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Bell is Canada's largest communications company, providing consumers and business with solutions to all their communications needs, including Bell Mobility wireless, high-speed Bell Internet, Bell Satellite TV and Bell Fibe TV, Bell Home Phone local and long distance, and Bell Business Markets IP-broadband and information and communications technology (ICT) services.
The Bell Mental Health Initiative is a multi-year charitable program that promotes mental health across Canada via the Bell Let's Talk anti-stigma campaign and support for community care, research and workplace best practices. To learn more, please visit bell.ca/letstalk.
Bell is wholly owned by BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE). For Bell product and service information, please visit www.bell.ca. For BCE corporate information, please visit www.bce.ca.
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
Sapphire, Randstad Canada’s IT staffing division, is the country’s largest provider of Information Technology staffing services. Our specialized recruitment experts help top Canadian companies find, hire, manage and retain the most qualified IT professionals for contract and permanent positions across all technologies, levels and platforms. We are committed to filling more roles, more often, with better candidates than the competition.
For more information, and to find out how Sapphire Canada can help turn your staffing initiatives into a competitive advantage, contact us at sapphireca.com.
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.
At Microsoft our mission has never wavered, and today we continue to help people and businesses around the world reach their full potential. It’s a tremendous challenge, because what we create has to be the best for every business owner, family, IT manager, developer and partner…not for just a few. But it lets us drive a scale of innovation unmatched in the world.
We know that unless we’re tuned in to what our customers and partners care about, we can’t create products and services that help them get where they want to go. And getting there needs to be easy, intuitive and familiar. By building products that simplify the way people’s lives work takes a lot of the work out of everything they do – creating and connecting, on the job or at play.
We’re involved in the world beyond desktops and code, though. Improving and extending access to education, supporting job training and fostering innovation are all part of our work. We protect the online safety and privacy of individuals, families and businesses. And our decades-long, multi-million-dollar support of local and global charities remains strong.
Microsoft continues to raise the bar for ourselves, to deliver on bigger promises. As a result, more than a billion people choose us every day to be part of their dreams and daydreams, their successes today and tomorrow. It’s more than we ever imagined…so just imagine what’s next.
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“Simplifying the business of technology … together”
As Canada’s largest privately owned and operated IT services provider and PC systems integrator, Compugen offers practical, real-world solutions and a comprehensive range of support services. We are focused on the design and implementation of innovative hardware, software and networking solutions to meet the needs of Canadian business and government. Our goal is to manage rapidly changing information technologies that will drive and support sustainable business results for our customers.
Compugen provides customers with:
• Solutions including: Microsoft Infrastructure, Communications and Security, Print Management, Datacentre Hosting, Virtualization, and Storage
• Services including: Deployment, Field (on-site) Services, Managed Services, Technology Lifecycle Management, Fleet Management, Software Licensing and Asset Management
• Product Services including: ISO warehousing, a complete configuration & logistics organization encompassing remarketing and recycling of end of life technology and Multi-Vendor Financing Services provided through Compugen Finance
At HP we believe technology can create new possibilities for people around the world—from high school students and soccer moms to budding entrepreneurs, government officials, and business executives. We’re the largest IT company on the planet, with 304,000 employees working in approximately 170 countries around the world. And we are able to leverage our size and scope to deliver real value in the products and services we offer. Our healthcare solutions are helping hospitals reduce errors and insurers bring down costs. Our TouchSmart products are helping individuals with autism communicate for the very first time. Our digital printing solutions are revolutionizing the publishing industry by allowing publishers to print individual books on demand. And that’s just the beginning.
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.
Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a global leader in business intelligence (BI) technology. MicroStrategy provides integrated reporting, analysis, and monitoring software that helps leading organizations worldwide make better business decisions every day. Companies choose MicroStrategy for its ease-of-use, sophisticated analytics, and superior data and user scalability. MicroStrategy offers free reporting software that can be downloaded from its Website. More information about MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) is available at www.microstrategy.com.
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.
