Manufacturing Webinar

What You'll Learn:
	How to leverage monitoring and management of IT infrastructures to optimize workflow and business processes
	How to increase production efficiency and availability of critical applications and resources such as electronic signature processing, help desk, email, and workforce automation
	How to control and secure access to critical resources
	How to maximize the efficiency of limited IT personnel
	How to cut operations costs and reduce deployment times of technologies that allow for increased business agility

Who Should Attend:
	CIOs, CTOs, COOs
	IT Directors/Managers
	Network Managers; NOC Managers; Operations Managers
	Chief Security Officers
	Security Managers; Security Analysts

Webinar Details:
Original Air Date: June 9, 2004
Duration: 45 minutes

The Manufacturer’s Guide to Optimizing Workflow and Business Processes
Manufacturers are faced with a growing list of business challenges that they must contend with including globalization and increased competition. Cutting production costs is no longer enough; in today’s business climate, manufacturers must optimize their ability to conduct business outside the company walls with suppliers, partners, and customers. In fact, time to market can often mean the difference between ‘sinking’ or ‘swimming’. As a result, manufacturers are turning to IT and security management strategies to increase their competitive presence and to prosper in today’s global marketplace.

Special Guest Speaker: Mark Worrel Director of Global Infrastructure and Support, Imerys
Mark Worrel has served as Director of Global Infrastructure and Support at Imerys for over 10 years. He has 20 years of experience in the IT industry with strong emphasis on infrastructure and telecommunications. He also spent 8 years rolling out global IT solutions for Imerys offices and manufacturing sites in over 25 countries. Mark is often called upon by Cisco, MCI, and AT&T to be a point of technical reference for technologies, which include VoIP; Satellite-based VPNs; and remote access technologies such as WiFi, GPRS and Broadband.

About SilverBack
SilverBack Technologies, Inc., is the leading provider of affordable, fast, easy and secure IT monitoring software for the mid-tier. SilverBack delivers comprehensive IT and security monitoring via a select group of global VARs, systems integrators and solution providers. SilverBack software enables channel partners to deliver IT and security monitoring as a fully integrated, plug-and-play product, or as a suite of managed services. SilverBack’s award-winning software costs up to 60 percent less than existing IT management solutions. For more information on SilverBack, please visit our Web site at www.silverbacktech.com.

About Imerys
Created in 1880, Imerys’ origins were in mining and metallurgy. Its core business was the extraction and processing of nickel ore. Today, Imerys is a €2,729 million worldwide organization with 4 distinct business units including Specialty Minerals; Pigments for Paper; Building Materials; and Refractories & Abrasives. Imerys employs upwards of 14,000 people with 280 industrial and sales sites in 36 countries around the globe.