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.

Over the past decade, companies have counted on AMI Strategies and their State-of-the-Art, web-based eAMI™ Vendor Relationship Manager Application to minimize expense spending and improve employee productivity across their business platforms. Through centralized electronic databases, eAMI™ collectively pulls together, evaluates, corrects and updates, in real time, all company’s expenses guaranteeing proper payment and allocation anywhere in the world.

Additionally, AMI provides a full service TEM business process outsourcing solution that includes the full range of support services from invoice payment to contract and dispute management. This offering has been revered since inception and grown exponentially over the past five years.

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.”

Cisco Systems

Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate, and collaborate. Our technology is changing the nature of work and the way we live. Since 1984, Cisco has led in the development of Internet Protocol based networking technologies, including routing, switching, application networking services, home networking, security, storage area networking, TelePresence systems, unified communications, video systems, and wireless. Cisco and our valued partners sell our hardware, software, and services to businesses of all sizes, governments, education institutions, service providers, and consumers. We are committed to responsible business practices to help ensure accountability, business sustainability, and environmentally conscious operations and products.

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 Corporation

Founded in 1973, Compuware provides software, experts and best practices to ensure applications work well and deliver business value. Our unique approach, Business Service Delivery, helps CIOs optimize end-to-end application performance for leading businesses around the world, including 46 of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies.

Data Domain

Data Domain® is the leading provider of deduplication storage systems. Over 2,900 companies worldwide have purchased Data Domain systems to reduce storage costs and simplify data management. Data Domain delivers the performance, reliability and scalability to address the data protection and nearline storage needs of enterprises of all sizes. Data Domain products integrate into existing customer infrastructures and are compatible with leading enterprise backup and archive software products.

Dewpoint

Dewpoint experts help companies with enterprise IT solutions to secure and best utilize critical data, increase efficiency and manage costs. Unique to Dewpoint is its strong team of certified project managers, who participate throughout process to ensure best practices and on-target delivery. Other areas of expertise include multiplatform storage, systems infrastructure, identity and access management, data and applications solutions, and datacenter inventory and contract support, as well as related strategic IT initiatives. Dewpoint partners with industry leaders to deliver the latest hardware and software solutions available. Founded in 1996, Dewpoint, Inc. has grown to be a key business partner for major companies throughout the country, and significantly impacts enterprise practices across numerous industries, including state and local government, education, healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, publishing, insurance and more.

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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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IBM

IBM is the world’s leading information technology company, with 80 years of experience helping businesses innovate and deliver increased value. IBM helps clients solve their most pressing issues by combining forward thinking, business insight, research and industry experience with the latest technologies. Discover how IBM works with CIOs to build smarter enterprises by offering a full portfolio of instrumented, interconnected and intelligent solutions.

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Iron Mountain Digital

Iron Mountain Digital is the world’s leading provider of Storage-as-a-Service solutions for backup and archiving. The technology arm ofIron Mountain offers a comprehensive suite of data protection, archiving and intellectual property management solutions to thousands of companies around the world, directly and through a world-wide network of channel partners.

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MicroWorld Technologies Inc.

MicroWorld is a developer of advanced security software solutions that provide round the clock protection against evolving computer security threats. MicroWorld’s product portfolio includes eScan, our Flagship product, MailScan, X-SPAM, and eConceal that encompass AntiVirus, AntiSpyware, Content Security, AntiSpam, and Network intrusion prevention solutions. Incorporated in New Jersey, USA – MicroWorld has its offices worldwide and is internationally represented by a widespread partner network.

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Pillar Technology

Pillar Technology is a 10 year old, Michigan-based high-end boutique consulting firm and leading software development company. With an innovative agile approach (branded as “Speed to Value”) Pillar boasts a team of 70+ consultants with hundreds of years in combined experience. From a former NASA employee to an Apache helicopter pilot, Pillar Technology experts come from all types of industries and backgrounds, bringing an unrivaled breadth of experience to the table to solve clients’ business problems.

Growing at a rate of 35% per year, Pillar’s success stems from the fact that its team understands business value, and knows how to use technology to deliver it quickly. Pillar has assembled a comprehensive suite of tools designed to help virtually any company, in any industry, in any corner of the world meet complex business challenges faster than ever thought possible. With a national client base, a supplemental team of contractors complementing its employees, and many Fortune 100 clients, Pillar Technology is proud to offer smart IT training, consulting, mentoring and staffing solutions to clients of all sizes in a wide variety of industries.

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Plante & Moran

Plante & Moran is the nation’s 12th largest certified public accounting and business advisory firm, 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 19 offices throughout Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Monterrey, Mexico and Shanghai, China. Plante & Moran has been recognized by a number of organizations, including FORTUNE magazine, as one of the country’s best places to work.

