Technical Exploration Centre (TEC)
The Technical Exploration Centre (TEC) provides you with a stimulating environment to ‘Test Drive’ and gain hands-on experience of IBM Software, free of charge. It will also reassure you that IBM has the right skills and solutions to address your company’s business needs.
It gives you the chance to See, Touch and Experience IBM software.
Our mission is to provide you with the insight you need to understand the capability of IBM software. Each event will allow you to gather the right information to facilitate your decision making process and understand how our software can help address your business needs.
TEC provides you with the opportunity to interact with knowledgeable IBM representatives who will guide you through hands on demonstrations and answer your questions. You can also share best practices and broaden your network of contacts within IBM and other organisations. The various events are designed to provide you with an easy and fast way to get close to our technology and to explore new ideas, technical capabilities and proof-points with our Technical Sales professionals.
TEC Capability and Services:
There are a variety of different events which can be run within a TEC, some of which are outlined here. If you have a specific requirement which is not listed here please speak to your Sales Representative, we may still be able to help.
Exploration of Technology (EoT) a pre-prepared, high level workshop which usually runs for less than a day and targets middle and upper management technical decision makers. It is a complementary offering to the PoT and is positioned early in the decision making process. It aims to give attendees a small "taste" of the technology through demonstration and presentation allowing you to connect technology ideas to the business problems which you face. It should help move you to a point where you are ready to send technical influencers to a PoT.
Proof of Technology (PoT) is a pre-prepared, technical event which runs for between one and three days and targets technical decision makers and evaluators. It aims to give attendees a "deep dive" of the technology through demonstration, presentation and hands on labs. Positioned later in the decision making process, customers are usually in the process of evaluating the product/solution. PoTs can be run in a TEC or at a customer or Business Partner site.
eProof of Concept (ePoC) The ePoC allows us to demonstrate our solutions in a way which respond directly to your specific business challenges. They tend to be delivered at a TEC or customer location.