Premier Sponsors

Combined Knowledge ltd

Combined Knowledge Ltd, one of the world’s Premier Microsoft SharePoint Training providers and member of the World Education Training Alliance specialises in the exclusive training on SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services. We pride ourselves in being the leading training provider of these courses for Europe and the Middle East using the Mindsharp and Combined Knowledge course materials.

Combined Knowledge has been training SharePoint classes for over 8 years around the world and boasts some of the best SharePoint Trainers globally with the industry’s highest qualifications such as MVP and MCT. With over 50 global trainers the current selection of courses is everything a company needs to successfully deliver a SharePoint implementation over the lifespan of the project.

Combined Knowledge is able to offer our courses via a number of different delivery methods. To include:

• Instructor-Led Training
  
• Computer Based Training
  
• Train-the-Trainer (end-user courseware only)
  
• Remote Training to your desktop (Live Meeting plus Audio)
  
• Public classes
  
• Private classes
  
• Customized classes and workshops
  
• End User Adoption Solution

www.combined-knowledge.com

Platinum Sponsors

Nintex

Nintex is a leading global innovator of software products that extend Microsoft SharePoint technology. Nintex products are used by customers in more than 80 countries, including 40 Fortune 500 companies, all serviced through a global partner network of over 200 partners. The company focuses on building software that bridges the gap between that which can be bought from Microsoft today and common functionality requested by customers – with a passionate commitment to innovation and user experience. As a Microsoft Gold Partner, Nintex aligns with Microsoft’s strategic and architectural direction to ensure that Nintex and Microsoft products work in harmony, both today and into the future.

Nintex is currently working on a number of products for SharePoint Server 2010 including Nintex Workflow 2010, Nintex Analytics 2010 and Nintex Compliance Suite. For more information visit www.nintex.com/2010products

Nintex products available today that extend SharePoint 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 are Nintex Workflow 2007, Nintex Reporting 2008 and Nintex Podcast Server 2008. For more information visit www.nintex.com

Gold Sponsors

Ascentn AgilePoint

AgilePoint, Inc. (formerly Ascentn) (www.agilepoint.com), was founded eight years ago with a vision of providing an elegantly-architected BPM solution that would work from simple workflows to the largest-scale enterprise. AgilePoint enables organizations to add powerful, scalable and governable workflows to SharePoint while keeping SharePoint 'clean' by eliminating the need to install proprietary services or code on top of SharePoint. This makes AgilePoint compliant with Microsoft's Gold-Level Customization Policy that eases support, upgrade, and migration of SharePoint."
“Enjoy fast and continuous business process improvement with a powerful, flexible, and easy-to-use BPMS.”

AgilePoint, Inc. pioneered the first .NET-based BPMS and delivered an SOA-aligned, model-driven, meta-data framework architecture. AgilePoint's solutions drive the mission critical BPM initiatives of more than 300 leading global organizations including Siemens, BridgeStone, KPN Telecom, Euphony, Athlon Car Lease, Chinatrust, Cellcom, Elbit Systems, Daisy Brand, and numerous others. AgilePoint has offices in North America, Asia Pacific (Taiwan, China, and Japan) and EMEA (Belgium and Spain).
The new AgilePoint Express for SharePoint allows your entire organization to create, manage, and govern complex business processes with all versions of SharePoint including 2010! It takes SharePoint to the next level by opening up the power of rich model-driven business process execution to everyone!

 

AvePoint

AvePoint is a global technology company and software innovator. Since 2001, AvePoint has been a leader in enterprise-strength infrastructure management solutions for the world’s most popular collaboration platforms. Propelled by one of the world’s largest development teams, AvePoint’s award-winning DocAve and Atlas Software Platforms deliver comprehensive and flexible infrastructure support for SharePoint backup and recovery, replication, migration, administration, archiving, storage optimisation, deployment management, compliance, and SharePoint-Salesforce integration.

