Gartner 6th Annual Outsourcing Summit

Topic(s): Application Service Providers, Applications Outsourcing, Contract Development, Evaluation and Selection, Infrastructure Outsourcing, IT Outsourcing, Software as a Service, Sourcing Management and Governance, Sourcing Relationships, Sourcing Strategies
Date: 15-16 July 2009
Location: São Paulo

This year's Outsourcing Summit features completely new content including sessions focused on best practices for leveraging the optimal mix of internal and external service providers, managing multiple IT service providers, ensuring cost optimization, supercharging your IT Asset management strategy and critical new information to help you tackle a dynamic and ever growing array of Global IT service options.

In today's dramatically altered business environment, containing and/or reducing costs are urgent priorities. Organizations are under increased pressure to outsource more and do it more quickly. But solely pursuing a cost-focused approach can invite danger. Are you unknowingly sacrificing performance and sustainable business outcomes? What will happen when the economy stabilizes and the focus shifts to enhancement and innovation? Will the deal you sign today have the strategic business value you need down the road? Gartner Outsourcing explores the practical steps you must take today to secure the success of your outsourcing initiatives tomorrow. The theme for this year's conference: Practical Outsourcing: Balancing Cost Optimization with Performance Improvement.

At the core of the Summit are proven strategies that can improve your sourcing decisions and actions - immediately. Our team of analysts will help you adapt to the economy's new circumstances with fresh thinking and trusted insights. Your biggest takeaway: the know-how to structure outsourcing deals that get you through today's challenges as well as those in the future.

What's New At This Event:

• IT Services and Providers - Optimizing your Options, Minimizing Your Risks
• Best Practices for IT Asset and Service Management
• Sourcing Strategies for Challenging Times: Taking Outsourcing to the Next Level
• Gartner Scenario: Telecomm Outsourcing
• Successful Management of multiple providers
• Contracting for Flexibility - Can Utility and Traditional Sourcing Options Coexist?
• Preparing your organization - and yourself - for change
• Secrets of Success when contracting Software as a Service

About the Gartner

Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) is the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company. We deliver the technology-related insight necessary for our clients to make the right decisions, every day. From CIOs and senior IT leaders in corporations and government agencies, to business leaders in high-tech and telecom enterprises and professional services firms, to technology investors, we are the indispensable partner to 60,000 clients in 10,000 distinct organizations. Through the resources of Gartner Research, Gartner Executive Programs, Gartner Consulting and Gartner Events, we work with every client to research, analyze and interpret the business of IT within the context of their individual role. Founded in 1979, Gartner is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, U.S.A., and has 4,000 associates, including 1,200 research analysts and consultants in 80 countries.