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Aastra is a global leader in the design, manufacture and supply of business communications solutions for all business sectors and size. Aastra is an established, financially stable, dynamic company which has grown organically and via successful acquisitions such as the
Ericsson enterprise communications business.
Aastra is entirely dedicated to enterprise communications and offers one of the most complete portfolios of UC solutions. These range from feature-rich call managers for small and medium businesses and highly scalable ones for large enterprises, integrated mobility, call centre solutions to a wide selection of terminals.
Through investment in R&D, Aastra aims to continue to provide future proof solutions which grow with a customers business. It is this commitment to develop open standards based and future proof solutions which stands Aastra apart from its competitors.
www.aastra-telecom.uk.com
Avaya is a global leader in enterprise communications systems. The company provides UC, contact centers, data solutions, and related services directly and through its channel partners to leading businesses and organisations around the world.
Enterprises of all sizes depend on Avaya for state-of-theart communications that improve efficiency, collaboration, customer service and competitiveness.
www.avaya.com
From award-winning IP communications to mobility, customer care, web conferencing, messaging, enterprise social software, and interoperable telepresence experiences, Cisco brings together network-based, integrated collaboration solutions based on open standards. These solutions, as well as services from Cisco and our partners, are designed to help promote business growth, innovation and productivity. They are also designed to help accelerate team performance, protect investments, and simplify the process of finding the right people and information.
www.cisco.com
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leading provider of virtual computing solutions that help companies deliver IT as an on-demand service. Founded in 1989, Citrix combines virtualization, networking, and cloud computing technologies into a full portfolio of products that enable virtual workstyles for users and virtual datacenters for IT.
More than 230,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to help them build simpler and more cost-effective IT environments. Citrix partners with over 10,000 companies in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2009 was $1.61 billion.
www.citrix.com
Through its Jabra brand, GN Netcom is a world leader in innovative headset solutions. With around 900 employees and sales offices around the world, GN Netcom develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of wireless headsets and speakerphones for mobile users and both wireless and corded headsets for contact centre and officebased users.
GN Netcom’s business activities also include its original equipment manufacturing (OEM) business. GN Netcom is a subsidiary of GN Store Nord A/S.
www.jabra.com
LifeSize Communications is a world leader in high definition video communications and telepresence. Founded by industry veterans in 2003, LifeSize pioneered high definition video communications to make communicating at a distance as natural and effective as being in the same room, for anyone, anywhere. LifeSize became a division of Logitech in December 2009, sharing a vision of everywhere there is voice there should be video. More information about LifeSize can be found on our website.
www.lifesize.com
LinkedIn takes your professional network online, giving you access to people, jobs and opportunities like never before. Built upon trusted connections and relationships, LinkedIn has established the world’s largest and most powerful professional network. Currently, more than 100 million professionals are on LinkedIn, including executives from all five hundred of the Fortune 500 companies, as well as a wide range of household names in technology, financial services, media, consumer packaged goods, entertainment, and numerous other industries. LinkedIn is backed by world-class investors including Sequoia Capital, Greylock, the European Founders Fund, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bain Capital, Goldman Sachs, SAP Ventures, and The McGraw-Hill Companies
www.linkedin.com
"Your customers are everywhere. Lithium helps you find your social customers, understand their influence, and build lasting relationships. For market leaders such as Best Buy, AT&T, BT, Virgin Atlantic, Research In Motion Limited (RIM), Univision, or PayPal, Lithium is the leading provider of social customer solutions that deliver real business results. The Lithium Social Customer Suite offers complete social monitoring, a comprehensive community platform, and actionable analytics across millions of blogs, forums, and social networking sites. Our technology is proven in high-volume, growth environments and provides security, open and custom APIs, and multi-language support. Founded in 2001, Lithium is privately held with headquarters in Emeryville, California, and offices in London and Zürich.
www.lithium.com
At Microsoft, we’re about helping customers realize their potential. From gamers to governments, moms to mega-corporations, we serve just about every kind of customer, all over the globe.
Many people think Microsoft = software. We do do software—but we also do hardware, services, research, and more. We work on PC operating systems and applications—like Windows and Windows Live. Products for IT professionals and developers—like Windows Server and Visual Studio. Online services such as Bing and MSN. Business solutions like Office and Exchange. And devices like Xbox, keyboards, webcams, and mice. We’re passionate about what we do.
What this means if you come to work here is opportunity—to do things that make a real difference in millions, even billions, of lives. To reach your potential. So why not take a closer look at Microsoft? We think you’ll find that amazing things really do happen here.
www.microsoft.com
Musion Eyeliner is a high definition 3D holographic video projection system allowing a spectacular 3-dimensional moving life sized hologram to appear within a live stage.
The system has been used for major product launches, media events, such as consumer entertainment and TV spectaculars and VIP celebrity keynote addresses.
It brings dramatic, previously unseen 21st century video film effects to live events, including audio-visual artistic performances, conferences or trade show presentations, live TV, retail displays and large-scale digital signage.
The 3D projection system is unique worldwide, infinitely configurable and has amazed both clients and audiences alike.
The TelePresence offering allows for life-size holographic figures with full motion and no latency between sound and image, making it commercially viable for large public access areas.
