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SIIA Information Industry Summit, January 30-31, 2007, Cipriani, New York City

SPONSORS

Sponsorships for the Information Industry Summit have sold out, but you can still promote your products/services to our audience through an advertisement in the conference program.

You may also want to consider a sponsorship of the SIIA Content Division's other leading conferences: SIIA Content Forum & SIIA Global Information Industry Summit.

For advertising and future sponsorship opportunities, please contact Brian Rosenberg via e-mail or +1.646.649.2027.


Platinum Sponsor

Platinum Sponsor - Copyright Clearance Center
Copyright Clearance Center
Copyright Clearance Center is the world's largest provider of text licensing services. These services, combined with CCC's Web-based applications and tools, allow tens of millions of people in corporations, universities, law firms and government agencies to lawfully use and share published information with ease. Since its founding as a not-for-profit company in 1978, CCC has created and expanded the markets and systems that facilitate content reuse and the distribution of royalties to publishers and authors around the world. By offering rights to millions of the world's most sought-after publications, the company plays a major role in the global knowledge economy and encourages support for the principles of copyright.

Gold Sponsors

Gold Sponsor - The Jordan, Edmiston Group
The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc.
Founded in 1987, The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. (JEGI) is recognized as a leading provider of investment banking services on middle-market transactions in the media and information industries.

JEGI has undertaken the sale of numerous entrepreneurial businesses and significant disposition engagements for a wide range of major media and information companies, including CNET, Dow Jones, Hearst, Jupitermedia, Pearson, Reed Elsevier, Thomson Corporation, United Business Media and VNU.

JEGI has also advised on the sale of assets for a number of leading private equity funds, including Abry Partners, Frontenac Company, Housatonic Partners, Pfingsten Partners, Seaport Capital, Warburg Pincus and Wicks Group of Companies.

For more information, please visit our Web site at www.jegi.com or call 212-754-0710.

Gold Sponsor - Mark Logic Corporation
Mark Logic Corporation
Mark Logic Corporation provides the industry's leading XML content server. Mark Logic works with providers of information products to accelerate new product creation, deliver products through multiple channels, integrate content from different sources, repurpose content into multiple products, build custom publishing systems, and mine content for previously undiscovered information. MarkLogic Server does this by enabling companies to convert, query, manipulate, and render XML content using the W3C-standard XQuery language. Designed for high performance and scalability, MarkLogic Server can deliver millisecond response times against multi-terabyte contentbases. Mark Logic is privately held and backed by Sequoia Capital and Lehman Brothers.
Gold Sponsor - Wipro Technologies
Wipro Technologies
Wipro Technologies (NYSE:WIT, www.wipro.com) is a global provider of consulting, IT Services, outsourced R&D, infrastructure outsourcing and business process services , delivering technology-driven business solutions that meet the strategic objectives of our clients. With over 25 years in the information technology business, Wipro is one of the pioneers in the remote delivery of services, and has constantly innovated to provide a comprehensive range of integrated services.

Wipro has over 40 'Centers of Excellence', which create solutions and build domain expertise around specific needs of individual industries.

Wipro delivers unmatched business value to customers through a combination of process excellence, quality frameworks and service delivery innovation. Wipro is the World's first PCMM, CMM and CMMi Level 5 certified software services company and the first outside USA to receive the IEEE Software Process Award.


