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Access Sciences Corporation is an information management and technology consulting firm in the business of helping our clients thrive in their market space. We achieve this by helping clients transform their information, knowledge and technology into meaningful assets they can use.

We have four practice lines that integrate seamlessly to assist our clients: Enterprise Content and Records Management, Legal Business Consulting, Technology Consulting, and Organization Transformation. We are also in the business to educate those who want to enhance their information management and technology skills.

Access Sciences delivers all you need to have a complete, enterprise-wide information management and technology solution for your organization. If your information is performing well, so is your bottom line.

Website: Access Sciences

Antares Technology Solutions is an information technology consulting and software development company. Our vision is to be a trusted partner for our clients by delivering superior software based business solutions. Since 1988, Antares has planned, designed and implemented software solutions that help our customers increase their competitive advantage and grow their businesses.

We collaborate closely with you to ensure that our solutions fully address your business needs. As your trusted partner, we pride ourselves in our balance of business acumen and technical delivery skills. The result is a collaborative approach - including the direct involvement of Antares principals - that shapes our project management methodology, rigorous quality assurance, and customer involvement.

Antares has a dedicated SharePoint Business Solutions Team, many of who have considerable business consulting background matched with an equally impressive set of technical experience. In addition most of our staff are Microsoft Certified Professionals with demonstrated expertise in architecting, deploying, and supporting SharePoint solutions. We have a series of offerings that begin by assessing, identifying, profiling and understanding your business processes and information flow and creating a comprehensive strategy and roadmap for your company to optimize your SharePoint investment.

Antares is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with Custom Development Solutions, Information Workers Solutions, and Data Management Solutions competencies. We are also a Microsoft Inner-Circle Partner in Application Lifecycle Management.

Website: Antares

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Website: Apress

AvePoint is proud to be a U.S. based technology company and software innovator. Since 2001, AvePoint has been a global leader in enterprise-strength infrastructure management solutions for all Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. Propelled by one of the world’s largest SharePoint-exclusive development teams outside of Microsoft, AvePoint’s award-winning DocAve Software Platform delivers comprehensive and flexible infrastructure support for backup and recovery, replication, migration, administration, archiving, deployment management, and compliance.

AvePoint’s pioneering technology pilots the products of OEM partners such as NetApp and IBM. With headquarters, research facilities, and engineering centers in Jersey City, NJ, and wholly owned engineering centers and sales offices in San Jose, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington D.C., and Houston, USA; London, UK; Melbourne, Australia; Tokyo, Japan; Singapore; and Changchun, Dalian, China, AvePoint serves over 3000 enterprise customers, including many Fortune-500 companies. Winner of the Best of Tech Ed award for “Best SharePoint Product” in 2008, AvePoint is a Managed Gold Certified Microsoft Partner and GSA Certified Provider.

Website: AvePoint

Specializing in software for Microsoft SharePoint, Axceler has delivered award winning administration products worldwide since 1994. For Microsoft SharePoint, Axceler offers ControlPoint - the best way to get control over a SharePoint environment. ControlPoint gives SharePoint professionals the ability to manage permissions, copy sites, analyze activity and more. Axceler's ControlPoint was recently named the Best SharePoint Product of 2009 by the editors of WindowsITPro. Axceler is based in Woburn, MA with offices in Southern California and London, UK.

Website: Axceler

Catapult Systems is an information technology consulting firm specializing in e-business solutions, custom application development, software integration, and infrastructure services. Catapult Systems has been helping companies successfully achieve their business objectives through the innovative use of technology since 1993. As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Catapult has developed a reputation for uncompromising quality and service. For more information, visit www.catapultsystems.com

Website: Catapult Systems

CommVault® Simpana® Software Suite is a unique Data Management solution comprised of modules designed on a single Windows code base. It is 64-bit optimized and shares a single set of enterprise-level services. The Microsoft FAST integrated Content Search for Business Productivity, Archive, Replication, Backup, Application Integrated Granular Recovery, Data Mining, Resource Management, and Search modules provide singular efficiency, performance, reliability, and control over the enterprise to help manage data growth, lower costs, reduce risks and assist/accelerate upgrades. CommVault software uses an expandable range of application modules and shares a single set of back-end services (Common Technology Engine) to deliver leading-edge functionality that truly unifies and simplifies enterprise data management and maximizes cost effectiveness. This approach ensures granular, “Release Independent” application recovery to enhance the management of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 environment, SharePoint, Windows, SQL Server, Active Directory.

