Sponsors
To learn more about sponsorship opportunities and if your organization has been nominated to participate, please contact our conference facilitators.
Please note:
Nominated partners who elect not to sponsor may not otherwise attend the conference. Qualified partner organizations may, however, submit a request for an invitation for their CIO to attend as a conference attendee.
Partner of the Year
IBM is the world's leading information technology company, with 80 years of experience helping businesses innovate and deliver increased value. IBM helps clients solve their most pressing issues by combining forward thinking, business insight, research and industry experience with the latest technologies. Discover how IBM works with CIOs to build smarter enterprises by offering a full portfolio of instrumented, interconnected and intelligent solutions.
Learn more at www.ibm.com/CIO
For over 35 years, Intel Corporation has developed technology enabling the computer and Internet revolution that has changed the world. Founded in 1968 to build semiconductor memory products, Intel introduced the world's first microprocessor in 1971. Today, Intel supplies the computing and communications industries with chips, boards, systems, and software building blocks that are the "ingredients" of computers, servers and networking and communications products. These products are used by industry members to create advanced computing and communications systems.
Learn more at www.intel.com
Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that delivers real results to global business, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT and IT-enabled, infrastructure, engineering and assurance services. This is delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery ModelTM, recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development. A part of the Tata Group, India’s largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has a global footprint and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in india.
Learn more at www.tcs.com
Presenting Sponsors
PricewaterhouseCoopers provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services to build public trust and enhance value for its clients and their stakeholders. More than 130,000 people in 148 countries work collaboratively using connected thinking to develop fresh perspectives and practical advice.
Learn more at www.pwc.com
VMware (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in cloud infrastructure, delivers customer-proven virtualization solutions that reduce IT complexity. With the industry leading virtualization platform – VMware vSphere™ – VMware enables organizations to transition to cloud computing, while preserving existing IT investments. VMware solutions enable more efficient, agile IT service delivery without compromising control. With 2009 revenues of $2 billion, VMware has more than 170,000 customers and 25,000 partners worldwide.
Learn more at www.vmware.com
Bring the power of social networking inside your company with Yammer — a private and secure social network for your business. With Yammer, you can share ideas, collaborate on projects, ask questions, find expertise, recognize coworkers, and solicit feedback from everyone in your company. Updates from your coworkers, projects, teams, and even other enterprise applications are pushed to you in real time across your devices so you always know what's going on. Yammer also lets you create separate networks to talk to external groups like customers, partners or vendors, so you can collaborate with important business contacts in a private, secure community. More than three million users from companies around the world — including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500 — are leveraging Yammer's enterprise social networking solution to run their businesses. Companies such as Deloitte, Ford Motor Company, Nationwide, 7-Eleven, Orbitz Worldwide, Rakuten, and Telefonica O2 have adopted Yammer. Connect with all of the people and information you need to do your job in one place. Work better. Together.
Learn more at www.yammer.com/
National Sponsors
Learn more at www.cisco.com
Founded in 1973, Compuware Corporation provides software, experts and best practices to ensure applications work well and deliver business value. Compuware solutions optimize application performance across the Enterprise and the Internet for leading organizations around the world, including 46 of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies, and 12 of the 20 most-visited web sites. We enable our customers to increase revenue, protect brand value and boost customer satisfaction by optimizing performance across the entire application delivery chain.
Learn more at www.compuware.com
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.
Learn more at www.google.com/enterprise
McAfee, Inc., headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is the world's largest dedicated security technology company. It delivers proactive and proven solutions and services that secure systems and networks around the world, allowing users to browse and shop the Web securely. With its unmatched security expertise and commitment to innovation, McAfee empowers home users, businesses, the public sector and service providers by enabling them to comply with regulations, protect data, prevent disruptions, identify vulnerabilities and continuously monitor and improve their security.
Learn more at www.mcafee.com
Micro Focus International plc (Micro Focus®; LSE: MCRO.L) is the leading provider of enterprise application management and modernization solutions. Micro Focus provides solutions that enable organizations to:
- Significantly reduce the costs of operating and managing mission-critical enterprise applications
- Increase the productivity of development teams
- Enable a greater focus on innovation and development of new solutions and features
- Improve business agility and significantly improve the time-to-market of new solutions and products
Micro Focus has more than 30 years of expertise, more than 18,000 customers, more than two million licensed users, more than 30 million end users and 91 of the Fortune Global 100 companies. Micro Focus has over 1100 employees worldwide with principal offices in the United Kingdom, United States, Germany and Japan.
