2008 Sponsors and Exhibitors
WowGao has established long term, rewarding sponsorships with numerous leading international and local developers and vendors, who continue to add value and prestige to our Financial Services Technology Forum, by showcasing IT applications and solutions that are in high demand. Below is a partial list of our 2008 sponsors and exhibitors.
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TELUS (TSX: T, T.A; NYSE: TU) is a leading national telecommunications company in Canada, with $9.4 billion of annual revenue and 11.4 million customer connections including 5.8 million wireless subscribers, 4.3 million wireline network access lines and 1.2 million Internet subscribers. TELUS provides a wide range of communications products and services including data, Internet protocol (IP), voice, entertainment and video.
www.telus.com |
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Blink Communications is a facilities based data communications service provider that delivers cost-effective, fiber-based high bandwidth services for some of the largest organizations throughout North America. With over 1000 KM of routed fiber, Blink Communications is one of the few optical networks left that are fully diverse from that of other carriers. Designed to deliver the utmost in flexibility, security and scalability, the network allows fast, simple bandwidth changes that grow with end user requirements and delivers optimal uptime for mission-critical applications.
www.blink.ca
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DonRiver is an IT management consulting and software development company with presence in North America, Australia, Europe, and Asia. DonRiver’s mission is to be a leading provider of software development solutions using a blended on-shore and off-shore delivery model to deliver the highest value for our clients. DonRiver specializes in serving clients that are Telecommunications Service Providers, Software Application Companies, Management Consulting & Systems Integrators, Shipping & Logistics providers, and Financial Services Companies. Our people are experts in delivering Mobile Applications, Mobile Commerce & Mobile Financial Services Solutions, System Integration Solutions, Service Delivery Platforms, and Next Generation Network OSS & BSS Solutions.
www.donriver.com |
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CDIT Inc. (CDIT) is Canada’s leading Enterprise Capture Consultant/Integrator. We are focused on accelerating the CAPTURE, TRANSFORMATION, DELIVERY and EXCHANGE of critical information that drives every organization. We work with our clients to define, architect, supply and implement innovative Enterprise Content Management Solutions to help reduce operational costs and enhance competitive positioning. CDIT's Solutions position organizations to realize optimized organizational performance, increased productivity and profit margins, improved service delivery, greater sales volumes and increased market share, by streamlining the flow and management of information and knowledge within the organization.
www.cdit.com |
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Kofax is the leading provider of Intelligent Capture & Exchange solutions, providing application software and OEM/POS software worldwide as well as hardware distribution in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
For more than 20 years, Kofax has provided award-winning solutions that automate document-driven business processes by managing the capture, transformation and exchange of business-critical information arising in paper, fax and electronic formats in a more accurate, timely and cost-effective manner. Kofax solutions provide a verifiable return on investment to thousands of customers in financial services, manufacturing, retail, government, healthcare, business process outsourcing and other markets.
Kofax delivers these solutions through a global network of more than 1,200 authorized partners, and its own sales and service organizations in more than 60 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific.
www.kofax.com |
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Founded in 1995, Messaging Architects specializes in email lifecycle management solutions across numerous sectors including government, education, healthcare and corporate. Our software and services provide 100% email uptime and compliance by addressing the need for policy-driven, email risk management (security, content filtering, archiving and e-discovery). Used daily by thousands of enterprise clients worldwide, our solutions are compatible with Novell GroupWise (NOVL), Microsoft Exchange (MSFT) and IBM Lotus Notes/Domino (IBM).
www.messagingarchitects.com |
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BasWare is the global leader in Enterprise Purchase-to-Pay (EPP) and Financial Management solutions. Basware EPP is a suite of procurement, invoice automation and travel & expense management solutions that work together to transform manual, paper-based purchasing and payables processes into an automated process that seamlessly integrates with, and complement existing accounting and ERP systems. BasWare’s products are widely used in Shared Service Centers. Over 650,000 users at 1,200 organizations in over 20 countries worldwide depend on Basware software to automate business-critical financial processes to enhance efficiency, gain process control and transparency, and meet compliance requirements.
www.basware.com |
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Speedware is a leading provider of legacy modernization and migration solutions, application portfolio management, business intelligence tools and application development solutions. Over the last 30 years, Speedware has become a global company that has diversified its portfolio of solutions to align with the trends of the IT industry. Speedware offers market leaders end-to-end solutions that allow them to react quickly to the needs of a changing business.
www.speedware.com |
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Van Houtte is a gourmet coffee brand which has its roots in Quebec, where Albert-Louis Van Houtte opened his first café in 1919. Today, Van Houtte is a vertically integrated North America-wide roaster of gourmet coffee. Van Houtte Coffee Services division provides workplaces all over North America with over 30 gourmet blends of coffee, as well as specialty drinks which include café latte, tea, cappuccino, and café mocha. Among our coffee selections, we offer a full-line of certified fair trade and organic coffee. Van Houtte provides the perfect coffee match and brewing technology for any workplace (traditional, disposable, single-cup and specialty). Our high quality product is supported by an equally high level of service which includes the provision of brewing equipment & maintenance and next day order delivery. In addition, Van Houtte’s Source H2O brand is a point-of-use water filtration system for workplaces that replaces bottled water systems with a safer, more economical, and more environmentally friendly alternative.
www.vanhoutte.com |
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Brash Avenues will take you Beyond your Promotional Possibilities!
