Dear Undergraduate Computer Science Students,

Who: IBM

What: Company technical presentation

Where: Daniels Hall, Room 406

When: TODAY,Wednesday, 7:30-9:00pm

Why: Free Pizza (during meeting), Alumni Speakers, Job Opportunities

Topic:

IBM Middle Market

The Mid Market companies (those with between 100 and 1000 employees) represent the fasting growing segment regarding IT spending over the next few years.   IBM leveraging its Express Portfolio of products is focused on winning in this fragmented market via its Business Partners.   >From a Software Group perspective this strategy means that key software vendors (ISVs) must build their products on IBM middleware (DB2, Websphere) and systems integrators must deploy solutions on IBM infrastructure (Websphere Portal, DB2).   Within our organization, we provide a key product for the ISV community, Express Runtime, and a set of accelerators designed for integrators known as Solutions Builder Express.

What is the "Mid Market"? :

IBM is known for being a mainframe/high-end consumer company.  The lower-end home-PC consumer market has been flooded already, and there is little room for expansion.  There are still a lot of customers who fall in the middle of those two and require data services.  Many companies already exist that offer such services for that middle market ... but there is still a lot of room for improvement and standardization.  A trusted and respected name such as IBM would offer a good solid investment into such needed data services.

Speaker Bio:

The speakers for this event are outstanding!  David is the gentleman who recruits all those wonderful NC State students that IBM employs.  If you've ever been to an NC State career fair or information session where IBM was present, he was there.  Two of the other speakers are former ACM/AITP officers.  They should land us a good presentation as a result :-).

David George:

Michael Donaghy:

Michael Donaghy is a Software Engineer with the IBM Solutions Builder Express Portfolio Development in RTP , NC where he develops mid-market solutions for IBM. Previously, he worked in IBM's On Demand Solution Center creating enterprise solutions showcasing IBM software. He holds a Master of Computer Science degree from North Carolina State University .  Michael also served at AITP President during 2000-2001 and remained active as a graduate advisor afterwards.

Brian Temple:

Brian Temple is a Software Engineer for the Small to Medium Businesses Emerging Technologies group at IBM.  Brian has a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder and has several conference, journal, and book publications concerning his research.

About IBM:

http://www.ibm.com/ibm/us/

http://www.research.ibm.com/

At IBM, we strive to lead in the invention, development and manufacture of the industry's most advanced information technologies, including computer systems, software, storage systems and microelectronics  We translate these advanced technologies into value for our customers through our professional solutions, services and consulting businesses worldwide:

Business operations
-Hardware
*Servers
*Storage
*Personal systems
*Printing systems
*Retail store solutions
-Software
*Connect operating systems, business processes, and applications seamlessly.
-Services
*Comprehensive IT services integrated with business insight to reduce costs, improve productivity, and assert competitive advantage.
-Financing
*A leading provider of financing and asset management services to companies selling or acquiring IT related products and services.
-Research
*Innovative technologies that produce leading-edge solutions.
-Technology
*Develop, market and deliver leading chip technologies and services.

Job Opportunities:

*Current as of March 25th

[ACM-AITP Members Only]

Travis Cornwell
Vice President, Association for Computing Machinery Student Chapter
North Carolina State University
twcornwe@ncsu.[redacted]