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PLATINUM SPONSORS:
IBM
The Case for an SOA Foundation

GOLD SPONSORS:
Laszlo
Presentation & Demo
Parasoft
Presentation & Demo
webMethods/SoftwareAG
Customer - SOA at National Bank of Canada

SILVER SPONSORS:
Active Endpoints
Wake Up to the Power of ActiveBPEL
WSO2
Session by Asankha Perera

EXHIBITOR PLUS:
Nastel
Monitoring Messaging based SOA
Nexaweb
Enterprise Web 2.0 Reference Architecture - AJAX, SOA, and Open Source
Solstice Software
Presentation & Demo

POWER PANELS:
Virtualization Power Panel
Moderator: Alessandro Perilli - Speakers: Toufic Boubez and Jonathan Clark
SOA Power Panel
Moderator Sean Rhody - Speakers: Fred Holahan and Dave Mavashev and Asankha Perera and Ian Thain
EOS Power Panel
Moderator: Roger Strukhoff - Speakers: Doug Levin and David Temkin

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2007 SPONSORS

IBM

IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and key IBM Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions, and technologies that help enable customers, large and small, to take full advantage to increase the flexibility of their business processes, strengthen their underlying IT infrastructure and retain and reuse their existing assets. Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) from IBM is the answer. For more information about IBM, visit www.ibm.com/soa
Laszlo Systems

Laszlo Systems is the original developer of the open source platform OpenLaszlo, and provider of Rich Internet Applications and services that advance the Web experience. OpenLaszlo is an XML-native foundation for building next-generation Web applications that increase customer retention, conversion and brand loyalty. Laszlo provides comprehensive support services, education, and commercial application modules so that any company can easily make the move to Rich Internet Applications. For more information about Laszlo Systems, visit www.laszlosystems.com
Parasoft

Parasoft is the leading provider of innovative solutions for automating software test and analysis and for establishing software error prevention practices as an integrated part of the software development lifecycle. Parasoft products and services enable software development and IT organizations to significantly improve visibility and control over the quality, costs and schedules of their software projects through the practice of Automated Error Prevention (AEP). Parasoft's easy-to-use, scalable and customizable software error prevention solutions span the complete software development lifecycle and automatically test complex software systems from all relevant perspectives, from the Java, C/C++, and/or .NET code at the implementation layer, to the Web service / SOA at the messaging layer, to the Web front end. Parasoft has more than 10,000 clients worldwide, including Boeing, Cisco, Disney, Ericsson, Fidelity, IBM, Lehman Brothers, Lockheed, Lexis-Nexis, Sabre Holdings, SBC and Yahoo. Founded in 1987, Parasoft is a privately-held company headquartered in Monrovia, CA. For more information about Parasoft, visit www.parasoft.com/jsp/home.jsp
webMethods

Software AG and webMethods have come together to create the world's largest independent provider of Business Infrastructure Software. Our 4,000 global customers achieve measurable business results by modernizing and automating their IT systems and rapidly building new systems to meet growing business demands. Our industry-leading product portfolio includes best-in-class solutions for managing data, enabling service oriented architecture, and improving business processes. By combining proven technology with industry expertise and best practices, our customers improve and differentiate their businesses – faster.

Software AG and webMethods -- the Power of Two. For more information about webMethods, visit www.webmethods.com


Active Endpoints

Active Endpoints is the leading provider of SOA orchestration solutions that enable organizations to build and deploy composite, process-driven information systems based on WS-BPEL, the SOA orchestration standard. From open source to mission-critical deployments, Active Endpoints allows users quickly adapt to evolving customer demands by reducing the cost of integration, leveraging infrastructure investments, and enabling the sharing of business processes with customers, partners, and suppliers. More ISVs, financial services, government, telecommunications, high technology, and retail organizations use Active Endpoints’ solutions than any other BPEL technology. Headquartered in Shelton, Connecticut, Active Endpoints is privately held. For more information about Active Endpoints, visit www.active-endpoints.com.
Sybase

Sybase is the largest global enterprise software company exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing information from the data center to the point of action. Our open, cross-platform solutions securely deliver information anytime, anywhere, enabling customers to create an information edge.

