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Smart Enterprise Exchange
Sponsored by CA
Smart Enterprise Exchange is focused on providing you with the highest quality resources along with select opportunities to connect with your peers. It is not a social network, where you are constantly asked to stay linked to people or sites of very little value, but a membership of equals who share your concerns, needs and business interests.
Bang for the IT Buck. Breathing New life into Old CRM
An InformationWeek Webcast
Locking in customer loyalty through deeper engagement and differentiated experiences continue as critical priorities for companies of all sizes and in almost every industry. However, the current difficult economic climate means that finding additional investment dollars to improve customer-facing business processes is a thorny problem. Attention is turning from planning new projects to squeezing more value from existing systems. CRM professionals can be smart and mine the applications they already own for untapped benefits without incurring high costs. Hidden value typically lies locked within unused functionality or low user adoption rates. Reinforce your credibility and the business value that CRM can deliver by using quick-hit tactics to revitalize CRM systems.
During this webinar you will learn:
The eight proven strategies for revitalizing CRM systems
How other companies have successfully applied these tactics
The immediate next steps to take to implement a CRM revitalization program
The New Data Center Economics: Industry Trends are Conspiring to Lower the Cost of IT
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives WebCast
Like so many areas of the current cost-constrained business climate, IT professionals are feeling the pressure to search out greater efficiencies and economies of scale in their operations. The most obvious targets for savings are from the equipment purchases, energy efficiency, and staff productivity. Subsequently, the technology trends that are generating the most interest and excitement are those that focus on achieving high levels of efficiency: Virtualization, Grid and cloud computing, Software as a Service, Green IT. Each of these topics have affected the products strategies of all of the major IT vendors and CIOs: virtualized and clustered servers and storage, high levels of management automation and the portability and elasticity of IT resources to instantly respond to changing application workloads. Taken together, these capabilities provide a new era of IT economics.
Automating for Efficiency: How Enterprises Can Drive Latency and Human Error out of Business Processes
An InformationWeek Webcast
In these competitive times, a keen focus on efficiency is the mantra. And many believe that Business Process Automation (BPA) is the means to that end. But with the economy still uneven, is process automation even on IT's radar?
Apparently so, according to a recent survey by IDG Research Services, which found that Business Process Automation is an IT priority right now! Some of the findings in the broad survey of IT executives show:
More than 2/3 of respondents are automating most or many of their core business processes, and another 21% are moving towards this goal
87% consider BPA to be a critical or important IT priority
87% see a connection between unified communications and process automation, and more than one third envision communication technology being incorporated into process automation applications
Extending the Reach, Impact and ROI of Mobile Financial Services
Sponsored by VeriSign
Come join us for an in-depth and timely look at the emerging mobile banking and payments market. We will explore how to leverage all modes of mobile interaction, discuss strategies that drive user adoption, deliver value services to customers, decrease costs, and meet key ROI objectives.
Protecting Your Wireless Network Investment: Advancements in Security and Management
Sponsored by Motorola
In our executive roundtable conversation, we'll bring together IT executives from the Chicagoland area to discuss the latest issues in wireless security and management and how businesses can plan right now for the inevitable growth in wireless network capabilities in the near future.
Surviving and Thriving in 2009 -- Optimizing the IT infrastructure
Sponsored by Wipro
Enable, enhance and elevate your business operations to survive and thrive. Reserve your seat and you'll learn how to save money, become more competitive and turn a profit this year by reducing operating expenses and conserving capital expenditures.
Reducing Data Management Costs to Put the Focus Back on Business Goals
An InformationWeek Editorial Perspectives Webcast
In this one-hour Webcast, IT Market Strategy Analyst Merv Adrian and Arvind Krishna, Vice President, IBM Enterprise Information Management Products, talk with TechWeb about how companies are using new data management technologies to save on data administration, storage, servers, energy consumption, and IT support - and reinvesting those savings into business priorities such as information-driven optimization. A live question-and-answer session follows the presentation.