Silver Sponsors

Silver Sponsor - FAST
FAST
FAST is the leading developer of enterprise search technologies and solutions that are behind the scenes at the world's best known companies with the most demanding search problems. FAST ESP™, the world's most advanced search platform, delivers secure, relevant answers and insight to accelerate decisions, improve performance, and increase profits. FAST ESP makes it possible for information providers to deliver secure, integrated access to all structured, unstructured, and rich media data. Unlike other search environments, FAST ESP returns answers to questions, not references to them. In addition, FAST ESP monitors data and sends personalized real-time alerts to millions of concurrent users regardless of traffic or content size.
Silver Sponsor - Macrovision
Macrovision
Macrovision provides distribution, commerce and consumption solutions for software, entertainment and information content to the home video, PC games, music, cable/satellite, consumer software, enterprise software and information publishing industries. Macrovision holds approximately 240 issued or pending United States patents and more than 1,200 issued or pending international patents, and continues to increase its patent portfolio with new and innovative technologies in related fields. Macrovision is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, U.S.A. with other offices across the United States and around the world. More information about Macrovision can be found at www.macrovision.com.
Silver Sponsor - Marlin & Associates
Marlin & Associates
M&A provides transaction-related advice and strategic consulting to firms in the digital information economy worldwide. We advise clients on mergers & acquisitions, divestitures, private placements, business strategy, and valuations. Our clients supply software and technology, on-line and off-line content, and related services and tools.

Our team is highly focused and brings a wide breadth and depth of transactional and operational experience. We have advised on hundreds of digital information economy transactions. Each of our managing directors has substantial c-level operating experience. Ken Marlin, M&A's founder, was a CEO in this space four times. George Beckerman, a Partner with M&A, also has experience as a company founder and a former operating executive. Craig O. Allsopp, another Partner with M&A, is a former journalist and publishing company executive with nearly 30 years of operating and transaction experience in the online information, marketing services and E-learning businesses.

Silver Sponsor - MuseGlobal
MuseGlobal
MuseGlobal's Muse technology creates an effective federated search platform that incorporates content from a multitude of search engines, databases and other structured and unstructured sources of content. It accomplishes this through three key capabilities which together unite disparate content resources into a comprehensive framework:

Connect: the ability to connect to any source of content to extract relevant content, including entity extraction, clustering, and similar technologies;

Discover: the ability to find and organize content into a useful form that makes the most valuable content clearly evident; and

Manage: the ability to maintain a complex range of requirements providing timely and cost-effective maintenance, monitoring and configuration.

Silver Sponsor - TEMIS
TEMIS
TEMIS, the leading provider of Text Analytics solutions for the Publishing industry, addresses the unstructured multilingual data management needs of content providers using concepts and meaning extraction, automatic classification and relationships representation.

With Luxid®, TEMIS's next generation information intelligence solution, the media and publishing industry provides its editorial teams with flexible, precise and real-time access to all relevant information through efficient indexing and referencing of content, as well as highly granular and precise content categorization.

Major publishing groups have already chosen to implement TEMIS solutions, like Bertelsmann, LexisNexis, Agence France Presse (AFP), juris, MDL Elsevier, Press Index, Thomson Scientific, Springer-Verlag.

Silver Sponsor - Moreover, a VeriSign Company
VeriSign Real-Time Publisher Services
VeriSign Real-Time Publisher Services is the premier provider of real-time news, current awareness & business information.

Our Connected Intelligence (CI) solutions can be integrated into websites, intranets or corporate portals.

We continually harvest content from more than 25,000 online news & information sources and over 7 million blog sites across 180 countries in 56 languages. To enable fast, accurate and targeted searches, VeriSign Real-Time Publisher Services adds over 45 meta-tags and a team of experienced editors to oversee the automated processes and monitor source quality.

VeriSign Real-Time Publisher Services provides critical business information to clients including global corporations, government agencies and small and medium size businesses.


SIIA Previews Sponsor

Previews Sponsor - CIBC World Markets
CIBC World Markets
CIBC World Markets is the wholesale and corporate banking arm of CIBC, providing a range of integrated credit and capital markets products, investment banking, and merchant banking to clients in key financial markets in North America and around the world. We deliver innovative capital solutions to growth-oriented companies and are broadly active in capital markets. We offer advisory expertise across a wide range of industries and provide top-ranked research for our corporate, government and institutional investor clients.

