Sponsors

All About the Cloud sponsorships are sold out. To inquire about future sponsorship opportunities, please contact Brian Rosenberg, SVP Sales & Marketing, +1.917.267.8858

We are grateful for the valued support of our many sponsors listed below. Be sure to meet with their delegates at the conference to find out how you can benefit from their products and services.

Diamond Sponsor

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.

Platinum Sponsors

McAfee McAfee’s leading security Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions provide always-on guard, integrated protection for businesses of all sizes looking to reduce capital and operational costs. McAfee SaaS protects against viruses, spyware, spam, hackers, vulnerabilities and web threats - all managed from an online management console.. Instantly accessible and requires minimal set-up, McAfee SaaS solutions allow customers to begin securing their business in minutes. By leveraging a managed SaaS platform to run McAfee solutions, you can do more with less by reducing capital investment requirements. And re-allocate your IT staff to business-critical projects that focus on the strategic projects that drive your business.

Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest business software company, providing database, middleware, and collaboration products; enterprise business applications; application development tools; and professional services that help customers collaborate, grow, measure outcomes, and report results with confidence. For more than 30 years, Oracle has led the industry through continuous innovation and a relentless focus on customer success. For more information, visit oracle.com.

RightNow is helping rid the world of bad experiences one consumer interaction at a time, seven million times a day. RightNow CX, the customer experience suite, helps organizations deliver exceptional customer experiences across the web, social networks and contact centers, all delivered via the cloud. With more than eight billion customer interactions delivered, RightNow is the customer experience fabric for nearly 2000 organizations around the globe. For more information visit www.rightnow.com.

Gold Sponsors

Agilis Solutions is a leading provider of software engineering services to Independent Software Vendors. We deliver our services with locally based, senior-level project management, business analysis, and technical architecture onshore, supported by an established offshore engineering team in Vietnam who delivers exceptional quality and predictability at a fraction of onshore prices. For the past 10 years we have been assisting ISVs in the high technology, medical, financial, distribution, and manufacturing industries in new product development, software maintenance, requirements analysis and design, and quality assurance services. We use an agile process that incorporates continuous software integration, frequent delivery of working software, rigorous regression testing, and embraces changes in scope and requirements.

Cast Iron Systems, the #1 SaaS & Cloud integration company, is trusted by all of the top Cloud ISVs to provide their Integration as a Service and embedded integration solutions. Having emerged as the de facto standard for Cloud to Cloud and Cloud to on-premise integration, Cast Iron enables ISVs to offer "integration in days" to their customers via the landmark Powered By Cast Iron partner program, eliminating integration as a sales barrier. Learn more about the Powered By Cast Iron program today at http://www.castiron.com/poweredby

Compuware Gomez, the Web performance division of Compuware, provides the industry's leading platform of Web application experience management solutions used by organizations to optimize the performance, availability, and quality of their Web and mobile applications and proactively identify business-impacting issues. The on-demand Gomez platform integrates solutions for Web load testing, Web performance management, cross-browser testing, and Web performance business analysis that test and measure Web and mobile applications from the "outside-in" — across all users, browsers, devices, and geographies — using a global network of over 100,000 locations. Over 2,500 customers worldwide, ranging from small companies to large enterprises.

fpweb.net is the SharePoint Hosting Pioneer with a decade of experience and 1,000,000 users. What sets Fpweb.net apart? They know SharePoint and they dont just support the hardware, they support the application. Increase profitability with their custom MOSS server farms at 60% less cost than on-premise builds. Go to market faster with Fpweb.net rapid deployment of SharePoint, Exchange and Project Server. Get back to business and forget about the complexities of MOSS with their SharePoint Lifecycle Management. Fpweb.net has earned the trust of US Air Force, NY Yankees and Dow Chemical.

Grant Thornton LLP is the U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton International Ltd, one of the six global audit, tax and advisory organizations. The people in the independent firms of Grant Thornton International Ltd provide personalized attention and the highest quality service to public and private clients in more than 100 countries. Our Technology Industry Practice serves hundreds of software companies in the U.S., including companies that provide software as a service. Our professionals help software executives understand the important accounting, reporting, tax and operational implications of the SaaS delivery model on their companies.

Host Analytics helps executives see the full implications of decisions – both risk and reward. Our leading on-demand corporate performance management solution helps financial executives improve budgeting, forecasting, financial consolidations, dashboarding, scorecarding, reporting and analysis. Most importantly, it helps drive fact-based decisions based on sound financial justification. Host Analytics delivers its product suite using Software as a Service (SaaS) on-demand delivery to increase security while reducing cost and deployment time. Founded in 2000, Host Analytics serves enterprise, large, and midsize companies across industries. Host Analytics was included in JMP Securities’ prestigious “Hot 100: The Best Privately Held Software Companies" and was the recipient of the Best of SaaS Showplace Award from market research firm THINKstrategies

Novell With over 20 years of experience, Novell offers enterprise-class identity and security solutions for cloud providers, SaaS vendors and enterprises that allow organizations to manage and extend their internal policies, rules and workflows securely outside the traditional enterprise boundaries. Through our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell integrates mixed IT environments allowing people and technology to work as one.

