Computerworld's SaaScon 2008 Announces Line-up of Featured Presenters

Market Wire, December, 2007

Computerworld, the Voice of IT Management, announced today the initial lineup of featured presenters at SaaScon 2008, which will be held March 25-26, 2008 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, Calif.

SaaScon 2008 is the world's premier event for executives and managers who create, build, procure and deploy Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technologies. An industry-wide event, Computerworld's SaaScon attracts end-user executives, ISVs, vendors, and the spectrum of SaaS eco-system players.

The current roster of featured presenters at SaaScon 2008 consists of industry visionaries as well as leading implementers of SaaS solutions, including:

--  Mikael Blaisdell, director, Mikael Blaisdell & Associates, Inc.
--  Ken Harris, senior vice president and chief information officer,
    Shaklee Corp.
--  Craig Jocher, vice president of information systems, Transamerica
    Reinsurance
--  Jeff Kaplan, managing director, THINKStrategies
--  Joe Lacik, senior vice president of information services, Aviall
    Services, Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company)
--  Douglas Menefee, chief information officer, The Schumacher Group
--  Bill McNee, founder and chief executive officer, Saugatuck Technology
--  Bruce Richardson, chief research officer, AMR Research
--  Philbert Shih, research analyst, Tier 1 Research
--  Phil Wainewright, chief executive officer, Procullux Ventures
    

"With the software-as-a-service industry evolving rapidly, IT/business decision-makers are seeking honest, real-world insights and advice from their peers and industry experts so they can capitalize on the powerful features and economic benefits of today's SaaS solutions," said Jeff Kaplan, managing director, THINKStrategies, founder of the SaaS Showplace and one of the industry luminaries presenting at the event.

SaaScon, now entering its third year, showcases end-user presentations of actual SaaS implementations, and will bring together 500 end-users and ISVs. It is the only industry event that is vendor-neutral and serves as the central gathering place for companies building SaaS offerings as well as enterprises seeking to deploy those offerings.

Major themes at SaaScon 2008 will include:

--  Balancing Risk and Reward
--  Measuring Success, Embracing Best Practices and Avoiding Pitfalls
--  Moving Mission-Critical Applications to the Business Services Model
--  Securing Data You Don't Control
--  Understanding a Delivery Model in Transition
    

For questions about vendor presentation opportunities at SaaScon 2008, please contact John Vulopas, director of business development, Computerworld, at 508-271-8024 or john.vulopas@computerworld.com .

About Computerworld

Computerworld is the leading source of technology news and information for IT influencers worldwide. Computerworld's award-winning Web site ( www.computerworld.com ), weekly publication, focused conference series and custom research form the hub of the world's largest (40 edition) global IT media network. In the past five years alone, Computerworld has won more than 100 awards, including Folio Magazine's 2006 Gold EDDIE Award for the best technology/computing magazine, the 2004 and 2006 Magazine of the Year Award, and 2006 Best Overall Web Publication from the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE). In addition, in 2007 Computerworld's then editor in chief, Don Tennant, received the prestigious Timothy White Award from American Business Media. Computerworld leads the industry with an online audience of over 2 million unique, monthly visitors and a print audience of 1,222,000 readers each week (IntelliQuest CIMS Spring 2007).

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