NEW CANAAN, Conn., Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Sapience 2009, an event for CEOs, CIOs, CFOs, and IT Decision makers seeking to escape the limitations of a strongly vendor controlled application landscape will take place December 8-9, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge, MA.

For the first time in the US, SAP users, analysts, vendors, and key figureheads who helped to create the ERP market will gather to present and discuss ways to reduce SAP-related costs and find new ways to transition into a new era.

The two-day conference will take SAP users on a "journey to independence." "Our goal is to foster an atmosphere where users understand how to leverage market alternatives and how to avoid the negative side effects of the one-stop-shopping paradigm," said Helmuth Guembel, Founder and Managing Partner of Strategy Partners International and Conference Chair.

The event features on an exciting mix of speakers:

• Analysts ("Ray" Wang, Vinnie Mirchandani, Helmuth Guembel, Neil Herman) who explain backgrounds and trends from both an IT- and financial perspective
• ERP-veterans (ex-CEOs from Baan, PeopleSoft, and SAP) who know why and how it all happened and what to expect
• Users (all of them CIOs) who found fascinating alternatives to go beyond the limits of classical ERP
• Vendors presenting interesting options for cost reduction and showing new ways to extend SAP
  

This event is unique in several ways: it provides an independent perspective that embraces virtually all possibilities outside the original vendor's scope, it lets the original authorities who coined this market voice their critical views, it gets innovative users to explain their novel ideas, and, last, but not the least, it allows attendees to kick the tires of real alternatives.

Sapience 2009 focuses on what has become a buyers' market. Not many are taking advantage of this change - here is a chance to speed this process up.

For more details, please visit http://www.sapience2009.com.

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