IMPACT 2011 – Conference has been kicked off

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On Monday, April 11th 2011, IBM officially started one of the biggest international conferences, Impact 2011: Optimize for Growth. Deliver Results.
The conference was opened by IBM executives Jon Iwata and Nancy Pearson who took the audience on a journey through IBM’s 100 years of renovations. In this way the session focused both on IBM’s history of innovation, and on how this history positions IBM to help business become more agile in today’s marketplace.
After the initial speech the following presentation were presented (by customers):
• Dr. Jeffrey Burns, chief of Critical Care at Children’s Hospital Boston, told attendees about the cloud solution that provides medical information on demand, curriculum maps and a social network which was developed in cooperation with IBM.
• John Heller, vice president and CIO of Caterpillar Global Information Services, described how Caterpillar was formed in 1925 and how they cooperate with IBM for already more than 80 years. He mentioned how Caterpillar focuses on its physical infrastructure while IBM focuses on the digital infrastructure and together they make successful story.

At the end, Marie Wieck, General Manager of IBM WebSphere announced some new out comings which will be released in summer 2011:
• WebSphere Business Process Manager 7.5
• WebSphere Application Server V8.0
• WebSphere ESB Registry
• WebSphere Mobile 2.0
• WebSphere Application Accelerator

Let me also mention the appearance of Larry Miller who took care for goodwill of conference. Yes, indeed, he is funny!