Optimise IT Spending at Symposium/ITxpo
In these uncertain times cost containment, optimisation and unlocking hidden value are the growing sentiments amongst IT teams….
Take action now at Symposium/ITxpo
You may not be pressured to reduce IT spending today – or maybe you are. But our Research shows cost optimisation – and potentially cost cutting – must be key priority for your organisation as you plan your 2009 IT roadmap. This challenge is one of the key focus areas at the forthcoming Gartner Symposium/ITxpo now only 4 weeks away.
Over 3.5 days, Symposium will provide IT professionals with the practical advice they need to ensure that decisions made are informed and measurable. Symposium must form part of your 2009 IT planning cycle if you are to weather the turbulence.
Virtual Track: Optimise IT Spending
CIOs need to go beyond doing ‘more with less’ and evolve to make a “greater difference with what they have”. In this virtual track, we'll look at strategies and best practices for better optimisation of costs, without reducing the business value.
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- Panel: Economic Uncertainty: The Implications for IT
Get Advice and Action to Make a Difference Now
1. Get the best pricing and terms for your IT purchases
Gartner can ensure that you get the best value from your IT purchases. Gartner analysts and consultants review thousands of vendor contracts and proposals each year, gaining expertise to help you:
- Receive the best pricing and terms for products and services
- Buy only what works and what you need, from functionality to service level
- Avoid hidden costs and risks, improve your procurement and vendor management
2. Prioritise major cost-saving opportunities within IT
Gartner provides a framework that combines your unique situation with our proprietary data to prioritise savings opportunities based on benefits, time, cost and risk:
- Our comprehensive and granular IT Key Metrics Data (ITKM) can pinpoint cost savings opportunities in your IT projects and processes, hardware, software, and workforce
- Gartner’s industry leading research provides the insights required to capture these savings through the right mix of project rationalisation, infrastructure consolidation, virtualisation, outsourcing, IT process improvement, etc.
3. Identify opportunities to work with business to reduce costs
Once you demonstrate the ability to drive savings within IT, Gartner advice guides you in reaching out to business leaders to jointly reduce IT costs further as well as overall business costs.
- Identify savings in business/IT projects, recalibrate service levels, and jointly develop usage and upgrade policies that drive savings
- Develop a plan to rationalise and retire costly, over-lapping business applications
- Deliver the information executives need to make better informed cost cutting decisions across the business
- Prioritise IT-enabled business process savings and improvements
5 Reasons to Attend
Need a reason to attend? We can give you 5, but it means more coming from your fellow peers!
- "This is the only IT event that I would pay my own money to attend. It always leaves me feeling re-energised and keen to apply what I've learned."
- "Gartner was a great experience for me overall, plenty of opportunity to investigate and implement solutions in future years with the additional knowledge gained."
- "This conference remains a key means of obtaining an extremely comprehensive and up to the minute snapshot of current and future trends both from a technical and business impact perspective."
RESEARCH.
In the technology world, Gartner is the single most trusted source of knowledge and advice.
RELEVANCE.
Gartner Symposium is keenly focused on aligning IT with the enterprise and addressing topics which are top-of-mind.
EXPERIENCE.
Gartner Symposium ITxpo research-backed sessions, highly requested keynotes and special programs and networking creating a world-class environment.
PERSONALISATION.
Everything at Symposium is designed specifically for you with build your own agenda, community-based networking, Analyst One-On-Ones and other individualised programs situated around your needs.
SOLUTIONS.
The ITxpo showcase floor is loaded with technologies to solve your problems and help with innovation to achieve growth.
Communities
- Great minds think alike. Communities are complimentary with your conference registration.
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