Premier Sponsors

Microsoft Press

MS 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.

Solid Quality Mentors

Solid Q Solid Quality Mentors is a trusted, global provider of advanced information technology (IT) education and solutions for Microsoft's data and development platforms. Our Mentors are elite professionals who combine advanced real-world IT expertise with the communication skills and long-term commitment needed to transfer that knowledge to others while assuring client success using integrated Microsoft technologies. Solid Quality Mentors is located around the world and includes more than 40 winners of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award and five Mentors recognized as Microsoft Regional Directors. With our international scope, we can deliver training and mentoring services in more than 15 languages.

Platinum Sponsors

Black Blade Associates

Black Blade Associates, Inc. is an information technology product and services company with offices located in Northern Virginia and Boston, MA. Our mission is to prove that there is a better way to provide business capabilities to customers than the solutions currently available.
Our products bring solutions to your organization at unprecedented speeds with minimal overhead and operational impact, the combination of which provides a massive cost savings. Our services division provides strategic consultants and subject-matter experts that can cut through the hype of technology and help you identify and solve your business pains.

Our customers include commercial companies, government contractors, civilian and military government agencies, and non-profit organizations. For more information, please visit us on the web at www.blackbladeinc.com. You can contact us at info@blackbladeinc.com.

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.

Gold Sponsors

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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. Recently awarded "Best of TechEd" for Productivity and Collaboration, ControlPoint, gives you the ability to 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."

Fpweb.net

Click to go to fpweb.net! Fpweb.net is the SharePoint® Hosting Pioneer^TM with a decade of experience and 1,000,000 users. What sets Fpweb.net apart? They know SharePoint - and they don't just support the hardware, they support the application. Increase profitability with their custom MOSS server farms at 60% less cost than on-premise builds. Go to market faster with Fpweb.net rapid deployment of SharePoint, Exchange and Project Server. Get back to business and forget about the complexities of MOSS with their SharePoint Lifecycle Management. Fpweb.net has earned the trust of US Air Force, NY Yankees and Dow Chemical.

KWizCom

KWizCom Corporation, a Gold Certified Microsoft Partner, is a global company, headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
KWizCom provides innovative solutions for SharePoint and Dynamics CRM to maximize their capabilities, adding new benefits and enhanced usability for both tools. KWizCom experts answer customer needs every step of the way - from analysis to implementation, including ongoing technical support. All KWizCom components are multilingual, making KWizCom solutions uniquely suitable for clients around the world. KWizCom components comply with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines meaning that people with disabilities can utilize the full potential of KWizCom components. KWizCom provides solutions of the highest quality while, at the same time, ensuring that they are cost effective and thus accessible to all.

For more information on KWizCom solutions, becoming a KWizCom Partner or utilizing the KWizCom Shared Cost Development Model please visit: www.kwizcom.com.

Summit 7 Systems

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.

Exhibitors

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.

Corasworks

With more than 1,000 customers and more than 1 million users worldwide, CorasWorks is a leading provider of modular application development software for Microsoft SharePoint. Customers use CorasWorks products to build web-based solutions such as project- and process-oriented solutions and line of business applications. Its modular architecture makes it easy to design, build, and manage an integrated workplace of collaborative business applications, without the time and expense of custom development. CorasWorks is a Microsoft Gold-certified ISV Partner.

KnowledgeLake

KnowledgeLake, Inc. is the leader in the development of document imaging, document capture, and workflow products and solutions for Microsoft SharePoint. The KnowledgeLake suite of products extend SharePoint into a comprehensive Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution that enables businesses to reduce shipping costs, streamline operations, and achieve regulatory compliance using familiar Microsoft products that most businesses already own and use. These products provide a low cost, low risk, easy to implement alternative to legacy ECM solutions and enable a quick return on investment. The services organization at KnowledgeLake specializes in the design of highly scalable SharePoint ECM architecture along with the audited migration of many legacy ECM systems. KnowledgeLake products and solutions are deployed globally in thousands of organizations in many different horizontal and vertical industry sectors including public sector, healthcare, financial services, transportation, government and more.

Lightning Tools

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.

Mobile Entrée

Mobile Entrée is the first and only integrated SharePoint framework for mobile applications. Designed to work across all major SmartPhone platforms (currently Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, iPhone and Palm Pre), Mobile Entrée significantly enhances the value of SharePoint and solves the complexities of mobile application development. A software framework which easily embeds as a native SharePoint plug-in, Mobile Entrée employs web-based access and eliminates the need for any device software or custom middleware.

Nintex

Nintex is a leading global innovator of software products that extend Microsoft technology, with over 1000 customers in 60 countries, including 40 Fortune 500 companies. The company focuses on building software that bridges the gap between that which 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.

Nintex has brought to the global marketplace a number of products focused on helping customers add value and build solutions on Microsoft SharePoint technologies including Nintex Workflow 2007, Nintex Reporting 2008, Nintex Podcast Server 2008 and Nintex SmartLibrary. For more information visit www.nintex.com.

Syntergy

Syntergy is a leading provider of products that extend Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. Our tools for replication, content migration, email integration and compliance management add value to our customers' business critical deployments by reducing bandwidth infrastructure costs, enhancing employee productivity and improving branch office performance globally.

This comprehensive suite of products helps our customers' augment return on their investment in Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. Syntergy is Microsoft Gold Certified. For more information, visit www.syntergy.com.