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1.  PartnerWorld: Plug in to PartnerWorld Express Advantage

Do you have clients that sell in the valuable mid-market space? Then you'll want to stay current on all the new Express Advantage solutions and mid-market resources available to IBM Business Partners. One way to stay up to speed is by subscribing to the PartnerWorld Express Advantage RSS feed. It's easy. Just go to the Web page and follow the instructions. You'll receive updates on important product launches, incentives, selling resources, marketing materials, and more.

You can also share your favorite PartnerWorld Express Advantage content by tagging it in Digg and del.ici.ous. Leverage the power of these bookmarking technologies. Show your colleagues what you use to help drive new sales opportunities and develop new solutions for mid-sized clients.

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2.  IBM Systems: IBM Systems & Technology Group Technical Conference - your last chance to enrol

The 2008 IBM STG Technical Conference is fast approaching. This premier event for technical training is the most important skills building event of the year, so if you haven't enrolled yet, do it now! It takes place 14-18 April in Sevilla, Spain.

• In the IT Infrastructure Solutions track, sessions are designed for senior technical specialists in S&D, STG, SWG, GBS, GTS and Business Partners who architect IT Infrastructure solutions across platforms and products.
• Attend the Modular (System x) track and discover the true x factor: our newest Modular Systems (System x and BladeCenter) servers. Learn how to leverage the powerful IBM eX4 Architecture and BladeCenter technologies that bring mission critical design and technologies to the x86 server environment.
• In the Power Systems, i5/OS, AIX and Linux track, explore the newest V6R1 features and functions, put yourself in a better position to help your customers consolidate workloads onto a single, larger system to maximise their return on IT infrastructure. Get valuable insights into PowerVM™'scapabilities and offerings that deliver industry-leading virtualisation on IBM POWER™ processor-based systems.
• The Mainframe (System z) track will provide an excellent opportunity to deepen your skills and knowledge around key initiatives for the System z platform including System Oriented Architecture (SOA), Security, Data Serving and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Technical sessions covering Enterprise Applications and Industry Solutions for System z will complement foundational education for System z Operating - Attend the sessions in the Storage & Storage Networking track and find out how you can address the growing challenge of managing and securing retention-managed data using storage solutions from IBM and IBM Business Partners.Systems, Storage and Parallel Sysplex.

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3.  Information Management: IBM launches Information Server FastTrack

IBM Information Server FastTrack accelerates the translation of business requirements into data integration projects.

Data integration projects require a sophisticated level of collaboration across business analysts, data modelers and developers. Information Server FastTrack provides a unique mechanism to effectively capture and communicate the interaction between these key team members. Designed with an emphasis to communicate business requirements in a familiar format which IT professionals are comfortable with and require little interpretation, FastTrack transforms business logic automatically into WebSphere DataStage jobs.

Help your customers unlock the business value of their information with the latest offerings from the IBM Information Management portfolio.

Read the complete announcement.

4.  Lotus: Lotus Channel Competitive Talk series - new replay page

Check out this page for registration information for the next talk in this series as well as the replay files from previous talks.

February and March replay files are now available.

5.  Lotus: Lotus software alternatives to SharePoint

Date: 10 April 2008
Time: 1600 UK; 1700 CET

Join this Lotus Channel Competitive Talk and learn:

• Trends forming in the marketplace for collaboration and highlight IBM capabilities and their advantages.
• Information about collaboration software that you are not likely to hear from Microsoft.
• How IBM is positioned in the marketplace as compared to Microsoft SharePoint 2007.
• Facts and tactics to put the competition on the defense.
• Keys to success - understanding your customer's business requirements.
• Top reasons to choose IBM collaboration products over Microsoft SharePoint 2007.

Register today.

6.  WebSphere: IMPACT 2008 - Bring your customers and close business

IMPACT 2008 is designed to make a huge impact on your customers - and provide you an ideal lead generation, progression and closing event. Invite your customers to this opportunity to learn about SOA and reimagine their business. To set up a meeting with IBM sales executives to help close that sale, contact your IBM client executive or send an e-mail to:
soahelp@us.ibm.com.

Register today.