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Rave Computer Association

Rave Computer Association, Inc., a privately held company based in Sterling Heights, Michigan, provides custom-off-shelf (COTS) computer solutions in a variety of platforms, including ruggedized AMD-, Intel®-, and SPARC®- based computer systems that utilize Microsoft®, Sun®, and Red Hat software suites. Rave Computer also provides storage, backup, mobile, and custom solutions that meet customers’ diverse requirements. Rave’s unique services enable customers to enjoy tailored levels of customization and support that match their needs.

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salesforce.com

Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). The company’s portfolio of SaaS applications, including its award-winning CRM, has revolutionized the ways that customers manage and share business information over the Internet. The company’s Force.com PaaS enables customers, developers and partners to build powerful on-demand applications that deliver the benefits of multi-tenancy across the enterprise. Applications built on the Force.com platform, can be easily shared, exchanged and installed with a few simple clicks via salesforce.com’s AppExchange marketplace.

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Stout Systems

Stout Systems is a software development and staffing company that is fueled by the most powerful technology available – Human Intelligence. Stout eliminates the stress, frustration and overwork all too typical to software projects and technical staffing. Founded in 1993, Stout has offices in Ann Arbor and Detroit, with national clients.

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Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems Inc., develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision — “The Network is the Computer” — Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership.

Sun provides a diversity of software, systems, services, and microelectronics that power everything from consumer electronics, to developer tools and the world’s most powerful datacenters. Our core brands include the Java technology platform, the Solaris operating system, StorageTek and the UltraSPARC processor.

We serve consumers and individual developers, alongside the largest global enterprises. Our network computing platforms are used by nearly every sector of society and industry, and power some of the world’s best known search, social networking, entertainment, financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, news, energy and engineering companies – broadened by one of the world’s largest portfolio of software and service partners.

Every day, companies and governments around the world benefit from Sun’s technology stewardship, via our work to create the standards that bridge the world’s digital divide, to our solutions and business practices that offer higher performance with lower power, cooling, and space requirements. Sun invents products and services that save time and money for those seeking to use technology to create opportunities. Today more than ever: The Network is the Computer.

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TechSmith

TechSmith was founded in 1987 by William Hamilton, who remains the company’s president today. TechSmith initially developed custom software for Windows, to be used in various commercial applications. Today, TechSmith is the world’s leading provider of screen capture and recording software for individual and professional use. People everywhere use our products to capture content from their screens in ways that help them communicate more clearly, create engaging presentations for diverse audiences, and analyze product usability and customer experience.

Over time, TechSmith has kept pace with new technologies and shifts in the competitive landscape. Our commitment to staying abreast of the current trends allows us to continue developing innovative software and Web-based solutions for our customers. TechSmith’s future plans include developing new products and expanding existing products to support the Mac platform. With products localized into five languages and a distribution network of resellers in more than 50 countries, TechSmith’s global reach is continually expanding.

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T-Systems

We shape the networked future of business and society and create value for customers, employees and investors thanks to innovative information and communications technology (ICT) solutions. T-Systems is Deutsche Telekom’s corporate customer unit. Using a worldwide infrastructure of computer centers and networks, T-Systems operates ICT systems for multinational groups and public institutions. With offices in over 20 countries, global delivery capability, and approximately 46,000 employees worldwide, our industry expertise and ICT know-how provide top-quality service.

T-Systems provides one point to manage the convergence of ICT that provides transparency and enables flexibility, efficiency, and sustainability. Dynamic Services from T-Systems is a unique concept that offers ICT resources on demand and bills customers only for what they actually use. Infrastructure capacities can be scaled up or down based on business demand transforming fixed ICT costs into variable costs. Use what you need pay for what you use.

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Wayne State University School of Business Administration

The School of Business Administration at Wayne State University provides high quality business education at a great value to nearly 4,000 students in southeastern Michigan. The business school’s AACSB accredited undergraduate and graduate degree programs feature studies in accounting, finance, global supply chain management, information systems management, management and marketing.

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Automation Alley

Automation Alley is a technology business association driving the growth and image of Southeast Michigan’s economy.

Automation Alley includes more than 1,000 businesses, educational institutions and government entities, covering an eight county area and the City of Detroit. Automation Alley promotes regional prosperity through business attraction services, exporting assistance, workforce development and technology acceleration.

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ConnecTech

ConnecTech is Michigan’s premier network for technology professionals, offering members the opportunity to discover the latest technology trends, meet with other professionals, and advance their careers through various professional development initiatives. Powered by Automation Alley, ConnecTech represents a community of more than 700 technology-minded professionals through its eight statewide chapters.