Sybase was first to deliver an enterprise-class DBMS on Linux in 1999 and today provides the most comprehensive combination of products and services supporting Linux in the industry. Our WorkSpace product is one of the first SOA integrated modeling, data management, and mobilization development tool. For more information about Sybase, visit http://www.sybase.com/


WSO2

WSO2 is an open source middleware company founded by pioneers in Web services and of members of the Apache Software Foundation Web services community. We deliver a new, entirely open source middleware stack that is optimized for Web services and SOA and built on Apache Axis2. WSO2?s first products are the WSO2 Web Services Application Server (WSAS) and WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), which are built on the WSO2 Web Services Framework. The company maintains operations in the United States, United Kingdom and Sri Lanka. For more information about WSO2, visit http://wso2.com/

2007 EXHIBITORS

Farata Systems

Farata Systems is a leading IT consulting and product development company providing enterprise-wide IT solutions specializing in the area of rich Internet applications. The company has been created by the merger of two consulting companies: Computer Technology,Inc., and Smart Data Processing, Inc.

Farata Systems focuses on delivering custom solutions using sustainable technologies for financial and retail applications. Our team of highly-regarded industry experts will assess requirements of your business, will suggest the most effective solutions in your current technological space, with the emphasis on blending new technologies into existing IT fabric of your business. We hire experts who have established long term successful track records of developing enterprise applications, not just talking about them. For more information about Farata Systems, visit www.faratasystems.com

Fiorano Software Inc

Fiorano Software Inc, a US Corporation headquartered in Silicon Valley, CA. Fiorano is a leading provider of enterprise class business integration and messaging infrastructure technology. Companies use Fiorano products to develop real-time competencies, improving operational efficiencies and business performance by deploying flexible business processes spanning multiple applications and platforms and partners. Fiorano's distributed, event-driven and service oriented architecture sets a new paradigm in performance, scalability, simplicity, and affordability. With Fiorano, customers can focus on their core competencies, realize an immediate ROI and need no longer grapple expensive, unwieldy alternatives. Fiorano’s technology provides ease of use and flexibility powering a variety of businesses from Medium Enterprises to Global leaders and Fortune 500s such as Boeing, British Telecom, NASA, Schlumberger, Quicken Loans, Federal Reserve Bank of New York , Lockheed Martin and McKesson among others. For more information about Fiorano Software Inc, visit www.fiorano.com
iTKO

iTKO LISA software is the most complete testing solution for ensuring Lifecycle Quality governance processes in Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). iTKO's mission is to allow everyone involved in IT to own Complete, Collaborative, and Continuous™ software quality, from development, to QA and business analysis. iTKO LISA SOA Testing Framework performs unit, functional, regression, load and performance tests, without requiring test coding or script maintenance, saving up to 80% of testing costs. LISA gives everyone the "Freedom-to-Test" every layer of SOA: websites, web services, J2EE, .NET, ESB/messaging, databases, and many more technologies exactly as they are deployed. iTKO customers include Sun, Citigroup, Cardinal Health, American Airlines, AMD, TIBCO and i2. For more information about iTKO, visit www.itko.com.
Layer 7 Technologies

Layer 7 Technologies is a leading provider of XML security and networking infrastructure for SOA and Web 2.0. The award-winning SecureSpan family of XML appliances and gateway software address the security, performance and complexity challenges of deploying and maintaining production Web services. Modern service-oriented application integration models and Web-oriented application delivery models depend on effectively addressing these issues inherent in sharing Web services with other applications. Layer 7 Technologies therefore aims to provide the essential application-oriented security and networking infrastructure to enable Service-oriented and Web-oriented architectures (i.e., SOA and Web 2.0) that are central to the next wave of Internet and software innovation. For more information about Layer 7 Technologies, visit www.layer7tech.com
Managed Methods

Managed Methods develops and sells practical, versatile, and cost-effective products for monitoring Web services and managing service-oriented architectures. We are headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, in the western United States. Our team has over 10 years of experience in building industry-leading management tools for IT operations which are used by thousands of small, medium, and enterprise-level companies around the world. For more information about Managed Methods, visit www.managedmethods.com
Mellanox Technologies

Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of semiconductor-based, high-performance, InfiniBand interconnect products that facilitate data transmission between servers, communications infrastructure equipment, and storage systems. The company's products are an integral part of a total solution focused on computing, storage and communication applications used in enterprise data centers, high-performance computing and embedded systems. In addition to supporting InfiniBand, Mellanox's next generation of products support the industry-standard Ethernet interconnect specification. For more information about Mellanox, visit www.mellanox.com
Nastel

