MERGE participates as a Guest Speaker at the CIO Association of Canada (CIOCAN) E-Seminar.
TORONTO, Ontario – April 20th 2007 - Glen Allison, Global Vice President of MERGE Solutions, will participate as a panel speaker to CIOCAN regarding the successful implementation and best practices to portal implementation. This presentation will be available via the web as an interactive webinar. This online webinar allows attendees to network with fellow CIOs, listen to the seminar and participate in this interactive discussion, with the added convenience of being able to stay in the office.
Topic: All Things to All Users? Best Practices for a Successful Portal Implementation.
Portals are the new solution for a wide breadth of issues from document management to corporate communication. Early adopters are leveraging portals and realizing increased communication and better access to shared and corporate documents. This panel discussion will attempt to answer several fundamental questions. What are the portal frameworks on the market today? What is hype and what is reality regarding portals' functionality and best practices? The session focuses on selecting the most appropriate tools, approaches, and practices to ensure a successful implementation.
“The reality is portals are becoming a necessity rather than a luxury. Companies in all industries are rapidly adopting this technology to improve communication and turn real-time data into actionable decisions. Being able to leverage real-time analytics in the decision-making process is a key success factor in this space” said Glen Allison, Global Vice President, MERGE Solutions.
Glen offers his expertise and experience in solving these success factors. “Given our company’s success and knowledge in this field, MERGE offers our clients a competitive advantage. Defining and managing your organization’s key performance indicators (KPI’s) ultimately drives ROI.”
About the Speakers:
Glen Allison, Global Vice President at MERGE Solutions, has over 15 years of experience with top ISVs in the field of document management, process improvement and delivery of specialized content management. Over the past few years, Glen has specific SME relevance to personalized content management and second generation portal management. He has been involved with successful portal implementations with FP100 companies.
Greg Brierley has been in the IT industry for approximately 20 years. He has spent the past 4 years at Pacific Blue Cross where he is Manager of the Project Management Office. Previous to this he spent 10 years with Accenture, mainly in the Financial Services Industry helping deliver large projects for clients such as American Express and Franklin Templeton. With a focus on project governance and delivery, he has a high interest in PBC's internal portal project, as he believes it will help increase communication, add efficiency, promote teamwork, and aid in the "people" side of change management.
About CIOCAN:
The Chief Information Officer Association of Canada (CIOCAN) is an organization run by CIOs for CIOs. We provide professional development, sharing of best practices and networking opportunities. CIOCAN's goal is to bring together senior IT executives from across Canada through face-to-face or web enabled meetings to share and discuss today’s management issues. "CIOs empowering CIOs to further organizational success"
About Merge: www.merge-solutions.com
MERGE Solutions enables global organizations to connect and take control of branded content and collaborative communications on the web using a single software platform. MERGE solutions unite web content, applications, and services to facilitate dynamic communications and relationships between customers, suppliers and employees. MERGE helps organizations automate and customize web processes while providing visibility into online interactivities to deliver the right message, at the right time, with the right emotion, to the right target. Customers repeatedly use MERGE to amplify their ROI with their active information delivery and campaign deployments in management, sales, and marketing and support applications.
MERGE solutions integrate web analytics, content management, Web 2.0 collaboration tools, and dashboards for marketing automation allowing your company to make real-time decisions to facilitate dynamic communications and relationships to provide active, targeted user experiences that generate real ROI.
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