B2B Integration & File Transfer Track

Session Roadmap

Monday General Session 8:30am - 10:00am

Solution EXPO 4:00pm - 7:30pm

Solution EXPO Reception 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Tuesday General Session 8:30am - 10:00am

Solution EXPO 8:00am - 7:00pm

Solution EXPO reception 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Wednesday General Session 10:00am - 11:30am

Solution EXPO 8:00am - 6:00pm

Solution EXPO reception 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Elton John or Pitbull Concert 7:30pm - 10:00pm

Thursday Solution EXPO 8:30am - 1:00pm

Event Highlights

Business-to-Business Integration Portfolio Capabilities Overview

Monday, February 22 | 10:30am - 11:30am MBS - Mandalay Ballroom CJoin us for an overview of the various capabilities that IBM’s B2B Integration and Managed File Transfer (MFT) solutions deliver to address your existing and emerging use cases. We'll discuss new challenges that businesses face integrating with increasingly diverse and global business partners. We’ll also provide an overview of how the solutions and capabilities that comprise the comprehensive IBM portfolio achieve tangible business results. Finally, we'll look at critical emerging trends and innovative new capabilities that IBM is delivering to address them.

Speakers: Susan Roberts, IBM Session: HBB-5334

IBM Integration Bus + IBM Transformation Extender: One Platform for Internal and External Integration

Monday, February 22 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm MBN - South Pacific Ballroom FIBM Transformation Extender (ITX) is IBM's new modular transforma-tion solution, encompassing IBM's key transformation tools Web-Sphere Transformation Extender (WTX) and Standards Processing Engine (SPE). ITX is a powerful extension to IBM Integration Bus to provide industry standards and B2B/EDI X12, EDIFACT, and HIPAA processing. It can de-envelope and envelope transactions, as well as perform any-to-any transformation. It provides powerful HIPAA valida-tion, including level 1-7 support. This session will discuss how ITX provides the capabilities to extend IIB, enabling a single, powerful integration infrastructure that can cut costs, reduce training and resources, and scale to meet future growth requirements.

Speakers: Brian E. Wilson, IBM Session: HBB-2467

MBN - Mandalay Bay North | MBS - Mandalay Bay South

The Road Ahead with IBM Managed File Transfer

Monday, February 22 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm | MBS - Mandalay Ballroom DCome see what’s new with IBM Managed File Transfer, including IBM Connect:Direct, IBM Sterling File Gateway, IBM Control Center and IBM Secure Proxy, and learn how you can leverage the new capabilities in your environment. Attend this session and hear how to get the most out of your investment in Managed File Transfer, as well as obtain a glimpse into some of the planned enhancements for the products.

Speakers: Brian Gibb, IBM Session: HBB-6441

Johnson & Johnson: A B2B Integration Success Story

Monday, February 22 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm | MBN - South Pacific Ballroom JWhen Johnson & Johnson decided to upgrade from Gentran to IBM B2B Integrator, the company expected improvements... after a tumultuous transition period. Fortunately, a chance conversation at a cricket match led to a trouble-free implementation, a smooth migration for hundreds of trading partners, and a promotion! Whatever your company size or industry, this talk will give you best practices for implementing your B2B integration solution, including: 1) How B2B Integrator helps achieve end-to-end visibility and control across multiple divisions; 2) The impact of a B2B framework on efficiency, time-to-benefit and TCO; and 3) Why Johnson & Johnson describes this project as being so successful.

Speakers: Mukund Munisamy, Johnson & Johnson & Trevor Richards, Lightwell, Inc. Session: HBB-5001

Capitalizing in China through Cross-Border Trade

Monday, February 22 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm | MBN - South Pacific Ballroom DBeing a key player in the Chinese market is becoming a crucial strategy for most global businesses as importation and e-commerce trading in China have been rapidly growing over the past few years. In 2012 alone, China spent US$ 102 billion on importing overseas products, while e-commerce trading amounted to over US$ 32 billion. These figures are projected to grow approximately 67% in the next three years. How-ever, entering the Chinese market can prove to be difficult due to strict and highly complicated customs regulations, multiple high-tax rates, increasing import costs, expensive localized supply chains, and exten-sive sales and marketing efforts. Learn how to expand your businesses to China through eCOM's one-stop trade platform, eCBT.

