Nimbus Partners - From strategy to reality

www.nimbuspartners.com Understanding the end-to-end processes of an organization is at the heart of delivering high performance, compliance and robust operations. The challenge is to develop a process framework that is common to these goals.

Control 2007 enables organizations to capture, analyze and communicate a common set of processes that can be used to manage and transform your business. The use of Control 2007 dramatically reduces the time, effort and cost required to deliver effective process management.

SigmaFlow - Best Practices Execution System

www.sigmaflow.com SigmaFlow's enterprise and desktop software solutions elevate corporate process improvement and best practice initiatives to a significantly higher level, reducing learning curves and project completion time, while improving results and cost efficiency.

SigmaFlow allows capture and implementation of best practices, and uniquely aggregates data from multiple projects into a central repository for result analysis and reporting. Our "online/offline" architecture allows project teams to work where they are most efficient.

With SigmaFlow’s graphical Roadmaps as the basis of your project workspace, your task-specific references and tools are LINKED.

The Roadmap: illustrates what to do next, automatically populates status to a Repository, and provides the best standardization of your work.

The Repository: provides executives real-time knowledge of where each initiative is, for portfolio reporting of project status, cumulative financial savings and multi-project resource allocation.

The Result: shorter project cycle time, higher quality, easier communications, and improved knowledge transfer.

Seadragon - Now Microsoft Photosynth

labs.live.com/photosynth/ Photosynth is a collaboration between Microsoft and the University of Washington based on the groundbreaking research of Noah Snavely, Steve Seitz, and Richard Szeliski.

The Photosynth Technology Preview is a taste of the newest - and, most exciting - way to view photos on a computer. The software takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and then displays the photos in a reconstructed three-dimensional space, showing you how each one relates to the next. Now think of doing that at Internet scale! This is a 3D view of the world.

In Microsoft photo collections, you can access gigabytes of photos in seconds, view a scene from nearly any angle, find similar photos with a single click, and zoom in to make the smallest detail as big as your monitor.

Simply amazing. I might try doing this for CSC HQ EMEA

Android - Open Source Handset Platform

code.google.com/android/ The Open Handset Alliance, a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies, is developing Android: the first complete, open, and free mobile platform. To help developers get started developing new applications, Google is offering an early look at the Android Software Development Kit. The idea is, instead of one Google Handset GPhone, Android will allow hundreds or even thousands of GPhones.

Caucho Resin - Open source high performance Java-PHP solutions

The app server that serves Salesforce.com. www.caucho.com Caucho Technology is an engineering company devoted to reliable open source and high performance Java-PHP solutions. Caucho products include Resin application server, Hessian web services and Quercus Java-PHP solutions. Caucho Technology was founded in 1998 and is based in La Jolla, California.

Caucho is a globally recognized leader in open source Java-PHP server technology that delivers fast and stable performance. Resin is the application server of choice for over 7500 companies including Fortune 500, innovative startups, government and educational institutions needing reliable and fast Java-PHP solutions.

Dave Moellenhoff, CTO of Salesforce.com, describes his experience with Resin...
"Salesforce.com has relied on Resin to run our market-leading CRM services for years. After evaluating competing products, we found Resin to be the most reliable, scalable and cost-effective solution.”

Azul Systems - Java Compute Appliance - 5x Faster - 50x Simpler

www.azulsystems.com Azul Systems is a global provider of enterprise server appliances that deliver compute and memory resources as a shared network service for transaction-intensive applications, such as those built on the Java platform.

Azul Compute Appliances enable transparent, massively scalable infrastructure to support the business priorities of today’s most demanding enterprise environments and deliver increased capabilities, capacity, and utilization at a fraction of the cost of traditional computing models.

Vanguard Software - Management Systems for the Intelligent Enterprise

www.vanguardsw.com Since 1995, Vanguard has helped thousands of companies in over 60 countries make better decisions by applying science to the planning process. Our methods go beyond data analysis to include tools and techniques for enterprise knowledge-capture, Web-based collaborative modeling, and strategic decision-making.

LiveOps - Leverage the Public as Call Center Agents

www.liveops.com LiveOps has provided leading companies with high-quality call center technology and services since 2000. We’ve successfully delivered thousands of call center programs to a wide variety of clients. And with more than 16,000 remotely-located independent contractor agents, we’ve moved aggressively into other industries, including food service, as well as retail and financial services.

Quite simply, LiveOps has changed the way people work together:

* By pioneering the distributed call center model, agents can be informed, scheduled, measured and motivated —no matter where they are located.
* Our technology has provided greater efficiency, flexibility and productivity to hundreds of our customers who have redefined the composition of their workforce.
* LiveOps customers pay only for the resources that they actually need.

By using a distributed call center—either as an alternative or complement to traditional centralized call centers — LiveOps technology provides tighter control, clearer visibility and greater performance than any alternative solution:

* Call center infrastructure capacity available on demand.
* Unique call routing and agent scoring system maximizes the utilization of your best agents.
* Workforce management optimizes capacity plans and distributed scheduling.
* Robust agent management applications.
* Analytics tools provide immediate visibility over every aspect of your contact center operations – no matter where resources are located.
* IVR/ASR offers constant flexibility in the use of automation or inbound or outbound Live Agents.

