Moving Beyond Crisis to Resurgence

The volatility of today's economy and resulting turbulence in government, industry and markets requires a steady hand to steer the course for the future management of information technology. Inextricably linked to business, IT investments today are enabling or inhibiting your ability to forge ahead and move beyond the crisis. At this critical point in the business cycle it is essential that the enterprise architect move to drive cost optimization, steer the enterprise repositioning of strategic IT assets and lead innovation for the inevitable return to growth tomorrow.

To overcome the challenges today and be well positioned to fully exploit the future this Summit will focus on the key EA challenges you have now, while also providing the critical forward thinking to fully prepare you to:

• Link EA and business strategies
• Clearly define the information, technical and solution architecture needed
• Create EA roadmaps and migration plans
• Contain costs and gain efficiencies
• Measure the business value and be able to communicate it
• Implement best practices for application and technology portfolio management
• Exploit EA for the IT organization: managing IT processes, information and applications

The Enterprise Architecture Summit will show the ways EA can drive success now and in the future.

The Summit offers tracks focused on three critical aspects every enterprise architect should understand and master, which include: the essential role the enterprise architect plays within the organization, how to drive EA programs effectively to maximize revenues and manage infrastructure efficiently to optimize cost, and how to create and sustain innovation within the enterprise to fully exploit EA at every business opportunity.

Content offered at the Summit covers every square inch of EA including: advanced content and the overlap between EA and related disciplines such as BPM and SOA. The program will be made up of strategic keynotes, pioneering case studies and workshops. This Summit will also provide top-tier networking and exclusive opportunities to speak one-on-one with a Gartner Analyst.