Bronze Sponsors

Bronze Sponsor - Berkery, Noyes & Co.
Berkery, Noyes & Co.
Berkery, Noyes is a full-service investment banking firm serving the information, publishing, and communications industries. What differentiates Berkery, Noyes is our broad and deep knowledge of the publishing and information industries acquired during 20+ years of intense mergers and acquisitions activity, coupled with a keen understanding of the strategic imperatives driving the market.
Bronze Sponsor - Infosys
Infosys
Infosys Technologies defines, designs and delivers IT-enabled business solutions that help Global 2000 companies win in a flat world. These solutions focus on providing strategic differentiation and operational superiority to clients. Infosys creates these solutions by leveraging its domain and business expertise along with a complete range of services. With Infosys, clients are assured of a transparent business partner, world-class processes, speed of execution and the power to stretch their IT budget by leveraging the Global Delivery Model that Infosys pioneered.
Bronze Sponsor - J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc.
J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc.
J. J. Keller creates content-based products of value to legal, research and information professionals, as well as executives and managers responsible for risk management, safety and compliance. J. J. Keller helps end-users understand and keep current with federal and state regulations covering labor management, human resources, workplace safety, construction and transportation.
Bronze Sponsor - LexisNexis
LexisNexis
As a world-leading provider of enhanced information services and management tools, LexisNexis® delivers comprehensive and authoritative business, news, legal, government, and tax information in 100 countries worldwide. It unites proprietary brands, advanced Web technologies, and premium information sources to offer an extensive range of products and customized tools that address job-specific and organization-wide information needs, driving productivity and confident decision-making. LexisNexis recently was named one of KM World magazine's "Top 100 Companies in Knowledge Management."
Bronze Sponsor - Nstein Technologies
Nstein Technologies
Nstein develops and markets leading-edge multilingual text analytics applications that dramatically enhance the semantic search and discovery capabilities of enterprise search and content management platforms. Client highlights: TIME, Getty Images, BBC, VNU eMedia and Corbis. Nstein is headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with offices in the USA and Europe.
Bronze Sponsor - Really Strategies
Really Strategies
Really Strategies, Inc. provides world-class content solutions and services to publishers, media companies, and other content-centric companies. We bring strategy, content, and technology together to analyze, architect, and implement appropriate tools and technologies. For additional information and to see a complete list of services and solutions, please visit www.reallysi.com or call (215) 631-3107.
Bronze Sponsor - Sheila Greco Associates, LLC
Sheila Greco Associates, LLC
SGA is a woman-owned company. Since 1989, SGA has specialized in providing custom research and unique executive contact information to sales, recruiting, and human resource professionals. ExecutiveTracker levels the playing field between small and large firms, providing sources of hard to find executives at public and private companies searchable by granular job function that were once available to just the largest companies. Clients include Fortune 1000 and private companies worldwide across a variety of industries. For more information, please visit http://www.sheilagreco.com, email executivetracker@sheilagreco.com, or call 888-400-8049.
Bronze Sponsor - SLA
SLA
SLA is a global organization for innovative information professionals and their strategic partners. SLA serves over 11,000 members in 75 countries, including corporate, academic, and government information managers. SLA promotes and strengthens its members through learning, advocacy, and networking initiatives.

Industry Partners

Industry Partner - American Business Media
American Business Media
Founded in 1906, American Business Media is the association of business information providers, delivering business intelligence to industry, Madison Avenue, Wall Street and the Beltway. ABM enhances the knowledge and best practices of its over 300 leading member companies, who provide quality information for business and professional markets worldwide. For further information please visit our website: www.americanbusinessmedia.com
Industry Partner - Leadership Directories
Leadership Directories
Leadership Directories, Inc. (LDI) is the leading provider of verified contact and biographical information for nearly half a million U.S. government, business, professional, and nonprofit executives. LDI data is available in print, online, on-demand, as custom solutions, and through selected partnerships to enable the integration of content into the enterprise workflow.


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