Las Vegas|October 27-29, 2009
If you are interested in learning more about becoming a sponsor for this event, please contact Russ Massengill.
Presenting Sponsor
SAS
SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®.
To learn more, visit www.sas.com.
Platinum Sponsors
HP
As a global leader in information technology, HP applies new thinking and ideas to deliver simpler, more valuable experiences with technology. Our goal is to continuously improve the way our customers live and work. HP integrates sophisticated technology into products and services that are easy to use and manage, offering functionalities to meet virtually any need of our customers from individual consumers to the largest enterprises. Customers spend less time thinking about technology and more time focusing on what really matters to them. HP delivers experiences that are truly valuable and trusted because our people, partners and portfolio of products and services help our customers achieve results that count. Our heritage of quality and reliability combined with our commitment to long-lasting relationships gives our customers the confidence they need to accomplish their goals.
To learn more, visit www.hp.com.
Intel
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live.
To learn more, visit www.intel.com/pressroom and blogs.intel.com.
Gold Sponsor
Teradata
Teradata is the acknowledged global leader in data warehouse innovation and analytical solution development. Every day we raise our customers’ intelligence to higher levels, making them more focused and competitive by gathering enterprise information and extracting actionable insight.
Teradata elevates enterprise intelligence by giving every decision maker the insight required for smarter, faster decisions. We add value and reveal opportunity across more dimensions than any competing solution.
In every industry and geography, our technologies and expertise make the difference. Simply put, Teradata solutions make companies smarter and give them the competitive advantage to win.
To learn more, visit www.teradata.com.
Silver Sponsor
COMSYS
COMSYS Business Analytics Practice, a member of the SAS Alliance, is one of the premier data management, reporting and analytical consulting companies in North America. For more than 25 years we have provided strategic solutions to our clients from a variety of industries, including financial services, insurance, manufacturing, health and life sciences, retail, and travel and entertainment. Our dedication to success and our ability to assist our clients in accessing, analyzing and reporting on their critical data makes us a valuable partner to small-to-medium-size companies as well as FORTUNE 500® companies. Whether you need support for your business intelligence or analytical projects on-site in your facilities or off-site from our three SAS Centers of Excellence in the United States, we have the solution that will help to bring success to your organization.
For more information on our SAS and Business Analytics Practice, please contact Jim Balcom at 269-553-5130 or e-mail jbalcom@comsys.com.
Modern Analytics
Modern Analytics is an industry leader in data processing automation and business intelligence – driven by advanced forecasting and predictive modeling.
We create automated data marts that provide the foundation for analytic solutions, as well as the models and forecasts that reveal true business intelligence and identify business performance opportunities.
Modern Analytics’ DataPipe provides data-driven decisions on demand, while Modern Analytics’ ModelFactory delivers proven predictions for profit performance.
With more than 150 clients served, our expertise extends across retail, high tech, banking and service industries. We have enabled clients to manage risk, forecast product demand, originate new customers, prevent customer attrition, cross-sell and up-sell new products, identify fraudulent charges, isolate fraud in returns, prioritize workloads, dynamically model sales pipelines and most importantly increase revenues.
Modern Analytics’ partners have more than 50 years of combined experience in developing, deploying and integrating predictive analytics.
To learn more, visit www.modernanalytics.com.
Sun Microsystems
With a business relationship that has been going strong for 20 years, Sun has established a proven track record of delivering an open, scalable, and reliable platform for successful SAS Business Intelligence deployments.
Learn why Sun is the ideal platform for SAS at http://www.sas.com/partners/directory/sun/dcof.html
Media Channel
BetterManagement
BetterManagement is a unique mix of online educational resources and live business conferences. Business management topics include activity-based management, business intelligence, customer relationship management, financial management, IT management, leadership and management, risk management, scorecard and performance management, and supply chain management. BetterManagement provides business management articles, Webcasts and business books. Business conferences focused on leadership and decision making include The Premier Business Leadership Series and regionally focused events in Latin America and Europe.
To learn more, visit www.bettermanagement.com.
Media Partners
1to1 Media is dedicated to helping organizations realize the greatest value from their customer base. We provide resources that deliver relevant information on the latest thought leadership regarding customer strategy and marketplace trends. Led by 1to1 Magazine, our print, electronic and custom publications explore the best practices and trends from companies using customer initiatives to drive results. 1to1 Media is a division of Peppers & Rogers Group.
To learn more, visit www.1to1media.com.
For 40 years, Computerworld has been the leading source of technology news and information for IT influencers worldwide. Computerworld's award-winning Web site (Computerworld.com), weekly publication, focused conference series and custom research form the hub of the world's largest global IT media network. Computerworld's conferences, with their focus on technologies and solutions, provide a rare opportunity for attendees to gain insight into the way user companies execute their strategies in the enterprise in the best environment for idea exchange among IT executives and IT solutions providers.
To learn more, visit www.computerworld.com.
From business to politics, technology to the arts, The Economist is renowned for its breadth of coverage and sharp, entertaining analysis. Get an international perspective and an independent view on the events shaping our world.
To learn more, visit www.economist.com.
Connected Planet is a trade publication for service providers and enterprise users of advanced telecommunications and mobile networking services. Connected Planet focuses on the real-world ways in which pervasive networking technologies are transforming the way the world communicates, collaborates, shares/stores information, manages resources and is entertained. Connected Planet will focus on the next generation of service providers, which includes wireless and telecom network operators, Web and Internet services companies, application developers and service integrators, as well as on how their customers use services in new ways. Connected Planet will show how these service providers can deliver new managed and hosted network-based solutions.
To learn more, visit www.telephonyonline.com.
Hospitality Upgrade is published for hotel, travel and foodservice professionals, including management, independent operators, executives and chains. It focuses on the latest technology software and hardware solutions, industry trends, insider news and interviews with top industry executives. Hospitality professionals in 88 countries read Hospitality Upgrade to stay on top of the industries’ latest solutions.
To learn more, visit www.hospitalityupgrade.com.
Pharmaceutical Executive provides pharmaceutical decision makers with the news and insights they need about pharma’s future and how to respond to it. From strategy to marketing to the best new ideas about sales, R&D, regulations, finance, meetings and IT, Pharmaceutical Executive covers it all.
To learn more, visit www.pharmexec.com.
TechWeb is an innovative new business that owns the most respected and consumed media
brands in the business technology market, including Bank Systems & Technology, Wall Street
& Technology and Insurance & Technology.
To learn more, visit www.techweb.com/aboutus.
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