Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with approximately 211,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. Its home page is www.accenture.com.

AMI Strategies

AMI Strategies is one of the largest Technology Expense Management, TEM companies in the world whose mission is to save hard dollars by managing expenses and technology in areas such as telecommunications, energy, and leases. In this emerging industry, few companies offer such a robust and flexible International Managed Services Application.

Among the awards AMI has received over the years, the most notable have been the Inc 500 fastest growing private company, Deloitte Technology Fast 500, and Crain’s Detroit Business honorable mention for “Best Places to Work.” For more information about AMI’s services and capabilities call 866-AMI-8870 or www.amistrategies.com.

Apex Digital Solutions

Apex Digital Solutions, Inc. is a leading provider of Managed, Traditional and Green IT Service and Support based just outside of Detroit, Michigan. Our experience gained from serving small, medium and large businesses across multiple industries has enabled us to provide our customers with an array of cost effective solutions since 1998. We are committed to excellence, personal and professional growth, and shared success through innovation, integrity, respect and teamwork. To learn more, visit www.apexdigital.com.

Bischer Technologies

Bischer Technologies provides managed IT services to small and medium-sized business in Metro Detroit. We provide customized computer support and network services, and have over twenty years of experience in the IT industry. www.bischer.com.

Bluewolf

Bluewolf partners with clients to attain agile business transformation across their people, process and technology. From cloud enabled customer life-cycle consulting, managed services, and technology resourcing services, thousands of clients across multiple industries collaborate with Bluewolf to usher in a new level of business responsiveness attaining efficient, adaptive business performance. Learn more at www.bluewolf.com.

Cisco

Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate, and collaborate. Since 1984, Cisco has led in the innovation of IP-based networking technologies, including routing, switching, application networking services, security, storage area networking, TelePresence systems, unified communications, video systems, and wireless. Cisco sells our hardware, software, and services to businesses of all sizes, governments, service providers, and consumers. Learn more at www.cisco.com.

Comcast Business Class

Comcast Business Services is a leading provider of telecommunications products to small and medium size businesses. Comcast Business Class Voice, Internet and TV products are smart, efficient and affordable. All designed to help businesses run at maximum efficiency. All backed by a priority business-class support.

Comcast’s extensive fiber network provides a reliable and scalable Internet connection. Businesses can choose from Internet connections at 6 megabits per second, dedicated private lines or a custom Ethernet network for multiple locations at up to 1 gigabit per second. Comcast Business Class Ethernet allows users to bypass the public Internet and exchange data safely and securely. And all of this information travels across Comcast’s own private fiber network. Comcast Business Class Ethernet eliminates the need to purchase Wide Area Network equipment and allows users to connect their network directly to the Internet. So users end up saving on operating, maintenance and capital costs. With an Ethernet interface, users have the ability to quickly and easily add bandwidth without the delays of ordering new circuits, upgrading capacity, or purchasing new equipment.

Comcast Business Class monitors and supports it’s network 24/7 through a local Customer Management Center. Comcast Business Class handles everything from initial network design to ongoing maintenance and support for a fixed price. Comcast Business Services has a dedicated sales and support team located in Michigan to assist in designing a solution that’s right for any small to medium size business.

Restrictions apply. Not available in all areas. Limited to Business Class customers. Minimum term contract required. Early termination fees apply. Subject to Comcast Business Class Order Agreement and General Terms and Conditions. Equipment, installation, taxes and telephone fees extra.

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Compuware

Founded in 1973, Compuware provides software, experts and best practices to ensure applications work well and deliver business value. Our solutions optimize application performance across the Enterprise and the Internet for leading businesses around the world, including 46 of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies. Learn more at www.compuware.com.

Fastswitch

Fast Switch, Ltd. is a 15-year-old IT consulting company with offices in Detroit, Cincinnati, OH and Columbus, OH and doing business in almost half the states in the union. We’re a financially strong, privately held company that is 100 percent consultant and client focused. Our services range from Contract, Contract-to-Hire and Direct Hire services and these offerings can be interchangeable. Our commitment in delivering constant energy to everything we do is powered by putting client concerns first. We work hard to ensure that our clients’ solutions arrive as easy as the light, from the flip of a switch. That’s Fast Switch.

