Sponsors

Premier Sponsor

Quest Software delivers innovative products that help you get more performance and productivity from your applications, databases and Windows infrastructure. Through a deep expertise in IT operations and a continued focus on what works best, Quest helps its more than 50,000 customers worldwide meet higher expectations for enterprise IT. Quest is an industry leader in SharePoint technology, offering tools to develop, manage, migrate 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.

Platinum Sponsors

K2 enhances and extends SharePoint capabilities by allowing users to quickly assemble process-based applications — dynamic business applications — that can span documents, tasks, lists, sites, farms and organizations. All of this can be done without leaving the SharePoint environment and without code. Use K2 to manage SharePoint content and tasks: documents and files, list items, metadata, records and holds, permissions, and sites. Use it to route items to users and groups. Use it to create supporting forms and reports. K2 also provides Visio and Visual Studio application-design environments, fostering collaboration and allowing types of users to work in comfortable environments.

Mindsharp

Mindsharp is a global educational and consulting company that shows companies 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, and designers. Mindsharp’s team of nationally recognized Microsoft experts teaches clients to increase productivity using secure and scalable collaboration, communication, and messaging services. Mindsharp’s robust portfolio of educational and consulting services also includes Design and Planning Summits, Public Summits, and Private Summits. Mindsharp is proud to be a Platinum Sponsor of the Microsoft Office SharePoint Conference 2008.

Gold Sponsors

Ascentn AgilePoint BPMS

Ascentn AgilePoint BPMS provides process agility for business and IT to respond to change in real-time using familiar and economical Microsoft tools. AgilePoint’s allows easy composition in Visio utilizing any enterprise asset as a drag and drop business service. These dynamic processes can be changed in real-time from any business application and under IT governance. AgilePoint’s practical, yet advanced solution, simplifies automating the real world of business exceptions, unstructured practices, and ad-hoc procedures with reusable and adaptable people-driven processes. Gartner stated that Ascentn’s approach to rapid, incremental, process agility is needed “…to fully experience the value proposition of service-oriented architecture”.

Bamboo Solutions

Since 2005, Bamboo Solutions’ online store has enabled thousands of users worldwide to enhance and extend their Microsoft SharePoint portal solutions with innovative products that minimize development time, resources and cost. Developers, integrators, solution providers and end users from small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, and the US Government, are benefiting from the ability to trial, test and deploy user-driven productivity solutions for SharePoint using Bamboo Web Parts. Browse our online store for components to enhance collaboration, portal administration, project management, content management and business intelligence. For more information and free trial downloads, visit www.bamboosolutions.com.

Blue Coat

Blue Coat (NASDAQ: BCSI), Sunnyvale, CA, provides intelligent appliances and software solutions that secure and accelerate application delivery to all users connected over private WANs or the public Internet. These integrated solutions accelerate the performance of internally- or externally-hosted business application up to 100X, while securing individual users at all remote offices and end points. Blue Coat also provides granular policy-based controls, thus helping to restore IT control of all distributed users – even those with unmanaged endpoint devices. More than 5,000 organizations have deployed Blue Coat solutions in their data centers, branch offices, Internet gateways, and individual endpoints worldwide.

EMC

EMC Corporation (Documentum) is an industry leader in providing Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and archiving solutions, delivering them to thousands of organizations around the world. EMC delivers enterprise-wide content management software, implementation, and support services with a Microsoft-focused strategy. EMC is the one partner that delivers solutions that enhance the Microsoft suite with EMC information management and storage technologies. By working together, EMC and Microsoft enable their customers to benefit from the best of both SharePoint and Documentum – integrating ECM, document and image capture, archiving, and records management capabilities, with the control needed to ensure good governance.

Fujitsu

Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Fujitsu Computer Systems is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited committed to the design, development and delivery of advanced computer systems, application infrastructure software products, and managed services for the business enterprise. Through its TRIOLE(R) strategy, the company offers a complete line of scalable and reliable servers, storage and middleware solutions, high-performance mobile and client computers, as well as professional services. Fujitsu Computer Systems has established itself as a strategic solutions provider to the world's leading organizations by offering technology innovation, customer choice, exceptional product quality and reliability, as well as outstanding customer service.

Hitachi Data Systems

Hitachi Data Systems develops and delivers Services Oriented Storage Solutions, including virtualized tiered storage, to maximize each customer’s return on investment and minimize risk. These solutions align IT with business objectives, overcoming such challenges as business continuity, disaster recovery, data lifecycle management, and storage consolidation. Solution components include a full range of storage platforms, tailored to meet the needs and budgets of organizations of all sizes that include the Universal Storage Platform family, Adaptable or Workgroup Modular Storage models and Simple Modular Storage, all complemented by Hitachi Storage Management software. Global Solution Services combines it all with consulting and implementation services. Profile - www.hds.com

NSE

NSE provides organizations using SharePoint with products that enhance and simplify the management, administration and data integration capabilities of their SharePoint environments. Solutions include eSENSE Bridge to centrally manage, monitor and protect an organization’s entire SharePoint infrastructure; and eSENSE Visualizers to easily display and update information from multiple line of business systems within SharePoint.

