Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information. Our award-winning software and technologies have set the standard for communication and collaboration for more than 25 years, bringing vital and engaging experiences to people across media and to every screen in their lives, at work and at play. The impact of Adobe® software is evident almost everywhere you look. Whether people are collaborating at work, transacting online, or socializing with friends, businesses use Adobe software and technologies to turn digital interactions into richer, high-value experiences that reach across computing platforms and devices to engage people anywhere, anytime. With a reputation for excellence and a portfolio of many of the most respected and recognizable software brands, Adobe is one of the world’s largest and most diversified software companies.

Company History

Our commitment to innovation is as strong today as it was in 1982, when Chuck Geschke and John Warnock founded Adobe. The two men initially set out to solve a problem long familiar to creative professionals at the time: getting text and images on a computer screen to translate beautifully and accurately into print. A year later, they helped launch the desktop publishing revolution with Adobe PostScript®, a technology that took the publishing world by storm with its radical new approach to printing text and images.

That was just the beginning. From the earliest days, we embraced our role as industry visionary and leader, continuing to solve previously insurmountable problems. The release of two ground breaking applications—Adobe Illustrator® and Adobe Photoshop®—forever changed the quality and complexity of images that could be created for print, and later for content created for video, film, the web and other digital channels. The design industry was never the same.

As computers became more interconnected and people needed to collaborate online using a wide variety of documents, a new problem emerged: sharing this content. Incompatible operating systems and programs hindered collaboration, a problem made worse as the use of e-mail and the web skyrocketed. Adobe’s breakthrough Portable Document Format (PDF) technology provided a solution for the problem, enabling businesses to deliver platform- and application-independent files across operating systems and devices. Suddenly, enterprises had new opportunities for—and returns from—document sharing and collaboration. Today, we extend the benefits of dynamic collaboration through web conferencing and enterprise solutions offering powerful document security, process management, and other capabilities.

As the Internet exploded into a viable economic engine, we quickly recognized that static HTML pages could not deliver the end-user interactivity and integration with enterprise systems that businesses required. We again took the lead—first with Adobe Dreamweaver® and Flash®, and later with Flex® and the Flash Media Server—by making cost-effective, reliable development of engaging websites a reality.

We are now leading the next wave of industry innovation, helping companies integrate enterprise technologies and rich media into solutions that solve real-world business problems. With the Adobe Flash Platform, including Flash Player and the Adobe AIR® runtime, businesses are building rich Internet applications (RIAs) that offer vital efficiencies and provide a competitive edge by transforming the quality and reach of their services. With our 2009 acquisition of Omniture, a leader in online business optimization, we will also help customers more effectively measure, analyze, and optimize their online assets to improve their bottom line

Web:www.adobe.com

DocuWare is an integrated document management solution that can automate business processes by managing any type of document, regardless of format or source, in a central document pool – for example paper records, letters, faxes, drawings, PC and other electronic files including e-mail.

DocuWare supports all forms of electronic signatures. Integrated records management ensures that all access is secure, controlled, and logged. Using the Internet, the central document pool is available around the clock to any authorized user, no matter where they are located in the world. A wide range of customizable DocuWare add-on modules equip DocuWare for, among other things, automatic indexing, COLD applications and enhanced workflow features

Campany History

Founded in 1988, DocuWare has over 7500 installations and over one hundred thousand satisfied users daily in over 70 countries. This Integrated Document Management Systems (IDMS) producer offers solutions that target small to mid-sized companies, government agencies and departments in large organizations. Over 400 Authorized DocuWare Partners make up a worldwide independent reseller network, employing over 1000 DocuWare experts who bring DocuWare close to its customers. DocuWare AG is based in Germering near Munich, Germany

