Gartner Webinars

EDT: 8:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m. | PDT: 5:00 a.m. & 8:00 a.m. | GMT: 12:00 & 15:00 Who are you, and where and with what device do you connect to the corporate infrastructure? As more discrete devices connect to the network, admins not only need to ask "which user is this?" but also "with which device they are connecting?" and, for an increasing number of organizations, "from what location?" How can IT manage this diversity while embracing the new digital workspace of local and cloud-based applications? This webinar covers the growing importance of mobile identity combined with the convergence of the IAM and enterprise mobility management (EMM) markets and the resulting challenges.

EDT: 9:00 a.m. & 12:00 p.m. | PDT: 6:00 a.m. & 9:00 a.m. | GMT: 13:00 & 16:00 This webinar explains why you need to open up your mind and widen your picture in order to be successful with IoT security.

EDT: 9:00 a.m. | PDT: 6:00 a.m. | GMT: 13:00 As digital business continues to expand in more organizations, the use of IoT devices expands with it. The introduction of IoT gives rise to practical issues regarding risk management and digital security as well. This webinar explores what has changed with traditional security in IT, physical and operational technology (OT) environments as a result of IoT use and practical steps that organizations can take to manage risk, ensure safety and provide security in the age of the Internet of Things.

The definition of "mobile" in the post-app era will involve new interactions such as bots and conversations, new devices such as wearables and the IoT, and new contexts such as the smart home and office. Traditional mobile devices and apps will be joined by new technologies to deliver sophisticated ubiquitous services. The mobile scenario explains the key technology and market trends and explores how to use them to deliver innovative value to customers and employees.

EDT: 11:00 a.m. | PDT: 8:00 a.m. | GMT: 15:00 This webinar addresses the challenges of managing mobile devices for IT leaders from small and midsize businesses (SMB). SMBs often have mobile requirements similar to large enterprises, but the solutions to manage devices can be radically different.

As mobility becomes integrated with overall endpoint strategies, technical professionals must assess their organization's mobile maturity level and determine the steps required to ensure reliable, secure mobile operations while providing an excellent user experience.

Mobile apps are essential to the digital transformation of the enterprise and mobile app development is exploding, but the mobile environment and tools are in constant flux, with a new generation about to emerge. Enterprises must adopt the appropriate tools, architectures and partners to help them scale mobile app development, or they will fall far behind their competition.

It's no longer just about iPads and iPhones but also about smartwatches, Google Glasses and quantified self. With changing device landscapes and mobile platforms consolidation, enterprises now must design and develop mobile BI applications. Are the capabilities of their BI platform vendors enough?

The Internet of Things (IoT) will demand a wide range of new technologies and skills, including new hardware platforms, new networks, new operating systems, new types of high-volume data processing, new cloud services, new endpoint management tools, and new standards and ecosystems. This webinar explores 10 of the technologies organizations must master to excel in the age of the IoT.

This webinar addresses the growing trend of users refusing to have enterprise management of their mobile devices due to privacy concerns. We discuss how organizations can effectively provide applications and content and minimize security risks without the control offered through mobile device management (MDM) and enterprise mobility management solutions.

EDT: 8:00 a.m. | PDT: 5:00 a.m. | GMT: 12:00 Only 15% of data and analytics strategies have concrete measures of success. The rest mentions no business outcomes at all, or list qualitative goals such as "better decision making"- "more agility" or "coming to the one version of the truth", not the best way to justify your position as a chief data officer, or data and analytics leader. As information becomes a recognized business asset and as digital business models are based on the creation and exchange of data in a smart way, we can and must come to more tangible metrics.

EDT: 11:00 a.m. | PDT: 8:00 a.m. | GMT: 15:00 This webinar evaluates the success of the business intelligence competency center (BICC) and examines how it needs to evolve to remain effective in the face of the latest developments in business analytics, the changes to business capabilities in the digital workplace, and the impact of digital ethics, security and privacy.

Chief analytics officers (CAOs) and analytics leaders are the business equivalents of high-wire artists, maintaining balance while serving multiple masters, adapting to constant business winds and staying current on innovation. Mastering key tactics will help them survive and thrive in these critical roles.

