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
For nearly a century, IBM has helped business 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 Model™, 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
National 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
Presenting Sponsors
With more than 100,000 customers, salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing company that is leading the shift to the social enterprise. Social enterprises leverage social, mobile and open cloud technologies to put customers at the heart of their business. Based on salesforce.com's real-time, multitenant architecture, the company's platform and application services allow customers to:
• Create employee social networks with Salesforce Chatter, Salesforce Rypple and Salesforce Force.com.
• Develop customer social networks with the Salesforce Sales Cloud, Salesforce Data.com, Salesforce Service Cloud, and Salesforce Site.com.
• Connect with customers on public social networks with Salesforce Heroku and Salesforce Radian6.
• Empower small business to become social enterprises with Salesforce Desk.com and Salesforce Do.com.
• Extend a company's social enterprise with apps from the leading enterprise app marketplace, AppExchange.
• Run apps on Database.com, the first social enterprise database.
Learn more at www.salesforce.com
National Sponsors
Apptio is the leading independent provider of on-demand Technology Business Management (TBM) solutions for managing the business of IT. Apptio enables IT leaders to manage the cost, quality and value of IT Services by providing deep visibility into the total cost of IT services, communicating the value of IT to the business through an interactive "Bill of IT," and strategically aligning the planning, budgeting and forecasting processes. Apptio's TBM solutions play a critical role in helping companies understand and drive chargeback, virtualization, cloud and other key technology initiatives. Global enterprise customers such as Bank of America, Boeing, Cisco, Clorox, Coca-Cola, Facebook, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, St. Luke's Health System, and Swiss Re rely on Apptio to manage more than $72 billion in annual IT spending.
For more information, visit the Apptio website or the Apptio blog: www.apptio.com.
Learn more at www.apptio.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
Compuware APM is the industry’s leading solution for optimizing the performance of web, non-web, mobile, streaming and cloud applications. Driven by end-user experience, Compuware APM provides the market’s only unified APM coverage across the entire application delivery chain, from the edge of the internet through the cloud to the datacenter. Compuware APM customers deliver proactive problem resolution for greater customer satisfaction; they accelerate time to market for new application functionality; and they reduce application management costs through smarter analytics and advanced APM automation.
Learn more at www.compuware.com
Google's Enterprise products bring Google technology and innovation to organizations. Google Apps offers simple, powerful communication and collaboration tools for any size business — all hosted by Google to streamline setup, minimize maintenance, and reduce IT costs.
Learn more at www.google.com/a
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
Business IT Management is the task of ensuring that IT powers business success.
It combines a deep understanding of the business and its strategy with the insight, planning and execution required to evolve the IT landscape.
alfabet is the only vendor providing a comprehensive software suite that supports all aspects of Business IT Management from accurate insight into the enterprise architecture to IT planning, risk management, compliance, road-mapping and IT Program Control.
With it¹s flagship product planningIT®, alfabet serves a global user community of more than 135,000 IT, Finance and Business professionals in more than 40 countries. Customers of alfabet include many of the Global 2000 companies across a broad range of industries in particular financial services, automotive, telecommunications, logistics, and high-tech.
Learn more at www.alfabet.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
Learn more at www.cisco.com
Cognizant is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services. Cognizant’s single-minded passion is to dedicate our global technology and innovation know-how, our industry expertise and worldwide resources to working together with clients to make their businesses stronger. With over 50 global delivery centers, we combine a unique global delivery model infused with a distinct culture of customer satisfaction. A member of the NASDAQ-100 Index and S&P 500 Index, Cognizant is a Forbes Global 2000 company and a member of the Fortune 1000 and is ranked among the top information technology companies in BusinessWeek’s Hot Growth and Top 50 Performers listings.
