In celebration of the Company’s 10th anniversary, dB Wizards invites you to attend Managing In a Tough Economy, a seminar that can help you reduce costs, improve productivity and efficiency, optimize utilization of resources, and manage customer relationships in an economic downturn. Please join us to a series of one and a half hour business and technical tracks that will suit your time and interest.

This FREE event is a must-attend for CIO’s, CEO’s, CFO’s, HR Executives, Sales & Marketing Directors, business decision makers, technical decision makers and strategists.

8 to 9am	REGISTRATION
BUSINESS TRACKS
Time	Topic	Synopsis
9 to 10:30	Reduce Cost and Increase Operational Efficiency with Unified Communications	This session will teach organizations new ways to eliminate hidden costs and compete in a tight global market. Session may contain what trends in communication technology present the best return on IT investment, how other organizations leverage on UC, best practices for successful introduction of UC in your organization. Manage mobile phone costs, reduce mobile, data and voice costs thru UC.
10:30 to 12	How To Sell In A Down Market	How do you gain strong initial interest from prospects to keep the momentum going? (1) Shorten your sales cycle and win more profitable contracts. (2) Get a quick initial order that you can leverage for more business. (3) Reignite prospects who appear to have fizzled. Microsoft Dynamics CRM will help you shorten your sales cycles and lower costs.
12 to 1	LUNCH
1 to 2:30	Talent Management in Challenging Times	Very few companies are executing talent management successfully.  Plans on paper don't translate to reality when it comes to recruiting, developing and retaining talent.  In this session, we take a closer look at the strategies in talent management for a business downturn and the best practices in managing talent and keeping them.
2:30-4	Use Business Intelligence to Weather Tough Economic Times	What does it take to survive in a competitive and/or economically challenging market? Technology obviously plays a large role in today’s global marketplace, but so do concepts and approaches like business intelligence. This session looks at BI to help companies detect and evaluate the value of new opportunities in the market and how it can have a direct impact on a company’s business performance, dramatically improving its ability to accomplish its mission by making smarter decisions at every level of the business.
4 to 6	Improve Profit Margins with Better Inventory Management	Effective retail and warehouse inventory management boils down to ordering only what you can sell, selling everything that you’ve ordered and making sure that you provide what your customers want, when they want it, on a continual basis. In this session, learn how to make the most out of inventory management and use it to turn shelved merchandise into business advantage.
IT TRACKS
Time	Topic	Synopsis
9-10:30	Low Cost Workflow Solutions for the Enterprise	This session will look at some of the key requirements that customers may have when implementing workflow and process-driven applications and more importantly, demonstrate how K2 blackpoint can empower the whole organisation to create process-driven applications and increase the efficiency of your entire business—all at a reasonably priced solution.
10:30-12	Setting Up A Customer Service Management System	In these years of escalating competition, improving customer support and service has been both a business and technology priority for nearly all companies. And the initiative to provide faster and more efficient customer service is found in companies in all industries and of all sizes. Investing in the right CRM software is the first step towards more effective marketing and better profitability. Get to choose the Customer Service Management software with the right features to improve your organization’s customer relationship management.
12 to 1	LUNCH
1 to 2:30	Worry-Free Warehouse and Inventory Management	With challenges like shrinking customer bases and increasingly intense competition, business leaders find simplifying inventory and logistics management is becoming critical. Learn how Microsoft Dynamics NAV can enable to use inventory, purchasing, and process data to improve operational efficiency, which can impact both the top line and bottom line. This session will also show how Microsoft Dynamics NAV can help to reduce costs and increase productivity, despite having intense price pressures or low profit margins.
2:30 to 4	Value of CPLS Training and Certification	If your organization had to let people go during this economic downturn, your employees are probably wondering how to get everything done since the work did not walk out the door when the personnel left. Employees with increased workloads can get more done in less time with proper training. Gain valuable insights on how Microsoft training and certification can improve capability and team performance and how cost-cutting and technological innovation can actually unite to create business capabilities in spite of the economic climate.
4 to 6:30	Increase Agility, Reduce Costs	In these tough economic times, Microsoft virtualization solutions can help lower total cost of infrastructure ownership, improve server availability and simplify IT management. Learn how you can deliver dynamic resources with nearly unlimited capacity and anywhere, anytime availability—to dramatically simplify your organization’s IT infrastructures.

You can attend all of the sessions or choose only the topic(s) that would best suit your need and schedule.  (Note: Topics may still change.) 

Seats are limited. Confirm your attendance now!

Registration begins at 8:00am. To Register Call us at 7574889 loc. 119 and look for Joyce Delos Santos. Email your confirmation to dbmarketing@wizardsgroup.com. Download Registration Form and fax to 7574890. RSVP at 0920.9627080.