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  Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation. It has had a presence in India since 1987 and it currently has offices in New Delhi, Mumbai Bangalore, Calcutta, Chennai, Hyderabad and Pune. Founded in 1975, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ "MSFT") is the world's leader in software for personal computers. The company offers a wide range of products and services for business and personal use; each designed with the mission of making it easier and
more enjoyable for people to take advantage of the full power of personal computing every day.

For more information, please visit www.microsoft.com

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  Headquartered in Michigan, Covansys Corporation (Nasdaq: CVNS - News) is a global consulting and technology services company specializing in industry-specific solutions, strategic outsourcing and integration services. Clients gain competitive advantage by leveraging our unique on-site, offsite, offshore delivery capability to achieve rapid deployment, world-class quality and reduced costs. A leader in the public sector market, Covansys is also known for application maintenance and development outsourcing in the healthcare, financial services, retail and distribution, manufacturing, telecommunications and high-tech industries. Founded in 1985, with over 5100 employees worldwide, Covansys was one of the first U.S.-based IT services companies to establish offshore facilities in India, and is a pioneer in seamlessly integrating offshore capabilities into its offerings. Two of the company's three wholly owned development centers in India are assessed at Level 5 in SEI CMM®. All three are ISO 9001:2000 certified and assessed at Level 5 in PCMM®. Covansys was named one of the leading IT companies for state and local governments in 2002 and 2003 by Washington Technology magazine, and one of the top 500 solution providers in 2002 and 2003 by VARBusiness magazine.

For more information, please visit www.covansys.com

 

Merant: Merant is the global leader in software systems for tracking, managing, and implementing change in software and IT projects. Our comprehensive product line, extended and enhanced over more than 20 years of focus on change management, spans all enterprise platforms, including IBM z/OS, client/server and the Web. Merant solutions range from collaboration tools for small, agile teams, up to enterprisewide process-centric frameworks based on industry-standard process models.

For more information, please visit www.merant.com

  Gold Sponsor
  ProjectByNet™ is an integrated, web based information systems solution for enterprises whose core business revolves around executing projects. ProjectByNet™ is a total end-to-end business activity monitoring tool. It meets the information requirements of various stakeholders of a project based enterprise who are at different geographical locations and the customers of the enterprise.

ProjectByNet™ has over 13,000 licensed users worldwide. The customers of ProjectByNet™ include several world class enterprises like Accenture, Geometric Software Solutions Limited, Mphasis BFL, Indus Software, Tata Industries, TCE Consulting Engineers, Carrera Agency, USA, Headway Technology, Thailand and the list is growing each week!

For more information, please visit
www.projectbynet.com

 
  The Cost Xpert Group is a leading provider of software cost estimating tools, training, and consulting. All products and services are focused on helping clients substantially increase their software development project success rate. The Cost Xpert Group was founded by a software cost estimation pioneer in 1992. Today, we are a team of software project cost and schedule estimation specialists and experts. Since our inception in the early 90's, we have remained a leader in the software cost estimation solutions and services domain.

For more details, log on to www.costxpert.com

 
  Founded in 1983, Telelogic is the leading global provider of solutions for advanced systems and software development. The company's integrated best-in-class software tools, supported by professional services, enable companies to automate their entire development lifecycle, resulting in improved quality and predictability with reduced time-to-market and lower overall costs.

Headquartered in Malmö, Sweden with U.S. headquarters in Irvine, California, Telelogic has operations in 17 countries worldwide. Customers include Alcatel, BAE SYSTEMS, BMW, Boeing, DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Bank, Ericsson, General Motors, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Philips, Siemens, Vodafone and Thales.

For mor details, log on to www.telelogic.com

  Silver Sponsor
 
  Digité is a leading provider of collaborative enterprise application software for process and portfolio management. Digité’s web services-based architecture enables organizations to cut costs by improving the efficiency and reliability of their service delivery. Like our products and users, Digité, Inc. is a global company that is headquartered in Mountain View, California with product development centers located in Mountain View, California and Mumbai, India.

For more details, log on to www.digite.com

 
  KLG Systel has the distinction of being the only company in the Organisation Centric IT Solutions market to be awarded ISO 9001 quality certification for design, development, supply, support and service of application software. KLG Systel is also at the internationally acclaimed SEI CMM Level 4 in all its project developments. It specialises in providing Business Life Cycle consulting, software, support, training and E-commerce solutions to a cross-section of Indian, MNC and Public Sector organisations in the Process, Manufacturing and Infrastructure industries.

Headquartered in Gurgaon, India KLG boasts of a team of over 200 domain experts, which includes our full time software developers, consultants and advisors spread across the development center at Gurgaon and branch offices in Calcutta, Mumbai, Chennai, Jamshedpur and Vadodara. Internationally KLG is present through its offices in Dubai and a subsidiary in USA. Our client list is forever growing, vertically as well as horizontally and includes ABB India, HLL, L&T, Nestle, ONGC, Reliance Industries, TISCO, Qatar Gas Company and Woolsworth (New Zealand).

For more details, log on to www.klgsystel.com

 
  Integrated Strategic Information Systems Pvt. Ltd. [ISIS] is a project management-consulting firm, specializing in providing cost-effective solutions through the application of state-of-the-art management tools and techniques. ISIS was founded to help organizations strategically integrate and harness their most dynamic forces – people, technology, and business environment – to accomplish their pre-determined goals. ISIS operates in three areas namely enterprise project management products, management programs, and process automation.

The management team at ISIS brings with it a rich experience in planning and quality automation. The team has being working in this domain since 1987. A major portion of the expertise comes from the planning automation projects that were undertaken for NASA, US Navy, Chrysler, etc. Other related experience was in building quality automation tools including code parsers, auto documentation tools, standards checkers, etc. Prior to founding ISIS, the team developed a SEI-CMM enabler for, what is now, one of the biggest software companies in India. This tools suite not only helped the company to get to SEI-CMM Level-5, but also helped them to be assessed at the highest maturity of CMMI.

For more details, log on to www.iplanenterprise.com

 
  Cyber India Online Ltd., (CIOL ) is South Asia's first and largest IT portal. CIOL network has 12 network sites and carries over 5000 pages of IT content every month viewed in the order of 4.8 million page views. Addressing the IT and business information needs of IT Professionals, Business owners, Large enterprises, Small and medium businesses, Government and Public sectors, Software companies through its multiple targeted initiatives. CIOL 's coverage of " IT news as it happens" , today, makes it a popular and must go daily online IT destination . CIOL vast subscriber base has 300,000 registered surfers and users. CIOL offers its customers interactive communication solutions, lead generation programs, awareness building campaigns, Online Direct Marketing and Marketing Data capturing services online. CIOL comes from the CyberMedia group.

CyberMedia is South Asia's first and largest specialty media house, with nine publications (including Dataquest and PCQuest) in the infotech, telecom, consumer electronics and biotech areas; and a media value chain including the internet (www.ciol.com), events and television. The group's media services include market research (IDC India), content outsourcing, multimedia, gaming, and media education.


 
   
 
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The site brings you up to date with the latest in the field of software engineering and management. If you want to bring efficiency to your current work of designing, developing, and managing software, you belong on www.softwaredioxide.com


   
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