2009 Chicago CIO Executive Summit
October 14, 2009 | Hyatt Regency ChicagoConference Sponsors
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IBM is the world's leading information technology company, with 80 years of experience helping businesses innovate and deliver increased value. IBM helps clients solve their most pressing issues by combining forward thinking, business insight, research and industry experience with the latest technologies. Discover how IBM works with CIOs to build smarter enterprises by offering a full portfolio of instrumented, interconnected and intelligent solutions.
Learn more at www.ibm.com/CIO
Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, business solutions, and outsourcing organisation that delivers real results to global businesses, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT and IT-enabled services delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery Model, recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development.
A part of the Tata Group, India's largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 140,000 of the world's best trained IT associates in 42 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $6 billion for fiscal year ended 31 March 2009 and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India.
Learn more at www.tcs.com
BlackBerry Enterprise Solution by Research In Motion
The BlackBerry Enterprise Solution(TM) provides a complete wireless connectivity platform for keeping mobile professionals connected to people and information. It provides users with wireless access to a full suite of productivity enhancing tools, including email, applications, Internet and intranet, phone, SMS and organizer features.
Learn more at www.blackberry.com
CSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services through three primary lines of business. These include Business Solutions & Services, Global Outsourcing Services and the North American Public Sector. CSC's advanced capabilities include systems design and integration, information technology and business process outsourcing, applications software development, Web and application hosting, mission support and management consulting. Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC has approximately 92,000 employees and reported revenue of $17.1 billion for the 12 months ended Jan. 2, 2009. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.csc.com.
Learn more at www.csc.com
Wipro Limited is the first PCMM Level 5 and SEI CMM Level 5 certified IT Services Company globally. Wipro provides comprehensive IT solutions and services, including systems integration, information systems outsourcing, package implementation, software application development and maintenance, and research and development services to corporations globally. In the Indian market, Wipro is a leader in providing IT solutions and services for the corporate segment in India offering system integration, network integration, software solutions and IT services. Wipro also has profitable presence in niche market segments of consumer products and lighting. In the Asia Pacific and Middle East markets, Wipro provides IT solutions and services for global corporations. Wipro's ADSs are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and its equity shares are listed in India on the Stock Exchange - Mumbai and the National Stock Exchange, among others.
Learn more at www.wipro.com
CA is one of the world's largest IT management software providers. Our software and expertise unify and simplify complex IT environments in a secure way across the enterprise for greater business results. We call this Enterprise IT Management (EITM) our clear vision for the future of IT. It's how you can manage systems, networks, security, storage, applications and databases securely and dynamically. You can build on your IT investments, rather than replacing them, and do so at your own pace.
Founded in 1976, CA today is a global company with headquarters in the United States and 150 offices in more than 45 countries. We serve more than 98% of Fortune 1000 companies, as well as government entities, educational institutions and thousands of other companies in diverse industries worldwide.
Learn more at www.ca.com
For more than 35 years, Compuware has worked with customers around the world to solve pressing business problems with powerful technology and talented people. By ensuring that IT works in harmony with the business, we deliver quantifiable economic value and measurable return on investment. Compuware is a recognized industry leader in enterprise software and IT services that help maximize the value of technology investments. We offer a powerful set of integrated solutions for enterprise IT focused on Business Service Delivery. Since 1973, and for every year since, we make IT rock around the world.
Learn more at www.compuware.com
Data Domain®, an EMC company and leading provider of deduplication storage systems, delivers the performance, reliability and scalability to address the backup, disaster recovery and archiving needs of enterprises of all sizes. Using Data Domain inline deduplication storage, thousands of companies worldwide have reaped the benefits of reduced storage costs and simplified data management. Data Domain products support all leading enterprise backup and archiving applications for seamless integration into existing IT infrastructures.
Learn more at www.datadomain.com
EMC Corporation is the world leader in products, services, and solutions for information storage and management that help organizations extract the maximum value from their information, at the lowest total cost, across every point in the information lifecycle.
