Cognos is the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and performance planning software for the enterprise. Our solutions let companies improve and direct corporate performance by enabling all of the key steps in the management cycle—from planning and budgeting, to measuring and monitoring performance, to reporting and analysis. Cognos is the only company to support all of these key management activities with a complete solution that spans all of the essential components of CPM—enterprise planning, scorecarding, and business intelligence.

Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA), one of the world's largest management software companies, delivers software and services across operations, security, storage, life cycle and service management to optimize the performance, reliability and efficiency of enterprise IT environments. Indeed, our solutions touch many areas of everyday life, from ATM transactions to airport security to online sales, customer service and medical information.

Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Dell is the world's No. 1 computer systems company, and a premier provider of products and services, including those required for customers to build their information-technology and Internet infrastructures. Dell's climb to market leadership is the result of a persistent focus on delivering the best possible customer experience by directly selling computing products and services based on industry-standard technology.

At Idera, we’ve engineered a new generation of tools for managing and administering the world's fastest growing database management system – Microsoft SQL Server. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Idera was founded by veterans in the systems and database management industry to bring to market battle-proven technologies developed by practicing database professionals. Our Goal is to provide products that dramatically reduce the complexity of database administration and increase the productivity of database administrators, enabling them to focus on higher value activities. Our Tools are engineered to scale – from managing a single server, to enterprise deployments with thousands of servers. They are easy-to-use and are designed to install in minutes, configure in hours and deploy worldwide in days.
Microsoft's vision is to empower people through great software - any time, any place and on any device. As the worldwide leader in software for personal and business computing, Microsoft strives to produce innovative products and services that meet our customers' evolving needs. At the same time, we understand that long-term success is about more than just making great products.

Opalis is a pioneer in integrating IT operations runbooks. We call it DCi. Opalis provides software that integrates and automates common IT assets to automate the IT runbook. Opalis allows companies to harvest the internal knowledge of their IT staff and codify what many companies only have stored in the heads of a few of their key IT staff. When this valuable data is codified and put to work in a consistent unattended manner, customers can effectively cut their runbook in half. Opalis provides native operators to leading systems management monitors, problem resolution packages, backup tools, virtual machines, software distribution and network devices that all play a role in today's runbooks.
Red Gate Software Limited is a fast-growing software technology company specializing in database development tools for developers and DBAs working with Microsoft technologies. Red Gate Software’s products have become industry standard for comparing, synchronizing, packaging, backing up and recovering SQL Server databases, for providing IntelliSense® for SQL Server, for tracking SQL Server object dependencies, and for code profiling and load testing for .NET applications.