SESSIONS OVERVIEW

Momentum Prague will feature a comprehensive agenda packed with breakout sessions - more than 130 in all! The Breakout Tracks section below describes the types of sessions available for each, and by clicking on each track heading you can view session abstracts and details.

Click here for a copy of the full conference agenda, day-by-day.

PARTNER CONFERENCE

Monday 10th November
10.00am - 5.30pm

We are pleased to announce that the Momentum Partner Conference will take place on the first day of Momentum Prague.

Attendance is open to all EMC partners, both exhibiting and non-exhibiting.  If you are already attending as part of your sponsorship package, or if you are not exhibiting but attending as a full conference delegate, no further fee will apply and your attendance is complimentary.

If you would only like to attend the Partner Conference you will need to register online as a day delegate for Monday 10th November 2008 at a cost of Kc 6,500 (approximately €250 Euros).  This includes all meals, conference materials and attendance at the Conference Welcome Reception that evening.

Click here to download a hard copy of the Partner Conference Agenda.

For more information or if you have any questions, please contact harris_sandra@emc.com.

Agenda

Morning - Plenary

Afternoon - Business Track

Afternoon - Technical Track (TechShare)

For more information on the Partner Conference, please contact harris_sandra@emc.com.

EMC FUNDAMENTALS

Monday 10th November
11.00am - 5.30pm

EMC Fundamentals will address the key points of many principal application areas. So that attendees are able to attend more than one of these popular sessions, this year the six separate topics will be repeated.

Fundamental 1

11:00am and 2:00pm

Introduction to EMC’s Knowledge Worker Technologies and Solutions

How can you best expose enterprise content management to your end users?  This session provides an overview of EMC's current Knowledge Worker product portfolio and our roadmap to help you effectively incorporate innovative new end-user capabilities into your information management strategy.  You'll learn about the current EMC Documentum clients plus integrations into leading end-user applications that further drive worker productivity.

Fundamental 2

11:00am and 2:00pm

Introduction to EMC Transactional Content Management (TCM)

In today’s intensely competitive marketplace, organisations are continually driven to increase productivity, deliver superior customer service, and ensure regulatory compliance—all while reducing costs and with limited resources. This need has given rise to a whole new category of applications that combines the best of EMC’s Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Business Process Management (BPM) technologies into a single solution platform known as Transactional Content Management (TCM). This session demonstrates how the unification of process, collaboration, information capture & management, and compliance significantly improves customer service-intensive applications such as lending, claims processing, case management and customer/patient care to deliver unrivalled business performance and agility.

Fundamental 3

11:00am and 4:00pm

Fundamentals of Business Process Management

Business process management (BPM) helps organisations improve operational efficiency and employee productivity by providing a comprehensive solution for understanding, automating, and optimising mission-critical processes across the enterprise. This session provides an overview of what comprises a BPM system, how workflow relates to BPM, and how BPM from EMC can provide value across a variety of industries and applications.

Fundamental 4

11:00am and 4:00pm

The Knowledge Warehouse: How XML Enables Enterprise-Wide Knowledge Capture and Sharing

The holy grail of knowledge management is often stymied by the silos of content within the enterprise.  Barriers such as inconsistent data structures, proprietary content formats that hide valuable information, and weak search and discovery tools prevent knowledge workers from seeing the big picture and limit opportunities for improving business processes.  XML technologies are the first step to overcoming these barriers by enhancing the meaning and relationships of any type of content.  When combined with robust content management, collaboration, and content delivery, XML enables comprehensive knowledge warehouses that can help to achieve dramatic improvements in competitiveness and employee performance.

Fundamental 5

2:00pm and 4:00pm

Introduction to Interactive Content with EMC Documentum Web and Digital Asset Management

Today's businesses create large volumes of high-impact, personalized, and brand-focused content such as Web pages, presentations, video, images, flash files, and marketing collateral. You will learn the basics of how Digital Asset Management and Web Content Management can help manage these assets from conception through to publishing. This presentation also includes product overviews, customer examples and demonstrations of the key technologies behind managing interactive content.

Fundamental 6

2:00pm and 4:00pm

Fundamentals of Information Compliance and Archiving

With the explosion of electronic information, archiving and compliance are two topics that are top of mind for most companies worldwide.  EMC offers a wide portfolio of solutions focused on addressing the needs of businesses in these areas.  This session provides a broad understanding of solutions that are available from EMC to support proactive archiving and compliance readiness, as well as solutions that enable support for information discovery and related events.  This overview session sets the stage for deeper-dive sessions on EMC solutions for compliance and archiving and should be attended as an introduction and roadmap to attendance at these later sessions.

PRODUCT ADVISORY FORUMS

Monday 10th November
10.30am - 12.30pm and

2.00pm - 4.00pm

By invitation only

The Product Advisory Forums (PAFs)—an invitation-only event—consist of small focus groups that allow customers to provide valuable feedback about EMC software products.   PAFs enable customers to share their experiences and provide input into our technology and product roadmap. The Momentum 2008 PAF discussions will influence Documentum 7 and beyond.

