Platform Momentum

Windows Azure, Windows 7, Silverlight and SharePoint are all platform technologies that have been designed to enable the broad Microsoft partner and customer ecosystem to better serve and engage their customers. Each of these platform technologies empowers partners to deliver products and services that best align to their strategy and business models. Partners and customers from around the globe and across many industries are building amazing new solutions and products that take advantage of these platforms. Below is just a sample of the companies betting on the Microsoft platform as a foundation for their own innovation and business growth. Please select a profile below for more information on each partner or customer.

You can find additional partner information including videos and press releases at the PDC Virtual Press Room.

Partners & Customers

  • Accenture / Avanade

    Accenture and Avanade Azure Migration Factory (Windows Azure Platform)

    • Accenture and Avanade are global services companies committed to helping enterprise customers improve performance and lower costs.
    • Accenture and Avanade work closely with Microsoft as a global systems integrator for the Windows Azure Platform.
    • Accenture and Avanade offer clients the unique combination of market-leading cloud vision, industry insight, business acumen and delivery skills that will help clients quickly migrate to the Windows Azure Platform and realize significant benefits faster.

    Company Background

    • Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company.
    • Avanade provides business technology services that connect insight, innovation, and expertise in Microsoft® technologies to help customers realize results.
    • Accenture and Avanade have deep experience in helping customers maximize their investments in Microsoft technologies, based on multiple successful engagements with enterprise organizations.

    Press Contact Information

    • Larry Beck, Sr. Director, Cloud Strategy
    • 206-239-6067
    • More Informaiton: www.accenture.com
  • Active Web Solutions (AWS)

    MOB Guardian (Windows Azure Platform)

    • The product is an Azure hosted Maritime or Sea Safety System for the UK Lifeboat Service codename, 'Geopoint'.
    • Windows Azure has enabled the migration of an award-winning on-premise system, based on a globally scalable Location Based Services Platform that has helped to save nine lives at sea.

    Company Background

    • Active Web Solutions (AWS) is renowned for its technical innovation and creative thinking.
    • A Microsoft Gold Certified partner and National Business Award finalist in the Orange 'Best Use of Technology in Business' category, AWS develop and implement dynamic software solutions to an enviable portfolio of clients, across a wide range of industry sectors including construction, pharmaceutical, retail, government, maritime, energy, insurance and finance.
    • Across the past decade, AWS have earned a reputation for impeccable technical innovation, providing clients with a full range of services from thought leadership, systems design, software development, implementation and service management.

    Press Contact Information

    • +44 1473 834560
    • info@aws.net
    • More Informaiton: www.aws.net
  • Acumatica

    Acumatica Financial Suite (Windows Azure Platform)

    • Acumatica’s Financial Management Suite provides access to critical business information from anywhere, helping users maximize productivity while staying in compliance with industry or government regulations.
    • Acumatica allows customers to switch between a SaaS solution delivered on Windows Azure and an on-premise solution on Windows Server. Both solutions provide robust customization tools for adapting to existing business processes.
    • Using Acumatica, mid-sized businesses can streamline tasks such as financial reporting, customer management, invoicing, purchasing, inventory and much more.

    Company Background

    • Acumatica develops an integrated set of web-based ERP, accounting, and CRM software designed to improve the productivity of mid-sized businesses.
    • Customers buy Acumatica software from value added resellers (VARs) by either purchasing a traditional license or purchasing a SaaS solution. Acumatica is designed to be hosted on-premise, at a datacenter, or on a cloud computing platform.
    • Acumatica’s advanced financial features, workflows, dashboards, and reports can be customized using web-based tools or by using the API or SDK with modern development tools such as Microsoft Visual Studio.

    Press Contact Information

  • Adslot

    adslot® (Windows Azure Platform)

    • Classified ad sales solution. For classifieds publishers (autos, jobs, real-estate, travel) to automate the sales process. This is an automated auction-based platform for publishers to sell search keywords like the Microsoft 'ad center' sales solution for the Bing search engine.
    • Display ad sales solution. This solution allows a general display ad publisher to engage buyers with two types of dynamic pricing: dynamic rate cards, where the fixed price varies on real-time demand projections, and "book&bid®," where ad buyers can buy at a fixed price and bid for additional inventory.
    • Video/TV ad sales solution. An automated auction based sales platform that will be used by TV networks to sell TV ad spots in broadcast and online TV shows.

    Company Background

    • Adslot is partner company of Tradeslot. Based in Australia and formed in 2005, Tradeslot designs and builds large scale B2B auction platforms. The company has three main areas of focus: port and freight capacity (ship, rail, and road), industrial commodities (coal, iron ore etc) and environmental commodities (carbon permits, forest timber, and water rights). One of its largest customers is Co-operative Bulk Handling www.cbh.com.au which uses the Tradeslot auction platform to auction port capacity for the average 11 million ton West Australian wheat export. Tradeslot also designed the proposed Australian Federal Government carbon permit auction platform, and has transacted over $400M of forest timber sales.
    • Unlike traditional price-only auctions that are one-dimensional, the Tradeslot combinatorial auction platform allows bidders to ‘bid expressively’. This means they can make price bids with non-price conditions e.g. terms of trade, volume and unique lot packages. On the flip side the seller can add award constraints and factor the bids based on qualitative factors. Tradeslot uses large scale "combinatorial" auctioning—a process that uses complex mathematical algorithms and requires significant computational resources.
    • With its tremendous success in combinatorial auctioning for port and freight capacity, environmental commodities and industrial commodities, Tradeslot formed a partner company Adslot in 2007. Using the same intellectual property and technologies as the Tradeslot auctioning platform, Adslot is a foray into the advertising sales process—enabling media publishers to sell premium ad inventory to agencies and self-serve advertisers using a proprietary book&bid® process. Though Adslot is currently targeted at online media, the company plans to apply its concepts and technology to traditional media, such as television and radio.

    Press Contact Information

    • Anthony Du Preez, Founder/Director
    • 415-839-8043
    • More Informaiton: www.adslot.com
  • Apprenda®

    SaaSGrid® (Windows Azure Platform)

    • SaaSGrid is a powerful SaaS Application Server that enables companies to build standard .NET based web applications and deploy them as fully commercialized, multi-tenant SaaS offerings, complete with all of the critical SaaS specific business systems.
    • SaaSGrid provides the application billing system, provisioning system, full application lifecycle management system and much more.
    • SaaSGrid also enables companies to manage both utility cloud services like Microsoft Azure and dedicated compute resources as a single compute mesh, revolutionizing application architecture and delivery.

    Company Background

    • Apprenda is the creator of SaaSGrid, a powerful SaaS Application Server that enables companies to build standard .NET based web applications and deploy them as fully commercialized, multi-tenant SaaS offerings.
    • SaaSGrid provides the application billing system, provisioning system, full application lifecycle management system and much more.
    • SaaSGrid also enables companies to manage both utility cloud services like Microsoft Azure and dedicated compute resources as a single compute mesh, revolutionizing application architecture and delivery.

