Annual Contract

Your access to Kuppinger Cole Research and Analysis

A contemporary view of IT-agile companies gives Digital Identity centre stage

Kuppinger Cole's (KC) Research and Analysis sector provides you with the tools and knowledge to recognise chances early and to be able to take these chances without unnecessary risks. KC's expertise reflects a modern, foresighted and, at the same time, pragmatic view of an IT infrastructure, focusing on Digital Identity and broken down into the key topics: Identity Management, GRC, IT Service Management/Business Service Management, Unified Communications, SOA security and Web 2.0/VRM (Vendor Relationship Management).

KC Research and Analysis allows you as an IT-manager and your company to become successful and provides you with the possibility of continual access to all KC publications to support you in your everyday business activities.

The 6 formats of KC Research Documents 

1. Vendor Reports
2. Product Reports
3. Market Reports
4. Best Practices
5. Segment Reports
6. Business Reports

Approximately 50 reports are published per year both in English and German (PDF Download)

Examples of research documents:

Best Practice

• Roadmap and Maturity Levels IAM - Finance Industry
• Roadmap and Maturity Levels IAM - Manufacturing Industry
• Roadmap and Maturity Levels IAM - Telco Industry
• Strategies for IAM in an Active Directory Environments

Business Reports

• Identity & Security in the Cloud
• Key Risk/Performance Indicators IAM and GRC
• Identity Management Roadmap

Market Reports

• System Integrators (Europe)
• Identity Management Vendor Maturity
• Cloud Computing
• Information Rights Management

KC Roadmap: A Benchmark and Guide

The KC Roadmap is regularly updated and touches on Best Practices, and thus structures your strategy for the future. It is your benchmark, showing you where your business is in comparison to others; it serves as a guide alongside defined maturity levels and stages of development towards a minimum-cost, open and agile business infrastructure. The KC Roadmap offers Thought Leadership - without loosing its touch with reality or practical effect, however.

Once a year, KC holds a Roadmap Webinar for all customers, presenting updates and amendments.

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Research & Advisory Access
Roadmap + Webinar

All types of contract include a commercial licence without limitations

Executive Monthly (Newsletter + Webinar)

"Executive Monthly" is a monthly newsletter in English published as a PDF. It informs you about current topics from our research sectors, with a perfect mix of business perspective and a strong technical foundation. "Executive Monthly" contains Best Practice reports alongside market perspectives, trends and product analyses; it gives a view on current discussions and offers guidance. With the publication of each newsletter, KC analysts hold a Webinar for all subscribers, allowing them to discuss newsletter contents with other participants and analysts. The Webinar is also conducted in English. 

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Executive Monthly

Certainty for your decisions

Readily Available and Effective: KC 1:1 Analyst Briefing Calls

Answers to burning questions from day-to-day project work - You can easily arrange KC Analyst Briefing Calls online. A Briefing Call normally lasts 30 minutes and can be conducted in either German or English as desired.

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Analyst Briefing Calls	Option	5	*

* unlimited for 2 named people

Consolidated Knowledge and Support with Decisions: KC Strategy Advice

Forward planning to maintain commercial agility is an increasingly complex undertaking. For strategic topics that are relevant to you, Kuppinger Cole provides you with a well-founded, independent basis for decision-making, which is balanced and considers your starting situation; this is with a combination of written evaluations and a one-day strategy workshop.
In order to determine your starting situation and to investigate the priorities relevant for your company, KC uses a tool that is pre-configured with branch-specific comparative values from Best Practices. This means that up to 90% of the otherwise normal efforts and expenditure are avoided.

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The Next Step with Your Roadmap: KC Readiness Analysis

KC Readiness Analysis measures the maturity of your organisation with reference to getting started with - or expanding - IT topics. It provides you with a toolkit of check lists and structured self-assessments and, using a Best Practices evaluation grid, shows you

• where your organisation stands in comparison with other businesses
• which steps to take and in which order

Thanks to the self-assessment and evaluation grid, significant effort and expenditure can be reduced here, too.

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Finding the Right Partner: KC Fairness Opinion

How does your implementation partner, chosen from a narrow selection, fit with your strategy? Is a concept developed for you externally valid? Which friction losses are to be expected? KC Fairness Opinion brings neutrality, profound analyst knowledge, many years of experience and, in particular, also a complete picture of the solutions market for your decision-making process, giving you certainty and protection you from unnecessary costs.

KC Fairness Opinion is an optional service, which we perform efficiently by quick reviews and effectively by structured suggestions. Ideally, Fairness Opinion builds on the Readiness Analysis.

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Kuppinger Cole Events

European Identity Conference (EIC)

The European Identity Conference (EIC) takes place in Europe in spring and is the leading event with an accompanying specialist exhibition (EIC EXPO) on the topic of Identity Management and GRC. 500 participants from over 20 countries meet more than 100 top-class speakers to discuss the current topics in the fields of Identity Management and GRC in numerous keynote speeches and five parallel lecture series. Dialogue takes centre stage: numerous Best Practices are exchanged with moderated panels. Alongside the "traditional" key topics such as Governance/Risk/Compliance (GRC), Role Management, Provisioning, Directory Services, Single Sign-On (SSO), Identity Federation, SOA, Security and Authentication, the EIC provides practical lectures and expert discussion groups to cover topics such as User Centric Identity, Unified Communications, Cloud Computing and Vendor Relationship Management (VRM). The EIC is English-speaking.

CLOUD 2010

CLOUD 2010 is a 2.5 day conference with expo where you will meet with enterprise technologists, thought leaders and experts to learn about, discuss and shape the market in most significant technology and business topics around cloud computing. With its world class list of speakers, a unique mix of best practices presentations, panel discussions, thought leadership statements and analyst views, CLOUD 2010 is an absolute must-attend event for Enterprise IT leaders from all over Europe and will be intensively covered in the news, in blog entries, newsletters and Kuppinger Cole Reports.

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EIC Tickets Cloud Tickets	Option	1	2	unlimited *

* as long as the tickets are available, there is no limit to the number of employees from your company, which may take part in the EIC or Cloud

KC Forum: Focused, Practice-Orientated, Two-Day Specialist Events

KC Forum events are two-day conferences covering current themes from the KC Research Scope and provide a unique mix of Best Practices, Analyst Views and Thought Leadership.

KC Strategy Briefings: Recognising Trends, Putting Visions into Practice

KC Strategy Briefings are one-day events in the style of a seminar and, alongside the KC Roadmap, they pick up on current trends and investigate the relevance of these for your company's IT. KC Strategy Briefings are intensive. They focus on the important things and give you concrete guidance.

KC Seminars: Consolidated Knowledge

KC Seminars are 1 to 2 day courses about the current challenges in the fields of Identity Management, GRC, Cloud Computing and SOA.

* as long as the tickets are available, there is no limit to the number of employees from your company, which may take part in KC events

You will find detailed information about available options and prices in the PDF document below. 

Contact

Thomas Steinmayer
+49 (0)211-237077-28
ts@kuppingercole.com

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