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		DZ-WB Invites You To Get Smart About Customer Relationship Management CRM users from IBM, Cisco and others to gather at San Francisco's Commonwealth Club SAN FRANCISCO -- December 5, 2001 - The Business Internet Group of San Francisco (DZ-WB), a networking organization of nearly 2,000 financial, sales and marketing executives from the technology industry, is pleased to announce its next panel discussion, "It's The Customer, Stupid." The discussion will feature customers of CRM software including Alan Bianchi of Cisco Systems, Cher de Rossiter of IBM, Sue Dubman of Oncology Therapeutics Networks, Lorne Wilson of Fujitsu, and others as they address their current and future CRM implementation plans. Moderated by Forbes Magazine Sr. Editor Quentin Hardy, the panel of experts will address important issues facing CRM users in their effort to build meaningful and profitable customer relationships. The event is sponsored by PeopleSoft and divine, inc. Details The event will take place on Wednesday, December 12, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., at the Commonwealth Club of California, located at 595 Market Street in San Francisco. Attendance is free of charge, however pre-registration is mandatory. To RSVP, please visit http://www.dzwb.org/events.html "It's The Customer, Stupid" is the second in a four-part series focusing on CRM. It is sponsored by PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT) and the PeopleSoft 8 Customer Relationship Management solution, the first CRM solution to provide immediate, seamless integration among customer, financial, supply chain and employee management systems. The event also is sponsored by Divine, Inc. (Nasdaq: DVIN), whose professional, software and managed services extend business systems beyond the edge of the enterprise throughout the entire value chain. More information on these DZ-WB sponsors can be found at http://www.peoplesoft.com and http://www.divine.com. Additionally, the DZ-WB CRM Series will continue with discussions of CRM Marketing Opportunities and the CRM Analytics market, in February and April of 2002, respectively. Advisory Board DZ-WB also announced the recent formation of its Board of Advisors, a collection of top executives, marketers, venture capitalists, designers and media representatives from the business Internet. The board will play a key role in steering the future and direction of DZ-WB as it becomes the premier networking organization for technology professionals. "DZ-WB has found a way to be relevant to the people building the Internet business in a time when many other technology industry networking gatherings have lost their focus and failed to adapt," said Kevin Jones, founder of the research and consultancy firm Collective Intelligence. "Those of us on the BIG-Board are excited about helping them continue to be on the cutting edge of providing the information people need at all phases of the business cycle." Founding members of the Advisory Board include: Gary Bolles of Conferenza, Joy Busse of Busse Design USA, Kevin Jones of Collective Intelligence, Pam Kline of The McKenna Group, Mark Klopp of Eastman Ventures, Ned Lawton of DZ-WB, Stephanie Race of Lante, Bill Robins and Brent Sleeper of The Stencil Group, Tim Smith of DZ-WB, and Kevin Werbach of Release 1.0. About DZ-WB DZ-WB was founded by The Stencil Group to provide a premier opportunity to exchange ideas, and meet other business professionals. Formerly known as San Francisco Net Market Makers, DZ-WB is a forum for technology professionals to discuss pertinent technology and market issues and offers panel discussions that address the latest issues, strategies, and best practices affecting the business Internet. Past topics have included B2B collaboration, supply chain management, and web services. DZ-WB also produces BIG-News, a weekly analysis of the top business issues affecting the technology industry. If you are interested in sponsoring, speaking at, or attending DZ-WB chapter meetings, please visit http://www.dzwb.org for details. << Back to "In the News" This site is sponsored by: