Premier Sponsors

Microsoft Press

Microsoft Press is a component of Microsoft Learning solutions offering best-of-breed technical books. Turn to Microsoft Press reference and training materials to expand your understanding of current and next generation Microsoft technologies, tools, and applications. Whether you are an IT professional, a develop or a home and office computer user, Microsoft Press books help you get the most out of Microsoft products and technologies no matter what your job role or current level of knowledge is.

Mindsharp

Mindsharp is a global education company that shows organizations how to use Microsoft enterprise technologies to achieve powerful business solutions. Mindsharp offers a full line of comprehensive training courses that target the needs of Executives, End Users, Administrators, Developers, Designers, and Architects. Mindsharp's team of globally recognized experts teaches clients to increase productivity using secure and scalable collaboration, communication, and messaging services. Mindsharp's robust portfolio of educational products and services includes Design and Planning sessions, Public training events, On-site training, Electronic courseware for in-house training, Computer-based training, and Online Instructor-led training.

Platinum Sponsors

Ascentium

Ascentium is an interactive marketing and technology consultancy that delivers award-winning experiences, products, and information-driven business solutions.
From strategic marketing initiatives to full back-office implementations, we connect you with inspired, effective ideas, and then bring them to life-always keeping sight of what tangible business results look like for you and your organization.

Synteractive Corporation

Synteractive Corporation is a strategy and business solutions consulting firm. We specialize in leveraging the power of information and technology to radically improve the efficiency and effectiveness of complex organizations-from financial services firms to global non-profits to government agencies. We do this by using our Intelligent Orchestration^TM framework, an innovative approach to business transformation derived from our collective experience tackling strategic challenges for some of the most complex organizations in the world. The key principles underlying this approach are rigor, refinement, synthesis, innovation, and optimal solutions. We have led transformations using SharePoint for businesses and non-profits navigating in complex, global markets. We have also built excellent SharePoint past performance with government clients rising to the challenge of ever more complex missions in a resource constrained environment.

Quest Software

Quest Software delivers innovative products that help you get more performance and productivity from your applications, databases and Windows infrastructure. Quest is an industry leader in SharePoint solutions, offering tools to manage, recover, migrate, develop and secure your growing SharePoint environment. With Quest, you reduce administrative time, consolidate and migrate information to SharePoint, easily and cost-effectively build applications in SharePoint, and protect critical business information within SharePoint. Through a deep expertise in IT operations and a continued focus on what works best, Quest helps more than 90,000 customers worldwide meet higher expectations for enterprise IT. Quest Software can be found in offices around the globe and at www.quest.com.

Gold Sponsors

Absolute Performance

Absolute Performance, Inc., a leading application performance management service provider, delivers innovative products and services that help organizations get more productivity and value from their business critical applications, eCommerce sites and On-Demand applications. Through extensive expertise in IT operations and a continued focus on what works best, Absolute Performance helps companies meet higher expectations for their end user experience.

Absolute Performance System Shepherd® for SharePoint provides tools to measure, monitor and manage business critical application and infrastructure of the entire SharePoint environment.

For more information contact Absolute Performance at 303.565.4400 or visit http://www.absolute-performance.com/.

AvePoint

Since 2001, AvePoint has been a global leader in enterprise-strength infrastructure management software solutions for all Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. Propelled by one of the world‘s largest SharePoint-exclusive development teams outside of Microsoft, AvePoint‘s award-winning DocAve software delivers comprehensive and flexible infrastructure support for backup and recovery, replication, migration, administration, archiving and compliance solutions for Microsoft SharePoint.

Axceler

Since 1994, Axceler has helped enterprises address common yet critical administrative and development challenges, so organizations can maximize collaborative technology investments, improve business operations, and dramatically reduce administrative time and costs. For Microsoft SharePoint, Axceler delivers ControlPoint, which gives administrators the ability to explore, protect, analyze, and ultimately control their SharePoint environments. With ControlPoint, you can analyze and enforce permissions, clean up user accounts, isolate sites that are no longer needed, identify sites with the most or least activity, anticipate site growth, and more.

Bamboo Solutions

Bamboo Solutions provides an extensive offering of Web Parts, Solution Accelerators and customized products for project management, social networking, business intelligence, portal administration and content management for SharePoint products and technologies. In the past two years, over 3,000 customers across 38 countries have benefited from Bamboo’s software development agility, using Bamboo software to implement their SharePoint products and technologies into their portals in record time. Customers can easily try, test and buy from the online store and gain access to additional resources through Bamboo’s partner network. They can also visit Bamboo Nation, our community site dedicated to Bamboo customers and the SharePoint ecosystem. Bamboo Solutions is headquartered in Reston, Virginia USA with offices in Gothenburg, Sweden and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. For more information, visit http://www.bamboosolutions.com/.

