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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 this Event's sponsors.
For information on the various sponsorship opportunities or to customize the sponsorship opportunity to meet your goals and objectives, contact Laura Highmark or Adrienne O'Keeffe at sponsorships@forrester.com.
Platinum Sponsors
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
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq ¿MSFT¿) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. At Microsoft we believe that a business¿s most strategic asset is its people. "People Ready" is the Microsoft philosophy of business success: An organization is best able to grow and succeed when it recognizes that people are its most important asset and empowers them with the right tools and technologies to drive the business forward. Microsoft software and solutions can help make your business more people-ready.
Gold Sponsors
EDS is a leading global technology services company delivering business solutions to its clients. EDS founded the information technology outsourcing industry more than 40 years ago. Today, EDS delivers a broad portfolio of information technology and business process outsourcing services to clients in the manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, communications, energy, transportation, and consumer and retail industries and to governments around the world.
IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. IBM enables companies to maximize value and manage risks by effectively mapping business strategy to IT investments strategy. IBM offers a wide range of solutions and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to align IT resources and investments to customer and market demand and support growth.
MindTree Consulting is a global IT and R&D Services Company co-headquartered in the U.S. and India. Our domain experts deliver business-enabling solutions by leveraging a consulting led, framework-based and IP-driven approach. MindTree's IT Services business provides a range of services to CIOs across a variety of industry segments.
Oracle¿s business is information¿how to manage it, use it, share it, protect it. For nearly three decades, Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), the world¿s largest enterprise software company, has provided software and services that enable organizations to get the most accurate and up-to-date information from their business systems. Today, Oracle has over 275,000 customers¿including 98 of the Fortune 100¿in more than 145 countries..
Wipro Technologies is a global services provider delivering technology-driven business solutions that meet the strategic objectives of our clients. Wipro has over 20 "Centers of Excellence" that create solutions around specific needs of industries. Wipro delivers unmatched business value to customers through a combination of process excellence, quality frameworks and service delivery innovation. Wipro is the World's first CMMi Level 5 certified software services company and the first outside USA to receive the IEEE Software Process Award.
Silver Sponsors
APC is a global provider of end-to-end solutions for real-time infrastructure. APC's comprehensive products and services for home and corporate environments improve the availability, manageability and performance of sensitive electronic, network, communication and industrial equipment. APC's InfraStruXureä architecture for network-critical physical infrastructure, fully integrates power, racks, cooling, management, and services.
ArcSight is a global leader in security and compliance solutions enabling businesses and government agencies to reduce operational risk and increase visibility. The company helps customers safeguard their assets, automate compliance and enforce policies.
Autonomy is a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise and is spearheading the meaning-based computing movement. Autonomy's technology powers solutions dependent upon unstructured information including enterprise search, call center, customer relationship management, business process management, knowledge management, portals, online publishing and security and intelligence systems.
BDNA Insight provides the trusted fact base and analytics essential for executives in the Office of the CIO to manage the business of IT. Our on-demand FactBase with analytics for security, procurement, and operations delivers timely, complete, and accurate understanding about the company¿s IT infrastructure.
The BlackBerry® Enterprise Solution¿ is the leading wireless platform for connecting mobile professionals to email, instant messaging, personal information management, and enterprise applications, as well as personal productivity tools, including phone, web, MMS, SMS and more. With the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution organizations have everything they need to go wireless.
Blue Coat provides intelligent appliances and software solutions that secure and accelerate application delivery to all users connected over private WANs or the public Internet. These integrated solutions accelerate the performance of internally- or externally-hosted business application up to 100X, while securing individual users at all remote offices and end points. Blue Coat also provides granular policy-based controls, thus helping to restore IT control of all distributed users ¿ even those with unmanaged endpoint devices.
Compuware¿s IT service management solution ensures applications work well and deliver value to the business. We provide end-to-end visibility into application performance to proactively detect problems, deep-dive troubleshooting to quickly find the root cause and fix problems, and executive dashboards and reports to effectively communicate and align with the business.
CSC is a leading global technology services provider focused on delivering IT that enables its clients to meet their business and strategic objectives profitably. CSC¿s clients can stay at the forefront of technology and thought leadership as CSC¿s Office of Innovation keeps bringing forward productive, efficient solutions that leverage economies of scale, with in-depth industry knowledge and client specific expertise. Visit us at www.csc.com/outsourcing.
