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IBM VP, Product Management, IBM Automation, Joins the Vendor Forum

Pete Goldin
APMdigest

Bill Lobig, VP, Product Management, IBM Automation, has joined the APMdigest Vendor Forum.

Lobig is responsible for product management and strategy of IBM's Automation portfolio. This includes a range of technologies covering business automation, application integration, IT Automation, and application runtimes all focused on increasing personal and business productivity with automation technology. He has been in the software product management and engineering space for more than 20 years holding various roles in IBM engineering and product management ranging from unstructured data/content management, information life cycle governance, business process management, machine learning and AI, as well as cross product disciplines such as performance analysis and capacity planning. Lobig is well regarded in the industry and has decades of experience helping clients deliver technology to mission critical business applications.

IBM is a provider of global hybrid cloud and AI, and consulting expertise. IBM helps clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. More than 4,000 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM's hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM's breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and consulting deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM's long-standing commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service.

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IBM VP, Product Management, IBM Automation, Joins the Vendor Forum

Pete Goldin
APMdigest

Bill Lobig, VP, Product Management, IBM Automation, has joined the APMdigest Vendor Forum.

Lobig is responsible for product management and strategy of IBM's Automation portfolio. This includes a range of technologies covering business automation, application integration, IT Automation, and application runtimes all focused on increasing personal and business productivity with automation technology. He has been in the software product management and engineering space for more than 20 years holding various roles in IBM engineering and product management ranging from unstructured data/content management, information life cycle governance, business process management, machine learning and AI, as well as cross product disciplines such as performance analysis and capacity planning. Lobig is well regarded in the industry and has decades of experience helping clients deliver technology to mission critical business applications.

IBM is a provider of global hybrid cloud and AI, and consulting expertise. IBM helps clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. More than 4,000 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM's hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM's breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and consulting deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM's long-standing commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service.

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