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Established in 1985, Microsoft Canada Inc. is the Canadian subsidiary of Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq "MSFT"), the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.
Recognized as one of Canada's Great Places to Work, Microsoft Canada provides nationwide sales, marketing, consulting and local support services. Headquartered in Mississauga, Microsoft Canada has nine regional offices across the country dedicated to empowering people through great software. Microsoft Canada is a creative workplace which attracts the best and brightest talent in the IT industry who bring an ever evolving vision of the future to reality.
Microsoft software helps businesses and consumers to reach their full potential, however they define it. Woven throughout daily life, whether it be work or play, Microsoft technologies flourish when they get into the hands of millions of Canadian partners and customers enabling innovation often in new ways.
Microsoft Canada is equally passionate about committing to Canadian communities. Since its inception, Microsoft Canada has had a corporate giving philosophy that goes beyond financial donations to champion inventive forms of philanthropy. For more information on how Microsoft Canada has joined forces with organizations across Canada to make a difference and invest in local communities visit: www.microsoft.com/canada/potential/default.aspx.
Q9 Networks is Canada's leading provider of outsourced data centre services for organizations with mission-critical IT operations. Q9 operates 10 state-of-the-art data centres across Canada, including its newest facility in Kamloops, British Columbia. The other nine data centres are located in Calgary, Alberta, Toronto, Ontario and Brampton, Ontario. Q9 provides data centre services to approximately 400 customers, including some of Canada’s largest and best-known companies.
Q9 designs, builds and operates its data centres to meet the most demanding IT infrastructure requirements, including the increased power and cooling demands of today's high density computing devices. Q9 data centres include such features as outside air cooling capability to maximize energy efficiency, biometric security systems, multiple connections to the Internet, redundant power, HVAC and fire suppression systems, as well as 7x24 on-site security and technical support teams.
Q9 services, including: co-location, bandwidth, dedicated servers, firewalls, load balancing, virtual private networking (VPN) and back-up/restore, enable the rapid provisioning and scalability of client infrastructure.
IBM is the world's leading information technology company, celebrating 100 years of presence in 2011. IBM helps clients and businesses innovate and deliver increased value by combining forward thinking, business insight, research and industry experience with the latest technologies. Discover how IBM works with clients to build smarter enterprises by offering a full portfolio of instrumented, interconnected and intelligent solutions. For more information about IBM, visit
www.ibm.ca
Allstream is a Canadian leader in IP communications and the only national provider that works exclusively with business customers. We leverage our nationwide high-performance network to help businesses of all sizes unify the many ways they connect. Our innovative solutions help businesses serve their customers better, improve efficiency and productivity, and maximize payback on communications and IT resources.
Driven by the expertise and entrepreneurial spirit of our 2,500 employees across Canada, Allstream operates a 30,000 km fibre-optic backbone network that combines advanced IP connectivity, digital switching, Ethernet-featured services and the latest security technologies. We help businesses compete more profitably by converging voice, data and multimedia communications over a reliable end-to-end IP infrastructure that delivers exceptional quality of service between metropolitan centres from coast to coast. The Allstream portfolio includes the highest-capacity data and Internet connections, as well as unified communications and managed services solutions – all flexibly designed for the needs of large, mid-market and small businesses.
For more information on Allstream services and solutions, please visit our website at www.allstream.com.
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Fortinet delivers unified threat management and specialized security solutions that block today’s sophisticated threats. Unified threat management (UTM) is the new standard for network security, and Fortinet is the #1 market leader and pioneer. Our award winning consolidated architecture enables our customers to deploy fully integrated security technologies in a single device, delivering increased performance, improved protection, and reduced costs. Purpose-built hardware and software
provide the high performance and complete content protection our customers need to stay abreast of a constantly evolving threat landscape. Our customers rely on Fortinet to protect their constantly evolving networks in every industry and region in the world. They deploy a robust defense-in-depth strategy that improves their security posture, simplifies their security infrastructure, and reduces their overall cost of ownership.
