Gartner Announces Business Intelligence Summit 2009

Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT):

When: March 9-11, 2009

Where: Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, Maryland

Details: Business Intelligence is on every CIO’s must-have list, however, Gartner estimates that no more than 20% of business users actually use BI proactively. If used strategically, BI can guide decision making and boost performance. The Gartner Business Intelligence Summit 2009 will focus on the actionable advice needed to address this big discrepancy. Now in its seventh year, the Summit is the industry-defining event focusing on critical topics including the key steps to making BI strategic, creating a BI and performance management strategy to widen the use of BI, the evolving role of corporate performance management, role, structure and organization of the BI Competency Center and much more.

Keynotes:

*Achieving the Execution Premium -- Linking Strategy and Operations: Robert Kaplan, Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and a former Dean of the Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie-Mellon University

*Geek Logic: Easier Living through Mathematics: Garth Sundem, author of Geek Logik: 50 Foolproof Equations for Everyday Life and The Geek's Guide to World Domination: Be Afraid, Beautiful People

*Gartner Keynote: Overcoming the Big Discrepancy: How We Can Do Better With BI: Kurt Schlegel & John Van Decker

*Comparing the Megavendors: How Do IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP Stack Up?:

*Market Players: Magic Quadrant Power Session: Gartner analysts Mark Beyer, Neil Chandler, Donald Feinberg, Ted Friedman and James Richardson

The latest BI tools will be demonstrated by more than 20 companies exhibiting at the conference. A listing of current exhibitors is available on the Solution Showcase page at http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=748720&tab=soln_showcase#current.

For complete event details, please visit the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit Web site at www.gartner.com/us/bi.

Members of the media can register for the event by contacting Christy Pettey at christy.pettey@gartner.com.

About Gartner

Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) delivers the technology-related insight necessary for its clients to make the right decisions, every day. Gartner serves 10,000 organizations, including chief information officers and other senior IT executives in corporations and government agencies, as well as technology companies and the investment community. The Company consists of Gartner Research, Gartner Executive Programs, Gartner Consulting and Gartner Events. Founded in 1979, Gartner is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, U.S.A., and has 3,800 associates, including 1,200 research analysts and consultants in 80 countries worldwide. For more information, visit www.gartner.com.