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.TITLE Gartner Mobile Business Solutions Event takes you to the next level
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.SUMMARY Palm, Inc. is a platinum sponsor of the Gartner Mobile Business Solutions Event coming this March 11 to 13. Steve Niles previews what’s in store at this exciting expo where you can learn all about the new heights mobile and wireless computing will reach in the coming year.
.AUTHOR Steve Niles
Gartner, Inc. provides thought leadership and strategic consulting services to more than 11,000 organizations worldwide. The company aims to help its clients understand and capitalize on regional market opportunities within a larger global business context. This March 11 to 13, Gartner is holding the Gartner Mobile Business Solutions Event at the Sheraton Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. You can learn more about it at http://www4.gartner.com/2_events/conferences_briefings/conferences/ra5.jsp.
Palm, Inc. is a platinum sponsor of the event and will have a booth on the expo floor as well as a couple of speaking opportunities. Palm will be participating in both the education session speaking about their Palm Wireless messaging Solutions and doing a customer success story presentation.
The event is intended for IT professionals at all levels in businesses across all industries, such as manufacturing, financial services, pharmaceutical, health care, telecommunications, etc. Gartner predicts mobile and wireless computing will really take off at full force in 2002, and the Gartner Mobile Business Solutions Event is intended to prepare you for this the explosion of mobile projects that will stem from the arrival of key technologies, such as 2.5G networks, programmable handsets, and next-generation PDAs. The event has been designed to answer questions like:
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.BULLET What economic, social, and legal trends will affect enterprise adoption of mobile and wireless technologies for intranet, business-to-business, and business-to-consumer processes?
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.BULLET How will applications and systems architectures evolve to exploit mobile and wireless capabilities?
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.BULLET How will mobile and wireless applications and services be integrated into legacy systems?
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.BULLET How will security and privacy be assured in an anywhere, anytime, "always on" world?
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.BULLET What new kinds of traffic will mobile and wireless demand generate for enterprise networks and how will the traffic be optimized?
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.BULLET Which products and services will be crucial to the mobile and wireless marketplace and which suppliers will dominate?
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.BULLET How can enterprises update their views of total cost of ownership, return on investment, and productivity to cope with the influx of new generations of networked devices?
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.BULLET How can access costs be managed when some users prefer to use expensive airtime instead of low-cost, state-of-the-art alternatives?
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Product representatives will also be available to offer hands-on demonstrations of various wireless LAN, PAN, WAN technologies, etc. They can also provide you with expert guidance for strategic implementation of your own wireless network.
The expo costs U.S. $1,495.00 for Gartner clients and U.S. $1,795.00 for non-clients. There’s also a Team Registration Discount, so when you register five colleagues from the same company, at the same time, with payment, the fifth colleague may attend for free.
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For more information on the Gartner Mobile Business Solutions Event, visit http://www4.gartner.com/2_events/conferences_briefings/conferences/ra5.jsp.
For more information on Palm handhelds, visit http://www.palm.com.
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