Progress Asia Forum focuses on IT integration

MANILA, Philippines - Over a hundred information technology professionals gathered last week at the recent Progress Asia Forum ’09 at the Mandarin Oriental Makati to listen to a battery of IT experts talk on the evolving relationship between business, technology and mission critical information and how they influence one another.

Organized by Progress Software Corp. (PSC) for its Asian clients, the event was the second in a series of IT forums that started in Hong Kong last February and will move on to India, Malaysia, Korea and Indonesia after the Philippine leg.

According to recent survey commissioned by the PSC, a global provider of application infrastructure software to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications to maximize the benefits of information technology while minimizing its complexity, 77 percent of CEO’s and IT directors are unable to effectively drive business change due to inadequate information availability and PSC is proposing the solution to this concern.

Keynote speaker in the half-day forum was Nathiel Marquez, president/CEO of Ebizolution and Kreativo Koncepto who talked on the industry insights and relevant reference cases, he was followed by a battery of international speakers who dwelt on other related topics with Saket Saith, technical director of PSC Asia talking of business IT alignment and how an effective IT system can help achieve business objectives making use of moving data.

PSC pre-sales consultant Hugo Cruz talked on managing processes in a multi-site heterogenous environment, while Rajan Prasad, senior pre-scales consultant of PSC South Asia focused on application modernization and readiness to grow on existing infrastructure.