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SimpliVity was established in 2009 with the mission of simplifying IT, and we are well on our way. Launched in April 2013, SimpliVity’s products are used by hundreds of enterprises and service providers worldwide. The company is headquartered in Massachusetts, with sales offices throughout the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Pacific Rim. SimpliVity’s business model is 100% indirect, and its solutions and professional services are available through its network of worldwide resellers and distributors. SimpliVity has been recognised by the industry for its leadership team, channel acumen and friendliness, and product innovation.

Today, companies are under continued pressure to leverage IT for competitive advantage, while being constrained by the cost and complexity of deploying it. With a greater availability of cloud computing resources, IT organisations grapple with outsourcing IT infrastructure to cloud providers or maintaining and operating infrastructure resources on premises. In short, post-virtualisation data centres are challenged to deliver the scalability, efficiency and economics of cloud computing while maintaining the performance, resiliency and manageability of enterprise IT.

Big data is now a reality: The volume, variety and velocity of data coming into your organisation continue to reach unprecedented levels. This phenomenal growth means that not only must you understand big data in order to decipher the information that truly counts, but you also must understand the possibilities of what you can do with big data analytics.

SAS is the world’s largest independent business analytics company, and have built our leadership on the combined strengths of software, domain expertise and over three decades of experience helping our customers not only adapt to change but anticipate it.

SAS Business Analytics delivers competitive insights that are gleaned from your data, enabling you to:
• Solve complex business problems
• Manage performance to achieve measurable business objectives
• Drive sustainable growth through innovation
• Anticipate and manage change

Across the globe, more than 13,000 SAS employees help over 70,000 organisations in both the public and private sectors in their efforts to compete and excel in a climate of unprecedented economic uncertainty and globalisation.

As the market leader in enterprise application software, SAP is at the center of today’s business and technology revolution. Our innovations enable more than 293,500 customers worldwide to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively.

SAP helps organizations of all sizes and industries overcome the complexities that plague our businesses, our jobs, and our lives. With Run Simple as our operating principle, SAP’s nearly 74,500 employees focus on a singular purpose that inspires us every day: To help the world run better and improve people’s lives.

Through innovative, reliable products and services; talented people; a responsible approach to business and global citizenship; and collaboration with our partners and customers, Samsung is taking the world in imaginative new directions.zat

● Samsung’s Leadership, “A World-Class Company”

From our beginnings as a small trading company, Samsung has evolved to a world-class corporation with businesses that span advance technology, semiconductors, skyscraper and plant construction, petrochemical, fashion, medicine, finance, hotels and more. Our discoveries, inventions and breakthrough products have allowed us to be a leader in these fields, constantly pushing the industries forward.

● Samsung in Our Life, “Bettering Everyday Experiences”

From our innovations in consumer electronics to our developments in biopharmaceuticals, Samsung shares impactful experiences each day with people around the globe. Through our devotion to create superior products and services across all areas of our business, we strive to enhance the lives of people everywhere and bring positive change to the world around us.

● Samsung Creates Possibilities, “A Corporation of Discovery”

Our purpose is simple: It’s giving you the freedom to take journeys; to discover new experiences; to take charge of your world. It’s the power to connect who you are today with who you want to be tomorrow. In a changing world, we’re changing faster. We are relentless in our pursuit of discovery and innovation, creating technologies and providing services that empower.

● Samsung’s Contributions, “Committed to Social Responsibility”

We measure our success not only in our business achievements, but also by how well we serve our community, protect our planet‘s resources, and make a difference in people’s lives. We embrace our responsibility to contribute as a good citizen, taking action around the world to foster a better society, protect and improve the environment, and strengthen our communities.

Founded in 1999, salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing leader. Salesforce.com is the number one CRM platform and the clear leader in sales, service, marketing and cloud platforms. Salesforce.com pioneered the shift to cloud, social, mobile and connected devices.

Today, with this next generation of technology, our customers are connecting with their customers in entirely new ways.

With salesforce.com’s four product lines–Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, ExactTarget Marketing Cloud, Salesforce1 Platform– companies have the tools they need to transform the way they sell, service, market and innovate.

Riverbed (NASDAQ: RVBD) delivers application performance for the globally connected enterprise. With Riverbed, enterprises can successfully and intelligently implement strategic initiatives such as virtualization, consolidation, cloud computing, and disaster recovery without fear of compromising performance. By giving enterprises the platform they need to understand, optimize and consolidate their IT, Riverbed helps enterprises to build a fast, fluid and dynamic IT architecture that aligns with the business needs of the organization.

Rimini Street is the leading third-party provider of enterprise software support services. Our innovative, award-winning support program allows Oracle and SAP licensees to save 50 percent in annual support fees, avoid expensive forced upgrades, and receive premium services that are not part of standard vendor support – including support for customisations at no extra cost.

Over 600 global companies, including 71 of Fortune 500 and 15 of Global 100, depend on Rimini Street as their trusted, expert, independent maintenance provider so they can apply more of their IT budgets to strategic business initiatives. Rimini Street currently supports these products: Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Database, Hyperion, SAP and BusinessObjects software.

PGi offers cloud-based, SaaS collaboration solutions with award-winning video, web and audio conferencing capabilities, serving more than 40,000 enterprises worldwide and 75% of the Fortune 100™ companies.

PGi’s solutions promote greater flexibility and mobility among work teams and enable more effective collaboration for companies with offices spread across different cities or countries; providing them with the competitive advantage necessary to succeed in a rapidly changing marketplace.

iMeet – is an integrated video and audio solution, providing personal, secure virtual meeting rooms to facilitate greater personal engagement for more effective relationship management.

GlobalMeet – is a cross platform meeting solution supporting web, video and audio collaboration and enabling content-intensive meetings; for more involved and effective decision-making.

With a global hybrid (VoIP and PSTN) audio network infrastructure and access points in more than 25 countries, PGi provides business-grade audio quality and reliability to deliver more productive and engaging collaboration experiences.

At PageUp we are passionate about building the world’s best technology that underpins our client’s ability to build strong employee-employer relationships and equip them to attract, develop and retain the talent needed to take their business forward. We partner with organisations to learn their business challenges and provide cutting-edge solutions and innovative technology to support their Talent Management initiatives.

Our state-of-the-art technology solutions unify Recruitment, Performance Management, Learning, Career Planning, Succession Management and Workforce Analytics to help multinational employers overcome the talent management challenges inherent to operating across multiple geographies. The PageUp teams in Singapore, Melbourne, Sydney, London and New York can help transform your company’s global HR initiatives.

Thousands of customers worldwide trust OutSystems, the number one low-code platform for rapid application development. Engineers with attention to detail crafted every aspect of the OutSystems platform to help organisations build enterprise-grade apps and transform their business faster. OutSystems is the only solution that combines the power of low-code development with advanced mobile capabilities, enabling visual development of entire application portfolios that easily integrate with existing systems. Visit us at www.outsystems.com, or follow us on Twitter @OutSystems or LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/outsystems