Google

Google Enterprise brings Google innovation to business. We leverage Google’s consumer technology, infrastructure scale and development speed to build web-based applications that are secure, inexpensive, and easy to integrate with other systems. Our products help businesses find, share and secure their information and include Google Apps, Google Maps, Google Message Security and Google Site Search.

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Hewlett-Packard Company

Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ), commonly referred to as HP, is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was founded in a one-car garage in Palo Alto by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, and is now one of the world’s largest information technology companies, operating in nearly every country. HP specializes in developing and manufacturing computing, data storage, and networking hardware, designing software and delivering services. Major product lines include personal computing devices, enterprise & industry standard servers, related storage devices, networking products, software and a diverse range of printers, all-in-one’s and other imaging products. HP markets its products to households, small- to medium-sized businesses and enterprises directly as well as via online distribution, consumer-electronics and office-supply retailers, software partners and major technology vendors. HP also has strong services and consulting business around its products and partner products.

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Johnson Controls

Johnson Controls is a global leader in products, services and solutions that increase energy efficiency, lower operating costs and improve security and comfort in buildings.

Operating from 500 branch offices in more than 150 countries, Johnson Controls has implemented solutions that have generated savings of $7.5 billion since 2000.

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Logic Solutions

Logic Solutions designs custom mobile applications for both simple and complex needs. Logic also provides distinctive web-based applications and websites, IT outsourcing, and China Services.

Founded in 1995, Logic Solutions, Inc. is a privately held minority-owned corporation headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan. With offices in Shanghai, Beijing and Nanjing, China, we have access to a wide array of global resources, allowing us to provide our customers with custom IT solutions at an effective cost unparalleled in the industry. Logic can help your business grow and develop new paths to success in the US, China and beyond!

Oracle

Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world’s largest business software company. For more than 30 years, Oracle has helped customers get up-to-date and accurate information from their business systems—information used to collaborate, grow their business, measure outcomes, and report results with confidence.

Since launching the world’s first commercial relational database in 1977, Oracle has led through continuous innovation and a relentless focus on customer success, providing reliable, secure, and integrated technologies that help customers access the knowledge they need to respond to market conditions with speed and agility. Today Oracle provides database, middleware, and collaboration products; enterprise business applications; application development tools; and professional services for businesses and organizations worldwide. For more information, visit oracle.com.

Park Place

Park Place Technologies is the premier provider of data center hardware maintenance. Park Place enables its customers to extend the life of their mission critical IT equipment at a significant cost savings over the manufacturer. Park Place Technologies is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio with a world class Client Service and Support Center based outside of Boston, MA. Park Place’s 19 years of experience with over 3,000 businesses make it a cost-effective, secure alternative to an OEM extended warranty program.

Plante & Moran

Plante & Moran is the 12th largest certified public accounting and management consulting firm in the United States, providing clients with financial, human capital, operations, strategy, technology, and family wealth management services. Plante & Moran has a staff of more than 1,600 professionals in 21 offices throughout Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and Monterrey, Mexico, Shanghai, China, and Mumbai, India and has been recognized by FORTUNE magazine for 13 consecutive years as one of the nation’s “100 Best Companies to Work For”.

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Plex Systems

Plex Systems, Inc. maintains a singular vision — to drive significant cost, quality and productivity improvements for manufacturers from the shop floor to the top floor. The company’s SaaS ERP system, Plex Online, enables manufacturers to manage accounting, financials, regulatory compliance, human resources and other critical priorities, based on real-time, highly accurate data from their manufacturing operations. Plex Systems specifically developed Plex Online to help manufacturers cut costs, streamline processes, improve productivity and meet regulatory mandates. Plex Systems serves a global cross section of manufacturing industries (OEM and suppliers), particularly automotive, medical device and aerospace and defense companies. www.plex.com

Re-Source Partners

Re-Source Partners Asset Management, Inc supports the IT Asset Disposition needs of some of the world’s largest corporations, OEMs, IT Leasing Companies, IT Resellers, VARs, and IT Service Providers. Services include all aspects of IT Asset Management: ITAM – IT Asset Management and tracking, SLM – Software License Management and harvesting, purchasing retired IT hardware, re-marketing, recycling, data sanitization, data destructions, security consulting, managing end of lease activity, warehousing, storage and deployment projects. The company delivers a full suite of detailed inventory, audit/reporting capabilities and operates under registered ISO 14001 and ISO 9001 QEMS (Quality and Environmental Management Systems). Re-Source Partners works with PC, Server, Networking, Storage and Telecom Equipment.
www.re-sourcepartners.com.