Learn more at www.cognizant.com
Collabera is an end-to-end information technology services and solutions provider working with leading Global 2000 corporations from the Financial Services, Communications, Media, Manufacturing, Retail, Energy and Utilities domains. Collabera delivers highly responsive and innovative solutions that help clients align their IT strategy with business goals to address the most important IT needs through a combination of IT solutions, proprietary methodologies, assets based services and a Collaborative Engagement Model. Collabera employs over 6500 professionals across more than 20 offices and 3 world-class delivery centers in the US, Europe and India. Collabera delivers a full portfolio of services that include IT Consulting, Application Services, ERP Solutions, Independent Testing, Infrastructure Management, Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing solutions.
Learn more at www.collabera.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
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Deloitte Consulting LLP combines deep technology experience with practical business strategy to help clients get more from their SAP investments. We bring an unmatched range of capabilities to bear on mobility challenges, drawing on the experiences of our professionals in consulting, financial advisory services, tax and risk management worldwide. For organizations that understand the importance of implementing mobility strategies that work in lock step with their overarching business strategies, we can help. Ask us how we can help you move beyond basic implementation and improvement to achieve your most important business goals with mobility. Visit us at deloitte.com/sap or email us at SAP@Deloitte.com.
Learn more at www.deloitte.com/sap
Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. Worldwide, our 152,000 people are united by our shared values and an unwavering commitment to quality. We make a difference by helping our people, our clients and our wider communities achieve their potential.
Ernst & Young refers to the global organization of member firms of Ernst & Young Global Limited, each of which is a separate legal entity. Ernst & Young Global Limited, a UK company limited by guarantee, does not provide services to clients.
Learn more at www.ey.com
ExtraHop Networks is a leading provider of network and application performance management (APM) solutions. The ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance system is the industry’s first completely passive network appliance that provides application-level visibility with no agents, configuration, or overhead. The ExtraHop system gives organizations, including Expedia, Kohl’s, Nintendo, GSA, Adobe, and Motorola, a complete picture of the performance of their business-critical applications in real time. Jesse Rothstein and Raja Mukerji, engineering veterans from F5 Networks, founded the privately held company in early 2007. ExtraHop Networks is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and funded by Madrona Venture Group and other private investors.
Learn more at www.extrahop.com
Founded in 1971, Forsythe is as an information technology infrastructure integrator. Forsythe helps complex organizations across all industries, including Fortune 1000 companies, optimize the cost and manage the risk of their IT while improving performance. Forsythe provides independent technology and business consulting services, technology leasing services, and value-added reseller services for all the leading technology product manufacturers. Headquartered in Skokie, Illinois, Forsythe employs 900 people in 50 offices throughout the United States and Canada. Forsythe is privately held and 100-percent employee-owned. In 2009, Forsythe achieved its 39th consecutive year of profitability with revenues of $688 million.
Learn more at www.forsythe.com
GXS provides B2B integration services to global brands and operates the world’s largest integration cloud, GXS Trading Grid®. Our software and services help more than 400,000 companies, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500 and 23 of the top 25 supply chains, extend their partner networks, automate supply chain processes and manage electronic payments. GXS Managed Services, our outsourcing service, combines the GXS Trading Grid with process orchestration services and global teams to manage a company’s multi-enterprise processes.
Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, GXS has direct operations in 20 countries, employing more than 2,300 professionals. To learn more, see www.gxs.com, read our blog at www.gxsblogs.com, follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/gxs and join us on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/gxs.
Learn more at www.gxs.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
KPMG LLP, the audit, tax and advisory firm, is the U.S. member firm of KPMG International. Our purpose is to turn knowledge into value for the benefit of our clients, our people, and the capital markets. KPMG delivers a globally consistent set of multidisciplinary services based on deep industry knowledge, which enables our professionals to develop a rich understanding of clients' businesses and bring the insight, skills, and resources required to address their issues and opportunities.
KPMG International’s member firms have 137,000 professionals, including more than 7,600 partners, in 144 countries.
Learn more at www.us.kpmg.com
L&T Infotech is a part of L&T, a USD 11.7 billion company, having presence in engineering, manufacturing and financial services. It is ranked as 9th largest software & services exporter from India by NASSCOM. We offer end-to-end technology solutions and services in Insurance, Banking & Financial Services, Energy & petrochemicals, Manufacturing and Product engineering services (Telecom).