The company’s US subsidiary, DocuWare Corporation, is located in Newburgh, New York and is responsible for all activities in North, Central and South America. DocuWare Ltd., its subsidiary in Weybridge, Surrey, handles all activities for Great Britain and Ireland. DocuWare S.L. located in Barcelona is responsible for the market in Spain and DocuWare SARL is located in Paris and attends to France and francophone Africa

Web:www.docuware.com

edge IPK is headquartered in the UK with a presence in the Netherlands and North America and has a global delivery capability. The company was founded in 2001 and has extensive experience in the financial services sector.

edge IPK has developed and launched an Open Presentation Platform built on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), edgeConnect, which is now being used to create unparalleled levels of business agility across a global blue chip customer base in Financial Services. edge IPK accelerates business evolution by enabling organisations to significantly reduce the development time and cost of building front-end applications to support multiple user interfaces and presentations through a single process.

By using edgeConnect, enterprise organisations can:

• Launch new products faster and cheaper
• Get solutions right first time
• Deliver a Multi-channel Strategy
• Repurpose Legacy Systems
• Ensure Compliance

Web: www.edgeipk.com

IFS is one of the world’s leading providers of component-based business software developed using open standards. Since 1983, IFS has been a provider of business applications focused on meeting the needs of selected industries. Today, IFS operates in two areas: lifecycle management, where asset and product lifecycle management are critical issues, and midmarket ERP, which covers distribution and manufacturing in mid-size companies. IFS’ flexible software, IFS Applications easily integrates with other business software, as well as to new technology. By using open standards – not proprietary solutions – IFS give companies the freedom to mix the leading technology from other first-class vendors to gain the most cost-effective solution.

Company History

IFS was founded in 1983.IFS has been providing business software solutions to some of the world’s leading industrial companies.

1986 IFS launches its first software product, IFS Maintenance.1990 IFS Applications launched as a complete suite.1991 IFS expands into Norway and Finland. 1992 IFS opens the first office outside Scandinavia in Poland.1993IFS first graphical user interface launched. Expansion begins in Denmark and Malaysia. 1994 IFS Applications launched in an object-oriented technology. 1995 IFS expands into North America and Indonesia. 1996 IFS listed on the Swedish stock exchange. 1997 IFS opens a development centre in Sri Lanka and expands into the UK, Germany, France, Brazil and Turkey.

1998 Hungary and Argentina added to the IFS family. 1999 IFS acquires US based EMS and expands into Greece. 2001 China, Hong Kong and Russia are added to the IFS family. 2002 IFS and IBM collaborate on next generation mobile business applications. 2003 Michael Hallén appointed CEO. 2004 NEC increases its support for IFS by acquiring 7.7% of IFS share capital. 2005 >500 000 users of IFS Applications.

2006 The release of IFS Applications 7 2007 IFS delivers solutions for the Intelligent Desktop & Project Enterprise.

Web: www.ifsworld.com

Grafx is a recognized leader of comprehensive Business Process Analysis (BPA) solutions. Our solutions help organizations large and small document, analyze, improve, manage, and align processes and technologies integral to their business operations. iGrafx solutions enable companies to achieve process excellence in a controlled, centralized and collaborative manner across functional boundaries, geographies, and levels of maturity.

Company History

iGrafx, with its genesis in 1987, is a leading provider of Business Process Analysis (BPA) solutions for flexibly designing, optimizing and implementing more productive processes across the enterprise. iGrafx effectively links the three major process constituencies: IT, Business Analysis and Process Initiatives for measurable productivity improvements.

iGrafx offers the most comprehensive BPA solution that help companies increase the return on investment (ROI) of their business process improvement initiatives by reducing the costs of those initiatives through product value, ease of wide deployment, seamless product upgrade capability, a central repository for sharing and communicating process knowledge, and a strategic modeling tool to identify, understand and minimize risk. iGrafx precisely meets the needs of the major process constituencies, while at the same time ensuring a high level of communication and collaboration across the groups.

iGrafx focuses on delivering the most comprehensive yet easy to use tools for individuals and organizations who take a process-centric approach to becoming and remaining world class competitors.

