SIIA Software Strategy Summit - May 15-16 - Westin St. Francis  - San Franciso, CA
SPONSORSHIP

We thank the companies listed below for their sponsorship support of the Software Strategy Summit. Please read their profiles to learn how you can benefit from their products/services.

All sponsorships are now sold out. If you'd like information on future Software Division sponsorship opportunities, please contact Brian Rosenberg via e-mail or +1.646.649.2027.


Gold Sponsors

Gold Sponsor - Accenture
Accenture
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture collaborates with its clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With deep industry and business process expertise, broad global resources and a proven track record, Accenture can mobilize the right people, skills and technologies to help clients improve their performance. With more than 126,000 people in 48 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$15.55 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2005. Its home page is www.accenture.com.
Gold Sponsor - Aladdin Knowledge Systems
Aladdin Knowledge Systems
Aladdin (Nasdaq: ALDN) is a leader in digital security, providing solutions for software Digital Rights Management and Internet security since 1985.

Serving more than 30,000 customers worldwide, Aladdin products include: eToken™, providing cost-effective strong user authentication and password management solutions; the eSafe® line of integrated content security solutions, protecting networks against malicious, inappropriate and nonproductive Internet-borne content; and HASP®, a Digital Rights Management (DRM) suite of protection and licensing solutions featuring the #1 hardware-based protection solution in the world.


Silver Sponsors

Silver Sponsor - Deloitte & Touche Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) Industry Group
Deloitte & Touche Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) Industry Group
Deloitte & Touche's Technology, Media and Telecommunications practice helps clients address the strategic, operational and organizational challenges presented by the onslaught of convergence, while capitalizing on the opportunities. Whether it’s counseling on new business models, tending the top and bottom lines through new revenue streams and cost reduction, protecting intellectual rights, or managing risk, we have the scale and diversity of experience to help you succeed. Companies in the technology industry don’t react to change, they create it. So, while other businesses may have the luxury of keeping up with change, technology companies must stay far ahead of it. Our technology specialists understand the importance of keeping ahead of change, and have developed an industry practice that allows us, and our clients, to do just that.
Silver Sponsor - IBM
IBM
IBM is the world's largest information technology company with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. We work with companies of all sizes around the world to deploy a full range of IBM technologies. IBM teams with companies that use our platforms to run software applications on open-source operating systems like Linux, giving innovative Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) an early connection to the best marketing and technical resources through IBM PartnerWorld Industry Networks. IBM is committed to helping ISVs build their vertical market capabilities and attract potential customers in the markets they serve worldwide. For more information, visit ibm.com/isv.
Silver Sponsor - Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain is the world's trusted partner for records management and data protection services. The Company services over 235,000 customer accounts throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Latin America and the Pacific Rim. Iron Mountain offers records management services for both physical and digital media, disaster recovery support services, and consulting - services that help businesses save money and manage risks associated with legal and regulatory compliance, protection of vital assets, and business continuity challenges.
Silver Sponsor - OpSource
OpSource
OpSource, The SaaS Experts, is solely focused on providing the operational infrastructure and ongoing services that enable software companies to deliver and maintain the highest quality Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions. By choosing OpSource as a SaaS partner, the software company is free from infrastructure management and can focus on improving its applications and finding new customers. OpSource's Optimal On-Demandsm infrastructure platform provides immediate and ongoing ROI to software companies and our Optimal Integration service helps ease the transition to SaaS. We enable software companies to deploy SaaS quickly, effortlessly, and without risk. Software companies at any stage in the application lifecycle, delivering any type of application, can benefit from OpSource's comprehensive services and expertise. Our Success-Based Pricingsm model allows companies to begin with a minimum commitment, and expenses scale only as revenue increases.
Silver Sponsor - Phoenix Technologies
Phoenix Technologies
Phoenix Technologies Ltd. is a global market leader in device-defining software that assures endpoint confidence, from the start. The company first established dominant industry leadership 26 years ago with BIOS software, currently has over one billion products deployed and continues to ship in over 100 million new systems each year. From this unique foundation of core system level expertise and firmware offering the highest levels of reliability, Phoenix has created a portfolio of innovative software products that simply and easily identify and restore devices, thereby ensuring unparalleled endpoint security and availability. Phoenix is headquartered in Milpitas, California with offices worldwide.
Silver Sponsor - Protexis
Protexis Inc.
Protexis provides an efficient, trusted infrastructure for protecting and selling software online. Our channel-neutral infrastructure is a one-stop hosted e-commerce service that uses sophisticated digital rights management technologies for flexible licensing, try-before-you-buy, and real-time, patented product activation. Protexis' range of services can help you sell software online with confidence, today.

Protexis serves over 1,300 software publisher customers today, including leading publishers DivX Networks, Enterbrain and Sage Technologies, and enables the secure digital sale of millions of copies of software worldwide. Protexis is privately-held and headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, with offices in Seattle, Washington. For more information, please visit www.protexis.com.