    Press Contact Information

  • Archetype

    Archetype Media Platform (Windows Azure Platform)

    • The Archetype Media Platform (AMP) is a complete media management solution. AMP includes a set of robust applications that enable users to upload, search, browse, select, and publish media to various formats, sizes, and platforms.
    • With Windows Azure integration, AMP makes real the notion of collaborative video editing, quick-cut highlight reel creation, and brings together a company's entire media collection into a single, unified system.
    • Together, the AMP Manager, AMP Editor, AMP Portal, and AMP Analytics applications comprise the AMP system.

    Company Background

    • Archetype is a leading interactive design and engineering firm, specializing in innovative products, rich internet applications, branded experiences, and advanced user interfaces.
    • Our clients span from large technology companies to digital agencies and early technology adopters. With an industry-leading team and a proven track record, we work with companies such as Microsoft and Adobe to develop world class solutions.
    • At Archetype, we pride ourselves on driving innovation on the web, on mobile platforms, and on emerging interactive technologies.

    Press Contact Information

    • Danny Riddell, CEO/Founder
    • 415-970-6910
    • danny@archetype-inc.com
    • More Informaiton: www.archetype-inc.com
  • Associated Press

    Content API (Windows Azure Platform)

    • Large quantity of news content to be accessed by various web sites through a public API in the Azure marketplace.
    • Content consumers are authorized access and billed through the platform.
    • Allows the customer to consolidate content to a single data center in the cloud.

    Company Background

    • The Associated Press is the largest and oldest news organization in the world, serving as a source of news, photos, graphics, audio and video.
    • The Associated Press operates as a not-for-profit cooperative with more than 4,000 employees working in more than 240 worldwide bureaus.
    • AP supplies a steady stream of news around the clock to its domestic members, international subscribers and commercial customers.

    Press Contact Information

    • Jonathan Malek
    • 415-223-3970
    • jmalek@ap.org
    • More Informaiton: www.ap.org
  • Avalara™

    AvaTax™ (Windows Azure Platform)

    • AvaTax quickly applies sales tax calculations via a secure, encrypted Internet connection in less than a second -- without disrupting your existing workflow within your Microsoft Dynamics ERP.
    • AvaTax offers detailed, on-demand reports that give you quick access to the information you need to prepare and submit accurate sales tax returns.
    • AvaTax automatically performs address validation, jurisdiction research and rate determination -- allowing you to simplify even the most complicated tax issues.

    Company Background

    • Avalara™ is a full-service sales tax company that uses innovative technology to automate statutory transactional tax compliance processes that integrate seamlessly into Microsoft Dynamics GP, NAV, AX, SL, and CRM.
    • Avalara's solutions deliver the fastest, easiest, most accurate and affordable way for you to calculate, collect, report and remit transactional taxes.
    • Avalara calculates sales and use taxes on more than 150 million transactions per year and remit more than $10 billion in tax filings annually for customers that span four continents.

    Press Contact Information

  • CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business

    Sales Tax Office (Windows Azure Platform)

    • Sales Tax Office handles real-time sales tax calculation for multiple business entities, multiple ERP modules or even different ERP systems. Sales Tax Office works behind the scenes with minimal user interaction.
    • The goal of this project is to evaluate the migration our sales tax calculation engine to the cloud and offer it as a service to our customers.
    • The hosting environment will give us the capability to scale the environment as needed giving us the option to adjust our investments in hardware based on our customers’ needs.

    Company Background

    • The CCH brand has been a market leader since 1913, the year the U.S. federal income tax was created; it is one of the most respected names among accountants, attorneys and compliance professionals. CCH is a Wolters Kluwer business.
    • CCH produces ProSystem fx and related software used by professionals for tax preparation, review, compilation, audit and office productivity.
    • CorpSystem from CCH meets the sales and income tax compliance needs of business professionals.

    Press Contact Information

  • CDC Software

    Pivotal CRM and c360 (Windows Azure Platform)

    • Pivotal CRM is a full customer-relationship-management application suite built on a highly-flexible application platform with advanced customization abilities, and c360 offers CRM add-on products, industry solutions and development tools for the Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform.
    • These two product will be the first of CDC Software solutions to be working with the Azure platform, in addition to leveraging SharePoint and Exchange Online and other Azure services.
    • Integrating Azure at desktop and at infrastructure levels.

    Company Background

    • CDC Software(NASDAQ: CDCS) is a provider of enterprise software applications that include ERP, CRM, SCM, manufacturing operations management, and a broad portfolio of services spanning the life cycle of the software applications.
    • Solutions designed to help organizations deliver superior customer experiences while increasing efficiencies and profitability.
    • These industry-specific solutions are used by more than 6,000 customers worldwide within manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, home building, real estate, wholesale/retail distribution industries.

    Press Contact Information

  • Contrast Media Limited

    HardLink (Windows Azure Platform)

    • HardLink is a Mobile Tagging campaign management, reporting and tracking system with device identification and associated marketing segmentation capability, all delivered on the MS Azure platform.
    • HardLink provides an open API to support the tailoring of Mobi content to device characteristics rather than just make and model. The API provides segmented marketing opportunities based on device identification and user activity, allowing advertisers to focus on specific types of consumers.
    • HardLink supports QR Code and MS Tag formats as well as SMS, email and direct URL access to content.

    Company Background

    • Contrast Media is a New Zealand-based BizSpark partner focused on innovative Mobile Tagging solutions.
    • We are dedicated to providing outstanding interactive mobile solutions with a focus on MS Tag technology, delivered on the MS Azure platform. We believe that communication is at the heart of all relationships and we enable communication with customers in ways you never thought possible!
    • We only build things that excite us and we do so with enterprise-class quality and standards. We love our work and we love the opportunities that disruptive technologies and business innovations represent.

    Press Contact Information

  • Corel Corporation

    Corel® Paint it!™ touch (Windows 7)

    • Built specifically for use on Windows 7 and optimized for use on touch-screen computers, Corel Paint it! touch provides budding artists of any age with a unique artistic experience.
    • Using the program, consumers can create original artwork with the touch of their fingertips.
    • The program's touch-enabled capabilities let consumers add artistic touches to photos or create art from scratch using a number of realistic brushes and effects.

    Company Background

    • Corel is one of the world’s top software companies with more than 100 million active users in over 75 countries.
    • Through the years, we've built a reputation for delivering innovative, trusted products that are easy to learn and use, helping people achieve new levels of productivity.
    • Headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, we also have offices in the US, UK, Taiwan, China and Japan.

