What's New & Notable in 2009?

• Pre-register for our Pre-conference workshop: Lessons Learned from the SharePoint Trenches (additional $495 fee applies)
• Panel Discussion: Come join us at The Real World of SharePoint: A Moderated User Best Practices Panel - hear what your peers are doing with SharePoint and how they are moving forward to be successful.
• Participate in An Open Research Meeting with Gartner Analysts and other conference delegates as we explore several important ideas and build strategic assumptions around topics selected by the audience
• Virtual Track: PCC Cost Optimization - includes 11 sessions on how to reduce costs, improve efficiency and demonstrate ROI.
• Track Sessions including:
  
  
  • Twelve Steps to Save (and Make) a Million Dollars in Content Management
  • Unified Communications and Collaboration: Separating Hype from Reality
  • Getting Real Return from Collaboration Investments
  • Collaboration, Content, and Portals in the Cloud: Pie in the Sky or Reality?
  • Top 10 Success and Failure Factors in PCC Strategy, Business Alignment and Execution
  • Beyond BFF: Getting Business Value from Social Networks
• Agenda coverage: Appling Web 2.0 concepts and technologies to improve interactions with customers and partners and internal operations, reducing operational costs/improving ROI, driving innovation and creativity with workplace technologies, improving organizational effectiveness, portal design best practices

Agenda Tracks

Portals and User Experience
In their eleventh year, portals have matured nicely and are reaching "middle age." While many enterprise portals are clearly delivering value, others are struggling to do so. Enterprises regularly deal with problems like portal governance, multiple portals and portal integration. The portal product market is exiting a period of stability with new players from the worlds of open source software and Cloud computing. Finally, the economic meltdown is exerting budget pressures and causing enterprises to examine every expenditure. All this adds up to interesting times for those in charge of their company's portal strategy.

Content and Information Management
SharePoint has been the recent big "game changer" in the PCC arena - making a broad range of functionality appealing to many. For many enterprises it coexists with ECM systems from long-time established vendors such as IBM/FileNet, EMC (Documentum), Open Text and Oracle (Stellent). The challenge is getting the strategy right to make sense of the future investments to ensure flexibility and business benefit. Research indicates that there are bigger savings to be realized - and perhaps profits as well -- by moving towards a cleaner content architecture and by exploiting alternative delivery models. We'll provide a detailed road map toward realizing ROI from ECM.

Social Software and Collaboration
Collaboration tools and services continue to be the most innovative sector of the IT market. New social software tools are changing the way organizations interact, and new Cloud-based provisioning models are changing the way companies buy and operate collaboration services. At the same time, demand for teamwork and cross enterprise cooperation is increasing the value of collaboration tools to the organization. All these dynamics, coupled with the desire to incorporate voice services into a holistic collaboration strategy, make attending this Summit an imperative for optimizing collaboration planning and deployments, and maximizing collaboration ROI.

Business Impact, Productivity and Innovation
Consistently maximizing success is always hard, and doubly so in a doubtful economic environment. Starting out with a scorecard - key success and failure factors - is important, but so is a better awareness of the enterprise political game. Touted as a universal elixir, Cloud computing is bound to disappoint some while others will regret holding back. Consumerization and Enterprise 2.0 are two more critical trends - poison for some organizations and a powerful prescription for others. Can you reduce your risk by "paving over cow paths" via social network analysis or under-engineering? Finally, are you spending too much time focused on automating deterministic processes? What else is there to drive enterprise performance?

New! Virtual Track: PCC Cost Optimization
In today's uncertain economy, virtually all organizations are expected to optimize costs, scrutinize new investments and become hyper-efficient in everything they do. This track includes 11 sessions that focus squarely on reducing costs, improving efficiency and demonstrating ROI.

Analyst/User Roundtable Topics

Analyst/User Roundtables are a great forum for hearing what your industry peers are experiencing on issues similar to those you face. Gartner Analysts kickoff and moderate the sessions and will also add relevant research and user experiences to the discussion. Discussions are focused on a specific conference topic.

All end-user attendees at the event are invited to register for Analyst/User Roundtable by reserving a seat at the Gartner One-on-One Reservation Desk. Seating is limited to 15 persons per session and appointments will be scheduled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Reserve your spot early - these sessions always sell-out quickly!

• Cost optimization through portal, content repository, and collaboration tool rationalization
• Sharing experiences in quantifying ROI with portals, content management, and collaboration
• Governance Strategies for SharePoint
• Going from Pilot to production: Getting buy-in for PCC technologies from people other than the True Believers
• Using Social Networking to get competitive advantage and to deliver business value
• Making Unified Communications and Collaboration Happen
• Experiences with Open Source PCC technologies
• Experiences to date with Cloud Computing
• How are organizations making Web 2.0 real?
• Keeping your portals healthy
• Making Wikis work
• Making Enterprise Mashups work

Pre-conference Workshop: Lessons Learned from the SharePoint Trenches

Sunday, 07 June 2009
03:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Moderator: Errin O'Conner, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, EPC Group

Pre-registration is required. Register for the workshop for an additional $495 fee when you register for the Summit.

This workshop will identify the best approach to successfully employing SharePoint. Using a number of real-world case studies, attendees will work together to define some of the typical challenges that organizations must overcome. Errin will outline a proven phased approach that organizations should consider and describe a "walk before you run" methodology to ensure SharePoint is done right the first time. This workshop will also cover how to get your users involved from the very beginning so they can help you identify quick wins and help you champion the initiative from the inside to truly ensure its success.

Key Issues:

• How do you get SharePoint's "foot in the door" and ensure its proper growth?
• How do you grow your SharePoint pilot and take it to the next level?
• What are some of the potholes you need to avoid?

Hot Topics

• AJAX/Flex/Air/Silverlight/other Rich Internet Applications
• Blogs
• Content Management solutions
• Document management solutions
• e-discovery
• e-commerce
• email archiving
• Enterprise Mashups
• Enterprise Search
• IM/presence
• Portals (Customer/constituent facing)
• Portals (internally facing)
• Portals (Partner facing)
• Social networking
• Social software (other than social networking)
• Software-as-a-Service
• SaaS/Cloud based email
• SaaS/Cloud based collaboration
• SaaS/Cloud based content management
• SaaS/Cloud based social networking
• User Experience Design
• Web content management
• Web Services
• Web/Videoconferencing
• Wikis

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