EDT: 9:00 a.m. | PDT: 6:00 a.m. | GMT: 13:00 The variety of technologies required for creating compelling customer websites, portals and mobile apps demands a coordinated approach. Many enterprises have adopted a platform approach, utilizing a rationalized, integrated set of components. But it's not just the technologies that must be integrated - a variety of data sources, from customer profile to audience segments, must also be managed holistically across the platform.

EDT: 12:00 p.m. | PDT: 9:00 a.m. | GMT: 16:00 The BI and analytics platform market has transitioned during the past several years as the balance of power steadily shifted from IT to the business. This multiyear shift of focus from IT-led reporting to business-led self-service analytics passed the tipping point in 2016, which has forced a new perspective on the definition of a BI and analytics platform, and consequently, has significantly re-ordered the vendor landscape as represented in the Magic Quadrant.

EDT: 9:00 a.m. | PDT: 6:00 a.m. | GMT: 13:00 The wide spread and disparate use of BI, analytics and performance management across organizations requires establishing an analytic governance framework. This webinar outlines components of such a framework and how analytic governance relates to corporate as well as information and IT governance.

EDT: 12:00 p.m. | PDT: 9:00 a.m. | GMT: 16:00 With the threat of difficult economic times ahead, anxious CIOs and IT leaders are bracing for a return to the cost-cutting efforts they pursued in 2008. Although there are troubling parallels with 2008, IT organizations will be challenged to purse new cost optimization approaches in 2016. With many IT organizations already committed to lean IT budgets, a mixture of new approaches, new strategies and proven practices is required. IT organizations and their enterprises must optimize by "doing more with less," prepare for benefits maximization from digital business transformation, and enable the larger enterprise to minimize their costs.

New chief data offers (CDOs) must act quickly and decisively when they take up their posts or risk failure. Because the CDO role is new in many organizations, there is often no pre-existing program everything must be done "from scratch."

EDT: 11:00 a.m. | PDT: 8:00 a.m. | GMT: 15:00 The CDO needs to change the understanding and role of data governance - and soon. Growing data complexity, with such things as IOT, algorithmic business and increased regulation, will force a more business-led, business relevant, and ethical information governance discipline. It's all about increased business value.

EDT: 10:00 a.m. | PDT: 7:00 a.m. | GMT: 14:00 Becoming successful and demonstrating that success is not easy road for the chief data officer (CDO). As the CDO role is fast emerging in general and new for many organizations, expectations are high, but the deliverables and best practices are still taking shape. Because of this, it's easy for CDOs to struggle and fail in various ways. High-functioning CDOs lay out a plan to deal with common challenges and avoid common traps.

EDT: 9:00 a.m. & 12:00 p.m. | PDT: 6:00 a.m. & 9:00 a.m. | GMT: 13:00 & 16:00 There is no digital business without cloud, and there is no cloud without a cloud platform. Users of SaaS and IaaS discover PaaS as they look to add productivity and extensibility to their operations. The leading IT planners and architects turn to PaaS as the nexus of support for innovation, differentiation, agility and productivity in IT. Digital business and IoT impose new demands and test cloud platform providers' agility and insight. Understanding the nature, the tradeoffs, and the opportunities of cloud platforms and PaaS providers is essential for all IT planners and strategic IT architects.

EDT: 9:00 a.m. | PDT: 6:00 a.m. | GMT: 13:00 CIO sentiment is favoring cloud computing. Fifty-five percent of CIOs surveyed by Gartner indicated that by 2020 they will structure more than half of their applications as SaaS or manage them in a public cloud infrastructure. To manage and govern public, private and hybrid cloud services requires a focus on cloud management. This, in turn, requires new roles, processes and technologies. This webinar analyzes the state of cloud management and best practices in succeeding in governing and managing cloud services with the key end goal of IT as service broker.

EDT: 10:00 a.m. & 1:00 p.m. | PDT: 7:00 a.m. & 10:00 a.m. | GMT: 14:00 & 17:00 Cloud hosted applications need data protection similar to on-premises data. Although IaaS/SaaS providers (AWS, Azure, Office 365) offer excellent data resiliency, most do not offer native backup. This webinar helps you build a strategy for the protection and recovery of cloud applications and data.

Developers have fallen for Docker as a packaging and deployment technology, leaving infrastructure and operations teams dealing with how to place, run and manage application containers across a cluster of servers efficiently and maintain service levels in production. This webinar discusses those orchestration requirements and the landscape of solutions, including Kubernetes, Apache Mesos, Docker Swarm and others.

