Whilst many organisations are already successfully using the intranet and collaboration technology, more advanced features such as extranets, website templates with webparts, automated forms processing, business process workflow and records management are not nearly as widely deployed.

BMN are a Microsoft Gold Partner and specialists in all things SharePoint helping clients such as BP and KPMG to reshape their systems with significant cost savings and new business opportunities.

Qorus Technologies are developers of document assembly software installed at clients such as Vodafone, fund managers and retail chains.

Duncan Lawrie, private bankers, are part of Camelia PLC, an international group listed on the London Stock Exchange with over 75,000 employees.

The event will be held at the Claremont Hotel in Douglas, with doors opening at 5:30pm for a 6pm start.

Agenda

17:30 Light Refreshments: Sandwiches with Tea and Coffee

18:00 Andrew Tomlins, Account Manager, BMN Ltd

Who is using SharePoint?
How are they using it to help grow their business?

18:45 Simon Chalfont, Technical Director, BMN Ltd

Nintex Workflow is a power user tool for designing and implementing business processes entirely within your SharePoint deployment with some fantastic returns on investment at client sites.

19:00 Jonathan Dawson, Business Development Manager, Quorus Software

Qorus DocGeneration is a “drag and drop” tool to dramatically reduce the time and effort required to generate complex, customised documents such as legal agreements, contracts, policies and financial reporting with Microsoft SharePoint or Microsoft Word whilst ensuring regulatory compliance.

19:15 Kurt Roosen, Group IT Director, Duncan Lawrie

Private Banking Case Study

19:30 Q&A with a Speakers Panel

19:45 END OF SESSION

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17:00   doors open / complimentary sandwiches and mineral water

17:45   AGM

Session #1:  Barrule Suite, 5^th Floor, Tynwald via public entrance on Finch Road

18:00   Allan Mitchell MVP

Allan will cover the business benefits of live management information as a data integration specialist with SQL Server Integration Services to support M&A systems integration, data cleansing (including regulatory compliance and cross-border data protection), data mining and visualisation.

As a SQL Azure Advisory Board member with Microsoft and co-author of “First to Market” by Wrox publishing, he knows all about cloud computing database analytics too.

18:45   questions and answers / short break

Session #2:  Barrule Suite, 5^th Floor, Tynwald via public entrance on Finch Road

19:00   Chris Webb MVP

Chris will “map” the Microsoft BI landscape, where Sharepoint 2010 fits in, and explain business benefits with a free tool Excel 2010 PowerPivot.

He is a SQL Server Analysis Services, Reporting Services and OLAP MDX specialist, co-author of “Expert Cube Development with SSAS 2008” and routinely helps multi-nationals in insurance, banking and online gambling significantly improve number crunching performance.

19:45   questions and answers / short break

Session #3: Prospect Hotel, Prospect Hill, Douglas

20:15   informal consultancy with the speakers and social networking

Session #4:  VIP CPD @ Liverpool

As a follow up to the event for database specialists, committee members will host a VIP CPD session at the SQLbits.com conference in Liverpool, the most important SQL server event in Europe with 50+ speakers from Microsoft and official partners.  Entry on Thursday 29^th September and/or Friday 30^th September will be subject to a 35 percent discount and entry on Saturday 1^st October will be free.  Sorry, first come first served!  Please contact any committee member for more details.

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Debra Paul will explore business analysis within the broader context of the business change lifecycle. This will include a discussion about the evolving role and responsibilities of the business analyst and will highlight some of the current issues with business analysis practice. This presentation will also consider why effective business analysis is critical if organisations are to achieve the predicted benefits from business improvement projects.

Debra Paul FBCS CITP is the Managing Director of Assist Knowledge Development, a training and consultancy company specialising in business analysis, business process change and solution development. She has extensive experience in all aspects of business analysis and business process improvement. Debra is the BCS Chief Examiner for Business Analysis and is an accredited SFIA consultant. Debra jointly edited and wrote the best-selling BCS reference manual, Business Analysis, and is also the co-author of the BCS reference manual Business Analysis Tools and Techniques.

