AS/400 - Co-Sponsors

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Gartner Group, Inc. is the world's leading independent advisor of research and analysis to business professionals making information technology (IT) decisions. It provides research, analysis and advice on strategies for users, purchasers and vendors of IT products and services. Concise, actionable advice saves you time, money and resources while increasing your success.

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DCI educates the world's IT community and has earned its reputation as a world leader in high-technology education, trade shows, and management consulting. DCI is focused on creating unbiased, comprehensive, and cutting-edge computer software, hardware and communications education. The company conducts the highest profile technology shows for users and professional developers of information technology. DCI events are held in the United States, Canada and Europe.

Conference Platinum Co-Sponsors

AS/400* is the world's most popular business computing system, with more than 425,000 shipments worldwide. AS/400 systems -- which are easy to install, implement, use and upgrade -- support from one to 7,000 users, and offer access to over 28,000 applications. AS/400 Advanced Series include systems based on fast 64-bit, PowerPC technology, and start as low as a $7,995 solution for small business or departments.

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ShowCase Corporation is the leading provider of enterprise data warehousing solutions designed for the AS/400 market. ShowCase STRATEGY empowers end users to make smarter, easier decisions through AS/400 data warehousing. It enables Windows desktop integration, server administration, data distribution to relational and multidimensional database models and drill-down data analysis.

AS/400 Systems Management is a monthly magazine written for MIS/DP managers responsible for IBM midrange computing operations. Editorial coverage is focused on management strategies for deploying and maximizing AS/400 systems. Emphasis on case histories that describe real-world experiences dealing with issues ranging from data warehousing to Year 2k to the Internet.

Synon Corporation, is a leading provider of model-based, integrated, development technologies and services for custom and commercial application development. The company's 6,000 customers in over 80 countries have generated more than 50,000 business-critical applications.

JBA is one of the world’s leading business software providers. Its market-leading JBA Systems 21 software is an enterprise-wide suite of fully integrated applications which provide key manufacturing, financial and customer service & logistics solutions for organizations trading in national and international marketplaces. Complemented by unique solutions for specific industries, System 21 also gives many of the world’s leading food, automotive, drinks, style and service management companies the competitive advantage they require for the 21^st century.

Conference Gold Co-Sponsors

Open Universal has offered a unique set of software solutions to IBM's midrange community, and to Microsoft's Host Integration product unit. Designated an IBM IRA in the U.S. and a VAR in Canada, Open Universal has a global installed base of mission critical software used by multi-nationals in the manufacturing, distribution, banking, airline, automotive and financial services industries. Open Universal's NetPerfector product has enhanced the company's leadership role in improving the performance of AS/400 computer systems. Open Universal is the only company in the world to develop a software that monitors both the AS/400 and network, enabling immediate identification of bottlenecks in the total system.

Client/Server business applications, including: financials, human resources, distribution/materials management systems. Lawson incorporated advanced GUI, process agents and process menus for the IBM AS/400 environment.

The Vision Suite is a group of software products that extend the power and functionality of the IBM AS/400 by replicating data from one system to many, or many to one, simultaneously. The Vision Suite of products provides fault tolerance, disaster recovery, work-load balancing and horizontal growth for the AS/400.

J.D. Edwards is the global leader in enterprise-wide business solutions for the AS/400 with over 400 customers. AS/400 solutions include World, OneWorld and Genesis.

Founded in 1990, Lakeview Technology specializes in providing advanced middleware software solutions. The company's flagship product, MIMIX®, is the IBM AS/400 market's leading software solution for high systems availability, disaster recovery, continuous operations and horizontal or tiered growth. The Company will soon release a new data management product called DataBrix™, designed specifically for implementing data distribution and data warehousing solutions on the AS/400.

DataMirror/400 provides real-time, bi-directional data transformation and replication for AS/400 databases. DataMirror's transformational replication enables data warehousing, data distribution and high availability without the need to reprogram core applications. DataMirror/400 also supports SQL Server for Windows NT, Oracle and Sybase.

PentaSafe, Inc. is a software developer dedicated to making companies more productive and successful through the installation and operation of complete auditing and security software solutions for the IBM AS/400.

SEAGULL's PC-based GUI/400 product line modernizes existing AS/400 applications with Internet/Intranet enablement, desktop integration, functional enhancements and Windows (3.x, 95, NT) graphical interfaces — all without changes to the AS/400 application.

Silvon Software will be on-hand to demonstrate its application-centric data warehousing solutions for the supply chain. The company will also preview its integrated suite of tools for handling Year 2000 conversion projects.

Digital Equipment Corp. provides Windows NT solutions, on our Alpha and Intel servers, that enhance AS/400 systems and provide access to client/server business applications. Microsoft BackOffice and other software solutions are available for PC connectivity, data warehousing, mail and messaging, and Internet/intranet.

Dimensional Insights, Inc. makes data analysis and reporting software that quickly and easily puts vital information into the hands of business decision makers. DI-Diver delivers the power of multidimensional analysis direct to users’ desktops, while DI-Atlantis handles very large amounts of data in a client/server architecture.

Infinium Software offers a full range of client/server financial, human resources, materials management, and process manufacturing business applications for the IBM AS/400. Infinium Software’s products are designed to help companies thrive in a rapidly changing business environment by delivering exceptional functionality and a high degree of flexibility. Infinium Software has over 1,300 customers around the world representing a variety of industries including healthcare, hospitality, retail and process manufacturing.

SAP is a market and technology leader in client/server enterprise application software, providing comprehensive solutions for companies of all sizes and all industry sectors. Cultivating innovative technologies on a solid foundation of business experience, SAP delivers scalable solutions that enable its customers to continually improve upon best practices. SAP products empower people to respond quickly and decisively to dynamic market conditions, helping businesses achieve and maintain a competitive advantage.

SSA is the leading ERP provider to the industrial sector with 8,000+ clients running BPCS on IBM AS/400s worldwide. BPCS Client/Server™ V 6.0 is rich in functionality and provides business value through object technology. Through the AgileLink 2000 Program, SSA and IBM deliver an ERP solution encompassing technology, software, platform and service.