AvePoint - Silver Sponsor

AvePoint is a global leader in infrastructure management software solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, providing organizations the enterprise-strength tools vital for success. AvePoint specializes in comprehensive data protection, disaster recovery, replication, migration, administration, archiving and compliance solutions for all Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies.

Web: http://www.avepoint.com

As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Bit-Wizards is equipped to handle your organization’s SharePoint implementation. Our software engineers will first analyze your business environment, data security requirements, departmental structuring, and reporting requirements to provide a top-down plan for a successful customized solution.

From deployment to training, we have the experience and people to re-energize your business processes with a solid SharePoint Implementation.

Web: http://www.bitwizards.com

ComponentOne has been providing the widest range of Microsoft Visual Studio components, IDE platform development tools, and applications for over 22 years. This includes ComponentOne Studio Enterprise, which represents a broad and complete set of tools and solutions for Microsoft Windows, Web, and Mobile application developers. ComponentOne has continued leadership in the Microsoft Visual Studio component industry and is a premiere partner of Microsoft.

ComponentOne also offers ComponentOne SharePoint Web Parts, custom Web Parts that enable you to deliver rich, compelling SharePoint sites without writing a line of code; ComponentOne Doc-To-Help, a long-recognized product for technical communicators who write and develop Help systems; and ComponentOne DemoWorks, a screen recording tool to produce WMV, Flash, GIF, AVI, EXE, and Java files.

ComponentOne has received numerous industry and user accolades including awards from SDTimes, The Code Project, TechWeb, Software Development Magazine, Visual Studio Magazine, Society for Technical Communication, and SQL Server Magazine.

Web: http://www.componentone.com

With 1,000 customers and more than 1 million users worldwide, CorasWorks is a leading provider of modular application development software for Microsoft SharePoint. Customers use our products to build web–based solutions such as project– and process–oriented solutions and line of business applications. Our modular architecture makes it easy to design, build, and manage an integrated workplace of collaborative business applications, without the time and expense of custom development.

CorasWorks is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with offices in New York, Atlanta, Dallas, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles and London.

Web: http://www.corasworks.net

Critical Path Training is a joint venture between Ted Pattison and Andrew Connell dedicated to educating Professional Developers, Designers, IT Professionals and Information Workers how to become successful with Microsoft's SharePoint Products and Technologies. We offer instructor-led training classes across the United States in Microsoft Technology Centers and a few selected professional training facilities that are owned and managed by our partners. We reach many other customers throughout the world by offering online versions of our most popular SharePoint training classes.

We pride ourselves in the fact that we conduct extensive research and author the SharePoint industry's most in-depth training. Our mission is to provide you with an objective viewpoint and key insights about the architecture as well as best practices and essential coding techniques. We also believe that training is about more than just telling people a set of technical facts. There is a fine art to writing a great technical training course. A course author must be able to create a story that teaches concepts and reinforces technical skill in a series of lectures and lab exercises that build a student's understanding layer by layer through the week.

Web: http://www.criticalpathtraining.com

How would you like to spend two days learning the best practices that will make your SharePoint project succeed? Innovative-e’s experienced team and proven techniques have enabled major clients and industry-leading partners to reap the benefits of successfully delivered SharePoint projects.

Web: http://www.innovative-e.com

The International SharePoint Professionals Association (“ISPA”) is the first independent, community-run, not-for-profit organization designed specifically for SharePoint Professionals. ISPA is a professional association dedicated to the promotion and global adoption of Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. The Association provides support and guidance to the community by establishing connections between SharePoint professionals and groups, resources, education and information.

Kiiro is an easy-to-use collaboration and project management application build for SharePoint. Kiiro helps your teams collaborate and get their work done and reduces the time you spend managing and administering SharePoint.

Web: http://getkirro.com

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Mimosa enables enterprises to harness the value of their unstructured and semi-structured information, and improves business process performance and productivity. As the recognized visionary in enterprise content archiving, Mimosa is driving innovation in the industry and is continually delivering cutting-edge solutions to address the evolving needs of customers around collaboration, communication, productivity and social media.

