Benefits of Attending

You'll learn how to:

• Balance short and long-term cost-cutting efforts
• Optimize spend, prioritize projects and maximize the financial impact of ITAM
• Leverage IT Financial, Procurement and Asset Management best practices
• Improve the management of IT asset lifecycles
• Know what to review in software license agreements
• Reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) for infrastructure
• Build the business case
• 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

Who Should Attend

IT professionals involved in any phase of asset management, including:

• IT financial managers
• Procurement managers
• Financial managers
• IT controllers
• IT CFOs
• CIO's interested in IT financial dynamics
• Technology managers with budgetary responsibility
• Asset managers
• Managers working in resource budgeting, finance, software licensing, contract negotiations, service management, or strategic planning
• Procurement specialists
• Negotiating staff
• Contract administrators and legal staff
• Vendors involved in IT asset management tools and services

Who Attended Last Year?

Delegates from the following organizations attended Gartner IT Financial, Procurement & Asset Management Summit 2008. Download the PDF.

Summit Value

Every Gartner Event is designed to give you practical, relevant, and immediately applicable ways to lower IT costs, deliver more business value with IT, and achieve greater returns from every IT investment - including the one you make with us to attend.

Justification Kit

With these justification tools, we've made it as convenient as possible to justify your investment to attend and present the ROI you've received post-event.


Pre-Conference

• Customizable Letter to Your Manager: A Word template with a cost/benefit analysis.
• Justification Tips
• Top 10 Reasons to Attend a Gartner Event

During the Conference

• ROI Worksheet: A Word template for productive note-taking onsite for your sessions, Analyst One-on-One Briefings and Face-to-Face Sponsor Meetings.

Post-Conference

• Customizable Trip Report: A Word template to help you easily report your ROI from the conference.
• Post-Event Brief: A PDF that highlights what was new and notable, key takeaways, what attendees asked about, interactive polling results, exhibit showcase highlights and more.