Media & Research Partners

AberdeenGroup is the leading provider of fact-based research focused on the global technology-driven value chain. Founded in 1988, Aberdeen has established the market leading position as the “voice that matters” when it comes to understanding the measurable results being delivered by technology in business.

www.aberdeen.com

Burton Group provides in-depth, IT research and advisory services to executives and technologists at Global 2000 organizations. Focused on strategic business technologies and the unique needs of enterprise organizations, Burton Group provides clients company-wide access to its world-renowned analysts and a suite of powerful, intuitive research and decision support tools unmatched in the industry.

www.burtongroup.com

The Black Hat Briefings are a series of highly technical information security conferences that bring together thought leaders from all facets of the infosec world – from the corporate and government sectors to academic and even underground researchers. The environment is strictly vendor-neutral and focused on the sharing of practical insights and timely, actionable knowledge. Black Hat remains the best and biggest event of its kind, unique in its ability to define tomorrow’s information security landscape.

www.blackhat.com

The Cloud Computing World Forum is the perfect event for professionals to learn and discuss the future development and integration of cloud services.

This one day conference will provide a focused platform for the global cloud computing industry.

The Cloud Computing World Forum is the place to meet all the key decision makers from all of the cloud service providers in one place. The conference will address the current state of the cloud computing market, the business value of the cloud, deployment strategies and integration techniques, security and privacy issues and will take a look into what the future holds from cloud service providers.

The event will provide great networking opportunities with industry leaders, presenting you with the opportunity to meet and do business with likeminded individuals with an interest in cloud computing.

www.cloudwf.com/

Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) is the leading independent industry analyst and consulting firm dedicated to the IT Management market. For more than 10 years, we have been providing our clients with objective and comprehensive insight into the real-world business value of key IT Management technologies.

www.emausa.com

Experton Group is the leading fully integrated research, advisory and consulting company for mid-sized and large organizations, maximizing the business value of their ICT investments through innovative, neutral and independent expert advice.

Experton Group offers consulting services, market surveys, conferences, seminars and publications related to information and communications technology issues.

Our consulting portfolio includes technology, business processes, management and business co operations, investments and mergers.

Experton Group’s founders have many years of consulting and research experience.

www.experton-group.com

Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Consulting Company, partners with clients to accelerate their growth. The company's Growth Partnership Services, Growth Consulting and Career Best Practices empower clients to create a growth focused culture that generates, evaluates and implements effective growth strategies. Frost & Sullivan employs over 45 years of experience in partnering with Global 1000 companies, emerging businesses and the investment community from more than 30 offices on six continents.

www.frost.com

Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, 3-7 November, Cannes

Symposium/ITxpo designed for IT and business leaders will address the key trends and challenges that organizations are facing in the current economic climate. With hot topics such as cloud computing, cost optimization, virtualization, green IT etc, this ITxpo is too important to miss.

www.gartner.com/it/sym/2008/esc20/esc20.jsp

Join thousands of business and technology leaders at Interop New York and gain comprehensive insight into the latest IT innovations. Attend 150+ sessions, visit 250+ leading exhibitors, network with peers and learn how to build an IT strategy that improves business agility. Register today for Interop New York, September 15-19, 2008.

www.interop.com/newyork/

IRM UK are specialists in strategic IT training for IT & business professionals and managers. Our carefully selected presenters have superior technical knowledge, teaching skills and a wide range of practical business experience. They are some of the most influential technologists, methodologists and original thinkers in IT today. Noted for the participation of top level decision makers from both the corporate, user and vendor communities, and the lucid analysis of critical strategic and management issues, our events are condensed and rigorous combining technical explanations with management advice and discussions of future directions.

www.irmuk.co.uk

Kuppinger Cole + Partner (KCP), founded in 2004, has become the leading Europe-based analyst company for all topics around Identity Management and Digital Identities. KCP stands for expertise, thought leadership, and a vendor-neutral view on the broader “identity market”, including aspects like classical Identity and Access Management (IaM), Information Rights Management (IRM), Identity Risk Management, Digital Certificates, Cards and Tokens, Single Sign-On, Auditing, Federation, User Centric Identity Management and Identity 2.0, and many more.

www.kuppingercole.com

Macehiter Ward-Dutton is a specialist IT advisory firm which combines industry research and analysis with tailored consulting services, and is focused exclusively on issues surrounding IT-business alignment.

The company was formed in February 2005 by two high profile UK-based technology industry analysts: Neil Ward-Dutton and Neil Macehiter.