Speakers: Ryan Fong, eCOM, Horace Mak, eCOM & Bryce Macdonald, eCOM Session: HBB-4818

How Southwire Turns Lost Discounts into $5 Million Per Year in Savings in the Cloud

Monday, February 22 | 1:30pm - 2:30pm | MBN - South Pacific Ballroom IHear directly from Southwire finance and technology executives on why they chose the cloud to deliver scale, agility and prepare for growth by utilizing B2B cloud services with the Sterling Collaboration Network. Learn how Southwire plans to execute on its mission to "Deliver Power... Responsibly to millions of people around the world" when "One in three new homes built in the United States contains wire made by South-wire." Learn how they made this decision and understand the partnership of finance and IT as it relates to strategic growth through B2B Integration.

Speakers: Ken Sayers, Southwire & Scott Reyna, Southwire Session: HBB-4666

How Garanti Bank Consolidates and Integrates File Transfer Operations

Monday, February 22 | 1:30pm - 2:30pm | MBN - South Pacific Ballroom HCome learn from Garanti Bank how they increased the reliability and security of their transfers by implement-ing IBM Managed File Transfer. From z/OS transfers to file sharing, the bank has created an integrated file transfer solution that uses Sterling Connect:Direct, Sterling File Gateway, Sterling B2Bi and Sterling Secure Proxy.

Speakers: Aykut Yaprak, Garanti Bank Session: HBB-4518

How Enterprises Innovate and Generate New Revenue through B2B Integration via the Cloud

Monday, February 22 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm | MBS - Mandalay Ballroom CThis session will include an overview of Digital Transformation initiatives that are shaping our business deci-sions in 2016 and beyond, with IDC Analyst Chandana Gopal. She will focus on the real stories of facilitating innovation and generating faster time to revenue, and will shares details of her ROI methodology for B2B Integration. Chandana will also share actual findings from an independent study of IBM clients that use B2B Cloud Services for their Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) operations, and how these clients affect positive change in their organizations.

Speakers: Chandana Gopal, IDC Research & Veronica Kirn, IBM Session: HBB-4448

Monday General Session 8:30am - 10:00am

Solution EXPO 4:00pm - 7:30pm

Solution EXPO Reception 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Tuesday General Session 8:30am - 10:00am

Solution EXPO 8:00am - 7:00pm

Solution EXPO reception 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Wednesday General Session 10:00am - 11:30am

Solution EXPO 8:00am - 6:00pm

Solution EXPO reception 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Elton John or Pitbull Concert 7:30pm - 10:00pm

Thursday Solution EXPO 8:30am - 1:00pm

Business-to-Business Integration Portfolio Capabilities Overview

Monday, February 22 | 10:30am - 11:30am MBS - Mandalay Ballroom CJoin us for an overview of the various capabilities that IBM’s B2B Integration and Managed File Transfer (MFT) solutions deliver to address your existing and emerging use cases. We'll discuss new challenges that businesses face integrating with increasingly diverse and global business partners. We’ll also provide an overview of how the solutions and capabilities that comprise the comprehensive IBM portfolio achieve tangible business results. Finally, we'll look at critical emerging trends and innovative new capabilities that IBM is delivering to address them.

Speakers: Susan Roberts, IBM Session: HBB-5334

IBM Integration Bus + IBM Transformation Extender: One Platform for Internal and External Integration

Monday, February 22 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm MBN - South Pacific Ballroom FIBM Transformation Extender (ITX) is IBM's new modular transforma-tion solution, encompassing IBM's key transformation tools Web-Sphere Transformation Extender (WTX) and Standards Processing Engine (SPE). ITX is a powerful extension to IBM Integration Bus to provide industry standards and B2B/EDI X12, EDIFACT, and HIPAA processing. It can de-envelope and envelope transactions, as well as perform any-to-any transformation. It provides powerful HIPAA valida-tion, including level 1-7 support. This session will discuss how ITX provides the capabilities to extend IIB, enabling a single, powerful integration infrastructure that can cut costs, reduce training and resources, and scale to meet future growth requirements.

