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ACG Consultants Janet Krueger and David Money to Speak and be Honored with Speaker Excellence Medals at COMMON Spring Conference 2001


Cheshire, CT, May 1st, 2001 -- Andrews Consulting Group Consultants Janet Krueger and David Money have been voted Bronze Speakers Excellence Medals by the membership of COMMON for the quality of their presentations at COMMON Fall Conference 2000. They will be attending the COMMON Spring Conference 2001 in New Orleans (May 13-17) to receive their awards as well as to present a total of six new seminars, on subjects such as "Breathing New Life into iSeries Applications" and "AS/400 e-business-Getting Started and Finished" (abstracts below).

COMMON, the world’s largest membership of IT professionals who use IBM and IBM-compatible information technology, established the peer-voted Speaker Awards Program in 1994 to identify industry leading speakers. Attendees at the more than 800 seminars at each conference vote for the most compelling and informative speakers. Ms. Kreuger and Mr. Money join just 14 others in receiving Bronze Speakers Awards.

Ms. Krueger is an award winning speaker and author, well known to readers of NEWS400, Midrange Computing, The 400 Group, and other leading industry trades. A 23 year veteran of IBM's development laboratory in Rochester, MN., Ms. Krueger currently leads Andrews Consulting Group in helping clients leverage AS400 technology into competitive e-business solutions.

Mr. Money, a former member of the IBM AS/400 Division’s Partners in Development program, has spent the majority of his career designing and developing e-business solutions. An IBM Certified Solutions Expert, Solutions Designer, and Technologist, Dave is also a frequently published author. He has taught and developed several courses on AS/400 Internet enablement, and speaks frequently at industry events and user group meetings.

Abstracts of Janet Krueger’ Presentations at COMMON 2001

Breathing New Life into iSeries Applications Monday, 5/14
Today, iSeries Shops (both large and small) are faced with more challenges than ever before. One of these challenges is keeping the application base competitive, which can include providing a nifty Web-based, GUI front end to tired green screen applications, completely replacing parts of the application portfolio with off-the-shelf componentry, leveraging new business intelligence tools, modularizing RPG code, or rearchitecting the whole application suite.

The Next Age of iSeries Application Development: Visions Monday, 5/14
If you were able to start a brand-new application development project, what options would you want to consider to minimize development time and support costs while fully utilizing current and future technology? How will those options change over the next 5 years? Can you visualize a state of the art application built in 2005, and predict what tools and skills will be needed to build it?

Java Development Scenarios Tuesday, 5/15
This session provides an overview of why and when you should consider leveraging Java as an iSeries development language. It also discusses scenarios where it would be more approriate to continue to use RPG or COBOL, as well as times when an application generator would be more appropriate. It provides tips for incrementally updgrading the skill set of a traditional iSeries shop.

Sifting Through iSeries Application Development Options Thursday, 5/17
Which Application Development (AD) options are best on the iSeries? Tried and true COBOL? C++? A Generator? Not every application on the iSeries needs to be converted to Java, but what are the alternatives?

ASP Security and Privacy Policies Thursday, 5/17
This session will provide a historical perspective on computer system security and privacy policies. The speaker will discuss what policies were needed in the past, including information on how and when they were enforced, and then show how the security models need to change when systems are connected to the Internet and solutions are shifted to the ASP space. An interactive discussion will be held about how to effectively distribute the responsibilities for maintaining a secure system between the customer and the Access Service Provider (ASP). The session will conclude with a discussion on what kinds of security breaches might occur, and how they can be dealt with effectively.


Abstracts of David Money’s Presentation at COMMON 2001

AS/400 e-business-Getting Started and Finished Monday 5/14
Confused by all of the hype? Identify your e-business opportunities and sort through the technologies available to deploy those solutions. Included in this session are the following topics:

• Web Application Programming with RPG and COBOL
  Leverage your existing skills to create web applications, that interact with your existing business applications and data. Take home examples and understand the APIs necessary to create interactive web applications. All this with software and hardware you have today.
  
  
• B2B, e-commerce, e-business, and your Existing Applications
  How to leverage the stability and power of your existing applications to play in the e-world. The technology options explained and positioned including, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Commerce Suite, Java, CGI, and business partner solutions.
  
  
• HTML in an Hour
  Find out why grade-school kids are designing corporate web-sites. In this session you will learn how to create the content for your own web-site. No prerequisites. Learn the basics to create the most important web document -- your resume.
  
  
• Net.Data: The Quick and Simple Way to the Web
  A no-charge feature of DB2, this scripting language, provides quick access to your data. Also see some of the advanced features of Net.Data, including direct calls to your legacy applications and persistent macros.
  
  

About Andrews Consulting Group
The 100 professionals of Andrews Consulting Group provide advice and assistance to businesses seeking to make effective use of technology. Over 1 million copies of Andrews Consulting Group’s strategic publications are in print in 20 languages, making the company one of the industry’s most widely read sources for IT Business Strategy. Founded in 1984, Andrews Consulting Group is headquartered in Connecticut, with offices in New York, Washington DC, Boston, and Minnesota. Additional information can be obtained by visiting the company’s website, www.andrewscg.com, or calling .

About COMMON

Founded in 1960, COMMON is the world’s largest membership of IT professionals who use IBM and IBM-compatible information technology. The organization comprises more than 6,500 individual and corporate members representing more than 23,000 IT professionals involved with the application of IBM iSeries*, AS/400* and related platforms within a wide variety of business environments. Through its semiannual national conferences and its Web site at http://www.common.org, COMMON facilitates IT knowledge-sharing, education, problem-solving and industry influence for the IBM user group community.