Now more than ever, both IT and Line of Business executives are tasked with driving business innovation, and doing so with speed, agility and flexibility. Experience is proving that Software as a Service (SaaS) is a viable business strategy that is quickly becoming a practical service model to achieve these goals while also reducing costs and increasing efficiency.

The IDC SaaS Summit: Delivering Business Innovation within the New Paradigm brings together senior IT and line of business executives to learn about the opportunities and challenges that SaaS brings to the enterprise. Using first hand experiences from industry experts, IDC analysts and end user case studies, attendees will explore trends and best practices around how SaaS can be used to rapidly deploy new applications and drive business innovation.

Comprehensive Program Coverage Includes:

* The next generation of products and services
* Web services platforms and how they can solve the integration problem
* Launching a software service model into new vertical and functional markets
* Transitioning front office applications to a a SaaS environment
* Integrating SaaS into your enterprise architecture
* Understanding the risks of SaaS
* Best Practices and Lessons Learned Around SaaS Evaluation and Selection
* SaaS Integration: The Final Frontier

To download the complete program brochure, please click here.

REGISTRATION RATES:

$495 until August 15, 2008

$895 after August 15, 2008

Group Registration Benefit:

$100 discount per person for groups of 3 or more from the same company registering at the same time.

If you have registration questions, please call 800-605-5849.