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Dinner/Platinum Sponsor - Axceler

Axceler is a global leader in managing SharePoint governance, security, migration, compliance and analysis. Axceler entered the SharePoint space in 2007 and quickly took a leadership position with ControlPoint for governance and administration, winning more awards than any other SharePoint management product (Best of Connections, Windows IT Pro Editors Best and Community Choice, Windows IT Pro Best SharePoint Product, Best of TechEd). Axceler also offers the most comprehensive migration product on the market, Davinci Migrator, for moving from 2003 and 2007 environments to the SharePoint 2010 platform, as well as FileLoader for migrating file share content to SharePoint while adding and updating metadata.

With a 5,350% growth rate, Axceler is one of the fastest growing SharePoint ISVs, is a Microsoft Managed High-Potential ISV and Gold Partner, and has more than 2,700 organizations worldwide using Axceler products to control their SharePoint environments. Headquartered in Woburn, MA, USA, Axceler maintains offices in Los Angeles, London, Sydney, and in the Microsoft Partner Solutions Center in Redmond, Washington. For more information visit www.axceler.com, or follow us on Twitter at @Axceler

AvePoint is a global technology company and proven software leader. Since its founding in 2001, AvePoint has become the world’s largest provider of enterprise-class governance and infrastructure management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint. Propelled by the world’s largest SharePoint-exclusive research & development team, AvePoint helps more than 8,000 customers meet their specific business objectives utilizing the SharePoint platform. AvePoint, Inc. is headquartered and maintains its principal operational center in Jersey City, NJ, with wholly owned operational centers on five continents worldwide. AvePoint is a Depth Managed Microsoft Gold Certified Portals and Collaboration Partner and Gold Certified ISV Partner.

Quest Software helps you control your SharePoint challenges, so they don't control you. As an industry-leading enterprise systems management vendor, we offer award-winning SharePoint solutions to help manage, migrate and customize your environment. We have more than 100,000 customers around the globe. Visit us at www.quest.com/ControltheChaos.

Slalom Consulting brings together business and technology expertise to help companies drive enterprise performance, accelerate innovation, enhance the customer experience, and increase employee productivity. The firm delivers award-winning solutions in areas such as organizational effectiveness, business intelligence, mobility, and cloud through a national network of local offices across 11 North American cities.

Founded in 2001 and based in Seattle, WA, Slalom has rapidly grown to more than 1,800 consultants. The company has earned recognition from Microsoft as the Partner of the Year five times, including 2012 Microsoft Office 365 Solution Partner of the Year, as well as one of the Top 10 Best Firms to Work For by Consulting Magazine. For more information, visit www.slalom.com

Buildingi is creating a company that is founded on building trust. By growing slowly and deliberately, while hand-picking every team member and client, Buildingi leadership can maintain a level of unsurpassed client involvement to ensure that philosophical ideals are carried forward from start-to-finish. These ideals carry through to our vision and guiding principles:

We use our values as a common set of guidelines to develop Buildingi as the technology expert of choice using our values as a common set of guidelines.

These principles guide our decisions and behavior:
• Work hard, have fun and maintain a respectful positive working environment.
• Commit to the success of our customers, our company and each other.
• Ensure that our people, products and services are the best by dedicating ourselves to continuous improvement.
• Help people in need and give back to our community.

We believe that sound business judgment, ethical principles and making a profit are essential components of our enduring success and realization of our vision.

CloudShare is a cloud computing company that provides an amazingly flexible and easy to use cloud-computing platform for developing and testing IT applications, software, and systems.

CloudShare combines aspects of virtualization, cloud computing and collaboration to offer a software as a service (SaaS) solution for delivering IT to colleagues, clients, customers and partners. CloudShare automates the virtual lab. CloudShare makes full-featured virtual enterprise environments available online and on-demand. This has a variety of applications including development and testing, sales enablement, proofs-of-concept, evaluations, technical training and certification of hardware or software and channel enablement.

Customers can create multi-machine IT environments in the cloud or upload existing virtual machines. CloudShare supports leading hypervisors (VMWare, Xen) and operating systems (Windows 7, Ubuntu), and provides many templates for new machines with operating systems and software (such as Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Microsoft Office 2010 or Ruby on Rails) preinstalled.

Visit us at www.cloudshare.com

Colligo Networks is the leading provider of SharePoint apps for managing email and documents in SharePoint from anywhere, on any device. Our solution suite is used by over 4800 organizations worldwide to implement enterprise-wide records management policies, increase collaboration and drive SharePoint adoption, by making it easy to access and manage SharePoint content from everyday apps and devices like Microsoft Outlook, Windows File Explorer, Apple iPads and smartphones. Colligo is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner.

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Manpower® Professional, COMSYS and Jefferson Wells have combined their considerable expertise and experience to create a new company called Experis.

