5 fifteen provides consulting services and software products designed for newspaper and magazine publishers' advertising, circulation, and new media applications.5Fifteen's solution ad DEPOT extends sales and marketing functionality into Microsoft's Dynamics, offering a full multi-media booking enginge for all advertising types. 5 fifteen works with more than 100 publishing operations worldwide, including IPC Media, Elsevier-Science, Reed Business Information and Macmillan Publishing.

ADAM Software is a Digital Asset Management company that provides clients the ability to manage, structure and deliver media between people, processes and systems. Its solution helps you manage those processes from creation to distribution. It streamlines your asset’s lifecycle by letting you store, find and publish all types of assets: pictures, video, sounds, documents, presentations, page layouts, etc.

Agnostic Media, Inc., is a software platform technology company with a wide range of SOA-based products for enterprise, on-demand/utility, and distributed computing environments. Agnostic offers an integrated, comprehensive, and cohesive platform for managing digital media production.

Anystream is an Internet software company that specializes in streaming media encoding technology. The company designs scalable software that automated the laborious process of encoding and transcoding media for demanding broadcast and production environments. Anystream's Agility software has become a standard for streaming media encoding and broadcast transcoding for such media companies as BskyB, CNet, CNN, AOL, ESPN, Fox News, FoxSports.com, NFL Films, weather.com and others. In 2004, Anystream was recognized as the industry's largest software-based encoder by market research firm Frost & Sullivan, which gave the company its 2004 Market Leadership Award.

The Associated Press the world's oldest and largest newsgathering organization, providing text, audio, news photos, graphics, video and technology to more than 15,000 news outlets worldwide. More than 3,300 television stations, radio stations and networks in more than 50 countries use its broadcast news software and systems, including ENPS, AP NewsCenter and AP NewsDesk. AP's broadcast division is based in Washington, D.C.

At Argo, we provide business solutions that match the way you do business. Built upon a comprehensive knowledge of the cable industry, our software helps you successfully manage the flow of critical sales, billing, and A/R information.

Artesia brings a depth of experience and a history as the preeminent provider of digital asset management solutions serving many of the world's largest and most notable companies including HBO, 20th Century Fox, DreamWorks, Whirlpool, and U.S. News & World Report.

Aspera, Inc. develops breakthrough software transfer technologies to achieve optimal performance and cost savings using existing Internet (IP) networks. The Aspera products are a suite of simple, cross-platform software applications providing the fastest possible, secure transfer of file and directory data independent of network conditions, guaranteed delivery times, and extraordinary bandwidth control.

Atex Media Command is a global software and solutions partner for the media industry. The company specializes in the strategic development, deployment, and management of advertising, editorial, circulation, and business intelligence systems. Their value-added solutions help customers increase revenue, lower costs, and improve productivity.

Autodesk, Inc. is the world leader in 2D and 3D design software for the manufacturing, building and construction, and media and entertainment markets. Since its introduction of AutoCAD software in 1982, Autodesk has developed the broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art digital prototyping solutions to help customers experience their ideas before they are real. Fortune 1000 companies rely on Autodesk for the tools to visualize, simulate and analyze real-world performance early in the design process to save time and money, enhance quality and foster innovation.

Avid Technology, Inc., is a world leader in digital nonlinear media creation, management, and distribution solutions. These solutions help enable film, video, audio, animation, games, and broadcast news professionals to work more efficiently, productively and creatively.

Blue Order provides turnkey Media Asset Management (MAM) solutions, helping customers improve workflow efficiency, enhance product quality and generate new business opportunities. Media and Entertainment companies, Corporations and Public Institutions use Blue Order's Digital Asset Management product suite to support their entire digital production workflow incorporating live ingest and live logging to retrieval, browsing, editing and cataloging of any digital audio-visual and multi-format content.

CCI Europe is a leading provider of multimedia editorial solutions and committed to making the world’s leading publishing solutions better. Constant innovation has seen both CCI Europe’s advertising solutions (CCI AdDesk Sales and CCI AdDesk Production) and editorial solutions (CCI NewsDesk and CCI NewsGate) mature into premier publishing solutions.