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Royal Park Hotel

Service and comfort that is unparallel. Relaxed elegance that evokes the fine country manor homes of England. Public spaces feature custom marble floors, floor to ceiling windows with custom draperies, Murano blown glass chandeliers and fine woodwork. 143 Rooms and suites with elegant yet comfortable luxury home aura. Service amenities to include: Full service concierge, two on-site award winning restaurants, 24-hour in-room dining, 24-hour valet service and pillow library (guests may select from five pillow types). Guest rooms amenities; Complimentary Wi-Fi, Complimentary in-room bottled water and Gourmet Coffee in our Library The Royal Park Hotel is located 30 minutes north of Detroit and just minutes from Auburn Hills, Troy and Birmingham.

SunTel Services

SunTel Services, an Avaya Gold Partner with offices throughout Michigan, builds, secures, manages and services unified voice and data communications solutions for Michigan businesses. Celebrating our 25th Anniversary in 2011, we are proud to offer industry leading IP networking including virtualization, wireless and security implementations.

Automation Alley

Automation Alley is a technology business association driving the growth and image of Southeast Michigan’s economy through a collaborative culture that focuses on workforce and business development initiatives.

Since its founding in 1999, Automation Alley has expanded to include more than 1,000 businesses, educational institutions and government entities from the City of Detroit and the surrounding eight county region. Automation Alley promotes regional prosperity through entrepreneurial and exporting assistance, workforce development and technology acceleration.

For additional information, visit www.automationalley.com.

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Corp! Magazine

Corp! in print provides business features, news and profiles with a Michigan emphasis. In 2006, Corp! magazine’s print circulation was expanded to reach 30,000-plus business owners, executives and management throughout Michigan. The Corp! online edition, which contains its own original content, goes to opt-in subscribers every other week and has a reach into the Midwest and beyond. Special online editions focus on Human Resources, Green/Sustainability, Digital/Technology and other special topics. Corp! in print and online is a B-to-B publication which features success stories, best practices and strategies that CEOs, business owners, executives and managers will find useful and relevant. We pride ourselves on not making editorial decisions based on how much coverage a story has received in other media, or how it ties into the latest scandal in the business world. Corp! is dedicated to raising the profile of business in our communities and driving it forward. For more information, visit www.corpmagazine.com.

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Michigan Chapter of HIMSS

The Michigan Chapter of HIMSS (MI-HIMSS), formed in the Spring of 2002, is dedicated to improving information systems management in Michigan’s health care institutions. Chapter members come from diverse backgrounds, but all are involved in some aspect of health care information systems and management. Their members consist of professionals from hospitals and clinical organizations, third-party payers, administrators, information technology systems vendors, consultants, management engineers, telecommunications professionals, physicians, nurse and medical informatics professionals, and essentially anyone interested in the trends of health care information and management systems.

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Michigan Council of Women in Technology (MCWT)

The Michigan Council of Women in Technology provides leadership, mentoring, community outreach, professional development and networking to professional women within the Michigan technology community. Our vision is to serve as the premier association for professional women within Michigan’s technology community.

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Society for Information Management (SIM)

The Society for Information Management, known as SIM, is the premier information management association in the world; membership is limited to the top information executives in leading business or public sector firms and key academic contributors to the field.

The Detroit chapter of SIM challenges your comfort levels and encourages continuous learning, enhancing your value to your organization. They accomplish this through programs, focus groups, and networking.

SIM’s Vision is to be recognized as the community most preferred by IT leaders for delivering vital knowledge that creates business value and enables personal development.

SIM’S Mission is to bring together senior IT executives, prominent academicians, selected consultants, and other IT thought leaders to share and enhance their rich intellectual capital for the benefit of SIM’s members and their organizations.

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X-OLOGY

X-OLOGY magazine provides a unique hybrid of technology information and high-end lifestyle content for an educated, visionary audience. The quarterly publication takes an in-depth look at the people, companies, technologies and ideas that are transforming Southeast Michigan. The engaging format balances thought-provoking articles and striking photography that resonates with its tech-savvy readers.

X-OLOGY magazine is an Automation Alley publication, supporting the organization’s mission to drive the growth and image of Southeast Michigan’s technology economy, and is published in partnership with Southfield-based Renaissance Media.

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