Open Text

Open Text, an enterprise software company and leader in enterprise content management, helps organizations manage and gain the true value of their business content. Open Text brings two decades of expertise supporting 46,000 customers and millions of users in 114 countries. Working with our customers and partners, we bring together leading Content Experts™ to help organizations capture and preserve corporate memory, increase brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness. With Open Text Content Services for Microsoft SharePoint, companies can capture content created in SharePoint and manage it in accordance with regulations and business requirements.

Titanium Sponsor

CorasWorks

CorasWorks is the leading provider of software for developing collaborative solutions on Microsoft SharePoint. Our customers typically use our products to build web-based solutions such as portals, intranets, extranets, dashboards, and other business applications. We provide a comprehensive framework on top of SharePoint. It makes it fast and easy to build solutions without custom programming. And you can connect your solutions to back-end data and to enterprise applications. SharePoint solutions built with CorasWorks are more flexible and more maintainable, and allow you to easily adapt to changing business needs. CorasWorks is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with more than 750,000 users across 23 countries.

Technology Partner

HP (http://www.hp.com/solutions/microsoft/sharepoint) is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company’s offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing. HP along with our strategic partners offer a broad, rich portfolio (servers, storage, software and services) based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Welcome Reception Sponsor

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. www.syntergy.com

Keynote Sponsor

Workshare

Workshare, an information security company and the winner of Microsoft's 2007 ISV/Solutions Partner of the Year award, delivers Secure Content Compliance solutions ensuring safe information exchange without business disruption. Workshare’s software is used by over 6,000 organizations in 65 countries, including 62% of the F1000. Workshare’s solutions feature: *Safe, compliant and efficient Document Lifecycle Management for 2007 Office system and Windows Vista *Complete Information Leak Prevention with policy-enforced discovery and filtering, on-demand and policy-driven PDF conversion, and more *Integrated with 2007 Microsoft Office Ribbon and Panel for a seamless experience *Extensive support for MOSS 2007; SharePoint Extranets, Workspaces, ECM system

Media Sponsor

Sogeti

Sogeti is a premier provider of information technology services to businesses and public-sector organizations worldwide. With 35+ years of experience, Sogeti offers a comprehensive portfolio of services including: Microsoft Solutions, Application Management, Business Intelligence, IBM Solutions, Project Delivery Services and Software Control Testing. Sogeti is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Capgemini, Sogeti employs approximately 18,000 people in the U.S. and throughout Europe. Sogeti specializes in implementing Microsoft-based technology solutions that improve business processes and performance including: .NET Application Transformation, Information Management, Collaboration & Productivity, Infrastructure Transformation, Enterprise Project Management, and Enterprise Business Solutions; For more information, visit www.sogeti.com.

Ask the Experts/Game Night Sponsor

SharePoint Experts

SharePoint Experts, the group behind the popular community sites SharePoint University and SharePoint Blogs, offers SharePoint training both on-site and in the form of public events known as SharePoint Bootcamps. These classes, a unique blend of real-world content and entertaining presenters, are highly acclaimed by former students, and high sought after by new ones. More information can be found at our training destination site, www.sharepointbootcamp.com.

Bean Bag Sponsor

NetConnect

NetConnect offers online solutions for communicating and working together. The demands for communications are persistently evolving and requiring more unified options. Being a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner, NetConnect focuses on building collaborative solutions to meet those requirements. NetConnect Team Portal is a completely new way to host a SharePoint site and applications. The solution is a natural add-on for any Microsoft Office user, and has a ready-to-deploy repository of workspace and project templates. NetConnect Team Portal aims to become the most popular marketplace for SharePoint applications through a flexible partner model. Current partners include Microsoft, Brightwork and Premiere Global Services.

Beverage Sponsor

Nintex

Nintex is a global provider of innovative software products for Microsoft SharePoint. Nintex products are developed by leveraging our experience providing products to hundreds of customers around the world. Nintex builds software that bridges the gap between what can currently be bought from Microsoft, and specific features frequently requested by customers. By working very closely with Microsoft’s strategic and architectural direction, Nintex is able to ensure that our products are closely aligned with Microsoft, and that what we build is able to add value into the future. Nintex’s product suite includes Nintex Workflow 2007, Nintex Podcast Server 2007 and SmartLibrary.

Evening Event Sponsor

Handshake Software

Handshake Software, Inc., the global leader for Toolkit-based integration of line-of-business applications (LOB) for Microsoft® SharePoint® and Office® 2007, speeds dynamic integration and secure delivery of LOB information. The Single Effort – Infinite Benefit approach leverages related information from multiple databases including SQL Server, Oracle, Informix and DB2 across SharePoint, Office, Search, BDC, SQL Reporting Services and Excel Services. The Handshake Relationship Toolkit and GUI Content Designer enable non-programmers to quickly integrate LOB information and easily create Web Parts and Office Task panes. Handshake’s DM Director extension to SharePoint Document Management ‘fills the gaps’ creating a competitive offering to leading DM products.

Post Event DVD Sponsor

echoTechnology

echoTechnology was founded by and for SharePoint professionals, providing specialized tools for the management and migration of WSS and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2003 and 2007. echo for SharePoint is the flagship product of echoTechnology. It offers unique abilities to automate change management and to provide granular control of design changes and updates throughout the portal lifecycle. This allows organizations to maximize user adoption and fulfill their portal vision with a significant savings in time and money, ultimately, enhancing productivity over an increasingly outmoded and significantly more costly manual process.