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Sun's iForce Initiative brings together Sun and its best of breed partners worldwide to deliver proven solutions that reduce cost and time to market. The iForce Initiative addresses a company's business objectives by helping to reduce risk and speed time to implementation of solutions that help lower its total cost of ownership and increase the productivity of your assets. As a part of its worldwide iForce initiative, Sun India is making significant investments in transferring technology, developing skills and services to help Indian organizations deploy the Internet for business advantage. The iForce initiative will provide startup companies broader access to Sun's technologies and services. Sales Partners: Sun has adopted a business model of working in partnership with key India partners to deliver all products and services such as hardware platforms, services, certification training etc. The company works with leading partners such as Wipro, Tata Infotech, HCL Infosystems, CMC, Tech Pacific, Accell ICIM, Ingram Micro, CDAC to deliver hardware products and services. Sun has a very strong relationship model with worldwide organizations like Oracle, SAP, PriceWaterHouse, KPMG and more to deliver the best of breed solutions and services to its customers.

Locations: Sun can be found in more than 100 countries. In India Sun Microsystems is spread over 100 locations, through the 800-strong partner team that also supports an installed base of over 100, 000 systems.
Visit http://in.sun.com/
About Wipro Infotech
Wipro Infotech, a division of the US$ 1.35 billion Wipro Limited, provides enterprise customers with high value Information Technology products, Services, Solutions and IT Consulting Services in India, and provides Technology & Software Services and IT Consulting Services in the Asia Pacific and the Middle East. It is the world's first Products, Services and Solutions Company to be certified, Enterprise wide at Level 5, Version 2.0 of PCMM. Headquartered at Bangalore, Wipro Infotech serves customers in India through a network of 22 offices and 170 service locations across the country. It has business offices in the Middle East and Asia Pacific.

Wipro Infotech has been rated No: 1 Network Integrator in India by Voice & Data Magazine for five years in succession from 1998-2002.

About Wipro Limited
Wipro Limited is the first PCMM Level 5 and SEI CMM Level 5 certified IT Services Company globally. Wipro provides comprehensive IT solutions and services, including systems integration, information systems outsourcing, package implementation, software application development and maintenance, and research and development services to corporations globally. In the Indian market, Wipro is a leader in providing IT solutions and services for the corporate segment in India offering system integration, network integration, software solutions and IT services. Wipro also has profitable presence in niche market segments of consumer products and lighting. In the Asia Pacific and Middle East markets, Wipro provides IT solutions and services for global corporations. Wipro's ADSs are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and its equity shares are listed in India on the Stock Exchange - Mumbai and the National Stock Exchange, among others.
More information is available at www.wipro.com.

IBM India Limited, a subsidiary of IBM Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation), was set up in September 1999. IBM has been present in India since 1992, through a joint venture. Since its inception, IBM India has expanded its operations considerably with offices in 12 cities and regional headquarters in New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. Today, the company has established itself as one of the leaders in the Indian Information Technology (IT) Industry.

IBM has set the agenda for the industry with 'e-business on demand' - a kind of transformation where an organization changes the way it operates and reduces costs; serving customers better, reducing risks and improving speed and agility in the marketplace. IBM is already working with customers to transform them into 'on demand' businesses. IBM is the only company in the world that offers end-to-end solutions to the customers from hardware to software, services and consulting. Linux support further enhances IBM's e-business infrastructure enabler capability.
Visit www.ibm.com/in/

Cisco Systems India Pvt. Ltd, started operations in 1994 with a sales and marketing presence spread across key cities in India and a software development center in Bangalore. In India, Cisco dominates the networking market in core technologies of routing and switching, as well as WLAN and network security markets.

Fast facts
  • 8 Cisco Sales Offices in the region- New Delhi, Mumbai Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Hyderabad, & Colombo, Sri Lanka
  • India office comes under Asia, which is part of the APAC Theater. Asia constitutes of south east countries + India & SAARC
  • APAC theater contributes to about 11 percent of the total revenue
  • Rangnath Salgame is President, Cisco Systems - India & SAARC
  • Cisco Networking Academy Program (CNAP): 150 Academies across 20 states of India
  • Number of Cisco Certified Professionals - 30,000
  • Cisco Global Development Centers in Bangalore
    • Joint Development Centers - Centers with Wipro Technologies and Infosys Technologies in Bangalore; HCL Technologies in Chennai and Zensar Technologies in Pune.
  • Cisco's go-to-Market strategy is through Channel Partners
    • 9 System Integrators (NCR, IBM, CMC, HP, Network Solutions, IBM, Wipro Infotech, Tata Infotech, Datacraft) - 8 of who are Gold Certified.
    • Presence in over 100 cities through 1500 resellers
    • 2 Distributors (they sell equipment to resellers) - Ingram Micro and Redington
  • Support and Service - Extensive support system customers with 5 logistics centers in the country. Besides that, Cisco is the only vendor to have a support program called ARNBD (advance replacement next business day) for its resellers.
More information can be found @ www.cisco.com

