This year IDC is organizing Outsourcing Conference under the motto Let “Cloud” disperse our problems, which is particularly significant in respect to current unfavourable economic situation in the world and Croatia. IDC through this conference wants to point out to all end users some of considerable efficient possibilities of ROI and cost cutting.

IDC’s Outsourcing, Cloud Computing & Print Management Conference 2009 is directed to indicate reduction of companies internal IT costs and growth of productivity such as:

• Managed services
• Software as a Service
• Applications Management
• Network and Desktop Management
• Servers Storage hosting services (Data center)
• Print Management solutions

Cloud Computing represents usage of computing technologies, products and services in a way of their disposal to all users through Internet services in most appropriate time and volume. The best examples of Cloud Computing are application services as Google Docs, designed for individual users and small companies, while computer infrastructure service as Amazon Web Services is primarily assigned to large corporations and enterprises. Mentioned infrastructures enable cost efficiency and ability to focus on the core business rather than the platforms.

Many organizations/IT departments do not sufficiently track costs associated with their printing and copying needs, while some even completely lack knowledge of these costs. The cost for the hardware and consumables are only a fraction of total – a considerable part of printing costs are driven by indirect factors. For example, a substantial amount of resources of IT support is spent on solving printing problems and related issues. IDC estimates that the use of document solutions and print management services in this area can lower total costs and clearly improve productivity/efficiency through optimized management and workflows.