2008 Demo Pavilion Archive

Meet with established leaders and hot startups in the Demo Pavilion to find the right products and services for your organization.

Diamond Sponsors | Platinum Sponsors | Gold Sponsors
Silver Sponsors | General Exhibitors

Diamond Sponsors


IBM IBM Lotus knows how to empower people to connect, collaborate, and innovate while optimizing the way they work. Get started now with IBM social computing, mashups, online collaboration and mobile communication technologies that help organizations of all sizes work smarter and become more agile in today's dynamic workplace. Drive better business outcomes through smarter collaboration. www.ibm.com
Microsoft Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is the worldwide leader in software, services, and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. Microsoft has worked to achieve this mission by creating technology that transforms the way people work, play, and communicate. Microsoft develops and markets software, services, hardware, and solutions that we believe deliver new opportunities, greater convenience, and enhanced value to people’s lives. Microsoft does business throughout the world and has offices in more than 100 countries. http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/default.mspx
Open Text Open Text, a global leader in enterprise content management (ECM), combines the expertise and solutions to help customers embrace Enterprise 2.0 within the context of their ECM strategies. With Open Text's solutions, customers can transform their organizations with powerful social computing tools—blogs, wikis, forums, tagging, moderation, communities and real-time collaboration—delivered behind the firewall as a natural extension of current ECM initiatives or to Web 2.0-enable public websites, intranets and extranets. Open Text offers customers two decades of ECM expertise supporting 46,000 customers and millions of users in 114 countries. For more information, visit www.opentext.com
Oracle Oracle’s business is information—how to manage it, use it, share it, protect it. For nearly three decades, Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), the world’s largest enterprise software company, has provided software and services that enable organizations to get the most accurate and up-to-date information from their business systems. Today, Oracle has over 275,000 customers—including 98 of the Fortune 100—in more than 145 countries. www.oracle.com

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Platinum Sponsors


Alcatel Lucent Alcatel-Lucent provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprises, and governments to deliver voice, data and video communications. As a global technology leader, Alcatel-Lucent offers a secure, always-on communications framework for the dynamic enterprise that interconnects people, processes, networks, and knowledge, resulting in rich customer interactions, improved operational performance and exceptional business results. For more information, visit: http://enterprise.alcatel-lucent.com
EMC EMC Corporation is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions. We help organizations of every size around the world keep their most essential digital information protected, secure, and continuously available. We are among the 10 most valuable IT product companies in the world. We are driven to perform, to partner, to execute. We go about our jobs with a passion for delivering results that exceed our customers' expectations for quality, service, innovation, and interaction. We pride ourselves on doing what's right and on putting our customers' best interests first. We lead change and change to lead. We are devoted to advancing our people, customers, industry, and community. www.emc.com

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Gold Sponsors


Horn Group Horn Group Horn Group is a strategic communications firm specializing in PR and digital marketing. The agency represents technology companies at every stage of growth to help them engage with key audiences through print, in person and on the web. Services include brand and message development, creative design, media strategy, public relations, and web development.

Horn Group was ranked best-mid sized agency in PRSourceCode 2005 survey of reporters and the firm continues to be noted as a Best Agency to Work For in the Holmes Report. The company was founded in 1991 and is based in San Francisco, New York and Boston. www.horngroup.com
Lithium Lithium Technologies provides market-leading, Web 2.0 solutions by building successful, on-demand enterprise communities that increase customer satisfaction and loyalty, improve the customer experience, and decrease customer care costs. Backed by our community management expertise, Lithium communities engage and reward customers through forums, blogs, chat, and other social networking tools and transform them into loyal advocates who buy more and more frequently. Successful communities inspire customers to share their excitement and knowledge about your products or services, so they get timely, relevant, and trusted information from the community. For more information, visit www.lithium.com.
Novell Through our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology to work as one. We deliver the best-engineered, most interoperable Linux platform and a portfolio of integrated IT management software that help businesses worldwide reduce cost, complexity and risk. Novell® Making IT Work As One™ www.novell.com