Gold Sponsors

i-flex ® solutions (Reuters: IFLX.BO & IFLX.NS) is a world leader in providing IT solutions to the financial services industry. i-flex has serviced over 500 customers in more than 105 countries. i-flex’s range of products and customized services enable financial institutions to cut costs, respond rapidly to market needs, enhance customer service levels and mitigate risk. www.iflexsolutions.com

American Power Conversion is a leading global provider of Network-Critical Physical Infrastructure (NCPI) products and services. NCPI includes power, power distribution, cooling, cooling distribution, service, and the physical infrastructure management systems that are the operational base supporting the hardware and software platforms of your data center and facilities. APC, known for Legendary Reliability™, sets the standard for quality, innovation and support for NCPI solutions from desktop systems to data center operations to entire facilities. Its comprehensive solutions, improve the availability, manageability, and performance of your systems.

With the introduction of InfraStruXure™, APC has pioneered open, adaptable and integrated solutions that are changing how data centers are designed, built and operated.
Visit www.apc.com/in

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), is one of the world's leading global information technology consulting, services and business process outsourcing organizations that offers its services to clients across 55 countries. Pioneer of the flexible global delivery model for IT services, TCS focuses on delivering technology led business solutions to its international customers across varied industries. The company’s vision is to be a Global top 10 IT services company by 2010. TCS was the first billion-dollar and the largest Indian IT services organisation by annual revenues and profits.

TCS has offices in 33 countries with development centres in 10 countries, and services several global clients including 7 of the US Fortune 10 companies. TCS offers a comprehensive range of IT services to its clients in diverse industries such as banking and financial services, insurance, manufacturing, telecommunications, retail and transportation. TCS' clients comprise of some of the world's largest and well-known organizations. TCS has developed extensive experience in providing end-to-end IT services, integrating multiple technologies and delivering solutions in multiple geographies for its global clients.

TCS’ ability to deliver high-quality services & solutions is unmatched. It became the world’s first organization to achieve an Enterprise wide Maturity Level 5 on both CMMI® & P-CMM®, using the most rigorous assessment methodology.

For more information, visit our website www.tcs.com

Co-Sponsor

NIIT Limited is a global training corporation providing Learning and Knowledge solutions in 33 countries. NIIT is the first and the only Asian Education and Training Organization to feature among the IDC Top 20 Global IT Training market leaders for four consecutive years.

NIIT's SEI CMM Level 5 assessed Knowledge Solutions Business has emerged as a clear leader in the field of Knowledge Management and e-learning. It offers integrated learning solutions ranging from strategy and design to development, implementation and administration. As a trusted partner throughout the world, NIIT helps client companies to reach their business goals through learning for their employees, customers and partners. Its customers include 4 out of the Top 10 Fortune Companies, Universities, Technology Companies, Training Corporations and Publishing Houses.
Visit www.niit.com

Track Sponsor & Badges & Lanyards Sponsor

Established in 1995, InfrasoftTech is a fast growing specialist banking & financial solutions company. Over nine years, InfrasoftTech has worked with nearly 100 banking & financial enterprises across the globe helping them realize the shared technology vision.

InfrasoftTech provides a stp technology based core banking solution, an eChannels Integrator and an anti money laundering solution; all of which have rapidly gained customer acceptance in multiple markets. Using the product development experience, we have developed framework based approach for rapidly building state-of-the-art & robust stp solutions in the areas of wealth management, private banking, bill presentment & payment and compliance systems. Besides, InfrasoftTech offers a sizable value proposition in application migration & integration projects with rich experience in building integration tools and successful migration for over 20 third party banking solutions to new technology architectures.

Our global footprint helps us to enrich our solutions with best practices of different competitive markets and is used to serve our global customers in multiple geographies. Our operations are spread over Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia.
Visit www.infrasofttech.com

Conference Bag Sponsor

ADC is a world leader in providing global network infrastructure products, services and software that enable the profitable delivery of high-speed Internet, data, video, and voice services over our customers' unique networks. ADC (NASDAQ: ADCT) has sales into more than 90 countries. In May 2004, ADC acquired The KRONE Group. KRONE has been a world leading cable and Connectivity Company with 75 years of experience in the design, development and supply of fiber optic and copper cable and connectivity solutions for Enterprise and Carrier networks. KRONE's brand strength in certain regions of the world has driven ADC adapt the KRONE name to form ADC KRONE in the Europe/Middle East/Africa and Indo-Pacific Regions. In these regions, ADC KRONE offers the same high quality public and private network equipment and professional services that our customers require to deliver communications to their end users. ADC feels that providing equipment and services under the ADC KRONE name in these regions will enhance how the company serves its customers and conducts business on a global basis. The combined ADC KRONE product and service portfolio will enhance our ability to serve both, the telecom service providers and enterprise customers, alike. An important strength of this new combined brand will be in the development of superior innovations as well as a global footprint that allows us to better serve you - wherever you are in the world.