    Press Contact Information

    • Kelly Manuel, PR Manager, Graphics & Productivity
    • 613-728-0826x1223 (ofc), 613-6
    • kelly.manuel@corel.com
    • More Informaiton: www.corel.com/paintittouch
  • CSC

    Legal Solutions Suite® (Windows Azure Platform)

    • CSC's Legal Solutions Suite® software, now offered on the Windows Azure platform, helps firms optimize their outside legal counsel expenses through simplified billing procedures, expense analytics and key performance metrics.
    • Legal Solutions Suite creates a collaborative electronic workspace for budgeting, planning and legal strategy. Developed by legal professionals, Legal Solutions Suite helps organizations create a highly efficient, end-to-end legal management process.
    • Three major components -- Legal e-Bill, Legal Bill Analyzer and Legal Matter Manager -- work together as a suite of products, or can be used individually to integrate with existing case, claims and accounting systems.

    Company Background

    • CSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services through three primary lines of business.
    • These include Business Solutions and Services, the Managed Services Sector and the North American Public Sector. Among CSC's advanced capabilities for both enterprises and ISVs are its Azure Enablement and Transformation Services that include management consulting; application software development, integration and management through its Azure Competency Center; as well as cloud security and testing solutions.
    • CSC also offers Windows Azure-based vertical market software solutions.

    Press Contact Information

    • Marian Kelley, Director, Media and Analyst Relations
    • 512-275-5722
    • More Informaiton: www.csc.com
  • CUMULUX®

    Mobile Axis™ (Windows Azure Platform)

    • Cumulux Mobile AxisTM is a cloud-based enterprise mobility solution powered by Windows Azure that lets business users access multiple enterprise applications through a unified mobile portal
    • Mobile AxisTM enables unified access to multiple enterprise content sources (including Microsoft Sharepoint, Salesforce CRM, Microsoft Dynamics, Peoplesoft and others) for swift and contextual decision making
    • Cloud based Infrastructure based on Windows Azure lowers total costs of ownership and delivers demand based elastic scalability

    Company Background

    • Cumulux is a leading cloud solution provider offering products and services that help enterprises realize business value through Cloud Computing
    • Cumulux builds products to accelerate the enterprise adoption of cloud computing by filling critical gaps including management, compliance, migration and co-existence of cloud based applications
    • Cumulux enables businesses take the right steps towards cloud adoption through services like cloud assessments, economic justification & rapid cloud prototyping

    Press Contact Information

  • Domino’s Pizza

    Online Ordering System (Windows Azure Platform)

    • Interoperability: Replatforming of current (java-based) online ordering system to Windows Azure using Windows Azure Compute roles, Windows Azure Storage and the .NET Services Bus.
    • eCommerce: Online pizza ordering system leveraging Windows Azure to meet highly variable demand fluctuations including yearly one-day spike of 50% for support Super Bowl Sunday.
    • Scalability: "Windows Azure allows me to focus on the functionality for the customer, and not have to worry about whether or not I have enough capacity to support it." – Jim Vitek, Director of eCommerce

    Company Background

    • Founded in 1960, Domino's Pizza (NYSE: DPZ) is the recognized world leader in pizza delivery operating a network of company-owned and franchise-owned stores in the United States and international markets.
    • Domino's Pizza® is number one in customer satisfaction in a 2009 survey of consumers of the U.S. largest limited service restaurants, according to the annual American Customer Satisfaction Index™ (ACSI).
    • To learn more about Domino's Pizza, including possible Franchise and Career opportunities, please visit www.dominos.com.

    Press Contact Information

    • Chris Brandon, Public Relations Manager
    • 734-323-7932
    • More Informaiton: www.dominos.com
  • Dot Net Solutions

    Agile software development for the Windows Azure Platform (Windows Azure Platform)

    • Dot Net is a specialist in developing technically advanced software solutions with Microsoft technology. We help customers understand how Microsoft-based solutions can provide real value, dramatically improve user experience and reduce costs.
    • Dot Net utilizes an Agile software development methodology which is focused on the delivery of high quality software that meets changing requirements. Agile allows a dramatic reduction in time to market when developing new products and services.
    • Dot Net is one of a few partners working with customers on solutions based on the Windows Azure Platform.

    Company Background

    • Dot Net is one of Microsoft’s leading UK-based technology evangelism partners.
    • Founded in 2004 it has quickly risen to the top of the Microsoft eco-system. It is a managed, gold partner and one of only three development sponsors of the MTC in Reading. As a boutique development company fantastic service delivery and an unrivaled attention-to-detail is guaranteed.
    • Dot Net’s strengths are the depth of its technical knowledge across the areas it specializes in; including Silverlight 3.0, WPF and the Windows Azure Platform; along with application of the Agile development methodology.

    Press Contact Information

  • E-SPONDER

    E-SPONDER (Microsoft SharePoint)

    • The E-SPONDER software provides groups and organizations with the means to send real-time information regarding a planned or unplanned event, virtually changing the way a command center operates.
    • The E-SPONDER solution supports multi-touch and is built on SharePoint Server, SQL Server, InfoPath, Office Communications Server, Microsoft Office, Bing Maps, Surface and other technologies.
    • SharePoint 2010 is bringing improvements to E-Sponder by enabling custom InfoPath forms to be associated directly with SharePoint lists, and through improvements in the solution packaging infrastructure.

    Company Background

    • E-SPONDER enables multiple first response entities to share critical information when collaborating in the preparation, response, resolution, and review processes associated with daily activities, events, and incidents.
    • It is highly customizable, and can be easily expanded to fulfill specific event/incident management needs that may exceed the capacity of an organization’s daily tools.
    • Developed as a foundation to be built upon so that it fits each agency specifically, E-SPONDER does not just serve a portion of an organization’s needs, but all of them.

    Press Contact Information

  • ESRI®

    MapIt® for SharePoint (Microsoft SharePoint)

    • Map Web Part offers support for Bing maps with data overlays sourced from SharePoint list data or SQL Server tables.
    • Custom Field Types allows users to add to any SharePoint content type or list definition to include fields necessary for geocoding and mapping.
    • GeoList Web Part provides a tabular view of Mapped lists and locations.

    Company Background

    • ESRI is the market leader in the GIS (geographic information software) market.
    • ESRI has more than 350,000 organizations and more than 1,000,000 users world-wide.
    • ESRI's GIS technology allows users to make better decisions and improve their business through the power of spatial analysis.

    Press Contact Information

  • FrontOne Limited

    FrontOne® JANUS™ (Windows Azure Platform)

    • JANUS™ solution provides effective defence against identity theft and Man-in-the-Middle/Machine/Browser attacks, a robust security platform without trading off on user privacy and usability.
    • JANUS is a platform-independent software application. It is also available as cloud service. It protects all users using the service from identity theft attacks and e-frauds, while saving your organisation time and money.
    • Complementary to JANUS, 3AKEY™ is a truly hack-resistant, intelligent digital identity device uses the world’s first Distributed Local Authentication technology.

