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iRise Headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices around the U.S., iRise is a market leading supplier of visualization software for business applications. Visualization is now a proven strategy across many industries that enables business and IT stakeholders to more effectively communicate their needs and give everyone involved the ability to test drive" and fully experience applications prior to development. Companies of all sizes use iRise to visualize before building, which accelerates time to revenue, improves customer experience, drives lower cost and reduces risk with global sourcing models.

For years, business software has been defined with the equivalent of drafting boards used in other industries in years past. Business people fundamentally have a hard time interpreting text specifications, static screen shots, use cases and business process flow diagrams. Coded prototypes haven’t solved the problem because they’ve been proven to be too expensive, time consuming and difficult to iterate in real-time. The result has been a lengthy requirements phase and costly rework which lead to persistent project delays, cost over-runs and missing features in business-critical applications. In addition, these requirements related issues add significant risk to the global sourcing model due to poor communication with sourcing partners.

iRise is used by thousands of business analysts and user experience professionals to quickly visualize complex business applications that are virtually indistinguishable from the final product. Our combination of products, services offerings and customer success are unmatched. Isn't it time you visualized before you build? For more information, please visit www.irise.com.

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Cognizant is a leading global provider of information technology, consulting, infrastructure and business process outsourcing services. Cognizant’s single-minded mission is to dedicate our business process and technology innovation know-how, our deep industry expertise and worldwide resources to working together with clients to make their businesses stronger. With more than 35 global delivery centers and over 55,000 employees as of December 31, 2007, we combine a unique onsite/offshore delivery model infused by a distinct culture of customer satisfaction.

As a customer-centric, relationship-driven partner, we are redefining the way companies experience and benefit from global services via a unique delivery model infused by a distinct culture of high customer satisfaction. Cognizant delivers a trusted partnership, cost reductions and business results.
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Foundry Networks®, Inc. (Nasdaq: FDRY) is a leading provider of high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing, security, and application traffic management solutions including edge and backbone Ethernet switches, Web and content-aware application switches, network-wide security solutions, wireless LAN and access points, wide area access routers and internet provider edge and service provider core MPLS routers. Foundry's customers include the world's premier ISPs, Metro service providers, and enterprises including e-commerce sites, universities, entertainment, healthcare, government, financial, manufacturing companies, technology, and high-performance computing (HPC) sites.

Foundry has built a reputation for innovating high-performance networking solutions that address the needs and requirements of today and tomorrow's network infrastructures. Our comprehensive suite of products and support services can help you build a robust, scalable and highly-available network infrastructure for the expanding and evolving needs of your business. Our products incorporate the latest in switch design, advanced network processor technology, rich feature sets, network-wide security, scalable architectures, and award-winning customer support to deliver network solutions that are cost effective, secure, and convergence ready.

We believe the broadband industry is still in its early days and that many advances in converged communications are still ahead. These future IP services will require a networking infrastructure that can deliver reliable, secure, and high-bandwidth services with assured performance levels. Foundry's solutions are proven for high density, high-performance, complete scalability, and quality to help customers address the next set of challenges in their networking deployments. For more information about the company and its products, call 1.888.TURBOLAN or visit www.foundrynetworks.com.


Microsoft Corporation is the world’s leading manufacturer of software for personal and business computing. Microsoft provides an integrated platform and suite of online services that enables a seamless experience for developers, consumers and businesses across platforms, applications, and devices.

Our commitment to making outstanding software and systems and to our customers and partners, coupled with our passion for technology allows us to take on big challenges.  We take pride in holding ourselves accountable to our customers, shareholders, partners, and employees by honoring our commitments, providing results, and striving for the highest quality.

Microsoft is the only company with the full complement of technologies and solutions that connect and inform, that can integrate, evolve, and be customized with the way you work and the way your business works. Software that is, above all else, ready for people. Software that helps you, and your company, realize its potential.  Software for the people-ready business.™


With 32 years of experience, SAS delivers proven solutions to access relevant, reliable, consistent information throughout your enterprise, giving you the ability to make the right decisions and achieve sustainable performance improvement

The Company
SAS is one of the largest software companies in the world. With consistent revenue growth and profitability since 1976, SAS has the depth of resources to sustain excellence in product development and customer support. While many competitors have merged, changed ownership or simply vanished, privately held SAS has remained focused on our primary mission – delivering superior software and enhancing customer relationships.

The Software
SAS software helps companies in every industry transform their data into predictive insights about company performance, customers, markets, risks and more.

Global reach, local presence
SAS solutions are used at 43,000 sites in 111 countries – including 96 of the top 100 FORTUNE Global 500® companies – to develop more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; to enable better decisions; and to move forward with confidence and clarity. More than 10,000 SAS employees – in more than 50 countries and 400 SAS offices – provide local support for global implementations.

Financial strength
SAS' record of revenue growth every year of our existence not only makes us a stable business partner, but has enabled us to reinvest close to 25 percent of revenues in R&D each year – twice the industry average – so we can continually improve our products. This commitment to innovation is one reason why 98 percent of our customers renew their software licenses with SAS every year.


Teradata solutions, the global leader in data warehousing, give companies the people, technology, and innovation to make smarter, faster decisions that help them achieve competitive advantage to master their markets.

Simply put, Teradata solutions make companies smarter and give them the competitive edge to win. To learn more about our solutions, go to Teradata.com.