Nastel is a recognized market leader in providing solutions for application performance monitoring and management. Nastel's solutions empower IT teams to consistently assure high performance and availability of business applications. Nastel's AutoPilot Suite of software rapidly identifies, resolves and prevents costly performance bottlenecks and failures by providing visibility into performance of critical business processes relying on SOA and middleware infrastructure. Through Nastel's AutoPilot suite and a vast array of plug-ins (ranging from Java applications, WebSphere MQ and WMB, TIBCO EMS, ESB and J2EE platforms, such as WebSphere Application Server, WebLogic, JBoss, Oracle 10g, etc.), IT and Application Support teams can control and see performance bottlenecks in parts of the SOA and EAI infrastructure that they can't ordinarily see. Our clients include some of the world's largest banks, financial institutions, retail chains and insurance providers. Nastel, founded in 1994, is headquartered in New York, has offices in the U.S. and Europe and a growing network of resellers and partners around the world. For more information about Nastel, visit www.nastel.com
Nexaweb

Nexaweb's Enterprise Web 2.0 solutions enable enterprises to rapidly deploy Richer, Thinner, Faster applications over the Web. Specifically, applications built with Nexaweb deliver the high performance and robust functionality of client/server software with the universal reach, no-install deployment and centralized management of browser-based applications. With Nexaweb, building enterprise-strength RIA solutions using AJAX and Java UI applications that access legacy and service-oriented data systems is simple. And because it's done in a unified declarative XML development environment, it doesn't require re-writing code. Only Nexaweb's comprehensive Enterprise Web 2.0 solutions are backed by an established methodology and reference architecture proven by more than 5,000 successful global deployments. For more information about Nexaweb, visit www.nexaweb.com
PushToTest

PushToTest is a software publishing and global services company specializing in business optimization and information systems governance and test automation. Our expertise is put to work for enterprises needing to understand and solve scalability and performance problems in complex information systems, especially Web Services.

PushToTest maintains its lead on new Web technologies by doing these every day:
  • Provide free open-source governance and test automation tools
  • Provide an on-line meeting place for software developers, QA technicians, and IT managers
  • Publish our expertise in books, articles, and speaking presentations
  • Reflect on the state of the industry and provide leadership to solve problems in technology and business practices
  • Provide experts to rapidly solve your scalability and performance problems and to design system architectures and solutions
This unique business approach delivers inexpensive solutions, expert insight and immediate answers that immediately put your organization ahead of the rest. For more information about PushToTest, visit www.pushotest.com

Ruby on Gears

Ruby on Gears™ is a content plus framework built in 100% Ruby on top of the popular Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Gears™ provides a turn-key user & administration environment suitable for CRM, Project Management, Document Management, Corporate Intranets, Expert Systems, Vertical Search Engines, Social Information Networks, Corporate Blogging, Public websites and as core code for custom development projects.

Ruby on Gears™ provides a solid database structure which anchors all component modules together for scalable module development and flexible deployment. Simple user and admin interface with virtually no learning curve. Ajax and Flex integration active in selective modules. Tight integration with search engine content clustering.

Offered as both a hosted solution with backup replication to your servers, or as site license source code for your own integration projects. All components are fully database integrated including full featured user text formating, pagination and templates in ALL modules. Easy user admin preferences provide instant configuration globally with page over-ride options throughout the system.

One of the most ambitious Rails projects on the market delivered in the true Rails philosophy of clean, lean and beautiful code. Complete hosting, maintenance, integration, training and custom development services to match your requirements. Inquire about our partnership and development programs. For more information about Ruby on Gears, visit http://www.RubyonGears.com/


Solstice Software

Solstice Software (www.solsticesoftware.com) provides the foremost testing solution for integration and SOA initiatives for large organizations with complex integration requirements-including five of the nation's largest financial institutions. Solstice Integra Suite is the only integration testing platform to deliver true end-to-end testing. With Solstice, customers can automate testing across complex environments by leveraging powerful testing, business process validation, and simulation capabilities against a range of industry-standard protocols and SOA platforms. Solstice Integra Suite is the only enterprise-level solution that provides a team-based, centralized environment for sharing test assets across the development life cycle. With Solstice Integra Suite, large organizations can dramatically reduce the time to market and cost of new growth-oriented business processes.

