Aptillon

Hi, nice to meet you. We’re Aptillon; a new breed of consulting company. We’re SharePoint, we’re Windows Phone, and we’re solving business problems with Microsoft technology. We focus on SharePoint based solutions, but as you know, SharePoint touches a lot of different business areas and so do we. We have a comfort with what we do; a comfort that comes from familiarity and deep knowledge. That comfort lets us work more efficiently and faster to deliver results for our clients. It lets us cut through the hype of technology and solve real business problems.

We’re six Microsoft-focused professionals at our core, surrounded by an army of like-minded generalists and specialists all focused on getting the job done as quickly and efficiently as possible. www.aptillon.com

ASPE teaches today's SharePoint professionals real-world, hands-on skills in SharePoint and other Microsoft applications. Through tried and true methods, you get a practical, no-nonsense learning approach with materials and labs that provide tools and techniques you can use immediately on the job, gaining true return on investment. ASPE delivers real training for real results.

AvePoint is a global technology company and proven leader headquartered in the United States. Since its founding in 2001, AvePoint has become the world’s largest provider of Microsoft SharePoint infrastructure management software solutions. Propelled by the world’s largest SharePoint-exclusive research & development team, AvePoint helps more than 6,000 customers protect, manage, optimize, and integrate their SharePoint environments. AvePoint’s award-winning DocAve Software Platform is recognized as the industry standard for truly integrated SharePoint data protection, administration, replication, migration, deployment management, reporting, storage optimization, and content lifecycle management solutions. AvePoint is a Depth Managed Gold Certified Microsoft Partner and GSA provider.

For more information, visit http://www.avepoint.com

Since 1994, Axceler solutions have enabled enterprises to simplify, optimize and secure their collaborative platforms. Today, Axceler is a leader in managing SharePoint governance, security, reporting and analysis. Among its numerous Microsoft SharePoint solutions, Axceler offers awarding-winning ControlPoint for administration and Davinci Migrator for migration. More than 1,600 organizations worldwide are using Axceler products to control their SharePoint environments. Headquartered in Woburn, MA, USA, Axceler maintains offices in Seattle, Los Angeles, London and Sydney. For more information visit www.axceler.com.

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.

DeVry University Ft. Washington Campus offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in some of today's fastest-growing career fields. Because the Philadelphia area is a major economic force with a diverse business and talent base, DeVry University Ft. Washington enables you to explore possible career opportunities in a wide variety of industries. www.devry.edu/locations/campuses/loc_ftwashingtoncampus.jsp

Edgewater Technology is a consulting firm specializing in providing strategic web and portal solutions. A Microsoft Gold Partner for over 15 years, we build customized and integrated web solutions using the SharePoint platform including customer and partner portals, enterprise 2.0 portals and collaboration solutions, document management, business process automation and workflow. We also design and build websites using the SharePoint CMS and can help in migration planning and implementation to SharePoint 2010.

For more information, visit www.edgewater.com

Idera provides powerful and easy-to-use tools to simplify the management of Microsoft SharePoint environments. Our solutions address real-world challenges including SharePoint content organization and migration, performance monitoring, backup and recovery, security and administration. From managing small farms with tens of users to enterprise deployments with many thousands of users, our products help SharePoint administrators save time and manage SharePoint more efficiently. www.idera.com

K2 provides enterprise software products for automating enterprise business processes (K2 blackpearl), building SharePoint workflow solutions (K2 blackpoint) and integrating your solutions into SAP (K2 connect). K2 enables these process driven applications to be visually designed and assembled from reusable entities with no code, minimizing developer cycles, improving application lifecycle management and maximizing agility in application change. K2 has over 2000 customers in more than 50 countries. www.k2.com

KnowledgeLake, Inc., headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, is the market leader in Microsoft SharePoint ECM products and solutions. KnowledgeLake is a three-time Microsoft Partner of the Year award winner and is recognized as the founder of the SharePoint document imaging marketplace in 2003. Equity funded by PFU Ltd. (a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Ltd.), KnowledgeLake is a strong, stable and global company with currently over 2 million licensed users in 35 countries. KnowledgeLake is entirely focused on building a rich company culture where employee and customer satisfaction are its highest priorities.

