SPONSORS/EXHIBITION

EXHIBIT HOURS:

Tuesday 14 June Wednesday 15 June
    10:30-11:00       10:30-11:00
  13:15-14:30     13:15-14:30
  15:35-16:05     15:35-16:05
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GOLD SPONSORS:

Microsoft
www.microsoft.com/uk/msdn/architecture/
   Microsoft

 


Troux
www.trouxmetis.com
   Metis-Troux
The Metis® Enterprise modeling toolset enables companies to extract more value from enterprise investments in IT technology and resources by offering visual modeling of complex interrelationships for use in decision support. Metis integrates with legacy applications and can be used by stakeholders in any functional domain, including enterprise architecture, business-and-IT-alignment, and database, project, portfolio, and business process management.

The Metis product suite (established in 1985) and Metis team, formerly part of Computas Technology AS, recently joined forces with Troux™ Technologies, the leader in IT Governance software and solutions, through an all shares acquisition by Troux™ Technologies. As part of this operation, Computas Technology AS changed its name to Troux Technologies AS.

Popkin Software
www.popkin.co.uk
   Popkin Software

Model your business, understand how people, information, systems and technology work together to deliver business improvement.

Jan Popkin established the company in 1988, based on his recognition of the need for tools and techniques to utilise the software industry's technical and managerial resources. Since 1988, Popkin Software has developed and produced a portfolio of products that has evolved into the company's current flagship offerings.

Popkin’s System Architect® product is the market leading choice of organisations everywhere to define and refine their Enterprise Architecture


glue
www.glue.com
   glue

glue: is europe's leading IS strategy and execution consulting organisation focused exclusively on the provision of IS governance, enterprise architecture, portfolio management and enterprise integration technology services.

our value proposition is to help CFOs/CIOs maximise the value from their IT assets, resources and initiatives - exploiting project delivery and technology cost of ownership synergies whilst minimising compliance risks.

we do this by helping organisations define, design, implement and resource 'best practice':

  • strategy alignment management processes & service centric competency structures
  • enterprise architecture & portfolio planning/governance cababilities
  • agile, service oriented business systems, integration & technical infrastructures

Architecting-the-Enterprise
www.architecting-the-enterprise.com
   Architecting-the-Enterprise
Architecting-the-Enterprise is the leading global Enterprise Architecture Consultancy and Training Organisation for TOGAF based Professional Services.

CIO Magazine lists TOGAF The Open Group Architecture Framework as one of the most popular Enterprise Architecture frameworks www.opengroup.org/architecture/togaf.

All our Trainers and Consultants are TOGAF certified and Architecting-the-Enterprise was one of the first certified to deliver TOGAF Professional Services. Our Professional Services include TOGAF Consultancy and Start-up services to enable any organisation to implement and integrate TOGAF into their organisation smoothly and quickly.

Our certified training services include elearning and instructor led training courses delivered through public and private on-site events, webinars and personal mentoring services. One of our prime objectives is to enable Enterprise and IT Architects globally to train for TOGAF certification in their own environment.


STANDARD SPONSORS:

Unicorn
www.unicorn.com
   unicorn

Unicorn Solutions is the world's leader in Enterprise Architecture and Management. Unicorn's ONE Enterprise paradigm delivers unprecedented transparency, integration, IT efficiency, and agility to the Global 1000. ONE Enterprise delivers this value by managing disparate IT systems, creating a common business architecture, and overlaying the common business architecture on the IT systems. As a result, businesses rapidly develop and update their common business language and processes while rationalizing the IT systems on which they are executed. The Unicorn System(tm) enables the ONE Enterprise paradigm with capabilities of metadata repository, ontology modeling, semantic mapping, active design services, active IT management services and federated business query.


Adaptive
www.adaptive.com
   adaptive
Adaptive is a web-based enterprise architecture knowledge repository solution provider. Our products and services enable organizations to maximize the value of their enterprise architecture initiatives, through exceptionally capable and feature-rich support for the full scope of Enterprise Architecture planning and implementation. By providing a "big picture" view - and with our unique capability to leverage disparate data sources into a holistic, secure enterprise architecture framework - Adaptive provides management, in both business and IT, with the ability to plan, organize, lead and monitor change in a much more rigorous and effective manner.

Casewise
www.casewise.com
   casewise

Who do Swiss Re, Unilever and Pfizer turn to for enterprise architecture modeling software? The answer is UK-based Casewise®.

