
Jazz is an extensible and scalable collaboration platform for the development cycle.

It was another talk with a live demo – very cool to see the technology actually running. I need to step up! 🙂įor the final morning of the conference, I attended a talk on Jazz by Scott Rich. Sandy has got nearly as many blogs and social network profiles as me now. Let me know if you’ll be at IMPACT, as it would be good to connect with my blog readers. One nice feature of the conference site is that there are a range of widgets and social media tools directly available there, as well as links to different social networks where it will be possible to pick up some of the content. I’ve just read her most recent book, Marketing 2.0, and I’ll try to post some comments on that soon as well. Incidentally, Sandy has some great background info about different events and partners at IMPACT on her developerWorks blog. I’m also looking forward to finally meeting a bunch of my colleagues such as the legendary “ Social Media Sandy” aka Sandy Carter herself, who I’ve known for a number of years now through various networks, but have never had the opportunity to talk to face-to-face. I’m very much looking forward to talking to WebSphere and other IBM customers about their experiences with our products, what they are looking for from Service Oriented Architectures, and taking those messages back into our labs. In my role, I’ve always been excited by technology and the innovation we get up to internally – but much, much more importantly, I need to be talking to customers and partners to understand how that technology and innovation is being used in the real world.

I’ve been heading to Vegas on a regular basis for the past few years, but it has always been for internal events rather than customer ones.