Speakers: Brian E. Wilson, IBM Session: HBB-2467

MBN - Mandalay Bay North | MBS - Mandalay Bay South

How REI's B2B Cloud Reduces Costs, Increases Efficiency and Keeps Us Ahead of the Competition

Monday, February 22 | 4:30pm - 5:30pm | MBN - South Pacific Ballroom DREI chose IBM’s B2B Cloud Services in an effort to makes it faster and easier to build, deploy, and manage integrated B2B processes across diverse business partner communities. IBM’s B2B cloud translation services and Web Forms gives REI a strategic advantage in the marketplace by enabling them to work with a diverse group of suppliers, from the extremely large to the small and unique. These technologies provide a turnkey solution that allows REI to seamlessly work with its entire community, keeping them a step ahead of the competition while minimizing their total cost of ownership by going through the cloud.

Speakers: Kate Compton, REI, Nicole Gressa, REI & Jeannine Calandra, IBM Session: HBB-3762

Using Service Models to Run Managed File Transfer Like a Business, Featuring Wells Fargo

Monday, February 22 | 4:30pm - 5:30pm | MBS - Mandalay Ballroom CIn today's IT world where everything seems to be a service, can you use service models to better run your Managed File Transfer (MFT) operations? This presentation will highlight how the data transmissions opera-tions at Wells Fargo has done just that. Learn how you can use service management, metrics/analytics, and governance to improve your file movement service.

Speakers: Tom McLaughlin, Wells Fargo Session: HBB-5385

Latest and Greatest in IBM Sterling B2B Integrator and IBM Sterling File Gateway

Tuesday, February 23 | 8:30am - 9:30am | MBS - Mandalay Ballroom CIBM Sterling B2B Integrator (B2Bi) and IBM Sterling File Gateway (SFG) provide the underpinnings to many mission-critical transformation and managed file transfer (MFT) implementations. Come to this session to hear about recent enhancements in the areas of security, APIs, stack support, UI, performance and delivery, as well as exciting new approaches designed to improve overall system availability.

Speakers: Jim Luneke, IBM & Vince Tkac, IBM Session: HBB-2668

Strategy and Roadmap for IBM B2B Integration Offerings on the Cloud

Tuesday, February 23 | 8:30am - 9:30am | MBN - South Pacific Ballroom DThe most competitive and dynamic companies have already taken steps to integrate their business systems with those of their customers and trading partners. But simply sharing basic business documents is not enough. In this session, we’ll explore how leading IBM customers are using cloud-based B2B Integration offerings to win in their markets. We’ll also discuss the future direction for the Sterling Commerce Network, IBM Managed Services, e-Invoicing, Analytics, a next-generation File Transfer capability and more.

Speakers: John Del Pizzo, IBM Session: HBB-5097

Why We Chose IBM Sterling B2B Integrator as Our Core B2B Integration Platform

Tuesday, February 23 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm | MBN - South Pacific Ballroom EThe Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has an expatriate population of 8.4 million, many of which are from countries in the Middle East, the Indian Subcontinent and the Far East. In 2011, expats sent home 117 billion Saudi Riyals (almost 31 billion USD) in remittances, almost double the value of remittances in 2005. As the bank with the country's largest customer base, Riyad Bank is always responsive to the needs of its customers and has ensured its customers are the first to benefit from the latest technological advances and innovations in consumer banking. Take a look how we implemented a remittance solution on IBM Sterling B2B Integra-tor; and, more importantly, why we continue to move all other B2B services to IBM Sterling offerings.

Speakers: Matko Kvesic, TIS Objektni invormacijski sustavi d.o.o. & Session: HBB-2059 Wael K Reslan, Riyad Bank

Technical Overview of IBM Control Center's Open Server Architecture and High Availability

Tuesday, February 23 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm | MBN - South Pacific Ballroom DJoin Mike Gorman, Chief Architect of IBM Control Center, for a preview of Control Center's upcoming release featuring open server architecture and high availability. Learn how multiple event processors can be deployed together to achieve high availability and increase event processing throughput. We will show how the open server architecture enables Control Center to monitor anything, starting with IBM Global High Availability Mailbox.