Exstream Software helps businesses around the world produce relevant communications of all types for print/mail and online channels. Using Exstream¿s market-leading Dialogue enterprise personalization software, organizations get communications to market up to 85 percent faster, reduce document production costs up to 80 percent, and as much as triple customer response.
FiberNet provides interconnection services enabling the exchange of voice, video, data and VoIP traffic between global networks and Internet hubs. The Company owns and operates next-generation networks and data centers in gateway markets providing connectivity and colocation services for domestic and international customers. Visit www.fibernetportal.com to instantaneously receive price quotes and place orders for network services, and to resolve network and infrastructure needs.
Google's Enterprise division brings Google technology and innovation to organizations. The Google Search Appliance and Google Mini provide search across websites and corporate networks. Google Apps provides a powerful messaging and collaboration suite of products, including email, calendar and employee collaboration. Google also offers enterprise versions of Google Maps and Google Earth.
Kingston Technology Company is the world¿s independent memory leader, with an extensive line of computer memory and digital media products. Founded in 1987, Kingston operates manufacturing facilities in Malaysia, Taiwan, China and Fountain Valley, CA, and serves a network of distributors, OEMs and retail customers in 3,000+ locations worldwide. For details, visit kingston.com.
Lumeta empowers large enterprise and government agencies with global network visibility, allowing them to understand how network change affects security, availability, and compliance. Lumeta’s IPsonar discovers and maps every network asset, enabling IT professionals to analyze the connectivity between assets and networks, uncover risk patterns, and automatically enforce network policies.
matrix42 is a leading developer of system management software for networked devices. The company¿s EmpirumTM technology simplifies and provides 100% automation of daily operational tasks for your IT staff, providing greater management control while increasing productivity and reducing administrative costs. Empirum is the industry¿s most integrated and comprehensive suite of life cycle management solutions.
n-tara interactive creates connections. Our engaging interactive experiences connect buyers with brands while shortening sales cycles, increasing revenue and reducing costs. Specializing in online marketing, customer lifecycle communications, guided selling, sales enablement, social media strategies and analytics, our approach is grounded in research, exceptional user experiences, and the discovery of critical customer insight.
OPNET Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of solutions for managing networks and applications. OPNET's best-in-class solutions address: application performance management; and network planning, engineering and operations. OPNETs solutions have been operationally proven in thousands of customer environments worldwide, including corporate and government enterprises, defense agencies, and network service providers.
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.
RealOps drives process automation in support of IT Service Management initiatives within network and data center operating environments. RealOps AMP provides capabilities to improve service availability by providing Operators with the ability to design and run repeatable procedures, automate responses, and simultaneously update records in multiple enterprise management systems (e.g., ticketing, fault, etc.).
Riverbed Steelhead® appliances accelerate applications over wide area networks (WANs) by up to 100x, and cut bandwidth utilization by up to 95%, allowing geographically dispersed teams to run applications off central servers and share large files as if they were all working in the same office.
RSA, The Security Division of EMC, is the premier provider of security solutions for business acceleration, helping the world's leading organizations succeed by solving their most complex and sensitive security challenges. RSA's information-centric approach to security guards the integrity and confidentiality of information throughout its lifecycle - no matter where it moves, who accesses it or how it is used.
TOWER Software, the world¿s leading enterprise content management provider to government and regulated industries, delivers award-winning information management solutions. Our tightly integrated product, TRIM Context 6, enables organizations to have compliant, secure and accurate information to make confident business decisions.
Tripwire is industry-recognised for its enterprise-level configuration control software. Tripwire's leading product, Tripwire Enterprise, is the first to combine configuration assessment with configuration change auditing in a single solution. Tripwire Enterprise helps IT ensure the organisation achieves and maintains configurations in an operationally optimized, compliant and secure state-and helps them prove it. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Tripwire has operations in 15 countries around the world. Tripwire was recently named to the Portland Business Journal's Fastest-Growing Private 100 List and Oregon Business Magazine named it one of the 100 Best Companies in Oregon.