Learn more at microfocus.com/
Verizon Business, a unit of Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ), is a global leader in communications and IT solutions. We combine professional expertise with one of the world's most connected IP networks to deliver award-winning communications, IT, information security and network solutions. We securely connect today's extended enterprises of widespread and mobile customers, partners, suppliers and employees - enabling them to increase productivity and efficiency and help preserve the environment. Many of the world's largest businesses and governments - including 96 percent of the Fortune 1000 and thousands of government agencies and educational institutions - rely on our professional and managed services and network technologies to accelerate their business.
Learn more at www.verizonbusiness.com
Workday is the leader in enterprise-class, software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for managing global businesses, combining a lower cost of ownership with an innovative approach to business applications. Founded by PeopleSoft veterans Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri, Workday delivers unified Human Capital Management, Payroll, and Financial Management solutions designed for today’s organizations and the way people work. Delivered in the cloud leveraging a modern technology platform, Workday offers a fresh alternative to legacy ERP. More than 280 customers, spanning medium-sized organizations to Fortune 50 businesses, have selected Workday.
Learn more at www.workday.com
Local Sponsors
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 215,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$21.6 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2010. Its home page is www.accenture.com.
Learn more at www.accenture.com
Information intensive companies rely on Acxiom to provide business-critical IT infrastructure services
Learn more at www.acxiom.com
AirWatch is a mobile security, device management and application management solution designed to deploy, secure, monitor, manage and support all mobile devices across an enterprise. AirWatch’s highly scalable, web-based solution provides a single, integrated view of an entire fleet of Apple iOS, Android, Blackberry, Symbian and Windows devices. With AirWatch, IT can automate the management and tracking of all mobile assets; reduce the cost and effort of device deployments; improve the technical support experience for device users; enable and enforce IT security and compliance policies that secure both the device and its data; and increase IT efficiencies and response times.
Learn more at www.Air-Watch.com
Apptio is the leading provider of on-demand IT Cost Transparency solutions. Apptio helps IT departments more effectively run the business of IT by providing visibility into the total cost of IT services in order to reduce cost, increase ROI on IT investments, enable fair and accurate cost allocation processes, and better communicate the value of IT to business counterparts. As the most advanced technology in IT Cost Transparency, Apptio enables customers to overcome the complexity of IT Financial Management with automated data collection, best practice cost modeling templates to get customers up and running in less than 30 days, powerful data analytics, and standardized reports aligned with common work flows. Apptio is working with leading companies such as Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City, BNP Paribas, Cisco, JP Morgan Chase, EMD Chemicals, and Starbucks to improve the efficiency and performance of IT.
Learn more at www.apptio.com
BlackBerry Enterprise Solution by Research In Motion
The BlackBerry Enterprise Solution(TM) provides a complete wireless connectivity platform for keeping mobile professionals connected to people and information. It provides users with wireless access to a full suite of productivity enhancing tools, including email, applications, Internet and intranet, phone, SMS and organizer features.
Learn more at www.blackberry.com
CA is one of the world's largest IT management software providers. Our software and expertise unify and simplify complex IT environments in a secure way across the enterprise for greater business results. We call this Enterprise IT Management (EITM) our clear vision for the future of IT. It's how you can manage systems, networks, security, storage, applications and databases securely and dynamically. You can build on your IT investments, rather than replacing them, and do so at your own pace.
Founded in 1976, CA today is a global company with headquarters in the United States and 150 offices in more than 45 countries. We serve more than 98% of Fortune 1000 companies, as well as government entities, educational institutions and thousands of other companies in diverse industries worldwide.
Learn more at www.ca.com
CenturyLink Business is a choice of Fortune 500 companies, enterprises of all sizes, government agencies and educational organizations nationwide offering a comprehensive portfolio of data and voice networking communications solutions. CenturyLink is the third largest telecommunications company in the United States, and has one of the largest fiber footprints in the U.S. Visit CenturyLink.com/business to see why businesses, government agencies and educational organizations coast to coast rely on CenturyLink Business solutions.
