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The U.S. Senate's Casey Bishop is going to lead this Web Forum presentation on "Agile Development with User Experience (UX) Integration." This is a potentially interesting topic for organizations that perform any development in-house. Agile isn’t necessarily a new concept but at the same time there's not much out there on how to make it work, best practices, etc. There is even less information available on how to make it work with UX integrated into the development phases. 

Throughout history, societies have demonstrated time and time again how technology can be a strategic advantage. In the modern world, that same premise holds true for businesses. Mark Guidi, Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy, is going to discuss the three main components of technology: Innovation, Adaptability, and Quality. He will show participants that performing well in those three areas can generate value which will further drive business and society at large.

Agile software development practices continue to gain popularity in the IT industry. Is Agile really the silver bullet? According to the Standish Group's 2011 CHAOS Manifesto, Agile projects are successful three times more often than non-Agile projects. Diane Martin and Mary Rasmussen from the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) will lead this interactive Web Forum discussion.  

Bryan Steward from the U.S. Senate will lead an interactive web discussion on their recent upgrade to Exchange 2010. This move enabled them to adopt cheaper storage, significantly increase mailbox sizes, convert their Symantec ILM archiving over to the native Exchange archive, and virtualize a majority of their infrastructure. Part of this presentation will focus on challenges the Senate encountered during their upgrade process and the lessons they learned as a result. 

Chris Bennett from Cox Communications is going to lead this interactive Web Forum on "Emerging Trends in Storage."   

Companies attempt a number of initiatives every year and many of them are abandoned for various reasons before completion. Others may be completed with less than predicted outcomes, culminating in countless time, money, and energy lost trying to resolve the situation. Over the last 5 years, Milliken & Company has successfully implemented SAP globally throughout the company on time, on budget, and without business interruption.   

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