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Sponsorships of the SIIA Information Industry Summit & Previews are sold out. To inquire about future SIIA sponsorship opportunities, please contact Brian Rosenberg, VP Sales & Marketing, + 1.646.649.2027.
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Copyright Clearance Center
Copyright Clearance Center creates innovative licensing solutions for the seamless sharing of knowledge. CCC's licensing services, combined with its Web-based applications and tools, allow tens of millions of people in corporations, universities, law firms and government agencies to 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.
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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’s flexible and scalable enterprise search platform (FAST ESP) elevates the search capabilities of enterprise customers and connects people to the relevant information they seek regardless of medium. This drives revenues and reduces total cost of ownership by effectively leveraging IT infrastructure. FAST’s solutions are used by more than 2,600 customers and partners around the globe.
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HighBeam Research, Inc.
HighBeam Research, Inc. runs an online research engine for individuals, filling the gap between free search engines and high-end information services. By delivering sophisticated research tools with convenient access to the free Web, paid online services, and our proprietary databases, we empower individual researchers to efficiently locate, organize and deliver answers. The HighBeam Research Engine is located at www.highbeam.com.
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The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc.
The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. (JEGI) of New York, NY (www.jegi.com) is a leading provider of independent investment banking services for the media and information industries. As a leading provider of M&A services to the Business Information sector, JEGI has closed numerous high-profile transactions for: Global Media and Information Companies; Entrepreneurial Owners; and Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds, including the recent sales of:
Trade Service to GF Capital Management; Aberdeen Group to Harte-Hanks; Thomson's Peterson's to Nelnet; Commonwealth Business Media to United Business Media; Gold Standard to Elsevier; and Hearst's Medi-Span to Wolters Kluwer.
JEGI's executive team of investment bankers has over 200 years of combined industry experience. For more information, visit our Web site (www.jegi.com) or contact our Managing Directors at 212-754-0710.
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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.
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Connotate
Connotate's premium solution empowers publishers and information aggregators to reach deeper and more accurately into the web and other information sources. This enables users to mine and extract new content for editorial teams, or delivery to production workflow. Connotate’s solution enables end-users to quickly access, share and deliver derivative rich data, new content, and applications. Without the need for programming, the Connotate solution increases productivity 10-100x by eliminating tasks that take 40%+ of a knowledge worker's time. Connotate’s clients include global publishers, media companies; hedge funds; financial firms; pharmaceuticals; and government agencies.
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Macrovision
Macrovision provides a broad set of solutions to enable business to protect, enhance and distribute content and software applications in the entertainment, consumer electronics, gaming, software, information publishing and corporate IT markets. Macrovision's solutions maximize the value of online content by helping Information Publishers overcome the complexities of digital licensing, distribution, and commerce. The Content Access Control and Digital Commerce solutions provide both B2B and B2C publishers flexibility in how they sell and protect digital assets, while creating new channels and increasing revenue. For more information visit www.macrovision.com.
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MuseGlobal, Inc.
Turn content into insight with content integration technology from Muse.
Search engines, databases, Web mining and feeds can give you content but only Muse can integrate the widest range of content sources into information solutions that create insight. Muse makes it easy to integrate the freshest content from every key source you need into services that inform decision-makers in enterprises and consumer markets.
You'll get the right information at the right time in the right applications on the right platforms with unparalleled searchability using installed or hosted Muse technology. All this with simple and centralized administration that will make your content integration nightmares a thing of the past.
MuseGlobal's solutions range from adding complementary content to your website, comparing content, transforming content, including value-added content, improving productivity and enhancing information for researchers, providing alerts for blogs and other late-breaking sources, through to the Muse Search Factory which provides exceptional content access to Microsoft's SharePoint, BlackBoard and other portals-based solutions.
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Nstein Technologies
Nstein Technologies (TSX-V: EIN) develops and markets multilingual solutions that power online publishing for the most prestigious newspapers, magazines, and content-driven organizations. Nstein's solutions generate new revenue opportunities and reduce operational costs by enabling the centralization, management and automated indexing of digital assets. Nstein partners with clients to design a complete online strategy for success using publishing industry best practices for the implementation of its Web Content Management, Digital Asset Management and Text Mining Engine products.