Website: CommVault

COMPU-DATA International, LLC (CDI) specializes in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Information Organization & Access (IOA) and Business Process Automation (BPA) delivering specific products, services and solutions.

What we solve

The inability to find relevant and precise information
Inefficiencies that exist in manually tagging records and its effects in retention in SharePoint® and other data sources
The burden of organizing records from diverse repositories into a single interface
Problems with implementations that address Privacy or Confidential business information exposure
Failures in the successful implementation of distributed capture systems
Increasing costs due to failures in process automation

For more info visit : http://www.cdlac.com/

Website: COMPU-DATA International

COMSYS is a leading provider of IT staffing, technical, and business process solutions with over 50 offices across the United States (including Puerto Rico) and international offices in Toronto and London. Our IT staffing and human capital process solutions provide a foundation for workforce scalability and offer visibility into that key variable cost while COMSYS Project Solutions support our clients in the fulfillment of a wide range of discrete, mission-critical projects and ongoing business requirements.

On April 5, 2010, COMSYS joined Manpower Inc. to complement the substantial existing talent and solutions capabilities of Manpower Professional. To learn more about this powerful combination, please visit www.manpowercomsys.com.

Website: COMSYS

CorasWorks is a global leader in applications and application development tools that drive immediate business value on Microsoft SharePoint. More than 1,000 organizations and 1 million users worldwide download and use plug-and-play apps from CorasWorks and our partners, and build their own applications without the cost and complexity of custom code using our comprehensive application development system.

CorasWorks is a Microsoft Gold-certified Managed Partner with headquarters in Reston, VA.

Website: CorasWorks

Coveo was founded in 2005 to provide a more sophisticated, yet easier to deploy and customize, Enterprise Search Platform and search-powered Customer Information Access solutions to help organizations access, analyze, and leverage information and knowledge.

Coveo was born in the SharePoint environment and continues to be the best and most scalable as well as most cost effective search engine for SharePoint. Coveo optimizes this powerful collaboration platform with integrated information access capabilities that span not only SharePoint but virtually any other enterprise system - creating true cross-enterprise collaboration. With Coveo, SharePoint users:

Quickly navigate large volumes of content to locate specific information
Easily access SharePoint-enabled blogs and blog comments
Fine-tune search results with contextual facets specifically designed for SharePoint implementations
Include SharePoint content in searches initiated by any of Coveo’s access interfaces, including the Floating Desktop Search Bar and Outlook Sidebar
Coveo replaces the standard search bar in SharePoint, as well as providing customizable web parts, providing instant information access from any site or web page
Search pan-enterprise from SharePoint including active and archived email, wikis, document management and content management systems, collaboration tools, and more

Website: Coveo

As the largest IT training provider in the State of Texas, CTREC Hilton IT Academy understands that every student who walks through our door has certain goals and objectives in mind. Whether the requirement is professional development, project and team goals, or the business objectives of an entire company, our Training Solutions Consultants are ready to provide a complete solution for your IT training needs.

Website: CTREC Hilton

Double-Take® Software offers an array of affordable workload optimization products that are simple to use and enable you to move, protect, recover and more flexibly run critical IT workloads in physical and virtual environments, regardless of platform or location.

Whether you need a better way to move workloads for migration, continuously backup workloads and recover them on-demand, ensure the availability of critical workloads or easily manage desktop and server workloads, we have a solution that’s right for you.

Workload Migration: move workloads between any combination of physical and virtual hardware (P2P, P2V, V2P or V2V) within datacenters for hardware refreshes or across locations for datacenter migrations and consolidations.
Workload Backup: Continuously backup workloads and recover them on-demand to a new physical or virtual machine. Recovery can be done at the item level to any point in time.
Workload Availability: Ensure the availability of critical IT workloads for disaster recovery and business continuity using real-time replication and failover that can protect individual applications, entire servers or virtualized workloads running on VMware ESX or Microsoft Hyper-V.
Workload Flexibility: Easily manage any workload by booting it from iSCSI SANs, regardless of hardware and without the need for specialized HBAs.

Website: Double-Take Software

DWWTC is an International Training Company headquartered in Phoenix-Tempe, Arizona, specializing in the delivery of Microsoft, Juniper, Palo Alto, IT Security and custom courses. We offer a full schedule of courses in cities throughout the US, Canada, and Mexico plus deliver courses on-demand at locations around the globe in multiple formats including Public Instructor Led Classrooms, Live Virtual Classes, Remote Education Advanced Learning-Instructor Led Training (REAL-ILT) and Private on-site classes. If you are in need of training in any technology or you're a company that is in need of a Training Partner to produce, provide, or host training classes, DWWTC is the company for you.

