Symposium Times

Before our 3:30 p.m. sessions begin and Symposium/ITxpo 2009 in Orlando officially comes to an end, we wanted to thank you for joining us this year. We hope you enjoyed reading SymTimes and found it useful, whether your access was on site or from a distance. At the end of the sessions today, please drop [...]

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Don’t despair if you didn’t get to all the sessions you wanted, you missed a key moment in a keynote or your notes aren’t as complete as you’d like. The Keynote webcast links and the pdf presentations from sessions, workshops and clinics are available via Agenda Builder and accessible for the next year. And if [...]

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Peppered with questions from Gartner analysts Neil MacDonald and Brian Gammage, Microsoft’s Stephen Elop remained focused on the company’s strategic imperatives and operating principles during the third, and final, Mastermind Keynote interview today before a full house in the Dolphin’s Hemisphere ballroom. Elop said Microsoft fully embraces “constructive disruption,” and that the corporation recognizes the [...]

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Lunch will be provided from 12 – 1:30 p.m. today. On the menu: roast beef and brie on a six grain roll, roasted turkey and Jarslburg on a french roll, fried chicken with baked beans or mac & cheese with roasted corn and smoked cheddar for sides. Locations: Tents outside theYacht & Beach and the [...]

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What key takeaways will you leave the conference with? The whole social media impact. I work for government, and we’re not handling the impact of cloud computing very well. Beth Niblock Louisville Metro Government Cloud is coming! John Davis Agfirst Farm Credit Bank How to better structure enterprisearchitecture for the requirementsgathering. Andrew Lacroix Information on [...]

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Richard Hunter, Gartner vice president and George Westerman of MIT’s Sloan Center for Information Systems Research, were on hand yesterday to sign copies of their book,The Real Business of IT, How CIOs Create and Communicate Value. Looking for reading material for the plane ride home? Stop by the Gartner Bookstore in the Dolphin and pick [...]

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For those heading home, Mears provides easy transportation to Orlando Airport. Make your reservations at the Mears transportation desk in the lobby of the Dolphin Hotel. Reservations are required 90 minutes prior to departure and there is a 24-hour service phone if there’s no one at the desk. If you have a full day planned [...]

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Gartner has established a Global IT Council aimed at engaging the global IT community in collaborative activity to address two challenging issues – “cloud computing” and “IT maintenance” – that broadly affect IT industry progress and impact large companies.

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Today’s Gartner Magic Quadrant for Master Data Management of Product Data has been moved to a later time and new location. The session will now be held this evening (Wednesday) from 6:30 – 6:50 p.m. in the Cool Vendor Theater. The Cool Vendor Theater sits between the Atlantic and Pacific Halls of the Dolphin Hotel [...]

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By Mike Hill, Gartner The rise of the “digital native,” along with the growth in power and flexibility resulting from innovations such as cloud computing and the technology mashup, are channeling greater power into the hands of the end user.

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