APress

Apress is a technical publisher devoted to meeting the needs of IT professionals, software developers, and programmers, with more than 700 books in print and a continually expanding portfolio of publications. Apress provides high-quality, no-fluff content in print and electronic formats that help serious technology professionals build a comprehensive pathway to career success

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.

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. http://www.corasworks.com

In August of 2008, the Critical Path Training technical staff was hired by the Developer Platform Evangelism (DPE) team at Microsoft to author and deliver a hands-on training course for SharePoint 2010 developers. Over the last year, Critical Path Training instructors including Ted Pattison, Andrew Connell, Scot Hillier, Wouter Van Vugt and Chris Predeek have successfully delivered this workshop to hundreds of professional software developers from Microsoft as well as other ISVs and System Integrators that have been a part of the private beta.

Shouldn’t you make Critical Path Training your “go to” resource for SharePoint 2010 training?www.criticalpathtraining.com

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

EndUserSharePoint.com is a loosely knit group of authors dedicated to providing information and resources to the SharePoint Community. Through a series of live online workshops, daily content updates, weekly newsletters, a SharePoint Q&A forum and participation in numerous SharePoint events as a live media stream sponsor, EndUserSharePoint.com has become one of the world’s largest content repositories for SharePoint Information Workers, Site Managers and Site Collection Administrators. www.endusersharepoint.com

KWizCom is a leading developer of innovative software components designed to expand Microsoft SharePoint, Project Server and Dynamics CRM out-of-the-box capabilities, streamline workflow, maximize efficiency and enhance over-all productivity.

KWizCom solutions grant organizations the tools to realize their potential - attain corporate goals with greater ease and ultimately, increase revenue.

KWizCom products are designed to give customers maximum benefit at minimum cost including, partnering with customers under the Shared Cost Development Model to create custom tailored solutions at the half the expense.

The KWizCom team consists of dynamic and creative consumer oriented experts dedicated to developing effective and efficient solutions, providing exceptional service and building long lasting customer relationships and partnerships.

KWizCom, a Gold Certified Microsoft Partner, is a global company, headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

For more information please visit the KWizCom website at: http://www.kwizcom.com/

Metalogix provides award-winning productivity solutions for Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange. Our SharePoint migration and Exchange archiving software enables organizations to migrate, manage, recover, and archive enterprise content to ensure its availability, support regulatory compliance, and make companies more efficient and cost effective. The company’s goal is to provide content lifecycle management for the Microsoft collaborative world. Metalogix is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Use Metalogix to build, manage, migrate, archive and recover critical content in SharePoint, Exchange and Files. www.metalogix.com

MetaVis Technologies provides 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

MicroLink LLC, Microsoft's Federal Repeatable Solutions Award (2008), Microsoftâ€™s Federal Partner of the Year (2007), DoD Partner of the Year (2007, 2006), provides Integrated Solutions to both the public, private, and commercial sectors in a variety of vertical markets including Knowledge Management, Portals and Collaboration, Geospatial, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Search, and .Net Development. For more information, visit www.microlinkllc.com

At Microsoft, our mission and values are to help people and business throughout the world realize their full potential.

Mimosa Systems provides a platform for managing unstructured information such as email , SharePoint and file system content. Mimosa’s NearPoint products allow organizations to reduce storage costs, streamline and expedite eDiscovery, decrease cost and time of system backup and recovery, and mitigate content-related risks. With its next-generation architecture, NearPoint is preferable to competitor’s solutions when ease-of-deployment is important, enterprise scalability is critical, and eDiscovery and content monitoring are factors in the decision. www.mimosasystems.com

Mindsharp is a global education company that specializes in providing solutions using Microsoft enterprise products through our OnPath™ for SharePoint educational process and consulting services. Mindsharp's nationally recognized experts are committed to providing you with high quality educational opportunities and innovative business solutions. In our capacity as a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Mindsharp is dedicated to helping our students and clients increase productivity with secure, scalable collaboration, communication, and messaging solutions. www.mindsharp.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

Perficient is a leading information technology consulting firm serving clients throughout the United States. We are experts in designing, building and delivering business-driven technology solutions. We help our clients gain competitive advantage by using Internet-based technologies to make their businesses more responsive to market opportunities and threats, strengthen relationships with customers, suppliers and partners, improve productivity and reduce information technology costs. www.perficient.com

A User's Group for Administrators and Developers interested in the Office System - incorporating both client (Word, Excel, etc) and server (SharePoint, Forms, etc) applications. www.officegeeks.org/philly

Philly.Net provides a forum for the study and discussion of key Microsoft .NET technologies including Visual Studio development tools, servers, and web services. www.phillydotnet.org

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.

RepliWeb Operational Synchronization for SharePoint (ROSS) addresses the challenges of deploying and replicating content, solutions, and functional elements in multi-stage (Development, UAT, Production) and multi-site (distributed) SharePoint environments.

ROSS provides selective (granular) or comprehensive deployment/replication of solutions, structure, look & feel, navigation, galleries, features & content types, and more. Recognized for its ability to accelerate deployment timelines, ROSS ensures production readiness of sites and invokes "best practice" for change control processes.

For more information, please visit www.repliweb.com