Web: http://www.mimosasystems.com

O’Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, research, and conferences. Since 1978, O’Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and galvanizing their adoption by amplifying “faint signals” from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme- making, and evangelism. For more information, go to http://oreilly.com

Pearson (NYSE:PSO), the global leader in education and education technology, reaches and engages today's digital natives with effective and personalized learning, as well as dedicated professional development for their teachers. This commitment is demonstrated in the company's investment in innovative print and digital education materials for preK through college, student information systems and learning management systems, teacher professional development, career certification programs, and testing and assessment products that set the standard for the industry. The company's respected brands include Scott Foresman, Prentice Hall, Addison Wesley, Benjamin Cummings, PEMSolutions, Stanford 10, SuccessNet, MyLabs, PowerSchool, SuccessMaker, and many others. Pearson's comprehensive offerings help inform targeted instruction and intervention so that success is within reach of every student at every level of education. Pearson's commitment to education for all is supported by the global philanthropic initiatives of the Pearson Foundation. Pearson's other primary businesses include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group. For more information, go to www.pearson.com. http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0672330504

Quest Software delivers innovative products that help you get more performance and productivity from your applications, databases and Windows infrastructure. Quest is an industry leader in SharePoint solutions, offering tools to manage, recover, migrate, develop and secure your growing SharePoint environment. With Quest, you reduce administrative time, consolidate and migrate information to SharePoint, easily and cost-effectively build applications in SharePoint, and protect critical business information within SharePoint. Through a deep expertise in IT operations and a continued focus on what works best, Quest helps more than 100,000 customers worldwide meet higher expectations for enterprise IT. Quest Software can be found in offices around the globe and at www.quest.com.

Software FX, Inc. was founded in September of 1993 as a component vendor for the emerging visual development community, which capitalizes on the increasing demand for reusable objects.

At Software FX, quality customer service and highly useful products are our main goals.

By providing top-of-the-line products for platforms like .Net, SharePoint 2007 and PowerShell among others, we continue to lead the market in deploying graphic data visualization solutions to the development and IT communities. Software FX is committed to providing a rich set cutting edge of tools and support for past, present and future technologies.

Web: http://www.softwarefx.com

Steel City SQL offers an opportunity for Information Technology professionals that have an interest in SQL Server to come together to network, share knowledge and experiences and learn more about SQL Server related products.

Our mission is to provide a launching pad for networking and learning for those interested in SQL Server. Acting as the local representative of the national PASS group and promoting local, regional and national events relating to SQL Server. Such events include our monthly local meetings, regional launch events and the nation PASS Summit

Web: http://www.steelcitysql.org

TekLinks is the region's leading provider of technology infrastructure, providing total network solutions for today’s demanding technology needs with more than 100 professionals throughout Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Gulf South.

We own and operate a 5,600 square foot Data Center in Birmingham, AL, a 2,000 square foot Data Center in Hattiesburg, MS, as well as an additional Data Center in Jackson, MS to provide 24/7 Co-Location, Hosted, and Managed Services for our clients.

TekLinks, a Cisco, Microsoft and Citrix Gold partner. Our highly educated, certified and sizable staff is made-up of more than 20 Cisco certified engineers including CCIEs and double CCIEs; over 20 Microsoft MCSCs.

We're TekLinks. Your trusted technology partner, providing best in class solutions. We Know I.T.

Web: http://www.teklinks.com

We’re Teksouth, a mature, no-nonsense company that quickly gets to the heart of your data solution needs. Whether large or small, we bring just the right level of resources and expertise to deliver solutions that perform, while saving you time and money.

Web: http://www.teksouth.com

Telerik is a leading vendor of User Interface (UI) components for Microsoft .NET technologies – ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, WinForms and WPF, and .NET Reporting and content management solutions. Building on its expertise in interface development and Microsoft technologies, Telerik helps customers build applications with unparalleled richness, responsiveness and interactivity. Created with passion, Telerik products help thousands of developers every day to be more productive and deliver reliable applications under budget and on time.

Web: http://www.telerik.com

Web Basics focuses on Microsoft.NET development solutions. Whether it is a basic web application or a complicated work flow system, Web Basics has the experience to deliver reliable and ongoing solutions for your company.

Web: http://www.webbasics.net