SPONSORS/EXHIBITION

EXHIBIT HOURS:

Tuesday - 13 June 2006
    10:30-11:00 EXHIBIT OPEN & Coffee
  12:00-13:15 EXHIBIT OPEN & Lunch
  15:15-15:35 EXHIBIT OPEN & Coffee
  17:35-19:00 EXHIBIT OPEN & Drinks Reception
     
Wednesday - 14 June 2006
  10:00-10:30 EXHIBIT OPEN & Coffee
  12:30-13:45 EXHIBIT OPEN & Lunch
  15:45-16:15 EXHIBIT OPEN & Coffee
     

In Association with:

Forrester
www.forrester.com/eac2006
   Forrester Research

Forrester Research (Nasdaq: FORR) is an independent technology and market research company that provides pragmatic and forward-thinking advice about technology's impact on business and consumers. For 22 years, Forrester has been a thought leader and trusted advisor, helping global clients lead in their markets through its research, consulting, events, and peer-to-peer executive programs.

At this year’s Enterprise Architecture conference, Alex Peters, Principal of Forrester’s Leadership Board, will participate as a keynote speaker. In his presentation, Alex will focus on “The Enterprise Knowing-Doing Gap” and look at where enterprise architecture fits into the management process. Click here for more information.

In preparation for the event, Forrester Research is pleased to offer you Alex’s selection of its latest research reports related to enterprise architecture. Following a short registration process, you will be able to download these reports at: www.forrester.com/eac2006.

GOLD SPONSORS:

QualiWare
www.qualiwareinc.com/
   QUALIWARE

Founded in 1991, QualiWare is a global consulting services and business modeling software provider. Our services and products help you succeed with your Quality Management, Process Management and Optimization initiatives, Business Excellence programs, Enterprise Architecture initiatives, and/or IT solution development needs.

QualiWare provides a wide range of business and technical consulting services, and market the QualiWare Lifecycle Manager suite of modeling, architecture related, document management, and web publishing solutions. We firmly believe that our services and tools can benefit almost everyone in any kind of enterprise. QualiWare’s services and products…

  • Support achievement of strategic objectives
  • Deliver ongoing value to the organization through effective and efficient change management
  • Support continual, cyclical business improvement
  • Ensure information sharing across the organization
  • Provide integrated, cost-effective solutions

In all these activities, QualiWare provides a strong and vital bridge between business and IT.


Telelogic
www.telelogic.com
   Telelogic

Telelogic is a leading global provider of solutions for automating and supporting best practices across the enterprise - from powerful business process management and enterprise architecture to requirements-driven development of advanced systems and software. Telelogic's solutions enable organizations to align product, systems, and software development lifecycles with business objectives and customer needs to dramatically improve quality and predictability, while significantly reducing time-to-market and overall costs. Headquartered in Malmö, Sweden, with U.S. headquarters in Irvine, California, Telelogic has operations in 20 countries worldwide. Customers include Airbus, Alcatel, BAE SYSTEMS, BMW, Boeing, DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Bank, Ericsson, General Electric, General Motors, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, NEC, Philips, Samsung, Siemens, Sprint, Thales, and Vodafone.


Serco Group
www.serco.com/consulting
   Serco

Serco Group is one of the world's leading business outsourcing and consulting companies, with a worldwide presence and a burgeoning reputation. Serco Consulting's collective expertise lies in IS/IT strategy, Enterprise Architecture and delivering business and technology transformation programmes. The EA team brings together over 75 years of world-class architecture experience gained in line management and delivery roles in major blue-chip, public sector and consulting organisations. Our teams combine highly experienced consultants with the lessons learnt from Serco's operational business - a potent combination - and we work closely with our clients to achieve real business benefits from complex, IT intensive initiatives.


Navigant Consulting
www.navigantconsulting.com
   Navigant Consulting

Navigant Consulting, Inc. (NYSE: NCI) is a specialized independent consulting firm providing dispute, financial, regulatory and operational advisory services to government agencies, legal counsel and large companies facing the challenges of uncertainty, risk, distress and significant change. The Company focuses on industries undergoing substantial regulatory or structural change, including healthcare, energy and financial and insurance services, and on the issues driving these transformations.