Speakers: Mike Gorman, IBM Session: HBB-1054

What's New in IBM Transformation Extender

Tuesday, February 23 | 1:15pm - 2:15pm | MBS - Mandalay Ballroom DThis session will discuss what's new in IBM Transformation Extender, including product features, roadmaps, transformation strategy and industry standards. IBM Transformation Extender is IBM's new modular transfor-mation solution, encompassing IBM's key transformation tools WebSphere Transformation Extender (WTX) and Standards Processing Engine (SPE).

Speakers: Sunil K. Dandamudi, IBM Session: HBB-1115

How the Australian Tax Office Leverages IBM Sterling B2B Integrator for Its Digital Strategy

Tuesday, February 23 | 1:15pm - 2:15pm | MBN - South Pacific Ballroom DThe Australian Tax Office (ATO) is the agency for the administration of legislated Business and Personal Taxation and Superannuation (pensions) and a leader in adopting a digital strategy to improve services. What started as a single instance of IBM Sterling B2B Integrator and IBM Sterling Secure Proxy grew to a five-tiered, HA B2B platform processing 19,000 files a day—up to 50 GB in size with 1 million line items. ATO utilizes the AS4 protocol for reporting, including the submission of Annual Taxation returns through 25,000 Tax Agents and Business Activity Statements through 40,000 BAS agents. Learn why ATO adopted IBM’s HA communications for AS4 as their key protocol, and why Sterling B2B Integrator is mission-critical for the future.

Speakers: Chris Thorne, Australian Tax Office Session: HBB-4605

How CDW is Taking B2B Commerce to the Next Level with IBM B2B Integration and Managed File Transfer

Tuesday, February 23 | 2:30pm - 3:30pm | MBS - Mandalay Ballroom DLike many companies, IT service provider CDW has to exchange B2B data with a diverse and ever-growing customer/trading partner community with complex file transfer and transformation requirements. Learn how CDW has leveraged IBM B2B Integration and Managed File Transfer solutions to take its B2B integration capabilities to the next level. With innovative technologies like IBM Sterling B2B Integrator, Sterling File Gate-way and Sterling Control Center, the type, size or format of the file is no longer an issue. CDW will share insights on operational issues, industry demands, how they determined that a combination of IBM technolo-gies was the right solution, and what it took to deploy them.

Speakers: Vinodh Datti, CDW Session: HBB-4212

Nationwide's Journey to IBM's Sterling File Gateway

Tuesday, February 23 | 2:30pm - 3:30pm | MBN - South Pacific Ballroom DThis informative session describes how Nationwide is transitioning from Axway's Tumbleweed products to IBM's Sterling File Gateway (SFG). It will highlight how they gained simplified service, upgraded to a clus-tered environment and now have the ability to scale to handle greater workloads. This migration has allowed Nationwide to leverage the SFG platform to improve security, increase performance and support its widening business requirements.

Speakers: Sean Cashwell, Nationwide & Mel Choi, Nationwide Session: HBB-5873

IBM Sterling File Gateway: Automating File Retrieval with a DIY Listening Producer

Tuesday, February 23 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm | MBN - South Pacific Ballroom HA common challenge to enterprise managed file transfer operations are vendors/suppliers that are unable or unwilling to push their files to you. This use case would be considered a "Listening Producer" for Sterling File Gateway (SFG) and is not provided out-of-the-box. This presentation describes a pragmatic and flexible approach to implementing a SFG Listening Producer that honors all the great features of this effective multi-protocol file gateway and will actively "GET" files into SFG.

Speakers: Marc Francoeur, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City Session: HBB-1062

EDI Processing with IBM Integration Bus and IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender at UNUM

Tuesday, February 23 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm | MBN - South Pacific Ballroom DUNUM is one of the largest providers of disability insurance in the US and the UK. In 2015, we had an opportunity to process EDI files for one of our business partners. The integration team piloted the use of IBM Integration Bus with IBM Transformation Extender to process the incoming HIPAA EDI files so the data could be consumed by internal legacy systems. This pilot project was an excellent first usage of IBM Transforma-tion Extender at UNUM, delivered in partnership with Prosoft Technologies for their expertise in this area. This presentation will discuss the lessons learned during this project..