Learn more at www.EMC.com
Google's Enterprise division brings Google technology and innovation to organizations. The Google Search Appliance and Google Mini provide search across websites and corporate networks. Google Apps provides a powerful messaging and collaboration suite of products, including email, calendar and employee collaboration. Google also offers enterprise versions of Google Maps and Google Earth.
Learn more at www.google.com/enterprise
With innovative technology solutions and services, Symantec helps individuals and enterprises protect and manage their digital assets. Symantec provides a wide range of solutions including enterprise and consumer security, data management, application and infrastructure management, security management, storage and service management, and response and managed security services.
Symantec is the world leader in providing solutions to help individuals and enterprises assure the security, availability, and integrity of their information. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has operations in more than 40 countries.
Learn more at www.symantec.com
VMware, an EMC company (NYSE: EMC), is the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems. Founded in 1998, the world’s largest companies use VMware solutions to simplify their IT, fully leverage their existing computing investments and respond faster to changing business demands. Our 4 million users and over 20,000 corporate customers depend on us for solutions to their server consolidation, business continuity, improved software development and testing, and desktop manageability and security needs.
Learn more at www.vmware.com
Information intensive companies rely on Acxiom to provide business-critical IT infrastructure services
Learn more at www.acxiom.com
Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information. For more than two decades, the company's award-winning software and technologies have set new standards for producing and delivering content that engages people virtually anywhere at anytime. From rich images in print, video, and film to dynamic digital content across multiple media, the impact of Adobe solutions is evident across industries and felt by anyone who creates, views, and interacts with information. With a reputation for excellence and a portfolio of many of the most respected software brands, Adobe is one of the world's largest and most diversified software companies.
Learn more at www.adobe.com
Akamai® provides market-leading managed services for powering video, dynamic transactions, and enterprise applications online. Having pioneered the content delivery market one decade ago, Akamai's services have been adopted by the world's most recognized brands across diverse industries. The alternative to centralized Web infrastructure, Akamai's global network of tens of thousands of distributed servers provides the scale, reliability, insight and performance for businesses to succeed online. Akamai has transformed the Internet into a more viable place to inform, entertain, advertise, interact, and collaborate. To experience The Akamai Difference, visit www.akamai.com.
Learn more at www.akamai.com
Business runs on IT. IT runs on BMC Software.
Business thrives when IT runs smarter, faster, and stronger. That's why the most demanding IT organizations in the world rely on BMC Software across both distributed and mainframe environments. Recognized as the leader in Business Service Management, BMC offers a comprehensive approach and unified platform that helps IT organizations cut cost, reduce risk, and drive business profit. For the four fiscal quarters ended March 31, 2009, BMC revenue was approximately $1.87 billion.
Learn more at www.bmc.com
Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate, and collaborate. Since 1984, Cisco has led in the innovation of IP-based networking technologies, including routing, switching, security, TelePresence systems, unified communications, video, and wireless. The company's responsible business practices help ensure accountability, business sustainability, and environmentally conscious operations and products. Learn more at www.cisco.com
Learn more at www.cisco.com
Deloitte Consulting LLP adds a new dimension to any SAP implementation, providing a 360-degree approach to maximize the value of your SAP investment. We view technology implementation through a broader lens, leveraging our multidisciplinary capabilities to produce solutions that help you achieve unmatched business value. We're in every major hub and our team is well positioned to help you anticipate the needs of your of your global suppliers and customers. Ask us how we can help transform your company in order to achieve stellar business performance by going beyond basic improvement to produce significant and sustainable change.
Learn more at www.deloitte.com
The Evanston Group is a boutique firm founded in 1999 to channel the best contingent business and IT leadership in the industry. Since then, we have become the go-to resource for Fortune 100 C-level Executives when a perfect fit is critical. From our pool of 30,000 seasoned "independents", we quickly deploy a close match to highly-specific needs across all industries: Enterprise Architects, Business Transformation Experts, Six Sigma Black Belts, Program and Project Managers, and other specialists.
