We've just announced a new session on the agenda Top Ten Ways EA Will Lower Your Costs – An Open Forum where a panel of analysts will discuss all the ways in which your EA can help optimize your costs. But we want this to be more than a handful of us telling the audience what to do. This session - and this blog – are places where users can share their ideas of what's worked and what hasn't when it comes to EA-driven cost savings. We'll reward the best submission with the hottest gizmo that money can buy right now (a Nintendo Wii console) and five runner-ups will get a free two year subscription to Money Magazine.

Let me start with a couple of my own suggestions as to how EA can save money. EA can help save money by reducing complexity through a march to a few common flavors of something rather than dozens of variations. A great example is the savings that many organizations have achieved by migrating from dozens of varieties of proprietary servers to a few, commodity "scale out" servers. EA can also help guide which systems and technologies should be retired, which can save a ton of money long term, although it often requires some up-front investment.

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In a previous post, I mentioned that one of our most popular sessions is SOA Horror Stories. We are looking for new stories. If you have one, please submit it to pascal.winckel@gartner.com. We will keep all submissions anonymous with respect to the way we tell the story. The best story gets a $250 Amazon gift certificate and 2 runners up get $50 each. Please send your story by May 30th...keep it short! (500 words or less)

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