Solstice Software and its management are contributing members of the Web Service Interoperability Organization (WS-I), the testing leaders of the Integration Consortium, as well as members of the Agile Alliance and Eastern Technology Council. For more information about Solstice Software, visit www.solsticesoftware.com


TenFold

TenFold™ is a software products and services company with its headquarters in Salt Lake City and major Development centers in San Francisco and Salt Lake City. TenFold licenses EnterpriseTenFold SOA™ to organizations around the world.

EnterpriseTenFold SOA is a comprehensive applications framework for building and running SOA-compliant applications and full-business-functionality services. With minimal coding, it produces, high-quality web services that are 100% compatible with J2EE, .NET, and can run on any Enterprise Service Bus and popular RDMSs and operating systems. It uses a model-driven approach that includes powerful applications features in every service and provides a rich, Ajax-enabled web interface for applications users.

EnterpriseTenFold SOA embraces the TenFold Way, a complete, full-lifecycle methodology for building enterprise-scale applications as a collection of robust, reusable services. Basically, EnterpriseTenFold SOA lets you rapidly develop an enterprise application ten times faster and with a tenth the cost of traditional development methodologies because in most cases you just assemble business components and not write code. For more information about TenFold, visit www.tenfold.com/home.htm


Thinstall

Thinstall Virtualization Suite 3.0 is a client-less application virtualization solution that allows applications to be packaged into simple EXE files that run isolated from the host PC, without installation or changes to the local desktop's registry and file system. It significantly reduces the costs associated with software deployment and provides significant reductions in the time associated with regression testing, application deployment and end-user support instances.

The unique, client-less architecture allows "Thinstalled" applications to be run from any LAN, WAN, USB, CD-Rom drive, etc., with zero-footprint on the host PC. The applications run exclusively in user mode, ensuring seamless execution on locked-down desktops with no device drives installed, enabling administrations to maintain a secure, clean and stable user desktop and consequently, a heightened level of security. For more information about Thinstall, visit www.thinstall.com


Trivera Technologies

Founded in 1997, Trivera Technologies has been providing premier technical education, mentoring and courseware development and licensing services for developers, managers and engineers of all skill levels. Trivera has the unique strength, focus, and depth of talent needed to help our clients build the technology teams that are creating and securing their future. Headquartered in New Jersey, but with world-wide delivery, our instructors and mentors boast an average of 20 years experience in software design, development and deployment, bringing their extensive real-world experience into every classroom and development project. The company focuses on advanced technologies and enterprise development solutions, such as Java, J2EE, XML, object-oriented design, software engineering, service-oriented architecture, testing, troubleshooting and more. We specialize but are not limited to training in IBM WebSphere, Rational, WebLogic, Eclipse, JBoss and much more. Our staff has trained and mentored thousands of clients to date. For more information about Trivera Technologies, visit www.triveratech.com
Web Age Solutions

Web Age Solutions is a leading provider of technology mentoring and education to the Fortune 500. Our "Preferred Vendor" status with these global leaders is a result of our highly progressive approach to knowledge transfer and relentless pursuit of customer satisfaction. While many of our competitors are just now getting their feet wet with SOA, we have been delivering SOA training and mentoring since 2003. Moving well beyond theoretical discussions of SOA, we have a deep library of practical SOA curriculum backed by hands-on experience.

Web Age understands that unique business processes are integrated into every IT strategy. We have the expertise to deliver knowledge transfer programs that are tailored to your organization's approach to SOA. Your business is unique. Your adoption of SOA is unique. Your SOA education program should be too. For more information about Web Age Solutions, visit www.webagesolutions.com


2007 Media Sponsors

AJAXWorld Magazine

The terms on everyone's lips this year include "AJAX," "Web 2.0" and "Rich Internet Applications." All of these themes play an integral role at AjaxWorld. So, anyone involved with business-critical web applications that recognize the importance of the user experience needs to read this uniquely timely publication-- especially the web designers and developers building those experiences, and those who manage them.
BZmedia

BZ Media LLC is a privately held, high-tech media company based in Huntington NY on Long Island's beautiful north shore. BZ Media was founded in 1999 by veterans from Miller Freeman, CMP, IDG, Newsday and Ziff-Davis.
ColdFusion Developer's Journal