Web: www.igrafx.com

Oracle provides the world’s most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems, with more than 370,000 customers—including 100 of the Fortune 100—representing a variety of sizes and industries in more than 145 countries around the globe. Oracle's product strategy provides flexibility and choice to our customers across their IT infrastructure. Now, with Sun server, storage, operating-system, and virtualization technology, Oracle is the only vendor able to offer a complete technology stack in which every layer is integrated to work together as a single system. In addition, Oracle's open architecture and multiple operating-system options gives our customers unmatched benefits from industry-leading products, including excellent system availability, scalability, energy efficiency, powerful performance, and low total cost of ownership.

Company History

More than three decades ago Larry Ellison saw an opportunity other companies missed: a description of a working prototype for a relational database. No company had committed to commercializing the technology, but Ellison and co-founders Bob Miner and Ed Oates realized the tremendous business potential of the relational database model—but they may not have realized that the company they formed would change the face of business computing forever.

Throughout its history Oracle has proved it can build for the future on the foundation of its innovations and, its intimate knowledge of customer challenges and successes analyzed by the best technical and business minds in the world. The company has leveraged its immense size and strength to serve its customers, and to implement key technology and business decisions that upend conventional wisdom and take its products and services in new directions.

Today Oracle is the gold standard for database technology and applications in enterprises throughout the world—the company is the world's leading supplier of information management software and the world's second largest independent software company. The acquisition of Sun gives Oracle a leadership role in the hardware arena as well.

Now more than ever before Oracle technology can be found in nearly every industry, and in the data centers of 100 of the Fortune Global 100 companies. Oracle is the first software company to develop and deploy 100 percent internet-enabled enterprise software across its entire product line: database, business applications, application development, and decision support tools.

Innovation is the engine of Oracle's success. Oracle was one of the first companies to make its business applications available through the internet—an idea that is now pervasive. Oracle has introduced new Oracle Fusion Middleware products and functionality that reflect the company's goal to connect all levels of enterprise technology, ensuring customers access to the knowledge they need to respond to market conditions with speed and agility.

Before the acquisition of Sun was final, Oracle and Sun introduced the Sun Oracle Database Machine, the world's fastest machine for any type of database workload. Today, Sun servers and storage, Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle Applications, Oracle Grid Computing, support for enterprise Linux, and Oracle Fusion, all fuel a commitment to innovation and results that has defined Oracle for thirty years.

What does Oracle have in store for tomorrow? Our goal is to become #1 in middleware and #1 in applications, just as we have in database. And we will provide our customers with complete, open solutions integrated from the disk to applications software that meet their business needs and solve their business problems. And, we will continue to innovate and to lead the industry, while always making sure that we focus solving the problems of the customers that rely on our technology.

Web: www.oracle.com

Cross Match Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of high-quality interoperable biometric identity management systems, applications and services. Our global presence combines innovative products and services with a continuing dedication to customer support and social responsibility.

Founded in 1996, the company's offerings include a wide range of multimodal biometric solutions, which are used to capture and process the unique physiological characteristics of individuals to verify their identities—protecting and securing people, property and privacy.

Current offerings include:

• Fingerprint and palm scanners
• Facial recognition solutions
• Iris capture devices
• Multimodal jump kits
• Document readers
• Enterprise and application software, and related services.

Web: www.crossmatch.com

Sage is a leading supplier of business management software and services to more than 6 million customers worldwide. From small start-ups to larger organisations, we make it easier for companies to manage their business processes.

Sage products are classified into the following groups

• Accounting
• Payroll
• Customer Relationship management (CRM)
• Financial forecasting
• Payment processing
• Job costing
• Human Resource
• Business Intelligence
• Taxation and other products for accountants
• Business stationery
• Development platforms
• E-business
• Enterprise Resource Planing (ERP)

Web: www.sage.com/