I liked the conference call, thought Lisa did a good job. I appreciate
the chance to partitipate and have direct Q&A with the developers. But,
I also would MUCH prefer to have separate "intro" and "techhie"
presentations.
We could also have gotten more out of it with the handouts available.
At least two of us (my company and one of our clients) received the mail
flyer announcing the conference on Monday. So we signed up on Tuesday,
and therefore did not get the advance materials.
This could be an isolated problem, but I thought someone should tell IBM
that at least some customers did not get their flyers on time.
>----------
>From: Peter Carranti[SMTP:carrantip AT nimo DOT com]
>Sent: Thursday, September 12, 1996 10:50 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list ADSM-L
>Subject: Re: Yesterday's Conference Call
>
>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
>To: ADSM-L @ VM.MARIST.EDU (Multiple recipients of list ADSM-L) @
>Internet
>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
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>-----
>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
>
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