Gartner today announced it will launch a European annual Summit on the topic of Portals, Content & Collaboration. The new summit will be held from 2-3 October 2006 in London, United Kingdom.
Businesses everywhere are under pressure to accelerate performance and bring about better results, and according to Gartner, most need a fundamental shift in the way they use Information Technology (IT). The biggest revenue impact will come from IT projects that enable business growth by augmenting the behaviour of key knowledge workers and making them more innovative, creative and productive. To achieve this, capturing, managing and exploiting information that individuals and organisations possess have become a strategic priority. At this inaugural Gartner European Summit Gartner analysts and industry experts will tackle the most critical issues that are key to achieving this change and ultimately becoming what Gartner terms a ‘high-performance workplace’.
Debra Logan, conference chair and research vice president at Gartner said; "Today it’s all about high performance. The most successful organisations use superior information management to fuel creativity and innovation, translating into marketplace success. Effective business performance depends on the integration of people, processes and technology. Information, and the insight it provides, are the key ingredients to the biggest long-term success. To move forward companies need portals, content and collaboration tools, along with strategic vision and best practice insight".
During the Summit Gartner analysts will explore:
- Choosing and deploying state-of-the-art portal, content and collaboration technologies
- Managing content to minimize risk and exploit value
- Using technology to get everyone to work together
- Practices and behaviors to accelerate people's performance
- Measuring business impact as you bring systems, technologies and management best practices together
- The impact and role of emerging technologies, such collective intelligence, mashups, Web 2.0, folksonomies, e-discovery, Ajax,
- How people’s work behaviors and perspectives change over the next 10 years
- How mobile and wireless technologies and working practices will support collaboration
- If Knowledge Management is still relevant
Key Gartner presentations at the Summit include:
- High performance Workplace scenario: Top five actions to capitalise on change
- Sharepoint and Google: Right information to the right people at the right time?
- Portal Product Marketplace: The impact of consolidation
- Future of work in Europe: How people, processes and technology work together
- The collaboration scenario: Creating value and competitive advantage
- Enterprise Information Management: Getting business value from information assets
- The Future of Search: Where Information Access takes us all
- Compliance and e-discovery: What you Need to Know
Gartner thought leadership will be complemented by two external keynote speakers:
- Will Hutton, Chief Executive, The Work Foundation
- Ken Douglas, Technology Director, Chief Technology Office, BP International Ltd
Delegates will also learn from real-life experiences presented in a number of end-user case studies; six tutorials and a best practices session : Best Practices in Portal, Content Management, and Collaboration Development, Deployment and Management and a Gartner panel: Powerhouse vendors in the high performance workplace: Ladies and gentlemen, place your bets. The panel will combine the audience questions about the Powerhouse vendors and comments by Gartner’s global analysts. Other networking opportunities have been scheduled during the conference to ensure so delegates can discuss experiences, challenges and successes.Gartner organises 12 Summits in Europe each year on a wide range of IT industry topics. Each event features Gartner’s latest research and provides in-depth commentary by Gartner analysts, on-stage interviews with industry leaders, front-line case studies from across Europe and an opportunity to network with peers from across the region. In 2005, Gartner Summits in Europe attracted more than 3,300 delegates. For more information on Gartner events in the region please visit www.europe.gartner.com/events.
29.09.2006, Dorothee Stommel
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