New Horizons Computer Learning Centers of New Orleans - Host/Sponsor

With over 300 centers in 60 countries, New Horizons is the world’s largest independent IT training company. Over the past 25 years, New Horizons has delivered a full range of IT training and business skills training through innovative learning methods that have transformed businesses and helped over 25 million students reach their goals.

http://www.newhorizons-no.com

Antares Technology Solutions is a software development and information technology consulting company. From business intelligence to web-based applications to embedded systems, Antares can help you apply existing and emerging technologies to realize a competitive advantage and capitalize on new business opportunities.

http://www.antaresnet.com

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. For more information, go to www.avepoint.com.

Since 1994, Axceler has helped enterprises address common yet critical administrative and development challenges, so organizations can maximize collaborative technology investments, improve business operations, and dramatically reduce administrative time and costs. For Microsoft SharePoint, Axceler delivers ControlPoint, which gives administrators the ability to explore, protect, analyze, and ultimately control their SharePoint environments. Axceler ControlPoint recently won “Best of TechEd for Productivity and Collaboration” and was named as a gold medal winner of the “2009 Editors’ Best Awards” in the Best SharePoint Product category by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro magazine.

Established in 2001, Bamboo Solutions is the leading provider of technologies that augment the Microsoft SharePoint platform. Bamboo currently offers more than 60 products providing a broad range of enhanced capabilities for SharePoint. http://www.bamboosolutions.com

In an increasingly complex world, Geocent provides innovative Information Technology, Engineering & Technical Support, and Decision Support to Federal, Commercial, Aerospace, Defense, Maritime, Nuclear, and Energy customers. A woman-owned small business, Geocent was formed by combining the Information Technology expertise of Diamond Data Systems with the Aerospace, Defense & Nuclear capabilities of Prescient Technologies. We created a company infused with new leadership, talent, and capital to create an exciting, results-oriented organization. Geocent employees across the country subscribe to the company’s culture of focusing on results when serving our large, diverse group of clients nationwide. Geocent has provided high-valued solutions since 1992 to customers including the Federal Government, State & Local Governments and many commercial clients, including publicly traded and Fortune 500 companies.

We pride ourselves on a tradition of providing the "best of" concept from employees to our clients. At nearly 150 technology employees, we strive to offer the positives of big business coupled with the personal care and touch of a small business. Everyone has a chance to make a positive difference on our company, on our employees, our clients, and most importantly, YOU! Our careers and jobs in the information technology field include Microsoft Gold Certified .Net experts, MS SharePoint Portal, MOSS 2007, Java (all platforms), Information Assurance (IA), and much much more. Our locations include New Orleans Louisiana, Baton Rouge Louisiana, Stennis Space Center Mississippi, Charleston South Carolina, Corona California, and more.

Global 360 helps organizations to better manage processes today and make improvements for tomorrow. Our process and document management solutions improve business performance by maximizing the productivity of all participants in a process. As a BPM market leader on the Microsoft platform, our products enable customers to leverage and extend their Microsoft investments in BizTalk, SharePoint, Visio and Office. Global 360 has helped more than 2,000 customers in 70 countries reduce paper, automate processes, and empower individuals to truly change how work gets done. Global 360, Inc. is headquartered in Texas with operations in North America, Europe, South Africa and Asia Pacific. For more information about Global 360's process and document management solutions, visit www.global360.com.

The International Association of Microsoft Certified Partners (IAMCP) is the preeminent networking venue for Microsoft Partners in the world. It brings the best partners together to leverage their joint strengths in delivering world class solutions to their clients while enhancing their ties to Microsoft.

Innovative-e employs a business-first approach to help you increase worker productivity, improve information management practices and streamline business processes with SharePoint.

Our SharePoint for Project Management and Project Management for SharePoint services are structured to guide you along the path to success, regardless of your starting point. Contact us today to learn more.

Christopher Boudy, Sr. is a New Orleans native with a passion for technology, gadgets, and all things geek. His love for his city and tech blended together to form the service organization NewOrleans Tech.Net, which highlights technology in New Orleans. NewOrleans Tech has become the premiere place to get hyperlocal news about all facets of technology within the city. During the day, Chris works for the second largest school district in Louisiana implementing and executing their web strategies and other technology initiatives. He also hosts a bi-weekly technology segment on a web show called LaunchPad TV. His other claims to fame are dabbling in photography, podcasting, and being an advocate for mobile web development.

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.

Founded in 2004 by Microsoft MVP Shane Young, SharePoint911 was established to draw on Shane’s extensive experience with systems administration and with consulting for clients on SharePoint issues. His “SharePoint Help…Now!” approach focused on small consulting engagements - helping clients quickly and efficiently.

Over the past several years, SharePoint911 has expanded and evolved. While our ability to respond quickly to specific needs makes us unique, we also offer comprehensive consulting services. By adding other Microsoft MVPs to our consultant base, not only do we have extensive, real world experience, but our consultants also teach, write about, and speak on various SharePoint topics.

We truly are “The SharePoint Authority.”

Telerik is a leading vendor of ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight, WinForms and WPF controls and components, as well as .NET Reporting, .NET ORM , .NET CMS, Code Analysis, TFS and Web Application Testing tools. 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.

Universal Data has been in business for 25 years and has an established reputation with our clients and community. UDI provides the people, hardware & software to implement, maintain and support all facets of your IT infrastructure. We give our clients the ability to have access to their business information anytime and anywhere. Our hand-picked team consists of two parts. The first is a team of highly certified engineers who spend large amounts of time maintaining the most current levels of certifications. The second is our staff members who work in a dedicated, team atmosphere utilizing award winning internal processes, which facilitate open communication, proper checks and balances that insure our clients receive a World Class partnership experience.

Sponsor

New Horizons Computer Learning Centers of New Orleans - Host/Sponsor

Antares Technology Solutions, Inc. - Host/Sponsor

Universal Data Incorporated

SharePoint Hosting by