Randstad Canada is the Canadian leader for staffing, recruitment and HR Services. As the only fully integrated staffing company in the country, we understand the recruitment needs and demands of employers and job seekers across all levels and industries. Through our insightful knowledge of local
markets, employment trends and global network of recruitment experts, we are shaping the Canadian world of work. Visit randstad.ca.
Avanade provides business technology services that connect insight, innovation and expertise in Microsoft technologies to help customers realize results. Avanade's services and solutions help improve performance, productivity and sales for organizations in all industries. The company applies Microsoft expertise from its global network of consultants, drawing on the right mix of onshore, offshore and nearshore skills, which together are designed to help deliver results faster, at lower cost and with less risk. Avanade, which is majority owned by Accenture, was founded in 2000 by Accenture and Microsoft Corporation and serves customers in more than 26 countries worldwide with more than 12,000 professionals.
Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a leading provider of enterprise software platforms for business intelligence (BI), mobile intelligence, and social intelligence applications. MicroStrategy's BI platform enables leading organizations worldwide to analyze the vast amounts of data stored across their enterprises to make better business decisions. Companies choose MicroStrategy BI for its ease-of-use, sophisticated analytics, and superior data and user scalability. The MicroStrategy BI platform delivers actionable information to business users via the web and mobile devices. MicroStrategy's mobile intelligence platform helps companies and organizations build, deploy, and maintain mobile apps across a range of solutions by embedding intelligence, transactions, and multimedia into apps. MicroStrategy's social intelligence platform includes a number of applications that help enterprises harness the power of social networks for marketing and e-commerce, as well as a suite of free "friendly" consumer apps that use MicroStrategy's enterprise technologies. MicroStrategy's social intelligence platform helps companies leverage the value of social networks to better understand and engage their customers and fans. The MicroStrategy Cloud offering combines MicroStrategy and third-party software, hardware, and services to enable rapid, cost-effective development of hosted BI, mobile, and social applications. To learn more about MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR), visit www.microstrategy.com
HP is a technology company that operates in more than 170 countries around the world. We explore how technology and services can help people and companies address their problems and challenges, and realize their possibilities, aspirations and dreams. We apply new thinking and ideas to create more simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology, continuously improving the way our customers live and work.
No other company offers as complete a technology product, services and business solutions portfolio as HP. We provide infrastructure and business offerings that span from handheld devices to some of the world's most powerful supercomputer installations. We offer consumers a wide range of products and services from digital photography to digital entertainment and from computing to home printing. This comprehensive portfolio helps us match the right products, services and solutions to our customers' specific needs.
Where others see challenges, we see opportunities. And we can’t wait to show you what we think of next. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at www.hp.com.
TELUS (TSX: T, T.A; NYSE: TU) is a leading national telecommunications company in Canada, with $10.3 billion of annual revenue and 12.6 million customer connections including 7.2 million wireless subscribers, 3.6 million wireline network access lines, 1.3 million Internet subscribers and more than 450,000 TELUS TV customers.
TELUS’ business and product evolution reflects the changing priorities of today’s business-minded CIO. We are helping CIOs use advances in technology to be more than technology to the business. TELUS Cloud Services are an excellent example. Our cloud portfolio fuses four core strengths of our existing business – network, data centres, security and mobility – and brings together our legacy of expertise in connecting, managing and securing data. Leveraging our reliable national network, our state-of-the-art intelligent data centres, multi-layered security and mobility strength, we help CIOs access infrastructure and applications immediately, with minimal risk, empowering them to enable new levels of business agility.
Learn about BlackBerry® and the enterprise applications that can make your organization more productive. BlackBerry® Mobile Fusion is an IT friendly Mobile Device Management solution with advanced security features that allow mobile users to access enterprise email, voice systems and business critical applications wirelessly. With BlackBerry® Mobile Voice System, help ensure mobile professionals never miss a call by extending office desk phone functionality to BlackBerry® smartphones and take advantage of voice over WiFi. Amplify your BlackBerry experience with the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet.
