COMMDAP Experience.....

COMMDAP 2009

Computer Manufacturers Distributors and Dealers Association of the Philippines (COMDDAP) have stage their annual event in Apo View Hotel Davao last July 2 – 4, 2009. COMDDAP is an association of the country's top information technology businesses. Its primary objective is to promote the sustainable development of the of the country's information technology industry through voluntary collaboration of its member companies. It is the goal of COMDDAP to be able to provide its members general views and updates from different sectors - private and government, and highly regarded individuals to further uplift the morale and knowledge of its organization. The annual COMDDAP endeavor encourages its participants to launch their products and services, as well as hold seminars with a variety of topics in the areas of technology, trends, applications, and information management.

Actually, COMMDAP is not new to me anymore because we have already experienced going to their event two years ago during our second year in college. Honestly, it was really a remarkable experienced since it was held at the Davao Convention. Like this year, a lot of Computer Manufacturers and other industries have joined and presented their latest innovations. We also met a lot of people. Not just ordinary people, but big bosses of some companies.

This year I’ve been informed of COMMDAP by some streamers around the Quirino street of Davao City. But this time it will be held on one of the best hotel in the city, the Apo View Hotel Davao. At first thought, this event will be having an admission fee and obviously we cannot afford it. But later this month, Sir RSG have posted it in our group that we are encouraged to join the said event. A lot of us have been confused on how to register since the sessions had limited seats only. Eventually, all of us interested students, have successfully registered to our chosen schedules. I’ve chose to register on July 2, 2009 with the following sessions: The ERIC Dealer Management System - Jupiter Systems, Inc., The HP Thin Client - Nexus Technologies, Inc. and Open Source For Business Applications - Spinweb Productions, Inc.

July 2 came and all of us were very excited. It’s not just that about the COMMDAP, but some of us were enthuse for this is the first time they would enter the Apo View Hotel Davao. Funny but true. Anyways, when we arrived there, we went to the registration booth and given a student registered sticker. As I saw the Grand Ballroom, the place were filled with different latest technology. Various booths with their assorted offering to the public are all over the place. We have took pictures in every booths. Captured everything that presented to us for free. Almost USEPIANS are in the crowd, falling in line on some booths that giving away freebies. One of that is the sandbox.com.ph. where we registered ourselves and got free slings and bags.

When 1pm came, we headed toward the Vanda function room where the first session that afternoon will be held. But we still waited for a while since the speaker for the Tech Talk we have registered that time is not around. Around 1:30 pm The ERIC Dealer Management System - Jupiter Systems, Inc. Tech Talk started. The speaker have prepared a presentation where he imparted a lot of their management features and services. As he have said, The ERIC Dealer Management System(ERIC DMS) is an end-to-end software solution for automotive sales parts and service businesses. ERIC DMS covers full range of dealer activities for Customer prospecting and vehicle services. Honestly, I’m really sleepy with the first session. It’s not that the speaker doesn’t give us interesting inputs, but maybe because we cannot really relate ourselves to his presentation. On the first place, it talk about cars and we don’t have that now either. Though, we have learned new things and hoping that someday we could purchase some systems to their company and used it for our business someday.

After that, it was The HP Thin Client - Nexus Technologies, Inc have then stage their latest merchandise to us. We have been awaken since the speaker talk so fast and lively. Then he began presenting the HP Thin Client to us. Actually, it is my first time to know about HP Thin Client. As he introduces to us, HP Thin Client have definitely much advantages to the other computing models. As I remembered, HP Thin Client typically runs on Linux, Windows CE and Windows Xpe. HP Thin Client offers higher level on data security when it comes to the hardware and software. Also higher level of reliability. It is a computer device without a Hard Drives, CD-ROMs and floppy disks. With the HP thin client computing model, your vulnerability to virus attack on the thin client system is significantly less than a standard Windows PC. This means that thin client users will experience significantly less downtime due to security vulnerabilities than PC users. In addition, since no user data resides on a thin client, there is no risk of user data loss on the thin client. Finally, if a thin client’s image is compromised or corrupted, recovery time is typically measured in minutes instead of hours.

Additionally, the HP thin client computing model utilizes PC blades and/or servers located in a data center. You can protect and monitor centrally-managed, data center resources more easily with antivirus and firewall tools. You can correct and recover compromised thin client resources faster and cheaper than distributed PC resources. In the event of a virus attack or other security issue, the HP thin client computing model offers significantly shorter recovery time when contrasted with the traditional desktop model. If a thin client’s image is compromised or corrupted, recovery time is typically measured in minutes instead of hours. Recovery usually involves a power cycle (1 minute), patch (5 minutes), or re-image (15 minutes) of the system. This is substantially less time than the typical two hours it takes to re-image a PC or the multiple hours that you can spend rebuilding and recovering a user’s data and environment. As HP Thin clients have been explained to us, everyone have been amazed brought by this innovation. Though HP Thin Client has a Thin Design., still offered powerful performance and flexible configurations.

But what really give more thrill to us that moment is the freebies and prizes awaiting for us. Microsoft T- shirt I guess, optical mouse, three 2Gb USB flash drives and an 8Gb USB Flash drive. Then after the presentation, questions from them have been thrown to the audience who were very eager to win that time. Fortunately, almost all of the prizes have been won by the USEPIANS.

The last Tech Talk we had is about the Open Source For Business Applications - Spinweb Productions, Inc. Honestly, I was not able to start the Tech Talk since we’ve been having a good time roaming around the Grand Ballroom. Taking pictures or even availing the free internet access that instance. But still we are able to attend the last part and got even a chocolate as a prize even if I’m not included in the winners. Lolz

To sum it all, the whole COMMDAP experience is a remarkable one. There are a lot of things imparted to us by the different speakers. Who heartily shared their knowledge to us and introduces us to the latest innovations the world has to offer.

References:
http://www.comddap.org/aboutus.htm
http://www.nexusgroup.com.ph/