IT organizations face significant challenges. The need to control costs, operate with less money and respond quickly to the needs of the business is necessary to remain competitive in today’s global market. Yet most organizations spend approximately 80 percent of their resources on operations and legacy systems management.
What if you could shift your focus from just keeping the lights on to innovation? What if you could harness technology to drive efficiency throughout your organization? Dell offers open, capable and affordable solutions to help you gain the IT agility and flexibility you need. We are just like you. And our own Dell journey has resulted in a total cost savings of close to half a billion dollars. The lion’s share of that money will be reinvested in innovative development and new applications.
To learn more about how Dell can help give you the Power to Do More visit www.dell.ca/enterprise.
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.
WPCG is a recruitment firm that specializes in the provision of information technology, finance and supply chain professionals to top-tier organizations throughout Western Canada. We separate ourselves from the competition through our commitments to exceptional customer service and a rapid delivery of qualified resources, as well as our selection of value-added services offered to our partner organizations and candidates alike. Please visit www.wpcg.ca, or contact one of our Recruitment Consultants at 1-877-294-1222 to learn more.
Sierra Systems is an IT professional services company that offers business technology solutions that span the organization, including business re-engineering & strategy, systems integration, technology implementation and application managed services. Sierra solutions are based on unsurpassed industry expertise & experience, and proven with a 45-year track record of longevity, financial success and sound management. Aligned to the future, Sierra looks ahead to what's next after today's problems are solved, providing our clients access to the best and brightest talent, proven industry best practices and thought leadership. We are committed to becoming the leader in client satisfaction and reference-ability through quality people and excellent service.
Websense, Inc., a global leader in unified Web, data, and email content security, delivers the best 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 software, appliances, and Security-as-a-Service (SaaS), Websense unified content security helps organizations take advantage of powerful new communication, collaboration, and Web 2.0 business tools while protecting from advanced persistent threats, preventing the loss of confidential information, and enforcing Internet use and security policies.
Founded in 1946 to provide financial services to people from all walks of life, Vancouver City Savings Credit Union (Vancity) has grown to become the largest credit union in Canada, with more than $14.5 billion in assets. Vancity serves 418,000 members through 59 branches located throughout Greater Vancouver, the Fraser Valley, Squamish and Victoria. Vancity employs nearly 2,400 employees and has been consistently recognized as one of the top employers and workplaces in both British Columbia and Canada. Vancity's vision to achieve positive social and environmental change and its focus on community leadership is achieved through the Shared Success program. Each year Vancity gives back a significant portion of net profits—30 per cent since 2000—to members and communities.
At Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) customers come first and an integral part of our DNA is creating long-lasting customer partnerships and working with them to identify their needs and provide solutions that support their success. The concept of solutions being driven to address specific customer challenges has been with Cisco since its inception. Husband and wife Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner, both working for Stanford University, wanted to email each other from their respective offices located in different buildings but were unable to due to technological shortcomings. A technology had to be invented to deal with disparate local area protocols; and as a result of solving their challenge - the multi-protocol router was born. Since then Cisco has shaped the future of the Internet by creating unprecedented value and opportunity for our customers, employees, investors and ecosystem partners and has become the worldwide leader in networking - transforming how people connect, communicate.
Coast Capital Savings is Canada's second largest credit union with total assets under administration of $12.9 billion, more than 425,000 members and 50 branches in the Metro Vancouver, Fraser Valley, and Vancouver Island regions of British Columbia. Product innovations include Canada's first free chequing account from a full-service financial institution and a high-interest, no-fee savings account.
Named as one of Canada's 50 Best Employers and 50 Best Managed Companies for 2010, Coast Capital Savings is designated a Caring Company by Imagine Canada.
Deloitte, one of Canada's leading professional services firms, provides audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services through more than 7,600 people in 57 offices. Deloitte operates in Québec as Samson Bélair/Deloitte & Touche s.e.n.c.r.l. Deloitte & Touche LLP, an Ontario Limited Liability Partnership, is the Canadian member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited.
Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, a UK private company limited by guarantee, and its network of member firms, each of which is a legally separate and independent entity. Please see www.deloitte.com/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited and its member firms.