EDCi Events - Seminars

Listed below are the current seminars and informational sessions. To register, click the register button near each description, or, if there is not one, e-mail jpotzler@edci.com with details about which seminar you would like to attend.

September 15, 2010 Virtualized Desktop Hands-On Demo/Milwaukee

  • Are you looking to get a firsthand look at the new world of the virtual desktop?
  • Are your users looking for high definition graphs and fast response for applications? How can you deliver a virtualized desktop that exceeds their expectations and provides the high definition experience to the client?
  • Do you have multiple images that have to be maintained and are constantly trying to keep up with patch management? Would you like to manage one image of your applications and OS to cut down on maintenance? HOW could we deliver this experience and save the company money?
  • How do you and your team take care of the vast number of PCs? Are you looking for a better way to centrally manage all applications?

Join EDCi on a hands-on demo of this new virtualization technology. We will show you how virtualization to the desktop can solve these issues by giving you a centrally managed environment that can be quickly scaled and change to meet business requirements. This is a small group discussion and demonstration that is sure to change your organization.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED: Contact Jo Ann Potzler at 920-882-1941 or via email: jpotzler@edci.com

HILTON GARDEN INN
11600 PARK PLACE
MILWAUKEE (9 A.M.-4 P.M.) (16 per time slot only)

Wednesday, September 15,2010
Select the Session

  • Session 1: 9:00 a.m. - Noon
  • Session 2: 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

September 23, 2010 Customer Service/Contact Center Seminar-Improving Productivity using Email Push/Milwaukee 9 a.m.

Pushing Email/Improving Productivity Seminar

Companies continue to invest in automation, document manage platforms, and process improvement initiatives without considering the detrimental loss of productivity and response time email is causing. Most companies do not realize that their email system has been turned into a workflow management tool that is inefficient and very costly to manage.

Is your email volume continuing to increase?

Does email sit in electronic buckets waiting to be processed?

Do your representatives cherry pick what to work on?

Evolve and begin to Push email to a skilled representative who is available. Prioritize email based on customer, keyword, or sensitivity. Route this email to anyone across your enterprise. Achieve greater control, superior visibility, improved response time, and an overall reduction in labor expense.

EDCi is honored to have Mike Lorenson from Digi-Key Corporation join our discussion. He will share his thoughts, site examples, and talk about how they overcame the challenge of email while achieving some incredible returns.

September 23, 2010 - 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
The Hilton
11600 W. Park Place
Milwaukee, WI 53224


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September 23, 2010 Customer Service/Contact Center Seminar-Improving Productivity using Email Push/Appleton 1:30 p.m.

Pushing Email/Improving Productivity Seminar

Companies continue to invest in automation, document manage platforms, and process improvement initiatives without considering the detrimental loss of productivity and response time email is causing. Most companies do not realize that their email system has been turned into a workflow management tool that is inefficient and very costly to manage.

Is your email volume continuing to increase?

Does email sit in electronic buckets waiting to be processed?

Do your representatives cherry pick what to work on?

Evolve and begin to Push email to a skilled representative who is available. Prioritize email based on customer, keyword, or sensitivity. Route this email to anyone across your enterprise. Achieve greater control, superior visibility, improved response time, and an overall reduction in labor expense.

EDCi is honored to have Mike Lorenson from Digi-Key Corporation join our discussion. He will share his thoughts, site examples, and talk about how they overcame the challenge of email while achieving some incredible returns.

September 23, 2010 - 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
Butte des Morts Country Club
3600 W. Prospect Avenue
Appleton, WI 54914


Register

September 28, 2010 Virtualized Desktop Hands-On Demo/Appleton

  • Are you looking to get a firsthand look at the new world of the virtual desktop?
  • Are your users looking for high definition graphs and fast response for applications? How can you deliver a virtualized desktop that exceeds their expectations and provides the high definition experience to the client?
  • Do you have multiple images that have to be maintained and are constantly trying to keep up with patch management? Would you like to manage one image of your applications and OS to cut down on maintenance? HOW could we deliver this experience and save the company money?
  • How do you and your team take care of the vast number of PCs? Are you looking for a better way to centrally manage all applications?