UC4 Software is a leading provider of workload automation solutions that ensure core business processes and enterprise information systems run faster, more accurately and without interruption. UC4 Workload Automation Suite accelerates the execution of end-to-end business processes across multiple applications and operating platforms, allowing organizations to exceed IT service level agreements, speed implementations, lower application lifecycle costs and increase productivity throughout the enterprise. More than 1,500 companies worldwide have successfully enhanced performance and improved efficiency using UC4 Workload Automation Suite. Customers include American Suzuki Motor Corporation, Cadbury, eBay, Eastman Kodak, General Electric, Mattel, McGraw Hill, Panasonic, Robert Bosch, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, T-Systems and Verizon. For more information, please visit www.UC4.com
VMware (NYSE: VMW) is the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter. Customers of all sizes rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2007 revenues of $1.3 billion, more than 100,000 customers and more than 10,000 partners, VMware is one of the fastest growing public software companies. VMware is based in Palo Alto, California.
Emerging Pavilion
Black Duck Software®, the leading global provider of software compliance solutions helps companies understand and manage intellectual property and legal requirements associated with their software products. Our offerings help businesses take advantage of open source and third party software, comply with related legal obligations, use and meet government export regulations.
BlueNote Networks delivers voice, video and other real-time interactive communication solutions as an integral part of an IT applications architecture - or Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). With our award-winning SessionSuite(R) software, government offices and enterprises can quickly incorporate IP telephony and SIP-based interactive communication services into business applications, Websites, and business processes.
Through Build Services innovation, OpenMake Software reveals the mysteries of the build-to-release process, enabling build best practices for multiple languages and platforms. By centralizing data in a community-developed knowledgebase, developers customize reusable build methods resulting in adaptable builds that accelerate the build-to-release process, supporting agile development and continuous integration.
Extricom is the designer of the award-winning Interference-Free¿ WLAN System, for converged voice (VoWLAN), data and video. Dramatically easier to deploy and maintain, it yields the lowest cost of ownership, while achieving a performance leap in capacity, coverage, and seamless mobility. This is convergence without compromises, for a new era in multi-application Wi-Fi networks.
Intelligent Wave USA introduces CWAT, a Comprehensive Insider Threat Management Software Solution Platform, which assures Regulatory Compliance and protects in real time the enterprise from internal threats linked to unauthorized transfers of Intellectual Property and Non¿public Private Information through Ironclad Endpoint Security & Network Access Control.
McLaren Software develops engineering-centric intellectual work management applications for the oil and gas, utilities, pharmaceutical, and engineering, design and construction sectors. McLaren helps organizations manage the use of engineering documents, optimize engineering design and asset change management processes and react to challenges of globalization and the aging workforce.
Nimaya delivers customer intelligence at the point-of-transaction to help customer-interfacing employees be more productive and efficient. Our web-based applications drive business processes with proactive alerts and prompts that identify opportunities and risks in real-time by accessing data from across the enterprise and securely, beyond the firewall for SaaS/ hosted solutions.
The PMG Service Catalog Suite is the most easy-to-use, easy-to-configure, and easy-to-deploy service request and fulfillment engine on the market. It is the only solution that combines Business Process Management (BPM), Enterprise Content Management (ECM), and e-Commerce capabilities to drive true end-to-end process and workflow automation for optimal service delivery.
Recommind's enterprise search and categorization systems automatically organize, manage, and distribute large volumes of text from multiple sources. With faster access to the right information, customers such as Bertelsmann, DuPont, and Shearman & Sterling are saving time, increasing the value of information assets, and improving competitiveness and profits.
Serden Technologies InterAct ES™ is a patented, cost effective and innovative solution that captures the actual end user's experience at the device level. InterAct enables a business to align IT to the business priorities and business objectives to keep business users happy, productive and thus directly contribute to the over all health of the business.
K2 provides the platform for a new generation of users to collaboratively assemble dynamic business applications from reusable items. Its solutions are deployed by a growing number of the global Fortune 100. K2, a business unit of SourceCode Technology Holdings, Inc., is headquartered in Redmond, Washington, and has offices all over the world.
Venafi¿ provides systems management for encryption with its Enterprise Encryption Management¿ (EEM¿) platform. Venafi automates discovery, application configuration, key and certificate lifecycle management and reporting across operating environments ¿ from the desktop to the datacenter. Venafi helps the world¿s leading organizations reduce system failure, increase operational efficiency, enhance compliance and improve data security.
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