Building the engines of a Smarter Planet: Rapidly manage change to outpace competitors.

August 10, 2011 at Sheraton Hotel, Karachi

Midsize companies have unique needs, and unique inefficiencies-like business systems that are separated from business data.

Join IBM at the GBS Triple Play Event to learn how our ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solutions, in collaboration with SAP, can help create the framework that allows you to integrate, automate and optimize operations across your entire organization.
This way, you can make smarter business decisions, reduce overhead costs and gain a competitive edge.

Storage XIV – Pay less to store more

July 28, 2011 at Arena, Karachi
July 29, 2011 at Serena Hotel, Islamabad

Change the way your organization uses information with IBM's XIV Storage Systems. XIV uses a revolutionary architecture to provide ease of use, speedy data access and advanced virtualization capabilities. It’s a system designed to dramatically improve storage efficiency while lowering costs.

Join us at the Storage XIV Event and discover the superior capabilities and compelling TCO value proposition of XIV.

Speakers
Eyad Baddar, High-End Disk Sales Leader, IBM Systems and Technology Group, MEA
Mena Migally, Data Protection Sales Leader, System Storage, MEA
Mamoun Lamber, CTSS System Storage, MENA
Ahmed Zuberi, Brand Manager, IBM System Storage Systems & Technology Group, Pakistan

Reduce IT complexity and realize greater business value with Managed Technical Support Services

June 27, 2011 at Serena Hotel, Islamabad

Join us as we unveil IBM's Managed Technical Support Services, a total support solution aligned with your business requirements. IBM Managed Technical Support Services is an integrated, automated and proven service and delivery model designed to establish a single point of accountability for multi-vendor hardware and software support across a heterogeneous IT environment, offering consistent enterprise-wide support and simplified business processes across IT silos. Sign up today and discover how IBM works with you to define your requirements and tailor a solution that will help you achieve your business objectives.

Cognos 10 Launch in Pakistan – Intelligence Unleashed!

26 April, Pearl Continental, Karachi
28 April, Serena, Islamabad

IBM launched Cognos 10, our flagship Business Intelligence solution in Pakistan last month. Cognos started in 1969 to become leaders in the Business Intelligence (BI) space for decades and matured its BI and FPM (Financial Performance Management) solutions with its open architecture and enterprise-class technology. With 23000 customers worldwide and more than 20 in Pakistan, spanning almost every industry, and several solution providers, Cognos along with SPSS, makes an easy choice for the customers, who want to exploit this cutting edge technology of Analytics today.

Secure your Data with Smart Storage and Virtualization

April 26, 2011 at Serena Hotel, Islamabad

The more global our operations become, the more prepared our organizations need to be to effectively create and manage data security measures. Let us show you how you can protect your business with the advanced technologies. Join us to learn how you can secure your data with smart storage and virtualization.

Power Up Training for Business Partners

7 April, IBM Office Islamabad
13 April, IBM Office Karachi

A Pre Sales Training on Power Systems for Channel Partners was arranged by IBM. The training included: Introduction to the latest Power Systems Portfolio, Solution Design Examples, Use of Power Systems Tools and Preparing Value Based Power Systems Proposals. The purpose of this training was to make the partners self-reliant in terms of configurations, technical queries and internal IBM processes. The session was conducted by Fahd Bin Rashid – Systems Sales Specialist, Systems & Technology Group.

VMware Service Pacs Session organized for the Channel Partners

6 April at IBM Office Karachi

Service Pacs session on VMware was held focusing on the business need and offerings in the country. The Speaker at the session was Mr. Ahmed Bazaraa, MTS Business & Offerings Leader, Middle East and North Africa IBM. Service Pacs is the easiest, renewable way to buy IBM services, suitable for customer firms of all sizes and designed specifically to be sold at the hardware point of sale. Service Pacs provide clients easy access to essential IT support services at affordable prices.

Unleash the Power of Data Center

March 29, 2011 at Avari Hotel, Lahore
March 31, 2011 at Arena, Karachi

Staying competitive is a top business concern, but with economic constraints come performance limitations as well. IBM Pakistan provides a solution to counter growing financial concerns and support greater performance.
Join us at the Data Center Event 2011 to learn about System x and storage; solutions that are geared to reduce IT infrastructure costs while improving its performance.
Experience the benefits of a more efficient, cost-effective data centre; it’s a potent combination of productivity and savings that can give your company the edge.

The 2011 IBM Performance Event

15 March, 2011 at Sheraton Hotel, Karachi

In a recent study of corporate executives, companies that invested in business analytics had 33% more revenue growth and 32% more return on capital. And in the very near future those numbers are likely to go up. Way up. That's because with the next generation of Cognos software, gaining business insight goes way beyond receiving reports.

Imagine if everyone could dig deeper, internally and externally, to gain a unique perspective on your business. To understand how your company is doing and why.
To predict future outcomes and determine what to do next. That‘s what you will see at Performance.

Experience first-hand how IBM makes it possible for everyone in your company to
put indispensable insights into action. And, from a business perspective, it's what
makes March 15 one of the most important days of the year.

Launch of IBM Networking Products

15 February at Arena Karsaz, Karachi
17 February at Monal Restaurant, Islamabad

An education session focusing on ‘Virtualization and Consolidation for System x was arranged by IBM for IBM Channel Partners. The speakers at the session were Mr. Kamran Siddiqui, IBM Networking Sales who concentrated on Introduction to IBM Networking Solutions and Mr. Zaheer Fasih, Field Technical Sales Specialist, Modular Systems and System Storage who focused on System x and Blade Centre updates. The event centred on Launch of IBM Networking products - New addition to System Portfolio, Blade Architecture & best practices - Competitive review and Cloud Computing - New direction for Smarter Data Centers.