Debra is a regular speaker at business seminars, is a member of the organising committee for the Business Analysis Conference Europe 2011 and is a founder member of the BA Management Forum. Her recent clients include blue chip clients include Allianz and Lloyds TSB Group.

Schedule

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Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) is becoming more mainstream as high speed broadband becomes more widely available. For example, it is estimated that global IPTV subscribers will increase from 28 million in 2009 to 83 million in 2013.

Dr Keith Mitchell will explain how and why companies are sending television programmes over IP data networks. The session will include brief overviews of key technologies, current trends and hot topics for this fast paced industry with some live demonstrations. He will also discuss research projects and commercialisation at Lancaster University and how such technology is being evaluated with a series of regional and rural Living Labs to gain valuable insights into IPTV based services in rural communities with the latest developments in peer to peer (P2P) and wireless mesh network technology.

With the shift to mobile users, limited local content from the BBC licence fee and more digital production expected from the £50 million pound Media Development Fund budget – IPTV with personalised services is the future of broadcasting.

Speaker Biography
Dr. Keith Mitchell is a Research Fellow at Lancaster University and co-founder of 21media Innovations Ltd, a technology spin-out based in InfoLab21. He is one of the leading British specialists in human-computer interaction, context-aware computing and multimedia systems.

Schedule

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17:00 Doors open – Drinks, complimentary snacks, and networking opportunity

18:00 “Enterprise and eBusiness Search Technology”

Connie Chen, Transparensee, New York City (speaker kindly supplied by US Department of Commerce)

18:30 Q & A

18:45 “Security Loopholes and Hacking Updates”

Mark Mann, Webtech Software, Ballasalla, Isle of Man

19:15 Q & A

19:45 Optional meal with the speakers and BCS Isle of Man committee

(£15 for 2 courses in Coast restaurant)

This event is being held on Thursday 14^th April 2011 at the Sanderson Suite, Claremont Hotel, Douglas Promenade, Douglas.

If possible, please confirm your intention to attend, and any guests, by email to events@bcs.org.im; and, if you wish to join the speakers for a meal and continued discussions, please state MEAL, total seats, and any specific points of interest.

Connie Chen Presentation Summary:

How can search be better when the user doesn’t know what the user really wants?   Users frequently, initially, have not defined their search boundaries as precisely as websites anticipate.  Their imaginations can be triggered by what they see in the periphery.  In typical searches, the more information a user gives on wishes and desires, the worse the results.  A better search produces better results with more information from the user.  A better search produces better results for your organization too.

Connie Chen Biography:

Connie Chen leads business development at Transparensee Systems.  Formerly the VP of Marketing for NewsBank, Connie owned market strategy, product management, and new product initiatives for this premier digital archiver of news and information.  As the COO and the VP of Business Development of Morris DigitalWorks (MDW), Connie led MDW’s efforts to become a primary software vendor to more than 150 newspapers and several major newspaper groups in the US.  She has been in information technology sales, marketing and business development for over 20 years, with the last 15 years directly in the Internet space. Her previous employment includes ten years at IBM, several start-up company experiences ranging from Internet consultancies to Foofoo.com, a luxury commerce, content and community B2C site, to sales and marketing for Infragistics, one of the top Microsoft Developer toolkit manufacturers. She has a B.S. in applied mathematics, computer science from Yale University.

Mark Mann and Webtech

Webtech design specialist software products to support International Finance, Trust and Corporate Service Providers, Banking and Regulatory Authorities. The Isle of Man based company was founded in 1992 and has a wealth of experience with finance industry systems, some of the leading names in banking and insurance rely on Webtech’s Genesis Life 3 to manage their complex multi-currency investment structures. Webtech’s Genesis system framework is designed to be highly flexible with secure internet integration and is developer and user friendly.

