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Right
now, The Gartner Group estimates that American corporations are
spending over $ 32B each year to buy and/or move their core business
applications to the Web. Reasons for this investment include greater
efficiency, flexibility and, in the longer run, lower costs.
However, the
single biggest reason is simple - customers are demanding it! External
customers are demanding that companies provide them full internet
access to information, products and services. And if they cannot
get this access from one particular company, they simply find another
one.
Internal customers,
employees, are demanding that they have full internet access to
internal communications, products, services and even other employees.
Web-enabled applications create a much better environment for employee
creativity, communication, and the likelihood that employees will:
" . . .do the right thing - and do it right the first time."
What does 'web-enablement' cost? What types of businesses are likely
to receive the best return on their investment? How should businesses
determine whether or not to take internal applications to the internet
and why are some businesses extremely successful with their web-based
applications and others fail so miserably?
Our guest speakers
are uniquely well prepared to answer these questions as well as
share their experiences with you. One is a provider of web-enabling
services, one has built a business by web-enabling a product and
one has web-enabled software to provide better service to their
customers and channel.
Don't miss this
opportunity to better prepare yourself for your web-enabling project.
Panelists:
- Mark Mindell,
CIO and Sr VP of Wonderware
- Don Ganguly,
CEO of Nexgenix
- Jay McCarthy,
VP of Product Strategy at WebSideStory
Moderator:
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Panelist
Bios:
Jay McCarthy,
VP Product Strategy, WebSideStory, Inc.
As Vice President
of Product Strategy at WebSideStory, Inc., a leading provider of
outsourced Web analytics, Jay McCarthy is responsible for identifying
the companys technical development needs and building infrastructure
to support them. Jay joined WebSideStory in April 1999, bringing
with him more than 15 years of technical, sales, marketing, training
and operations experience. Some of his accomplishments at WebSideStory
include coordinating product development, quality assurance, and
project management, resulting in the release of 22 new products
and product upgrades in 9 months. While working as an Internet Engineer,
he also helped to design and build one of Californias first
ATM-based Internet backbones. Mr. McCarthy has written several white
papers regarding outsourced Web analytics, and has contributed articles
to publications such as DM News. He regularly meets with major business
clients and prospective clients, briefs key analysts and reporters,
and has been quoted in publications such as InfoWorld and Internet
World.
Mark G. Mindell,
Ph.D.
Dr. Mindell
brings over twenty years of Executive, Technical and Consultative
experience in Information Technology, Business Process Redesign
and Organization Planning & Behavior. In addition to holding
executive-level positions in such companies as Siemens, Wonderware,
Herman Miller and BFGoodrich, Mark was also an Officer and Sr. V.P.
for Entex Information Systems & Services ($ 3.5B systems integration
company) and, most recently, Sr. V.P. & CIO for Invensys Corporation's
Software Division. Dr. Mindell was also President & CEO of his
own Software Design & Development Company that provided services
to over fifty Fortune 1000 Companies.
Mark earned
his Ph.D. in Organization Behavior, an M.A. in Organization Communications
and B.A. in Communications. He has taught numerous graduate-level
courses in Technology, Psychology, Communication and Business, published
in a number of professional journals, and authored two productivity-based
books.
Don Ganguly, Co-chairman of the Board of Directors and Co-Chief
Executive Officer, NexGenix
Don Ganguly has more than 20 yearsexperience in technology, sales,
marketing and high-tech management. As co-chairman of the
board of directors and co-CEO of Nexgenix, Don oversees the day-to-day
management and strategic direction of the sales, corporate
marketing, strategic alliance, recruiting and corporate development
organizations. Don is accountable for building Nexgenixs sales,
marketing and alliance organizations from the ground level into
a global organization. Don also oversees the selection of technology
tools used in the development of Nexgenix client applications. Prior
to Nexgenix, Don spent more than 16 years in various executive positions
with MAI Systems and Bluebird Systems. He earned
a master's degree in business administration from the Wharton School
of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and a bachelor's
degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of
Technology located in India.
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