Partners

Just like the sponsors that have helped promote our events and summits in the past, our analyst and media partners play a key role in bringing the latest and greatest expertise and subject matter content to our summit participants and attendees.

Our analyst partners play an important role at each and every summit the SBS division of CDM Media puts on. From moderating panel discussions to providing expert insight into the many areas of debate at our business events, these partners are relied upon to truly bring the delegates and participants together in order to debate and identify solutions to specific issues within their industry.

Our media partners are perfect complements to the actual summits themselves. They provide quality publications, editorials and/or articles to supplement the topics in discussions at the actual events. We only target media partners that are relevant to the vertical for each individual event. Each of the media partners we’ve signed up for events previously and in the future continue to be happy with the type of exposure they receive in the form of delegate impressions and decision-maker eyes on their collateral.

Some of our partners include:

Bennu Group Bennu Group

Bennu Group LLC is a privately held business located in the DFW Metroplex (Dallas, Texas area). From this location, Bennu serves clients thoughout the world. Founded in 2006 by Terry Schurter, Bennu Group brings unique experience and insight into global strategy, innovation and business performance leadership. Always a leader and never a follower, Bennu Group is paving the way for a new generation of agile, efficient and market-aligned businesses that redefine the term success.
SOA Consortium SOA Consortium

The SOA Consortium is a new SOA advocacy group comprised of end users, service providers, and technology vendors, committed to helping the Global 1000 successfully adopt SOA by 2010. The SOA Consortium mission, strategies and tactics center on the following premises:

* Service-oriented architecture adoption is a key enabler for the 21st century enterprise
'CIO Finance Summit' * Achieving the benefits of service-oriented architecture requires significant changes for both IT and business executives
* Service-oriented architecture is perceived by business executives as an IT integration and productivity story, rather than a business agility story

Enterprise SOA practitioners would greatly benefit from a vibrant practitioner community to drive local, business-driven, SOA success, and to spur broader enterprise and industry-wide, SOA adoption.

The Blade Systems Alliance The Blade Systems Alliance

The Blade Systems Alliance's (BladeS) mission is to advance the adoption of modular and blade-based computing systems. In cooperation with the worldwide community of data center professionals and other advanced systems users, BladeS:

* Promotes multi-vendor standards for modular systems management and racking.
* Works with the user community to address real-world data center and advanced computing issues.
* Delivers information, programs and forums to educate and inform.

The Blade Systems Alliance is a forum for end users, consultants, and vendors who are interested in the deployment and application of blade systems.
Integration Consortium Integration Consortium

The Integration Consortium (IC) is a member-driven community that shares experiences, knowledge and best practices in multiple forums. Members champion; innovation, feedback between members, collaboration with standards bodies and the articulation of strategic and measurable business benefits for leading-edge capabilities. Annual meetings are complemented by a growing number of regional chapters who meet periodically.

The mission of the Integration Consortium (IC) is to foster the leading community of like-minded Information Technology professionals responsible for transforming business through both traditional systems integration and emerging SOA with greater agility, ease of use and business results.

One of the IC's strengths is the diversity of member support and interest. Membership includes end user corporations, independent software suppliers, hardware suppliers, system integrators, academic institutions, non-profit institutions, individual members as well as various industry leaders.
Blade.org Blade.org

Blade.org is a collaborative organization and developer community focused on accelerating the development and adoption of open blade server platforms. The organization was established in February 2006 to increase the number of blade platform solutions available for customers and to accelerate the process of bringing them to market. From eight founding companies, Blade.org has grown to nearly 100 members including leading blade hardware and software providers, developers, distribution partners and end users from around the globe.