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8;30 am |
Registration |
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9:00 am |
IDC Opening Remarks |
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Selinna Chin
Managing Director, IDC Malaysia, Philippines and Indonesia |
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9:15 am |
Introduction and Welcome |
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Hazmi Yusof
Senior Account Manager, IDC Malaysia, Philippines and Indonesia |
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9:30 am |
SOA DNA and the breeds - What species exist today ? |
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Dr. Patrick Chan
Research Director, Emerging Technologies - IDC Asia/Pacific |
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Service-Oriented Architecture has been highly publicized both by end users and vendors as the radical approaches to solving the needs
of adapting to faster pace of business change and to break the management nightmares of integrated IT assets and service delivery. Solving these issues helps IT respond faster to business needs and ultimately helps in formulating a bridge between IT and business. In this session, Dr.Patrick Chan,
head of emerging technologies in IDC, examines the existing "DNA" of existing SOA vendors, explains the challenges in breeding the nsext generation of SOA users and vendor communities and projects what other species of "SOA" will evolve from here. |
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10:00 am |
Manufacturing Industry Trends: Towards IT-Enabled Dynamism
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Tan Mang Teck
Program Director, Manufacturing Insights Asia/Pacific |
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Manufacturers today face a daunting world of relentless changes in their
environments, unpredictable market conditions and ruthless competition. In
order to survive and do well in such evolving conditions, manufacturers
need to build agility and adaptability into their businesses, where adverse impacts of changes can be effectively mitigated by a mix of
adaptive strategies, flexible business processes and dynamic IT enablers.
In this session, Mr. Tan will share Manufacturing Insights' research on the
business environment and associated imperatives in the manufacturing
industry, and review key trends that shape manufacturing business and IT
priorities. He will also present Manufacturing Insights' IT Economics
model and how manufacturing companies are using the model to shape their
IT strategy. |
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10:30 am |
Networking Break |
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10:45 am |
Financial Institutions in Asia: Bridging the Technology Divide |
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Abhishek Kumar
Market Analyst, Financial Insights Asia/Pacific |
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Abhishek Kumar, Market Analyst at Financial Insights, will be speaking on financial technology initiatives seen in select countries within Asia. The growth and advances in financial technology and their increasing relevance to corporate strategy is an area of vital interest to financial institutions in the region. The presentation will provide insight into IT trends and also look at developments in the risk management and banking industries in key markets. |
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11:15am |
The Flattening World of Enterprise IT: What Opportunities Do ITSPs Have? |
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Katherine Chan
Senior Analyst, IT Services Research, IDC Malaysia |
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Driven by changes in technology, the world of service delivery is undergoing its own radical transformation. This transformation involves customer ability to access not just new types of service delivery models, ranging from utility computing and SaaS (software-as-a-service) to on-line providers and VNOs (virtual network operators), but also services from any location on the planet. Additionally, customers can increasingly procure and integrate new services more quickly and flexibly than ever before. In view of the dynamic requirement of the enterprises, Katherine Chan will provide a snapshot on the current issues faced by the ITSPs and framework of the key capabilities of service delivery model that will help ITSPs to compete effectively as providers of IT and business process services to optimize productivity, ensure market expansion and minimize costs. |
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11:45 am |
Making sense of Emerging Asia: Passing out the opportunity or an opportunity not to be missed? |
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Andrew Wong,Ph. D
Research Manager, Personal System Research, IDC Malaysia |
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Which CAGR is higher, Pakistan or Philippines? Which profit margin do you think is higher, Sri Lanka or Singapore? Which country is more untapped, Bangladesh or Brunei? Which country has economic stability, Vietnam or the Philippines? These may not sound like typical questions for vendors to ask. Yet, these are key questions to ask in the ‘shrinking opportunity, shrinking margin’ world. Join Mr. Andrew Wong in the discourse of finding out what’s happening in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. These four countries, IDC’ s latest country ventures establish some of the conventional and unconventional wisdom of doing business by deriving the case of PC market. Mr. Wong will neatly summarize several unifying themes by answering most common and pressing questions and answer it. |
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12:15 pm |
Networking Lunch |
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1:45 pm |
Open Source Software: Its Impacts To The Marketplace |
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Wilvin Chee
Director, Asia/Pacific Software Research, IDC Asia/Pacific |
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Open source and community-based development is no longer considered a rogue threat. Indeed, open source development is now very much in the mainstream; evolving into several significant collaborative efforts that are bringing products to the market more rapidly. Whether it is Linux, LAMP stack, MySQL or other applications, open source is distinctively opening up new competition and causing positive disruption to the industry. In his presentation, Mr. Chee will report some key open source projects, review the impacts they are having on the competitive landscape, and share how the industry will evolve, both in response to, and to leverage, open source development. |
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2:15 pm |
Enterprise Mobility - 101 Lessons to a Connected Enterprise |
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Lee Huei Min
Research Manager, Telecommunications Research, IDC Malaysia |
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Creating a dynamic enterprise continues to be an overarching priority for most CEOs and CIOs. From the birth of Internet, emails, collaborative systems that connects every employee daily, comes the extension to the mobile platform. In Malaysia, from telephones to fax machines to the Internet, the expansion of mobile services outpaced every phased of telecommunications technology ever experienced by Malaysians. In this session, join Ms. Lee as she discuss the potential of mobility in enterprises, challenges and preferences based on IDC's combination of supply and demand-side research. |
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2:45 pm |
Ding !! VoIP Round 2 : The Gloves Come Off |
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Lincoln Lee
Senior Analyst, Telecommunications, IDC Malaysia |
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Fast emerging technologies, convergence trends, and competitive environment has set the stage for a clash between the young and old players in the market. The next generation of VOIP and the Web will give rise to new mergers and partnerships that will result in products and services that encapsulate the concepts of both. With these disruptive technologies emerging, local telcos need to prepare themselves to embrace these new technologies, while deciding on how to compete in a market with low barriers of entry. Will emerging telcos face off with one another, while incumbents look on in anticipation? This session will examine how market dynamics will change to meet these new challenges, which companies are best positioned to capture the benefits, and what the near-term and longer-term scenarios are. |
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3:15 pm |
Networking Break |
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3:30 pm |
What Asians Want From Consumer Technology |
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Chin Jun Fwu
Senior Analyst, Software Research, IDC Malaysia |
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With the plethora of announcements at recent trade shows, the technology sector is clearly heating up around consumers for potential growth. Yet many of these ideas are coming from other regions in the world like the US. Join IDC's Malaysia, Senior Analyst of Software Research in this session as he highlights the unique buying patterns amongst Asians that could dictate different consumer adoption than the rest of the world. Supported with IDC's end-user survey results, Mr. Chin will sort through all sorts of technologies, be it audio/video products, desktop and notebook PCs, mobile phones, and other consumer sectors, to see what consumers will be attracted to, and how this may in fact differ drastically even by country within the very diverse Asia/Pacific region. |
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4:00 pm |
ICT Opportunities in 2006 |
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Linus Lai
Research Director, IDC Malaysia, Philippines and Indonesia |
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As the finale for this conference, IDC will round up the year's performance by providing market-by-market coverage of vendor market share in 2005. Major hardware, software and IT services markets performances will be discussed in this presentation. In this session, Mr. Linus Lai will be presenting IDC's expectations and trends to look out for in 2006. He will discuss the current IT environment and the new challenges and issues facing technology users. |
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4:30 pm |
IDC Closing Remarks |
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Selinna Chin
Managing Director, IDC Malaysia, Philippines and Indonesia |
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4:50 pm |
Networking Reception |
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*The organizer reserves the right to amend the agenda without prior notice.
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