Website: Dynamic World Wide Training Consultants

FACILITEKSERVICES, a WILLIS GROUP COMPANY, is a Houston based organization specializing in IT Staffing and Consulting. Our team has over 40 years of experience in the IT Services Industry with expertise in Infrastructure Services, Software Development, and ERP Implementations. Some of our service offerings include:

·         Infrastructure Staffing
·         SharePoint Services – (Assessments, Implementations, Custom Developments, & Training)
·         Software Development Life Cycle Staffing
·         ERP Staffing
·         Infrastructure Consulting and Implementation Services
·         Vendor Neutral RFP Development
·         Retained Recruiting Services

Website: Facilitek Services

Gimmal Group is a Gold Certified Microsoft partner focused on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) and helps organizations plan and realize the benefits of Enterprise Content Management and Records Management (ECM/RM) solutions. We maintain high degrees of expertise in all facets of ECM/RM strategy, planning, analysis, design, and implementation that result in solutions that are proven to be cost effective to implement and maintain.

Contact cynthia.wood@gimmal.com or 713-586-6545 to learn more about Gimmal’s SharePoint Enterprise Framework which establishes standards for SharePoint deployments and improves document and records information integrity and compliance.

Website: Gimmal Group

Taking a people-centric approach is just one of the ways that Global 360 takes a wider, deeper view when it comes to working with our customers. This means enabling your people to do their work better than ever before. It also means helping our customers achieve new levels of success by addressing the limitations and challenges of common approaches to BPM. Global 360 introduced Persona-based BPM to do just that -- to address the ‘tough challenges' of process and the real issues that live in the heart of process where the real work gets done.

Website: Global360

Hitachi Consulting is the global business and IT consulting company of Hitachi Ltd., and a recognized leader with deep industry, business, and technology experience. From business strategy development through application deployment, we are committed to helping clients quickly realize measurable business value and achieve sustainable ROI. We offer the agility of a smaller firm, the stability of larger firms, and the innovation that comes with being part of Hitachi

Website: Hitachi Consulting

Idea integration an IT consulting and technology solutions firm specializing in application development, digital data management, business intelligence, infrastructure, information security, and interactive marketing. Idea serves clients throughout the United States with high value application consulting services.

Website: Idea Integration

Idera delivers a new generation of tools for managing, administering, and securing Microsoft Windows Servers. Idera's products help companies ensure server performance and availability and reduce administrative overhead and expense. Idera provides solutions for SQL Server, SharePoint, PowerShell and Microsoft Dynamics Servers. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Idera's products are sold and supported directly and via authorized resellers and distributors around the globe.

Website: Idera

From the beginning, iKAN Software has embraced technology change, which is why our suite of services and products are continually evolving. We help our clients move towards a paperless enterprise by providing real, scalable solutions that fit any situation or level of service. iKAN Software products seamlessly integrate with many of the industry’s largest platforms and software, and we can do all of this more cost effectively than our competition.

Before we take on any assignment, we’ll thoroughly understand your needs. We’ll know your requirements well, so that we can provide the right solution. And, we’ll take the less is more approach – creating real value that you can use – not try to cram more features that don’t fit your environment or the problem you’re trying to solve.

Website: iKAN Software

Infusion solves business problems by combining expert software engineering with appealing user experiences and design. Through a unique combination of enterprise development, innovative design, and a commitment to emerging technologies, Infusion offers a full suite of information technology services including: custom architecture, training and mentoring, hosting and support, and user experience and design solutions. www.infusion.com

Website: Infusion

Intellinet is a business technology consulting firm dedicated to helping executives succeed by maximizing the business value of IT through strategy and solutions that reduce costs, enable revenue, and increase business productivity.

As trusted advisors, Intellinet provides exceptional Microsoft technology solutions with project delivery in the areas of: business process optimization, application development, business intelligence, collaboration, infrastructure, and systems management. Client endorsements of project successes have won Intellinet Gold Certified recognition by Microsoft in eleven IT competencies as well as numerous industry awards and acknowledgements.

Website: Intellinet

Process is pervasive to all enterprises. More efficient processes save time and money while increasing productivity and profitability. SourceCode’s K2.net^TM offering is a business process management solution that enables customers to quickly design and deploy solutions that automate, manage and optimize processes.