Stop Your Runaway Storage Costs
Sponsored by Symantec
This morning breakfast discussion, specifically designed for senior business-technology executives involved in storage management, will explore best practices in combination with new technologies that can drastically reduce storage growth trends.
How IT Operations Managers Can Be Heroes During a Recession
An InformationWeek Webcast
Recessions can be stressful. But one way IT operations managers can emerge as winners is by strengthening the management of laptops and mobile devices.
In this webcast, featured guest Chris Silva of Forrester Research will discuss how operations managers can reduce costs and streamline the management of laptops and mobile devices by consolidating management tools, obtaining better visibility into endpoints, and leveraging hosted applications.
Gone in 6.0 Seconds: Protecting Laptops and Data from Theft
An InformationWeek Webcast
Join Rick Lewellyn, Dell SaaS Specialist, for an informative discussion on steps you can take to prevent data loss and maintain control of sensitive data in a mobile workforce. Lewellyn will tackle the critical issues of: keeping sensitive data from landing in the wrong hands; centralizing control of data security policies and backup management; and lowering TCO.
Innovating in Today's Economy: Sustaining Your Edge with HPC
An InformationWeek Webcast
Learn how the game-changing technology of modeling and simulation with high-performance computing (HPC) clusters, systems software, and applications can boost the productivity and competitiveness of your enterprise. Hear how the new-found affordability and ease of deploying HPC solutions are fostering broad adoption. Listen to the Council on Competitiveness explain why now is the time for industrial adoption of modeling and simulation, and get practical advice from HP, ANSYS, Microsoft, and Intel on how you can deploy solutions and integrate them into your existing IT environment.
6 Tips To Stop Data Leakage From Your Organization
A Dark Reading Vendor Perspectives WebCast
How can you help your company from becoming the next bad headline? Join TechWeb and compliance and security experts, John Metzger from Sophos and Nagraj Seshadri from Utimaco. Together, during a one-hour live WebCast, they will discuss how you can protect your company and customer data.
Register and attend this live webcast to receive a free T-shirt!
How to Integrate the Best of Open Source and Business Intelligence
An InformationWeek Webcast
Join Matt Aslett, leading Analyst with The 451 Group, as he highlights the evolution of open source and its profound effect on the face of business intelligence and IT usage adoption. Jeff Morris, Sr. Director of Product Marketing at Actuate, will share innovative features and information on how to deploy best-of-breed technology.
This is a must-attend for all IT Directors, Managers and Developers looking for a cost-effective BI solution!
Open minded perspectives and new visions on the challenging economic climate
Sponsored by Siemens
You don't want to miss this informative session where you'll hear industry perspectives from Brian Gillooly, Editor-in-Chief of InformationWeek Events and Melanie Turek, Principal Analyst with the Frost & Sullivan North American Information & Communication Technologies, who will share their insights on how a unified communication strategy can produce immediate business efficiencies.
March 12, 2009, Houston, TX
March 19, 2009, New York, NY
March 24, 2009, Minneapolis, MN
April 21, 2009, Atlanta, GA
April 30, 2009, Tysons Corner, VA (DC)
Doing More With Less: Finding Documents, Expertise, Projects and Relationships in a Downsizing Economy
An InformationWeek TechWebcast
Managing Distributed Assets for a Mobile Workforce
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives WebCast
Join Dell for this complimentary webcast and discover how desktop management services can help your organization:
Conserve IT costs and staff time by centrally tracking and managing dispersed assets
Alleviate security and compliance concerns through improved visibility and control
Minimize risk by identifying system vulnerabilities that require patch updates
Protect sensitive information through data encryption and dynamic online backup
This event is designed for IT executives looking to minimize cost and maximize efficiency of their IT asset management systems.
On-Demand Process Improvement: From Market Hype to Economic Necessity
An InformationWeek Webcast
Organizations that adapt to become more agile, transparent, and well-informed are the ones that will survive the economic turbulence. The need to be more efficient with fewer resources has many organizations turning to Business Process Management (BPM) solutions to help them optimize systems and processes in key areas such as financial performance, IT governance and productivity. On-demand delivery of BPM via Software as a Service (SaaS) presents an extraordinary opportunity to reduce technology costs and meet business objectives quickly.
