The Business Of IT: Visible Process Improvement |
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May 2-5, 2005 Dallas, Texas
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Sponsors
Invitations to sponsor or exhibit are extended to a group of innovative vendors with products and services pertinent to the Event theme.
The following is a list of leading vendors sponsoring at the Event. Click on the name to read a brief description on each company.
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Platinum Sponsors |
Gold Sponsors BMC Software |
Silver Sponsors Compuware |
Visibility Sponsors |
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Media Sponsors |
For information on the various sponsorship opportunities, contact Laura Highmark at lhighmark@forrester.com.
BMC Software
BMC Software delivers the solutions IT needs to increase business value through better management of technology and IT processes. Our industry-leading Business Service Management solutions help you reduce cost, lower risk of business disruption, and benefit from an IT infrastructure built to support business growth and flexibility. Known for enterprise solutions that span mainframe, distributed systems, and end-user devices, BMC also delivers solutions that address the unique challenges of the midsized business. Founded in 1980, BMC has offices worldwide and fiscal 2006 revenues of more than $1.49 billion. Activate your business with the power of IT. www.bmc.com
Computer Sciences Corporation
CSC's mission is to help clients achieve their strategic goals and profit from the advanced use of information technology. CSC develops innovative IT solutions for industries and governments worldwide. By drawing on best-of-breed practices in systems design and integration; IT and business process outsourcing; applications software development; Web and application hosting; and management consulting, CSC delivers practical business results. With approximately 79,000 employees, CSC serves clients in industry and government in 15 industries, and 80 countries.
Compuware
Compuware Corporation maximizes the value IT brings to the business by helping CIOs more effectively manage the business of IT. Compuware solutions accelerate the development, improve the quality and enhance the performance of critical business systems while enabling CIOs to align and govern the entire IT portfolio, increasing efficiency, cost control and employee productivity throughout the IT organization.
Coradiant
Coradiant's unique approach to web performance monitoring quickly delivers accurate management information in business-relevant formats. The company's award-winning TrueSight Real-User Web Transaction Monitoring equipment includes Watchpoint technology that gives site operators and IT teams a real-time understanding of the user's web experience without the complexity, cost and risk of traditional performance management approaches.
EDS
EDS provides a broad portfolio of business and technology solutions to help its clients worldwide improve their business performance. EDS' core portfolio comprises information technology (IT), applications and business process services, as well as IT transformation services. EDS' A.T. Kearney subsidiary is one of the world's leading high-value management consultancies.
As the CIO's trusted adviser, EDS provides the best solutions for executives to maximize return on their IT investments. Our deep industry knowledge enables clients to address issues specific to their businesses, and our unmatched global infrastructure provides the capacity and capability to help ensure we serve our clients extraordinarily well.
IBM
IBM Infrastructure Solutions for On Demand Business
In the pursuit of On Demand Business, research has revealed the top investment areas for our clients.
- Increase Business Flexibility
- Enhance Business Resilience and Security
- Leverage Information Insights
- Optimize IT Environments
IBM is marketing Infrastructure Solutions for each of these focus areas. An infrastructure solution is a set of offerings including products and high-value services which together solve a client's IT problems. This approach delivers more value to our clients enabling them to experience greater success in their IT projects.
iGATE Global Solutions
iGATE is the first integrated technology and operations company with a global services model. iGATE provides end-to-end services — consulting, technology and business process outsourcing and provisioning.
With proven offshore and near shore capability, development centers in India, China, Malaysia, US and over 4700 employees; iGATE serves over 100 G-1000 companies.
Integration Consortium
http://www.integrationconsortium.org
The Integration Consortium is a non-profit, leading industry body responsible for influencing the direction of the integration industry. Our members champion Integration Acumen by establishing standards, guidelines, best practices, research, and the articulation of strategic and measurable business benefits. The Integration Consortium’s motto is "Forging Integration Value". The mission of the member-driven Integration Consortium is to establish universal seamless integration which engages industry stakeholders from the business & technology community. Among the sectors represented in the Integration Consortium membership are end user corporations, independent software vendors (ISVs), hardware vendors, system integrators, academic institutions, non-profit institutions, and individual members, as well as various industry leaders.
Ipsum Networks
Ipsum Networks is the leading provider of Route Analysis and IP-layer management solutions that increase the availability and performance of mission-critical applications and services in enterprise and carrier-class networks.
Metallect
Metallect provides the first search-based solution for Application Portfolio Management. The Metallect IQ Server provides enterprise-wide visibility into the inner-workings of applications and databases. IQ Server automatically discovers existing application components by analyzing source code, schemas, and other information, maps dependencies within and across applications, and provides automated search and impact analysis capabilities. IT organizations use the fact-based intelligence provided by IQ Server to cut application maintenance cost by 20%, accelerate system audit by 90%, and more quickly align existing applications with business needs. IQ Servers search-based architecture is highly scalable and can be implemented in days.