Built entirely within Microsoft SharePoint, KnowledgeLake products enable organizations of any size to standardize on SharePoint as a powerful content platform for building and deploying rich solutions that satisfy many diverse business workloads (document imaging, workflow, business process management, transactional content management, document management, records management, web content management, collaboration, portals, and more). Long-term content viability, open standards, information worker productivity, and compliance are the key drivers of product design. www.knowledgelake.com

LiquidHub is a global management and technology consultancy focused on fueling business transformation for our clients in the healthcare, life sciences, financial services, insurance and other progressive markets.

We specialize in adding value to our clients by partnering with them to solve their unique business and technology challenges. Our consulting, solutions and outsourcing services are industry focused and meet our client's need with flexibility and expertise.

We support our clients enterprise goals through planning, execution, and management of technology across the full technology lifecycle. LiquidHub's agile and responsive teams bring deep technology expertise, thought leadership, and business-relavant solutions to every partnership. www.liquidhub.com

MetaVis Technologies is a Microsoft Gold Certified ISV that develops packaged software solutions to help organize SharePoint environments for improved search, findability and e-discovery. MetaVis takes the complexity out of designing, deploying and managing content within SharePoint by offering reusable taxonomies, metadata management and migration software and services. The benefit is an organized SharePoint environment that is easily understood and well documented. The company believes that taxonomy management within SharePoint should not be complicated to implement and use. MetaVis products are based on intuitive, graphical interfaces that are easy to use and easy to install. Drag and drop features allow information architects to design SharePoint metadata models and reuse them saving valuable time and resources. As a result, MetaVis products improve search optimization, consistency, content migration, and workflows across corporate SharePoint sites. www.metavistech.com

At Microsoft, we're motivated and inspired every day by how our customers use our software to find creative solutions to business problems, develop breakthrough ideas, and stay connected to what's most important to them.
We are committed long term to the mission of helping our customers realize their full potential. Just as we constantly update and improve our products, we want to continually evolve our company to be in the best position to accelerate new technologies as they emerge and to better serve our customers.

Neudesic is a Microsoft National Systems Integrator and Gold Certified Partner with a proven track record of providing reliable, effective solutions based on Microsoft’s technology platform. Neudesic’s technical and industry expertise empowers enterprises to enhance their technological capacity and respond to business opportunities with a greater level of efficiency. Established in 2001, Neudesic is headquartered in Irvine, CA, offering products and services throughout the United States, and has a global presence based out of Hyderabad, India. www.neudesic.com

NextDocs is one of the fastest growing companies in the United States because we provide the most innovative and easy to use software solutions that deliver compliance to our customers without the traditional complexity of enterprise software. We are the global leader in SharePoint-based compliance software solutions with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Our products include solutions for Regulatory Submission Document Management, Quality Management and Clinical Trials. We are the recipient of various awards for our software products including the 2011 Microsoft Innovation Award and 2011 Microsoft Life Sciences Partner of the Year Award. In 2011 NextDocs was ranked #67 on the INC 500 list of fastest growing privately held companies in the United States and ranked #13 on the Philly 100. We are a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and one of the premier employers in the region. NextDocs is proud to be a Platinum Sponsor of SharePoint Saturday. www.nextdocs.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.

Perficient is a premier IT management consulting firm specialized in designing, building and delivering business-driven technology solutions. We differentiate ourselves through our deep domain expertise in state of the art technologies and have quickly emerged as an industry leader. In addition to being a recognized Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and National Systems Integrator, one of only 35 in the entire US, Perficient is also an Oracle Platinum Partner and IBM Premier Business Partner and regularly named on several high-growth lists including The Fortune 100 Fastest-Growing Companies and the Business 2.0 Fastest Growing Technology Companies to name a few.