Adaptive
www.adaptive.com
   adaptive
Adaptive is a global corporation providing a web based and industry standards compliant Enterprise Architecture Repository. Its products are open, enterprise-scale software that integrate architecture information from modelling tools, office applications and operational systems.

Adaptive Foundation™ is a repository platform that enables Adaptive and its partners to quickly create Adaptations which encompass techniques, tools and analytical capabilities tailored to specific domains or markets. The Adaptive suite includes:

  • Adaptive Enterprise Architecture Manager™
  • Adaptive Business Process Manager™
  • Adaptive IT Portfolio Manager™

Adaptive works with many large organizations and governments around the world to address the challenges of enterprise architecture, business performance improvement, IT governance, metadata management and Model Driven Architecture™.


glue
www.glueltd.com
   glue
glue: is europe's leading strategy and execution consulting organisation focused exclusively on the provision of business / IT agility and enterprise integration services. our core proposition is to help organisations maximise the value from their IT enablement, business innovation and change initiatives as well as to help exploit the investments already made in existing systems & assets. we do this by helping organisations define, design, implement and resource 'best practice':
  • enterprise architecture, portfolio & technology management processes and roadmaps
  • centre of excellence & competency centre structures
  • business process management, information management, SOA and integration infrastructures

we differentiate ourselves by providing a combination of pragmatic thought-leadership and pre-packaged intellectual property enabled services. our clients cover multiple industry sectors and include organisations such as Argos, Axa, BBC, Boots, Burberry, BSkyB, Carphone Warehouse, GE, General Motors, GSK, ICI, Johnson & Johnson, Kraft Foods, RWE, Vodafone, WH Smiths, Yorkshire Water.


Troux Technologies
www.troux.com
   troux technologies
Troux Technologies provides Enterprise Architecture (EA) and IT Governance solutions that drive consistent and integrated cross-domain decision making to accelerate IT and business transformation. Troux’s breakthrough technology provides visibility into information, policies and analytics critical for IT excellence, and the business agility to break information silo barriers to align IT with business goals.

Troux’s product family – from the award-winning Metis EA modeling tools, robust repository and enhanced IT governance applications easily integrates to offer unparalleled visibility. More than 200 Troux customers worldwide have the practical solution to complex, inefficient IT infrastructures: Actionable Enterprise Architecture.


GEO
www.geo-uk.net
   GEO
Geo is the UK's newest national optical fibre infrastructure and has a single focus: supplying infrastructure services to large businesses and service providers. Owned by Hutchison Whampoa, Geo allows large businesses to truly own their network including dedicated fibre and optical platforms. Geo's solutions are bespoke but all deliver some key features, including the capability to support long term growth with total operational and financial control. Geo's customers therefore enjoy and exploit unlimited bandwidth capability between key sites, on a completely scalable and robust solution. Geo's broad network of partners, both equipement vendors and service providers, allow each customer solution to be tailored to optimise the fit with each customer's needs.

STANDARD SPONSORS:

Ab Initio Software
www.abinitio.com
   AB Initio

Ab Initio Software is a general-purpose data processing platform for enterprise-scale, mission-critical applications such as data warehousing, batch processing, clickstream analysis, data transformation, and analytics. Ab Initio solves the problems of scalability, development time, performance, metadata management, and integration at the world’s largest companies in banking, e-commerce, telecommunications, insurance, retail, and healthcare.


Inspired
www.inspired.org
   Inspired
Inspired is a long time provider of quality consulting services in enterprise strategy, architecture and IT delivery methods. At the display area, you can see examples from their comprehensive and uniquely business oriented EA frameworks as well as demonstrations of their innovative, collaborative, web-based EA knowledge modeling and management tool, Archi. Archi was recently reviewed by Mike Hall on behalf of the Association of Enterprise Architects and was awarded 87% using the Scott Bernard derived evaluation criteria. Archi (also known as EA WebModeler in North America) provides an affordable, flexible and easy to use solution to the repository and tooling needs of architects, program managers and strategists.

mega
www.mega.com/en/index.asp
   Mega

MEGA is the global leader in process excellence and enterprise architecture modelling solutions. The MEGA value-driven approach combines proven methods, modelling software and consulting to deliver an enterprise repository to the client. This repository provides executives and operational managers with the ability to understand, discover, align and control information at the enterprise level. MEGA, headquartered in Paris, France and founded in 1991, does business in Europe and North America through operations and affiliates in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Canada, Mexico, and recently in Central and Eastern Europe. MEGA clients in the United Kingdom include Legal & General and the Carphone Warehouse. International clients include Alitalia, Allianz, British American Tobacco, Crédit Lyonnais, Novartis, Renault, Société Générale, Target, Vitro and Wyeth.