AvePoint’s pioneering technology pilots the products of OEM partners such as NetApp and IBM. With headquarters, research facilities, and engineering centres in Jersey City, NJ, and wholly owned engineering centres and sales offices in San Jose, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington D.C., and Houston, USA; London, UK; Melbourne, Australia; Munich, Germany; Tokyo, Japan; Singapore; and Changchun, Dalian, China, AvePoint serves over 5000 enterprise customers, including many Fortune-500 companies. Winner of the Best of Tech Ed award for “Best SharePoint Product” in 2008, AvePoint is a Depth Managed Gold Certified Microsoft Partner and GSA Certified Provider.

For more information please contact +44 (0)208 606 3477, or visit our website www.avepoint.co.uk to learn more

 

Boldbrick

BoldBrick is a fresh software start-up passionate about helping SharePoint developers and IT pros achieve results painlessly and deliver them on time. We are reshaping the way SharePoint solutions and applications are created, evolved, and supported. Thanks to our IDE — Mossquito 2009 —web site development and deployment is a real piece of cake now.

Mossquito 2009

• is a development environment with focus on SharePoint web site modeling, deployment and provisioning with plenty of productivity tools,
  
• unites the benefits of CAML and Object Model approach to site structure creation and maintenance,
  
• features rich and intuitive UI, innovative deployment engine based on compare & merge principle, DAO generator, command line tools for common tasks’ automation,
  
• brings visual editing approach including diagramming and refactoring into the world dominated by hand-coded XML definitions.

Mossquito 2009 opens new possibilities for SharePoint developers and IT pros and unlocks the development process to be more productive, flexible, and less cluttered with obstacles brought by command-line tools, custom scripts and helpers that otherwise can't be avoided.
The new approach to SharePoint application delivery embodied in Mossquito 2009 makes many SharePoint-related processes a breeze — from staging environment management through application deployment, web site structure migration and replication, up to upgrading, maintaining, and evolving SharePoint sites.

Let Mossquito do the hard work for you!
See Mossquito in action, learn its benefits and features, and download a free trial from www.boldbrick.com/Mossquito.

Cscape

cScape is an award-winning, technically based digital agency ranking number 14 in NMA’s Top 100 design and build polls for 2009.

cScape is a Microsoft certified Gold Partner and has developed a SharePoint Centre of Excellence with one of the leading Microsoft Most Valued Professionals (MVP). cScape set up the Customer Engagement Unit (CEU) in November 2006 and the CEU team of specialist consultants offers access to the best in content development and strategy, conversion optimisation, research and planning, customer research and usability and experiential engagement. cScape’s creative team recently won 11 awards for its work with Barclays and specialises in delivering engaging and usable information architecture and designs. In addition, cScape’s strategic alliance with Metalogix and Nintex allows them to successfully deliver to their clients.
Founded in 1996 cScape is one of the most well-established design and technical consulting specialist in the UK. This is why Microsoft HQ chose cScape to create a SharePoint demonstration website to showcase Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and why Aviva chose cScape to help optimise the user experience of their new global intranet – the first ever SharePoint intranet hosted in the cloud.

cScape’s clients include Aviva, Tesco, Sony, Microsoft, Ministry of Sound, Barclays, ArcelorMittal, the British Army, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), NHS Confederation, Royal College of Physicians (RCP), National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA), Carbon Trust and the British Council.

www.cscape.com

 

Content and Code

Content and Code is a Microsoft Gold Partner specialising in building solutions based on Microsoft SharePoint. Their impressive market share means they have more SharePoint customers than any other company in the UK after being one of the first UK-managed Service Providers to launch an accessible SharePoint solution. Content and Code was awarded Microsoft’s 2009 Worldwide Partner of the Year in Information Worker Solutions, Portals and Collaboration, placed 58th on the New Media Age (NMA) Top 100 Interactive Agencies List, as well as 4th in the Top Technical list. Furthermore, the Directors were named Growing Business' Young Guns 2008 and their impressive annual growth secured Content and Code 8th place in the 2008 Deloitte Technology Fast 50.

