Industry Solutions

Microsoft Global High Tech Summit 2012 Sponsors

Through its essential partner ecosystem, Microsoft's High Tech & Electronics Group provides software solutions that help high tech manufacturers achieve success by taking advantage of their greatest assets-people-as a competitive differentiator. These software solutions empower a company's employees to innovate new and better products faster and cheaper, increase collaboration across the manufacturing value chain, improve sales, marketing, and customer service, and streamline plant-floor operations with visibility from the shop floor to the top floor.
 
Our Global High Tech Summit would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors.

Gold Sponsors

High-tech is at the heart of the next generation of smart and green products, which are key for sustainable innovation. All high-tech companies are facing global challenges such as mastering fast-evolving demand, product complexity, component regulatory compliancy, and collaboration among their supply chain.
Along with leading  companies, Dassault Systèmes, a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions has developed industry solutions to transform enterprise and governance as well as engineering, manufacturing and supply chain processes, bringing new value  and strategic differentiation. Our solutions dramatically improve collaboration among business networks, increase operational flexibility and adaptability, while reducing the total cost of ownership.
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For more than 25 years, Dell has played a critical role in transforming computing, enabling more affordable and more pervasive access to technology worldwide. Today, the computer industry is at a critical inflection point that will redefine the types of products and services customers demand from their technology providers, including greater mobility, virtualization, cloud computing and ubiquitous data capacity and access.
 
Dell is addressing this industry change, listening to customers and using that insight to create innovative technology solutions that help them succeed. At Dell, technology has always been about enabling human potential. The company is relentlessly focused on delivering technology that works harder for its customers and is more accessible to people and organizations around the world.
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM and ERP solutions empower your people to be more productive and your systems to last longer and scale as your business grows, while enabling you to derive the insights necessary to respond quickly in an ever-changing world of business.
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NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business breakthroughs. Our dedication to the principles of simplicity, innovation, and customer success has made us one of the fastest-growing storage and data management providers today. Customers around the world choose us for our “go beyond” approach and broad portfolio of solutions for server-to-storage virtualization, business applications, data protection, and more. Our solutions provide nonstop availability of critical business data and simplify business processes so companies can deploy new capabilities with confidence and get to revenue faster than ever before. Discover our passion for helping.
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Polycom is the global leader in standards-based unified communications (UC) solutions for telepresence, video, and voice, powered by the Polycom RealPresence platform. The RealPresence platform interoperates with the broadest range of business, mobile and social applications and devices. More than 400,000 organizations trust Polycom solutions to collaborate and meet face to face from any location for more productive and effective engagement with colleagues, partners, customers and prospects. Polycom, together with its broad partner ecosystem, provides customers with the best TCO, scalability, and security – on-premises, hosted or cloud delivered.
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PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC), The Product Development Company®, develops, markets and supports product development software solutions and related services that help companies achieve their product development strategies and optimize  their processes. Using the company’s tightly integrated CAD and enterprise PLM solutions, organizations are better able to create and manage product information throughout the lifecycle for optimal product development success.
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Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division, is a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services with 7 million licensed seats and more than 71,000 customers worldwide. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Siemens PLM Software works collaboratively with companies to deliver open solutions that help them turn more ideas into successful products. For more information on Siemens PLM Software products and services, visit www.siemens.com/plm.
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As the foundation to the cloud-ready information platform, Microsoft SQL Server 2012 help companies unlock breakthrough insights across the organization as well quickly build solutions and extend data from server to private or public cloud backed by advanced capabilities for mission critical confidence. 
 
  • Mission Critical Confidence - Enable mission critical performance and availability environments at low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
 
  • Breakthrough Insight - Unlock new insights with pervasive data discovery across the organization.
 
  • Cloud On Your Terms - Create and scale business solutions fast, on your terms from server to private or public cloud
 