Founded in 1982, Softtek is a global provider of process-driven IT solutions with more than 6,000 associates across 30 offices in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia. With nine Global Delivery Centers in Mexico, China, Brazil, Argentina and Spain, Softtek helps improve time-to-business-solution, lower costs of existing applications, deliver better engineered and tested applications, and produce predictable outcomes for top-tier corporations in over 20 countries.
Through on-site, on-shore and its trademarked Global Nearshore™ service delivery models, Softtek teams with CIOs to constantly increase the business value of IT. Softtek is the creator and a leader of the nearshore industry.
Affinity Systems specializes in the design, development, implementation and support of innovative software solutions for companies worldwide. With sophisticated, high-quality solutions, we help businesses to improve their competitive edge through effective use of the latest technology. Saving you time, resources and money, while delivering immediate value and sustainable long-term advantage, is only part of what we do. Our talented software development team will cater to your unique needs and is committed to finding the best solution for your business.
We specialize in providing total software solutions tailored to your needs, and we understand how technology and requirements influence each other. We have played a crucial role in many important technological developments for leading edge companies often serving as our client’s in-house development staff, working on new product development, porting applications to new platforms, developing custom applications, or building system interfaces. Our team of experienced project managers, analysts, system architects, GUI designers, software developers, technical writers, and quality assurance specialists, brings insight and a wealth of knowledge to software development. For more information about Affinity Systems, please visit www.affsys.com
Websense, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBSN), a global leader in unified web security, email security, and data loss prevention (DLP) solutions, delivers the best content security for modern threats at the lowest total cost of ownership to tens of thousands of enterprise, mid-market and small organizations around the world. Distributed through a global network of channel partners and delivered as appliance-based software or Security-as-a-Service (SaaS), Websense content security solutions help organizations leverage web 2.0 and cloud-based communication, collaboration, and social media, while protecting from advanced persistent threats and modern malware, preventing the loss of confidential information, and enforcing internet use and security policies.
Websense is headquartered in San Diego, California with offices around the world. For more information, visit www.websense.com. Follow Websense on Twitter: www.twitter.com/websense. Join the discussion on Facebook: www.facebook.com/websensecanada.
About Us
With its suite of Business Communication Solutions (Data Centre and Managed IT Services, Managed Voice and Connectivity Services), Cogeco Data Services supplies its customers with the fast, reliable and secure ability to access, manage, move and store large amounts of data worldwide. The Company's wholly-owned, all optical, redundant network and secure, ‘always on’, data centres provide some of Canada’s largest companies and public sector organizations with near limitless bandwidth and secure facilities for hosting and storing mission critical data.
What We're Really About
Service. Innovation.
In our opinion, when you’re equally committed to both, you can provide value - real value - to your customers. So how do we define service? Being customer obsessed. That means listening to client needs, and acting on them. And innovation? Being technology obsessed. Technology is constantly improving, and as it does, we are constantly exploring new territories to make our services even better.
Our commitment to service and innovation means nurturing a culture of insatiable curiosity. Disruptive thinking. Real teamwork. And meaningful, productive dialogue, amongst ourselves and our customers.
Cogeco Data Services is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cogeco Cable Inc. For more information, visit cogecodata.com
Many organizations operate document intensive business processes involving large quantities of faxes, emails, forms, or hardcopies. These processes are frequently inefficient, labor intensive, inaccurate, and expensive. Often organizations also have retention requirements, further complicating the document management challenge and introducing additional cost.
At DataBind we specialize in solving these problems – using SharePoint 2010 we can provide a fully digital end-to-end ECM system providing document intake, processing, storage, retention, and search capabilities. Our award-winning solutions provide clients with improved process efficiencies, substantial cost savings, and greatly simplified storage and retrieval. Additionally support for data scan/capture, flexible processing workflow capabilities, cloud storage, and integration with existing business systems ensures that the solution can be tailored to meet any requirements.
Give us a call today, and we’ll be happy to discuss how SharePoint and DataBind can help streamline your business -- DataBind