Technical Exploration Center (TEC)

Overview

The IBM Technical Exploration Center (TEC) provides clients with the opportunity to gain facilitated, "hands-on" experience with IBM solutions, technologies and products.

We help IT Specialists and IT Architects perform their jobs faster, easier, and with greater efficiency. We also help our IBM technical team to explore new ideas, technical capabilities and proof-points with our clients and IBM business partners. We provide an environment through which clients, IBM and its business partner teams can see, use and understand the technology, leveraging IBM innovations and helping our customers to achieve their vision.

Type of Events

The Technical Exploration Centers primarily offer four types of events, which are designed to match and support the stages that a customer goes through when deciding on which technologies and vendors to use for a particular project or initiative.

1. Briefings for technical executives such as Chief Technology Officers, Chief Architects, or Directors over large parts of a company's IT infrastructure. Generally these are 1/2 day briefings designed to introduce a technology or idea to a decision maker. We call this effort Technical Evangelism.
2. Hands-on experiences for technical decision makers such as Development Leaders, Lead Systems Analysts, or Software Architects who are charged with leading parts of a company's IT projects. Generally these are multiple-day, hands-on classes that serve to expand a participant's understanding of a product or technology. They frequently occur as a second step after executives have participated in a Technical Evangelism event and an active opportunity is being nurtured. We call this effort Technical Exploration. A good example is the IBM Proof of Technology event series.
3. Custom-built demonstrations designed for individual technology buyers and decision makers. Generally these are built to prove a particular capability or function will operate as expected in the customer's environment and with their actual data. Frequently these demonstrations are built using existing components from other demonstrations or industry examples. They are often used to eliminate the remaining technical hurdles to a sale, and thus occur as a third step after a hands-on experience. A good example is a proof of concept built directly to a customer's needs by an IT Specialist.
4. 4. Educational opportunities for IT Specialist and IT Architect communities. The TEC provides a learning environment which is ideal both for the delivery of formal technical enablement offerings, as well as ad-hoc personal skill development and practice. We call this effort Technical Enablement. A good example is a Software Technical Education Workshop (or STEW) offered by the WebSphere technical enablement team.

Karachi
TEC, 9th Floor, Technology Park, ST-8, Shara-e-Faisal, Karachi
UAN: 111-426-426, 92 21 2799200, 2799350
Fax: 92 21 2785311

Islamabad
TEC, 2nd Floor Savoy Arcade, Plot No. 25, F-11 Markaz
Islamabad
UAN: 111-426-426, 92-51-2228378-79
Fax: 92-51-2228372

techworks@pk.ibm.com

For information about upcoming events email at ashrafk@pk.ibm.com