Abstract hybrid cloud services require new roles, processes and technologies for cloud management. We analyze the state of cloud management and best practices for succeeding in governing and managing cloud services.

Gartner has released a new special report addressing cybersecurity as a critical part of digital business, with its broader external ecosystem and new challenges in an open digital world. The pace of business accelerates to algorithmic speeds and material shifts in culture, behavior and technology are required. Security officers will work more like intelligence officers and trusted advisors as citizen and business-unit IT becomes the dominant model. Organizations will learn to live with digital risk as business units innovate to discover what security they need and what they can afford. Digital ethics, analytics, and people focus will be as important as technical controls. In this webinar you'll learn more about successfully addressing cybersecurity in digital business.

Price wars, partnerships, acquisitions and co-opetition, along with rampant confusion and cloud washing, are setting the stage for battle for the cloud. The resulting impacts will have profound effects on the vendors as they continue to mature, disrupt and guide enterprise IT strategies. In this webinar, we describe how cloud computing offerings exist on a spectrum. We outline the major cloud strategies of the megavendors (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, IBM) and use that spectrum to assess the applicability of their approaches to your cloud strategies.

Amazon, Microsoft and Google - these megaproviders are vying to be your strategic cloud IaaS service for the future. How are you to choose? In this webinar, we present findings for each against 205 evaluation criteria points to help you make your strategic decision.

Cloud applications can deliver significant benefits, but selecting the right architecture, design and technologies for custom cloud applications involves complex tradeoffs. This webinar covers the intricacies of designing and building applications for cloud deployment and provides an in-depth look at development using cloud tools as well.

La competizione digitale provoca grandi cambiamenti nelle aziende e IT ora significa successo competitivo. Per avere successo le aziende devono sostenere uninnovazione agile e rapida ed erogare servizi IT di solidità industriale. Essere un broker di soluzioni cloud, capacità interne e fornitori e partner esterni è la chiave di successo nelleconomia delle connessioni. Questa sessione identifica una serie di passi e la roadmap per implementare il bimodale IT e ladaptive sourcing.

EDT: 9:00 a.m. & 12:00 p.m. | PDT: 6:00 a.m. & 9:00 a.m. | GMT: 13:00 & 16:00 Digital business presents CIOs and business leaders with unprecedented governance challenges, nowhere more so than in the realms of information risk and security. Effective governance provides accountability, authority and assurance. Security and risk governance consists of processes and activities executed and overseen by appropriate bodies. The success of governance initiatives depends on the effectiveness of the groups tasked with executing them. This webinar offers a coherent framework for effective risk and security governance in digital business.

EDT: 8:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m. | PDT: 5:00 a.m. & 8:00 a.m. | GMT: 12:00 & 15:00 Who are you, and where and with what device do you connect to the corporate infrastructure? As more discrete devices connect to the network, admins not only need to ask "which user is this?" but also "with which device they are connecting?" and, for an increasing number of organizations, "from what location?" How can IT manage this diversity while embracing the new digital workspace of local and cloud-based applications? This webinar covers the growing importance of mobile identity combined with the convergence of the IAM and enterprise mobility management (EMM) markets and the resulting challenges.

EDT: 9:00 a.m. & 12:00 p.m. | PDT: 6:00 a.m. & 9:00 a.m. | GMT: 13:00 & 16:00 This webinar explains why you need to open up your mind and widen your picture in order to be successful with IoT security.

EDT: 9:00 a.m. | PDT: 6:00 a.m. | GMT: 13:00 As digital business continues to expand in more organizations, the use of IoT devices expands with it. The introduction of IoT gives rise to practical issues regarding risk management and digital security as well. This webinar explores what has changed with traditional security in IT, physical and operational technology (OT) environments as a result of IoT use and practical steps that organizations can take to manage risk, ensure safety and provide security in the age of the Internet of Things.

Gartner has released a new special report addressing cybersecurity as a critical part of digital business, with its broader external ecosystem and new challenges in an open digital world. The pace of business accelerates to algorithmic speeds and material shifts in culture, behavior and technology are required. Security officers will work more like intelligence officers and trusted advisors as citizen and business-unit IT becomes the dominant model. Organizations will learn to live with digital risk as business units innovate to discover what security they need and what they can afford. Digital ethics, analytics, and people focus will be as important as technical controls. In this webinar you'll learn more about successfully addressing cybersecurity in digital business.