Content and Code primarily provides consultancy services, hosting and web parts but also offers a full range of professional services including design, development, systems integration, and training. Content and Code products include the 1OrgChart, an organisational chart for SharePoint, as well as their latest eHR application, the quickest and most efficient way to complete daily HR tasks.
Content and Code has a proven track record with a wide range of clients, including The Body Shop International, BBC, Virgin Atlantic, Sony, easyJet, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust and the British Council.
For more information, please visit www.contentandcode.com

 

fpweb.net

Fpweb.net is the SharePoint® Hosting Pioneer™ with a decade of experience and 1,000,000 users. Trusted by the US Air Force and DOW chemical, Fpweb.net delivers SharePoint infrastructure AND application support. Increase profitability with custom MOSS server farms at 60% less cost than on-premise builds. Go to market faster with Fpweb.net rapid deployment and forget about the complexities of MOSS.

www.fpweb.net

 

ICS Solutions

Founded in 1994, ICS Solutions are a UK based “pure-play” Microsoft Systems Integrator. ICS Solutions are one of the UK's number 1 SharePoint partners with over 300 SharePoint Consultants, over 8 years experience and delivery of 150 SharePoint projects.

The SharePoint Advantage Program from ICS Solutions is a flexible framework of options that reduce the time, cost and risk of deploying and managing SharePoint. The Program means that their clients like Virgin Vie, HBOS and FSA benefit from their full range of products and services for all of their SharePoint projects and with ICS Solutions help have extracted the maximum value from their Microsoft investment.

ICS Solutions understand that people are the most important part of successful SharePoint solutions. Through their experiences in advising, guiding and supporting leading international and UK based public and private sector clients they have developed a unique blend of technical and business consulting services. They have been working closely with Microsoft on early pre-release versions of SharePoint 2010 and are already supporting a number world-class organisations to help them evaluate the technology; understand the business case; and plan their solutions in areas such as Collaboration; Social Media; and Business Intelligence.

ICS Solutions ranked as one of Britain's fastest-growing private technology companies in the Tech Track 100 league tables in 2007 and 2008. The Tech Track 100 league tables are sponsored by Microsoft and rank Britain's fastest-growing private technology companies based on sales growth over the last three years.

www.ics.net

 

ISC Software Solutions Ltd

As SharePoint experts since 2003, ISC Software Solutions is one of the leading Microsoft SharePoint Partners in UK and Ireland. In order to deliver high-quality results, ISC is committed to providing every client with the best possible talent and are proud to have an accredited, experienced and dedicated SharePoint team that includes Solution Architects, Designers and Developers. Delivering Intranet, Extranet, InfoPath, Document Management and Business Process solutions, ISC provide the complete SharePoint service, all with its own in-house expertise.

ISC understand that in order for clients to maximise their SharePoint investment, they need the necessary skills to manage and enhance their system and employing external onsite skills can be expensive. In recognition of this, in 2008 ISC launched its innovative “engagePro” service to its portfolio, which allows clients to access its SharePoint team remotely for expertise, in a more affordable and flexible way, on demand. Every engagePro plan includes an onsite consultative review and regular health checks are carried out to ensure systems are working efficiently. Simply put, engagePro enables clients to get experienced and trusted expertise, easily.

ISC Software Solutions is proud to be a Gold Sponsor at the 2010 SharePoint Evolution Conference.

For more information visit
www.isc-software.com
www.engagePro.net

itsystems

itsystems develops information management solutions that enable you to gain more from your corporate information. Our unique SharePoint add-on œMatchPoint unleashes the full power of SharePoint by automatically categorizing information and greatly enhancing search. MatchPoint is fundamental to building collaboration and information portals, to SharePoint governance and information lifecycle management. www.itsystems.ch

 

K2

Through its simplicity and with exclusive capabilities, K2 is changing the way people use software.
K2 is a platform for building process-driven applications that improve business efficiency. All kinds of organizations are using K2 to increase efficiency, save money and reduce risk.
K2 applications can be set up to automate and manage business processes — such as document approval or inventory tracking — or pull together business processes, people, services, information and systems into a single application that helps drive business. Then, what’s been built can be used like building blocks to assemble new applications.
With K2, the complexity of traditional software development is eliminated and replaced with easy-to-use, visual tools. These tools enable business people and technical people to work on their own or collaborate to assemble process-driven applications.
Everything is visual. Everything is declarative. Everything is reusable. Everything is intuitive.
K2-based solutions are deployed by a growing number of the global Fortune 100. K2 is a division of SourceCode Technology Holdings, Inc. based in Redmond, Washington, and has offices all over the world.