Pervasive is the leader in SaaS integration and interoperability—whether on-demand, in the cloud, or on-premises, you can do more faster with Pervasive. Deliver flexible, scalable real-time integration between SaaS applications and enterprise applications, as well as with data behind the firewall. With 1000+ SaaS integration implementations for firms like Salesforce, Xactly, QuickArrow, Daptiv, NetSuite, and many others, Pervasive offers proven success provisioning SaaS and ISV vendors/users with new customer on-ramps, trading partner exchanges, competitive migrations, and more. www.pervasiveintegration.com • 1-512-231-6000 • info@pervasive.com

Ping Identity is the leader in Internet Identity Security, delivering on-premise software (PingFederate®) and on-demand services (PingConnect™) for Internet Single Sign-On, Identity-Enabled Web Services and Internet User Account Management. By leveraging solutions with Ping Identity’s expert support, services, and methodologies (PingEnableSM), external connections can be operational in less than a week. More than 350 enterprises, government agencies, software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendors and online service providers worldwide rely on Ping Identity to streamline application access, reduce administrative costs, generate additional revenue and improve security. Download a free trial at http://www.pingidentity.com, call us: toll-free at 877.898.2905 or + 1 303.468.2882, or email sales@pingidentity.com.

The SAP® Business ByDesign™The SAP® Business ByDesign™ solution is a fully integrated business management solution that delivers the best of SAP software, on-demand. The solution is designed as a best-fit for companies who want the benefits of large-scale business management applications, without the need for a large IT infrastructure. Delivered on demand and managed, monitored, and maintained by SAP experts in world-class hosted data centers, SAP Business ByDesign delivers preconfigured software for business processes and supports best practices for managing financials, customer relationships, human resources, projects, procurement, and the supply.

William Blair & Company, L.L.C. is a global investment firm offering investment banking, asset management, equity research, institutional and private brokerage, and private capital to individual, institutional, and issuing clients. Since 1935, we have been committed to helping clients achieve their financial objectives. As an independent, employee-owned firm, our philosophy is to serve our clients' interests first and foremost. We place a high value on the enduring nature of our client relationships, the quality of our products and services, and the continuity and integrity of our people. William Blair & Company is based in Chicago, with office locations including Boston, London, New York, San Francisco, Shanghai, Tokyo, and Zurich.

Offsite Networking Event Sponsor

Boomi is the market-leading provider of on-demand integration technology and the creator of AtomSphere, the industry's first and leading integration platform-as-a-service. AtomSphere connects providers and consumers of SaaS and on-premise applications via a pure SaaS integration platform that does not require software or appliances. ISVs and businesses alike benefit by connecting to the industry's largest network of SaaS, PaaS, on-premise and cloud computing environments in a seamless and fully self-service model. Leading SaaS players such as salesforce.com, NetSuite, Intuit, Marketo, Taleo, and Zuora rely on AtomSphere to accelerate time to market, increase sales, and eliminate the headaches associated with integration. Recent Boomi awards include the SIIA CODiE for Best On-Demand Platform; the AlwaysOn East 100; the AlwaysOn Global 250; and the JMP Securities Hot 100. For more information about Boomi, visit www.boomi.com.

Pre-Conference Host Sponsors

IBM is the worlds largest technology company with nearly 100 years of leadership in helping clients and partners succeed in delivering business value by becoming more innovative, efficient and competitive through the use of business insight and information technology solutions.

IBM offers cross-industry and industry-specific solutions designed to meet the needs of organizations of all sizes. We offer a wide range of technical, enablement, and marketing assistance to help our partners remain competitive and deliver innovative cloud based solutions.

Intel The Intel® Software Partner Program is an online service designed to provide Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) with a way to quickly and easily include Intel technology capabilities in their applications. Software companies that join this global program can access a portfolio of resources and tools that support the key stages of their business cycle from planning and development all the way through product launch and ramp. Membership in the program is FREE and with 22,000 members from over 100 countries the opportunity for a software company to improve quality and extend reach is just a click away.

Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) is a worldwide, independent software infrastructure company that enables businesses to be operationally responsive to changing conditions and customer interactions as they occur – to capitalize on new opportunities, drive greater efficiencies and reduce risk.