Chuckwalla, Inc., is a leading developer of enterprise digital asset management technology that manages rich content across multiple communications channels such as print, Web, and wireless. With faster implementation and return on investment, Chuckwalla’s open and scalable technology simplifies digital asset management for organizations in areas such as publishing, syndication, marketing/branding, and training.

Cinegy is a world-leading R&D company, developing and engineering video, broadcast and OEM solutions for international broadcasters and equipment vendors. Cinegy is fully committed to the advancement of IT technology in video, broadcast and cinema. The Company's name signifies the dedication towards finding synergies in high-end digital image processing and digital workflow.

Dalet empowers broadcasters and content professionals to produce and manage audio and video content in a digital, multi-platform world. Dalet media asset management (MAM) software streamlines production costs and increases revenue opportunities by simplifying the distribution of rich-media assets across both interactive and traditional platforms. Dalet software is used around the world by thousands of content producers including major public broadcasters (BBC, CBC), commercial networks and government.

Digital Rapids is a leading developer of professional hardware and software solutions for ingest, encoding, transcoding, protection, streaming, playout and delivery of content. Digital Rapids offer solutions that scale from individual applications to enterprise and global workflows, with the proven expertise to help customers maximize productivity and meet objectives – whether commercial or non-commercial – in the rapidly evolving and expanding digital media market.

Equilibrium is a pioneer and leader in developing automated media processing solutions – software that streamlines the production and deployment of media assets. Equilibrium's automated imaging solutions enable companies to increase business productivity and reduce costs associated with digital media production, management and storage.

With facilities in Ottawa, Canada, Unlimi-Tech Software Inc. is a world leader in making complex file transfers as easy as possible for enterprise end users. Founded in 2000, the company has more than 600 hundred satisfied clients including the United Nations, Siemens, Standard Chartered, Rain Network, BHP Billiton, and Sample Digital.

Harris is an international communications and information technology company serving government and commercial markets in more than 150 countries. Headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, the company has annual revenue of $5.4 billion and 16,500 employees — including nearly 7,000 engineers and scientists. Harris is dedicated to developing best-in-class assured communications; products, systems, and services.

Inlet Technologies is the leading provider of advanced encoding solutions, enabling new media for new networks. Inlet solutions produce the highest quality video, faster and more efficiently than any other solution. Inlet allows content creators, programmers and distributors to increase production efficiency, reduce costs and deliver superior quality video over any Internet Protocol (IP) network.

InterDyn AKA is a leading Microsoft Gold Certified Partner dedicated to the sales, consulting, training and support of Microsoft Dynamics GP, AX and CRM application systems, Information Worker (IW), Business Intelligence (BI) and Application Development Services. InterDyn AKA is a Microsoft Certified Partner Learning Center (CPLS), headquartered in New York City with offices in the New England, Mid Atlantic, Greater Pennsylvania and Desert Mountain regions.

Media Aspects serves both traditional and online publishers as well as entertainment and broadcast industry via the web. Media Aspects provides emerging news, information on industry events, side by side comparisons of industry leading solutions, and tools for selecting today’s business software.

Interwoven’s MediaBin, the leader in Digital Asset Management (DAM) has been helping businesses expand their DAM solutions within and beyond the enterprise. Many companies start out with a point solution, targeted to the needs of media companies and marketing departments to effectively manage the images, logos, video, audio, and other digital materials they create and use.

Interwoven has continued to evolve DAM solutions through best practices and patented technology to better provide for marketing needs. Today it is being deployed to user communities across multiple departments, to virtual creative teams and to key partners as part of company-wide Enterprise Content Management (ECM) strategies.

Founded in 2000, iStreamPlanet is a leader in digital rights management (DRM) and managed webcasting services. iStreamPlanet specializes in securing and delivering large-scale events with flash crowds in the hundreds of thousands; simultaneously purchasing, getting licenses, and viewing content. Live events or pre-recorded archived media can be easily secured and delivered on a pay-per-view or subscription basis using iStreamPlanet’s an end-to-end media delivery platform, PayCast Services, or secured directly on customer’s Web site using the latest digital rights management tools.