Learn more at www.perficient.com

Planet Technologies, founded in 1997, is 100% dedicated to the Microsoft platform. It is our mission to share our extensive experience, knowledge and enthusiasm for Microsoft with our clients to help solve their business challenges and keep them on the forefront of technology. We offer Microsoft based solutions around CRM, SharePoint, business intelligence, cloud services, unified communications, user experience/branding, records management, workflow automation, portal development and collaboration, systems management, virtualization and more.

Our team of 120+ Microsoft consultants includes Microsoft Certified Masters (MCM), Microsoft MVPs, Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCT) and CRM Rangers. Their technical knowledge and project management expertise has enabled us to excel for our customers who are some of the largest public sector and commercial organizations in the world. We are a five time Microsoft Federal Partner of the Year winner and a three time Microsoft State and Local Government Partner of the Year. Additionally, Planet is a SharePoint Deployment Planning Services partner. We are one of only 35 Microsoft National Systems Integrator (NSI) partners which gives us unprecedented access to advanced training on the latest Microsoft products and services. Visit us at www.go-planet.com

Developers are at the core of every business. And the world’s most recognizable businesses are using Pluralsight training. With our small business and enterprise plans, you get it all—simple license management, progress reports, assessments, and measurable ROI—all in a customized plan for you. We’ve changed the landscape of developer training. Let us change the landscape of your business.

Quest Software, an award-winning enterprise systems management vendor, is an industry leader in SharePoint solutions, offering tools to help you easily migrate, manage, recover, develop and secure your growing collaboration environment. Quest solutions give you visibility into SharePoint, enabling you to reduce administrative time, seamlessly consolidate and migrate information, easily and cost-effectively build applications, and protect critical business information. Quest helps more than 100,000 customers worldwide simplify enterprise IT. Quest Software can be found in offices around the globe and at www.quest.com.

RJB Technical Consulting (www.rjbtech.com) is a SharePoint Community Leader (www.phillysharepoint.org) out of Philadelphia that specializes in Microsoft SharePoint solutions and services that allow companies to conduct business and collaborate quickly and efficiently. At RJB, individuals have the opportunity to work with talented professionals in delivering timely solutions and continuous support to companies while ensuring success on time and on budget. Our employees enjoy a fun oriented, results-driven environment committed to excellence, respect, innovation and integrity. Our team’s passion for SharePoint and successful delivery shows through in everything we do.

At The Eventful Group we are passionate about connecting people who share common goals. We take special care of each and every customer. And we are focused on creating an environment of open communication. It's this spirit of community that encourages delegates, partners and speakers to break through barriers, engage in brave conversations and form lasting relationships.

Tri-State SharePoint User Group

We are a group of SharePoint and Office enthusiasts from the Philadelphia area - covering southeastern PA, northern Delaware and southern New Jersey. We meet the second Tuesday of each month, typically at the Microsoft office in Malvern. www.tristatesharepoint.com

Company Description: Vizit improves the SharePoint user experience by making it easier to find, navigate, and collaborate with content. Vizit provides a visual cue next to SharePoint library items or search results greatly improving findability. The Vizit viewer supports over 300 file formats and can be launched from any document URL in SharePoint. SharePoint users can view and navigate content with nothing more than a browser.

Vizit offers a unique approach to social collaboration in a document centric environment by integrating social conversations with SharePoint content, workflow and governance. Vizit users can simply highlight anything in a document and use it as the context of an interactive conversation. Vizit’s advanced markup and annotation capabilities significantly enhance the collaborative review process. Vizit also provides an easy method for capturing paper documents and placing image files into SharePoint libraries. Vizit dramatically improves SharePoint usability with a powerful combination of visualization and social collaboration.

Contact Paul Yantus - paul.yantus@vizit.com - for more information.