Tune into this webinar to hear John Cowles of Clayton Holdings present a case study on financial risk management through SaaS BPM. Michael Biddick, of InformationWeek, will discuss the economic imperatives for process improvement, and Malcolm Ross, of Appian, will overview the Appian Anywhere SaaS BPM suite.
Why Bad Security Breaches Keep Happening To Good Organizations
A Dark Reading Webcast
A candid discussion on the shortcomings of today's network security infrastructures and how you can fix them?
In this live, interactive webinar, Nir Zuk - inventor of the first commercial firewall - and Dark Reading editor Tim Wilson hold a candid discussion on how breaches occur, what they cost, and why today's traditional network security environments fall short. They discuss the future of network security -- and what your organization can do to stay out of the headlines.
Strategic Software Asset Management: A Straightforward Cost-Savings Approach for 2009
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives Webcast
Did you know that companies on average overspend on software licenses and maintenance? IT executives struggling to manage software across the enterprise face multiple challenges. With increased pressure on IT organizations to trim spending and maximize resources in a down economy, strategically managing software inventory is an absolute must. Join Dell Modular Services and discover best practices for developing and implementing an effective asset management program. We'll explore a step-by-step approach to help your organization.
Application Performance Management: Best Practices and Strategies
An InformationWeek Editorial Live Webcast
To survive in this economy and remain competitive, companies across all industries have to achieve more productivity from their depleted workforces. IT executives can bring additional value to the business by showing how IT can contribute more to overall enterprise productivity, and how IT itself can become more productive and efficient by utilizing application performance management. To do this, they must create end-to-end insight into the total customer experience, identify and resolve performance issues before customers are affected, and ensure a rapid ROI.
The Webcast will show IT executives how to cope with increasingly complex environments and Web applications and drive greater value to the business through increased productivity. A panel of experts will discuss the tools and solutions for measuring and managing the service delivery of strategic enterprise Web applications and the quality of the customer’s online experience.
The Changing Role of the Security Leader
An Executive Panel Discussion
It wasn't long ago that the information security executive's role in the organization was primarily tactical and reactionary. Join a power panel of three security leaders to understand how their roles have evolved and what they believe is critical to sustain leadership and value within their organizations. In the face of unprecedented cybercrime threats, we'll explore their day-to-day priorities and how their initiatives and organizations have changed in the down economy and how they are measuring success in their programs.
Resetting Information and BI Priorities for a Challenging Economy
An InformationWeek Analytics WebCast presented by Intelligent Enterprise and sponsored by IBM
To learn more about today's path forward in business intelligence and information management, Intelligent Enterprise Editor-in-Chief Doug Henschen and independent analyst David Stodder are teaming up to present a one-hour Webcast in which they'll discuss how to make the most of existing technologies while also laying the groundwork for short- and long-term investments. They'll also share guiding insights from the in-depth "Intelligent Enterprise Reader Priorities Survey 2009."
Best Practices for Database Security & Compliance
An InformationWeek / Dark Reading Webcast
Join this live one-hour webcast featuring Forrester database security expert, Noel Yuhanna, to learn best practices for safeguarding enterprise data while addressing compliance requirements such as SOX, PCI and data privacy laws. You’ll also benefit from Forrester’s latest research on vendor evaluation criteria for enterprise database auditing and real-time protection.
Phil Neray, Guardium VP, will show you how Guardium customers are achieving rapid ROI by replacing manual database logging with automated and centralized controls for heterogeneous DBMS environments, including application-layer monitoring to identify fraud. Hear how you can save both time and money via centralized policies, automated reporting and oversight processes, and standardization of controls across multiple DBMS platforms and compliance initiatives.