IDS Scheer
www.ids-scheer.com
   IDS Scheer
IDS Scheer, international software and consulting company, is the leading provider of Business Process Management and Enterprise Architecture solutions. With its ARIS Platform, IDS Scheer offers its customers an integrated and complete solution for strategy, design, implementation and monitoring of business processes. ARIS is the world’s best selling tool for process optimisation and is consistently ranked number by independent analysts such as Gartner.

Currently IDS Scheer supplies Enterprise Architecture solutions to global companies such as Barclays, BP, BT and Siemens. All have gained significant benefits from IDS Scheer to model, harmonise, and streamline their processes whilst aligning them to IT.

Website: www.ids-scheer.com


proforma
www.proforma-uk.com
   proforma
Proforma is a leading vendor in the Business Process Analysis & Modelling market. Proforma's object-oriented repository-based product, ProVision, has a well-deserved reputation of providing an easy to use yet comprehensive modelling environment that keeps focus on business goals and objectives, as opposed to learning the complexities and nuances of the modelling environment. Put simply, ProVision, combined with the jump-start assistance of pre-written best-practice industry models such as ITIL, SOX, eTOM and SCOR, helps pave an unobstructed path to user success in Enterprise Architecture and Service Oriented Architecture projects.

Embarcadero Technologies
www.embarcadero.com
   Embarcadero Technologies
Embarcadero Technologies is a leading provider of strategic data management solutions that help companies to improve the availability, integrity, accessibility, and security of corporate data.

Nearly 12,000 companies globally, including 30 of the FTSE 100 and 97 of the Fortune 100, rely on Embarcadero solutions to maximize their return on corporate data assets and to meet the challenges of explosive data growth, escalating data security requirements, and complex, multi-platform data environments.

Embarcadero addresses the data needs of large enterprises in a range of industry sectors: notably financial services, hi-tech, government and telecommunications.

With today's limited IT resources and intense time-to-market pressures, Embarcadero solutions are ideal for maximizing the productivity of application and development teams.


Architecting-the-Enterprise
www.architecting-the-enterprise.com
   Architecting-the-Enterprise
Architecting-the-Enterprise (AtE) is the leading global Training and Consulting Services organisation specialising in Enterprise and IT Architecture based on TOGAF – The Open Group Architecture Framework.

We are experienced practitioners with both an excellent understanding of Enterprise Architecture and a deep understanding in specific areas, such as TOGAF Initiation & “getting started”, Governance, Data Modelling or Business Process Modelling etc.

We provide both TOGAF Consultancy and Training to our global community and are proud to have trained and certified over 80% of all current TOGAF practitioners. Our goal is to continue to develop this community and to provide leadership in Enterprise Architecture methods and standards.


MEDIA SPONSORS:

computing BUSINESS
www.computingbusiness.co.uk
   computing Business

Computing Business is a new monthly magazine for IT leaders.

Chief information officers are increasingly expected to develop the business, technology, leadership and personal skills needed to make an effective contribution to decision-making in the boardroom. Computing Business aims to help its readers take that step.

The magazine brings together an exclusive community of the UK’s 35,000 most senior IT leaders to examine the personal, organisational and management issues that affect their ability to inspire IT-enabled change.


ITarchitect 
www.itarchitect.co.uk
   ITarchitect

The ITarchitect web site is an independent resource specifically aimed at IT architects working in the UK. It features technical articles, news, book extracts, and details of forthcoming events and training courses.

Recent articles have covered a wide range of topics, including SOA, value-driven architecture, why projects fail, topic maps, design patterns, lifecycle integration, unit testing and domain-specific modeling.