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Business Service Management: Strategies for Success in 2009
Paul Burns, Research Director, EMA
Thursday 5/7 @ 11 am Pacific / 2 pm Eastern
Web-Based Applications Management: Optimizing the Benefits for Your Organization
Julie Craig, Research Director, EMA
Thursday 5/14 @ 8 am Pacific / 11 am Eastern
EMA analysts and consultants are respected IT management thought leaders. Check out these recent articles:
SaaS Vendors Bucking IT Spending Trend
by Julie Craig – CIO Update – March 30, 2009
The Configuration Management System and the Road to Automation
by Dennis Drogseth – DITY Weekly Reader – April 15, 2009
Is Tape Dead Yet?
by Curtis Breville – InfoStor – April 21, 2009
Getting More ITSM Value Out of Your Service Desk
by Lisa Erickson-Harris – DITY Weekly Reader – April 22, 2009
Better ITIL Implementation with Business Service Management
by Paul Burns – DITY Weekly Reader – April 29, 2009

Look for EMA analysts speaking at these upcoming events:
Citrix Synergy 09
-Andi Mann, Vice President
-May 4 - 7, 2009
-Houston, TX
CIO Healthcare Summit
-Andi Mann, Vice President
-May 12, 2009
-Scottsdale, AZ
Interop Las Vegas 2009
-Rick Sturm, Founder & CEO
-Jim Frey, Senior Analyst
-May 17 - 21, 2009
-Las Vegas, NV
Virtualization and Data Center Technologies for the Channel Professional
-Andi Mann, Vice President
-May 20, 2009
-San Francisco, CA
Data Center Decisions Summit
-Andi Mann, Vice President
-May 21, 2009
-San Francisco, CA
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From the CMDB to the CMS: Accelerating the Time to Value through Federation
by Dennis Drogseth, Vice President
CMDB System (CMDBS) deployments have been evolving significantly over the last few years towards higher levels of federation, growing CI scope, and more defined paths to value. At the same time, the frustration level with assimilating CMDB-related technologies has risen over the last two years and some hard lessons have been learned. Chief among them is to start with a well planned and well-defined first phase that can deliver value quickly.
But there are other lessons to be learned. Several of these lessons were underscored in EMA research done in February and March of this year, including 162 respondents for quantitative research and fifteen focal interviews.
> Read CMDB System Research Highlights
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