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Silver Sponsors


Acquia Acquia is a ground-breaking open source software company providing value-added products and services for the wildly popular Drupal social publishing system. The Acquia team are motivated by the belief that the open source development approach and social publishing technology have the power to connect people and unleash their collective creative potential in order to achieve great things. Company founders are Dries Buytaert, original Drupal creator and project lead, and Jay Batson, previously founding CEO of open source VOIP software company Pingtel. http://acquia.com/
Alfresco Alfresco Software is the first company to bring the power of open source to the enterprise content management market, enabling unprecedented scale and a much lower total cost of ownership than proprietary systems. Alfresco is a simple and intuitive system featuring a familiar interface that reflects existing tools and environments which business users understand: shared file drives and Web search engines. Designed for a federated world, rather than centralized, it meets the needs of departments or individuals, while still providing full audit control of enterprise content. Alfresco can be downloaded from www.alfresco.com
Connectbeam Connectbeam is the leading provider of enterprise social bookmarking and social networking software - an innovate solution for businesses for solving their information discovery and sharing challenge. It enables organizations and their employees to connect and collaborate in real time. Connectbeam features include social bookmarking and tagging, expertise location, and professional social networking. Using Connectbeam, enterprise workers locate and manage information together while discovering and connecting effortlessly with each other's knowledge, interests and skills. It allows users to create views of information based on the wisdom and collective intelligence of their colleagues. Delivered as a turnkey Appliance, it is setup within minutes behind company firewall. Privately held and venture backed, Connectbeam is located in California's Silicon Valley. www.connectbeam.com/
Igloo IGLOO develops online community and social networking solutions for groups, teams and organizations of any size. Our solutions combine Web 2.0 technology with on-demand hosting, consulting, e-engagement and services necessary for successful deployment. Organizations use IGLOO communities to improve employee productivity and foster relationships with members, customers, partners and suppliers. www.igloosoftware.com
Inquira InQuira, Inc. improves the quality of customer and employee interactions through contact centers and websites with integrated applications for knowledge management, intelligent search, analytics and user experience. InQuira’s software platform allows enterprise organizations to enable their business units to create, retrieve, and analyze content to answer intuitive questions and drive positive user experiences. When empowered by InQuira, global enterprise business are realizing dramatic decreases in support costs, fast more effective service resolutions and increased revenues. Blue-chip enterprise customers of InQuira include: Bank of America; AVIS Group; Pitney Bowes; Sun Microsystems; BEA Systems; Fidelity Investments; Honda; and Nokia. www.inquira.com
Jive Software Jive frees people from emails, phone calls or meetings to engage in open, natural business conversations and workflows. As the leading enterprise-class suite of SBS applications for Global 2000 companies, Jive's collaboration software and community software solutions are the first to effectively manage employees, customers, and partners on a unified platform built for tens of thousands of users and millions of page views. Jive is the SBS marketshare leader with more than 2,500 customers, including 15% of the Fortune 500. In 2008, Jive recognized quarter over quarter growth of 20% and was named a Gartner Magic Quadrant Visionary and a Forrester Wave leader. Founded in 2001, Jive is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. http://www.jivesoftware.com.
liquidplanner LiquidPlanner is online collaboration software that offers teams a complete project environment, smart social features, and a revolutionary new scheduling engine. A simple but powerful alternative to using multiple tools, LiquidPlanner offers task management, project scheduling, file sharing, and team collaboration in one central place. With its ground-breaking scheduler that helps manage uncertainty, LiquidPlanner is currently helping hundreds of teams deliver projects on time, every time.
