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Steve Worthington and Michael Singer to Present at 'Get IT together'

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We are getting closer to seeing you all at the Get IT together conferences in San Diego and Connecticut.

This is the one Magic Software event that has it all: top notch instructors, key Magic Software executives, networking opportunites with your peers and great locations. We have a block of rooms reserved until Monday October 26. After that you are on your own with the hotels at much higher rates. The savings by booking through the registration site are as much as $110 per night, so I recommend you book through the site right now.

Not only will our new Magic Software CTO, Eyal Pfeifel, be presenting the new technology roadmap, but we will have top experts like Steve Worthington and Michael Singer presenting uniPaaS and iBOLT in a way that is both educational and informative. I can assure you that this event will have someting for everyone.

So don't miss out.  See the full agenda and register here.

How to Avoid IT Project Failure - US Seminar - November 10th, 12th.

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60% of companies in a recent AIG Consulting poll were found to suffer from marginally successful technology projects or outright project failures.

A full half of this number experienced project ‘runaways' which take too long to deliver, consume too much budget, or under-deliver on functionality.

The Get IT together seminar is designed specifically to address the problems that lead to IT project failure.

How? By helping organizations to optimize their software systems and IT departments to better deliver business results.

Attendees can expect to learn:

• How to align IT department objectives with your overall business goals
• How to better streamline the application development process 
• How to more effectively deliver IT projects
• How to get your business applications working together
• How to ensure your current goals answer future business needs

If you are a CEO, CIO or IT manager these issues should already be sounding alarm bells in your head.

To find out more about seminar sessions topics and times, speakers and locations, visit the Get IT together website.

To secure an invitation online register or contact Glenn Johnson direct on +1 949 250 1718 or email glenn_johnson@magicsoftware.com.

Business Integration - How important is it to your Business?

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While looking to post some more information on current IT trends I came accross this clip from Gartner:

Here, David Cearley mentions 3 of the top ten strategic technology trends he's expecting to see emerge in 2009 and beyond.

His second point is what particularly caught my interest; the importance of business intelligence. He finds that CEOs and CIOs don't really have the information they need to make the right business decisions. 

And that's critical since better (i.e. more complete information) in the hands of decision makers can be the make or break of a company in today's economic climate.

The vital question for CEOs and CIOs is how to create this environment of 'better' corporate information without having to go through the expense of replacing existing IT systems.

The answer - better integrate the IT systems that the organization already has.

IT systems often work in self-contained 'silos', keeping their data to themselves. But the whole is greater than the sum of its parts - as the expression goes. In the same way, IT information becomes far more powerful when its shared and combined with other data within the organization -  giving decision makers a complete view of their business. 

Worth seeing this if you want to find out how enterprises can implement integration quickly and simply.