Networking Reception Sponsors

Networking Reception Sponsor - Softrax
Softrax
Softrax Corporation is a leading provider of enterprise billing and revenue management solutions that fundamentally change the way companies manage, analyze, report and forecast their revenue. As hundreds of leading high tech companies have discovered, Softrax offers an optimal solution for automating billing, renewals, deferred revenue accounting and revenue recognition. There simply is no comparable product on the market that can match the comprehensive, integrated, and scalable features which the Softrax solution provides for the software industry. Companies that use Softrax maximize their revenue, reduce operating expenses and comply with revenue recognition regulations and Sarbanes-Oxley requirements. For more information, visit www.softrax.com, www.revenuerecognition.com, or call 1.888. 4 SOFTRAX.
Networking Reception Sponsor - Uniloc
Uniloc
Uniloc USA is the technology leader in electronic “device recognition” for software copy control and license management.

Device recognition is the method of uniquely identifying a user device, such as a PC, smart phone or cell phone, by the naturally occurring, inherent physical imperfections of that device. The resulting “device fingerprint” is then used as a strong authentication factor to “device lock” user licenses or access credentials. Uniloc’s technology can identify devices with more comparable accuracy than human DNA.

Uniloc is the inventor and holder of the seminal device recognition patent (US 5,490,216), and has 10 related patents pending. Key software copy control customers have included IBM and Toshiba.


Keynote Sponsor

Keynote Sponsor - Business Objects
Business Objects
Business Objects is the world’s leading business intelligence (BI) software company. The company’s solutions help organizations gain better insight into their business, improve decision making, and optimize enterprise performance. Business Objects has more than 30,000 customers worldwide, over 3,500 global partners, and can be found on the Internet at www.businessobjects.com.

Conference Breaks Sponsor

Conference Breaks Sponsor - Intacct
Intacct
Intacct delivers on-demand financial and business applications to small and midsize companies. Our financial management, supply chain, project tracking and business intelligence support all your operating units, each with its own account structure, business processes, currencies, taxes and regulatory requirements. More than 2,200 companies boast Intacct as their business advantage.

Padfolio Sponsor

Padfolio Sponsor - eMeta
Macrovision and eMeta
Macrovision Corporation is the market leader in electronic content distribution and protection, software licensing and installation, and digital rights management (DRM) technologies. eMeta, a division of Macrovision, provides comprehensive, flexible solutions that allow companies to sell and license digital goods and services while managing a full range of related customer interactions. Macrovision’s FLEXnet Publisher enables software and hardware vendors to increase revenue and reduce operational costs by flexibly pricing, packaging, protecting, and updating their product offerings. Over 50,000 software vendors and virtually all of the Fortune 1000 companies use Macrovision’s software solutions and our products are deployed on more than 500 million desktops worldwide.

Bronze Sponsors

Bronze Sponsor - Above All Software
Above All Software
Above All Software provides award winning business integration software that enables customers to leverage service-oriented architectures to meet ever-changing business needs. With Above All’s Composite Application Platform™, customers transform existing IT investments into rapidly assembled, high-impact business solutions that can be deployed to multiple environments. This flexible service-level approach simplifies and reduces the cost of business integration.
Bronze Sponsor - Everdream Corporation
Everdream Corporation
Everdream Corporation is the market leader in on-demand desktop management services. Activated by a simple Internet connection, Everdream services enable greater visibility into hardware and software assets, better and more uniform desktop protection for unparalleled business uptime, and superior end-user satisfaction – while significantly reducing the total cost of ownership of corporate PC’s.
Bronze Sponsor - iCentera
iCentera Corporation
iCentera is the leading provider of on-demand communication portals that drive client communication and collaboration. Within 24 hours, iCentera's hosted solution provides custom portal creation, content management, and real-time content and portal analytics so that companies can immediately improve communication with any audience, any time. iCentera portals replaces the need to build custom intranet or extranet website portals.
Bronze Sponsor - Intraware
Intraware
Intraware® is a leading provider of electronic software and license delivery management solutions that enable enterprise technology publishers to tie together licensing and software processes into a clean, simple customer experience. SubscribeNet® is a Web-based solution that enables the electronic delivery, tracking and management of digital content that is distributed to global customers.
Bronze Sponsor - KnowledgeStorm
KnowledgeStorm
KnowledgeStorm is the Internet’s top-ranked search resource for technology solutions and information. Leveraging the KnowledgeStorm Network of premier partners and its extensive search expertise, KnowledgeStorm is able to reach technology buyers and deliver the information they need no matter where their search begins. KnowledgeStorm, with its network, search expertise and performance tools and services, is a powerful resource for technology vendors, providing them the most opportunities to reach buyers on the Internet and convert them into Web leads. For more information, call (877) 340-9274 or visit www.knowledgestorm.com.
Bronze Sponsor - Mintz Levin
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
Mintz Levin is an AmLaw 100 law firm with offices in the US and the UK. We provide legal solutions to our clients' business issues in a broad range of practice areas and primary industries that include Technology & Communications; Life Sciences/Biotechnology; Financial Services & Insurance; Healthcare; and Real Estate.

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