Optimize. Maximize. Automate. Streamline. These words describe the demands facing IT professionals as they try to provide the highest quality service at the lowest possible cost. Successful companies understand how to leverage existing technology to get a quicker return on investments.

IT departments must gain maximum value from enterprise infrastructure components and adopt strategic business technologies that:

• Institute measuring systems that pinpoint the root causes of problems and support corrective actions (IT right sizing, network load balancing, server consolidation, performance and capacity planning).
• Align IT resources with corporate, operational and budgetary goals.
• Operate as a business that benefits the corporate bottom line, establishing IT as a key player in a strategy-focused organization.
• Satisfy demands from customers for high-quality services and balanced costs.

Join SAS for a special Web seminar to take a closer look at optimizing IT through SAS IT Management Solutions — solutions that provide platform-independent and cost-effective ways to gain control of your IT resources, processes and services.

Seminar Speakers
Phillip Howell, IT manager at Progressive Casualty Insurance Co., brings 18 years of IT expertise in the areas of systems and capacity planning and performance. He will share the IT challenges his company faced, and the results achieved through SAS IT Management Solutions.

Brian Gillooly, editor-in-chief of events for InformationWeek and Optimize, will speak on IT trends in the corporate marketplace and the increasing interdependence between business and technology.

Randy Guard, director for solution strategy in Worldwide Marketing at SAS, will explain how establishing an enterprise approach to IT resource management optimizes a company's profitability and competitiveness.