ColdFusion Developer's Journal is the premier magazine aimed specifically at Webmasters and Web Application developers using the fast-evolving comprehensive Internet platform offered by Macromedia Corp. based around ColdFusion. Featuring top writers like Web guru and bestselling author Ben Forta, CFDJ brings in-depth perspectives - features, columns, book excerpts, guest editorials - from pacemakers and thought leaders in the Web development community. In addition, each issue features reviews of the newest and most innovative products on the market by our experienced staff of writers as well as ColdFusion tutorials, tips, tricks and techniques, FAQs, breaking news from the industry and much more.
.NET Developer's Journal

Acknowledged as the world's leading independent, unbiased developer reference source for .NET developers, .NET Developer's Journal features technical insights into every aspect of .NET including the server side, the desktop, and mobile devices. Written by .NET developers for .NET developers, .NETDJ offers a lively mix of articles, interviews, product reviews, and commentary. Supervised by an highly active editorial board which includes some of the luminaries of the software development world.
Eclipse Developer's Journal

Eclipse Developer's Journal is the only monthly source of quality Eclipse information.
Enterprise Open Source Magazine

EOSM offers a regular heads-up on what company is doing what in the Linux and open source space - breaking news, insightful hard-hitting commentary, interviews with industry leaders and visionaries, no-holds-barred criticism, and much more. EOSM helps keep readers abreast of the behind-the-scenes events and developments in the Linux and Open Source community.
Extension Media

Extension Media publishes 20+ resource catalogs, websites and email newsletters for IT professionals and software developers covering the industry’s important platforms and technology areas. Publications include resource catalogs covering Security, Grid and Cluster, IBM Information Management, Storage, VoIP and IP Telephony, Enterprise Linux, Windows® Server and Business Intelligence. Visit www.techguideonline.com.
Information Storage + Security Journal

The major infosecurity issues of the day - identity theft, cyber-terrorism, encryption, perimeter defense, and more - come to the forefront in Information Storage + Security Journal, the storage and security magazine targeted at IT professionals, managers, and decision makers. Storage and security are becoming more and more enmeshed, and ISSJ will be there to help deliver storage subject matter in context with popular security applications, and vice versa. ISSJ will guide, motivate, and inspire senior IT and business management in the planning, development, deployment, and management of successful enterprise-wide security and storage solutions.
IT Solutions Guide

A new offering from SYS-CON Media, the IT Solutions Guide offers technologies from the world's top 15 solution providers. The IT Solutions Guide reflects the expansion of IT beyond mere Information Technology to Internet Technologies and Infrastructure Technology. Familiarity with the top solutions showcased in this guide is essential for IT professionals. The IT Solutions Guide is available online, and as a quarterly free supplement to SYS-CON's technology journals.
ITtoolbox

ITtoolbox is an online community, enabling peers to share professional knowledge about information technology. Since 1998, ITtoolbox has helped professionals make IT decisions and stay current in the rapidly changing IT market through peer collaboration. The ITtoolbox platform incorporates blogs, discussion groups, and a wiki, facilitating targeted community interaction that IT advertisers can participate in through a proprietary contextual matching system. This combination of community and advertising value has made ITtoolbox a leading destination for professionals and a leader in online advertising, performing for over 520 clients including Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Dell, and HP.
JDJ

Published monthly, JDJ is the premier independent, vendor-neutral magazine serving the information needs of the entire community of developers in the Java programming language and the Java platform. Crammed with Internet- and Web-related features, regular columns by established Java gurus, "how-to" programming tips, product reviews, all the latest industry news and more, JDJ offers mission-critical and insightful coverage of developments occurring as a result of the fast-moving global adoption of Java's multi-platform, "write once, run everywhere" technology.
Linux.SYS-CON.com

Linux.SYS-CON.com is aimed at helping managers who want to gain the economic benefits of open source software like Linux, but don't know how to manage the risk associated with making the change. Now that major corporations including IBM, Oracle, Sun, Dell, CA, and HP have all started to commit significant resources and money to ensuring their strategy for the future embraces Linux, there can no longer be any doubt about the penetration of Linux into the corporate world. Written by the world's leading practitioners and guided by an editorial board that includes some of the most well-respected members of the worldwide Linux community, Linux.SYS-CON.com brings insights into the features of Linux in particular and OS software in general that are driving this sea-change. The site is packed with information on important projects in the open source community, news and analysis, case studies, exclusive interviews, and expert advice on making Linux work for business.
Methods & Tools