We are a full service promotional marketing company offering a one-stop shop for all your promotional needs. With over 7 years of promotional marketing experience our objective is to continue to provide innovative merchandise, excellent service, competitive pricing and on-time delivery to our clients.
Offering over 600 000 promotional products along with custom products, marketing consultations, graphic design services, incentive programs, printing services and event planning allow us to become your marketing partner. We guarantee you will be 100% satisfied with the products and service from Brash Avenues. Let’s work together to exceed your customers’ expectations with products that are designed and created with your image in mind. We welcome the opportunity to prove our commitment to creative marketing to you.
www.brashavenues.com |
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Pitney Bowes MapInfo and Group 1 Software Corporations combine location intelligence – providing the answer to the fundamental question of “Where?” – with customer data quality and communication management capabilities. Together the range of software and services offered provides comprehensive enterprise solutions to enable financial services organizations to make better, more informed strategic decisions for significant operational and quantifiable cost efficiencies across your entire financial network.
www.mapinfo.com
www.g1.com
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Contact Innovations Inc. (“CI”), Toronto, Ontario, Canada delivers a broad range of Cheque and eDocument Management Solutions to financial industry, governments, utilities, non-profits and business throughout North America. CI has been helping its clients with affordable, scalable, innovative imaging solutions since 1994.
www.contactinnovations.com |
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Software AG is the world’s largest independent provider of Business Infrastructure Software. Our 4,000 global enterprise customers achieve business results faster by modernizing, integrating and automating their IT systems and processes. As a result, they rapidly build measurable business value and meet changing business demands. Based on our solutions, organizations are able to liberate and govern their data, systems, applications, processes and services – achieving new levels of business flexibility.
www.softwareag.com |
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Vayyoo Inc. develops enhanced mobility solutions and products for today’s enterprise and prosumer clients with mobile workforces and field assets. Vayyoo solutions are designed to work with any wireless radio technology and are device agnostic offering an out-of-the-box enhanced wireless application experience, as well as, improved user experience in live air scenarios.
www.vayyoo.com |
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Metavante Lending Solutions provides technology and service solutions for mortgage, home equity, consumer and indirect retail finance loan origination. Lending solutions are offered for point-of-sale origination, processing, closing, automated underwriting, decisioning and business process management, as well as processing, settlement and document generation services. Metavante's lending solutions are used to better market, sell, process and close loans through all distribution channels, including retail, wholesale, internet and correspondent. Metavante Lending Solutions helps clients of all sizes, from community banks to the top financial institutions in North America, including five of the top 20 U.S. mortgage lenders.
www.metavante.com |
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Established in the United Kingdom in 1994, and with a globally-deployed organization, ETP has been engaged directly by Fortune 500 enterprises and organizations embarking on Analytical CRM, data warehousing, business intelligence, and business optimization-oriented projects. ETP's methodology for success works to find the right balance and integration of People, Process, Information and Technology to enable businesses and non-commercial organizations to realize gains in performance and efficiency. To successfully address today's need for "intelligent" and rapidly adapting processes and systems, ETP offers the Xeligence™ Analytical Platform in industry-specific versions for Financial Services, Insurance, Telecom/Media, Retail, Manufacturing and Health-Care. Xeligence™ automates rapid, high volume generation and integration of predictive analytical algorithms within enterprise business processes and systems.
www.eighty-twenty.com |
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XBASE Technologies has been delivering network services and solutions, along with an extensive range of professional services on IT issues (including network design and implementation, server technology, business analysis, software selection, application development, and relocation services), since 1988. We serve clients in many sectors, with particular expertise in Financial (including the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and operations within several major banks), Not-for-Profit, Healthcare, Legal, High-tech, and Logistics.
We proudly partner with and showcase Neverfail, the award-winning high availability, data protection, and disaster recovery solution for Blackberry Enterprise Server, Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, File Server, IIS, and SharePoint.
www.xbase.com |
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Sybase is the largest global software company exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing information from the data center to the point of action. Sybase provides open, cross-platform solutions that securely deliver information anytime, anywhere, enabling customers to create an information edge. The world’s most critical commerce, finance, government, healthcare, and defense runs on Sybase.
www.sybase.com |
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Computershare (ASX: CPU) is a global leader in share registration, employee equity plans, proxy solicitation and other specialised financial, governance and communication services. Many of the world’s largest companies employ our innovative solutions to maximise the value of their relationships with investors, employees, customers and members. Computershare has over 10,000 employees across the world and serves 14,000 corporations and 100 million shareholder and employee accounts in 17 countries across five continents.
www.computershare.com |
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GAO RFID Inc. is a leading provider of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) solutions to end users and solution providers worldwide. GAO RFID combines best of breed with low cost RFID readers, RFID tags and enabling-RFID software and services. GAORFID helps customers bring quality RFID solutions quickly to market. GAO RFID&rsquos solutions are built on more than 15 years of technology expertise of GAO Group of Companies. GAO RFID solutions use multiple frequencies, LF/HF/UHF, multiple protocols and are compliant with global standards. Its products and services are easily customized for use in Healthcare, Supply Chain & Logistics, Event Management, Access Control, Livestock Tracking, Inventory Control & Management, Field Service, Maintenance, Asset Tracking and Document Authentication.
www.gaorfid.com |
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