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| Super Track 1: IT in the Business | Now more than ever, business leaders need to understand and need to have quantified for them how IT can serve the dual roles of cutting costs while also driving competitive advantages. This track will empower IT leaders to communicate with their business partners in business language. This means knowing their problems within the context of your industry, and the business imperatives that drive their priorities. | ST1 |
| Super Track 2: Business and Technology Leadership: Delivering the Difference | Business expectations for IT challenge the CIO’s ability to deliver at a time when resources are under pressure. Those expectations are at the heart of your 2009 plans and commitments. As the enterprise needs to change, so too the CIO must lead and change IT’s contribution, capability, operations and his or her own leadership role in the enterprise. In this track CIOs will discover the new tools and skills required to deliver the business and technology leadership needed to make a difference in 2009 and reshape their future & the future of IT. | ST2 |
| Super Track 3: Strategic Initiatives: Acting on Disruptions and the Opportunities They Create | The politics and science of global warming, rising energy costs and environmental concerns loom large in planning. So do disruptive innovations rewriting the script for data centers (modernization, virtualization and containerization) and software (open source, forced migrations and new sourcing options such as SaaS). Disruptive patterns are emerging from known, lower-order phenomena to create large-scale higher-order consequences. We will include the ever important future technology scan as well as special research reflecting unconventional thinking where we will expose maverick thinking within the analyst community | ST3 |
| Super Track 4: Enterprise Architecture and Strategic Planning in a Turbulent World | Change without integrated enterprise architecture and strategic planning leads to reactive and fragmented tactical responses, wasted resources and funding, and loss of competitive advantage. The dominance of global economies, the evolution of new business and computing models, and the emergence of digital natives in the workplace render authoritative and controlling IT practices obsolete. This dynamic will forever change the role, scope and practices that have defined IT in the past. This track will show how, whilst embracing this evolution, IT can continue to keep delivering and supporting technology-driven solutions. | ST4 |
| Super Track 5: Process, Applications and Information | The increasing demand from the business to support innovation and agility has forced IT departments to re-examine their assets, take advantage of emerging and evolving technologies, methodologies and disciplines. This includes an introspection of core applications, data, processes, portals and middleware. Understanding how SOA, BPM, MDM, Business Intelligence and Data and Content Management affect these layers is a must. Additionally companies should not only examine their present state, they should strive to understand how the portfolio of "parts, process and people" is rapidly changing and converging. Companies that do so will have the competitive edge, companies that don't will be rendered obsolete by their consumers. | ST5 |
| Super Track 6: Infrastructure Platforms | Infrastructure is what makes business dreams a reality. Technologies such as multicore, virtualization and telepresence will provide new application and implementation opportunities for the business. Computational models such as SOA and cloud computing will revolutionize both sourcing and implementation decisions. New concepts such as context and communications aware applications will demand new infrastructure. And against this background megavendors are fighting to make their technology stack your future infrastructure and users are covertly redefining the infrastructure by bringing new devices and applications into the enterprise. The next decade of infrastructure will pose greater opportunities and challenges than ever before. | ST6 |
| Super Track 7: IT Operations Management and Security | IT Operations Management and IT Security are two distinct disciplines with different mandates, but with overlapping and integrative processes. As IT moves towards service oriented architectures and dynamic resource and service provisioning, both security and operations management requirements need to be designed into the application architecture and into the IT infrastructure, in a way that enables rather than impedes agility. | ST7 |
| Super Track 8: IT Acquisition and Vendor Management Strategies to Maximize Performance | IT sourcing options have never been more prolific or more complex. Understanding when to buy vs. lease, own vs. rent, outsource vs. insource will not only affect your financial results but could have a profound impact on business performance In this track we explore the vast array of new options for sourcing IT products and services. We will contrast the old methods with the new and present tools, techniques and frameworks to help you develop the best sourcing strategies for your business. Attendees will also learn to effectively evaluate and manage IT vendors to maximize performance. | ST8 |
| Virtual Track: Gartner Predicts | Our annual Gartner Predicts reports highlight projections on the topics that matter most to our clients. Whether the issue is software as a service or networking, architecture or consumerization of IT, these reports frame the future of the IT industry. During the next five years, we will see changes in the IT industry that are profound. In our 2008 Gartner Predicts reports, we highlight these changes and their resultant impact on the industry. Our predictions are broad and deep across the most significant areas of the IT industry. They both influence and are themselves shaped by the research done by Gartner analysts around the world, the kind of research showcased at this Fall’s Symposium/ITxpo. | GP |