    Company Background

    • JANUS™ solution provides effective defence against identity theft and Man-in-the-Middle/Machine/Browser attacks, a robust security platform without trading off on user privacy and usability.
    • FrontOne works with organizations of all sizes in banking, healthcare, e-commerce, and governments around the world, to deliver the best preventative security as enterprise solution and is provided as a cloud service in Windows Azure.
    • Our transaction security solution offers a robust security platform without trading off on user privacy for any environment. JANUS solution supports all popular development platforms such as .net, php and Java.

    Press Contact Information

    • Poy Chen
    • +64 21 131 1854
    • poy.chen@fromtone.com
    • More Informaiton: www.frontone.com
  • FullArmor Corporation

    FullArmor AppPortal for Windows Azure (Windows Azure Platform)

    • Self-service App-V virtual application deployment and management through Windows Azure cloud-based solution
    • Manage and enforce policies on applications including location-based policy via Windows 7 sensor platform
    • Integrates with System Center Configuration Manager to leverage existing on-premise infrastructure where appropriate

    Company Background

    • Founded in 1987, FullArmor Corporation has evolved into a software + services company providing enterprise endpoint management
    • FullArmor delivers innovative, leading-edge solutions that extend the native capabilities of the Microsoft platform
    • More than 5 million users and 1,500 organizations worldwide rely on solutions developed by FullArmor

    Press Contact Information

  • General Mills

    Betty Crocker Kitchen Assistant (Windows 7)

    • The Betty Crocker Kitchen Assistant is a client application that runs on XP, Vista, and Windows 7 and provides a rich experience of the Betty Crocker online recipe database.
    • The Kitchen assistant has access to all of the recipes on Bettycrocker.com and is specially designed to work in the consumer’s kitchen by providing a Cook mode with large format cooking steps and timers.
    • The application is voice command enabled and supports touch in Windows 7.

    Company Background

    • One of the world's leading food companies, General Mills operates in over 100 countries and markets more than 100 consumer brands, including Cheerios, Häagen-Dazs, Nature Valley, Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Green Giant, Old El Paso, Progresso, Cascadian Farm, Muir Glen and more.
    • Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A., General Mills had fiscal 2009 global net sales of US$15.9 billion, including the company’s $1.2 billion proportionate share of joint venture net sales.

    Press Contact Information

  • Gizmox

    Visual WebGui (Windows Azure Platform)

    • Visual WebGui is a an enterprise Cloud application platform that offers unmatched solution for rich enterprise cloud applications with native responsiveness, high performance and bullet-proof security while cutting on CPU/Bandwidth consumption and consumed from any standard browser and devices without plug-ins.
    • The only no-rewrite, no-reengineering migration path of desktop legacy applications to the cloud.
    • Visual WebGui enables single layer, WYSIWYG, drag & drop, standard .NET Windows development environment for cloud application and the shortest migration path of developers with core Microsoft skills to cloud development.

    Company Background

    • Gizmox the developer of Visual WebGui platform which meets the most demanding richness, performance and security needs in segments such as medical, finance home land security and more. is a privately held company backed by VC and private finance.
    • The company's leadership team includes industry veterans including Prof. Arie Scope, the founder, former GM and chairman of Microsoft's Israel subsidiary.
    • Gizmox was founded in July 2007 and has seen consistent growth since then and more than 35,000 application with first tier enterprises and government offices.

    Press Contact Information

  • Guppers, Inc.

    Guppers (Windows Azure Platform)

    • Access company data on the cloud from devices such as mobile phones or browsers.
    • Secure conversations, documents and data based on organization or group policy settings.
    • Bridge cloud data and enterprise data via a simple standard protocol.

    Company Background

    • Provides easy, accessible and affordable platform solutions for businesses around the world.
    • Primarily focuses on mobility, cloud computing and social computing technologies to offer low-cost, high valued and anywhere access solutions.
    • Our team is truly global and we have presence in different parts of the world. The team basically works and collaborates across the globe at different time zones by using our own product.

    Press Contact Information

  • GXS

    GridStream™ Trends (Windows Azure Platform)

    • GridStream Trends is a B2B e-commerce analytics services that provides a real-time information dashboard and an on-demand reporting capabilities.
    • Customers of GXS Trading Grid can gain deeper insight into volume trends, including by document type and partner, and across messaging networks (GXS Trading Grid and interconnects to other B2B e-commerce providers).
    • Powered by Windows® Azure, GridStream Trends provides an easy, secure, programmable method for accessing analytics and historical reporting on B2B e-commerce transactions and trends.

    Company Background

    • GXS is a global B2B e-commerce and integration services company.
    • The company’s cloud computing-based platform, GXS Trading Grid®, eliminates the ongoing complexities and costs of do-it-yourself B2B integration.
    • GXS Managed Services enables customers to offload complex B2B e-commerce requirements to GXS, resulting in improved customer satisfaction, increased revenue and lower total cost of operations.

    Press Contact Information

    • Allison Tobin, Director, Corporate Communications
    • 301-340-4988
    • allison.tobin@gxs.com
    • More Informaiton: www.gxs.com
  • H&R Block

    H&R Block Forms Online (Silverlight)

    • The application provides taxpayers with a free tax preparation solution by giving them access to electronic versions of the standard IRS tax forms.
    • The tax forms are active, allowing the direct entry of data, basic totals calculation, printing and saving the return as a PDF and E-File submission of the finished to the IRS.
    • The application is 100% powered by Microsoft Silverlight and ASP.NET.

    Company Background

    • H&R Block is the world's largest tax preparation business, having served 400 million clients since 1955.
    • Leads the industry in training with the average H&R Block client consulted by a tax professional who has more than eight years of experience and 450 hours of training.
    • Employs more than 110,000 tax professionals nationwide and has helped clients obtain nearly $30 billion in tax refunds, credits and other government benefits.

    Press Contact Information

    • Neal Shaw, VP, Architecture
    • 816-701-5111
    • More Informaiton: www.hrblock.com
  • Infosys Technologies Limited

    Cloud on Ground: Adoption of Azure as a platform (Windows Azure Platform)

    • Consulting & Assessments: Help Enterprises & ISVs for business case, roadmap for cloud, use case development and application profiling for on-boarding on Azure
    • Application Analysis, Migration & Integration accelerators for on-boarding & deployment of on-premise applications to Azure and development of new applications on Azure
    • Remote Management, monitoring & maintenance of applications deployed on Azure

    Company Background

    • Infosys defines, designs and delivers technology-enabled business solutions that help Global 2000 companies win in a Flat World.
    • Infosys' offerings span business and technology consulting, application services, systems integration, product engineering, custom software development, maintenance, re-engineering, independent testing and validation services, IT infrastructure services and business process outsourcing.
    • Infosys has a global footprint with over 50 offices and development centers in India, China, Australia, the Czech Republic, Poland, the UK, Canada and Japan.

