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 over a century, IBM has helped 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 interconnected technologies. Discover how today's clients are using smarter software, systems and services from IBM to help create a collaborative enterprise that leverages real time analytics, cloud computing and secure sustainable next generation data centers. In addition to reducing costs, improving service delivery and enabling business innovation, clients' businesses undergo the transformation needed to thrive on a Smarter Planet. Let's build a smarter planet.
Learn more at www.ibm.com/CIO
Presenting Sponsors
Founded in 2005, Box provides a secure, scalable content-sharing platform for nearly 6 million users and companies, including 82% of the FORTUNE 500. Box's dynamic, flexible content management solution lets users to access and share content from anywhere, while providing IT visibility into how content moves within their organizations and beyond. Content on Box can also be accessed through mobile applications and extended to partner applications such as Google Apps, NetSuite and Salesforce. Box is privately-held and backed by venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Emergence Capital Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Scale Venture Partners and U.S. Venture Partners.
Learn more at www.box.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 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
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
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
Local Sponsors
At Blue Jeans Network, our mission is to make video communications as easy and pervasive as audio communications, enabling more effective collaboration at work, at home, and on the road. Our cloud-based conferencing service makes this possible by enabling customers to connect with each other seamlessly anytime, anywhere, and from practically any device. The Blue Jeans Network extends high quality video communications beyond the traditional boundaries of specialized conference rooms and into the mainstream, allowing individuals and employees throughout an enterprise to interact more effectively with each other, and with their customers, partners, suppliers, family, and friends.
Learn more at bluejeans.com
Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate, and collaborate. Since 1984, Cisco has led in the innovation of IP-based networking technologies, including routing, switching, security, TelePresence systems, unified communications, video, and wireless. The company's responsible business practices help ensure accountability, business sustainability, and environmentally conscious operations and products.
Learn more at www.cisco.com
Learn more at www.cisco.com
Comcast Business Class offers a complete range of data, voice and video services for companies of all sizes. For mid-sized and larger organizations, Comcast offers highly reliable and scalable portfolios of Ethernet Services configurable from 1Mbps to 10Gbps and certified by the Metro Ethernet Forum. Combined with our voice solutions including Business Voice Edge — a cloud based voice and unified communications system, PRI and voice trunks, Comcast offers a cost effective and truly diverse portfolio of services delivered over America’s leading enhanced fiber network. Enterprise customers are also supported by highly trained and experienced specialists. For more information or to request a consultation, please visit business.comcast.com/enterprise.
Learn more at business.comcast.com/enterprise
CompuCom, the leading IT outsourcing specialist, delivers IT your way. Our clients like working with us because they know that, with CompuCom, it’s all about them. Our unique ITSM strategy blends your data center, network, voice, and end user computing environments in an innovative fashion. This radically simplifies your IT, allowing you to focus on growing your business and serving your customers. We are highly regarded around the world for our balance of industry-leading tools, a pragmatic approach to best practices, and our highly skilled workforce. We are the perfect alternative to address the revolutionary IT transformations facing you today and in the future. More than a trusted advisor, CompuCom is your trusted doer. To learn more, visit www.CompuCom.com.
Learn more at www.CompuCom.com
EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect, and analyze their most valuable asset—information—in a more agile, trusted, and cost-efficient way.
Learn more at www.EMC.com
Infor is the third largest provider of enterprise applications and services, helping 70,000 customers in 194 countries improve operations, drive growth, and quickly adapt to changes in business demands. Infor offers deep industry-specific applications and suites, engineered for speed, using ground-breaking technology that delivers a rich user experience, and flexible deployment options that give customers a choice to run their businesses in the cloud, on-premises, or both.
Learn more at www.infor.com
OpenText is the leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM). EIM enables organizations to grow the business, lower costs of operations, and reduce information governance and security related risks. OpenText focuses on the key drivers of business success to improve business insight, strengthen business impact, accelerate process velocity, address information governance and provide security.
Learn more at www.opentext.com
Founded in 2001, RealCom Solutions is a vendor-neutral, client-advocate for our multi-location clients that utilize Telecom and Technology. Through our team of individuals that all have significant industry experience, we help our clients save time, productivity and expenses through our efforts focused on optimization, consolidation and cost reduction of Telecom services including Voice, Data and Internet services.
RealCom Solutions will act on our client’s behalf to analyze, negotiate, order, implement, and project manage all telecommunication services. Additionally, we provide on-going Account Management including Bill Review, Trouble Escalation, Resolution, Moves, Adds Changes and Disconnects. We provide exceptional service and support to our enterprise clients. All of these services are provided at no cost to our clients.
RealCom Solutions…..”Have us on your staff, not on your payroll!” ®
Learn more at www.realcomsolutions.com
Rimini Street delivers proven exceptional value in third-party support for enterprise software. The innovative, ultra-responsive support program allows Oracle and SAP licensees to save 50 percent in annual support fees, avoid expensive forced upgrades, and receive premium services that are not part of standard vendor support —including support for customizations at no extra cost.
Hundreds of global companies, including 48 of Fortune 500 and 12 of Global 100, and public sector organizations depend on Rimini Street as their trusted, expert, independent provider of enterprise software support, so they can apply more of their IT budgets to strategic business initiatives.
Learn more at www.riministreet.com
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
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
Can you update Symantec's company description with the following: Symantec protects the world's information, and is a global leader in security, backup and availability solutions. Our innovative products and services protect people and information in any environment — from the smallest mobile device, to the enterprise data center, to cloud-based systems. Our world-renowned expertise in protecting data, identities and interactions gives our customers confidence in a connected world. More information is available at www.symantec.com or by connecting with Symantec at:go.symantec.com/socialmedia.
Learn more at www.symantec.com
TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) is a provider of infrastructure software for companies to use on-premise or as part of cloud computing environments. Whether it’s optimizing claims, processing trades, cross-selling products based on real-time customer behavior, or averting a crisis before it happens, TIBCO provides companies the two-second advantage™ — the ability to capture the right information at the right time and act on it preemptively for a competitive advantage. More than 4,000 customers worldwide rely on TIBCO to manage information, decisions, processes and applications in real time.
Learn more at www.tibco.com