Learn more at www.centurylink.com/business
At CGI, we're in the business of satisfying clients. For more than 30 years, we've operated upon the principles of sharing in clients' challenges and delivering quality services to address them. A leading IT and business process services provider, CGI has 31,000 professionals operating in 125 offices worldwide, giving us close proximity to our clients. Through these offices, we offer local partnerships and a balanced blend of global delivery options to ensure clients receive the combination of value and expertise they require. CGI defines success by exceeding clients' expectations and helping them achieve superior performance.
Learn more at www.cgi.com
Learn more at www.cgi.com
Comcast Business Class gives Chicago area businesses the competitive edge to keep growing without slowing down. We provide the tools that companies need to help enhance productivity, like scalable internet and voice service, and high bandwidth fiber optic Metro Ethernet solutions. Comcast’s network covers 147,000 fiber route miles delivering the high network availability your business demands.
Learn more at business.comcast.com/
CommVault is a rapidly growing, publicly-held software company that is dedicated 100 percent to comprehensive data and information management solutions. CommVault develops and distributes proven software and services for high performance data protection, information discovery and availability, and simplified management of data on complex storage networks. CommVault helps businesses, the public sector and service providers to protect, manage and access information with Backup, Archive, Replication, Search and Resource Management capabilities. Our single platform approach transforms the way companies manage and discover information, and is proven to reduce total cost-of-ownership, enhance IT agility, increase data recoverability, and mitigate risk.
Learn more at www.commvault.com
DISYS is an ISO 9001:2008 certified IT staffing and consulting company with core services in IT Staffing and Consulting, Finance and Professional Services, ERP Services, and Infrastructure Support Services. Our vision is to be a global business partner, delivering highest quality and most consistent services at the best value to clients worldwide.
Incorporated in 1994 as a certified Minority Business Enterprise, DISYS has posted an eight-year average of 50% growth per year and currently ranks as the sixth-fastest growing company in the staffing industry. DISYS is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with offices and delivery locations worldwide in North and South America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region.
Learn more at www.disys.com
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) connects businesses with partners and customers around the world through a global platform of high performance data centers, containing dynamic ecosystems and the broadest choice of networks. Platform Equinix is your DNA: Distributing Networks and Applications. We connect more than 4,000 enterprises, cloud, digital content and financial companies including more than 680 network service providers to help them grow their businesses, improve application performance, protect their vital digital assets and leverage the best technologies to solve business problems. Equinix operates in 38 strategic markets across North America, South America, EMEA and Asia-Pacific. We continually invest in expanding our platform to power customer growth.
Learn more at www.equinix.com
Fujitsu is a leading provider of ICT-based business solutions for the global marketplace with consolidated revenues of US$50 billion for the fiscal year 2009. Fujitsu combines a worldwide corps of systems and services experts with highly reliable computing and communications products and advanced microelectronics to deliver added value to customers.
Fujitsu Interstage Business Process Manager is the leading solution for the next generation of Business Process Management (BPM), Agile BPM. In addition to the capabilities of traditional BPM, it addresses today's new requirements of BPM for continuous process optimization, collaborative process workflows, and extending processes among diverse constituent audiences.
Learn more at www.fujitsu.com
Established in 1976, HCL is a $6 billion organization with over 85,000 professionals across 31 countries servicing 480 Global customers including 20% Fortune 100 companies offering End-To-End IT Services including ADM and Infrastructure Services, BPO and R&D.
HCL’s Infrastructure Services which is the fastest growing service line of HCL, manages over 3 Mn devices; resolving over 10 Mn helpdesk calls while being responsible for the infrastructure needs of over 1.7 Mn business users. HCL Infrastructure Services offering key service offerings include Data Center and Mainframe Services, End User Computing Services, Security & Network Services and Cross Functional Services both across traditional delivery models and the Cloud.
Learn more at www.hcltech.com
HP (NYSE: HPQ) creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure at the convergence of the cloud and connectivity, creating seamless, secure, context-aware experiences for a connected world.
Learn more at www.hp.com
Informatica Corporation delivers data integration software and services to solve a problem facing most large organizations: the fragmentation of data across disparate systems. Informatica helps organizations gain greater business value from their information assets by integrating their enterprise data. Informatica's open, platform-neutral software reduces costs, speeds time to results, and scales to handle data integration projects of any size or complexity. With a proven track record of success that extends back to 1993, Informatica helps companies and government organizations of all sizes realize the full business potential of their enterprise data. That's why Informatica is known as the data integration company.
