Lost Wax platform

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• Tom Ilube
• CEO
• Lost Wax

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Contents

• Agents have broken cover ...
• The opportunity Industry transformation
• Find pioneering customers
• Deliver commercial value
• 2002 - The Agent Agenda

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Agents have broken cover ...

• Perhaps not an ideal time
• Will agent technology be a mainstream commercial
  success or join a long list of failed
  technologies?
• The actions of suppliers and customers during the
  next 12 months will seal its fate
• Is the software industry waking up to the fact
  that agents are a better way to build software?

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Agents are also on the agenda of
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The opportunity Industry transformation

• Agent technology must build credibility by
  producing 3 or 4 large show-case commercial
  applications this year
• Focus on industries that are being forced to
  transform in the next 3 to 5 years
• Uncertain economic situations, regulatory,
  consumer and technology driven discontinuities
  allow the chance to build industry-changing
  solutions
• Look for the challengers - these companies want
  business TRANSFORMATION, not business evolution

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What are pioneering customers looking for ?

• Delivery of business solutions not just
  technology
• A robust set of technologies which can support
  industries not just their own business
• Execution capability on a huge scale
• The buy-in of their consulting and technology
  partners
• Accountability for the solution that is delivered

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Industries where Lost Wax has seen agent interest

• Logistics
• Financial Services
• Telecommunications
• Food Beverages

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Agents must deliver commercial value

• Improved customer experience
• that simplifies the relationship
• saves time, money and hassle
• Speed and agility through flexible solutions
  which
• adapt to changing opportunities, priorities and
  resources
• are robust
• Cost effective software
• that is fast and easy to change
• that scales well

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2002 - The Agent Agenda

• The next 12 months will see a number of large
  commercial agent applications that transform
  industries
• The technology industry will realise that agents
  are a better way to build software
• Agent Technology will evolve through working with
  pioneering customers
• Were on a knife-edge its make or break time
  for agents