Speakers: Edward Nutter, UNUM & Chris Hayes, IBM Session: HBB-5456

EDI Banrisul - A solution for interaction between partners and applications

Tuesday, February 23 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm | MBN - South Pacific Ballroom JThe interaction with companies using banking services is one of the sectors that deserve special attention from banks, but also the interaction between applications of the bank itself, considering that these processes require a high degree of: • Performance - large volume of information that is processed; • Flexibility - large number of environments and different sizes of enterprises; • Standardization - complexity and diversity of systems and procedures for businesses; • Automation - need to treat high volumes of information without manual intervention; • Security - need to protect the information. Because of this needs, Banrisul implemented his Electronic Data Interchange solution based in IBM Sterling.

Speakers: Jorge Motter, Banrisul S/A Session: HBB-3009

Meet the Experts on IBM’s B2B Solutions Team

Wednesday, February 24 | 8:30am - 9:30am | MBN - South Pacific Ballroom DAttend this session and participate in an interactive discussion of implementation and operational experi-ences across the IBM B2B solutions, which includes IBM Sterling B2B Integrator, Websphere Transformation Extender, Standards Processing Engine, B2B Cloud Services, and B2B Managed Services. Experts from IBM Sterling Control Center and IBM Sterling Secure Proxy will also be available. Share your experiences and bring your questions to the product management, engineering, and services experts who can help you maximize your return on investment.

Speakers: John Del Pizzo, IBM & Brian Gibb, IBM Session: HBB-5564

Reaping the Benefits of Electronic Invoicingwithout Compromising on Global Compliance

Wednesday, February 24 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm | MBN - South Pacific Ballroom DAs more and more countries adopt fiscal regimes allowing or mandating electronic invoicing, global compa-nies increasingly despair of being able to address the myriad of different requirements without undermining the business case for electronic invoicing. This session will show that compliance is not incompatible with maximizing the benefits of electronic invoicing, and will outline clear base principles that can help enterprises avoid the pitfalls of maintaining multiple integrations with local compliance solutions.

Speakers: Christiaan Van der Valk,Trustweaver & Shari Diaz, IBM Session: HBB-3436

Leveraging B2B Integration to Achieve High Availability Operations and Disaster Recovery

Wednesday, February 24 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm | MBN - South Pacific Ballroom IThis session describes the exciting new capabilities that are delivered with IBM Global High Availability Mail-box, which offers true high availability across multiple data centers and provides an application-level disaster recovery capability. This session will explore the topology that makes up this solution, and will review the overall capability and the use cases it addresses for your B2B and Managed File Transfer solutions with regards to high availability, disaster recovery and cloud deployments.

Speakers: Jim Luneke, IBM & Scott Guminy, IBM Session: HBB-1555

The Future and Power of B2B Integration: Transforming a Commodity into a Competitive Advantage

Wednesday, February 24 | 12:00pm - 12:20pm | Mandalay Bay Solution EXPO - EXPO Theather B2B integration has remained mostly unchanged over recent years. However we are living in the heart of the digital transformation era, and a wave of emerging trends such as big data and the Internet of Things is changing the IT landscape as we know it. It is a crucial moment for companies to adapt in order to succeed. In this presentation we want to invite you to look closer: while your company might see B2B integration solutions as a commodity to automate data exchange, the truth is that the first step of the digital transforma-tion journey should be developing a comprehensive B2B integration strategy that boosts your competitive advantage. Find out more about the IBM and eBlueprint solutions that will enable your business to succeed.