Casewise Corporate Modeler™ helps leading organizations reduce redundancy, implement standards and align business and IT planning through a multi-dimensional view of the enterprise. Anchored around a powerful model repository, Casewise Corporate Modeler and IT Architecture Accelerator provide a total solution for Enterprise/IT Architecture Management.

So for a clear view of the impact of change, your IT assets, ongoing IT projects and strategies, choose Casewise.

Download a FREE TRIAL VERSION of The Corporate Modeler Suite today at www.casewise.com/downloads.


ThoughtWorks
www.thoughtworks.com/uk
   ThoughtWorks
ThoughtWorks Ltd is a global IT professional services firm providing application development and systems integration services to Global 1000 companies. The company's leadership in the practical application of Agile methods on enterprise-class projects allows its people to deliver higher quality solutions more quickly and cost effectively, while giving client business leaders greater program and project control.We have established a reputation for succeeding where other have failed; delivering complex, mission critical systems by utilising our focus on solutions architecture, development and integration.

Our approach is simple; deliver maximum business value as quickly as possible by leveraging some of the brightest people in the software development community.

Time and time again our proven success in project delivery has enabled our clients to reconnect business with IT, delivering highly aligned IT solutions whilst gaining significant savings in ownership.


AmberPoint
www.amberpoint.com
   AmberPoint
AmberPoint makes SOA systems production-ready. Our management and security solutions transform loosely coupled systems into trustworthy, enterprise-class business assets. With a non-invasive approach to management and native support for both Java and .NET, our software products integrate seamlessly into any SOA environment to quickly deliver comprehensive management capabilities—and without requiring additional coding to the Web services themselves. AmberPoint leads the SOA management market in customers and production deployments.

QUALIWARE
www.qualiwareinc.com
   QUALIWARE
Qualiware was Founded in 1991, QualiWare is a global company with worldwide headquarters in Denmark and subsidiaries in Stockholm, Sweden and New York. There are distributors and resellers in Norway, Holland and Spain and Brazil.

QualiWare develops and sells a business modeling system and supports the development, deployment and management of Quality Management Systems, Business Processes, Information Systems Development, and Enterprise Architectures. Using QualiWare products and services empower customers to drive quality into their business operations. The result: lower operational costs and expenses, plus greater customer satisfaction, ultimately yielding increased revenue and profits. QualiWare customers include IBM, New York State Bar Association, Volvo Aero, Nokia, Unicon, Pratt and Whitney, and Radio Frequency Systems, among many others.


PROGRESS SOFTWARE -
Real Time Division

www.progress.com/realtime
   Progress Software - Real Time Division
The Progress Software Real Time Division provides event stream processing, data management, data access and synchronisation products to enable the real-time enterprise.

Our products monitor and analyse real-time event stream data for applications such as algorithmic trading and RFID, accelerate the performance of existing databases through sophisticated caching, manage and process complex data in the industry's leading object database and support occasionally connected or mobile users requiring real-time access to enterprise applications.

Leading companies such as amazon.com, FedEx, Ordnance Survey, Reuters and Orange depend on Progress Software to manage and deliver massive amounts of data in real time.


MEDIA SPONSORS:

Information Age
www.infoconomy.com
   Information Age

Information Age is the UK's leading monthly magazine dedicated to helping managers maximise the use of technology for business advantage. Information Age is a monthly, business magazine for technology decision makers: the people who are defining the strategy & the budget, buying the products & the services, & delivering the value to their businesses through technology. Information Age provides analysis, information & insight in three streams: technology, which covers the latest developments in software, hardware & services strategy, which covers how organisation should, or are, implementing technology & new business practices; finance, which discusses the costs & the financial implications of technological decisions. For your FREE 12 month subscription, please visit www.infoconomy.com/register.


ITarchitect 
www.itarchitect.co.uk
   ITArchitect
The ITarchitect web site was launched in Spring 2004 by Bearpark Publishing, the company which produces VSJ magazine (www.vsj.co.uk) and the annual DevWeek conference (www.devweek.com).

The site aims to provide a wide range of useful resources to IT architects working in the UK, including technical articles, news, and details of forthcoming events and training courses.

Recent articles have covered a wide range of topics, including architecture and design with Microsoft's forthcoming Team System product, a critique of agile methods, and a detailed explanation of how you can give new life to your legacy VB code by using refactoring techniques.