The first presenter, Thanuja Weeratne, senior business development manager, IMAS Corporate Soft, South Asia, spoke about the competitive advantage that can be gained through IMAS.

"Competitive advantage is the key to survival. Everyone wants to be at the top, and IMAS has what it takes to get you there," said Thanuja Weeratne.

IMAS, the brainchild of IBM Australia, has developed a powerful business suite that gives its clients excellence at every level of operation. IMAS provides retail, manufacturing and distribution solutions to clients along with decision support, financial and inventory solutions and consulting services.

Various small and large firms including insurance companies, food distribution centres, retailers and importers, light manufacturers, chemical companies and paper makers are clients of IMAS.

Abhishek Jain and Amol Modak, iSeries sales managers of IBM, discussed various features of the IBM eServer iSeries while speaking at the event. This series of IBM's premier business servers are designed to help clients to improve productivity while reducing costs and complexity. The server is equipped with IBM's innovative POWER5 processors and comes with new on demand pricing options.

IBM eServer iSeries delivers a broad choice of applications available on a single server with the versatility and flexibility to help meet the requirements of all kinds of business.