CIO Boston Summit

A forum for innovative IT thought leaders in Boston

Despite the economic downturn freezing or cutting budgets and yielding a slow recovery, businesses are regaining strength and global IT spending is expected to increase in the coming years. But even with an economic upturn on the horizon and more importance placed on IT, we aren’t out of the woods yet. The role of the CIO is more important than ever as financial turmoil continues to alter the world's economy, making it difficult to put your organization in a position to achieve success. The business goals have changed and CIOs are now tasked with trying to find emerging opportunities to drive value throughout the enterprise.

We're in a historic transition - one marked by challenges, but filled with possibility. Preparing for the upturn and making the right decisions in times of change can better position your enterprise to succeed. Accordingly, the theme of this year's summit is “CIOs in Transition - The Shift from Cost-Saver to Value Provider.”

The CIO Boston Summit is a unique opportunity for the city’s greatest IT thinkers to collaborate on current industry challenges and trends. Attending CIOs and IT executives engage in peer-on-peer networking, while discussing the issues currently affecting CIOs from a variety of industries.

As an IT leader in Boston, now is the time to produce real business value for your organization. We at CDM Media know that in order for you to take time out of the office, it must be time well spent. The CIO Boston Summit agenda offers a balanced schedule of focused educational sessions, one-on-one meetings and networking opportunities that will maximize your time and efforts, providing you with ideas and strategies truly capable of changing business practices.

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Transform Data Into Insight: Business Intelligence Solutions SAP BusinessObjects comprehensive BI solutions enable your business users to access relevant, trusted information - the way they need it, whenever and wherever it's needed. Equipped with actionable insight, your users can make faster, better-informed decisions that increase productivity and improve performance.

Make Your Mainframe Work Smarter Not Harder The natural home for core business applications has traditionally been the mainframe. Continued investment in maintenance, product updates and support returns critical business value year on year by keeping existing applications current, relevant and supported. It makes sound financial, business, and technical sense to ensure that business functions and the systems that support them continue to be developed, enhanced and improved as an IT priority.

SAP BusinessObjects Software Provides New Marketing Insights In its desire to differentiate itself from its competitors, Forbes has recently turned to the data-mining and reporting functionality provided by SAP BusinessObjects technology to create more precise demographics for its advertisers.

SQL Server 2012 Technologies for SAP Solutions This white paper discusses the Microsoft and SAP partnership, focusing on how Microsoft SQL Server and SAP NetWeaver work together. Specifically, the paper highlights new features of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and other key SQL Server capabilities that are relevant to SAP NetWeaver 7.0 (SR3) and 7.1 products.

Minimize The Risk Of Your Cloud-Based Services The promise of the cloud is appealing reduced costs, greater agility, flexibility, scalability, and potentially greater security. At the same time, IT organizations recognize that the cloud introduces a number of issues related to security, data integrity, compliance, service level agreements, and data architecture that must be addressed. Therefore, the adoption of cloud services is being tempered by a significant level of uncertainty.

Executive Content

Great expectations or misplaced hopes? Perceptions of business technology in the 21st century (video) The consumerization of IT has brought new challenges to the game of keeping up with the speed of change, and there's growing concern in the executive suite that employee expectations of enterprise technology-and the IT function-are rising beyond the reality of what can be delivered. How harmful are those gaps? And what's the impact to your organization?

Savvis Aggressive Global Growth Meets Mission-Critical Needs of Enterprise Clients Savvis, a CenturyLink company, continues to grow its data center footprint worldwide to support your increasingly mission-critical global requirements of enterprise-class IT infrastructure. The new Savvis data centers, combined with expansions of its existing data centers, significantly increase the company’s footprint in response to your growing demand for cloud, managed hosting and colocation services.

Exploring the Cloud Exploring the Cloud - In this podcast, Surendra Reddy, Former VP of Cloud Computing at Yahoo!, defines 'cloudonomics,' talks about cloud security, and explains why he believes companies should deconstruct their IT infrastructure and embrace cloud.

Perfecting the IT Purchasing Supply Chain Ronald Franz, Process Information Officer at General Motors discusses GM's IT purchasing supply chain, including what changes were made during the economic downturn, what quality control measures are used to ensure information entering the system is accurate and what strategies are used to guarantee seamless communication between GM and its suppliers.

15 Minutes with Parsh Mishra 15 Minutes with Parsh Mishra: As VP Technology Infrastructure - WHG Compliance, Parsh Mishra works on the Risk Management side. The foremost function of his team is to bring down IT inherent risk to tolerable or non-affecting levels.

 
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