    Press Contact Information

  • Infusion Development

    Falcon Eye (Windows 7)

    • Falcon Eye allows business and governments to navigate real-time, three-dimensional data. Using a natural and intuitive interface, users can drill down into data at any global, state, county, city, or street-level.
    • Combined with Windows 7, Falcon Eye delivers actual hands-on manipulation of data through its unique touch capabilities. Falcon Eye eliminates the need for navigating data with a mouse and keyboard, reducing the amount of time spent searching.
    • Falcon Eye uses .NET to seamlessly integrate information from a wide range of sources including Microsoft Bing Maps.

    Company Background

    • Infusion solves business, logistics, and mapping problems by combining expert software engineering with appealing user experiences and design.
    • Through a unique combination of enterprise development, innovative design, and a commitment to emerging technologies, Infusion offers a full suite of information technology services including: custom architecture, training and mentoring, hosting and support, and user experience and design solutions.

    Press Contact Information

    • Kayla Spiess, Marketing & Communications Manager
    • 416-593-6595 x4139
    • kspiess@infusion.com
    • More Informaiton: www.infusion.com
  • iStore

    PetroTrek® Digital Oilfield Online (Windows Azure Platform)

    • iStore brings its data visualization and information management technologies to the Cloud with data driven applications and development tools specifically designed to harness the full potential of Windows Azure.
    • The company's first Azure service offering will focus on the unique information management challenges of the petroleum industry.
    • The online subscription based version of iStore's popular Digital Oilfield solutions will provide three levels of service, targeting the information needs of over 5,000 domestic independent producers, global supermajors and national oil companies.

    Company Background

    • iStore empowers the digital oilfield revolution, and equips companies to improve asset performance, reduce cycle time, and maximize return on investment.
    • iStore's suite of innovative software solutions puts the information that Exploration & Production asset management teams need to make good decisions at their fingertips, enabling them to access data wherever it resides.
    • iStore, founded in 1994 with headquarters in Houston, TX, is committed to helping companies jump-start their Digital Energy programs and meeting customers' evolving needs with proven, industry-hardened solutions.

    Press Contact Information

    • Ben Parker
    • 713-787-6798
    • parker@istore.com
    • More Informaiton: www.istore.com
  • Izenda

    Izenda Reports (Windows Azure Platform)

    • Richer, More Flexible Self-Service Reporting Delivered Over A Browser
    • Rapid OEM Integration With Your ASP.NET and SaaS Application
    • More Satisfied Customers With Less Technical Support and Fewer Delays

    Company Background

    Press Contact Information

  • Kelley Blue Book

    Kelley Blue Book’s kbb.com (Windows Azure Platform)

    • The company's flagship Web site, kbb.com, is built on Microsoft® .NET Framework 3.5 and SQL Server and has been run in two hosted data centers. In an effort to reduce hosting costs and ease management of its infrastructure, Kelley Blue Book decided to host and manage its Web site using a hybrid cloud model.
    • After evaluating various solutions, the company implemented the Windows® Azure™ Platform—which proved to be a straightforward process. This includes a significant .NET and SQL Server code base running on-premise and cloud.
    • The benefits of the new cloud capabilities include improved scalability, higher availability, geo-location, and replication. As a result, they will save US$100,000 in hosting costs and use IT resources more strategically.

    Company Background

    • Since 1926, Kelley Blue Book, The Trusted Resource®, has provided vehicle buyers and sellers with the new and used vehicle information they need to accomplish their goals with confidence.
    • The company's top-rated Web site, www.kbb.com, was established in 1995 and serves 14 million visitors per month.
    • Kbb.com is a leading provider of new car prices, car reviews and news, used car blue book values, auto classifieds and car dealer locations. No other medium reaches more in-market vehicle shoppers than kbb.com.

    Press Contact Information

    • Andy Lapin
    • 949.268.4243
    • More Informaiton: www.kbb.com
  • Kynetix Technology Group

    Windows Azure Development & Consulting Services (Windows Azure Platform)

    • Presentations & demonstrations to your business and IT people. From informal presentations to workshops, we can help you gain buy-in and build the enthusiasm for a cloud solution, including assistance in developing the business case.
    • Implementing proof-of-concept projects on Windows Azure using our Azure 3-2-1 offering.
    • Assistance with converting existing applications and sites to work with Azure and development of new solutions for Windows Azure, including skills transfer.

    Company Background

    • Founded in 1996, Kynetix deliver business solutions to Financial Services enterprises based on the Microsoft platform.
    • Kynetix are leaders in custom software development of enterprise applications for the Windows Azure platform and already have an existing Line of Business application running on Windows Azure. This solution now has 2 customers on beta.

    Press Contact Information

  • Lokad

    Lokad Web Forecasting (Windows Azure Platform)

    • Send us your business data and we send back the forecasts that you need to optimize your business.
    • No statistical or technical knowledge required, Lokad is entirely managing the process for you.
    • We specialize in forecasting demand, sales or workload. Lokad is a software company based in Paris, France.

    Company Background

    Press Contact Information

    • Joannes Vermorel, Founder
    • 716-989-6531
    • press@lokad.com
    • More Informaiton: w3.lokad.com/press
  • Mindjet®

    MindManager® 8 for Windows (Windows 7)

    • The combination of Mindjet's visual collaboration and personal productivity solution MindManager 8 with Windows 7 makes it easier than ever for customers to organize, manage and communicate ideas and information while solving real business problems.
    • We were able to easily add new functionality such as "multi-touch" to make our user experience more fluid, and "multi-paged taskbar previews," which helps manage multiple MindManager map files at once.
    • We're also adding task functionality on the toolbar for quickly adding content to dashboard maps without opening another application.

    Company Background

    • Mindjet provides collaboration solutions that visually connect ideas, information and people to save time, improve business processes and drive innovation.
    • From the sales process, managing a project, conducting a meeting, or simply getting organized, Mindjet provides users with a visual productivity application (mind mapping) combined with a comprehensive collaboration platform.
    • People can work individually or collaborate in real-time to organize, manage and communicate ideas and information while solving real business problems.

    Press Contact Information

  • Money Dashboard

    Money Dashboard (Windows Azure Platform)

    • Money Dashboard helps individuals and families in the UK to manage their money - our personal finance software service is free, secure and very easy for anybody to use.
    • Built in Microsoft's Silverlight for a rich and interactive User experience, and utilizing "Cloud" computing to enhance service availability and access, the Dashboard gives the UK consumer one place to manage their money. Money Dashboard leverages a unique combination of Microsoft's Azure cloud computing infrastructure along with our own web services to deliver a step-change mass market proposition.
    • The "Dashboard" interface makes use of conceptual speedometers, fuel gauge type dials and a spinning carousel to give immediacy of information to the User, plus simple drop down menus and help functions to improve navigation.

    Company Background

    • Money Dashboard is an Edinburgh based UK Bizspark company and is backed by a number of senior executives from across the UK Financial Services Industry.
    • We are fully committed to being on the side of the consumer, providing relevant and impartial Ideas of how users can save money now and into the future.
    • Money Dashboard reduces financial stress by putting users in control of their money with timely and relevant alerts, helping change the way consumers view their finances.

