September 18-21, 2005 • The Westin Mission Hills Resort & Spa • Rancho Mirage, California
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Founded in 1981, American Power Conversion (Nasdaq: APCC) (APC) is a leading provider of global, end-to-end solutions for real-time infrastructure. APC’s comprehensive products and services offering, designed for both home and corporate environments, improve the availability, manageability and performance of electronic, network, communication and industrial equipment of all sizes. APC’s power protection products, known for their Legendary Reliability®‚ helped set the standard for quality, innovation and support.

APC’s InfraStruXureTM, on-demand architecture for network-critical physical infrastructure, fully integrates power, cooling, management, and services within a rack-optimized design. InfraStruXure allows the selection of standardized, modular components for a solution of customized, packaged and mobile configurations, enabling a scalable architecture designed to meet changing needs and future expansion. This award-winning, patent-pending approach provides increased availability, adaptability, speed of deployment and lower total cost of ownership for IT environments — from wiring closets to computer rooms to data centers.

With integrated management becoming a critical component in the NCPI, APC offers comprehensive management solutions including InfraStruXure Manager. A browser accessible, user-friendly tool, InfraStruXure Manager provides monitoring of power, cooling, and environmental management at the rack or room level. APC, headquartered in West Kingston, RI, reported sales of $1.70 billion for the year ended December 31, 2004.



Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is a global leader in access infrastructure solutions and a trusted name in secure access for enterprises and individuals. The Citrix® MetaFrame® Access Suite gives people secure and well-managed access to business information wherever it lives on demand. Nearly 50 million people in more than 120,000 organizations around the world use Citrix every day. Citrix customers include 100 percent of the Fortune 100 companies, 99 percent of the Fortune 500 and 92 percent of the Fortune Global 100. They are based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and have offices in 22 countries and more than 7,000 channel and alliance partners.



Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is a leading provider of IT services. Focused on delivering strategic information technology solutions that address the complex business needs of its clients, Cognizant provides applications management, development, integration, and re-engineering, infrastructure management, business process outsourcing, and a number of related services such as enterprise consulting, technology architecture, program management and change management through its onsite/offshore outsourcing model.

Cognizant's more than 20,000 employees are committed to partnerships that sustain long-term, proven value for customers by delivering high-quality, cost-effective solutions through its development centers in India, and onsite client teams. Cognizant maintains P-CMM and SEI-CMM Level 5 assessments from an independent third-party assessor. Cognizant was recently named to the NASDAQ-100 Index, recognized as Forbes' Best Small Company in America for the second consecutive year, and ranked as the top information technology company in BusinessWeek's Hot Growth Companies.



Cognos is a world leader in business intelligence and enterprise planning software. Cognos 8 BI is the first product to deliver all BI capabilities in one product on a single, modern architecture, and exemplifies the company's continuous innovation. Their choice as the BI standard by the world's largest and most competitive companies proves their leadership.

Four of the five largest insurance companies in the world choose Cognos, as do nine of the ten top banks in the U.S. and Europe, ten of the top ten automakers, and twenty of the top twenty-five pharmaceutical companies in the world. Visit with Cognos to see how their performance management software can help you lead your industry.



HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. HP reaches across consumer, small and medium-size business (SMB) and enterprise customer segments, has a strong presence and leadership in key regions around the world, and has a uniquely rich technology portfolio. HP is the largest consumer IT company, the world’s largest SMB IT company and a leading enterprise IT company. HP is focused on helping people apply technology in meaningful ways to their businesses, personal lives and communities. Millions of people around the world use HP technology everyday. The company’s offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing. HP, which has corporate headquarters in Palo Alto, California, has 142,000 employees doing business in more than 170 countries. For the last four fiscal quarters, HP revenue totaled $74.7 billion.

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. Intel's mission is to do a great job for our customers, employees, and stockholders by being the preeminent building block supplier to the worldwide digital economy.

Mercury is one of the global leaders in Business Technology Optimization (BTO) and one of the fastest-growing categories in the IT industry. They have a simple and powerful commitment: to help their customers maximize the business value of IT. Mercury's BTO offerings for IT governance, application delivery, and application management allow customers to take a Center of Excellence (CoE) approach to IT governance/project portfolio management (PPM), software testing and quality assurance, application performance and load testing, and application management/system monitoring. Their BTO products, services, solutions, and alliance partners help Global 2000 companies and government agencies address strategic IT initiatives like ITIL and SOX as well as optimize enterprise application environments like J2EE, .NET, and ERP/CRM. Founded in 1989, Mercury is one of the fastest-growing enterprise software companies today while conducting business in approximately 40 countries. Mercury has been a publicly traded company for over 10 years.

Microsoft Executive Circle is a unique program for senior IT and business executives designed to amplify their personal and business success. Microsoft is partnering with thought leaders from academia and industry to develop exclusive peer networking and best practice executive education programs that break new ground in connecting IT capabilities with core business demands.

Members enjoy exclusive access to experiences, resources and connections that cannot be found anywhere else. CIOs are invited to join the circle today at microsoft.com/executivecircle.

SAS is a market leader in providing a new generation of business intelligence software and services that create true enterprise intelligence. SAS solutions are used at more than 40,000 sites including 96 of the top 100 companies on the Fortune Global 500® to develop more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; to enable better, more accurate and informed decisions; and to drive organizations forward. SAS is the only vendor that completely integrates leading data warehousing, analytics and traditional BI applications to create intelligence from massive amounts of data. For nearly three decades, they have been giving customers around the world The Power to Know®.

Satyam Computer Services Ltd. (NYSE: SAY) is a global IT consulting services provider, offering a range of expertise aimed at helping customers re-engineer and re-invent their businesses to compete successfully in an ever-changing marketplace. Over 20,000* highly-skilled professionals in Satyam work onsite, offsite, offshore and near shore, to provide customized IT solutions for companies in several industry sectors. Satyam’s ideas and products have resulted in technology-intensive transformations that have met the most stringent of international quality standards. Satyam Development Centers in India, the USA, the UK, the UAE, Canada, Hungary, Malaysia, Singapore, China, Japan and Australia serve 410* global companies, of which 148* are Fortune Global 500 and Fortune US 500 corporations. Satyam’s presence spans 46 countries, across six continents.




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