State of the Cloud: A Virtual Panel on What's Real and What's Not
A Informationweek WebCast
With the hype surrounding cloud computing reaching a fever pitch, organizations need a reality check on what's real and what's not. Join us for this timely and definitive webcast panel discussion with executives from rPath, Citrix, Rackspace, RightScale, U.S. Department of Energy and a representative on behalf of Wendy's International on "The State of the Cloud." These user accounts will establish a real-world usage context for a panel discussion that will explore the state of the cloud today. Moderated by Forrester Research, "The State of the Cloud" will discuss the emerging usage patterns, issues and opportunities at the heart of this often complex, occasionally muddled and almost certainly transformational trend.
March 26, 2009 / 11:00 a.m. PT / 2:00 p.m. ET
The Rise of Centralized Application Performance Management: Four Case Studies
A Network Computing Vendor Perspectives WebCast
As application infrastructures become more complex, the variety of challenges in managing application performance has increased exponentially. And according to leading analysts, this complexity challenge is likely to accelerate. Join us for a detailed discussion on how leading companies in ecommerce, transportation/logistics, financial services, and hotels/casinos/resorts have successfully implemented a 360° APM solution to address very different APM challenges. Each of these Fortune 500 companies ranks among the top 4 in their industry.
March 24, 2009 - 11:00 a.m. PT / 2:00 p.m. ET
Surviving and Thriving in 2009: Looking Ahead in a Time of Turmoil
Sponsored by Wipro
This breakfast roundtable has been created specifically for CIOs, CTOs and VP-level IT executives to provide an intimate forum in which they can address some of the extremely urgent and vital issues that they are facing in light of today's current economic climate. Through this moderated conversation, attendees will have the opportunity to share their thoughts on the following:
How can you maintain or increase service levels with a lower budget for the next 12 months?
What IT projects and investments will you focus on to provide an ROI within the year?
Which ones will leave your companies positioned for growth and innovation by the start of 2010?
Reserve your place at the table and you will learn how to save money, become more competitive and turn a profit this year by reducing operating expenses and conserving capital expenditures - just don't delay, seating for this intimate event is extremely limited!
Driving Business Results with a New Kind of Intelligence
An InformationWeek WebCast
In a turbulent economy, companies need to seize every viable opportunity possible. Yet, as the global markets struggle, any margin for error or inefficiency has virtually vanished. Access to sound intelligence -- derived from accurate, up-to-date information -- helps companies make game-changing decisions quickly and with confidence. But managing the deluge of information that floods modern businesses isn’t easy.
Join TechWeb for this free Webcast featuring prominent industry analyst Dr. Fern Halper and IBM vice president of Information Management Product Strategy, Inhi Suh.
March 19, 2009 -- 11:00 a.m. PT / 2:00 p.m. ET
Blueprinting the Mobile Internet
An InformationWeek WebCast
Service providers are pursuing the mobile Internet opportunity primarily with connectivity-centric approaches that focus on the migration to advanced IP-based radio networks, such as HSPA+, LTE, and WiMAX.
This migration will have huge impacts on service providers. They which must transform their networks, operations, and business models to capitalize on the rapid innovation of over-the-top Internet players, pent-up demand for personalization, and the need to economically support massive bandwidth demand that will double each year for the foreseeable future.
This session will discuss ways to capitalize on the heightened innovation associated with over-the-top Internet providers and establish strategies to economically support the ever-increasing demand for bandwidth.
March 17, 2009, 8:00 am PT / 11:00 am ET
Identifying and Correcting New Vulnerabilities in Disaster Recovery Planning
Sponsored by Symantec
An alarming number of IT executives are reporting that their disaster recovery programs are under threat. Our upcoming Informationweek event, offers new perspectives on the emerging issues surrounding disaster recovery in today's corporate environment -- which, many say, has become reactionary and short-sighted.
Cloud Conversations
Join us for This Live 3 Part Round Table Discussion
There's no question: cloud is a multi-dimensional and multi-disciplinary topic. It embodies a new class of software, new approaches to infrastructure, new delivery models, new implications for IT management, and certainly, new business value.
That's why HP is bringing together experts from distinctly different domains to have an in-depth and integrative conversation about a wide range of elements related to the cloud.
You are invited to a 3-part roundtable, where HP experts from each domain will discuss cloud technologies and new practices, and how global-class cloud computing will blend and augment traditional enterprise-class technologies and practices.