Website: K2

K2 blackpoint™ is a Business Process Management (BPM) solution for SharePoint, which has become the de-facto portal, collaboration and content management platform for a wide spectrum of businesses.

K2 blackpoint has a powerful Office-style designer (K2 Studio) and a Silverlight-based K2 Web Designer that provides profound simplicity. Non-developers and business users can use K2 blackpoint to create new SharePoint workflows that span libraries, sites, InfoPath forms, server farms and organizations; manage approvals; and route documents and list items. With K2 blackpoint, everything is visual and wizard-driven, everything can be built without code, and users can assemble new applications from information that already exists.

Based on the same K2 platform as K2 blackpearl, K2 blackpoint represents a low cost solution for rich, visual designing, managing and reporting for workflow and process-based applications that operate in the context of SharePoint. K2 blackpoint promises and delivers a rapid “no-code” approach to building powerful business applications for SharePoint. Furthermore, if the need arises, K2 blackpoint can be upgraded to K2 blackpearl, the flagship BPM product from K2, for additional non-SharePoint functionality and extending to other line of business (LOB) systems.

Website: K2

KnowledgeLake, Inc., headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, is the market leader in developing document imaging and capture products for Microsoft SharePoint based Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions.

Built on the Microsoft .NET platform, KnowledgeLake enables organizations of any size to leverage SharePoint for solving today’s complex document problems. KnowledgeLake document imaging and capture products extend the native capabilities of SharePoint with a powerful suite of applications that allow users to capture large quantities of mission critical documents and transform them into easily consumable business information.

Website: KnowledgeLake

Our customers demand world-class IT services. Logica is committed to helping its customers build and maintain leadership positions in their individual markets. Our strength lies in our deep industry and domain expertise, our strong business and technology insight and our track record for delivering successful solutions on time and to budget.

Logica has delivered innovative business solutions and services to our customers for nearly forty years. Increasing globalisation and the rapid evolution of technology have fundamentally altered the services our customers require. To respond to these changes, we have dramatically grown our geographical presence, particularly in Europe, and have extended our range of offerings.

Website: Logica

Metalogix Software delivers award-winning content migration, management and archiving software that enables organizations to migrate, manage, archive and recover enterprise content to ensure availability, regulatory compliance, efficiency and cost effectiveness. It supports its more than 5,000 customers worldwide from eight office locations; Boston, Dallas and Ann Arbor, (U.S.), Vancouver and Halifax (Canada) London (UK), Bratislava (Slovakia), and Schaffhausen (Switzerland). Originally founded in 2001, Metalogix of Canada merged with the archiving business of H & S Software in 2008. Profitable and privately held, Metalogix’s investors include Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. Metalogix is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.

Website: Metalogix

MetaVis Technologies provides software solutions to help organize SharePoint environments for improved search, findability and e-discovery. MetaVis takes the complexity out of designing, deploying and managing content within SharePoint by offering reusable taxonomies, metadata management and migration software and services. The benefit is an organized SharePoint environment that is easily understood and well documented.

The company believes that taxonomy management within SharePoint should not be complicated to implement and use. MetaVis products are based on intuitive, graphical interfaces that are easy to use and easy to install. Drag and drop features allow information architects to design SharePoint metadata models and reuse them saving valuable time and resources. As a result, MetaVis products improve search optimization, consistency, content migration, and workflows across corporate SharePoint sites.

Website: MetaVis

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software-any time, any place and on any device

Website: Microsoft

About Mimosa NearPoint Mimosa NearPoint addresses critical customer requirements around archiving, eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, business continuity, and storage optimization in a unified solution. Mimosa NearPoint proactively captures email, files, SharePoint content and instant messages; and provides legal search workflow, employee supervision, immediate mailbox and message recovery, disaster recovery, and self-service search and access in one solution. By leveraging cost-effective storage and advanced classification rules, NearPoint also optimizes content storage and reduces overall infrastructure costs.

About Mimosa Mimosa Systems, Inc. delivers next-generation email, file and SharePoint archiving solutions for information immediacy, discovery, and continuity. Mimosa NearPoint is the industry’s most comprehensive unstructured information management software solution for email, files, collaboration systems and instant messages, enabling archiving, eDiscovery, storage management, and recovery in a unified solution. Mimosa is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, recognized for its competencies in networking infrastructure solutions, ISV/software solutions, and advanced infrastructure solutions. Mimosa was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa Clara, California, with offices in Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, China, Australia, and India. For more information, visit http://www.mimosasystems.com.