LiquidPlanner was founded in 2006 by Charles Seybold and Jason Carlson, former senior managers at Expedia.com. The company is privately held and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. www.liquidplanner.com
nGenera Corporation nGenera drives productivity and business velocity by deploying on-demand Collaborative Enterprise Management (CEM) solutions in the world’s largest organizations. These innovative solutions combine nGenera’s collaborative applications, executive insight, advisory services, and education to deliver critical business outcomes in marketing, sales, IT, HR and operations. For more information, visit www.ngenera.com
Remy Corporation The Remy Corporation is a leader in integrated staffing, recruiting, and consulting solutions for the Web 2.0 world! Remy understands the dynamics of Human Capital, becoming the premier provider of human capital needs for companies seeking fulltime placements, staff augmentation, and consulting services. www.remycorp.com
Socialtext As the first wiki company, Socialtext leads the industry in applying next-generation Web 2.0 technologies to the critical challenges facing businesses. Web 2.0 holds the promise of dramatically increasing business productivity, stimulating greater innovation, and creating tighter connections between employees, and with partners, suppliers and customers. With the most flexible deployment options in the industry - including appliances, hosted services, software and open-source ­ Socialtext wiki-centric social software solutions are designed for any organization that wants to accelerate team communications, better enable knowledge sharing, foster collaboration, and build online communities. Over 4,000 organizations use Socialtext: Epitaph Records, Humana, IKEA and Intel. www.socialtext.com
Spigit Spigit makes its enterprise customers more competitive by accelerating their pace of innovation. We provide a comprehensive innovation management platform for companies, integrating emergent social collaboration with traditional workflow and analytics in innovation communities. Spigit is used by leaders in the Fortune 2000 to improve the speed and quality of decisions around innovation. Spigit has over 2.4 million licensed users with companies around the world. www.spigit.com
Sun Microsystems Inc. Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun’s newest product, the Social Learning Exchange (SLX), is a SaaS-based video community platform for the enterprise. SLX helps employees, partners and customers more effectively communicate and collaborate through video and the social web. Learn more about SLX at http://slx.sun.com
Telligent Telligent is a leader in enterprise social software for online communities and collaboration. Telligent's two flagship offerings, Community Server and Community Server Evolution provide fully integrated platforms that utilize social computing to enhance customer relationships and brand engagement, increase ROI, provide channels for customer insight and feedback, improve employee collaboration, increase knowledge management, and foster ideation. With its proven social software platform, Telligent empowers collaboration for many of the world's largest brands, including Dell, Electronic Arts, Intel, Microsoft, and Reader's Digest. For more information, visit Telligent.com.
Trampoline Trampoline Systems is social intelligence for business. Trampoline’s SONAR Suite provides 360° enterprise social computing for employees and managers. SONAR Dashboard is intelligent social networking for the enterprise and SONAR Flightdeck provides organisational diagnostics for managers. Both are powered by SONAR Server, which analyses the relationships and expertise hidden in corporate data by connecting to email, wikis and blogs, contact databases and more. Trampoline’s clients include the Raytheon Company, a top 5 global management consultancy and the UK Foreign Office. Trampoline is headquartered in London, UK. www.trampolinesystems.com
Worklight WorkLight™ Inc. develops and markets a line of server products that consumerize the corporate computing experience, by making popular consumer services like iGoogle, MS Live, Netvibes, and Facebook "enterprise-ready." Through WorkLight, employees and consumers connect to protected enterprise data (and to each other) using Web 2.0 services. A venture-backed company with offices in Boston, Massachusetts and Yakum, Israel, WorkLight has received prestigious industry accolades: "Five Enterprise 2.0 Startups to Watch," (Information Week Magazine); CIO Magazine's Web 2.0 Product Suite; Computerworld's "10 Cool Cutting-edge Technologies on the Horizon”; "Stay Organized" Award (Microsoft's Under the Radar Conference); Red Herring 100 International finalist. http://www.myworklight.com/


