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COMMON Americas Advisory Council Membership Opportunities

COMMON Americas Advisory Council Membership Opportunities. What is the COMMON Advisory Americas Council (CAAC). Collaboration between COMMON and IBM Provide feedback to IBM about current products and plans Represent small and medium businesses. CAAC – Significant Value for IBM.

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COMMON Americas Advisory Council Membership Opportunities

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  1. COMMON Americas Advisory Council Membership Opportunities

  2. What is the COMMON Advisory Americas Council (CAAC) Collaboration between COMMON and IBM Provide feedback to IBM about current products and plans Represent small and medium businesses

  3. CAAC – Significant Value for IBM Enable IBM senior architects and key developers to receive first-hand knowledge and diverse perspectives from members Develop collaboration with CAAC members to drive innovation for product requirements, roadmaps and strategy Resolve customer pain points because we better understand them Drive adoption of current and future features by producing excitement for product capabilities Provide customers a forum to interact with each other to share best practices

  4. CAAC – Significant Value to Members Influence IBM’s direction – opportunity to provide feedback and input on IBM’s investment and resource decisions that will help IBM better serve the marketplace Gain greater awareness of IBM strategy, direction and plans Participate in development of requirements to IBM Opportunity to grow new or existing relationships with your IBM team and establish close partnership/relationships with IBM architects and developers Network with peers – gain broader industry insights and share challenges, approaches and resolutions

  5. What CAAC members are saying . . . “Participating in the CAAC provides me invaluable information for my business. Other CAAC members sharing challenges and solutions is one of the many benefits.”– Carl Novit; FRS, Inc. “Having 1000’s of customers worldwide running on IBM i, it’s important to know how IBM’s strategy for the future will affect their day-to-day business life.” – David Brault; LANSA “You can feel that you are making a significant contribution to a major business platform that affects hundreds of thousands of people.” –Tom Duncan; Wilton Brands, Inc. “Participating in the CAAC provided me with knowledge critical to making strategic business technology decisions.”– Roxanne Reynolds-Lair; FIDM, Inc. “CAAC membership gives me the ability to make my voice heard by IBM. I can voice both my concerns and ideas as well as my company’s needs directly to IBM and know that the message reaches the correct people to find a resolution.” – Brian May; Profound Logic “An insight into the future of the platform that gives me a much better ability to look at infrastructure change planning over the long term.” – Justin Porter; Westside Produce 5

  6. More from a CAAC Member . . . Michelle August COMMON Americas Advisory Council Moraine Valley Community College Palos Hills, IL http://imho.midrange.com/2012/01/30/caac-bends-ibms-ear/

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