Join forces with The Evanston Group:
- to better leverage your own people with a few targeted professionals
- to achieve knowledge transfer among your own people
- when you want an alternative to the big consulting houses at substantially lower costs.
Learn more at www.EvanstonGroup.com
HCL is a $5.2 Bn leading global IT services company with operations in 26 countries. HCL Technologies Infrastructure Service Division (HCL ISD) is the fastest growing line of business of HCL Technologies. An end to end owner of “Run the Business” part of an IT organization, we have a differentiated value proposition “Industrialized IT Management” and focus on ‘transformational outsourcing’. Our Service offering includes- end-user computing, datacenter & Mainframe services, integrated application operations, IT Service Assurance & Cross Functional services, Information Security Services & Network Services. We have 20 Global delivery centers with 9 near shore centers outside India and 11 centers across India.
Learn more at www.hclisd.com
iGATE (NASDAQ: IGTE) is a global IT and BPO services company registered in Pittsburgh and headquartered in Fremont, California. iGate is the first Œintegrated technology and operations‚ (iTOPS) company with a matured global delivery model. iGATE enables companies to optimize their business through a combination of process investment strategies, technology leverage and business process outsourcing and provisioning. Our unique business model aligns with our Customers Strategic Objectives to achieve operational efficiencies, increase cost variability and rationalize their current operating environment. iGATE has over 6500 employees and 8 development centers in Australia, India, Japan, Malaysia and Mexico and offices in 12 countries and 4 continents.
Learn more at www.igate.com
Information Builders, Inc. – the standard for enterprise business intelligence (BI) – provides a unique blend of BI and enterprise integration solutions to help customers build the real-time enterprise. WebFOCUS, our flagship product, enables customers to deliver high value applications that drive better decision by everyone inside an organization and beyond. WebFOCUS allows companies to economically deploy BI on a large scale, while reducing total cost of ownership and eliminating redundant BI tools.
Information builders subsidiary, iWay Software –: the worldwide leader in adapter technology – enables companies to accelerate business integration by providing a foundation for business agility with a low cost of entry.
Learn more at www.informationbuilders.com
At Keane, we focus on innovation to improve results and costs for our clients. Keane partners with businesses and government agencies to optimize IT investments by delivering exceptional evolution, operation, and maintenance of mission-critical systems and business processes. A US company with a large offshore capability, Keane combines local knowledge and local senior leadership with scalable global delivery that results in low-risk, actionable, cost-effective services and solutions – and a partnership that feels like an extension of your organization.
In business since 1965, Keane is an agile, full-service IT services firm headquartered in the United States with approximately 12,000 employees globally.
Learn more at www.keane.com
Consulting Professionals, not Professional Consultants
The Northridge Group, Inc. (Northridge) is a telecommunications consulting firm that helps companies optimize their use of complex and emerging technologies, strategically reduce costs, and dramatically improve customer service and productivity. Our projects span voice, data and mobile communications. With access to a nationwide talent pool, our work with federal and state agencies, Fortune 1000 companies and all the major telecom service providers enables us to understand the challenges from both a provider and a user's perspective. We are not afraid to roll up our sleeves and work through the complex issues that face today's business managers.
Our experts, all seasoned business professionals, have managed teams, lived within the constraints of declining budgets and diminishing resourcesand use those experiences to deliver practical solutions and measurable results to our clients. The Northridge Group, located in Rosemont, IL, is 100% women owned and operated. We are certified by WBE and hold GSA schedules.
Learn more at www.northridgegroup.com
PricewaterhouseCoopers provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services to build public trust and enhance value for its clients and their stakeholders. More than 130,000 people in 148 countries work collaboratively using connected thinking to develop fresh perspectives and practical advice.
Learn more at www.pwc.com
Qwest offers a unique and powerful combination of managed voice and data solutions for businesses, government agencies and consumers locally and throughout the country. Customers coast to coast are turning to Qwest’s industry-leading national fiber optic network and its Spirit of Service for quality products and superior customer experience. Qwest is a participant in Networx, the largest communications services contract in the world, to provide leading-edge voice, data and video services.
