Salt Lake City, Utah – May 29, 2008

 

Highlights / Key Facts:

 

* Learn to optimize your productivity and responsiveness by utilizing emerging collaboration technologies at Burton Group’s Catalyst Conference North America 2008. Technologists, Burton Group analysts and IT vendors will convene in San Diego, CA, June 23-27, 2008 to break down new and converging technologies for communication, collaboration, and content management that are fundamentally changing the way work gets done.

 

* Social Software in Action Roundtable: Principal Analyst Mike Gotta will moderate a discussion about social software in the real-world with representatives from Harvard University, Colgate-Palmolive, Deloitte, and Avery Dennison.

 

* Results of a Burton Group - Ziff Davis Enterprise SaaS Experiences Survey. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is appealing to organizations due to its promise of maintenance-free, easily rolled out solutions. But what has the actual experience been for implementers? Burton Group and Ziff Davis Enterprise conducted a study of over 300 organizations and will present the findings about how SaaS implementations are going and what can be learned from them at Catalyst.

 

* Alan Gutierrez, Community Organizer of Think New Orleans will discuss how the citizens of New Orleans utilized social software to become the network through which neighborhood groups gained the ability to provide social services, attract funding and guide development as they worked to rebuild the city.

 

* Social software, including blogs, wikis, and tagging/bookmarking systems, are moving from the edge to the center of the infrastructure model for communication, collaboration, and content management. Catalyst will discuss how social software plays a key role in domains ranging from attracting next-generation workers to effectively sharing the institutional knowledge of the retiring workforce.

 

* Collaboration and Content coverage at Catalyst Conference:

* Renowned for in-depth discussion of substantive IT issues, Catalyst brings together over 2,000 attendees from Fortune 500 and Global 2,000 companies to learn about and discuss significant technology topics and complex issues facing enterprise IT organizations.

 

This year, Catalyst will focus on six pivotal areas transforming the future of enterprise IT:

* Tune into Catalyst Live to join the conference conversations, highlights, announcements, and follow expert insights.

 

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