Website: Mimosa Systems

Neudesic is a Microsoft National Systems Integrator and Gold Certified Partner with a proven track record of providing reliable, effective solutions based on Microsoft’s technology platform. Neudesic’s technical and industry expertise empowers enterprises to enhance their technological capacity and respond to business opportunities with a greater level of efficiency.

Website: Neudesic

Nevron Software is a global leader in component based data visualization technology for a diverse range of Microsoft centric platforms. Built with perfection, usability and enterprise level features in mind, our components deliver advanced digital dashboards and diagrams that are not to be matched. Today Nevron components are used by many Fortune 500 companies and thousands of developers and IT professionals worldwide.

Designed by professionals for professionals, Nevron Data Visualization technology delivers rich functionality with exceptional features to your Presentation, Scientific, Financial and Business Intelligence applications.

For more detailed information take a look at:

Nevron .NET Vision: http://www.nevron.com/Products.Nevron.NETVision.Overview.aspx

Nevron SSRS Vision: http://www.nevron.com/Products.SQLServerReportingServices.Overview.aspx

Nevron SharePoint Vision: http://www.nevron.com/Products.SharePointDataVisualization.Overview.aspx

Download a fully-functional evaluation versions shipped with great number of examples at: http://www.nevron.com

Website: Nevron

New Horizons Learning Centers provide more than just computer classes. Our integrated training solutions have been designed to maximize the benefits of classroom and online training to create a comprehensive learning experience. The result is real-world training that delivers real results.

Our locations in Houston and Lafayette specialize in providing a full range of Microsoft, Cisco, Citrix, Adobe, CompTIA, ITIL, CEH, and PMI training solutions. Our Solutions Consultants pay close attention to the ever-changing certification arena, and they are happy to provide a certification map tailored to your particular business need. Our Mentored Learning facility, at both locations, provides a unique one-on-one learning environment where the risk of a class cancellation is virtually eliminated. We look forward in continuing to provide Houston and Lafayette the very best Information Technology Training available. Our new site is updated frequently. Do not hesitate to stop by often. We thank you for your business.

Website: New Horizons

ObjectWin Technology, Inc. is a full service Information Technology solutions provider specializing in e-business, ERP and CRM implementations, systems integration, custom application design and development and computer programming services. Since its foundation in 1997, ObjectWin has been committed to total customer satisfaction, quality services, reliable solutions, long-term partnerships, and a price/value structure.

ObjectWin is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with Competencies in Portals and Collaboration, Content Management and Application Development. ObjectWin is also a registered Microsoft SPDS (SharePoint Deployment Planning Services) Partner and Microsoft CRM Partner.

Website: ObjectWin Technology

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Rackspace Hosting is the world’s leader and specialist in hosting. Rackspace delivers computing-as-a-service through its portfolio of hosted IT services including managed hosting, email hosting and cloud hosting. With a mission to be one of the world’s greatest service companies, Rackspace is distinguished by its award-winning Fanatical Support®.

We deliver enterprise-level hosting services to businesses of all sizes and kinds around the world. We got started in 1998 and since have grown to serve more than 70,000 customers, including over 51,000 cloud computing customers. Rackspace integrates the industry's best technologies for each customer's specific need and delivers it as a service via the company's commitment to Fanatical Support.

Website: Rackspace

RepliWeb develops application infrastructure software that governs and automates critical lifecycle management processes within SharePoint, Web, Application and B2B Collaboration environments. Over one thousand organizations rely on RepliWeb to ensure information and application availability throughout distributed IT environments.

RepliWeb’s ROSS enables organizations to effectively manage the content and application lifecycle within SharePoint by replicating functional elements and content in multi-stage (Development, Staging, Production) and multi-site (distributed) environments.
Recognized for its ability to accelerate deployment timelines, ROSS ensures production readiness of sites and invokes "best practice" for change control processes.
For more information, please visit www.repliweb.com

Website: RepliWeb

Founded in 2001, SharePoint Data Services has helped businesses large and small achieve their maximum potential by providing customized technology solutions to meet their needs. SharePoint Data Services creates high end, yet practical SharePoint products. Our Web Parts and Solution Accelerators "plug in" to SharePoint - extending and enhancing the functionality beyond what you get "out-of-the-box". From simple Web Parts, such as improved calendar views, to our Solution Accelerators that provide more comprehensive business functions, our products are designed to dramatically improve user acceptance and operations.