Methods & Tools is a free magazine with PDF and text issues that provide practical knowledge and information on all topics of software development and software engineering: UML, Agile Methodologies (eXtreme Programming, Scrum, TDD, FDD,..), Software Testing, Software Configuration Management, Database Modeling, Java, .NET, RUP, Software Project Planning and Management, Test Automation, Programming, Software Analysis and Design, Quality Assurance, Software Process Assessment and Improvement, Software Development Tools, Risk Management, Refactoring, IT News, etc.
Powerbuilder Developer's Journal

PowerBuilder Developer's Journal has been covering the evolution of PowerBuilder for over 10 years and has consistently provided quality content. Every month PBDJ covers a variety of topics including PocketBuilder, DataWindows, XML, EAServer, .NET, and security. Written by experts, these articles range from step-by-step tutorials for beginners to in-depth technical articles and features. In addition, industry leaders provide insights into where PowerBuilder and the technology world are headed.
SDTimes

SD Times is the only IT trade newspaper specifically written for the software development manager. The broad-based IT newsweeklies abandoned this reader a decade ago. Now you can reach them directly, efficiently and inexpensively in SD Times.
SOAWorld Magazine

SOAWorld Magazine is the premier publication addressing the technical and strategic depth of SOA and Web Services. Its target audience is anyone who wishes to design, administer, sell, or use Web Services - from the developer, to the ISV, to the CTO, and to the end user. It is for anyone who wishes to apply the new model for creating and using distributed applications across the Internet, utilizing common interfaces for efficient communication and high level interoperability.
Software Test & Performance

Software Test & Performance is offered by BZ Media LLC, publishers of SD Times, and producers of the Software Test & Performance Conference.
Web Designer's and Developer's Journal

Targeted at the professional developers and designers who use the award-winning Macromedia MX product family to build Web sites and applications, WebDDJ is written by industry experts and features tutorials, success stories, sneak previews, programming tips, and more.
WLDJ

WLDJ is the leading independent magazine written exclusively by and for the international community of professionals who design, build, customize, deploy, and administer WebLogic application server software worldwide. In addition to articles and features looking at every technical and strategic aspect of the application server software, each month WLDJ showcases an interesting case study based on WebLogic, examining in detail all the aspects of the design, implementation and day-to-day operations.
WebSphere Journal

WebSphere Journal is the premier publication for those who design, build, customize, deploy, or administer IBM's WebSphere suite of software products for developing, testing, and deploying interoperable e-business applications -- from simple Web serving to the most sophisticated transaction-based solutions.
Wireless Business & Technology

Wireless Business & Technology is the world's leading publication tracking Wireless in Action rather than wireless in theory. Articles and features concentrate on getting beyond the marketing hype and drilling down to the here-and-now prospects of ROI from the deployment and implementation of real-world wireless solutions. Case studies appear in each issue, detailing success stories and examining instructive failures.
XML-Journal

XML-Journal is the world's leading online resource for Internet technology professionals involved with the worldwide development and implementation of XML, the universal format for structured documents and data on the Web, and its fast-growing family of related specifications (XSL, XSLT, ebXML, VoiceXML, etc). XML-J offers the latest news concerning Enterprise Application Integration and Web services, XML standards updates, new developments in e-commerce, product reviews, tutorials, case studies, and interviews with i-technology industry leaders.
ZapThink

ZapThink is an IT advisory and analysis firm that provides trusted advice and critical insight into the architectural and organizational changes brought about by the movement to Service-Oriented Architectures, Web Services, and Enterprise Web 2.0. We provide our three target audiences of IT vendors, service providers and end-users a clear roadmap for standards-based, loosely coupled distributed computing – a vision of IT meeting the needs of the agile business




2006 Sponsors & Exhibitors

Adobe

Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information - anytime, anywhere and through any medium.For more than two decades, the company's award-winning technologies and software have redefined business, entertainment, and personal communications by setting new standards for producing and delivering content that engages people anywhere at anytime. For more information about Adobe, visit www.adobe.com


Apress

Apress is a publishing company devoted to meeting the needs of programmers and IT professionals. Apress' unique approach to computer book publishing grew out of conversations between Dan Appleman and Gary Cornell, Apress' founders, who believe that too many programming books are of such low quality that they are a complete waste of time. Computer professionals need quality books that are not just rehashes of documentation. For more information about Apress, visit http://webdev.apress.com