Microsoft
Microsoft is uniquely positioned to help IT organizations reduce complexity by providing solutions for all stages of the IT lifecycle. From application development and implementation to managing your operations infrastructure to meet the needs of end users; Microsoft’s solutions reduce the time and cost associated with creating a highly productive and secure infrastructure to deliver on your business objectives.
n-tara
n-tara is a full service interactive agency that delivers interactive digital media solutions and tools that transform companies by increasing sales, decreasing costs and enhancing operations. n-tara specializes in digital branding, online development, guided selling, CRM services, technology solutions and custom application development for global industry leaders.
NEON Systems
NEON Systems, Inc. — the Mainframe Integration Experts — is a leading provider of enterprise-class mainframe integration solutions, delivering the only unified mainframe integration platform to support the entire range of requirements for Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Event-Driven Architectures (EDA) — key requirements to underpin the Real-time Enterprise. NEON's Shadow RTE technology is designed to reduce the complexity of mainframe integration allowing large organizations with significant commitment to mainframe systems to streamline incumbent technologies and lower total cost of ownership.
Nuance Communications
In an era where a focus on the customer is essential to business success, Nuance provides leading companies with voice-automation solutions that enable both an outstanding customer experience and corporate cost efficiency. Nuance is a leader in the voice automation market, providing software and solutions to more than 1,000 companies worldwide. Clients include Avon, British Airways, Nomura Securities, OnStar, Sprint PCS, United Parcel Service, Vodafone and Wells Fargo. Nuance is headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., and has offices around the world.
PlanView
Since 1989, PlanView has been a market leader in software and best practices for comprehensive IT portfolio management, enabling business leaders to improve alignment of IT resources with business strategies. PlanView serves an active and growing customer community of over 400 organizations in numerous industries, including: financial, insurance, healthcare and government.
Research In Motion
BlackBerry® is the leading wireless enterprise solution developed by RIM that keeps mobile professionals connected to people and information while on the go. It is a proven platform that provides users around the world with secure, wireless access to a full suite of business applications, including email, corporate data, phone, SMS, web and organizer features.
BlackBerry incorporates the industry's best software, services and hardware, providing the most comprehensive end-to-end wireless solution for corporate environments. It has become the corporate standard for wireless connectivity by properly addressing the needs of both mobile professionals and IT departments.
SAP
SAP solution for product innovation management is a packaged composite solution, powered by SAP Netweaver, for front-end, portfolio and resource management. It is part of SAP's complete solution for new product development and offering.
It helps manage the ideas in the company, standardizes the process for effective concept due diligence, ensures cross-functional input, integrates distributed market and resource information, helps select the optimal portfolio, matches resource availability to demand, and enables continual monitoring of the portfolio.
The solution ensures the effective allocation of resources only to the most promising ideas and projects.
Sun Microsystems
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision — The Network is The Computer — has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software, and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web.
TeamQuest
TeamQuest specializes in Capacity Planning and IT Performance Optimization. We bring you the knowledge and experience to fully utilize your IT infrastructure, consolidate servers and manage system performance. Our software solutions and services help you meet today's demands for minimizing IT costs, meeting service levels and reduce data center complexity. This is the key for keeping your IT infrastructure aligned with your current business objectives while being prepared to confidently meet tomorrow's business demands.
Technology Review
http://www.technologyreview.com
Technology Review, MIT's Magazine of Innovation, describes emerging technologies and analyzes their commercial, economic, social, and political impact for senior executives, financiers, and policy makers. Anchored by this award-winning magazine, Technology Review also produces weekly newsletters, events, and an extensive website offering daily news and opinion.
Xerox DocuShare
http://www.xerox.com/docushare
Xerox DocuShare is an intuitive, Web-based enterprise content management (ECM) application that provides the essential functionality organizations need to effectively manage document-centric content, reduce cost, increase efficiency, and gain compliance. More than 4,000 companies worldwide have purchased over 1.1 million DocuShare licenses to solve their ECM requirements. Out of the box, DocuShare provides an easy to use, yet sophisticated toolset for end-to-end document management, with advanced modules for records management, workflow, collaboration, email integration, and archiving. DocuShare 4 provides advanced collaboration, personalization, and publishing capabilities, offering ECM at a very competitive entry-level price.
Xerox Global Services
http://www.xerox.com/globalservices
Companies are looking to simplify the way they do business. Business simplification is the key to reducing costs, speeding responsiveness, and improving decision-making. Technology alone does not simplify business. Xerox Global Services helps companies realize these benefits by addressing the way people, technology, and processes interact.
Xerox Global Services helps you streamline and digitize your document-intensive business processes -- everyday processes like customer communications, billing, or records management. We work closely with you to identify, quantify and realize hidden opportunities to mitigate risk, save money, increase revenue and simplify workflow.