The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of best-in-class enterprise software including: SaaS application development tools, business visibility, integration, and data access for deployment in the Cloud. Progress maximizes the benefits of operational responsiveness while minimizing complexity and lowering the total cost of ownership. Progress can be reached at www.progress.com or +1-781-280-4000.

Welcome Reception Sponsor

NTT America is North America’s natural gateway to the Asia-Pacific region, with strong capabilities in the U.S. market. NTT America is the U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation, the global data and IP services arm of the Fortune Global 500 telecom leader: Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation (NTT). NTT America provides world-class Enterprise Hosting, Managed Network, and IP Networking services for enterprise customers and service providers worldwide. For additional information on NTT America, visit us on the Web at www.us.ntt.com.

Hospitality Sponsor

LiveOps offers two innovative technology solutions for enterprises: Contact Center in the Cloud, a SaaS technology platform for managing contact centers, and Workforce in the Cloud, an on-demand workforce for outsourcing call center calls. LiveOps On-Demand Contact Center Platform brings the value of cloud computing to the contact center by enabling enterprises to rapidly deploy an always-on and instantly scalable contact center infrastructure enabling customers to achieve greater operational and cost efficiencies. LiveOps uses this same technology platform to run the largest virtual call center with over 20,000 independent agents.

Silver Sponsors

Corent Technology, Inc. is a software provider whose products enable companies to enter into the SaaS arena. Corent’s Multi-Tenant Cloud Server™ can be easily configured with any existing single tenant Java-based application to instantly enable a true, scalable, SaaS solution. Corent’s SaaS-Suite™ is an advanced rapid application development platform that delivers efficient multi-tenant applications. Applications leveraging Corent’s technology are easily portable across any public, private or hybrid clouds.

Informatica is the world’s number one independent leader in data integration software. Organizations around the world gain a competitive advantage in today’s global information economy with timely, relevant and trustworthy data for their top business imperatives whether using traditional IT computing systems or the Internet Cloud. From Cloud Services for SaaS Administrators, to the leading Cloud Data Integration Platform for Enterprise IT, Informatica offers the most comprehensive, unified and open platform for Cloud Integration. 2009 AppExchange integration app of the year. InformaticaCloud.com

JPW Consulting leads the worldwide drive for end user adoption of cloud services. We have rolled out change management and training to over 32,000 people joining the cloud, including the largest technology rollout in Wall Street history. Our formal change management process – the JPW Adoption Playbook – guides our success and ensures a consistent focus on end user needs and expectations. Let JPW show you the people side of a cloud project.

Keynote is the leading provider of on-demand test and measurement solutions for continuously improving the online experience. SaaS companies know precisely how their Web applications perform on actual browsers, networks, and mobile devices long before their customers and business are impacted. Keynote’s Web performance testing and measurement products utilize a proprietary global test and measurement network, which represents the widest geographic coverage of online users in the world. Keynote’s Web operations dashboards deliver an enterprise-wide view of the performance of your critical Web applications, both inside and outside the firewall.

SaaS.com Founded in 2002, SaaS.com helps companies deliver both internal and consumer-facing applications as a service that are more intuitive, easier to deploy, and offer lower total cost of ownership. Two distinct business lines include a pre-existing set of Human Resource centric applications that are offered under a private-label model and a pure multi-application, multi-tenant delivery platform that can be coupled with industry-specific business logic and proprietary data to be delivered as a complete SaaS solution.

Scio Consulting, based in San Jose, CA, is the premier provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product development and consulting services to North American and European software companies and web-enabled businesses. Leveraging its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business and technical knowledge, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) expertise, Agile project management methodologies and a Nearshore development model, Scio helps companies bring their applications to market faster, with better quality and less risk. Our experience spans many industries with a range of clients from entrepreneurs beginning new ventures to Fortune 500 companies augmenting their teams by outsourcing part of their development.

SuccessFactors SuccessFactors is the global leader in Business Execution Software. The SuccessFactors Business Execution Suite improves business alignment and people performance to drive breakthrough results for companies of all sizes, anywhere in the world. More than 6 million users and 3,000 companies leverage SuccessFactors every day. To learn more, visit: http://www.successfactors.com/.

Speed Networking Sponsor

Mezeo is the industry’s leading provider of a deployable platform for cloud storage. Service-enabled, the Mezeo platform is easy to deploy, multi-tenant, highly scalable and secure, with REST Web Services APIs for platform extensibility. With Mezeo, IT Service Providers can rapidly monetize Storage as a Service with a branded offering, and large enterprises can implement a secure, private cloud with clients for BlackBerry®, iPhone, Windows desktop and the Web. For more information, visit www.mezeo.com, www.cloudstoragestrategy.com or www.twitter.com/mezeo.