Join EDCi on a hands-on demo of this new virtualization technology. We will show you how virtualization to the desktop can solve these issues by giving you a centrally managed environment that can be quickly scaled and change to meet business requirements. This is a small group discussion and demonstration that is sure to change your organization.

Join EDCi on a hands-on demo of this new virtualization technology. We will show you how virtualization to the desktop can solve these issues by giving you a centrally managed environment that can be quickly scaled and change to meet business requirements. This is a small group discussion and demonstration that is sure to change your organization.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED: Contact Jo Ann Potzler at 920-882-1941 or via email: jpotzler@edci.com

Butte des Morts Country Club
3600 W. Prospect Avenue
APPLETON (9 A.M.-4 P.M.) (66 per time slot only)

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Select the Session

  • Session 1: 9:00 a.m. - Noon
  • Session 2: 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

September 29, 2010 Seminar presented by Intel, IBM and EDCi/Milwaukee 8:30 a.m.

What if you could: - Reduce IT operational costs by 50 to 80% in 3 years or less - Improve your server and storage utilization….. 70% or higher efficiency - Develop reliability and disaster recovery features that you could not afford before - Simplify your system manageability and flexibility - Grow your business without increasing operational cost

Is all of this possible and can I afford to do it? Consolidation of your data center is only one piece of this puzzle. Virtualization, memory limitation, processing and storage issues all play an important role in the performance of the data center.

At this seminar new generations of IBM System x servers and Intel® Xeon® processors will be introduced that will allow companies to drive to unprecedented levels of flexibility while discussing the latest innovations in the market. Intel, IBM and EDCi are proud to bring you a seminar that will address these issues and give you models to measure your company against.

(Buffet Breakfast will be served before event)

September 29, 2010 - 8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Hilton Garden Inn
11600 West Park Place
Milwaukee, WI 53224


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September 30, 2010 Seminar presented by Intel, IBM and EDCi/Appleton 8:30 a.m.

What if you could: - Reduce IT operational costs by 50 to 80% in 3 years or less - Improve your server and storage utilization….. 70% or higher efficiency - Develop reliability and disaster recovery features that you could not afford before - Simplify your system manageability and flexibility - Grow your business without increasing operational cost

Is all of this possible and can I afford to do it? Consolidation of your data center is only one piece of this puzzle. Virtualization, memory limitation, processing and storage issues all play an important role in the performance of the data center.

At this seminar new generations of IBM System x servers and Intel® Xeon® processors will be introduced that will allow companies to drive to unprecedented levels of flexibility while discussing the latest innovations in the market. Intel, IBM and EDCi are proud to bring you a seminar that will address these issues and give you models to measure your company against.

(Buffet Breakfast will be served before event)

September 30, 2010 - 8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Butte des Morts Country Club
3600 W. Prospect Avenue
Appleton, WI 54914


Register

October 6, 2010 Seminar - Best Practices to Save Money in your Data Center/Milwaukee 8:30 a.m.

IT budgets are constantly scrutinized for cost savings?

What if you could immediately increase your budget by 30-40% thru data center energy cost saving?

Do you know how much energy your data center is using? Does IT have the responsibility for energy cost in the data center?

What are the best practices to implement for your data center energy consumption?

What if you could receive Grants to help you implement some of these best practices?

If you want to utilize IT to make an immediate impact on your bottom line, you will not want to miss this event. Our session will equip you with knowledge on energy growth in IT, best practice technologies, and resources available to help you reduce your energy expenditures. Focus on Energy saves Wisconsin businesses over $212,000,000 each year in energy costs.

Please join EDCi/Wipfli for a presentation by Geoff Overland from Focus on Energy. Focus on Energy is Wisconsin statewide program for energy efficiency and renewable energy. Mr. Overland is building the IT and data center energy efficiency programs that are being utilized by businesses throughout Wisconsin. Mr. Overland will share energy-efficient computing facts, best practice technologies, expected savings, and Wisconsin case studies.