K2 is for any business that wants to automate processes — virtually any kind of process. It is for any business that wants a workflow solution or a business process management solution. It is for any business that wants familiar tools to pull together business processes, people, services, information and systems into a single application — a dynamic business application. It is for any business that wants to remove the IT bottleneck and truly enable anyone in the company to build and affect business processes and applications that span systems. It is for any business that wants to eliminate redundancies — reuse information that already exists and code that has already been written to quickly build flexible, scalable, secure applications.

Konan Digital is a leading provider of dedicated and focused Media Asset Management (MAM) technologies in the world today. Our products represent the next generation of MAM technologies and are designed to be lightweight, platform agnostic and standards based. KONAN DigitalArc is comprised of a series of interoperable components that seamlessly integrate to form a fully file-based enterprise environment or independent components open to integration into existing systems. Konan has distinguished itself as a thought leader in the digital media sector and proudly holds numerous technology patents including an MPEG-7 International Standard. The company's headquarter, Konan Technology Inc., is based in Seoul, Korea and the US subsidiary, Konan Digital Inc., was launched in California early 2005. For more information, visit www.konandigital.com.

Marquis’ Medway media highway system provides seamless integration of media files between post-production (Avid, Apple Final Cut Pro and/or Adobe Premiere) and broadcasting systems irrespective of hardware and software platforms. With Marquis Medway integrated with IMM, users have the freedom to utilize ‘best of breed’ systems and have confidence that media and metadata will flow seamlessly.

As Singapore’s largest broadcaster and a media conglomerate in Asia, MediaCorp offers a complete range of media businesses: TV, Radio, Entertainment Productions, Movie Productions, Newspapers, Magazines, Electronic Media, and other broadcasting services. MediaCorp’s implementation of Microsoft Connected Services Framework will enable the organization to create, deploy, integrate, and manage services easily across multiple platforms and across organizational boundaries.

Nexvisionix is a Gold Certified Microsoft Partner, and a global managed Microsoft Communication Sector/Media & Entertainment partner. Nexvisionix provides leadership in driving Corporate Performance Management to the next level : Execution-Oriented-Decision Making throughout the organization. Nexvisionix' services help the customer in achieving corporate strategy while linking them to strategic and tactical decision-making. Our services provide a framework to move multiple business processes and performance metrics into an integrated environment to manage performance across the enterprise.

North Plains Systems is one of the leading providers of digital asset management solutions. The company’s technology, focus, and vision have been recognized throughout the content management industry. They were awarded the 2005 Digital Media Applications Market Company of the Year award by analyst Frost & Sullivan.

Addressing every area of television-related operations, OmniBus Systems provides broadcasting, cable, and satellite companies with comprehensive newsroom, content, and workflow automation as well as media asset management solutions.

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 their customers and partners, Open Text brings together leading Content Experts™ to help organizations capture and preserve corporate memory, increase brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness.

Panorama Software helps global organizations unlock the hidden value of their information assets to improve business performance and results. With integrated business intelligence and corporate performance management solutions, media and entertainment companies can analyze data easily, create and distribute reports quickly, and measure performance proactively to gain a greater understanding of their business, and make better business decisions.

Founded in 1999 by David Parker, Pelagon have built their Activity Management Solution (AMS) around Microsoft .NET architecture, they operate across multiple market sectors from Global Brands through Advertising and Marketing Services, to Media and Entertainment groups. Pelagon’s clients include, Havas Groupe Inc., InterPublic Group, Omnicom, WPP and EMI.

Rhozet is focused on one goal: to provide universal media transcoding. The boom in video consumption has resulted in an explosion in the number of formats that content creators and distributors must manage. Video may be captured in one format, edited in another, served live in a third, delivered on-demand via the Web and mobile in half a dozen more and then finally archived in yet another. Rhozet’s products provide cost-effective and rapid transcoding across a wide range of applications from small studios to the largest enterprises.

RSG Media Systems, LLC leverages over 22 years of experience building innovative business applications for major media and entertainment industry clients to deliver RightsLogic®, an enterprise program and rights management product suite that includes tools to manage deals for content from conception through scheduling to any related financial transactions.