    Press Contact Information

    • James Varga, COO
    • +44 7957 143996
    • james.varga@moneydashboard.com
    • More Informaiton: moneydashboard.com
  • Neudesic

    Neudesic Cloud Computing Services (Windows Azure Platform)

    • Full-Spectrum Consulting Services for Windows Azure and BPOS
    • Executive Cloud Computing Business and Technical Strategic Planning
    • The First Cloud Based Business Intelligence Platform

    Company Background

    • Neudesic is a Microsoft National Systems Integrator and Gold Certified Partner
    • Neudesic launched the international www.AzureUserGroup.com and has developed many online tools including the Azure ROI Calculator: http://AzureROI.cloudapp.net, a repository of Azure design patters: www.AzureDesignPatterns.com, Azure Storage Explorer, a tool for exploring cloud blob/queue/table storage. View all Azure work: www.Neudesic.com/Cloud
    • Neudesic's expertise includes .Net Application Development, Portals and Collaboration, Connected Systems, BI, Microsoft Dynamics CRM and User Experience

    Press Contact Information

  • Nintex

    Nintex® Workflow 2010 (Microsoft SharePoint)

    • Nintex® Workflow 2010 is easy to design, deploy, manage, and understand. Any SharePoint user can create and maintain elaborate workflows in a web browser using a drag-and-drop interface.
    • Enables integration with web services, databases, LOB applications, and every SharePoint service. Can be extended with Windows Workflow Foundation expertise. Monitor and manage workflows across lists, sites, collections, applications, and farms.
    • Maximum value with minimum footprint and virtually no incremental IT burden. Works by enhancing, not replacing, SharePoint workflow.

    Company Background

    • Nintex helps customers do more with SharePoint. Simplify tasks, automate processes, lower costs, empower users, and understand return on investment – and do it on day one.
    • People-focused, no-code solutions that developers can extend and IT can manage, built by a company that innovates continuously and has provided rock-solid SharePoint-extending solutions for over three releases, and backed by a global network of partners.
    • 100% SharePoint solutions built on SharePoint's native technology. Our handiwork is designed to extend – not replace – key SharePoint technology investments.

    Press Contact Information

    • Mike Fitzmaurice
    • 425-452-3818
    • mikefitz@nintex.com
    • More Informaiton: www.nintex.com
  • Open Text

    Open Text (Windows Azure Platform)

    • Business solutions combine the power of the Microsoft platform with Open Text’s understanding of ECM, addressing productivity, ROI, compliance and governance requirements.
    • Frameworks that embrace and extend Microsoft SharePoint, and assist with deployment, management, and integration with corporate content repositories, and industry specific and process-based content applications.
    • Early adoption of Azure Cloud Services, Rights Management, and FAST Enterprise Search technologies. Industry-leading solutions for Microsoft Exchange and Windows file server content archiving, records management.

    Company Background

    • Open Text, a global leader in ECM, helps organizations manage and gain the true value of their business content, capture and preserve corporate memory, increase brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness.
    • Open Text helps control the cost and risk of content, make processes more agile, and empower people to make better decisions.
    • Open Text and Microsoft® provide real business products combining the power of the Microsoft platform with Open Text’s deep understanding of the Enterprise Content Management needs of large enterprises.

    Press Contact Information

  • Persistent Systems

    E-governance Solution (Windows Azure Platform)

    • Persistent Systems used the Windows Azure™ platform to develop a solution that would host its e-governance applications on the Internet through a Microsoft data center.

    Company Background

    • Persistent Systems provides software development services that help its business and public sector customers enhance their offerings.
    • Our primary offerings is an e-government solution that helps governments and agencies deliver services and interact with constituents electronically.
    • Headquartered in Pune, India, the company has 4,300 employees in Asia, Europe, and North America.

    Press Contact Information

  • PTC

    Windchill ProductPoint (Microsoft SharePoint)

    • Windchill ProductPoint extends the capabilities of Microsoft SharePoint®, allowing cross-functional teams to share and manage CAD and other structured data - greatly enhancing product development processes.
    • Windchill ProductPoint exemplifies social product development — the combination of social computing and Web 2.0 services, such as toaster pop-up notifications, presence detection, model notes wikis and collaboration spaces, with product development activities.
    • Windchill ProductPoint offers vaulting, sharing, visualizing and mark-up capabilities for product data through its support for multiple CAD authoring applications.

    Company Background

    • With 25 years of leading the industry in product innovation, PTC's solutions provide industry-proven product development with a well-recognized brand and over 50,000 satisfied customers around the world.
    • PTC is introducing the concept of "social product development" – the incorporation of Web 2.0 technologies, such as social computing tools, into the realm of product development.
    • PTC's products leverage the social computing functionality of SharePoint® to uniquely support social product development.

    Press Contact Information

  • QA

    Windows Azure Platform EMEA Training Programme (Windows Azure Platform)

    • In 2009, QA was selected by Microsoft to deliver a series of early adopter deep-dive instructor led training workshops on the Windows Azure Platform to over 100 developers at events across EMEA.
    • The project saw QA working very closely with the Windows Azure Platform Product Team in Microsoft Corp to ensure the training content provided delegates with an early opportunity to gain a deep dive into the nature and benefits of the Windows Azure Platform.
    • The intensive instructor-led workshop focused on three key services of the Azure Platform – Windows Azure, SQL Azure and .NET Services; and incorporated hands-on-lab exercises specifically around, Building Services using Windows Azure, Building Web Applications with Windows Azure, Building Applications using SQL Azure and Building Applications using the .NET Service Bus.

    Company Background

    • 2009 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Award winner in Learning Solutions, Impact Partner of the Year
    • QA provides leading-edge Microsoft developer training courses in Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio Team System 2010, Silverlight 3 and Windows Azure Services and has delivered early adopter Partner Readiness training for Microsoft on these products globally.
    • QA is the largest CPLS provider in the UK, with over 60% share of the Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) market. Approximately 1 in every 10 people in the world who take a Microsoft Official Course take it with QA. We are also a market leader in project management, service management, and management and personal development training.

    Press Contact Information

    • Emma Jackson, Marketing Communications Manager
    • emma.jackson@qa.com
    • +44 20 7656 8403
    • More Informaiton: www.qa.com
  • Quark

    Quark Promote (Windows Azure Platform)

    • Quark Promote is an online service for owners and employees of small and mid-sized businesses who need an easy and affordable way to develop professional marketing materials to promote and grow their businesses.
    • Using Quark Promote's free design software, anyone can create business cards, postcards, flyers, and other materials in a few easy steps and then order affordable, high-quality printed materials by mail or for pickup at a printer near them so they can save time and focus on their customers.
    • Quark Promote can be downloaded for free from www.quarkpromote.com.