DeliverPoint

DeliverPoint :Permissions is the first security trimmed tool for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, that lets you discover, understand and effectively manage permissions across the farm. The security trimmed nature of DeliverPoint :Permissions offers a powerful approach to managing permissions in SharePoint, consistent with the way most companies are currently managing SharePoint permissions today which is to delegate the management of permissions out to non-IT site collection administrators and other end user administrators. DeliverPoint's security trimmed architecture is also consistent with SharePoint's distributed architecture. With DeliverPoint :Permissions, both IT and Non-IT administrators can now easily discover and manage permissions within their scope of authority in the farm. Now that's smart.

echoTechnology

echoTechnology is focused exclusively on developing, selling and marketing its flag ship SharePoint management software echo for SharePoint. echo makes changing SharePoint in the Enterprise easy. echoTechnology is dedicated to making echo the sole tool enterprises require to manage SharePoint from planning to decommission. We are committed to increasing the productivity of IT professionals, Developing, Testing, Deploying, Migrating and Managing SharePoint as a single farm or on global sharePoint Networks.

echoTechnology is a privately owned independent software vendor with headquartered in Seattle, Washington with offices in Sydney, Australia and London.

Enterprise Informatics

Enterprise Informatics is a leading provider of Enterprise Information Management (EIM) solutions that enable organizations to reduce the cost of meeting compliance requirements, minimize business risk and optimize process efficiency.

eB for SharePoint, in combination with Microsoft SharePoint, enable CIO's and Compliance Officers to define and enforce a SharePoint governance and compliance policy through the identification, classification and management of business critical information across SharePoint sites/farms. eB for SharePoint uniquely manages the connectivity to all relevant information, improving its integrity and visibility, without compromising the ease-of-use and collaboration that makes Microsoft SharePoint so attractive.

K2

K2 is a platform for building process-driven applications that improve business efficiency. K2 applications are flexible and scalable and can span employees, departments, organizations and line-of-business systems. And when business needs shift, modifying those applications is simple. K2 is built on .NET and leverages existing investments in Microsoft software infrastructure - Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, InfoPath, Visio, Visual Studio, Office, Exchange, BizTalk and Office Communications Server. K2-based solutions are deployed by a growing number of the global Fortune 100. K2 is a division of SourceCode Technology Holdings, Inc. based in Redmond, Washington, and has offices all over the world.

Lightning Tools Ltd.

Lightning Tools Ltd is well known for its specialization in Microsoft SharePoint and more specifically The Business Data Catalog. We have a number of tools and web parts that were designed, developed and managed by SharePoint Industry Experts. Our flagship product is BDC Meta Man. The original and most recommended Application Definition File creator tool. Our suite of products also includes Business Data Catalog related Web Parts and also our Content Aggregator Web Part ‘The Lightning Conductor’. We also cater for organizations that do not have MOSS, and have therefore written a Data Viewer Web Part that allows for Windows Integrated Security connections to SQL & Oracle. We have a team of developers and experienced consultants who can help your organization get the best return on your SharePoint Investment. You can find screencasts and other information on our web site: www.lightningtools.com or email sales@lightningtools.com.

Nintex

Nintex is a leading global innovator of software products that extend Microsoft technology, with over 500 customers in 40 countries, including over 40 of the Fortune 500. Nintex focuses on building software that bridges the gap between what can be bought from Microsoft today and common functionality requested by customers - with a passionate commitment to innovation and user experience. As a Microsoft Gold Partner, Nintex aligns with Microsoft's strategic and architectural direction to ensure that Nintex and Microsoft products work in harmony, both today and into the future. Please visit http://www.nintex.com for more information.

Syntergy

Syntergy is a leading provider of products that extend collaborative content management solutions. Specializing in Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, we help global organizations overcome the challenges they face in sharing information around the world. We add value to our customers' business critical deployments by reducing bandwidth infrastructure costs and improving branch office performance globally. Our powerful range of products spans from geo-replication, content migration, and email integration to compliance management. This comprehensive suite of products helps our customers' augment return on their investment in Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. For more information, visit www.syntergy.com.

Exhibitors

Colligo Networks, Inc.

Colligo is a leader in client collaboration software, helping organizations drive SharePoint adoption by providing an intuitive experience that better integrates SharePoint into the way users work on their desktops. Information workers can easily access, modify, and create SharePoint documents, forms, lists, and metadata through familiar desktop interfaces with Colligo Contributor Pro. Contributor Client caches SharePoint sites, delivering instant access, online and offline, for mobile and remote workers. Contributor Add-In integrates Outlook with SharePoint for better email and document management. Users can easily drag-and-drop emails (including metadata and attachments) into document libraries, and immediately apply custom metadata. Colligo is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.

For a FREE trial of Colligo Contributor Pro, Client, or Add-In, visit http://www.colligo.com/products/sharepoint/index.asp.

Summit 7 Systems

Summit 7 Systems Summit 7 Systems is a global consulting and professional services organization that is focused on helping our clients achieve project success in many of the most difficult areas of IT. Summit 7 has a core competency in the Microsoft collaboration systems and Information Worker products including Office SharePoint Server 2007, Search Server 2008 and Office Communications Server 2007. We approach these technologies with a focus on the "7 Summits":

IT Governance and Taxonomy
Information Architecture
Enterprise and Systems Architecture
Systems Deployment
Systems Integration
Custom Development
User Acceptance