Benefits of Attending

Attending the Gartner Master Data Management Summit 2009 will give you insight on the hot topics business and IT executives care about most:

• Linking MDM to your highest priority business issues and drivers
• Building a winning business case and set of metrics for MDM
• Creating a holistic, business driven program for MDM
• Advise on selecting MDM technology
• Strategies for implementing MDM
• Best Practices for making MDM work inside your business
• Leveraging MDM within your information infrastructure
• Linking MDM to your SOA strategy
• Drill down knowledge of customer data integration (CDI) and product information management (PIM)
• Leveraging MDM in the BI and performance management world
• MDM case studies from peer organizations in many industries
• Authoritative, independent, objective advice from Gartner analysts

Who Should Attend

• IT Senior Executives (CIO, VP)
• IT Managers involved in Master Data Management
• MDM, CDI and PIM Project/Program Managers
• Business Executives seeking a single view of the customer, product, supplier and location
• Business Application Managers - CRM, SCM, ERP, PLM and Procurement
• Data Managers and Architects
• ERP, CRM and SCM Architects
• Data and Data Model Architects
• Enterprise and Solution Architects
• Application Development and Integration Managers
• Business Intelligence and Information Management Leaders
• Business Analysts, Systems Analysts

Who Attended Last Year?

Delegates from the following companies attended Gartner's Master Data Management Summit in 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.