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Scope e-Knowledge Center Pvt Ltd
Established in 1987, Scope e-Knowledge is an integrated business information & knowledge organization. A globally oriented firm, with offices in New York, London, Brussels, Cologne and Chennai , Scope's services include business research, BI/CI, STM & business databases, A&I, taxonomy / ontology and patent / IP services.
Scope's clients include global publishers, portals, industry bodies, patent / IP law firms, and corporate companies in the U.S. U.K. and Europe. Scope's value proposition is in providing world-class, reliable knowledge services using top notch expertise out of its delivery centers in India to enable savings of 30-40%. Scope's domains of focus include Engineering, Chemicals & allied areas and Healthcare & Life Sciences. Scope currently has over 400 people including such domain experts and in research, editorial, legal and general business.
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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.
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DeSilva & Phillips
DeSilva & Phillips, founded in 1996, is an investment bank providing M&A services and private placement of debt and equity to the media and digital technology industries. Our Digital Media and Technology Group is organized to service the entire marketplace for electronic content in its many - and still-evolving - forms.
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Endeca
Endeca provides next-generation information access solutions to help people find, analyze and understand information in ways never before possible. The Endeca Information Access Platform unites disparate data sources, providing information in context, while featuring the security, performance, reliability and scalability required of the most demanding enterprise and Web environments. Endeca Solutions for Media & Publishing feature the unique Guided Navigation user experience, the best way available for your viewers to find the content they need and discover new information, which leads directly to increased subscription and ad revenue. Solutions include Endeca for Online Publishing, Endeca for Directories, and Endeca for Multimedia Content.
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Hoovers
Hoover's is your fastest path to business. The leading provider of business information, insight, and the tools to make that data actionable, Hoover's has equipped sales and marketing professionals with the resources they need to succeed for more than a decade. A fully integrated solution, only Hoover's combines the experience and analysis of an in-house research and editorial staff, a true 360° outlook of companies, industries, and key contacts, and a wealth of customizable tools for list-building and connecting with people. For the information your organization needs to drive real results, you won't find a better resource than Hoover's.
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iCopyright
iCopyright is the leading provider of content licensing services for online publishers. By adding the iCopyright tag to their web pages, publishers can offer their readers advertiser-supported permissions, reprints, republication rights, and other revenue-generating services. iCopyright also provides publishers with detailed reports on content usage.
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Innodata Isogen
Innodata Isogen (NASDAQ: INOD ) helps organizations create and manage information more effectively and economically, providing a comprehensive range of content-focused IT and BPO services to solve information management and publishing challenges. Headquartered just outside of New York City, Innodata Isogen has two additional solution centers in North America, seven production facilities in Asia (the Philippines, India and Sri Lanka) and a technology and tools development center in India.
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J.J. Keller & Associates
J. J. Keller creates information products of value to legal and research professionals, as well as executives and managers responsible for risk management, safety and compliance. In a variety of ways, J. J. Keller helps end-users understand and keep current with federal and state regulations covering labor management, workplace safety (including construction) and transportation.
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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.
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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 610-631-6770.
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Satyam Computer Services Ltd.
Satyam (NYSE: SAY) is a leading global business and information technology company that delivers consulting, systems integration and outsourcing solutions to clients in over twenty industries.
We leverage deep industry and functional expertise, leading technology practices and an advanced, global delivery model to help clients transform their highest-value business processes and improve their business performance. Our Media & Entertainment practice is focused on domain solutions and consulting to publishing and information media businesses facing the challenges of innovation, change and efficiency.
We are powered by over 45,000 professionals who excel in content management processes, engineering and product development, supply chain management, client relationship management, business process quality, business intelligence, enterprise integration, and infrastructure management, among other key capabilities.
We have strategic alliances with 96 best-of-breed technology companies, and operate through twenty-seven state-of-the-art development centers in locations that include the US, Canada, Brazil, the UK, Hungary, Egypt, UAE, India, China, Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia. We serve nearly 600 global companies, of which more than 170 are Fortune Global 500 and Fortune US 500 corporations. We operate in close to sixty countries, across six continents.
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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.
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HOST SPONSOR
PricewaterhouseCoopers
PricewaterhouseCoopers provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services to build public trust and enhance value for its clients and their stakeholders. More than 140,000 people in 149 countries across our network share their thinking, experience and solutions to develop fresh perspectives and practical advice. PricewaterhouseCoopers member firms across the world are independently owned, and their operations are managed by local partners.