    Company Background

    • Quark® Inc. is a leading provider of publishing software for professional designers, small and mid-sized businesses, and large organizations.
    • Two decades ago, QuarkXPress® changed the course of traditional publishing. For over 25 years, Quark has provided software to support collaborative workflows and automated publishing across multiple channels.
    • Today, Quark is revolutionizing publishing again by setting new standards in XML-based publishing across print, the Web, and digital media and by helping small and mid-sized businesses promote themselves easily, professionally, and affordably.

    Press Contact Information

    • Sarah Rector
    • 303.894.3753
    • srector@quark.com
    • More Informaiton: www.quark.com
  • Seesmic

    Seesmic for Windows (Windows 7)

    • Seesmic for Windows provides the best user experience for reading updates on Twitter and sharing text and pictures.
    • The application presents the Twitter updates in a multicolumn rich experience allowing unique tracking of everything being said about the topics users are interested in on Twitter. It also helps track brands and trending topics in the user’s space.
    • Seesmic for Windows will also become a developer platform enabling the creation of plugins like in a browser. We were unable to do this on the Adobe Air platform so this is a big improvement.

    Company Background

    • Seesmic is a leading provider of desktop social software experiences.
    • Seesmic has developed client applications on computers and phones that provide user experiences for users of online social services (Twitter and Facebook).
    • Its main application, Seesmic desktop, is one of the most popular on Twitter with over 3 million downloads.

    Press Contact Information

    • Loic Le Meur
    • 415-596-2664
    • press@seesmic.com
    • More Informaiton: www.seesmic.com
  • Siemens AG / Siemens IT Solutions and Services

    Siemens Common Remote Service Platform - Software Distribution Service (Windows Azure Platform)

    • Remote Service for industrial solutions has been applied successfully since many years especially by high tech companies and manufacturers of medical devices. Siemens IT Solutions and Services has developed the common Remote Service Platform (cRSP) to address market needs for remote services.
    • The new cloud.based cRSP distribution service provides data transfer (e.g. software packages, virus patterns, documents) from a central location to appliances in various world-wide locations with high-scalable throughput in a secure and cost effective way based on Microsoft Azure Platform.

    Company Background

    • Siemens IT Solutions and Services is an internationally leading provider of IT solutions and services. It covers the entire IT service chain from a single source, from consulting to system integration, right through to the management of IT infrastructures.
    • Siemens IT Solutions and Services extends the range of offerings of the other Siemens Sectors to include IT solutions. With its comprehensive know-how and industry-specific knowledge, Siemens IT Solutions and Services provides measurable added value for its customers.
    • Siemens IT Solutions and Services employs more than 41,000 people and posts annual sales of about 5.3 billion euros.

    Press Contact Information

  • SnapFlow

    SnapFlow (Silverlight)

    • Microsoft Silverlight-based drag-and-drop editing environment, combined with powerful workflow capabilities, give you the ability to automate any business process and dramatically reduce development time.
    • Integrate your applications into the existing data infrastructure and quickly build dynamic web capabilities.
    • State-of-the-art platform, all hosted on Microsoft Azure, to deliver a highly scalable, secure and robust platform.

    Company Background

    • SnapFlow provides the fastest and most efficient way to build and deliver workflow applications in the cloud.
    • SnapFlow is a 100% Web-based platform, delivering the ease of use, comprehensive features and flexibility required to automate any business process. SnapFlow empowers technically-minded individuals in small to large enterprises that have specific application needs which cannot easily be solved with packaged software or custom application development.
    • Founded in 2007, SnapFlow is based out of Portland, Oregon.

    Press Contact Information

    • Samad Wahedi
    • 503-252-5000
    • samad@myprocess.com
    • More Informaiton: www.snapflow.com
  • sobees

    sobees (Windows Azure Platform)

    • sobees is the perfect companion for online social networks. Should you use Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Flickr, Youtube, etc, sobees offers an easy unified user experience to access, organize and share information, both on the web or right on your desktop.
    • What are your friends doing right now? Did they share any picture? Are they enjoying a good meal in a café close to you? Stay up-to-date with all these activities thanks to sobees.
    • And in addition to your friends, sobees lets you search in real time all the messages people are sharing about your brand, your favorite sports team, a movie star, and so on, so that you will be the first one informed if anything that matters to you happens.

    Company Background

    • sobees Ltd (a deskNET SA company) is a Swiss company created in 2007 by Francois Bochatay and Vincent Rithner.
    • With its innovative software, sobees is leading the trend to aggregate instant and social networking sites. sobees is specialized in software development using .NET, WPF, Silverlight and cloud (Azure) technologies.
    • sobees has been launched at Demo 09 and won the Best of Swiss Silverlight 2009. sobees has also been awarded the CTI Start-Up Label from Swiss Confederation’s Innovation Promotion Agency.

    Press Contact Information

    • Francois Bochatay, CEO
    • francois@sobees.com
    • 650-319-8301
    • More Informaiton: sobees.com/press
  • SpeechCycle, Inc.

    RPA OnDemand™ for Windows Azure (Windows Azure Platform)

    • RPA OnDemand for Windows Azure is a unified service creation environment for building, powering and managing Rich Phone Applications (RPAs)
    • RPA Compose for Visual Studio and RPA Transact for Windows Azure leverages the power of Microsoft Windows and the .NET framework to build on-demand voice applications that have powered hundreds of millions of calls
    • RPA OnDemand for Windows Azure lowers the cost of implementing and managing complex voice-based workflow solutions by eliminating on-premises capital expenditures and moving the operations and management of the system into the cloud

    Company Background

    • SpeechCycle is a 2009 Deloitte Fast500 winner, and is the 67th fastest growing company in North America.
    • SpeechCycle is a leader in providing innovative call center automation technology to implement natural language call routing capabilities and resolve complex technical support problems over the telephone without live agent assistance.
    • SpeechCycle is the leading provider of RPAs that powers innovative voice-based solutions for more than 50 enterprise deployments across more than 35 contact centers in North America and around the world.

    Press Contact Information

  • Storm Ideas

    Colaab (Silverlight)

    • Colaab offers any business or organization secure, real time collaboration through a rich, simple user interface that streamlines work and cuts down wasted hours spent in meetings.
    • The real-time collaboration works much in the same way as if users were all sitting together at the same table.
    • The great thing about high resolution images is their incredible detail and clarity. The bad thing is the time it takes them to load and share with others. colaab removes this problem thanks to DeepZoom.

    Company Background

    • Storm Ideas, based in Edinburgh, Scotland, was formed in 2008 with the purpose of building web applications that allow communities, networks and businesses to connect and collaborate.
    • We are passionate about the viral framework of social media and opportunities networking sites represent to connect web users.
    • We are inspired by Silverlight as an enabler for creating richer applications within the browser and we look to create system that provide new ways of understanding and interacting with information.