If you would like to attend one of the following forums or if you have any questions regarding the Momentum PAFs, please contact product_advisory@emc.com.

PAF 1

10:30am

Interactive Content (targeted at DAM & WCM)

In this session we will identify the use cases that are most important to you and then use that to explore your requirements for user experience.   Please join us to help define the best way to work with media and web assets.

PAF 2

10:30am

Search, Classification, Content Analytics and more on Information Intelligence

This session is to gather your feedback and show you our plans with regards to Information Intelligence. Information Intelligence aims at leveraging maximum business value from unstructured information. It's the set of technologies that help the knowledge workers re-use content and create knowledge by adding more context to information.  It comprises products and technologies such as search, content classification and analytics, visualisation, correlation and recommendation services.  Let's exchange on this exciting subject!

PAF 3

10:30am

Webtop and My Documentum Offline - Priorities and the expected road ahead

With the introduction of CenterStage many are wondering about the direction for Webtop and My Documentum Offline and where these products play in this new world.  There are a good many plans for both of the products, and it would be advantageous for the product group to hear opinions on customer priorities, plans to move to the new CenterStage architecture and in what timeframe, use cases that are not available in CenterStage which would prevent an immediate migration, and other areas where features are not available.

PAF 4

10:30am

Information Compliance and Archiving

The EMC Documentum 6.5 compliance infrastructure extends a consistent set of retention and security policies across multiple content types as well as from various applications.  This unified infrastructure includes email management, SharePoint archiving, electronic and physical records management, federated records management, eDiscovery, SAP archiving plus other core data/process sources.   In this Product Advisory Forum we will take the opportunity to understand your requirements and validate our product plans. Specifically we will structure the session to understand your priorities, what we need to enhance, and whether there are missing integrations?

PAF 5

10:30am

** ALL DAY SESSION ** Transactional Content Management ** ALL DAY SESSION **

Are you implementing solutions that combine content, process and compliance?  Have you implemented any of the of the intelligent document capture capabilities by EMC Captiva or taken advantage of the EMC Documentum Process Suite?  Are you interested in learning more about customer communications management by EMC Document Sciences?  During this session, you’ll learn about our latest releases, and hear directly from product managers and chief architects on the exciting new functionality.  But most importantly, as a participant, you will have the opportunity to interact with our Engineering team and discuss any products functionality to make your EMC implementations more successful.   We're counting on hearing great suggestions that will shape and improve our products moving forward, so please come prepared to share your challenges, thoughts, and ideas with the people who can make a difference!

Note:  For anyone focussed on a specific TCM product line, please note the following breakdown for the day:

10:30am – 12:30pm Captiva Session

2:00pm – 3:30pm  BPM Session

4:00pm – 5:30pm  Document Sciences Session

PAF 6

2:00pm

Next Generation ECM Platform

The objective of this session is to introduce the xDB and High-Volume Server products, and have an open discussion about how these products can enable new classes of applications and solutions.

PAF 7

2:00pm

SharePoint Integration

Many customers are just coming to terms with the effect that SharePoint is having on their infrastructure.  In this forum we will be validating our thoughts and current plans for how ECM systems can help customers with the operational, compliance and archiving challenges created by SharePoint.

PAF 8

2:00pm

EMC Next Generation Information Workplace

The Knowledge Worker Product Advisory Forum (PAF) will provide an overview of EMC's strategy for addressing the needs of knowledge workers through the use of Web 2.0, desktop and application integration, mobile access and information intelligence.  The EMC Knowledge Worker team will engage customers' input on how to best expose application functionality through those various access point.  Participation in the CenterStage Essentials Beta is desired as well as an in-depth understanding of the usage patterns of the customer business community.

PAF 9

2:00pm

Integrating Information Rights Management with your ECM & Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Systems

Over the last several years there has been a noticeable shift in attention and investment from securing the network, to securing systems within the network, to securing the data itself.  Many customers are just coming to terms with the concept of Information Centric Security solutions and how it integrates with their existing infrastructure. In this forum we will be validating our thoughts and current plans for how EMC Information Rights Management technology can help customers control, secure, and track sensitive information managed by EMC ECM and RSA DLP systems.

KEYNOTE SESSIONS

Tuesday 11th November
11.00am - 12.30pm

ECM: Why the Future is So Bright and What it Means to You

This year’s Momentum keynote address will be a departure from what you’re used to.  Don’t worry: you’ll still get all the great information you came for -- but delivered in a truly engaging, interactive format.

You can think of it less as a presentation than an informal conversation.  We’ll review with you the current state of the ECM market and preview the future.  So of course we'll discuss the way content management is evolving to enable compelling, dynamic, highly intuitive applications -- and we’re dying to talk about how Web 2.0 is driving the emergence of ECM 2.0.  Who knows, we even may unveil some new products!

Hosted by Whitney Tidmarsh, Vice President of Marketing for the CMA division of EMC, this presentation will feature some guest experts, including Mark Lewis, President of the CMA division, and John O'Melia, Vice President for CMA in EMEA, who will tell you specifically what we’re doing to address your biggest challenges.  Also making a special guest appearance is Royce Bell, CEO for Accenture Information Management Services, who will share his view on emerging content management trends and the need for an holistic, enterprise-wide Information Management strategy.