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General Exhibitors


adenin TECHNOLOGIES IntelliEnterprise is the ideal Intranet 2.0 for organizations creating a social, agile and truly collaborative enterprise. It delivers a highly interactive environment that leverages folksonomy, transparency, user-driven information flow and provides better access to collective intelligence. With more than 100 ready-to-run modules, applications and tools, IntelliEnterprise is an unbelievably complete Intranet 2.0 Portal Suite. Distributed organizations around the world are using IntelliEnterprise to quickly implement and maintain a vivid Intranet to liberate their employees for increased innovation, productivity and agility. www.adenin.com
AIIM AIIM is a community that provides education, research, and best practices to help organizations find, control, and optimize their information. The AIIM E2.0 Certificate program provides in-depth education on Enterprise 2.0, from technologies to best practices to drive innovation and collaboration across the enterprise. For more information: www.aiim.org
Amazon Web Services Built upon same world-class technology that powers Amazon.com, Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers a reliable, easy-to-scale, low-cost computing platform "in the cloud." Companies of all sizes, from around the globe use AWS for application hosting, backup and storage, high-performance computing, content delivery, and more. http://aws.amazon.com
Aragon Consulting Group Aragon Consulting Group is a technology consulting firm that designs and delivers IT solutions to complex business problems. Our experienced consultants have deep knowledge of a wide range of software solutions, including the latest open-source, SaaS, and PaaS offerings. We work with you to understand your existing technology environment, we make smart, cost-effective, and actionable recommendations, and we deliver on our recommendations using trained and highly skilled software engineers. http://www.aragonconsultinggroup.com/
Atlassian Software Systems Atlassian develops affordable, lightweight software that helps enterprises collaborate better. Products include Confluence, recognized as the most widely-used enterprise wiki, and JIRA, one of the world's most popular issue trackers for IT project management. The company has 10,000 customers worldwide, including 30 of the world's top 50 corporations. For more information, visit: http://www.atlassian.com
Attensa The Attensa Managed RSS Platform gets the right information, to the right people at the right time and provides a secure, clutter-free communications channel that makes it easy to effectively receive, act on and collaborate around highly relevant information. For more information visit http://www.attensa.com
Aventiv-Nomadesk Aventiv's NomaDesk ensures that businesses never stumble because a file is out-of-date or out of reach. We do this by making business file networks radically easier to create, share and manage. As a managed-service provider, we make it simple for small, mobile, non-technical teams to create, share and extend their file networks: beyond geographic or corporate boundaries; without VPN or additional servers; and with OFF-LINE continuity. NomaDesk is the first solution built on Enterprise 2.0's Virtual File Networking (VFN) architecture, erasing the distinction between "web" and "local" files, so that – regardless of where they originated – files automatically remain; fresh (updated and synchronized); at-hand (replicated across team PCs and web-servers); secure (encrypted and theft-proof); and trusted (authorized access only). www.nomadesk.com
Awareness Awareness helps companies build and operate branded Web 2.0 communities. These online communities let customers, prospects, employees, or partners connect with each other and share content. At the core of the Awareness solution is an on-demand social media platform that combines the full range of Web 2.0 technologies - blogs, wikis, discussion groups, social networking, podcasts, RSS, tagging, photos, videos, mapping, etc. - with security, control, and content moderation. Awareness builds these features into complete communities for companies, or customers use the Awareness API and widgets to integrate Web 2.0 technologies into their own web properties. Major corporations such as McDonald's, Kodak, the New York Times, Northwestern Mutual, and Procter and Gamble use Awareness to build brand loyalty, generate revenue, drive new forms of marketing, improve collaboration, encourage knowledge-sharing, and build a "corporate memory." www.awarenessnetworks.com
blogtronix Blogtronix, the Enterprise Social Platform; is a privately held, venture-backed, Web 2.0 company with a unique set of integrated collaboration, communication, knowledge management and social networking tools. These include blogs, wikis, document management, RSS aggregation, and user notification options. Our tools are supported by extensive administration management features and options including a fully customizable user interface & security system. Current clients using the platform include Red Herring and Reuters. www.blogtronix.com.
box.net Founded in March 2005, Box.net is a leading provider of tools for managing and sharing data online. The service enables users to share, access, and collaborate on files of any type from anywhere. With more than 1.5 million users, over 1 million files served every day, and more than 1000 developers in the Box Enabled Network, Box.net is the first web-native system and is used by individuals, small businesses, and Fortune 1000 companies. In December 2007, the company launched its OpenBox platform which connects data from Box.net to other web-based applications and services providing users the ability to do more with their data. Box.net is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, and is backed by venture capitalist firms Draper Fisher Jurvetson and U.S. Venture Partners. Box.net
Day Software Day Software is a leader in technology innovation and standards adoption, providing fully standards-based Content and collaboration applications and infrastructure. Day's solutions enable companies to implement compelling, future-proof Enterprise 2.0 solutions, while reducing the complexity and cost if their information systems, making valuable content accessible throughout the enterprise and beyond. www.day.com
eXpresso eXpresso brings Excel® to the Web 2.0 world, where users have come to expect on-demand interaction with current, “living” data. With eXpresso, people can store, edit, or instantly share Excel® spreadsheets online in real-time. No more emailing spreadsheets or juggling who has which version. Registration is free. www.expressocorp.com