Security and risk management leaders are always trying to improve the quality of their metrics to inform better decision making in their organizations. "Business alignment" is spoken about frequently, but execution is challenging. Key risk indicators (KRIs) should have defensible causal relationships to business impacts and present leading indicators to decision makers. In this webinar, we discuss a Gartner methodology to integrate risk and corporate performance that helps achieve these goals.

During 2015, we've continued to see changes in cybersecurity for organizations. Threats are evolving, becoming increasingly sophisticated and more numerous. Traditional approaches to securing IT systems have expanded to include new requirements to meet the additional demands of operational technology and the Internet of Things. This webinar reviews the lessons learned and informs listeners how to use the past to create the future.

EDT: 10:00 a.m. & 1:00 p.m. | PDT: 7:00 a.m. & 10:00 a.m. | GMT: 14:00 & 17:00 Improving cash flow and reducing costs are often combined into contradictory supply chain objectives. In addition to clarifying costs versus cash flow, this webinar provides a framework for approaching cost reduction by defining and providing insights into three supply chain costs: structural design costs, planning cost trade-offs and operating waste.

EDT: 12:00 p.m. | PDT: 9:00 a.m. | GMT: 16:00 With the threat of difficult economic times ahead, anxious CIOs and IT leaders are bracing for a return to the cost-cutting efforts they pursued in 2008. Although there are troubling parallels with 2008, IT organizations will be challenged to purse new cost optimization approaches in 2016. With many IT organizations already committed to lean IT budgets, a mixture of new approaches, new strategies and proven practices is required. IT organizations and their enterprises must optimize by "doing more with less," prepare for benefits maximization from digital business transformation, and enable the larger enterprise to minimize their costs.

EDT: 5:00 p.m. | PDT: 2:00 p.m.| GMT: 21:00 CIOs and IT leaders continue to optimize IT costs. But how effective are they? Too often, cost optimization activities happen organically. Best-in-class organizations are becoming proactive and run IT cost optimization as an ongoing discipline - setting targets and utilizing cost optimization and decision frameworks to get the most value from their cost optimization efforts.

An impending economic slowdown has many enterprises challenged with new approaches to cost optimization, whether it is in the business or in preparation for digital business transformation. The good news for CIOs and IT leaders is that this time there is a warning, compared to the global economic crisis of 2008. The bad news is that many of the tried-and-true optimization tactics will not deliver enough benefits to meet new goals for enterprises and IT organizations that are already lean. Optimization now will mean more than just contributing to profitability goals of the enterprise - with digital business disruption looming on the horizon, cost optimization will have to be the funding source for many digital investments, while also being a stress test for digital business success.

Cost optimization takes on new dimensions in the age of digital business. For many organizations - particularly those in natural-resources-based economies and geographies - economic uncertainty and the pressing need to invest in digital technologies has put IT leaders in a challenging spot.

Uncertainty with the 2016 global economy and financial markets will lead enterprises across industries to strategize for cash flow and operating profit improvements. Technology providers must partner with their customers to execute on delivering successfully to these cost optimization strategies against the backdrop of digitalization.

Executive Programs Education Community Webinar - Education Industry IT Cost, Value Optimization, and IT Benchmarks

Gartner analysts recently conducted the first survey of Gartner clients to help us better understand what they are doing with respect to agile practices and methods they are using. This webinar explains the results of that survey.

EDT: 10:00 a.m. & 1:00 p.m. | PDT: 7:00 a.m. & 10:00 a.m. | GMT: 14:00 & 17:00 Shadow IT, decentralized IT and other negative terms make most CIOs and IT leaders nervous. Few IT organizations approach business-unit IT holistically to drive cost optimization strategies or innovation maximization strategies. Traditional approaches to business-unit IT increase costs and dampen innovation. The circumstances and growth profile of individual enterprises must dominate the final business-unit IT strategy.

Many client organizations and industries are approaching digital business incrementally instead of taking a broader transformation approach. Cost optimization and digital business are intrinsically linked because funding for business model reinvention is vital. In this webinar, we discuss why service providers must leverage multiple service offerings and operate in an extended service provider ecosystem to successfully deliver digital business transformation for their clients and avoid disruptions to their own revenue streams.