The Cologne based company S4M – Solutions for Media, a subsidiary of arvato systems and RTL Television, develops and distributes software solutions specialized on the broadcast and new media industry. Today, S4M systems are used in 30 countries around the world for commercial air time sales or video content management; whether program planning, rights licensing, ratings evaluation or production planning. Furthermore, the S4M portfolio includes professional consulting services to pass along combined knowledge of media and IT to customers.

SB3 Inc. provides the media/advertising industry with technologies and services that enable management to easily monitor key performance indicators. SBC Inc. provides business intelligence tools (Media BI) that offer a 360 degree view of media organizations complete with a telescope that can zoom in on the details where, when, and how you want them to be presented. They also offer Services that help companies achieve their specific requirements for data management, data warehousing, and data presentation.

ScheduALL is the world leader in Media Facility Management software specializing in content workflow, with over 1,000 installations in over 35 countries. A complete enterprise resource management and billing solution, ScheduALL is used by leading broadcast, studio, satellite, post-production and other media organizations. The software is capable of supporting the complete needs of small independent media boutique businesses, to large multi-national media operations running hundreds of concurrent users. ScheduALL is an open-architected integrated suite of products that use .NET technology to seamlessly interface with other industry standard third-party products and technologies such as DAM, CRM, Accounting, Automation and other emerging solutions.

Sonic Solutions enables the creation, management, and enjoyment of digital media content from Hollywood to home. Sonic's products range from the advanced authoring systems used to produce the vast majority of Hollywood’s DVD film releases to the award-winning Roxio®-branded photo, video, music, and digital-media management applications. Sonic’s patented technologies and AuthorScript™ media engine are relied upon by leading technology firms to define rich media experiences on a wide array of consumer electronics, mobile devices, set-top players, retail kiosks, and PCs. Always an innovator, Sonic has taken a leading role in helping professional and consumer markets make the successful transition to the new high-definition media formats and, through Sonic’s DVD on Demand initiative, is defining new models for the digital distribution of premium Hollywood entertainment.

Setting the standard with the world's leading media and entertainment companies, Telestream products help customers encode, organize, and deliver digital media conveniently and cost-effectively over IP networks. Organizations can take advantage of a media collaboration solution that simplifies the way today's workgroups access, collaborate, and share media files across networks.

Thomson is a leading provider of solutions for the creation, management, delivery and access of video, for the Communication, Media & Entertainment (CME) industries. Our clients are studios, broadcasters, content distributors (telco, satellite and cable operators) and an increasing range of professional users of video. We deliver superior value to our customers through a combination of industry leading technologies and services, enabling us to offer differentiated and innovative solutions based on a broad portfolio of Intellectual Property.

Winnov is committed to providing its customers the very best and latest technology to manage their audio, video, rich media data requirements allowing them to leverage the vast communications potential of the Internet. Winnov has designed an efficient, integrated, high performance platform that not only incorporates the company’s unique IP, but also leverages and optimizes advanced technologies provided by Microsoft and other third parties. Winnov has been an audio/video pioneer and innovator since 1992 and has always understood the importance of reliable, quality audio, video, rich media data interaction and communication.

Xytech Systems makes business software for media companies. Its software helps media organizations maximize the utility and profitability of their media assets, human resources, and physical plants by providing highly integrated software solutions backed by superior customer support, training, and consulting services.

AMD designs and produces microprocessors, Flash memory devices and low-power processor solutions for the computer, communications and consumer electronics industries. AMD is dedicated to helping its customers deliver standards-based, customer-focused solutions for technology users, ranging from enterprises to government agencies and individual consumers. Founded in 1969, AMD is a Standard & Poor's 500 company with global operations and manufacturing facilities in the United States, Europe, Japan and Asia.

For over two decades now, HP and Microsoft executives, engineers, and sales and service teams have worked side-by-side to research, develop, test, implement, and support solutions that meet the demanding business needs of media and entertainment companies. With one of the largest and most experienced Microsoft-trained workforces, HP offers superior planning, design, implementation, management, and support of solutions that reduce risk, increase efficiency, and accelerate time-to-solution.