Speakers: David Bowley, eBlueprint Pty Ltd Session: HBB-7187

Better Business Partner Onboarding and Management through IBM Partner Engagement Manager

Wednesday, February 24 | 1:15pm - 2:15pm | MBN - South Pacific Ballroom DRemove your manual, resource-intensive, error-prone processes for trading partner onboarding and ongoing partner management. With IBM Partner Engagement Manager (PEM), you can empower your partner com-munity to help you in onboarding and management of the community through an engagement hub that supports a self-service model. PEM lets you easily orchestrate your onboarding and partner management activities end-to-end with a customized, branded experience for your partners, customers and suppliers. By automating and accelerating the process, you will cut support costs and reduce time to revenue. Come see how easy it is to define and roll out activities to B2B communities on a large scale, and centrally manage and monitor the process.

Speakers: Vince Tkac, IBM & Greg Russell, IBM Session: HBB-3874

Stump the Architects for B2B Integration, Managed File Transfer and Payments

Wednesday, February 24 | 2:00pm - 4:00pm Mandalay Bay Solution EXPO-dev@interconnect - Ask Me Anything Station 4What's on your mind related to IBM's B2B Integration and Managed File Transfer (MFT) solutions? Come meet with experts from IBM’s Development and Product Management teams and challenge us with your questions. Tricky implementation questions? Cloud or hybrid deployment models? Anything goes. We'll be ready to answer your questions and whiteboard some ideas. We look forward to meeting you.

Speakers: Vince Tkac, IBM & Dave Ogle, IBM Session: HBB-6941

How GameStop Addressed the Challenges of Comprehensive Data Integration Across the Enterprise

Wednesday, February 24 | 2:30pm - 3:15pm | MBN - South Pacific Ballroom DAs a global, multichannel video game, consumer electronics and wireless services retailer with more than 6,600 stores, GameStop makes the most popular technologies affordable and simple. With extremely high B2B integration requirements external to customers, suppliers, and vendors and even higher internal Enter-prise Application Integration (EAI) messaging, GameStop and its technology brands rely on a suite of IBM software products and services anchored by IBM Sterling B2B Integrator to achieve comprehensive data integration across their enterprise. Learn how GameStop leveraged the REMEDI Framework for Sterling B2B Integrator to reduce staff demands, increase document level visibility and reporting, and support future growth models.

Speakers: Han Oster, GameStop Corp. Session: HBB-5892

Meet the Experts on IBM’s Managed File Transfer Solutions Team

Wednesday, February 24 | 3:45pm - 4:30pm | MBN - South Pacific Ballroom DAttend this session and participate in an interactive discussion of implementation and operational experi-ences across the IBM Sterling Managed File Transfer suite, which includes IBM Sterling Connect:Direct Advanced, IBM MQ MFT, IBM Sterling File Gateway, IBM Sterling Control Center, IBM Sterling Secure Proxy, and Aspera. Share your experiences and bring your questions to the product management, engineering, and services experts who can help you maximize your return on investment.

Speakers: Amit Kumar, IBM & Brian Gibb, IBM Session: HBB-5554

Successfully Architecting the Enterprise Edge: Insight from ADP

Wednesday, February 24 | 4:45pm - 5:30pm | MBN - South Pacific Ballroom DFiles, transactions, services.. they all have to travel to external partners. Success is not just about delivery-you must make sure these transfers are secure and governed. At ADP, a leading global provider of cloud-based Human Capital Management solutions, the secure movement of information is our business. Come learn tips, tricks and pointers on how to architect your edge.

Speakers: Gary Ward, ADP & Jason Ryan, ADP Session: HBB-5602

Best Practices for ITX Map Development and Performance Tuning

Thursday, February 25 | 8:30am - 9:15am | MBN - South Pacific Ballroom DIBM Transformation Extender (ITX) is IBM's new modular transformation solution, encompassing IBM's key transformation tools: WebSphere Transformation Extender (WTX) and Standards Processing Engine (SPE). Map performance plays a significant role in the overall success of a transformation solution. This session will talk about best practices in map development and performance tuning. We will discuss best practices to be followed during requirements gathering, design, development, unit testing and integration testing. We'll also talk about map debugging and profiling capabilities for performance tuning.