October 6, 2010 - 8:30 a.m.-11:30a.m.
Hilton Garden Inn
11600 West Park Place
Milwaukee, WI 53224

Register

October 7, 2010 Seminar - Best Practices to Save Money in your Data Center/Appleton 8:30 a.m.

IT budgets are constantly scrutinized for cost savings?

What if you could immediately increase your budget by 30-40% thru data center energy cost saving?

Do you know how much energy your data center is using? Does IT have the responsibility for energy cost in the data center?

What are the best practices to implement for your data center energy consumption?

What if you could receive Grants to help you implement some of these best practices?

If you want to utilize IT to make an immediate impact on your bottom line, you will not want to miss this event. Our session will equip you with knowledge on energy growth in IT, best practice technologies, and resources available to help you reduce your energy expenditures. Focus on Energy saves Wisconsin businesses over $212,000,000 each year in energy costs.

Please join EDCi/Wipfli for a presentation by Geoff Overland from Focus on Energy. Focus on Energy is Wisconsin statewide program for energy efficiency and renewable energy. Mr. Overland is building the IT and data center energy efficiency programs that are being utilized by businesses throughout Wisconsin. Mr. Overland will share energy-efficient computing facts, best practice technologies, expected savings, and Wisconsin case studies.

October 7, 2010 - 8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Butte des Morts Country Club
3600 W. Prospect Avenue
Appleton, WI 54914


Register

October 13, 2010 Citrix Virtualization Briefing/Milwaukee 8:30 a.m.

What is the status of the Hypervisor market?

Why are some manufactures giving their Hypervisors away?

While others are charging a premium for them?

Where is the client Hypervisor going? Will all laptops use them?

What is the vision for this technology 2, 3 and 5 years down the road?

EDCi is proud to present a seminar with one of the most sought after speakers in the field of virtualization, Mr. John Humphreys, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Datacenter and Cloud Division Citrix. Prior to joining Citrix in 2008, Humphreys spent nine years at IDC where he led the virtualization research group working directly with customer organizations in achieving the maximum value from their IT investments. Mr. Humphreys holds a Master’s Degree from Wyoming University and a Bachelor’s Degree from Miami University.

October 13, 2010 - 8:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Hilton Garden Inn
11600 West Park Place
Milwaukee, WI 53224


Register

October 13, 2010 Citrix Virtualization Briefing/Madison 1:30 p.m.

What is the status of the Hypervisor market?

Why are some manufactures giving their Hypervisors away?

While others are charging a premium for them?

Where is the client Hypervisor going? Will all laptops use them?

What is the vision for this technology 2, 3 and 5 years down the road?

EDCi is proud to present a seminar with one of the most sought after speakers in the field of virtualization, Mr. John Humphreys, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Datacenter and Cloud Division Citrix. Prior to joining Citrix in 2008, Humphreys spent nine years at IDC where he led the virtualization research group working directly with customer organizations in achieving the maximum value from their IT investments. Mr. Humphreys holds a Master’s Degree from Wyoming University and a Bachelor’s Degree from Miami University.

October 13, 2010 - 1:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Courtyard by Marriott
2502 Crossroads Drive
Madison, WI 53718


Register

October 14, 2010 Citrix Virtualization Briefing/Appleton 9:00 a.m.

What is the status of the Hypervisor market?

Why are some manufactures giving their Hypervisors away?

While others are charging a premium for them?

Where is the client Hypervisor going? Will all laptops use them?

What is the vision for this technology 2, 3 and 5 years down the road?

EDCi is proud to present a seminar with one of the most sought after speakers in the field of virtualization, Mr. John Humphreys, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Datacenter and Cloud Division Citrix. Prior to joining Citrix in 2008, Humphreys spent nine years at IDC where he led the virtualization research group working directly with customer organizations in achieving the maximum value from their IT investments. Mr. Humphreys holds a Master’s Degree from Wyoming University and a Bachelor’s Degree from Miami University.

October 14, 2010 - 9:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Butte des Morts Country Club
3600 W. Prospect Avenue
Appleton, WI 54914


Register