GoLightly GoLightly provides an integrated suite of hosted online community tools, including groups, forums, wikis, blogs, and file sharing, for enterprise, associations, non-profits, government and OEM. Our software-as-a-service platform is used for knowledge management; market research; staff, member and customer communities; product user groups; intranets, trusted social networks, and more. www.golightly.com
GroupSwim GroupSwim is a SaaS Social Collaboration solution. We radically improve productivity by helping companies connect with their customers and employees to share effectively. The secret is our proprietary semantic technology that automatically categorizes and rates content (discussions, emails, files, wikis) and identifies experts by topic. We make your knowledge smarter. www.groupswim.com
HeadMix HeadMix's mission is to help employees discover the valuable knowledge trapped inside their colleagues heads. HeadMix achieves this by delivering a lightweight, on demand, easy to use messaging platform that promotes intuitive knowledge sharing inside a company. www.headmix.com
Ikordo ikordo takes the pain out of meeting planning by negotiating the most suitable date with attendees on your behalf, like a real assistant. ikordo interprets plain English email responses, building a picture of everyone’s availability then sets a meeting date followed up with e-mail and SMS reminders before the start. www.ikordo.com
Mindjet Mindjet makes software that helps people visualize and use information. Its leading product, MindManager software, enables individuals and teams to work smarter, think creatively, and save time every day. There are over 1 million licenses of MindManager software used globally by 85 of the Fortune 100 companies and more than 50 percent of the Global 2000. www.mindjet.com
mzinga Mzinga is the leading provider of social software solutions and services for marketing, customer support and learning. Through a combination of enterprise-class technology, strategy and online moderation services, Mzinga social solutions enable businesses to increase revenue and lower costs by improving brand visibility, workplace satisfaction, and customer loyalty. http://www.mzinga.com.
Newsgator Technologies NewsGator Social Sites is built into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and helps companies leverage social computing solutions to deliver real business value. Social Sites gives enterprises better ways to collaborate, share content, expand employee knowledge and improve productivity. NewsGator's enterprise social networking solutions are in use by hundreds of the world's most recognized brands, including Biogen Idec, Edelman and Universal McCann. For more information, visit www.newsgator.com
Openwater Networks Openwater Networks provides business solutions that connect people and information in ways that - collectively - they act more intelligently and productively than ever before. Openwater goes beyond social networking to provide collaborative, search-based solutions for customer service, IT and corporate shared services that grow revenue, cut project costs and increase corporate savings. http://www.openwaternet.com/
Intuit QuickBase QuickBase, from Intuit, provides on-demand, customizable business applications. With QuickBase, IT has the control they need and users have the flexibility they desire. Used by 56 of the Fortune 100, QuickBase applications organize, track, and share information in areas as diverse as project, sales, IT helpdesk and supply chain management. quickbase.intuit.com
Rackspace A recognized leader in the global IT marketplace, Rackspace® delivers a diverse suite of enterprise-class hosted IT services. Customers choose Rackspace for its hosting specialization, backed by their award-winning Fanatical Support®. By integrating the industry's best technologies and delivering them as services, Rackspace serves as an extension of its customers' IT departments. Because Rackspace removes the burden of infrastructure management, customers can focus on their core business. http://www.rackspace.com
Small World Labs Small World Labs is dedicated to helping organizations harness the power of social media to drive key initiatives through our online community and social networking solutions. Our goal is to help clients navigate the rapidly evolving world of Web 2.0, providing both the technology and expertise needed to succeed. http://www.smallworldlabs.com/
Socialcast Socialcast puts your entire company's brain to work. We develop on-demand corporate social networking software for organizations of all sizes. Our SAAS platform unites traditional intranet features with social networking functionality to foster collaboration and corporate culture enrichment. With a Socialcast community, employees don't just share knowledge - they create it. www.socialcast.com
ThoughtFarmer ThoughtFarmer is turnkey intranet software. It enables innovative organizations to share knowledge, engage employees and foster collaboration. ThoughtFarmer customers include EA, eHarmony, Guardian News & Media, IDEO and Penn State University. www.thoughtfarmer.com
Tomoye Tomoye Community Software is the quickest way to build thriving standalone or Sharepoint-based communities. Tomoye offers a range of community products and services, including a specific version for Microsoft Sharepoint. Tomoye’s proven communities are currently being used in leading organizations around the world. www.tomoye.com
Traction TeamPage Traction Software's TeamPage delivers integrated Enterprise 2.0 authoring, threaded discussion, activity streams, social tagging, notification, search and more. TeamPage customers include nine of the top twenty pharma, fifteen Global 100, government agencies including FDA, DOJ and DOD. Traction Software is funded by In-Q-Tel - the CIA's venture arm. Learn more at www.tractionsoftware.com
Veodia Veodia's Video Platform as a Service allows organizations to broadcast and manage live and on-demand high quality (MPEG-4/h.264) video over the Internet. Businesses can instantly leverage the power of video with employees, clients and partners. IT groups can provide a scalable, secure and reliable online video solution to all departments. www.veodia.com
Vignette Vignette helps organizations improve how they connect online with key audiences by providing software for building great online experiences and managing the content that fuels those experiences. Vignette invented Web Content Management over a decade ago, and our customers include some of the world’s most prominent brands in virtually every industry. http://www.vignette.com
Zoho Zoho offers an online office suite with a wide range of applications such as: word processors, spreadsheets, presentations and Wikis. It also includes CRM; project management; and other additional applications. It is an affordable option for business users, and is free for individuals. Zoho is located in Pleasanton, California and a division of AdventNet. www.zoho.com

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