TelePresence has received worldwide acclaim – groundbreaking press coverage at events such as InfoComm and recently won ‘Advanced Video Services Innovation Award’ at the GTB Innovation Awards 2009.
www.musion.co.uk
OpenText is a leader in Enterprise Content Management (ECM). With two decades of experience helping organizations overcome the challenges associated with managing and gaining the true value of their business content, Open Text stands unmatched in the market. Together with our customers and partners, we are truly The Content Experts, supporting 50 million users in 114 countries.
We know how organizations work. We have a keen understanding of how content flows throughout an enterprise, and of the business challenges that organizations face today.
It is this knowledge that gives us our unique ability to develop the richest array of tailored content management applications and solutions in the industry. Our unique and collaborative approach helps us provide guidance so that our customers can effectively address business challenges and leverage content to drive growth, mitigate risk, increase brand equity, automate processes, manage compliance, and generate competitive advantage. Organizations can trust the management of their vital business content to OpenText, The Content Experts. For more information, visit www.opentext.com.
www.opentext.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.
www.oracle.com
With Polycom people can meet face-to-face without being in the same place so they can more effectively communicate, solve, and create. From their desktops, meeting rooms, class rooms, and a variety of mobile settings, people connect and collaborate all over the world using Polycom solutions. Through highly visual immersive
experiences, teams make better decisions faster and increase their productivity. Today Polycom is at the center of a powerful ecosystem of technology leaders who are working together to protect customer investments, ensure flexibility, and develop future-ready solutions. Polycom’s open-standards integration with the leading Unified Communications (UC) and networking platform vendors makes it possible for our customers to use Polycom solutions along with their existing business applications to communicate in real time over any device and across any network. Quite simply, it makes good business sense for companies to rely on the broadest offering of Unified Communications solutions from Polycom because they can improve productivity, reduce their costs, rapidly gain a return on their technology investment-and thrive.
Polycom is powering smarter conversations and transforming lives and businesses worldwide.
www.polycom.com
Radian6 is the leading provider for social media monitoring, engagement and insights. Radian6’s customers include Dell, GE, PepsiCo, Kodak, H&R Block and UPS, as well as the world’s leading public relations and advertising agencies. Radian6 has led the social media monitoring industry since its launch in 2007. Radian6 currently has over 2,500 clients from a variety of industries: higher education, technology, healthcare, non-profits, manufacturing, consulting, and many more. Over half of the Fortune 100 use Radian6. On May 2, 2011, salesforce.com completed its acquisition of Radian6.
www.radian6.com
Since 1992, RADVISION has been the industry’s leading provider of products and technologies for unified visual communications. RADVISION offers the broadest and most complete set of personal telepresence, room system video endpoints and standards-based video networking infrastructure. These, with developer toolkit products, enable enterprises and partners to deploy UC networks and services. The RADVISION video solutions allow high quality and reliable setup of video network equipment and conferencing solutions.
The company’s SCOPIA product line with its video conferencing endpoints, comprehensive infrastructure equipment and video conference management tools enable the delivery of unified visual communications for enterprises, education, medical institutes, financial and federal organisations worldwide.
With a large global customer base, RADVISION is the undisputed industry leader in interactive voice and video over IP technologies, developer protocol stacks and toolkits. The technology behind these award-winning developer tools is the foundation of the company’s strong portfolio of UC products that deliver high-quality video solutions and across-the-board connectivity.
www.radvision.com
Siemens Enterprise Communications is a premier provider of end-to-end enterprise communications, including voice, network infrastructure and security solutions that use open, standards-based architectures to unify communications and business applications for a seamless collaboration experience.
This award-winning "Open Communications" approach enables organizations to improve productivity and reduce costs through easy-to-deploy solutions that work within existing IT environments, delivering operational efficiencies. It is the foundation for the company's OpenPath® commitment that enables customers to mitigate risk and cost-effectively adopt unified communications.
Jointly owned by The Gores Group and Siemens AG, Siemens Enterprise Communications companies include Siemens Enterprise Communications, Cycos, and Enterasys Networks.
www.siemens-enterprise.com
Teliris develops and implements the world’s most widely deployed fully managed telepresence collaboration solutions, realistically replicating the human dynamics of an in-person meeting experience.
Telepresence technology has been around for nearly a decade and was developed by Teliris in response to a business need.
Teliris Telepresence allows for the most life-like meetings to take place without the need for physical travel. The system utilises state of the art technology developed by Teliris to replicate the face-to-face meeting experience as faithfully as possible.
www.teliris.com
Vidyo, Inc. pioneered Personal Telepresence enabling multi-party video conferences using a personal computer, with HD quality over converged IP networks. Leveraging its patented technologies built on the new H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC) standard, Vidyo´s award winning products deliver the industry´s best error resilience and lowest latency videoconferencing over the Internet and general-purpose networks. Vidyo´s technology for OEMs and end-to-end product solutions for enterprises support point-to-point and multi-point connections that include a variety of different platforms ranging from Mac & Windows desktops to dedicated room solutions. VidyoTechnology™ is used by Hitachi, Teliris, ShoreTel and other major organizations and enterprises. Vidyo is based in Hackensack, New Jersey and is privately held.
www.vidyo.com