The Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit 2008 will explore new ways to access, search, structure, and manage information, and improve your organization's productivity and efficiency through collaboration. We'll bring together a leading-edge group of Gartner analysts, keynote presenters, and industry panelists for more than 40 in-depth sessions focused on the practical uses of recent innovations, new best practices, and the latest independent research.

Find out how to:

• Leverage existing resources for greater productivity.
• Roll out new ways to make your organization more efficient.
• Quantify workplace technology's contribution to the bottom line.

From litigation requests to email volume, disparate content sources, collaboration needs, Web 2.0 warp-speed innovations, and budget scrutiny, we'll address practical ways to handle all your top concerns and much more.

Why Attend

Benefits of Attending

• Leverage existing assets for greater productivity. Learn new best practices for managing and improving existing portals and web infrastructure. Improve adoption of existing applications through improved user interfaces.
• Get up to speed on efficiency-boosting new strategies. Choose from four tracks and more than 40 in-depth sessions packed with the latest research, case studies, and best practices.
• Benefit from peer experience. Access the online community of registered attendees as soon as you sign up, network at the event, hear end-user case studies, attend analyst/user roundtable discussions, and more.
• Identify your next move. Get the latest insight on emerging architecture issues such as web-oriented architecture, context-driven architecture, and big web platforms and products.
• Use collaboration technologies to their full potential. Find out how to decrease business costs and improve operational efficiency with new collaboration strategies. Share information and ideas with external partners, suppliers, and customers more effectively.
• Streamline the content maze. Learn how new approaches to content management can decrease costs, simplify processes, and improve access.
• Get organized. Hear the latest best practices for ensuring regulatory compliance, business transparency, and proper reporting. Be ready in the event of litigation demands.

Who Should Attend

Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit provides the fullest coverage of workplace technologies, direction, and best practices for IT professionals like CIOs, CTOs, VPs, directors, and managers from:

Portals, content, knowledge management, and collaboration
Learn how to deliver more business value with proven Web 2.0 strategies.

Information architecture
Learn how your architecture needs to be prepared to effectively handle the ECM and collaboration models

Application integration and development
Discover new ways to streamline complexities and leverage existing assets to greater benefit.

Web technology and media and web services
The pilot phase is over and the pressure is on to roll out new tools. Find out how the new generation of web services and mashups can improve the bottom line through increased efficiency, productivity, and collaboration.

Business and new product development
Partners, teams, vendors—everyone needs to communicate. Hear the latest strategies for enabling collaboration across organizations and channels as well as externally.

Marketing
Collaboration technologies offer powerful and economical new ways to streamline corporate communications and more. Find out what’s possible, what the competition is doing, and how to implement the best strategies.

General Counsel
Find out what other organizations are doing to safeguard against litigation woes and regulatory challenges, and how you can ensure you are ready for risks.