New thrust areas include cloud computing, enterprise mobility, infrastructure management, testing, BIDW, and Unitrax - wealth management platform.
Our unique brand differentiation is ‘Business-to-IT Connect’ which enables us to convert the business knowledge inherited from our parent company, into a winning edge for clients.
Learn more at www.lntinfotech.com
MarkLogic leads the advancement of Big Data with the first operational database technology for mission-critical Big Data Applications. Customers trust MarkLogic to drive revenue and growth through Big Data Applications enabled by MarkLogic products, services, and partners. MarkLogic is a fast growing enterprise software company and ushers in a new era of Big Data by powering more than 500 of the world’s most critical Big Data Applications in the public sector and Global 1000. Organizations around the world get to better decisions faster with MarkLogic.
MarkLogic is headquartered in Silicon Valley with field offices in Austin, Frankfurt, London, Tokyo, New York, and Washington D.C.
Learn more at www.marklogic.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
NIIT Technologies Limited is a global IT solutions organization servicing customers in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. It focuses on customers in the Banking, Financial Services , Insurance, Travel Transportation & Logistics and Manufacturing sectors, offering services in Application Development & Management, Enterprise Solutions and Managed Services. It also offers Business Process Outsourcing, Healthcare and GIS Solutions through its subsidiaries. Counted amongst the premier software exporting organizations in India, the Company has built a significant customer base worldwide, including leading global enterprises. The company is already offering Cloud based services to its customers.
The Company adheres to major global benchmarks and standards, having secured the ISO 9001:2000 certification and the ISO: 27001 Information Security Management accreditation. NIIT Technologies also follows global standards of development assessment at Level 5 of SEI CMMi version 1.2.
Known for its focus and quality standards, NIIT Technologies has bagged numerous accolades globally including consistent Top rankings in Travel domain.
Learn more at www.niit-tech.com/
Over 20 of the top Fortune 100 companies and emerging startups including HP, Yahoo, Zappos, Encyclopedia Brittanica, Cengage Learning and Providence Health System trust Photon Infotech to innovate & develop their mobile and multichannel experiences. With over 50 Million consumers using Photon created mobile presences, the largest portfolio of innovative touchpoints are powered by us. Photon's has also the largest pool of over 1500 trained mobile experts, who ideate, design, create, and build awesome and immersive experiences.
Learn more at www.photon.in
QlikTech is a leader in Business Discovery — user-driven Business Intelligence (BI). QlikTech's powerful, accessible Business Discovery solution bridges the gap between traditional BI solutions and standalone office productivity applications. Its QlikView Business Discovery platform enables intuitive user-driven analysis that can be implemented in days or weeks. The in-memory associative search technology it pioneered allows users to explore information freely, rather than being confined to a predefined path of questions. QlikView Business Discovery works with existing BI applications and adds new capabilities: insight for everyone, zero-wait analysis, mobility, an app—like model, remixability and reassembly, and a social and collaborative experience.
Learn more at www.qlikview.com/us
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.com
Splunk Enables Operational Intelligence
Splunk is software used to monitor, report and analyze machine data. This data is generated by all applications, systems and infrastructure - located on-premise or in the cloud. Machine data is massive in scale, unstructured and contains a definitive record of transactions, systems, applications and user activity. It’s also largely unused, trapped in rigid, silo-based systems. Only Splunk lets you capture and analyze real-time and historical machine data in one place, so you can unlock its value.
Learn more at www.splunk.com
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
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 Technologies, the global IT business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) is a leading Information Technology, Consulting and Outsourcing company, that delivers solutions to enable its clients do business better. Wipro Technologies delivers winning business outcomes through its deep industry experience and a 360 degree view of "Business through Technology" — helping clients create successful and adaptive businesses. A company recognized globally for its comprehensive portfolio of services, a practitioner’s approach to delivering innovation and an organization wide commitment to sustainability, Wipro Technologies has 131,000 employees and clients across 54 countries.
Learn more at www.wipro.com