Quantum is a global leader in storage, delivering highly reliable backup, recovery and archive solutions that meet demanding requirements for data integrity and availability with superior price/performance and comprehensive service and support. Quantum offers businesses of all sizes an unparalleled range of solutions, from leading tape drives and media technologies, autoloaders and libraries to disk-based backup systems. In addition, Quantum Global Services assists Value Added Resellers (VARs), integrators and customers in assessing, designing, implementing, maintaining and optimizing data storage solutions.

Sanbolic Inc. provides advanced software for shared storage solutions. Networked storage is one of the fastest growing segments of the information technology market. Sanbolic products address the growing customer need for platform- and protocol-independent tools that simplify data storage management, increase system flexibility, and enable shared access to information in a reliable, scalable, and secure data environment.

SeaChange's fault-resilient video server systems and ancillary software applications present television operators with revenue-generating, on-demand services opportunities. With over 1.3 million on-demand streams deployed since 2000, opportunities include advertising, new content sources, and games.

Tarari is a fabless semiconductor company whose product line primarily includes ASICs, and Tarari also offers boards and software acceleration components designed for network equipment, appliance and server vendors, as well as independent software vendors. Tarari is 100% dedicated to creating silicon and software components to absolutely push the envelope of "content and application awareness" in packet and message processing, especially for security functions and application protocols like XML and Digital Media. Tarari is a components company whose focus is ASICs, boards and software products that can snap into switch, appliance, and server architectures. The strong emphasis at Tarari is on developing the industry’s best ASIC offerings in this market, and it also sells software-only products and production broads.

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company. Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture helps clients develop high-performance business processes. With strong industry and business process expertise, broad global resources, and a proven track record of success, Accenture can mobilize the right people, skills, and technologies to help clients improve business performance. Since forming an alliance in 2000, Accenture, Microsoft, and their joint venture partner Avanade have together helped more than 600 clients reach their performance goals. Accenture is a uniquely qualified Microsoft partner, delivering value to companies in the media and entertainment industry.

We are distinguished by our technological expertise, marketing and creative capabilities, and solid foundation in business strategy. Each of these efforts informs the others, and delivers measurable impact across your enterprise. We connect you with informed, inspired, and effective ideas—then we provide you with the tools, people, and support that make them real.

Avanade is a leading technology integrator specializing in the Microsoft enterprise platform. Avanade helps customers around the world maximize their IT investment and create comprehensive solutions that drive business results.

Capgemini is one of the largest consulting firms in the world. With a dedicated global media and entertainment practice and experts across technologies and business processes that are critical to media and entertainment companies, Capgemini helps companies address vital business needs. Areas of concern include digital asset management, intellectual property management, supply chain management, customer relationship management, customer profitability assessment, and product life-cycle management.

Cognizant is a leading provider of information technology, consulting and business process outsourcing services. With more than 40 global delivery centers and over 59,000 employees as of June 30, 2008, we combine a unique onsite/offshore delivery model infused by a distinct culture of customer satisfaction. Cognizant's Information, Media & Entertainment Practice understands everyday media challenges and provides solutions that not only improve business efficiencies but also aid business transformation.

Conchango is one of the largest consultancies in the UK delivering strategic, creative and technical solutions to businesses and organisations across the globe. Founded in 1991, Conchango today is a leading industry presence. They help clients to understand the capabilities and unique opportunities of the digital space. Conchango works with clients to develop deep insights and effective, measurable strategies for the future - whether short or long term. The resulting experiences are applications, websites, intranets, kiosks and mobile applications that help to drive loyalty and advocacy over time.

Infosys is a Microsoft Global Systems Integration Partner that understands the profound transformations technology is driving in the Media & Entertainment industry. Infosys’ Media & Entertainment practice offers a robust set of solutions & services to help Media & Entertainment companies to transition toward the “Digital Media Enterprise”. Through its strong alliance with Microsoft, Infosys’ Media & Entertainment practice has proven its ability to develop, migrate, and integrate Microsoft-based software products and solutions, enabling customers to accelerate their competitive impact.

