Touchtone Corporation to host IBM B2B Briefing Nov. 11, 2004
Costa Mesa, CA – October 29, 2004 – Touchtone Corporation, an Orange County business and leading developer of native OS/400 software for the IBM iSeries – AS/400, is hosting a complimentary business-to-business briefing with IBM on November 11, 2004 for area companies with AS/400 – iSeries servers.
The featured topic is “Portals: Wat’s the point and what’s in it for your business?” The briefing will be held at the IBM offices, 600 Anton Boulevard in Costa Mesa, beginning with a Continental breakfast at 8:30 a.m. and continuing over a catered lunch with roundtable discussions on the use and future of portals in small and medium businesses, specifically as applied to the companies present.
The event is complimentary but reservations are required. Call
The featured speaker for this event is Michael Baker, IBM’s Worldwide Portal Executive. Mr. Baker is an expert on the topic of portals and will explain portals from the ground up, including user-driven customization, collaboration, process automation, content delivery, application integration and PDA access. Mr. Baker depends on a Blackberry PDA during his worldwide travels and will explain not only its use, but will also address the critical nature of handheld devices to traveling staff and field representatives.
Topics to be covered include:
- What are portals?
- How can my employees use portals? In what additional ways can portals improve cross-team collaboration?
- Portals vs. intranet and extranet
- Customizing portals: by employee, department, branch or division?
- Basic editing and word processing, spreadsheet and presentation features included
- New opportunities to better serve customers by using portals
- What do portals and business integration mean for today's businesses in terms of ROI, using legacy software and unlocking isolated silos of data on different servers and databases
- The importance of the iSeries and portals as building blocks of the future: What is the long-term prognosis for portals in business?
- Portals and mobile communications: PDAs and smart phones
- Conclusion & questions
About Touchtone Corporation
Touchtone is a privately held
company located in Orange County, California with over 13 years of
expertise on the IBM OS/400 operating system and nine years in the CRM
arena. Touchtone introduced Wintouch for WebSphere in April 2004.
Wintouch eCRM, a browser-based solution for the iSeries, was first
introduced in April 2000 at the eCRM 2000 Conference and Exhibition.
Prior to that, Wintouch was available as a Windows-to-AS/400
client/server application. For further information about Wintouch eCRM
or Touchtone Corporation, please call