Learn more at www.informatica.com
Information Builders, Inc. – the standard for enterprise business intelligence (BI) – provides a unique blend of BI and enterprise integration solutions to help customers build the real-time enterprise. WebFOCUS, our flagship product, enables customers to deliver high value applications that drive better decision by everyone inside an organization and beyond. WebFOCUS allows companies to economically deploy BI on a large scale, while reducing total cost of ownership and eliminating redundant BI tools.
Information builders subsidiary, iWay Software –: the worldwide leader in adapter technology – enables companies to accelerate business integration by providing a foundation for business agility with a low cost of entry.
Learn more at www.informationbuilders.com
Intelligroup is an ERP-focused enterprise applications systems integrator providing consulting, implementation, testing, application management and other IT services for global corporations. The Company possesses deep expertise and proprietary tools in industry-specific enterprise solutions and has been recognized by clients, partners including SAP and Oracle and IT industry analysts for consistently exceeding expectations. Intelligroup won the 2007 global annual Pinnacle Award from SAP, was the finalist in Oracle 2007 Titan Awards, and was recognized by NASSCOM as a Top 100 Innovator. Intelligroup's global service delivery model combines onsite teams and offshore development capabilities to deliver solutions that accelerate results, reduce costs and generate meaningful ROI for clients. Intelligroup clients include Varian Medical, Reckitt Benckiser, Royal Greenland, SAP, GE, Magellan, Hershey's, Eastman Chemical and Hitachi.
Learn more at www.intelligroup.com
At Microsoft, we're motivated and inspired every day by how our customers use our software to find creative solutions to business problems, develop breakthrough ideas, and stay connected to what's most important to them. We run our business in much the same way, and believe our five business divisions offer the greatest potential to serve our customers. They are: Windows & Windows Live Division , Server and Tools, Online Services Division , Microsoft Business Division and the Entertainment and Devices Division. We are committed long term to the mission of helping our customers realize their full potential. Just as we constantly update and improve our products, we want to continually evolve our company to be in the best position to accelerate new technologies as they emerge and to better serve our customers.
Learn more at www.microsoft.com
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that accelerate business breakthroughs and deliver outstanding cost efficiency. Our dedication to principles of simplicity, innovation, and customer success has made us one of the fastest-growing storage and data management providers today.
Customers around the world choose us for our “go beyond” approach and broad portfolio of solutions for server-to-storage virtualization, business applications, data protection, and more. Our solutions provide nonstop availability of critical business data and simplify business processes so you can deploy new capabilities with confidence and get to revenue faster than ever before.
Learn more at www.netapp.com
Okta is the market leading on-demand identity and access management service that enables enterprises to accelerate the secure adoption of their web based applications, both in the cloud and behind the firewall. Okta delivers a complete solution addressing the needs of IT, end users, and business leaders; no customization required.
With a catalog of pre-integrated applications and deep integration with Active Directory, Okta provides IT centralized user provisioning, access management, and reporting. Every end user gets a personalized, single sign-on home page for all of their applications, and business leaders get the insight they need to maximize ROI and track compliance.
Learn more at www.okta.com
Pariveda Solutions is an IT consulting firm engaged in deploying project-based strategic and technical solutions to our clients. Our strategic consulting services, The Business of IT®, are focused on IT strategy, business system planning and program management. Our technical solutions, Technology at the Edge©, include application development around portals, business intelligence, systems integration and mobility specifically related to customer, employee and supplier relationship management.
Our mission is to develop, manage and apply talent for the benefit of our clients, in partnership and for profit. Pariveda is an employee owned company and has over 150 employees in 6 cities across the U.S.
Learn more at www.parivedasolutions.com
A Unique Blend of Technology Leadership, Services, Solutions and Products
Since 1986, Paragon Development Systems (PDS) has served as an extension of IT organizations by designing, supplying, implementing, and managing IT that enhances corporate agility, end-user satisfaction, and quality of life for the IT staff.
PDS holds more than 400 certifications in assembly, installation, and support of computer systems and services, and was assessed and approved by National Quality Assurance, U.S.A., an accredited ISO 9000 auditor. PDS continually assesses and continually evolves.
Headquartered in Oconomowoc, WI with offices in IL, IN, KS, MN, OH and WI, PDS services clients nationwide in four primary markets: healthcare, government/higher-education, corporate, and professional services.
