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Underwriter
 iRise The best run companies in the world recognize that tough economies are exactly the right time to take bold steps to change the status quo and leap ahead of the competition. In this recession visualization from iRise has emerged as the essential strategy to cut cost by optimizing application rationalization efforts and accelerating global sourcing initiatives.
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 lengthy requirements phases and costly rework which leads 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 gives companies a powerful way to define applications right – the first time; stakeholders fully experience and interact with exact replicas of proposed applications early in the process, before any expensive coding. iRise visualizations look, act and feel like the real thing, ensuring that everyone is literally on the same page. Visualization from iRise is now being used by hundreds of companies to cut at least 30% of their application development cost and deliver finished systems twice as fast.
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Platinum Sponsors
 SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS is used at more than 45,000 sites in more than 100 countries - including 91 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 11,000 SAS employees - in more than 50 countries and 400 SAS offices - provide local support for global implementations.
SAS is the first company to call when you need to solve complex business problems, achieve key objectives and more effectively manage your information assets. SAS provides a technology platform and market-leading analytic applications to help you not only navigate today's challenges but capitalize on tomorrow's opportunities.
To lead with confidence and outpace competitors, you need to make better, faster decisions. SAS equips your organization for success by helping you answer more questions, for more people, across more departments, than any other business intelligence software vendor. Other vendors provide business analytics in the form of historical reports that give you hindsight, but limited insight. SAS delivers an integrated set of business analytics software and services that enables you to not only navigate today's challenges, but also capitalize on tomorrow's opportunities. Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers around the world The Power to Know®.
 Trend Micro, a global leader in Internet content security, focuses on securing the exchange of digital information for businesses and consumers. A pioneer and industry vanguard, Trend Micro is advancing integrated threat management technology to protect operational continuity, personal information, and property from malware, spam, data leaks and the newest Web threats. Its flexible solutions, available in multiple form factors, are supported 24/7 by threat intelligence experts around the globe. A transnational company, with headquarters in Tokyo, Trend Micro’s trusted security solutions are sold through its business partners worldwide. For additional information, please visit www.trendmicro.com.
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Gold Sponsors
 CA Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) is the world’s leading independent information technology (IT) management software company. We help companies manage IT to become more productive and better compete, innovate and grow their businesses. We develop and deliver software that enables organizations to achieve lean IT. They can get the most value from IT at the lowest costs in complex computing environments, whether distributed, mainframe, cloud or virtualized.
With our Enterprise IT Management (EITM) software and expertise, organizations can more effectively govern, manage and secure the services IT delivers to the business to reduce costs and risks, improve service and ensure IT is integrated with the business. We help customers make better decisions by giving them a unified view into their IT investments and risk. We make it easier to manage technology so that high-quality services can be delivered effectively and efficiently. We also ensure customers have secure access to the information and services they need to conduct business.
Today, we work with the majority of the Forbes Global 2000, as well as government organizations and thousands of companies in diverse industries worldwide. Founded in 1976, CA serves customers in virtually every country in the world and reported fiscal year 2009 revenue of $4.3 billion.
 IBM's Enterprise Content Management software enables the world’s top companies to make better decisions, faster. As a market leader in content, process and compliance software, IBM ECM delivers a broad set of mission-critical solutions that help solve today’s most difficult business challenges: managing unstructured content, optimizing business processes and helping satisfy complex compliance requirements through an integrated information infrastructure. More than 13,000 global companies, organizations and governments rely on IBM ECM to improve performance and remain competitive through innovation. Visit us at www.ibm.com/software/ecm.
 Pitney Bowes is a mailstream technology company that helps organizations manage the flow of information, mail, documents and packages. Our 35,000 employees deliver new capabilities, technologies and insights to more than two million customers worldwide. Pitney Bowes helps companies build stronger connections with their customers, streamline their operations, work more efficiently and find new opportunities. For businesses large and small, Pitney Bowes offers the tools and knowledge that help your business succeed. The company was founded in 1920 and annual revenues now total $6.3 billion. More information is available at www.pbconnect.com. Follow us on Twitter twitter.com/pbconnect.
