Utilities Will Be Focus of Upcoming PDA Forum

With the current emphasis on re-engineering, downsizing, right-sizing, and improving competitiveness, corporate IT departments everywhere are scrambling to increase productivity across the board. One area that can often benefit from this new diligence centers around improving the capability of field workers. While the past decade has focused on transitioning to reliable and efficient client-server computing systems, the time has come to extend the benefits of automation fully to the mobile professional and worker.

The promise of handheld and PDA technology clearly fits the bill, but up until recently, has served more to tantalize than resolve. Part of the problem has revolved around getting customers and vendors to act in a coordinated manner, with vendors listening and developing, and customers purchasing and providing valuable feedback. The upcoming Utility Industry Handheld and PDA Forum hopes to change that.

The two day conference is scheduled for December 7-8, 1995, and will be hosted in San Francisco by World Market Strategies Ltd., organizer of last year’s successful PDA Forum. As the title suggests, this year’s Forum will concentrate on bringing together leading companies in the utilities industry in a face-to-face discussion with mobile computing vendors, and each other.

The Utility Industry Handheld and PDA Forum will feature several sessions ranging in topic from the state of the handheld and PDA market, to a more focused discussion about current problems in the utility industry, taken from a corporate prospective. The Forum gives you the opportunity to identify critical mobile productivity problems, while comparing experiences and solutions with vendors and industry peers.

The conference registration fee is US $1295 per person, and includes hotel accommodation and meals. For more information, please see the Events section on page 19. ❑