GlassFish - Java EE 5

www.glassfish.com The GlassFish community is building free, open source, production-quality, enterprise software. The main deliverables are an Application Server, the Java EE 5 Reference Implementation, and the Java Persistence API Reference Implementation, TopLink Essentials. The community also delivers Maven Repository, tools and much more.

Affinnova - From concept to launch

www.affinnova.com Whether the objective is to create a new product, reinvigorate an existing brand, or develop a breakthrough marketing plan, Affinnova's solutions enable marketers to generate and evaluate millions of viable options to find the best ones. Affinnova empowers marketers to unleash their imagination, and innovate with speed and confidence.

Affinnova's patented IDDEA (Interactive Discovery & Design by Evolutionary Algorithms) technology engages consumers to amplify and optimize marketers' ideas. From an initial set of marketers' inputs, IDDEA's "Darwinian" process interacts with consumers to evolve a desired endpoint, such as a new product concept or a new promotion event. Consumers' preferences provide the critical selection pressure, through which good ideas live to breed better ones, and weak ideas die out. In the end, IDDEA identifies the best possible ideas, and draws powerful consumer insights from the evolution process.

Seriosity - The enterprise solution for information overload

www.seriosity.com Seriosity's enterprise solutions use psychological and economic principles from multiplayer games to improve collaboration, innovation and productivity. The first use of our innovative approach is a robust solution to address information overload.

Attent with Serios is an enterprise productivity application inspired by multiplayer online games. It tackles the problem of information overload in corporate email using psychological and economic principles from successful games. Attent creates a synthetic economy with a currency (Serios) that enables users to attach value to an outgoing email to signal importance. It gives recipients the ability to prioritize messages and a reserve of currency that they can use to signal importance of their messages to others. Attent also provides a variety of tools that enable everyone to track and analyze communication patterns and information exchanges in the enterprise.

The lively marketplace of ideas and communication patterns that emerges from this economy offers new insights into collaboration, teamwork and goal alignment. The Seriosity solution to information overload will give your information workers more time, more thoughtful input and more insight so that they can be more productive.

endeavors - Application Streaming Specialists

www.endeavors.com Endeavors Technologies is the pioneer in Application Streaming technology, an exciting and radically new way of distributing software applications on demand. The company owns original patents and technology in the field. It is reported that Vodafone JP (Softbank) has the largest deployment of 350,000 users. The solution is claimed to "just work", and is reported to be very efficient. The Vodafone deployment is apparently running off just seven servers.

The company believes that application streaming will eventually replace conventional methods of software distribution and publishing. It provides any user on a network the access, reach, ease and flexibility of Internet delivery to existing, client-based applications, something most web developers only dream of.

Application streaming replaces thin client and network computing with a new model that radically reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO) for any organization. Application streaming harnesses the power of existing client machines to dramatically reduce the size and expense of virtual servers while providing a much better user experience, both improving customer satisfaction and lowering TCO.

Endeavor' solutions enable the rapid, cost-effective deployment and management of Windows-based applications that can be hosted within an enterprise or delivered through a software as a service (SaaS) model.

Microsoft SoftGrid - Application virtualization (Streaming)

blogs.technet.com/softgrid/ Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization is the only virtualization solution on the market to deliver applications that are never installed and are dynamically delivered, on demand. It dramatically improves IT efficiencies, enables much greater business agility and a rich end-user desktop experience. But does it work?

appStream - Stream Apps Now

www.appstream.com AppStream is a leading provider of technology for on-demand software distribution and software license management tools for the extended enterprise.

AppStream's on-demand application distribution and license management platform provides an optimal solution to serve the application management needs of enterprise environments, providing high productivity with controlled, guaranteed access to necessary applications from any Windows applications from any location at any time, including remote and mobile users.

* At Launch

Upon initial launch, AppStream streams only the application "startup block", enabling the user to launch the application and begin to work with it in seconds — much more quickly than solutions that require the entire application to be transferred and installed before it can be accessed.

* During Use

While the application is in use, AppStream's on-demand application streaming technology responds instantly to an end user's actual needs, transparently sending down additional application functions when the end user clicks on them. All streamed application functions persist across sessions. Because typical end users access only a fraction of an application's functions in normal use, bandwidth consumption is minimized — in most cases, AppStream's on-demand application streaming technology needs to stream less than ten percent of the application to support the end user's needs.

* Updating

Each time an end user launches an application, AppStream compares the local application with its server-side counterpart, seeking inconsistencies. Any discovered application updates are streamed to the user while the application is still in use — a targeted update process that focuses only on the parts of the application the end user actually needs. This process can be extended to periodically check for damaged blocks of code and automatically repair the application.

* Predictive Streaming

AppStream's application streaming technology uses sophisticated predictive algorithms to make the on-demand software distribution process as efficient as possible. As an end user works with an application, the AppStream client requests additional application functionality from the AppStream server. The AppStream server captures these client request statistics, and feeds those statistics into a predictive algorithm. Over time, usage patterns are detected, and the server uses these patterns to perform predictive streaming — typically manifested by the streaming of application functions before they are requested based on the prediction that they are likely to be needed soon — thereby increasing end user satisfaction and eliminating wait time.

