Conformity August 2009 Newsletter


	Monthly Newsletter	No. 9 August 2009

Welcome to Conformity's August 2009 Newsletter

In This Issue

»	Conformity Webinar: The Enterprise SaaS Working Group
»	Success in the Enterprise: Making SaaS Manageable
»	Softletter Survey
»	Follow us on Twitter!

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Conformity Webinar: The Enterprise SaaS Working Group

We're excited to announce that on September 30th at 11:00am PDT / 2:00pm EDT we'll be holding the first event in our Best Practices webinar series, featuring a roundtable discussion with the Enterprise SaaS Working Group. Comprised of recognized thought leaders and visionaries in SaaS and cloud computing, the group will discuss the challenges and issues that need to be overcome for SaaS and cloud applications to become truly 'enterprise-ready'. Participants in the session will include:

Michael Amend - Director of Enterprise Architecture, Dell Computer
Scott Carruth - VP, Information Systems, Initiate Systems
Peter Coffee - Director of Platform Research, Salesforce.com
Steve Coplan - Senior Analyst, Enterprise Security, The 451 Group
Tom Fisher - VP of Cloud Computing, SuccessFactors
Doug Harr - CIO, Ingres Corporation
Ryan Nichols - VP of Marketing and Product Management, Appirio

The discussion will focus on critical issues and corresponding best practices in the areas of management, governance, security and compliance, and will include a Q&A session open to all attendees. Click here for more information and to register for this exciting event!

Success in the Enterprise: Making SaaS Manageable

SaaS and cloud applications raise an interesting challenge for CIOs: If a third party controls the software, data and access, and the CIO no longer has the capabilities to directly monitor and manage software operations, how can the CIO fulfill their responsibility for governance and compliance?

Our new whitepaper, 'Success in the Enterprise: Making SaaS Manageable' examines the CIO's need to manage cloud applications as part of the larger responsibility for systems management in the enterprise. Please click here to register for a complimentary copy.

Softletter Survey - Telesales Compensation and Efficiency

Softletter, a Conformity media partner now in its 25th year of publication, publishes a series of annual surveys that examine every aspect of running a successful software business. They are looking for participants for a current survey they are doing on sales compensation processes and practices for software and SaaS vendor telesales forces. Participants will receive a complimentary copy of the results, and all responses will be kept strictly confidential. Please click here to take the survey.

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