In today's economy, the financial implications of managing your IT assets are more important than ever. Your approach to cost cutting will determine whether you deliver short-term results that align to your long-term strategy and ultimately impact your ability to position your enterprise for recovery.

It all comes down to making informed decisions and determining which are the right assets at the right price and time. Get ready to make those important determinations at the Gartner IT Financial, Procurement & Asset Management Summit, where you'll discover the soundest and surest ways to optimize costs in an uncertain environment.

At a time when diverse demands are stretching limited resources, you'll see how to manage expectations, drive IT efficiencies and meet customer demand, despite the challenges. Plus, you'll gain knowledge and insight to prevent the kind of expensive mistakes that often occur in a challenging economy, threatening the future viability of your IT organization and your business.

Whether you want to start an IT financial management program or fine tune your existing IT asset management efforts, we have robust content that specifically aligns to your experience level.

You'll learn how to:

• Balance short- and long-term cost-cutting efforts.
• Optimize costs, prioritize projects and maximize the financial impact of ITAM.
• Leverage IT financial, procurement and asset management best practices.
• Improve the management of IT asset life cycles.
• Know what to review in software license agreements.
• Reduce the total cost of ownership for infrastructure.
• Address virtualization, cloud computing and consolidation in the vendor community.
• Assess the latest technologies, procurement models, delivery models and legislation.
• Implement solid business processes for IT asset management.
• Improve your negotiation skills to deal with the "Big 4" software vendors.
• Project future costs for technologies in the coming months and beyond.