Backbase

Backbase offers Rich User Interface / AJAX software to enable web developers to create a much richer user experience for their online applications. Our AJAX technology combines the "reach" of web applications with the "richness" of desktop applications. Backbase AJAX software can be used with a normal web browser, without the need to install plug-ins such as Flash or Java. Backbase includes a complete development and runtime environment, which makes development of AJAX applications efficient. For more information about Backbase, visit www.backbase.com


CalAmp

CalAmp is a recognized leader in satellite DBS technology, wireless networks, software application development, embedded computing and enterprise mobility. Our solutions enable anytime/anywhere access to critical information, data and entertainment content. With comprehensive capabilities ranging from enterprise consulting to product design and development to volume production, CalAmp delivers cost-effective, high-quality, and specially chosen technologies to a broad array of customers and end markets. These include the telemetry and asset training markets, public safety communications, the healthcare industry, and digital multimedia delivery applications. The Enterprise Solutions Group (ESG) represented here at the SOA Web Services Expo, works with global enterprises on the design and deployment of cutting-edge IT and software application platforms. Our products and services offer robust and scalable SOA and Web Services solutions with a proven success record in a variety of industries including Retail, High-Tech, and Digital Media. For more information about CalAmp, visit www.calamp.com


Cassatt

Cassatt is an enterprise software and services company delivering solutions that turn an organization's current IT infrastructure into a dynamic, virtual pool of resources that can be tapped on demand. Goal-driven automation from Cassatt continuously optimizes IT resources to meet business service level agreements, dramatically improving IT responsiveness while slashing costs. Based in San Jose, California, Cassatt is a privately held company led by BEA founding Bill Coleman, with financial backing from NEA and Warburg Pincus. For more information about Cassatt, visit www.cassatt.com.


Centric CRM

Centric CRM is the developer of the world's most advanced, Enterprise Open Source Customer Relationship Management system, Centric CRM. Under development for seven years, Centric CRM comprises over 2-million lines of code representing 50 man-years of development. Its advanced Java/J2EE, web-based, and object-oriented architecture runs on all standards-based platforms. It's used today by Fortune 500 companies in large configurations and by thousands of smaller businesses. Centric CRM includes all common CRM modules and adds significant capabilities such as cross-module Action Plans, collaborative Project and Document Management, Customer Surveys, and sophisticated Help Desk functions. These tools help companies create a rich 360° view of their customers. Centric CRM is THE system of choice for enterprises deploying or upgrading CRM technology that are serious about security, scalability, and robust features. And all in a package that is low cost and easy to use, deploy and maintain. Centric CRM—Built for the Enterprise...Open to All. For more information about Centric CRM, visit www.centriccrm.com


Chariot Solutions

Chariot Solutions is a technology services firm dedicated to helping organizations improve productivity through effective business process automation. Our consultants possess a rare combination of industry and deep technical expertise, uniquely qualifying them to design, develop, support and tune mission critical systems for our clients. For more information about Chariot Solutions, visit www.chariotsolutions.com


Composite Software

Composite Software is the leader in on-demand enterprise data integration. Our Enterprise Information Integration (EII) technology and solutions allow companies to find, access, combine, and deliver on-demand information from critical data sources located in disparate sources across the enterprise, including SAP, Siebel, and Oracle applications. Our solutions enable companies to deploy enterprise data services within a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) using Web services, or simply using a traditional SQL-based approach. We present information as a single data-services layer to enable you to easily build information applications. For more information about Composite Software, visit www.compositesoftware.com


Exadel

Exadel, Inc. is a leading provider of software, services and support that enable companies to create mission-critical business applications based on open source and Java technologies. Offering unmatched expertise at building reliable business solutions, Exadel solves real business problems for hundreds of domestic and international clients, including ABN AMRO Bank (www.mortgage.com), AT&T, Bank of America, eBay, Echopass, GE, Honeywell and Time Warner. Exadel’s fast, scalable and cost-effective solutions reduce application lifecycle costs and development time, eliminating vendor lock-in and improving overall client productivity.