Website: SharePoint Data Services

Sogeti's team of experienced IT professionals works closely with clients to design, develop and deploy adaptable solutions that address the unique needs of their business and industry. Sogeti’s trusted Gold Certified Partnership with Microsoft has allowed our staff of over 6,000 dedicated Microsoft Solutions consultants to receive advanced training and resources helping to strengthen our Microsoft expertise. Sogeti has been repeatedly recognized by Microsoft as a top alliance partner based on our expertise and competencies in several solution areas. This recognition in the form of specialized awards and publications helps to set Sogeti apart from the average Microsoft partner. As one of the world’s leading Microsoft practices, Sogeti delivers Microsoft solutions that transform the way people and organizations work. Our Microsoft-based solutions enable greater efficiency, productivity, profitability and competitiveness. Clients count on our expertise across the entire Microsoft platform–and beyond–to develop innovative solutions that capture key business opportunities and reduce the cost of technology ownership.

Sogeti delivers practical services, built on more than 35 years of global experience. Sogeti is a part of the Sogeti Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of the international Capgemini SA organization, one of the world's leading providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services with 83,500 people worldwide and global annual revenues of 8.7 billion Euros. Sogeti was an immediate success largely due to the founding vision, management principles and core values that laid stress on an entrepreneurial culture, decentralized structure, independence, profitability, cost effective business model and honesty. These attributes remain strong in Sogeti even today. Call the Houston office for your needs today at 713-860-7400.

Website: Sogeti

Sparkhound works collaboratively with businesses to build strategically targeted, future-focused technology solutions. No matter the size of your company or project, we believe technology should work toward a single focused goal: to create a competitive business advantage by transforming your ongoing operations.

Business needs drive our approach.

Information technology should have tangible business value — which is created not by accomplishing an isolated IT-related project or task, but by employing technology creatively and efficiently to produce bottom-line results. That’s why our entire team operates with a business consulting mindset. And it’s why we judge our effectiveness by how well we replace your business challenges with opportunities.

Technology is a process, not a product.

Companies are organic, changing entities. And while our team functions with the benefit of leading-edge knowledge, we also realize that what works today may not be optimal in a year or two. So we view client relationships as long-term partnerships built on clearly understood objectives. Because when we’re in step with your company vision, the focus shifts from “selling you products” to plotting an effective, ongoing roadmap for success.

We’re really in the people business.

We’re not your typical IT guys: self-proclaimed “nerds” with pocket protectors and limited people skills. We believe technology only works as well as it works for the people who use it. So we view our role as IT user advocates — professionals adept at fitting technology to how you work, not the other way around. And no matter the nature of your Sparkhound relationship, you can expect to work with IT experts who demonstrate consistently high levels of expertise, project ownership and personal accountability.

Website: Sparkhound

Founded in 1997, Syntergy works 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

Website: Syntergy

Volt Technical Resources is one of the world’s largest and most respected recruitment organizations. Volt delivers top talent in all skill categories, with a strategic focus on recruiting IT professionals with .Net and SharePoint experience. Large global enterprises rely on Volt for end-to-end workforce strategies and technologies to aid them in sourcing highly-skilled contingent workers and managing contingent labor spend.

Volt uses Six Sigma methods and quality standards to ensure unparalleled and consistent services to our clients and candidates. For the past seven years, Volt has continuously ranked among the top tier of IT staffing providers. Founded in 1950, Volt delivers innovative talent, consulting and technology solutions through an international network servicing North and South America, Europe and Asia.

Website: Volt

Wrox Press, established in 1992 to publish books for computer programmers, is driven by the Programmer to Programmer philosophy. Wrox books are written by programmers for programmers, and the Wrox brand means authoritative solutions to real-world programming problems. Wrox's unique author-editorial process delivers the best and most useful information you need in the timeliest manner.

Wrox.com is the official home on the Web for Wrox Press. Here, you can find information on current and upcoming Wrox titles, as well as errata and downloadable code for all Wrox titles found on this Web site. You can also purchase Wrox Press books via the site's online shopping cart.

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Remember, Programmer to Programmer is not just our slogan; it's the way we write our books.

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In recent years, the company has focused its efforts on delivering Wiley's deep reservoir of "must-have" content to global communities of interest. The company has formed many collaborative relationships in order to further this objective; partners include Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Ernst & Young, and PricewaterhouseCoopers, among others. In 2003, Wiley acquired the Wrox Press brand and trademarks, many of its bestselling titles, and the Wrox.com Web sites.

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Website: Wrox