Acopia Networks - Virtualized Files

www.acopia.com Acopia is focused on delivering value to customers by simplifying file management. "We believe that an intelligent network is the key to balancing the benefits of centralized control with the need for distributed access. Acopia's solutions allow customers to break free from the constraints that currently exist in accessing and managing file data. By automating manual file management tasks, Acopia eliminates the disruptions and downtime associated with these tasks today. Our customers benefit from freedom of choice - freedom to use whatever storage technology they choose, freedom to access data in the most appropriate manner, freedom to move data whenever they wish."

Acopia's patented technology has been developed by a talented engineering team with extensive experience defining, designing, and introducing breakthrough products. Its technical mission was created by founder, industry visionary and serial entrepreneur, Cheng Wu. Prior to founding Acopia Networks, Cheng Wu founded Arrowpoint Communications, which was sold to Cisco Systems for $5.7 Billion in 2000. In 2002, Mr Wu was named to Interactive Week Magazines "Top 25 Unsung Heroes of the Internet." Today, Wu guides Acopia's technology vision, and is the Chairman of Acopia's Board of Directors.

Skinkers - Communications you can't miss

www.skinkers.com The original Skinkers communication platform was first released in 2002. Over the last 4 years significant enhancements have been made and a number of releases issued. As the technology has been deployed we found a common need emerging: the ability to deliver ShouldKnow information through an “unmissable” communication channel, directly to the screens of the user.

Skinkers is a privately funded technology company headquartered in London with offices in Milan, New York and Sydney. Our founders have been involved with the web since 1993 when email and online communication were in their infancy. The management team includes a mixture of serial entrepreneurs and seasoned enterprise software professionals. We believe this mix of talent and experience ensures we can not only think creatively and build innovative technology, but also have the business maturity needed to deliver enterprise software to the world’s largest corporations. Since we founded in 2001 our expansion has been rapid. Many of the world’s leading brands use Skinkers technology.

Skinkers universal push platform is the world’s first multi channel message and content delivery technology. Our Live Notification Platform delivers information directly to the screen of the most appropriate digital device, e.g. a computer desktop or BlackBerry. We enable organisations to deliver priority notifications and distribute heavy content through a controlled, highly versatile and secure universal communication platform.

Employees, customers and business partners receive the information they ShouldKnow, at the right time, through the right channel, to the right device.

In June 2006 Skinkers agreed an ‘Equity for Technology’ deal with Microsoft. As joint development partners we are co-developing technology to enhance our current products and create new solutions for real-time event notification and high bandwidth content delivery. Microsoft plans to incorporate part of the final technology into its product line.

D-Wave Systems - The Quantum Computing Company

www.dwavesys.com "D-Wave Systems is the world's first and only source of quantum computing for commercial application. We believe quantum technology in concert with classical, digital processors, can and will represent broad and significant advancements in the application of computer science."

In February 2007, D-Wave unveiled and demonstrated this technology publicly for the first time. The company plans to deliver field-deployable systems in 2008.

Building a commercial-scale quantum computer processor was — and is — a daunting task. D-Wave’s strategy was to enter into collaborative partnerships with world-renowned researchers having access to significant capital infrastructure, while retaining all intellectual property developed. Each institution in this network was responsible for delivering some critical part of a future commercial processor. Partners included theoretical physicists, chemists, electrical engineers, cryogenics experts, applied physicists, mathematicians, and computer scientists. These partnerships were managed and led by D-Wave. All results were systematically reviewed, catalogued, and placed in the context of state-of-the-art developments both internal and external to the company's effort.

Asentinel - Automated Telecom Expense Management

www.asentinel.com Like most corporations, telecom is probably one of your largest operating expenses. And like most, you also may suspect a lot of money is being wasted. The problem is that it's difficult to determine just how much money - or why - because that information is buried in never-ending stacks of invoices, spreadsheets, and CD's. Sound familiar?

Asentinel can help.

Bank reports savings of $411,000, recurring annual savings of $280,000+

Our enterprise telecom expense management (TEM) software solution transforms that paper trail into electronic data, producing actionable reports that can help you solve one of the most challenging business issues facing major corporations today... the need for enterprise automation and expense management.

Open Logic - Open source Software Management for Enterprises

www.openlogic.com OpenLogic provides software, stacks and services that help enterprises to maximize the value of open-source software. With more than 700 customers in 25 countries, OpenLogic delivers a proven solution to manage open source deployments enabling companies to mitigate open source risks while reducing cost of ownership. OpenLogic solutions:

* ensure project quality - an up-to-date library of over 200 certified open source projects and stacks allows you to select proven and trusted content

* improve staff efficiency - a built-in expert knowledgebase accelerates the learning curve and a management suite automates deployment

* provide enterprise control - license and policy management tools let you determine how and where open source is used in your organization

ohloh - Open source directory

www.ohloh.net Mapping the open source world by collecting objective information on open source projects.