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Optimal Business Outcomes Through Trusted Master Data
Adding value to your business is today's driving imperative – whether it's optimizing costs, improving operational efficiency, or growing revenue and profit. But how can you meet these goals? Outperform the competition? And set the course for world-class performance? By implementing and managing successful Master Data Management initiatives.
Gartner Master Data Management Summit is the single most important event on all things MDM. Drawing from content that is rich in best practices and best practices, our analysts provide proven methods for justifying and solidifying your current and future MDM initiatives and programs.
Discover how to develop a winning business case, overcome the obstacles to MDM adoption, forge a new direction for an existing initiative and size up the promise and potential of today’s solutions providers — including those with emerging cloud-based initiatives.
Learn more about key takeaways and ROI you'll gain by attending a Gartner Summit Event
Key Benefits
Through analyst sessions, problem-solving workshops and peer interaction, you'll gain the insight necessary to:
- Create and solidfy an MDM vision and strategy
- Choose the right MDM technologies
- Convince the business to take a leadership role
- Deliver measurable ROI
- Reduce costs and increase efficiencies
- Govern critical data across a complex application landscape
- See where MDM fits in with other initiatives
- Improve decision making with clean, consistent master data
Who Should Attend
Senior business and IT professionals including:
- IT Managers and Executives involved in Master Data Management
- MDM, CDI and PIM Project/Program Managers
- Business Application Managers — CRM, SCM, ERP, PLM and Procurement
- Information Managers and Architects
- Data Managers and Architects
- ERP, PLM, CRM, Procurement, Operations, and SCM Architects
- Data and Data Model Architects
- MDM, CDI and PIM Project/Program Managers
Analyst Access
World's Top Industry Experts
Event attendees will have access to the thought leadership of Gartner's global research organization, which offers the combined brainpower of 1,200 research analysts and consultants who advise executives from more than 10,000 companies everyday.
You can Interact with Gartner analysts in several ways at the event, including:
- Gartner Analyst Sessions: insight and actionable advice direct from the experts onsite with Q&A
- Gartner Analyst One-on-One Meetings: private consultation with a Gartner analyst to explore solutions to your business and IT issues and challenges.
- Analyst-User Roundtables: informal sessions moderated by Gartner analysts where you and your peers can share insight, challenges and concerns on today's hottest topics.
Peer Networking
Real World Experience
Hundreds of senior business and IT leaders will convene to interact and share their knowledge and objectives. You can network with your peers at several informal networking sessions, including:
- End-User Case Studies: Learn about recent implementations firsthand, with an opportunity for Q&A with the IT and business executives leading the initiatives.
- Workshops: Presented by Gartner or guest experts, these intimate workshops provide an opportunity to drill down on specific "how to" topics in an extended, small group environment.
- Hospitality Suites: Hosted by Premier and Platinum sponsors, these evening theme receptions are ideal for informal networking.
Exhibitor Access
Discover. Compare. Evaluate.
We bring together the world's leading solution providers so you can gain a comprehensive understanding of what technologies are available, which are right for you, and how they shape up against the competition. Exhibitor access opportunities include:
- Solution provider sessions: Solution providers and their customers provide a look at how new solutions and products work in the real world.
- Face-to-face sponsor meetings: Confer privately with sponsors in a 30-minute prearranged meeting that will advance your projects and relationships, regardless of where you are in the buying cycle.