But wait, there’s more!  This session will be full of surprises, which you won’t want to miss.  We’d like to tell you more about it, but we can’t give it all away, can we?

Tuesday 11th November
4.30pm - 5.30pm

Products in Motion: Hot Trends in Content Management and Archiving

Balaji Yelamanchili

Senior VP and GM of Content Management and Archiving, EMC Corporation

In this general session, Balaji will take you on a fast-paced tour through all the cool new technical capabilities in the latest releases of our content management and archiving product suites. At the intersection of Web 2.0 and ECM, these releases feature cutting-edge functionality for users while providing additional control for IT. Balaji will astound and amaze you with eye-opening product demos that will inspire you to ask, "Who says technology can't be cool again?"

Thursday 13th November
12.00pm - 1.00pm

We’ll wrap up the conference this year with a review of the highlights by Whitney Tidmarsh, Vice President of Marketing for the CMA division of EMC.  Whitney will summarise the product launches and roadmap for content management and archiving in 2009, reflect on this year's conference and look forward to next year’s event.

But we know what you are really looking forward to - the much-anticipated (and always surprising) final keynote presentation by David Gingell, VP of Marketing for EMEA.  "Engaging and entertaining, informative and vibrant" - those are just four adjectives that have never been used in relation to a Gingell closer at Momentum. Following criticism of his James Bond routine last year we have decided to take a more serious path in Prague and have dispensed with his services. We are delighted to welcome instead, Carr G. Nicholson III, the noted IT Futurologist, to discuss his views on the future of IT and the trends that will be shaping your business in the future. 

To all intents and purposes, Nicholson was born on the web, he is that "future". Whilst Tim Berners-Lee may claim to have invented the Internet, by the age of 10 Nicholson had already conceived of it, scenario-planned its usage in the 21st century and dispensed with it as insecure and purely for those seeking gambling highs and suspect pictures. After intensive studies at the University of Wolverhampton into social-political theories and their impact on organised religions, he took up a position at Dudley Post Office as the sub post-master. His interest in technology never waned though and after devising a dog-deterrent inductor for postmen, he was able to go freelance and indulge his fascination with all things technical. His resume reads like somebody else's. He has written and read extensively. His latest piece for the Droitwich Business Review entitled "IT does Matter, yes, IT really does" was warmly received by almost no-one. Frankly he's seen better days but he still has strident views which he'll be happy to share. 

So please do not miss this opportunity to hear the views of an expert.

BREAKOUT TRACKS

Tuesday 11th November
8.45am - 10.30am & 3.00pm - 4.00pm

Wednesday 12th November
9.00am - 10.45am & 2.00pm - 4.45pm

Thursday 13th November
10.00am - 11.45am

Momentum's targeted tracks will offer high-level executive sessions, in-depth technical presentations, business sessions, product demonstrations, partner discussions, and much more.

Track 1: EMC Products and Solutions

This track provides overviews for a wide range of EMC content management and archiving products. These sessions are ideal for new users, as well as experienced users looking to leverage products they currently have or learn about additional content and information management products offered by EMC.

Track 2: ECM Solutions

When faced with a business challenge, you want a complete, targeted solution. In this track you'll hear about business solutions to address your specific needs. These comprehensive solutions will keep your business information available and secure around the clock.

Track 3: EMC Customer Successes

Hear EMC customers from a variety of industries and geographies share their goals, experiences and successes and demonstrate how they utilise EMC software solutions to realise business value. Find out how successful organisations use EMC in exciting and innovative ways to power business-critical initiatives and applications.

Track 4: Best Practices & Implementations

To achieve business benefits from content management systems, it isn't just technology that's important; it's the bringing together of people and processes. This track will explore how EMC customers have done just that - experiences will be shared and successes highlighted demonstrating how and where they have been successful in their ECM and collaboration initiatives.

Track 5: Special Interest Topics

Subject-matter experts will facilitate Special Interest Topics for participants of like or similar interests. Bring your questions to these interactive sessions and take part in the discussion.

Track 6: Software Developer Track

Developers, architects, technical project managers, and business managers looking for deep technical information should attend these sessions. Topics include developer tools, building applications on EMC software platforms, leveraging new platform services, understanding the architectural direction of EMC platforms, system performance for developers, new product introductions, and much more.

Track 7: Industry Spotlight

Learn how EMC Documentum enterprise content management and archiving solutions are being used across the enterprise to support a variety of industry-specific functions to ensure compliance, address critical challenges, streamline processes and reduce costs.

SPONSOR TRACKS

Tuesday 11th November
2.00pm - 2.45pm

Wednesday 12th November
11.15am - 1.00pm & 5.00pm - 5.45pm

Dedicated Sponsor Tracks will offer attendees the chance to attend presentations given by our exhibitors, which will provide you with an understanding of how EMC partner integrations and solutions can increase efficiency to the end user.