Businesses
Our customers are served regionally around the world by businesses focused on solutions designed for telecommunications, wireless, cable, and enterprise networks.
Visit www.adckrone.com

Event Collateral Sponsor

Since its founding in November 1993, TEMENOS has established itself as an international leader in the banking software industry by providing financial institutions with integrated solutions which supports increased productivity and profitability and allow the institutions to adapt quickly to changing market conditions. The company has a transparent approach to its operations and brings to bear its experience, expertise, commitment and professionalism on every project.

TEMENOS is now delivering 'TEMENOS T24', a 24hour, non-stop, user friendly, functionally rich, robust, real-time banking application that responds to evolving market needs and demands and offers the most innovative solution in the market.

TEMENOS also offers, TEMENOS Corebanking, a modern scalable mainframe retail banking application capable of handling the business volumes of the very largest banks worldwide.. Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the company has 34 offices in 29 countries and is listed on the main segment of the SWX Swiss Exchange (TEMN). www.temenos.com

Lunch Sponsor

Microsoft Corporation India Private Ltd is a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation USA, and has had a presence in India since 1990. The company currently has offices in New Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Pune and Chennai, and employs over 200 personnel in consulting, marketing, legal and human resource roles.

The key focus areas for the company in India include market development through strategic partnerships and local alliances, e-governance, education, product localization and developer community growth. Through its partnerships with ISVs and solution providers, Microsoft also adds value to vertical markets including banking, finance, manufacturing, ISPs amongst others. Microsoft has also invested in development efforts in India through its India Development Center (IDC) established in Hyderabad. Microsoft's Internal Applications Development work is being steered out of Hyderabad, while the Global Technology Support Center is in Bangalore. Microsoft also has the Microsoft Research India (MSRI) in Bangalore which is the third Microsoft Research facility outside the United States. In the initial phase, Microsoft Research India, is focusing on research in the areas of geographic information systems (GIS), technologies for emerging markets, multilingual systems and sensor networks.

Microsoft India has two major channels of distribution: Channel and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). In addition, the company provides support and services to its Indian customers locally, through its several offices across the country.

Microsoft provides software for different user groups - Consumer, Enterprises and Developers. These products fall into the following broad categories: Windows client, Information Worker, Business Solutions, Server Platforms, Windows CE & Mobility, MSN and Home & Entertainment.
Visit www.microsoft.com

Official ISP

Sify is among the largest Internet, network and e-Commerce services companies in India, offering end-to-end solutions with a comprehensive range of products delivered over a common Internet backbone infrastructure.

The Enterprise Solutions Division forms the largest business division of Sify and is a pioneer and leader in Internet solutions in India. Sify's network infrastructure spans over 70 Points of Presence across India, 2 state-of-the-art Level-3 Internet Data Centres (IDCs).

Sify's networking services include Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) , Domestic and International MPLS ,Internet Bandwidth Solutions ,Broadband Solutions on the last mile and Voice Over IP Applications. Applications like Webservices, Mail Messaging solutions and Managed Security, Consulting and Implementation Services form part of the vast portfolio of solutions.

Sify is India's only ISO 9001:2000 certified service provider for network operations, data center operations and customer support and for provisioning of VPNs, Internet bandwidth, VoIP Solutions and integrated security solutions.Certification covers pre-sales,sales,order processing and project management. The Nasdaq listed brand "Sify" has been chosen as a "Superbrand" by a distinguished panel of Marketers and Advertisers.Sify has also been awarded the prestigious Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership Award for IP VPN markets for the year 2003.
For more information about Sify, visit www.sifycorporate.com

Participant

Nucleus Software, established in 1986, has been providing innovative & pioneering Products & Customized Software Solutions with focus on the Banking & Financial services Sector. With Global Presence & development centers, Nucleus has developed solutions in Retail banking, Corporate banking, Credit Card, CRM, ATM, FX Trading, Credit Risk & Appraisal, Cash Management, Internet banking, Fraud Management System, Trade Finance, Workflow, EAI, Relationship Banking, E-Commerce, M-Commerce.
Visit www.nucleussoftware.com