www.k2.com

 

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Raona

Raona is a multi-national, Microsoft Gold Partner, our UK office is in the heart of the City in Tower 42, the old NatWest Tower. We pride ourselves in being very different from the competition. We constantly strive for excellence in every aspect of our work. This difference starts with the name. Raona is Catalan for Reasonable. The company employs only the best staff and combines best management practice with best IT skills to deliver a first class service. The company has a paperless ethos, strong green credentials and our staff work predominantly on the customers premises to maximise knowledge transfer and aid communication. The efficiency all of this brings allows us to offer a superior service at a very reasonable price.

We have the highest number of Microsoft Certifications per worker in the world and also hold more Microsoft competencies than any other Gold Partner. Perhaps more importantly we have a long list of very satisfied customers and a proven track record of excellence with SharePoint.

Please visit our Web Site (www.Raona.com) to read our latest case studies or contact the CEO of Raona UK Adrian.Willis@Raona.com

 

 

Softartisans

SoftArtisans SilverDust provides secure BlackBerry access to SharePoint document libraries and lists. Major features include download, edit, upload, check in/out and fine grained security. No SharePoint installation or configuration required, as SilverDust is fully integrated with Active Directory.
SoftArtisans OfficeWriter generates full-featured, native Office (’97-2003 binary, plus 2007 XML) reporting from SharePoint without Office on the Server. Export SharePoint lists to Excel or Word templates easily. Does not require Excel Services.
Headquartered along the Charles River just outside Boston, MA, SoftArtisans has been honored as one of North America's 500 fastest-growing technology companies with over 20,000 customers in 70 countries.

www.softartisans.com

 

Silver Sponsors

Axceler

Since 1994, Axceler has helped enterprises address common yet critical administrative and development challenges, so organizations can maximize collaborative technology investments, improve business operations, and dramatically reduce administrative time and costs. For Microsoft SharePoint, Axceler delivers ControlPoint, which gives administrators the ability to explore, protect, analyze, and ultimately control their SharePoint environments. With ControlPoint, you can analyze and enforce permissions, clean up user accounts, isolate sites that are no longer needed, identify sites with the most or least activity, anticipate site growth, and more.
www.axceler.com

 

Bamboo Solutions

Bamboo Solutions, a Microsoft Gold-Certified partner, is a leading provider of software that helps organizations achieve business value through the use of Microsoft SharePoint. Bamboo offers its extensive library of web parts and accelerators for SharePoint, and provides SharePoint-based applications for use on-premise, or as on-demand applications. Over 4,500 organizations worldwide have chosen to implement solutions using products and applications from Bamboo. Bamboo Solutions is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, USA with offices in San Mateo California, Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. For more information or to browse Bamboo’s interactive catalog of SharePoint technologies, please visit www.bamboosolutions.com.

www.bamboosolutions.com

 

Idera

Idera provides powerful and easy-to-use tools to simplify the management of Microsoft SharePoint environments. Our solutions ensure the safety and integrity of SharePoint content by automating the backup and recovery process, and reduce the time required and complexity of SharePoint administration. From managing small farms with tens of users to enterprise deployments with many thousands of users, our products ensure that your SharePoint environment performs quickly and reliably.

www.idera.com

 

KWizCom

KWizCom, a Gold Certified Microsoft Partner, is a global company, headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
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 has over 3000 customers worldwide and the list is growing daily.

www.kwizcom.com

 

Repliweb

RepliWeb, a recognized leader in web deployment automation, brings its expertise to organizations that are building Internet and Intranet sites on the Microsoft SharePoint platform. RepliWeb’s ROSS solution improves IT and business processes associated with deploying Content, Solutions, and other Functional Elements throughout SharePoint infrastructures, providing efficient multi-stage (Dev to UAT to Production) and multi-site (geographically distributed) replication.