Experis is the global leader in professional resourcing and project-based workforce solutions. We accelerate organizations' growth by intensely attracting, assessing, and placing specialized expertise in IT, Finance and Accounting, Engineering, and Healthcare to precisely deliver in-demand talent for mission-critical positions, enhancing the competitiveness of the organizations and people we serve.

Visit www.experis.com to learn more.

Metalogix is the trusted provider of innovative content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange and Cloud platforms. We deliver high-performance solutions to scale and cost-effectively manage, migrate, store, archive and protect enterprise content. Metalogix provides global support to thousands of customers and strategic partners and is a Microsoft Gold Partner and GSA provider. Metalogix is a privately held company backed by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. For more information, please visit: www.metalogix.com

Pingar transforms enterprise information into intelligence using intuitive and powerful technology that harnesses the power of text mining, natural language processing & machine learning. Pingar’s algorithms search enterprise data stores and create multiple metadata values automatically and consistently, including terms and keywords from custom or public taxonomies. Adding Pingar to an existing content or document management solution delivers the ability to search, share and summarize previously unstructured or poorly structured data, and gain more contextually relevant results, adding incremental value without replacing existing software, and little to no additional user training.

Optimizing Global SharePoint Deployments Optimize your SharePoint deployment with Riverbed Are you looking to centralize and consolidate your SharePoint environment, while still supporting remote users? Are you looking to build your brand awareness or enable partners through a SharePoint website? Has SharePoint become a critical application to your business, but disaster recovery plans don’t yet encompass it? Whether you are using Microsoft SharePoint for intranets, extranets, or public-facing websites, Riverbed can enhance performance and enable enterprise-wide consolidation and disaster recovery planning. Riverbed’s industry leading RiOS® and Aptimize software have unique features for optimizing Microsoft SharePoint for improved performance and lower costs. Attend this session to learn how to: • Accelerate access to SharePoint across the WAN while reducing bandwidth utilization • Maximize SharePoint search capabilities and enable cross-regional collaboration • Reduce hardware and management costs by consolidating SharePoint infrastructure • Improve disaster recovery and business continuity planning for SharePoint • Optimize your private or public cloud deployment of SharePoint Don’t miss this exciting, educational session!

Created by SharePoint geeks, Sharegate is a powerful migration product ready to rescue power users and allow them to be more productive. It’s so easy-to-use and it has so many great features that we don’t need more justifications to explain why it is recognized as the No-Brainer migration tool! Trusted by more than 1,000 organizations throughout the world (yes, internationally!), Sharegate has become the ultimate reference in terms of SharePoint migration. Can’t wait to learn more? Check out our website today! www.share-gate.com

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.

Webtrends is the global leader in unified mobile, social and web analytics and engagement. We help marketers create, measure and improve campaigns for more than 3,500 global brands including: The New York Times, Microsoft, BMW, RIM, China Telecom, China Mobile, CCTV, Tencent QQ, Hitachi, The Associated Press, HSBC, Barclays, Vivo Cellular and Petrobras. Our leadership extends beyond the web analytics industry we founded to the measurement, optimization and integration of all digital content and customer intelligence, including web sites, social media, mobile and paid-search advertising. Webtrends is a registered trademark of Webtrends Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

Chrysalis | BTS
At Chrysalis | BTS our mission is to help leaders deliver meaningful improvement in the performance of their organization through the strategic application of technology solutions.

• We’re about uniting business strategy with innovative and disruptive IT technologies and delivery models.
• We’re about putting our client’s interests ahead of our own.
• We’re about extracting more value from technology investments already made.
• We’re about delivering more than expected.
• We’re about unlocking new channel models and revenue streams.
• We’re about partnering with our clients, sharing knowledge and insight.

We have a depth of expertise that allows us to approach problems in a way that no one else will. At our core we are a team of talented, passionate individuals committed to solving the most difficult problems and delivering better results for our clients.

Learn more about Chrysalis Business Technology Solutions at Na href="http://www.chrysalisbts.com">www.chrysalisbts.com

Idera provides powerful and easy-to-use solutions that will help you get control of your Microsoft SharePoint farm. Our solutions address challenges every SharePoint administrator faces like performance monitoring, backup and recovery, governance and compliance, security, and migration. Whether you are managing a small farm with tens of users or an enterprise deployment, Idera will help you save time and manage SharePoint more efficiently.

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.

KWizCom has over 3000 customers worldwide and the list is growing daily.

ManyWorlds is a research & development (R&D) company that applies the results of its R&D to help leading companies grow. Our business process research is delivered to our clients in the form of advanced methodologies and content to supercharge their R&D, marketing, business development, and strategy processes. Our technology research is focused on adaptive software that learns to become more effective over time. We put this R&D into practice with our patented Epiture® adaptive knowledge network platform. ManyWorlds.com

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

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