November 17, 2010


Fasken Martineau
Algonquin and Escarpment Rooms
333 Bay Street, Suite 2400
Bay Adelaide Centre
Toronto, ON

Event participants:

Lisa K. Abe, John P. Beardwood

The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) brings together the world's leading outsourcing customers, providers and advisors in a powerful, active and growing global association to exchange thought leadership, share best practices and network to maximize their effectiveness using outsourcing as a management tool.

At the next meeting of the IAOP Canada (Toronto) Chapter, Lisa Abe of Fasken Martineau will discuss new issues and trends that have arisen in recent negotiations with large software providers. Issues to be discussed include virtualization, non-compliance with regular datacenter backup procedures, desupport potentially being tied selling, software shelving, handling third party products, open source software, and pricing variables.

Topics to be covered include:

• Virtualization, Software Streaming and Cloud Computing
• Data Centre Backup Issues
• Software Shelving
• Desupport and Tied Selling
• Handling Third Party Products and Open Source Software Pricing Variables

Agenda:

• 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm  Registration and Lunch
• 12:30 pm - 12:35 pm  Introduction: About Fasken and IAOP
• 12:35 pm - 1:40 pm    Seminar
• 1:40 pm - 2:00 pm      Questions

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