ROSS offers comprehensive and selective deployments of solutions, artifacts, workflows, structure, look & feel, navigation, galleries, features and content types, etc. By replacing time-consuming and error-prone manual processes, ROSS accelerates deployment timelines, ensures production readiness of SharePoint sites and enables organizations to meet "best practices" change control standards for SharePoint. ROSS supports MOSS, WSS and the upcoming SharePoint 2010.
For more information about ROSS, please visit www.repliweb.com/ross

www.repliweb.com/ross

 

Syntergy

Since 1997 Syntergy has been working to solve the needs of globally distributed enterprise–sized businesses. Syntergy’s flagship product, Replicator, is a web-based platform used to synchronize and manage business intelligence in real-time across a wide area SharePoint server environment. Replicator ensures uninterrupted access to SharePoint content, enhancing employee productivity and efficiency, and improving branch office performance globally. Syntergy is Microsoft Gold Certified. www.syntergy.com

 

Additional Sponsor/Exhibitors

ClearPeople

ClearPeople is a London-based Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and we are experts in tailoring and delivering business productivity solutions on the Microsoft SharePoint platform. We are passionate about the technology we work with and were delighted to have been selected by Microsoft to participate in the Partner Evidence Program (PEP) evaluating SharePoint 2010. Our involvement has, to date, given us hands-on experience with SharePoint 2010 developing Proof-of-Concept applications for Document Management, Business Intelligence and Web Content Management. Our dedication to providing robust solutions as well as our expert SharePoint skills, has lead us to gain numerous clients across many industry sectors, including; Stena, Ofcom, Ofgem, Endsleigh insurance, Fortis and Linklaters’ spin-off firm Kinstellar. Recently, ClearPeople was named as a finalist for Legal Technology Provider of the year for our work in the legal sector.
ClearPeople provides consulting, as well as the development of extranets, intranets and a number of award-winning SharePoint add-ons. Perhaps the most sought after of these add-ons is the MacroView Document Management Framework (DMF), which greatly enhances the performance and user experience of SharePoint to cope with large scale document and email management.

www.clearpeople.com

echoTechnology

echoTechnology provides echo for SharePoint, a must-have product for SharePoint administrators and developers that allows users to migrate, deploy, update and test SharePoint. The echo for SharePoint platform lowers operational risk, automates testing, lowers maintenance, and allows for phased SharePoint deployments. Based in Seattle, Washington, echoTechnology can be found online at www.echoTechnology.com

 

Metia

Metia is a leading provider of enterprise SharePoint solutions. We have architected, designed and deployed over 300 SharePoint sites to organisations ranging from leading global companies to innovative smaller businesses. We aim to enhance the users’ experience of SharePoint at every stage. We focus on good design, build custom components and embed interactive experiences.

With the arrival of SharePoint 2010, our partnership with Metalogix allows us to offer a quick, copy and paste solution to the content migration headache. With Metalogix you can migrate content from any version of SharePoint or WSS to SharePoint 2010 with ease.

Metia is a Gold Certified Microsoft partner

www.metia.com

 

Tzunami Inc

Tzunami Inc. is a leading provider of SharePoint Migration Solutions, offering simple solutions for migrating all of an organization’s content from multiple sources to advanced Microsoft SharePoint systems. Tzunami expertly and flexibly delivers simple, fast and effective solutions for all customer migration requirements. As pioneers in the field of content migration, Tzunami has a strong track record of serving global enterprises, including Fortune 1000 companies and well-known multinationals.
Automation the entire process of migrating unstructured content, Tzunami Deployer offers a user-friendly solution to real-world business challenges. Features, such as advanced security migration as well as a powerful graphic user interface, streamline business-critical processes simply and efficiently. Further-more, Tzunami Deployer provides remote access to sites, including those behind firewalls. With enhanced use of accumulated knowledge, Tzunami Deployer increases the return on investment and lowers total cost of SharePoint ownership.

www.tzunami.com