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The role of the CIO has greatly changed over the past few years. IT leaders are now tasked with driving value throughout the enterprise, and have done so by improving processes and workflow, accelerating time to market, and identifying new business opportunities. With the economy in a state of transition, technology leaders have a unique opportunity to provide real business value by making decisions that will better position enterprises to succeed in the upcoming years.

The CIO Midmarket Summit is an opportunity for technology leaders to engage in candid conversations, participate in education sessions and build relationships with industry peers. The event is a unique opportunity to take part in focused agenda sessions that will provide critical takeaways and new ideas.

Here are a few reasons why we think you need to join us:

The Insight: Forget the traditional slideshow presentation, the CIO Midmarket Summit is about sharing true insight among IT executives. You’ll explore the pros and cons of IT projects in order to learn, discuss, debate, and, ultimately, make better-informed decisions for your organization.

The Content: Content is king at the CIO Midmarket Summit! You’ll hear from more than 35 of your CIO peers over two days. The event’s agenda includes 25 case study presentations/specialized think tank style discussions, 10 executive vision sessions, and 5 leadership workshops. This agenda format promotes value and balance, and will allow you to maximize your time out of the office.

The Networking: Connect with an unrivalled array of peers to share technology knowledge, exchange ideas and build long-lasting professional relationships that prove critical to you throughout your career.

The Take Aways: With more than 120 C-suite business leaders in attendance, The CIO Midmarket Summit creates an intimate and unique environment that will allow you to take ideas back to your business, and shift your CIO career from cost saver to value provider.

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Case Studies

Proven Value with Oracle Database Appliance The Oracle Database Appliance offers a simple to use, affordable solution for departmental deployment and small-to mid-sized organizations. To confirm the benefits of the Oracle offering, ESG interviewed a customer who recently deployed the appliance. As a result of implementing the Oracle Database Application, their experience with the tools and features were met and exceeded the expectations of the organization, both in cost savings and in better overall use of IT manpower.

City Uses Blackboard Connect to Recoup $30,000 in Fees and Clear Warrants When the city of Freeport needed to communicate details of a warrant amnesty program, they turned to the Blackboard Connect service to reach out to the community. Messaging resulted in the recoupment of $30,000 in fees and the clearing of over 100 outstanding warrants. According to Jeff Pynes, Freeport City Manager, "Using Blackboard Connect, we were able to clear hundreds of warrants and bring in a lot of money for the city that would otherwise be considered uncollectable."

City Sees Immediate ROI through Innovative Technology New England's most densely populated city, Somerville, MA, is re-inventing itself as a vibrant urban center. The City of Somerville has taken the lead in many innovative local government initiatives, including the use of new notification technologies to inform and assist its community. Notably, the city chose to replace its hardware communication system with the Blackboard Connect service to better ensure rapid notification of its citizenry.

An Open Policy Framework for Cross-vendor Integrated Governance An Open Policy Framework for Cross-vendor Integrated Governance: Intel SOA Expressway delivers a pluggable SOA governance policy framework based on XML policies and logs for open integration.

What Data Governance Model is Right for Your Company? An essential element of any successful corporate governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) initiative is quality data.

Whitepapers

Time Savings and Ease of Deployment Comparison Study: Oracle Database Appliance vs. Microsoft SQL Server As the amount and importance of corporate data grows, companies of all sizes are finding that they increasingly need to deploy high-availability database solutions to support their business critical applications. High DBA workloads have made the ease with which these systems can be installed, administered and supported an important consideration in their selection.

Mimecast Research: Generation Gmail- How Businesses Can Bring Them Back into the Fold Mimecast has identified a new demographic of email users known as Generation Gmail. These are workers who work around your corporate email infrastructure in an effort to simply get their job done. This whitepaper aims to identiy those users, the reasons they exist and to outline what your organization can do about that.

Mimecast Email Management Mimecast has been enabling organizations worldwide to rediscover email as a business asset since 2003- by stripping away layers of complexity to leave customers with lean, cost effective and secure email systems that are easy to manager, always available and secure. Mimecast customers can rely on a simple, effortlessly scalable email system that does what email was born to do- enable collaboration and drive productivity.

Beyond Dropbox: Requirements for Enterprise Class Secure File Sharing and File Synchronization Consumer file sharing services are catching on with business users. But these services lack the rigorous security controls and centralized administrator of enterprise IT solutions. Consumer services put enterprises at risk for data leaks, security attacks, and regulatory compliance violations. If a user transmits confidential information via untracked file sharing, the file transmission may constitute a regulatory violation that can result in financial penalties and a tarnished reputation for the organization. This whitepaper explores the danger these

CyberSource Payment Security Compliance At CyberSource a merchant can reduce the time it takes the validate with the PCI DSS. Their viewpoint has always been that taking sensitive payment data out of the merchant environment can provide effective security and reduce PCI compliance scope.

 
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