PART ONE: SANDERSON SUITE
12:00 TRAVEL TIME or SOCIAL NETWORKING DEBATE: “QR CODES IN THE ISLE OF MAN”
12:10 WELCOME & OPEN DATA COMPETITION GRAEME JONES, VICE CHAIR & EVENTS, BCS ISLE OF MAN
12:13 EVENT VIDEO DAVID CAMERON, PRIME MINISTER, UNITED KINGDOM
12:15 MOBILE APPS IN THE ISLE OF MAN – SESSION #2 ANDREW GLEAVE, REDROBOTSTUDIOS.COM
with contributions from Kristin Kanaar (Twitter), Graham Shimmin (Manx Telecom),
Rob Mercer (previously with Mersey Travel), Tom Brew (iombusandrail.info), etc.
12:35 HOSTED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
12:50 TRAVEL TIME or SOCIAL NETWORKING DEBATE: “BUDGET SPECIAL: THE 6 BILLION POUND QUESTION”
Dr Rufus Pollock at Cambridge University estimated that the public sector open data policy is worth about £6 billion to the UK economy. How much do you think it is worth to the Isle of Man?
13:10 ANY SURPRISES IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT DATA?
CHRIS TAGGART, OPENLYLOCAL.COM, OPENCORPORATES.COM, OPENCHARITIES.ORG
13:40 HOSTED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
13:50 TRAVEL TIME or SOCIAL NETWORKING DEBATE “EU DIRECTIVE 2003/98/EC” (Yes, really!)
The European Parliament recently reviewed the policy on third party reuse of Public Sector Information. Do you think we could beat Luxembourg, Malta and Gibraltar with local techys and faster amendments to legislation?

PART TWO: COAST
14:00 MASTERCLASS: WEBSCRAPING CLOSED DATA WITH PYTHON JULIAN TODD, SCRAPERWIKI.COM
14:15 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
14:30 ANY LOCAL PROJECT OPPORTUNITIES: FREE CONSULTANCY
15:30 BREAK

PART THREE: SANDERSON SUITE
17:00 OPEN DATA COMPETITION REGISTRATION:
RESEARCH CASH PRIZE (£50)
BEST IOM PRIORITISED PSI MAP OR LEAGUE TABLE BENCHMARK
DEVELOPMENT CASH PRIZE (£50)
BEST IOM MOBILE APP BUSINESS CASE OR MASHUP
Submissions from academic researchers, students and unemployed/underemployed IT sector workers are specifically welcomed. A placement may be offered to selected eligible entries subject to availability on specific dates. The audience at the next event on 31st March 2011 will be invited to help judge the competition.
17:45 SOCIAL NETWORKING DEBATE: “SOCIAL ENTERPRISE SELF-FUNDING AND INCOME STREAMS”
18:00 WELCOME & OPEN DATA COMPETITION – BOB SULLIVAN, CHAIR, BCS ISLE OF MAN
18:08 EVENT VIDEO – DAVID CAMERON, PRIME MINISTER, UNITED KINGDOM
18:10 DATA.GOV.UK & DATA.GOV.IM ANYONE? – LESSONS LEARNED, INTERNATIONAL TRENDS AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS – CHRIS TAGGART, DATA.GOV.UK
18:25 OPEN DATA DRIVERS IN THE ISLE OF MAN – DAN DAVIES, BUSINESS CHANGE MANAGER, CHIEF SECRETARY’S OFFICE
18:35 EGOVERNMENT UPDATE – ONE MANN PROJECT – OWEN CUTAJAR, ISD, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
18:45 SHARED SERVICES UPDATE – CUSTOMER FIRST PROJECT – ANDY WILLIAMS, ISD, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
18:55 HOSTED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
19:15 BREAK

