META Group's Information Value Chain Power Summit to Focus On Empowering Business Through Collaborative Intelligence

Business Wire, Oct 14, 1998

STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 14, 1998--

Third Cross-Organizational Power Summit Scheduled to Begin October 19

META Group Inc. (NASDAQ:METG) today announced the agenda for its Information Value Chain conference, the third of four Power Summits scheduled for 1998.

The summit begins on October 19 at the Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport Hilton. It will focus on how to design, build, deploy, and manage collaborative information systems to forge a solid information value chain.

Each event within the Power Summit series addresses a critical business and IT theme, bringing together several META Group services to deliver insight from a broad range of expertise. In addition, each Power Summit is held in four different cities, on four different dates, to accommodate companies in various locations.

This third Power Summit is a one-day event that assembles a core group of experts from five separate META Group services. Additional dates and locations are as follows:

-- October 23: Los Angeles, CA Westin Los Angeles Airport Hotel -- October 26: New York, NY New York Hilton & Towers -- October 28: Charlotte, NC Hilton Charlotte & Towers

The Power Summit's presentations have been designed to assist attendees in improving customer intimacy and enhancing corporate competitiveness to help their organizations become more responsive, adaptable, and profitable. They will explore the following topics from both a business and a technical perspective:

-- Linking business requirements to an adaptive architectural

foundation -- Building a flexible Web-based publishing and collaboration

environment to enable end-user information publishing and

consumption -- Managing document life cycles and Web-based content delivery -- Incorporating real-time collaboration and knowledge management

functions into the collaboration and Web platforms -- Turning the data warehouse into a proactive information engine

using business intelligence analytical tools and

intranet/extranet reporting -- Developing an information mover infrastructure to clean, stage,

and replicate data

"An enterprise's ability to efficiently access, analyze, and process information from numerous sources and publish it to a variety of internal and external constituencies will be the 21st century engine for competitive differentiation," said David Cearley, META Group senior vice president and director of Workgroup Computing Strategies. "This Power Summit will offer pragmatic advice on overcoming the technical obstacles and the business challenges IT will confront."

Keynote Address

The opening-day keynote address, "The Information Value Chain: Empowering Business with Collaborative Intelligence", will be delivered by David Cearley and David Yockelson, vice president and director of META Group's Advanced Information Management Strategies service. It will focus on how the information value chain defines the relationships between multiple data sources, end-user groups, and external constituencies. It will look at defining the elements of the information value chain and calculating cost of ownership and ROI for various information architectures.

"To manage the myriad of information sources and the expanding constituency of employees, suppliers, and customers, enterprises are increasingly becoming information sources," said Yockelson. "To be effective, an enterprise must bring order to this information flood and understand its role as an information provider."

Additional Power Summit presentations will cover:

-- Understanding enterprise architecture and the information value

chain -- Utilizing the Internet, intranet, and extranet for information

delivery and analysis -- Empowering the knowledge worker with collaboration and groupware

tools -- Integrating documents, content, and knowledge management into the

value chain -- Exploiting structured data warehouse information in the

information supply chain -- Reconciling ERM packages with data warehouse

Full-day event registration for the Information Value Chain Power Summit is free for all META Group clients, and $295 for all others. More information on META Group's Power Summits can be obtained by calling META Group (800-945-META) or by visiting the company's Web site (www.metagroup.com).

About META Group

META Group helps companies make better information technology (IT) decisions by providing research and unlimited analyst consultation relevant to their specific business needs. Offering advisory services, consulting/benchmarking, and publications that span the full spectrum of IT, META Group addresses the latest technologies, industry trends, and business challenges. With more than 1,600 client companies worldwide, META Group differentiates itself from other information providers through its commitment to highly personal service (enabling "analysis in context"), bottom-line answers, and objectivity. To support this promise, META Group maintains a client-to-analyst ratio of 50:1 the lowest in the industry and reinvests almost 50% of its revenue back into research and client services. For details, connect with www.metagroup.com.