 Wipro (NYSE:WIT) is among the top global providers of IT Services, Outsourced R&D, Infrastructure Outsourcing, Business Process Services, and Business Consulting. With 25 years in the global delivery of technology services, Wipro is the first to perfect a unique quality methodology that combines Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen and
CMM – to provide unmatched business value and predictability to our clients.
We are also the world's largest third-party provider of R&D Services, and the world's first PCMM and CMMi company. Our vertically aligned business model gives us a deep understanding of our customers’ businesses enabling us to build industry specific solutions through 55+ dedicated ‘Centers of Excellence,’ while our technology service lines give us the ability to design innovative solutions based on emerging technologies. Together, they give us the unique ability to architect integrated solutions that cover application development to infrastructure management, and business process outsourcing to deliver measurable business results like improved productivity, reduced deployment time and improved speed to market for our customers.
Industry analysts rate us as the best-suited for large-scale, global package implementation projects, a leader in CRM services, and as having the best Infrastructure Management offering among the offshore firms. We have won global recognition and awards for Innovation and Outsourcing excellence. Our commitment to listen to our clients and engage with them as partners for the long-term is a constant, resulting in a repeat business ratio of over 95%.
Today, we are a $5 billion company with a market capitalization of over $15 billion.
 Workday is the leader in enterprise-class, on-demand solutions for managing global businesses, combining the lower cost of ownership of Software-as-Service with a modern approach to applications. Founded by PeopleSoft veterans Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri, Workday delivers Human Resources, Financial Management and Payroll solutions for mid-sized and Fortune 500 companies. Workday's next generation system-of-record leverages standards-based integration and provides a new enterprise foundation for global companies. Workday's innovative thinking, new technologies, and on-demand solutions provide a fresh alternative to legacy, on-premise ERP. Workday has more than 80 customers. Visit us at www.workday.com.
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Silver Sponsors
 Hewlett-Packard is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses, and institutions globally. Our offerings span IT infrastructure, global services, business and home computing, and imaging and printing. Our business technology optimization solutions help IT organizations ensure every dollar invested in IT, every resource allocated, and every application or service in development or production helps to deliver business outcomes. Our information management software helps businesses classify, preserve, discover, analyze, and recover information faster to proactively manage all business information across the enterprise and achieve legal and regulatory compliance. Our business intelligence solutions provide timely insight and actionable intelligence to improve business performance, maximize worker productivity, and capitalize on customer relationships. And our communications and media solutions deliver personalized, content-rich customer experiences over seamlessly managed networks to ensure loyalty, protect privacy, meet compliance mandates, and drive new revenue.
 Dell is a leading technology and services provider to both enterprises and consumers worldwide. For the past 25 years, Dell has focused on listening and responding to customers through the web, blogs, partners and thousands of direct interactions every day. Dell focuses on simplifying IT through innovative products and solutions that allow customers to reclaim time, money and people from their IT investments.
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom and blogs.intel.com.
 Precise, the global leader in Transaction Performance Management (TPM) solutions, helps customers optimize the performance of their business applications. Our transaction-oriented approach to Application Performance Management (APM) gives business and IT the ability to clearly see where critical transactions spend time, and how well they are performing against business expectations.
Precise TPM traces business transactions across the entire application stack, from the initiating user or batch process down to the system of record. This comprehensive end-to-end transaction visibility is complemented by detailed diagnostic data collected at every tier, including hard-to-manage storage subsystems. This gives IT the actionable information they need to pinpoint a problem’s root-cause, and accelerate resolution.
For over 18 years, 1,100 customers have relied on Precise application performance management products to manage their major packaged applications (SAP, Oracle eBusiness Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel), custom applications (J2EE, .NET), databases and storage devices.
For more information about Precise, visit www.precise.com.
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Startup 50 Sponsor
 Spigit its enterprise customers more competitive by accelerating their pace of innovation. We provide a comprehensive innovation management platform for companies, integrating emergent social collaboration with traditional workflow and analytics in innovation communities. Spigit is used by leaders in the Fortune 2000 to improve the speed and quality of decisions around innovation. Spigit has over 2.4 million licensed users with companies around the world.
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