Speakers: Sunil K. Dandamudi, IBM Session: HBB-1114

HIPAA Requirements and Expectations—Still Rising After All These Years

Thursday, February 25 | 9:30am - 10:15am | MBN - South Pacific Ballroom DThe Affordable Care Act is designed to make healthcare in the U.S. more affordable by increasing account-ability, and has significant implications for healthcare organizations. But why, after over a decade, is there still more work to be done around HIPAA compliance? Attend this informational session to better understand where HIPAA and related data standards are going and what will be expected in the future.

Speakers: Stephanie Fetzer, IBM Session: HBB-2189

B2B Integration & File Transfer TrackLab Session InformationExtending IBM Integration Bus with IBMTransformation Extender AdvancedIBM Transformation Extender is IBM's new modular transformation solution, encompassing IBM's key transformation tools WebSphere Transformation Extender (WTX) and Standards Processing Engine (SPE). This hands-on lab will give you the chance to test-drive the new IBM Transformation Extender (ITX) Advanced nodes in IBM's Integration Bus. You will learn how to onboard trading partners; send, receive and validate EDI documents; create, deploy and run transfor-mation maps; and how ITX Advanced can be used to validate and process HIPAA and financial payments documents. Speakers: Fritz Fahrenback Session: HBB-3101

Test-Drive IBM Control Center 6.1If you've been hearing the buzz about the latest release of IBM Control Center 6.1, now is the time to come try it out for yourself! In this lab, we'll get hands-on with new user capabilities, such as navigating around Control Center and configuring screens. We'll also try out the new interactive user interface for monitoring the IBM Global High Availability Mailbox. Lastly, we'll take a closer look at the interface you can use to manage the new Control Center Open Server Architecture and HA deployment, as well as preview the software development kit (SDK) that you can use to build monitoring for additional Business-to-Business (B2B) or Managed File Transfer (MFT) solutions.

Speakers: Susan Roberts, IBM, Palanisamy Gounder, IBM & Michael Forristall, IBM Session: HBB-3738 Revolutionizing B2B Onboarding and Trading Partner Management with IBM Partner Engagement ManagerGet ready to say goodbye to manual, resource-intensive, error-prone processes for trading partner onboarding and ongoing maintenance. With IBM Partner Engagement Manager (PEM), you empower your trading partner community through an engage-ment hub that supports a self-service model. PEM lets you easily orchestrate your onboarding and maintenance activities end-to-end with a customized, branded experience for your partners, customers and suppliers. In this session, you will learn how to create custom activities, roll out campaigns to partners and push the collected partner data into targeted back-end systems. We'll also talk about branding and show some details of PEM's hybrid cloud deployment model.

Speakers: Vince Tkac, IBM, Prasanna Nanjundeswara, IBM, & Anshul Garg, IBM Session: HBB-4935

B2B Performance Lab: Exploring Typical Performance Issues, Analysis and RemediationThis lab provides an overview of how to solve Sterling Integrator and Sterling File Gateway performance problems. It covers performance tuning, problem determination, how to detect bottlenecks, how to read thread dumps and heap dumps, and other common problems and solutions. We will present various troubleshooting and monitoring tools to get the best performance. The scenarios include JVM problems ("out of memory" errors, hanging and crashes), database performance, clustering, JDBC connection pool issues and server start failures. At the end of the session, you will have a broad overview on analyzing performance issues and how to solve them.

Speakers: Ravi Patel, IBM, & Mounir Babari, IBM Session: HBB-5608

B2B Integration & File Transfer TrackSession CheatsheetMonday - February 22 Business-to-Business Integration Portfolio Capabilities Overview 10:30am - 11:30am MBS - Mandalay Ballroom C

IBM Integration Bus + IBM Transformation Extender: One Platform for Internal and External Integration12:00pm - 1:00pm MBN - South Pacific Ballroom F

The Road Ahead with IBM Managed File Transfer12:00pm - 1:00pm MBS - Mandalay Ballroom D

Johnson & Johnson: A B2B Integration Success Story12:00pm - 1:00pm MBN - South Pacific Ballroom J

Capitalizing in China through Cross-Border Trade12:00pm - 1:00pm MBN - South Pacific Ballroom D