Learn more at www.qwest.com
Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). The company's portfolio of SaaS applications, including its award-winning CRM application, available at http://www.salesforce.com/products/, has revolutionized the ways that customers manage and share business information over the Internet. The company's Force.com PaaS enables customers, developers and partners to build powerful on-demand applications that deliver the benefits of multi-tenancy across the enterprise.
Learn more at www.salesforce.com
Serena, the application development company, is a privately owned company, headquartered in Redwood City, California, with 29 offices in 14 countries and more than 800 employees. Serena provides software on premise and on demand to over 15,000 customers including 96 of the Fortune 100. Serena enables teams of programmers to become more efficient by standardizing and automating development processes across both mainframe and distributed environments. Serena enables IT business analysts and power users to improve productivity with a new generation of Web 2.0 tools to build Business Mashups. Serena Business Mashups can be used to automate common, everyday processes; they are visual and do not require coding. Serena also enables IT executives to gain visibility into their projects, resources and costs CIOs should have access to the same quality of information about IT as the CFO has about Finance.
Learn more at www.serena.com
SNtial Technologies, Inc. provides IT consulting services to a variety of enterprises. From early needs assessments through stable production deployment and support, SNtial provides expertise across the entire life-cycle of an IT project. ERP/CRM Systems, Administrative Systems, and DW/BI Solutions are at the core of SNtial's experience and competence. SNtial enables organizations to achieve their mission through the innovative application of technology.
Services Offered Include:
- Technical Assessments
- IT Strategy
- ERP/CRM Implementation, Conversion, Integration
- DW/ BI Solutions
- Collaborative Document & Content Management Solutions
- Web Sites and portals
- Hosting and SaaS (software as a service)
Learn more at www.sntialtech.com
Software AG is the world's largest independent provider of Business Infrastructure Software. Our 4,000 global enterprise customers achieve business results faster by modernizing, integrating and automating their IT systems and processes. As a result, they rapidly build measurable business value and meet changing business demands. Based on our solutions, organizations are able to liberate and govern their data, systems, applications, processes and services - achieving new levels of business flexibility.
Our leading product portfolio includes solutions for high performance data management, developing and modernizing applications, enabling service-oriented architecture, and improving business processes. By combining our technology with industry expertise and best practices experience, our customers improve and differentiate their businesses - faster.
Software AG - Get There FasterLearn more at www.softwareag.com
Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive portfolio of wireless and wireline communications services to meet the needs of business and government customers. Some of Sprint Nextel's services include:
- Specialized Custom Network Solutions that enhance wireless coverage within office buildings and across campuses
- A complete suite of wireless business solutions: supply chain and delivery management, business continuity offerings, domestic and international push-to-talk services, wireless barcode-scanning solutions, wireless payment solutions and location-based GPS services
- High-speed Mobile broadband (EVDO) solutions for laptops and PDAs
- Hosted IP telephony offerings providing local and long distance services, with PBX & Centrex features all over an IP connection
Learn more at www.sprint.com
UST GlobalSM (UST) is a leading provider of IT services for Global 2000 enterprises. UST is known for its commitment beyond contract and offers a client-centric Global Engagement Model that provides the optimal mix of senior local resources with the cost, scale and quality advantages of offshore operations for each client. Headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California, UST is certified globally as CMMI® Level 5, P-CMM® Level 5, and ISO 27001. For more information visit: www.ust-global.com.
Learn more at www.ust-global.com
Verizon Business is a global solutions provider that enables enterprises to transform their business models and exploit the power of next-generation technology. Demand is increasing for advanced IP, data, voice, and wireless services - we can meet these communications needs and more, with solutions ranging from application acceleration, business continuity, and collaboration services to security, VoIP migration, and wired to wireless networking. We have the capabilities to meet the increasing demand for seamless, secure, and robust IP mobility. Our global network is the foundation for deploying our solutions and spans more than 485,000 route miles in 150 countries on six continents.
Learn more at www.verizonbusiness.com