Learn more at www.pdspc.com
Quinnox Inc is a US headquartered Business & Technology Applications Solutions company.
We primarily serve Banking, Capital Markets, Manufacturing/Services, Retail/Distribution, and Hi-Tech/Telecom industries.
Our client value proposition is driven by an Industry-vertical specific Solutioning approach to accelerate clients’ competitive edge and success, creation of IP assets like re-usable tools and frameworks, and customized engagement models backed by executive sponsorship
Our leadership team comprising C level business and technology leaders from global firms, leverages the management depth and diversity of our onshore/offshore functional and technology professionals, to create differentiated value for clients.
Our financial strength and growth is driven by preferred vendor status with a diverse Fortune 200 client-base, and expertise in multiple technologies and geographies.
Learn more at www.quinnox.com
Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). The company's portfolio of SaaS applications, including its award-winning CRM application, available at http://www.salesforce.com/products/, has revolutionized the ways that customers manage and share business information over the Internet. The company's Force.com PaaS enables customers, developers and partners to build powerful on-demand applications that deliver the benefits of multi-tenancy across the enterprise.
Learn more at www.salesforce.com
Savvis helps customers around the world with hosted IT solutions and cloud infrastructure. In fact, more than 2,500 unique customers, including more than 30 percent of Fortune 100 companies, use Savvis to reduce capital expense, improve service levels and harness the latest advances in cloud computing.
We offer flexible, holistic solutions that fit changing needs. We are 100 percent focused on IT infrastructure. And we have a highly credentialed team with the expertise and global footprint to help customers reach their business goals.
Learn more at www.savvis.net
Sprint's Business Markets Group is composed of sales, support, marketing and operations personnel solely dedicated to enterprise, small and medium-sized businesses and public sector customers. Sprint BMG delivers wireless, wireline and converged solutions for companies, drawing on its 3G wireless network, 4G capabilities, push-to-talk network, first-tier Global IP network and a comprehensive solutions portfolio of devices and applications, including solutions for:
• Workforce Mobility
• Mobile Computing
• Workplace Convergence
• Machine-to-Machine (M2M)
Learn more at www.sprint.com/business
Talari Networks WAN Virtualization solutions bring Internet economics to corporate WANs by transforming broadband and other affordable Internet links to deliver business-class reliability and performance predictability at consumer prices. Talari delivers a network with 30 to 100 times the bandwidth per dollar, ongoing WAN costs reduced by 40 to 90%, and greater reliability than existing corporate WANs. Scaling to fit the needs of every location, the Mercury family of appliances includes T3000 for headquarters operations, T750 for regional data centers, T730 for remote offices, and T200 to bring WAN Virtualization to SOHO locations typically served today only by IPsec VPNs.
Learn more at www.talari.com/
Vidyo’s groundbreaking video conferencing and collaboration solution allows a company or organization to offer its employees, partners and customers the ability to participate in exceptional telepresence-quality, face-to-face meetings whether they are on the road, at home, at the office, in a hotel room, or at a WiFi-enabled coffee shop!
Access a Vidyo conference via the Internet, LTE, 3G and 4G networks and get the level of quality that has only before been achieved with expensive high-maintenance dedicated networks and specialized equipment. Vidyo leverages off-the-shelf commodity hardware across rooms systems, PC and Mac-based desktops and laptops, and soon smart phones and tablets.
Vidyo simply requires an Internet connection, a webcam and a headset or speaker phone. With VidyoConferencing, telepresence-quality, multi-party videoconferencing (up to 50 participants on one conference) can be accessed by anyone, anywhere for pennies vs. dollars per minute.
Learn more at www.vidyo.com
Wipro Limited is the first PCMM Level 5 and SEI CMM Level 5 certified IT Services Company globally. Wipro provides comprehensive IT solutions and services, including systems integration, information systems outsourcing, package implementation, software application development and maintenance, and research and development services to corporations globally. In the Indian market, Wipro is a leader in providing IT solutions and services for the corporate segment in India offering system integration, network integration, software solutions and IT services. Wipro also has profitable presence in niche market segments of consumer products and lighting. In the Asia Pacific and Middle East markets, Wipro provides IT solutions and services for global corporations. Wipro's ADSs are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and its equity shares are listed in India on the Stock Exchange - Mumbai and the National Stock Exchange, among others.
Learn more at www.wipro.com