How Southwire Turns Lost Discounts into $5 Million Per Year in Savings in the Cloud1:30pm - 2:30pm MBN - South Pacific Ballroom I

How Garanti Bank Consolidates and Integrates File Transfer Operations1:30pm - 2:30pmMBN - South Pacific Ballroom H

How Enterprises Innovate and Generate New Revenue through B2B Integration via the Cloud3:00pm - 4:00pm MBS - Mandalay Ballroom C

How REI's B2B Cloud Reduces Costs, Increases Efficiency and Keeps Us Ahead of the Competition4:30pm - 5:30pm MBN - South Pacific Ballroom D

Using Service Models to Run Managed File Transfer Like a Business, Featuring Wells Fargo4:30pm - 5:30pm MBS - Mondalay Ballroom C

Tuesday - February 23 Latest and Greatest in IBM Sterling B2B Integrator and IBM Sterling File Gateway8:30am - 9:30amMBS - Mandalay Ballroom C

Strategy and Roadmap for IBM B2B Integration Offerings on the Cloud8:30am - 9:30amMBN - South Pacific Ballroom D

Why We Chose IBM Sterling B2B Integrator as Our Core B2B Integration Platform12:00pm - 1:00pmMBN - South Pacific Ballroom E

Technical Overview of IBM Control Center's Open Server Architecture and High Availability12:00pm - 1:00pmMBN - South Pacific Ballroom D

How the Australian Tax Office Leverages IBM Sterling B2B Integrator for Its Digital Strategy1:15pm - 2:15pmMBN - South Pacific Ballroom D

What's New in IBM Transformation Extender1:15pm - 2:15pmMBS - Mandalay Ballroom D

Tuesday - February 23 How CDW is Taking B2B Commerce to the Next Level with IBM B2B Integration and Man-aged File Transfer2:30pm - 3:30pmMBS - Mandalay Ballroom D

Nationwide's Journey to IBM's Sterling File Gateway2:30pm - 3:30pmMBN - South Pacific Ballroom D

IBM Sterling File Gateway: Automating File Retrieval with a DIY Listening Producer4:00pm - 5:00pm MBN - South Pacific Ballroom H

EDI Processing with IBM Integration Bus and IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender at UNUM4:00pm - 5:00pm MBN - South Pacific Ballroom D

EDI Banrisul - A solution for interaction between partners and applications4:00pm - 5:00pm MBN - South Pacific Ballroom J

Wednesday- February 24Meet the Experts on IBM’s B2B Solutions Team Year in Savings in the Cloud8:30am - 9:30am MBN - South Pacific Ballroom D

Reaping the Benefits of Electronic Invoicing without Compromising on Global Compliance12:00pm - 1:00pmMBN - South Pacific Ballroom D

Leveraging B2B Integration to Achieve High Availability Operations and Disaster Recovery12:00pm - 1:00pmMBN - South Pacific Ballroom I

The Future and Power of B2B Integration: Transforming a Commodity into a Competitive Advantage12:00pm - 12:20pmMandalay Bay Solution EXPO - EXPO Theather

Better Business Partner Onboarding and Manage-ment through IBM Partner Engagement Manager1:15pm - 12:15pm MBN - South Pacific Ballroom D

Stump the Architects for B2B Integration, Managed File Transfer and Payments2:00pm - 4:00pmMandalay Bay Solution EXPO-dev@interconnect - Ask Me Anything Station #4

How GameStop Addressed the Challenges of Comprehensive Data Integration Across theEnterprise2:30pm - 3:15pmMBN - South Pacific Ballroom D

Meet the Experts on IBM’s Managed File Transfer Solutions Team3:45pm - 4:30pmMBN - South Pacific Ballroom D

Successfully Architecting the Enterprise Edge: Insight from ADP4:45pm - 5:30pmMBN - South Pacific Ballroom D

Thursday - February 25Best Practices for ITX Map Development and Performance Tuning8:30am - 9:15amMBN - South Pacific Ballroom D

HIPAA Requirements and Expectations—Still Rising After All These Years9:30am - 10:15amMBN - South Pacific Ballroom D

Visit booth #210 to meet our experts and learn more.

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