One of the world's largest independent network consulting and solutions providers, International Network Services, Inc., (INS) provides IT infrastructure consulting services, software, and business solutions to help companies build, secure, and manage their business-critical networks. From end-to-end consulting solutions to the INS Diamond IP family of software, INS helps media and entertainment companies optimize their business to better face competitive challenges and meet future demands.

Intellinet is one of the most highly certified Microsoft consulting firms in the United States and holds seven Gold partner certifications including Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Business Process & Integration Solutions, Custom Development Solutions, Data Management Solutions, Information Worker Solutions, Networking Infrastructure Solutions, and Security Solutions. With our Intelligent Enterprise (i.e.) integration solution, clients benefit from systems that meet current needs and can scale to future demands. Intellinet’s proven approach integrates enterprise systems including networking, security, messaging, collaboration, custom applications, data and mobility.

Perfiniti is a system integrator with deep domain expertise in Performance Management and Business Intelligence. Our industry veterans average over 13 years of expertise at “translating” business needs into the right design, implementation and deployment of SQL Server, PerformancePoint Server, SharePoint Server, and Office. Together with Microsoft we ensure our customers achieve implementation success and prove strategic value for their Performance Management initiatives.

Siemens Business Services acquired BBC Technology and will deliver technology services to the BBC and other media-driven organizations over the next 10 years. Drawing on the pioneering technical expertise and innovation that BBC Technology has delivered to the BBC over eight decades, Siemens will help its customers create, manage, and distribute content more effectively across multiple platforms.

speakTECH is a technology company focused on delivering solutions in demanding enterprise environments for businesses of all sizes. We will help your company improve its operational efficiency and help enhance your customer experience by building world-class business solutions. Our core philosophy is to provide solutions that maximize the software you already own today, such as Microsoft Office. We have domain expertise implementing the full spectrum of Microsoft enterprise software packages, including Microsoft’s eBusiness and portal solutions.

TATA Consultancy Services, Ltd., (TCS) is a leading global service provider focusing on digital media distribution and digital asset management. TCS established its media and entertainment practice in 2002 and is now doing business with six of the largest studios in Hollywood, California.

TechPath is a Microsoft centric services integrator who focuses on application development for the Microsoft platform, enterprise servers, tools and methodologies. TechPath is a member of the BizTalk Virtual TS Team, a go to partner for the Microsoft Interactive Media Manager (IMM) group, a preferred Microsoft Vendor and a Gold Certified Partner with competencies in SOA & Business Process, Custom Development Solutions, and Business Intelligence.

The Computer Merchant, Ltd. (TCM) has been providing Information Technology solution and enterprise staffing services to Fortune 1000 and mid to small sized corporations, as well as Federal, state, and local governments for over 25 years. TCM services provide the knowledge and expertise clients need to develop their respective technologies and run their infrastructures less expensively, more efficiently and more productively.

Ascent Media Group provides creative and technical media services to the media and entertainment industries through its Creative Services and Networks Services groups. Through more than 75 facilities in California, New York, London, Singapore and other locations throughout the world, Ascent Media Group provides effective solutions for the creation, management and distribution of content to major motion picture studios, independent producers, broadcast networks, cable channels, advertising agencies and other companies that produce, own and/or distribute entertainment, news, sports, corporate, educational, industrial and advertising content.

SyncCast provides a framework permitting content owners to distribute and sell digital media covering all aspects of the digital delivery process—from ingesting media and metadata to creating consumer user interfaces. Fully customizable, the framework currently powers the WalMart.com music download site, Billboard’s online radio program, the CinemaNow movie download service, and many others.

thePlatform media publishing system reduces the complexities and costs of managing, publishing, securing, and monitoring rich media. Turnkey secure portals, media commerce storefronts, and off-the-shelf integration with leading content delivery networks enable digital media delivery to any device, any time, anywhere. thePlatform provides the capability to easily create custom workflow tools, automate any process, and seamlessly integrate with internal IT systems—dramatically reducing deployment resources.

Now there’s a turn-key software platform to automate your video syndication workflow to broadband, mobile, cable and IPTV distributors. The Verizon Media Platform integrates with your existing production systems to streamline content distribution in virtually any format to any device.