PART FOUR: SANDERSON SUITE
FUNDED BY POSITIVE ACTION GROUP
19:30 CASE STUDY: A WORLD CLASS NICHE WEBSITE FROM A BARN IN MAUGHOLD
RALFY, WHISKYREVIEWS.BLOGSPOT.COM
You could end up with half a million potential customers if you had original content. Some sobering thoughts for any export led economic development strategy!
19:45 MASTERCLASS: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUESTS
JULIAN TODD, WHATDOTHEYKNOW.COM, a world famous MYSOCIETY.ORG project
The Ministry of Justice recently acknowledged that over 10 percent of all requests each quarter are logged and tracked with the WDTK “clearing house”. He could probably be persuaded by the audience to talk about eDemocracy tools such as THEYWORKFORYOU.COM (it is an election year), UNDEMOCRACY.ORG and THESTRAIGHTCHOICE.COM, etc.
20:15 HOSTED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
ROGER TOMLINSON, POSITIVE ACTION GROUP

A PDF version of the event can be found here: bcs feb v5

Please book your attendance by emailing publicity06@bcs.org.im

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Our next event will host Mr Andrew Gleave from Red Robot Studios, a Creative Web Development Agency with a focus on native iPhone/iPad applications and web based mobile development. The company is an export led star software development house and was responsible for the Legends of Suzuki TT mobile app. Mr Gleave will talk about iPhone, Google Android, marketplaces, how to bypass marketplace fees, location based services and lessons learned.

A discussion will follow which will centre on the Isle of Man. Topics will include:

• favourite mobile apps
• mobile advertising
• location based advertising (GSM triangulation and GPS)
• mobile banking
• NFC payments (London Oyster and Hong Kong Octopus)
• an export led mGovernment strategy

Please submit any advance questions and areas of interest by email to events-at-bcs.org.im

The talk is to be held on Monday 31st January 2011 at the Sanderson Suite, Claremont Hotel, Douglas Promenade, Douglas. Doors open at 5:30pm for a 6:30pm start. Light refreshments will be provided. Attendance is free and open to the public. The event is expected to complete by 8:00pm.

To guarantee a seat and some refreshments, please confirm attendance by email to: publicity06-at-bcs.org.im

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ISLAND business leaders are being offered an expert insight into how effective records management can generate cost savings, enhance customer service and provide a cutting edge in a competitive marketplace.

Top UK Information and Records Manager Matthew Stephenson will deliver a presentation at the Manx Museum Lecture Theatre on Friday, December 3, on what is an issue of emerging importance in the business community. Mr Stephenson is Head of Information Governance at the University of Salford and Chairman of the UK Information and Records Management Society.

His talk will focus on challenges and solutions in the field of records management, as well as the benefits of establishing communities in which to share best practice and professional knowledge. The presentation will be followed by an informal discussion forum. The event at the Manx Museum is being co-hosted by the Isle of Man Government’s ‘Transforming Government’ Programme and the Information and Records Management Society

Meic Pierce Owen, Transforming Government’s Information Manager, said:

‘We are delighted that Matthew will be here to share his professional expertise with an Island audience. I have heard him talk before and he certainly has an impressive depth of knowledge on this subject, so I would urge people to take advantage of this opportunity. Today’s business climate is one of increasing customer expectations and contracting resources. This is true whatever sector you work in. In such an environment, effective records management can give businesses a vital edge. It can improve business efficiency and deliver significant cost savings. This event is the first of a series that Government and the Information and Records Management Society will be co-hosting over the coming months. The objectives are to raise awareness of the practical benefits of records management and also to promote an active community among those working in this field in the Isle of Man.’

The information seminar is open to all and admission is free. Doors open from 2pm and the event will run from 2.30pm to 4.30pm. For more details contact Meic Pierce Owen on 463809 or email meic.pierceowen@cso.gov.im

This year’s BCS Christmas Pub Quiz will be on Thursday 2nd December. With prizes for “General Knowledge” and for the “Geeky IT Questions”, this event has proven a great opportunity to practice “teambuilding”, test your knowledge, network with other BCS members and guests, and enjoy a few drinks. Complimentary light refreshments will be provided.

The Quiz will commence on Thursday 2nd December 2010 at 1900 at the Prospect Pub in Douglas (doors open and the light refreshments available from about 1815).

Please assemble your teams (maximum 4 persons per team) and kindly confirm attendance (by Monday, 29th November) by replying to membership@bcs.org.im to allow us to plan catering, etc.

We look forward to seeing you there.