Gold Sponsor

SAVVIS provides IT Infrastructure-as-a-Service, featuring secure, modern data centers in prime locations; enterprise class server and storage platforms; fully managed network solutions; a portfolio of security tools; a suite of management tools that give you control of your applications; and a Professional Services team to help you when you need it.
Our flexible services model enables you to choose which aspects of your IT infrastructure you own and manage, versus what part SAVVIS owns and manages for you.

It's all there, from colocation services to fully managed utility compute and storage platforms. You choose when, to what extent, and how you want it.

Silver Sponsors

Aria Systems is the leading provider of subscription billing solutions and offers the only "monetization platform" encompassing the full spectrum of Billing and Customer Lifecycle Management services. The "monetization platform" offers clients the on-demand billing industry's most flexible tool for accelerating revenue capture, optimizing cash flow, and enabling actionable market intelligence while significantly reducing operating costs throughout each phase of the customer lifecycle.

Acknowledged as the SaaS billing leader in terms of experience and execution, Aria manages and maintains more than 1 million accounts and has processed more than 1 billion transactions since it began operations in 2003. With Hummer Winblad and software billing icon Dave Labuda as investors, the company is based in Media, Pa. (metropolitan Philadelphia), with offices in the San Francisco bay area as well. For more information, visit www.ariasystems.com.

Founded in 2000, Ryma Technology Solutions develops and enables industry-leading Integrated Product Management Solutions that transition enterprises from reactive product management organization to the proactive industry leaders that deliver profitable product innovation in stride with continuously evolving market demands.

Ryma Technologies is the definitive authority and enabler of Product Management Technology and continues to break the barrier and take cutting–edge technology beyond the expected with its next generation Integrated Product Management (IPM) Solution. Ryma’s IPM Solution bridges the business-critical gaps between People, Process and Technology – and enables enterprise to achieve Best Practices based on Ryma’s three tiers of Business Excellence: Anticipate ∙Cultivate ∙Innovate for a sustained market leadership

An industry-leading Adaptive Product Management (APM) Foundation – a powerful engine of change is at the core of the IPM Solution. The APM Foundation senses the existing enterprise environment to provide personalized insights for Product Management communities to align the innovation value chain with strategic business objectives relative to achieve a sustained return on product investment.

OpSource™ OpSource delivers a complete Web operations solution for serious SaaS and Web businesses, with hundreds of applications, millions of users and billions of transactions supported daily. OpSource On-Demand™, the leading Web operations solution, is defining how Web-based software is delivered. By choosing OpSource as their Web application delivery partner, companies are freed from investing in and managing the complex and costly infrastructure and services necessary to deliver applications over the Web. They can instead focus their resources on developing, marketing and selling their applications and services. Further, by using OpSource Connect™ companies can leverage Web services such as OpSource Billing™, OpSource Analytics™ and OpSource End-User Support™ and integrate their applications with other SaaS applications over the Internet as well as with enterprise applications behind the corporate firewall.

Headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, OpSource has Web application delivery centers in Virginia, London and Bangalore. For more information about OpSource, visit www.opsource.net.

QuickArrow's Professional Services Automation (PSA) solution makes managing people and projects easier than ever before, replacing homegrown solutions and labor-intensive spreadsheets to automate workflows.

This enables you to streamline operations and achieve better visibility to optimize your services delivery. QuickArrow's flexible Software as a Service (SaaS) solution also integrates with leading SFA, CRM, project management, accounting, and financial applications – including salesforce.com®, MS Project®, MS Great Plains® and QuickBooks®.

Worldwide, more than 300 Services organizations rely on QuickArrow every day to increase resource utilization, capture more billable hours and expenses, and enable more effective decision-making to drive top and bottom-line growth.

SAVVIS provides IT Infrastructure-as-a-Service, featuring secure, modern data centers in prime locations; enterprise class server and storage platforms; fully managed network solutions; a portfolio of security tools; a suite of management tools that give you control of your applications; and a Professional Services team to help you when you need it.
Our flexible services model enables you to choose which aspects of your IT infrastructure you own and manage, versus what part SAVVIS owns and manages for you.

It's all there, from colocation services to fully managed utility compute and storage platforms. You choose when, to what extent, and how you want it.

Servoy – One Code Base for Desktop AND Web

Servoy BV is an international firm that creates the highly acclaimed Servoy, a powerful hybrid (SaaS and on premises) development and deployment platform used by independent software vendors (ISVs), businesses and consultants in over 50 countries.  Servoy includes Eclipse, AJAX, HTTP tunneling and secure-by-default security features and consists of a powerful GUI designer which is fully event-driven and scriptable through JavaScript to help build and deploy applications much faster than traditional development environments. With one-code base, ISVs can deploy to the Web or on premises, Smart Client and/or browser on any platform that supports Java - as well as to any SQL database -- it is the logical choice for all ISVs.

Today over 100,000 companies and more than 20,000 developers are working with the Servoy product suite and have successfully used Servoy to transition their products to SaaS– on time and on budget. Symantec,Stanford University, Wells Fargo, Verizon and UCLA hospital all rely on Servoy for managing data and presenting it to their customers and employees through rich applications over the LAN, WAN and Internet connections. For more information visit: http://www.servoy.com/.

About THINKstrategies, Inc. - THINKstrategies is a strategic consulting services company formed specifically to address the unprecedented business challenges facing IT managers, solutions providers, and investors today as the technology industry shifts toward a services orientation. The company’s mission is to help our clients re-THINK their corporate strategies, and refocus their limited resources to achieve their business objectives by capitalizing on the new generation of on-demand services. THINKstrategies has also founded the Software-as-a-Service Showplace (www.saas-showplace.com), an easy-to-use, online directory and resource center of over 3000 SaaS solutions from over 800 companies worldwide, organized into over 80 Application. Industry and Enabling Technology categories. The Showplace also includes information and insights regarding industry best practices. For more information regarding our unique services, visit www.thinkstrategies.com, or contact us at info@thinkstrategies.com.

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