We provide advice to IT suppliers and enterprise IT organisations concerning IT-business alignment. Whether organisations talk about "On Demand", "Adaptive Enterprise", "Business Technology Optimization", "The Real-Time Enterprise", or an "Enterprise Nervous System", the reality is that they’re talking about aligning IT investment, service delivery, organisation and strategy with business priorities.

www.mwdadvisors.com

NASSCOM© is the premier trade body and the chamber of commerce of the IT-BPO industry in India. NASSCOM is a global trade body with more than 1200 members, of which over 250 are global companies from across US, UK, EU and A-Pac. NASSCOM's member and associate member companies are broadly in the business of Services, Products, IT Infrastructure Management, R&D services, E-commerce & web services, Engineering services offshoring and Animation and gaming. NASSCOM’s membership base constitutes over 95% of the industry revenues in India and employs over 2 million professionals.

www.nasscom.in

Founded in 1998, NelsonHall is the industry's leading BPO analyst firm. Our disciplined evidence-based methodology facilitates accurate decision-making through timely access to current and objective BPO marketplace information.

We work closely with our clients to create a value based relationship based on our unrivalled BPO knowledge to act as a trusted advisor, providing answers and making business sense of the complexity and challenges faced by both service buyers and service providers within the global outsourcing market.

www.nelson-hall.com

Nemertes Research is a research-advisory firm that specializes in analyzing and quantifying the business value of emerging technologies.

We help clients optimize their IT investments by providing objective, real-world insight. We work closely with more that 2,500 IT professionals with whom our team has close, long-term relationships and who provide us with ongoing insight into the drivers behind their technology purchasing decisions. These individuals represent technology leaders in US and European organizations. They oversee budgets ranging from $100,000 to more than $1 billion and represent several industries, including financial services, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, insurance, entertainment, government, education, retail, and nonprofits.

www.nemertes.com

Opus One© is a consulting and information technology firm based in Tucson, Arizona, founded in 1989. Opus One's corporate goal is to help our clients make the best use of information technology. We focus on efficient and effective solutions to problems of all sizes. Our specialities are in networking, electronic mail, and security.

The core of Opus One's work is consulting. We can bring a professional and efficient team to bear on immediate problems, help develop long term strategies, and offer our decades of experience to put networking, information technologies, and the Internet to work for you

www.opus1.com

Quocirca is a leading primary research and analysis company with native language research capabilities across the whole of Europe, along with North America and the Asia Pacific region. Through its hard fought for independence, Quocirca is not beholden to any one vendor. Therefore, its advice is free from vendor bias and is based purely on the analysis of the primary research it carries out, combined with the broad knowledge and analytical capabilities of its highly experienced team of analysts.

Quocirca's primary aim is to provide market insight and knowledge to technology vendors and service providers, enabling them to more effectively develop, market and sell products to businesses of all sizes across multiple geographies. To do this, Quocirca applies the knowledge of its analysts to look at the "bigger picture" - putting the technology into context against the business needs of target audiences - by geography, by vertical and by size of business. Our research is not purely script driven - we pick up on the ad-hoc comments from respondents, ensuring that we report on the real perceptions, not just what is asked for in the survey itself.

Quocirca is widely regarded as one of the most influential analyst companies in the world. Through its close relationships with the media, Quocirca articles reach millions of influencers and decision makers across the globe. Our reports are made available through multiple outlets, and further visibility is gained through making Quocirca's output available to VNU's, RBI's, CNET's and The Register's readers wherever possible.

www.quocirca.com

SCCE exists to champion ethical practice and compliance standards in all organizations and to provide the necessary resources for compliance professionals and others who share these principles.

The Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics (SCCE) is dedicated to improving the quality of corporate governance, compliance and ethics. SCCE’s roles include:

• Facilitating the development and maintenance of compliance programs;
• Providing a forum for understanding the complicated compliance environment; and
• Offering tools, resources and educational opportunities for those involved with compliance.

www.corporatecompliance.org

Web 2.0 Expo New York takes the pulse of the Web ecosystem and looks to its future, training a spotlight across the Web 2.0 landscape to show how the Internet revolution is being created and delivered. It showcases the latest Web 2.0 business models, development paradigms and design strategies for designers, developers, entrepreneurs, VCs, marketers, product managers and business strategists, from start-ups to enterprises. Join your colleagues find out how you can tap the power of Web 2.0.
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Carolyn Leighton founded WITI in 1989 to help women advance by providing access to - and support from - other professional women working in all sectors of technology. (Read the story or watch the video.) Today, WITI is the premiere global organization empowering women in business and technology to achieve unimagined possibilities.

With a global network of smart, talented women and a market reach exceeding 2 million, WITI has powerful programs and partnerships that provide connections, resources, opportunities and a supportive environment of women committed to helping each other. Along with its professional association of Networks throughout the U.S. and worldwide, including Hong Kong, Great Britain, Australia, and Mexico, WITI delivers value for individuals that work for a company, the government or academia, as well as small business owners.

WITI products and services include: Networking, WITI Marketplace, Career Services/Search, National Conferences and Regional Events, Publications and Resources, Small Business Programs, Research, Bulletin Boards and more.

www.witi.com