    Press Contact Information

  • SugarCRM

    Sugar Professional™ (Windows Azure Platform)

    • Sugar Professional™ helps companies align marketing, sales, support and executive management.
    • Marketing can manage all campaigns across channels in Sugar and feed qualified leads to the appropriate sales teams with the click of the button. Sales people receive the tools and information to prioritize and close more deals. Customer support can view customer assets and account information to better handle customer requests.
    • Executives gain visibility into the return on investment of marketing campaigns, up-to-date sales forecasts, and customer satisfaction levels through advanced reporting functionality.

    Company Background

    • SugarCRM is the world's leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software. Founded as an open source project in 2004, SugarCRM applications have been downloaded over five million times and currently serve over 500,000 users in 75 languages.
    • Over 5,000 customers have chosen SugarCRM's On-Site and Cloud Computing services over lock-in based, proprietary alternatives.
    • In the last year, SugarCRM has been recognized for its customer success and product innovation by CRM Magazine, InfoWorld, Customer Interaction Solutions and Intelligent Enterprise.

    Press Contact Information

    • Dana Testa, Director of Field Marketing
    • 408-454 6900
    • More Informaiton: www.sugarcrm.com
  • T-Systems

    Stromboxx (Windows Azure Platform)

    • Today smart power grids focus on smart metering and intelligent grid switching. With Stromboxx we have gone beyond these basic services and showed what is possible with metering at the single device.
    • Companies will save thousands of dollars by just switch light and standby-consumptions smartly.
    • If there is a critical mass of users at such a smart grid with lots of intelligent devices, we can provide services based on Azure such as demand response for energy suppliers or connect multiple small renewable energy sources to a virtual power plant.

    Company Background

    • Drawing on a global infrastructure of data centers and networks, T-Systems operates information and communication technology (ICT) systems for multinational corporations and public sector institutions. On this basis, Deutsche Telekom's corporate customers arm provides integrated solutions for the networked future of business and society.
    • Some 46,000 employees at T-Systems combine industry expertise and ICT innovations to add significant value to customers’ core business all over the world.
    • The corporate customers arm generated revenue of around EUR 9.3 billion in the 2008 financial year.

    Press Contact Information

    • Albert Hold
    • +49 (0)69 66531-1442
    • info@t-systems.com
    • More Informaiton: www.t-systems.com
  • Tencent

    QQ (Windows 7)

    • QQ is the most popular IM in China with over 500M registered users and 80M concurrent users.
    • The new QQ client has been developed using WPF and Windows 7 APIs. As a result, the user experience is improved with better usability, animation and 3D effects.
    • In Windows 7 users can also manipulate QQ through multi-touch.

    Company Background

    • Tencent is a leading provider of Internet and mobile & telecommunications value-added services in China.
    • Tencent has a strategic goal of providing users with a one-stop online life service.
    • Tencent's Internet platforms QQ, QQ.com, QQ Games, and PaiPai.com have brought together China's largest Internet community.

    Press Contact Information

    • Nathan Liu
    • +86 13911802198
    • nathanliu@tencent.com
    • More Informaiton: im.qq.com
  • Thuzi, LLC

    Viral Social Media Solutions (Windows Azure Platform)

    • Thuzi develops customized viral marketing solutions, utilizing a variety of technologies that engage users, deliver 'planned' connection tracks and measure results.
    • Thuzi creates smart applications to leverage all aspects of the social media infrastructure and produce specific outputs, which map to business objectives.
    • As a leader in high growth enterprise-level social media campaigns, Thuzi ensures maximum scalability by using Microsoft's Azure Platform and Tools.

    Company Background

    • Thuzi activates targeted social media strategies for the Enterprise; specializing in brand awareness, market engagement, sales growth and business intelligence.
    • The Thuzi team has a wealth of in-depth global business experience, ensuring that our social media strategies are fully aligned with a client's marketing plans and business objectives.
    • Thuzi clients include global sports brands, apparel manufacturers, financial services firms and international hospitality businesses.

    Press Contact Information

    • Scott Blackburn
    • 813-962-0220
  • Total Computer Group

    Total Enforcement™ (Windows Azure Platform)

    • Total Enforcement is a Computer Aided Dispatch/Records Management System (CAD/RMS) comprised of an extensive collection of functional modules and utilities which can be configured to support virtually any subset of operational requirements throughout an agency.
    • Total Enforcement’s core technology leverages a role-based security model which ensures the timeliness, accuracy, and reliability of real time information.
    • Total Enforcement gives law enforcement agencies the power to collect, process and access information in real time – from virtually anywhere.

    Company Background

    • Founded in 1988 as a systems integration, services, and maintenance firm, Total Computer Group has grown to become one of the most respected computer technology solution providers and application development firms in the United States.
    • Total Computer is dedicated to building and maintaining systems founded on our extensive, broad-based knowledge of existing and emerging technologies.
    • Our clients count on Total Computer Group for complete end-to-end solutions, whether installing mission-critical technology, implementing the Total Enforcement RMS or providing reliable support services.

    Press Contact Information

  • Vembu Technologies®

    StoreGrid® (Windows Azure Platform)

    • Vembu’s solutions help service providers & businesses leverage the power of Windows Azure for off-site data backups.
    • StoreGrid for Service Providers allows an MSP (Managed Services Provider) to set up a profitable & recurring revenue generating online backup business using Windows Azure.
    • Businesses can backup directly to Windows Azure or backup locally and replicate the backed up data to Windows Azure.

    Company Background

    • Founded in 2004, Vembu Technologies is an established leader in providing flexible, reliable, and cost-effective backup solutions.
    • Vembu's flagship product, StoreGrid, is a network-based disk-to-disk software solution for backing up desktops and servers and is currently running on more than 100,000 computers worldwide.
    • StoreGrid’s Service Provider Edition powers the Managed Online Backup Services of over 1,500 service providers across the world.

    Press Contact Information

    • Lakshmanan (Lux) Narayan
    • 432-614-0159
    • More Informaiton: www.vembu.com
  • Wipro Technologies

    B2B Integration Solution - Energy Sector (Windows Azure Platform)

    • The B2B Integration solution, developed for a Large Energy Customer, exposes a set of Business Services on the Windows Azure platform that can be consumed by end customer applications or devices to place orders and view order and invoice information.
    • Provides a low entry barrier and cost effective, standards based solution for small and medium sized companies who cannot invest in an expensive EDI infrastructure.
    • Enables seamless integration with the on premise BizTalk based order processing system which interacts with an on premise SAP system to place orders and generate invoices.

    Company Background

    • Strategic Alliance Partner to Microsoft with 10+ years of successful relationship
    • Global provider of IT Services, Outsourced R&D, Infrastructure Outsourcing, Business Process Services, and Business Consulting
    • World’s largest third-party provider of R&D services and the world’s first PCMM and CMMi level company

    Press Contact Information

    • Ravi Kant Gaur
    • ravi.gaur@wipro.com
    • More Informaiton: www.wipro.com