2009 Theme: Connect for Success

Connect for the big picture. This is the one event that holistically addresses the three key workplace-enabling disciplines to ensure maximum synergy for your initiatives. Our agenda tracks and 32 sessions focused on making technology work to drive business results.

Connect for bottom-line ideas. If you already have a mature, proven system, how can you get the most out of it? If you need something new, how do you evaluate the range of choices? Web 2.0, SaaS and the Cloud have fueled low-cost options promising good ROI. This Summit can help you decide how to leverage what you have, or try something new, to streamline processes, empower end users and maximize scarce resources.

Connect for peer experiences. Build relationships and share ideas with peers who are going through the same struggles as you are. In addition to networking opportunities, end-user case studies and analyst/user roundtable discussions at the Summit itself, you can start connecting with peers as soon as you register by joining the Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit online community on Facebook. Connect for success. Register now!

The Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit will explore new ways to access, search, structure, and manage information and improve your organization's productivity and efficiency through collaboration and social software. We'll bring together a leading-edge group of Gartner analysts, keynote presenters, and industry panelists for more than 40 in-depth sessions focused on the practical uses of recent innovations, new best practices, and the latest independent research.

Find out how to:

• Apply best practices to ensure successful deployments of new workplace technology initiatives and optimize your existing investments
• Leveraging existing resources to contain costs, improve productivity and improve customer relationships
• Quantify workplace technologies' contribution to the bottom line
• Apply the newest technologies to real business situations to innovate

We'll address practical ways to address your top concerns, ranging from optimizing resources in portal, content management and collaboration initiatives to best practices for how to gain business value from social software. We'll show how to connect existing resources to get more out of what you already have as well as how to leverage workplace technologies to grow in the future.

Why attend Gartner Portals Content and Collaboration Summit vs. a competitive event?

• Scope: our event covers three product areas (Portals, Content and Collaboration) as well as a wide range of technology and management of technology topics.
• Breadth: our show isn't just about what technologies are out there but how to use them to achieve business value.
• Depth: each of our analysts speaks with hundreds of enterprises every year! We have unparalleled insight into what enterprises across industries are doing with these technologies, where their pain points are and how they've overcome those pain points. For example, between just our two Chairs - Mark Gilbert and David Gootzit - have spoken with over five hundred organizations that are evaluating or are using Office SharePoint Server 2007.
• Objectivity: our content sessions are dominated by Gartner Analysts with some vendors talking about case studies. Most of our competitors' shows are dominated by vendors or small integrators aligned with specific vendors and may occasionally have analyst speakers.

2009 Key Survey Findings on the 3 biggest benefits of using portals, content and collaboration technologies:

• To move more users toward self service
• To respond to user needs on a timely basis
• To improve organizational efficiency to drive profitability
• To decrease business costs and improve operational efficiency
• To speed up and improve the organization's decision making ability

NEW & IMPROVED Summit Features to enable optimum learning:

• New workshop sessions to allow you to get more detailed information on each technology
• More high impact vendor comparisons, toolkits, critical capabilities analysis & updated magic quadrants
• More networking opportunities; how-tos; analyst-user-roundtables; analyst one-on-ones; community-led roundtables; social software sites to build community before, during and after the event

Complimentary Pre-Conference Webinar

Top 10 Tactics to Realize ROI from Investments in Workplace IT
Presented by Toby Bell, Gartner Research VP

Attend this webinar and capture that elusive "+" sign in calculations of return on investment for portals, content and collaboration projects with these strategies for cutting costs, speeding time to market, and addressing what enterprises really need to do to make the most of their limited budget and head count.

Join Toby Bell, who is responsible for a range of research on document and content management technologies for the High Performance Workplace group.

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Harness the Social Software and Collaboration Explosion
Presented by Jeffrey Mann, Gartner Research VP

Key Issues:

• How can enterprises achieve business value from emerging social software possibilities?
• How will collaboration platforms change through 2012?
• How will the new possibilities influence and reinforce established collaboration infrastructures?

Listen to the webinar replay >