I agree with Jerry,

For those of us that have been using ADSM for some time yesterday's
teleconference (and other recent offerings) have had too much introductory
information and not enough new information on the advertised topic of the day.
I did not consider yesterday's conference to be of any great value.

I would suggest running periodic "introductory" ADSM teleconferences for
customers that are new to the product or investigating its fit into their
environment.  I think IBM should advertise those are such.  When they have
something new to present (e.g. NT support), then get right to the point.  If
you've been using ADSM for any length of time you know the benefits it
provides, you don't need to be re-sold on the product.

Pete Carranti
Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.
Syracuse, NY
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cc:  (bcc: Peter F Carranti)
From: jlawson @ itthartford.com (jerry lawson) @ Internet
Date: 09-12-96 09:11:12 AM
Subject: Yesterday's Conference Call

Date:     September 12, 1996            Time:    08:32
From:    Jerry Lawson
    ITT Hartford Insurance Group
    (860) 547-2960    jlawson AT itthartford DOT com
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Lisa Haut did a nice job on the Conference Call  presentation yesterday, but
Lisa Haut did a nice job on the Conference Call  presentation yesterday, but
for our shop the whole call missed the mark.  I know you are trying to sell
ADSM to more companies, and an NT server goes a long way to accomplish that.
And yesterday's presentation did a nice job of covering a lot of "Whys".  The
problem is that we are "part of the choir" - we already know how to use ADSM
and why it is a great product.  What I need is a session on how the NT server
integrates and exploits NT features.  What makes it a worthy competitor?  Fran
kly, I had 4 people in the room from the area that supports NT, and they
already know how great ADSM is (at least I told them how great it is :-)  )
but they wanted to know more about details.  Frankly, they left before the cal
l was through.

Again, this is not a criticism of Lisa - she covered a lot of ground in a
short period of time, and set a record for the number of foils in a 1 hour
audio conference call!  But general background calls have been done before - I
would really like some calls with more technical details.

What do others think?




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Jerry Lawson
ITT Hartford Insurance Group
jlawson AT itthartford DOT com