The clients of PricewaterhouseCoopers firms range from the world’s largest and most complex organizations—in both the public and the private sectors—to some of its more innovative entrepreneurs. In fiscal year 2006, PwC firms provided services to 424 of the companies in the Fortune Global 500 and 425 of the companies in the FT Global 500.
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SUPPORTING SPONSOR
Greenhill SAVP
Greenhill SAVP is a $102 million Venture Capital fund affiliated with Greenhill & Company (NYSE: GHL), an independent global investment bank. The fund invests in Technology-Enabled Services or Business Information Services companies that generate less than $5 million in revenue and are ideally based in the greater New York metro/Tri-state region. Greenhill SAVP seeks to back companies run by exceptional individuals where its deep relationships and operational experience can help entrepreneurs realize extraordinary growth. The fund typically invests from $1 million to $5 million in a company’s first institutional round and $3 to $8 million over the life of the investment.
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SUPPORTING SPONSOR
Reitler Brown & Rosenblatt LLC
Reitler Brown & Rosenblatt is a full service law firm to the private equity community. Our range of legal services include merger & acquisition investment and disposition, fund formation, litigation, real estate, tax and intellectual property matters. We represent issuers, private equity investors, venture capitalists, institutional investors, portfolio companies, placement agents, lenders, and all other parties involved in the financing of emerging and expansion stage companies. Our clients benefit from the knowledge derived from our representation of venture capital funds, private equity funds and companies seeking financing, which allows us to prepare negotiating strategies with insight into the motivation and expectations of our clients’ counterparties. We know current market terms for such investments and guide emerging companies and investors to practical and creative business results.
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AlwaysOn
AlwaysOn ignited the open-media revolution in early 2003 as the first media brand to launch an advertising-based blog network. In 2004, AlwaysOn continued to lead the new media industry by introducing the first social network attached to an editorial brand. AlwaysOn also applies its open-media principles to its executive event series (Stanford Summit, OnHollywood, AlwaysOn Media, GoingGreen and Venture Summit West) and quarterly print "blogozine" by empowering members to influence editorial content and programming. AlwaysOn is committed to a participatory and merit-driven approach to reporting and event programming. No other media brand has dared to create such open interaction between its editors, readers and event participants.
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Iwantmedia.com
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Media Business
Media Business is the only magazine focused exclusively on the business-to-business media and publishing industry. Each month, 5,000 senior publishing executives turn to Media Business for the latest developments in ad sales, online publishing, M&A, events, circulation, production, people and benchmarks. Some of the topics our readers look forward to include new revenue streams, best practices, tracking the trends, research data, industry leader profiles, and executive moves and changes.
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paidContent.org
paidContent.org is an award-winning site covering the business of digital media written by professional journalists for executives who need to stay on top of news in the online, technology, content, and application sectors. We cover company news (particularly M&A), offer analysis and commentary, report on funding and executive moves, and often break stories ahead of more traditional news sources.
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Publishing 2.0
Publishing 2.0 is a blog about how technology is transforming media. We help executives understand the disruptive implications and strategic significance of industry news, digital technologies, and macro trends that are reshaping the business of media.
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Red Herring
Red Herring connects investors, inventors and business innovators, globally. Its magazine, website and events provide news, analysis, research and in-depth reporting about the people, the financing strategies and the technologies that drive today’s and tomorrow’s global innovation economy. Visit us at www.redherring.com and join us at our upcoming events in the US, Europe, and Asia.
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Scribemedia.org
ScribeMedia.org is a WebTV publication produced by ScribeMedia that focuses on the creative, technology and business of the media industry. ScribeMedia develops Web-based software applications such as social media platforms, live video webcasting tools, e-learning applications, and contest web sites. ScribeMedia produces media such as concerts, conferences, documentaries, TV and WebTV shows. ScribeMedia helps customers reach their target audience in new and engaging ways.
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VIP
VIP (http://www.vivaVIP.com/) is a monthly digital magazine featuring in-depth reviews of premium content products, along with analysis and commentary on industry news. VIP is published by Free Pint Limited, a UK-based publisher with a portfolio of web sites and publications serving the information industry. View the entire portfolio at http://www.Onopoly.com/
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