Telecommuting: Make It Successful & Secure with SSL VPN
An InformationWeek Live Webcast
Register for this live webcast to learn about the trends driving telecommuting use today, the telecommuting best practices, and how SSL VPN is the ideal solution to effectively address your telecommuting needs.
***Attend the live webcast and be entered to win 1 of 5 SA 2500 SSL VPN appliances from Juniper Networks plus a 10-user lab use license. New Juniper SSL VPN customers only. Click link for complete terms, conditions and eligibility restrictions.
February 19, 2009 / 11:00 a.m. / 2:00 p.m. ET
Can Your Data Center Infrastructure Handle the Side Effects of New Technology?
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives Webcast
Virtualization, consolidation, high-density computing… new technologies and approaches such as these are redefining the data center landscape. An aging support infrastructure can easily become obsolete—a threat to uptime and a costly bottleneck to future expansion. Join Eaton Corporation and Nemertes Research for an important Webcast to learn more about the impact of these IT technologies on power and cooling systems!
February 17, 2009 / 9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET
Calculating Today’s Strong Authentication ROI
An InformationWeek Live Webcast
We all know that passwords are the weakest link in our security armor, so the smartest budget choice we can make is to protect that link in real-time rather than deal with the aftermath. But what’s the best solution available? We’ll arm you with the tools to simplify both your budget and security decisions as you investigate strong authentication solutions for your organization.
February 11, 2009 / 9:00 a.m. PT /12:00 p.m. ET
Mitigating Litigation Risk with Strategic Email Management
An InformationWeek Webcast
Vivian Tero, IDC's research manager of Compliance Infrastructure will be joined by industry experts from Dell MessageOne who will present how a SaaS-enabled solution can reduce the total cost of ownership of your email infrastructure, effectively eliminate the risk of email downtime, securely archive email, expedite e-Discovery and block spam and virus attacks.
February 10, 2009 / 9:00 am PT / 12:00pm ET
My Budget is Gone...Now What? How Network Rightsizing can Save IT
An InformationWeek Webcast
Join industry experts Steve Kovsky, InformationWeek Contributing Editor, Chris Harget of Aruba Networks, and John Turner, Director of Networks and Systems for Brandeis University at this informative webcast for a look into strategic cost reduction with new network strategies for 2009. The panel will reveal how organizations are shrinking one-time and recurring costs associated with building consolidations, closet refresh, network expansions or simply to contend with slashed budgets.
February 04, 2009 / 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
Best Practices for 360° Application Performance Monitoring (APM): Filling Gaps in Visibility across Complex, Multi-Tier Application Infrastructures
A Network Computing Vendor Perspectives WebCast
Join SL Corporation for an informative webcast that will discuss the challenges many organizations face in providing solutions for 360° application visibility, core requirements for a solution, and a recommended architecture. Matt Rosen, the Director of Application Development for Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) will further discuss how they successfully put these best practices into action to monitor their end-to-end shipment lifecycle management system helping them ensure SLA compliance of 2.5 million annual shipments.
January 28 2008 - 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
Tomorrow's CIO: Driving Business Value in the Oil and Gas Industry in a Turbulent Economy
Sponsored by Wipro
This morning meeting has been created to help CIOs and senior level IT executives identify and spearhead IT projects with maximum short-term payback in 2009 so that they can successfully position their company for continued growth and innovation in the coming year. Join InformationWeek along with featured speakers, Spencer Abraham, Former U.S. Secretary of Energy and Randy Krotowski, CIO of Chevron Global Upstream on Tuesday, January 27th in Houston, Texas for this interactive and informative event.
Enabling the Extended Enterprise with Portals
An InformationWeek WebCast
During this webcast, Mark Vermette and George Rathbun of CRIX International with Jason Andersen from JBoss, a division of Red Hat, will discuss CRIX’s implementation of their portal-based collaboration solution. Based on JBoss and Alfresco technology, CRIX has the potential to drastically reduce the effort associated with complex clinical research site initiation processes.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 / 1:00 pm PT / 4:00 pm ET
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