Exadel's commercial product line includes Exadel Studio Pro and Visual Component Platform. Exadel's open source contributions include Enterprise Component Platform and AJAX for JSF.  Exadel services include custom online and onsite training, Exadel Development Boost and Exadel Professional Services. Founded in 1998, Exadel is privately owned and located in the San Francisco Bay Area with development offices located in Chicago, Minsk, and Moscow.  For more information about Exadel, visit www.exadel.com


Ingres

Ingres Corporation is the world’s leading provider of business open source relational databases for companies of all sizes. Ingres’s mission is to supply the market with the best database technology at a price point that enables customers, both large and small, and partners to reduce their Total Cost of Ownership. Based in Redwood City, California, Ingres is a young and dynamic company. Ingres was formed as a partnership between Computer Associates and Garnett & Helfrich Capital with a product range that has loyal customer base, many of whom have been using the technology for more than a decade. For more information about Ingres, visit www.ingres.com


Metallect

Metallect helps enterprises adopt and govern Service Oriented Architectures. Metallect's IQ Server uses advanced semantic inferencing and metamodeling to guide organizations through all stages of the service development and governance lifecycle. In the design phase, IQ Server discovers and maps common business services to legacy application logic that may be appropriate for promotion as a services or integration with newly developed services. Instances of duplicative or redundant logic can be rapidly identified, consolidated and deleted. In development, IQ Server addresses service and logic dependencies to enable rapid assessment and impact analysis. Post deployment, IQ Server provides an auditing solution for managing governance of ongoing service creation, modification and sun-setting policies. Regardless of whether you are just beginning your SOA initiatives or at the point where you need to manage policies governing existing services, don't continue on without the detailed logic-level knowledge Metallect's IQ Server delivers. For more information about Metallect, visit www.metallect.com


Optaros

Optaros is a consulting and systems integration firm that helps enterprises solve IT business problems by providing services and solutions that maximize the benefits of open source software. Bringing together experts in creating enterprise IT solutions and experts in the power of open source, Optaros plans and builds business systems that give you better value today and increased control in the future. For more information about Optaros, visit www.optaros.com


OSS Nokalva

OSS Nokalva solutions enable enterprises to efficiently process XML in web applications significantly reducing the verbosity and overhead of SOAP/XML. Our standards-based binary XML solutions are perfect for Web Services in resource-constrained and/or bandwidth-constrained environments. Both FAST SOAP and Traditional XML SOAP messages are supported in our solutions, allowing speed where it is needed while maintaining the ability to communicate with traditional XML based peers. Founded in 1988, OSS is a leading vendor of software development toolkits that empower companies worldwide to rapidly and reliably develop standards based solutions for XML, Web Services, ASN.1, and Biometrics. OSS solutions are deployed in several applications including mission-critical systems in Telecommunications, Space and Military applications. OSS serves 900+ customers including several major global corporations such as Cisco, IBM, Motorola, Siemens, Verisign, Ericsson, Sun, HP and many others. Several OSS employees are active participants in the W3C Efficient XML, OASIS and ASN.1 Standards Groups. For more information about OSS Nokalva, visit www.oss.com


Parasoft

Parasoft is the leading provider of innovative solutions for automated testing and analysis within the software development lifecycle. Parasoft products and services enable software developers and IT organizations significantly to enhance total software quality and security, accelerate time to market, dramatically reduce development expenses, and increase end-user satisfaction.

In a Web services environment, business processes contain services that can span applications, departments and organizations. Component-based tests at the message and implementation layers are critical for ensuring service integrity and stability. Parasoft solutions for SOA help predict and prevent potential problems, detect and remove existing problems, and build applications that can recover if an error does occur. For more information about Parasoft, visit www.parasoft.com


Rogue Wave Software

Rogue Wave Software, a division of Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq: QVDX), provides reusable software components and services to professional developers for enterprise-class, high-performance application development, including Rogue Wave® Hydra, LEIF, SourcePro® C++, and Stingray®. Today, thousands of developers at some of the world's leading companies have used these products to develop mission-critical applications. Rogue Wave Software operates throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. For more information about Rogue Wave Software, visit www.roguewave.com.


SugarCRM

SugarCRM is the world's leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software for companies of all sizes. SugarCRM's mission is to provide the most innovative, highest quality, easily customized and most appreciated business tools created by the open source development and business models. SugarCRM develops solutions by actively engaging the CRM community, consisting of users, customers, developers and experts, and incorporates their needs, opinions and experiences into the solution. For more information about SugarCRM, visit www.sugarcrm.com


Web Age Solutions

Web Age Solutions understands that unique business processes and services are integrated into every Application Development strategy. Since 1999 we have been a frontrunner in providing technical education solutions for Fortune 500 organizations implementing these critical processes and tech