Martin Smith joined IBM’s Lotus services division in 1993. Prior to this, he had gained over 10 years experience working in IT, related to the UK financial services sector. His first role in Lotus was to manage the design and deployment of large Lotus Notes infrastructures. Following this, he moved into a commercial role and relocated to South Africa, where he established Lotus’ services operation in South Africa and the Middle East. On his return to Europe Martin spent a year working in the Netherlands, where he took responsibility for one of Lotus’ largest accounts. In 2000 Martin relocated to the USA and took a role working in the Lotus WW Sales Team. His responsibilities included sales strategy, operations and enablement. In 2002 he returned to the UK and has subsequently focused on sales leadership for the IBM’s Portal and Workplace offerings.

Why IBM Workplace.  Why 'i'
John Taylor, Typex Group

How do you collaborate and integrate with your business applications? If email and MS Office are enough then read no further. If not, then take a look at IBM Workplace. Your users can work smarter. Your Workplace application templates can give managers control of their processes. You can save money on desktop software management - including a Linux client option. Also learn about the future of Domino and find out why the iSeries is the only server platform that makes sense.
John Taylor is Technical Director of the Typex Group plc, a Business Partner of IBM, GXS and AT&T's Global Network. John is an author of three IBM Redbooks and of magazine articles on this subject and speaks at customer conferences worldwide. He is an IT Infrastructure Systems Architect certified by The Open Group to TOGAF 8 standards. He is the architect of IBM's BlueNotes family of software products which integrate Lotus Notes and Domino with IBM eServers.

Having been with IBM since 1992, and having been an AS/400, iSeries and now a System i advocate since 1989, David is currently responsible for providing technical and architectural leadership to IBM Business Partners who sell solutions based around software, hardware and services. In this, his role is to help them increase their use of IBM technology, and thus grow the value, scope and complexity of technical solutions sales. Presently, David works primarily with the Lotus division of Software Group, covering product components such as IBM Workplace Forms (electronic forms), WebSphere Portal (integrated enterprise portal framework) and IBM Workplace (people productivity via collaborative and task-based working).