Sponsors

Tuesday April 27, 2004

Overland Park Marriott

4th Annual Kansas City IT Symposium

Knowledge & Networking

DSG exclusively sells and supports IBM products and services across multiple industries and platforms. We are an IBM Premier Business Partner with a national team of IT professionals. Incorporated in 1991, DSG has experienced continuous growth due to our continual customer commitment. We have received numerous IBM and business leadership awards including the IBM Leadership Award for being one of the best overall IBM Business Partners.



Headquartered in Columbia, MD, TEKsystems®, Inc. is a leading provider of strategic staffing and managed services for the Information Technology and Communications (IT&C) community. Ranked number one in the industry by IT Services Business Report and as the nation's largest IT staffing firm, we leverage our core competencies to offer a wide array of IT services including deployment; support; and Engineering, Furnishing and Installation (EF&I) telecommunications services.


VERITAS Software Corporation (Nasdaq: VRTS) is the world's leading storage software company providing data protection, storage management, high availability and disaster recovery software to 86% of the Fortune 500. All VERITAS software is open, supporting all significant business applications, operating systems and storage hardware. This flexibility is a result of the underlying VERITAS Adaptive Software Architecture.


Infosys Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: INFY) provides consulting and IT services to clients globally — as partners to conceptualize and realize technology driven business transformation initiatives. With over 10000 employees worldwide, we use a low-risk Global Delivery Model (GDM) to accelerate schedules with a high degree of time and cost predictability.


EMC Corporation is the world leader in products, services, and solutions for information storage and management. We help customers of all sizes manage their growing information—from the time of its creation to its archival and eventual disposal—through information lifecycle management. EMC Automated Networked Storage is the foundation of this mission. It unifies networked storage technologies, storage platforms, software, and services to help organizations better and more cost-effectively manage, protect, and share information.


Now, IT touches every aspect of the enterprise — connecting with customers, suppliers and partners around the globe. If something goes wrong, it can jeopardize revenues, relationships and market valuations. eBusiness management has become a critical discipline for every organization around the world. In the new generation of eBusiness, every business will be an eBusiness.  That's why Computer Associates is uniquely positioned to help companies succeed in this new era. We develop and support the software that manages eBusiness.


Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, InterSystems Corporation has served the needs of IT organizations and independent software vendors for more than two decades. Our showcase products, the Caché post-relational database and the Ensemble integration platform, enable the rapid creation and fast integration of high-performance applications. Over four million people use mission-critical applications based on our software. Our twenty regional offices serve application developers and integrators around the world, and we provide 24 x 7 support for all of our products.


With core competencies in Thin Client Solutions, Citrix and Terminal Server-based Computing, Voice and Data Integration, ASP Solutions, Security Assessments, Managed Services, Business Application Development, and Web Integration, you’re sure to find the right solution at Choice Solutions – allowing you to shift your focus from running your business to truly growing your business. The Choice Solutions’ award-winning RightChoice methodology and experienced team will help you decide on the best streamlined Access Strategy to connect your users with your backend layers of IT complexity.


Centriq has delivered the highest quality IT training to corporate IT professionals since 1989. We deliver authorized training for Microsoft, Novell, Cisco, Citrix, CompTIA, Linux, Security and Java and offer more than 50 courses for IT professionals that are not locally offered by any other training company in Kansas City. We have also leveraged our core IT training competency to create a proprietary customized curriculum designed to improve the business acumen of corporate IT professionals in such areas as communications, systems documentation, interpersonal skills and customer service.


Founded in April of 1997, Raindance's mission is to bring an entirely new level of simplicity and interaction to remote meetings. By designing a range of conferencing solutions that are easily applied to everyday meetings, Raindance enables people to communicate freely and naturally. Meeting across time and distance becomes more beneficial and less burdensome. Today, leading businesses entrust their remote meetings to Raindance services, including prominent clients such as Bell Canada, Oracle, Qwest Communications, Verizon and Wells Fargo.


Micromuse is a global software company that delivers industry-leading business and service assurance solutions to organizations worldwide. During the 14 years since our company's inception, our flagship Netcool® brand has become synonymous with scalable, realtime, end-to-end management of complex IT and telecommunications infrastructures. Our comprehensive range of Netcool solutions enable service providers, equipment providers, corporate enterprises, and government agencies to extract maximum value from their mission-critical applications, systems, and networks.