Conference Sponsors
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.
As conference sponsor, META Group has developed an agenda reflecting the needs and interests of IT professionals already involved in or planning for this new way of doing business. META Group, Inc. is an independent market assessment company providing research, analysis, and advisory services regarding developments and trends in all areas of information technology. META group currently serves more than 1,000 clients in 20 countries world wide. META Group differentiates itself from other information providers by emphasizing broad service coverage and highly personal service, supported by a maximum 50:1 client to analyst ratio and proactive telephone consultation.
Conference Platinum Co-Sponsors
Founded in 1988, Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (ACS) has grown to become the fourth largest outsourcing company in the country. ACS employs 5,500 professionals and offers a broad range of services including data processing, applications programming, electronic funds transfer and image management. Clients include financial, commercial and governmental institutions.
COMPASS is the world’s foremost IT comparative analysis consulting firm. Established in 1979, COMPASS has performed over 4000 comparative analysis studies for more than 500 clients. Through application of detailed cost, quality and service data, COMPASS assists outsourced IT operations by evaluating the market value of their technology services. Outsourcing Analysis services provide clients with increased control of information technology expenditure saving millions in annual outsourcing costs.
With revenues in excess of $2 billion and over 21,000 employees, SAIC is one of the largest employee-owned, high technology firms. In over 475 offices world-wide, SAIC’s scientists, engineers and business consultants work closely with clients to design, develop, build, install and operate integrated information systems to solve business problems. Examples are: The Health Care Information System for the nine million patients in the Department of Defense Hospital Network and British Petroleum’s Information and Engineering Systems.
Conference Co-Sponsors
Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P. is one of the world’s leading professional services firms. The Firm offers its clients the expertise of more than 16,000 professionals and staff located in 142 countries worldwide. Coopers & Lybrand’s Application Maintenance Center of Excellence provides clients with legacy application support for maintenance and Year 2000 projects.
Litton Computer Services offers a unique blend of business and technical knowledge to support information needs including professional services, client/server services, desktop services, network services and systems management services. Our service offerings are rooted in a set of interrelated core competencies combining the need of our clients to consider the implementation of new technologies with a prudent approach to protection of their investment in legacy systems.
Lockheed Martin Corporation has emerged as the business and technology solutions partner of choice for clients who demand competitive, value-added innovation in their information systems. With $8 billion in IT sales and 35,000 information professionals worldwide, Lockheed Martin offers business and IT architecture services, applications and systems integration, and information processing operations for commercial and government customers. Our experience spans 30 years of information management for clients in markets such as retail, manufacturing, distribution, health care, and finance as well as the public sector.
Teris Consulting Group, a division of Storage Technology Corporation, is the leading provider of I/O outsourcing services. In this capacity Teris can assume the responsibility for all aspects of a client’s storage environment.