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Silver Sponsors

Armanino Consulting is one of Microsoft's largest Dynamics ERP Partners in the United States for Microsoft Dynamics AX and Microsoft Dynamics GP. As a division of Armanino McKenna - a 'Top 40' largest CPA and Consulting Firm in the country - the firm has the expert, full-service consulting resources needed to meet all ERP business and IT related needs and the economy of scale to reliably deliver at competitive market rates. Armanino Consulting's core business is serving mid-market and enterprise clients with international operations in the High-Tech, Life Sciences and other industries. To make their client organizations successful, the firm offers complete people, process and technology solutions for each stage of a company's growth, role within the organization and point in the ERP solution life-cycle.
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Infosys provides technology-enabled solutions and services that help Global 2000 high-tech / electronics companies win in the flat world. These solutions enable clients to optimize customer experience, enhance manufacturing effectiveness & supply chain agility, accelerate product innovation, and leverage IT investments for business advantage. With Infosys, clients are assured of a trusted partner that delivers tangible business outcomes quickly and predictably by combining business and technology expertise on a pioneering global delivery model.
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K2 software is for automating business processes, creating forms, building SharePoint workflows, and integrating solutions into the Microsoft stack and other line-of-business systems.
K2 eliminates the complexity of traditional application development, and enables collaboration between technical and non-technical users. Everything is visual, everything is declarative and everything is reusable.
Applications can be set up to automate and manage business processes — such as document approval or inventory tracking — or pull together processes, people, services, information and systems into a single application that helps drive business. Then, what’s been built can be used like building blocks to assemble new applications.
K2 is a division of SourceCode Technology Holdings, Inc. based in Redmond, Washington, and has offices all over the world.
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Microsoft® Office 365 is familiar Office collaboration and productivity tools delivered through the cloud. Everyone can work together easily with anywhere access to email, web conferencing, documents, and calendars. It includes business-class security and is backed by Microsoft. Whether you are a small business or multinational enterprise, Office 365 offers plans designed to fit your organization's unique needs. www.microsoft.com/office365.
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Perficient is a leading information technology consulting firm serving Global 2000 and enterprise customers throughout North America. Perficient’s professionals serve clients from a network of locations in North America and three offshore locations, in Eastern Europe, India and China. Perficient helps clients use Internet-based technologies to improve productivity and competitiveness, strengthen relationships with customers, suppliers and partners and reduce information technology costs. Perficient, traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market(SM), is a member of the Russell 2000® index and the S&P SmallCap 600 index. Perficient is an award-winning Microsoft National Systems Integrator and Gold Certified Partner who has recently acquired fellow NSI partner, speakTECH.
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SADA Systems is a privately held information technology consulting, outsourcing and development firm founded in 2000. SADA has successfully leveraged Microsoft solutions to enterprises worldwide, distinguished through the long-term alignment of their business strategy with Microsoft’s vision of “leading with the cloud.” A Gold partner since 2003, SADA was one of the first Microsoft Online Services partners in the world, evolving into 1 of 9 Cloud Accelerate partners in the world. With over 5 years in cloud computing systems integration expertise, SADA is driven by a team of thought leaders deeply aware of the future of IT management and business productivity.
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SAP helps companies run better. Adapt to how your customers want to acquire, use and pay for solutions, monetize the cloud and align your corporate strategy with operational activities—from idea generation to volume sales. No matter the size of your business, you can collaborate
and execute with innovative solutions on mobile devices, in the cloud or on the desktop—SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable more
than 176,000 customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably.
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Webfortis, “The CRM Experts” specializes in accelerating the growth of High-Tech business by empowering Sales, Customer Service, and Management to maximize efficiencies and be the first to execute on opportunities. With the development and deployment of Customer Relationship Management, Distribution Channel Management, Opportunity Management, and Service Management solutions built around the best-in-class foundation of Microsoft’s Dynamics xRM platform, Webfortis helps High-Tech companies innovate their business processes as much as
those companies innovate in technology. Microsoft Dynamics is built upon the security, stability, and scalability of the Microsoft technology stack including Microsoft Server and Microsoft SQL. Better yet, out of the box Dynamics CRM is integrated with world class products such as Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Lync, and Dynamics ERP systems.
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Bronze Sponsors

With more than 115,000 people in 40 countries, Capgemini is one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services. The Group reported 2010 global revenues of EUR 8.7 billion (approximately USD $11.5 billion). Together with its clients, Capgemini creates and delivers business and technology solutions that fit their needs and drive the results they want. A deeply multicultural organization, Capgemini has developed its own way of working, the Collaborative Business ExperienceTM, and draws on Rightshore ®, its worldwide delivery model.
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Kronos helps organizations across a variety of industries manage their most valuable, and expensive, strategic asset — their workforce. How? By giving them the tools and services they need to help them control labor costs. Minimize compliance risk. And improve workforce productivity. The easy-to-own workforce management solutions and services from Kronos make complete automation and high-quality information a reality and deliver the experience our customers expect.
 
Our time and attendance, scheduling, absence management, HR and payroll, hiring, and labor analytics solutions, along with strategic services, give Kronos customers the edge they need to compete in the global marketplace. With thousands of installations in organizations of all sizes — including over half the Fortune 1000® — we’re proving workforce management doesn’t have to be so hard.
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At Microsoft, we work to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential.  Enterprise business solutions and software products such as Microsoft Project 2010 help individuals, team, and organizations prioritize investments, better manage resources, and gain control across all types of work, from simple tasks to complex projects and programs.
 
UMT is a thought leader in project and portfolio management consulting, software products and training. UMT consultants provide end-to-end premier implementation and adoption services. We drive results using proven methodologies, technical expertise, training delivery and integrated solutions. UMT offers best in class software products based on hundreds of successfully completed client engagements over the last 20 years.
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NewsGator, a Microsoft Gold Certified and Depth Managed Partner, helps three million paid users in industries across the globe propel productivity with NewsGator Social Sites. This robust enterprise social technology delivers  for flagship clients like Accenture, Adidas, Deloitte, Ericsson, General Mills, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Kraft Foods and Unisys Corporation. No other social software vendor rivals our deep integration with the entire Microsoft stack – reducing your total cost of ownership while increasing adoption, collaboration and innovation. And for all that, Microsoft named us their 2011 US Partner of the Year. We’re making SharePoint and Office365 social. Learn more at www.newsgator.com
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Plantronics is a global leader in audio communications for business and consumers. For 50 years we’ve pioneered innovations in audio technology, creating solutions that combine superior call clarity and noise reduction with uncompromising quality and service. From unified communications to Bluetooth headsets, Plantronics products allow you to simply communicate. 
 
Microsoft and Plantronics – Connecting People in New Ways
Microsoft® Lync™ 2010 ushers in a new connected experience transforming business communication. Microsoft customers turn to Plantronics for audio devices that connect, collaborate, and engage – anytime, anywhere.
                               
Plantronics -  www.plantronics.com
Plantronics Unified Communications -  www.plantronics.com/uc  
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Vision Solutions is a global leader in multi-platform solutions for data and application availability. Flexible and rapidly scalable, Vision’s Double-Take Availability™ powers your freedom to protect and manage data and applications on and across all your virtual, physical and cloud environments.
 
A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, our world-class technology and unmatched global support are trusted by thousands of companies. Visit us in the Expo, Follow us @VSIDTInfo, or check out VisionSolutions.com
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