Gartner Announces Midsize Enterprise Summit for Central U. S. Region
(PRWEB) May 18, 2001
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Mary Ellen Sheehy
Gartner, Inc.
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Gartner, Inc. (NYSE IT and ITB) announced today that Midsize Enterprise Summit, an invitation-only event for senior IT executives, is scheduled for the Central U. S. region on September 19 – 21, 2001 at the Hyatt Regency DFW in Dallas, Texas. Midsize Enterprise Summit focuses on the issues and technologies critical to enabling strategic IT decision-making in the midsize company, and brings together up to 300 IT executives with Gartner analysts, technology vendors, and the media in each region. East and West Coast Summits took place in early 2001.
“Midmarket IT departments operate as a competitive necessity, and under dynamic business and technical conditions,” said Raymond Laracuenta, Vice President, Practice Area Director, Small and Midsize Business Research Group, Gartner, Inc. “As such they need to determine the strategic and tactical business processes that enable competitive differentiation. At the Summit, Gartner analysts will speak to the technologies relevant to midsize enterprise success, but the perspective will be one of management implication versus straight technology.”
The Summit opens with a Keynote Presentation on “m-Commerce: Mobile and Wireless Strategies for Midsize Enterprises”. During the following two days, Gartner analysts will present General and Breakout sessions that focus on the impact of a broad set of technology issues in terms of IT management practices, business process changes, staffing, and budgetary issues. Among the topics to be discussed are e-Business, e-CRM Strategies and ERP, Microsoft. NET vs. Java J2EE, Network Services, Sourcing, Budgeting, and Web Services.
Midsize Enterprise Summit guests are IT managers from enterprises with 100-1000+ employees and annual revenue between $100 million to $750 million. All attendees are qualified by company size, job function, and financial responsibility for IT technologies and processes. They may have titles such as CIO, CTO, MIS Director, or VP of IT/IS, and represent the financial services, communications, telecommunications, health care, professional services, and manufacturing sectors, among others. Participants in Midsize Enterprise Summit in early 2001 included Columbia Sportswear, Fidelity Federal Bank, Geneva Pharmaceuticals, Insight Health Services, Marietta Corporation, Mitsubishi Silicon America, Pepperdine University, PG&E National Energy Group, Trendwest Resorts, Wade Cook Financial Corporation, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
In addition to Gartner Sessions, Summit attendees meet privately with technology vendors in theater-style presentations and in prescheduled Boardroom Sessions. World Premiere presentations will be given by Intel Online Services and SalesLogix/a division of Interact Commerce Corporation on September 20, 2001 in Dallas. At the Corporate Sponsor Showcase and Demonstration Forum, all participating IT vendors will discuss IT products and services with attendees via dedicated exhibit space.
Corporate Sponsors of the Summit include Agilera, AMD, Citrix, Compaq Computer, Digex, Epicor Software, eRoom Technology, Genuity, Hewlett Packard, Infinium, Intel Online Services, Iomega, (i)Structure, Logical, NEC Systems, NeoIT, PerformanceIT, Plaut Consulting, RedSiren Technologies, SalesLogix/a division of Interact Commerce Corporation, Surebridge, Sysinct, and Webridge. Event Sponsors, TechRepublic and the Society for Information Management (SIM), will contribute throughout the Summit. For more information, call toll-free 877-619-7956, or visit www. technologyevents. com/mes. html (http://www. technologyevents. com/mes. html).
About Gartner, Inc.
Gartner, Inc. is a research and advisory firm focused on helping businesses understand technology and drive growth. Gartner's business divisions consist of Gartner Research, Gartner Consulting, and Gartner Events. Founded in 1979, Gartner, Inc. is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut and consists of 4,600 associates, including 1,400 research
Analysts and consultants, in more than 80 locations worldwide. The company achieved fiscal 2000 revenues of $859 million. For more information, visit www. gartner. com.
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