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Corp! Magazine

Corp! magazine was founded in 1998 to inform, intrigue and entertain business owners and top level executives by providing features, news and profiles with a Michigan emphasis. As Michigan’s largest business magazine, Corp! is dedicated to raising the profile of business in our communities and driving it forward.

With a statewide circulation of more than 37,000, Corp! magazine has a unique ability to reach decision makers. The new digital ePublication is growing rapidly and is distributed to over 18,000 executives twice a month. The majority of circulation (82%) lies with presidents, CEOs, owners and partners. For more information, visit www.corpmagazine.com

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Detroit Young Professionals

Detroit Young Professionals (DYP) is a service organization dedicated to making Detroit a better place to live and developing the region’s next generation of leaders. DYP designs and executes grassroots business, social and civic development initiatives that stimulate professional, personal and community growth. As Detroit’s economy evolves, attracting and retaining the emerging talent that will fuel our regional renaissance is critical. DYP is a trusted leader in the cultivation of a diverse, creative and caring network of young professionals and entrepreneurs throughout the metropolitan area.

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Fusion

Launched by the Detroit Regional Chamber in April 2007, Fusion has become one of the fastest growing, most inclusive and influential young professional organizations in the state. Fusion is the only regional YP organization dedicated to engaging the Southeast Michigan’s talent mix in shaping and showcasing a Metro Detroit region that is more attractive to young talent. As the voice for young professionals and the connector between young professionals businesses and the community, Fusion influences progress by being an example of regional cooperation in action and by being the primary initiative to attract and retain young professionals.

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Great Lakes Entrepreneur’s Quest

GLEQ links Michigan entrepreneurs to resources, expert advice, quality education, and capital. The annual GLEQ statewide business plan competition features cash prizes, extensive media exposure and core business services for its winners.

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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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Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)

The ISSA is an unbiased third party made up solely of security practitioners and, as such, is not motivated by politics or profits; only the ethical professionalism of our members and their dedication to protecting information resources in a professional manner. The ISSA is, “The Global Voice of Information Security”. No other professional information security organization provides local networking and educational opportunities. The ISSA’s 64 chapters and its members can become one of your strongest allies when support is needed to get the job done.

The Motor City Chapter is a group of seasoned Information Technology Security Professional’s geographically located in the automotive capital of the United States Detroit, MI. We are committed to educating, consulting, advising, and overall improving information security for our technology infrastructures.

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Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning (MACUL)

The Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning (MACUL) is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization established in 1975 dedicated to bringing educators from all levels together to share their knowledge and concerns regarding educational uses of computers and technology.

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Michigan Association for Female Entrepreneurs (MAFE)

Michigan Association for Female Entrepreneurs (MAFE) is a non-profit, 501c3 organization that addresses the unique needs of women entrepreneurs by offering training and educational programs, business development opportunities, and support for new and existing women business owners. MAFE is a local network of the National Association for Female Executives, one of the nation’s largest businesswomen’s associations, founded in 1972, with over 60,000 members and more than 200 networks across the United States.

The goal of MAFE is to provide women with professional and educational content in an environment in which women can build business alliances and have the opportunity to make connections with like-minded business professionals. Our mission is to advance the growth and success of women business owners by providing resources and services through education, networking, and public advocacy to empower women both personally and professionally.

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Michigan India Chamber of Commerce

The Michigan India Chamber of Commerce (MIICC) is a Greater Detroit-based professional and business networking organization promoting networking with and within the Asian Indian community throughout the state of Michigan. The MIICC meets on the 2nd Wednesday of each month from 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM. Members include companies like Dykema Gossett, India Spice and many others that encompass information technology companies, lawyers, accountants, and other service providers focused on the needs of large and small businesses, alike.

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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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MichiganMall.com

MichiganMall.com has become Michigan’s largest and most recognized Internet-based search directory. A Michigan-only, targeted directory, it gives company websites wide visibility on the Internet and augments their other marketing endeavors. It is truly cost effective marketing giving small businesses some of the marketing advantages enjoyed by larger businesses with bigger budgets.

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MiTechNews.com

MiTechNews.com is a web portal site that features stories, information and events listings about Michigan technology companies and entrepreneurs. MiTechNews.com is owned by Michigan News Network, a corporation based in Grand Rapids, MI.

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Motor City Connect

Motor City Connect is Detroit’s networking engine. Motor City Connect is where you can find the people, the events and the advice you need to grow your business. Providing business development, professional development and personal development for area business professionals, MCC is catalyst for great things happening for our members and our 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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Vista Latinos

Vista Latinos, a Detroit-based consultancy, helps corporations reach a very complex market derived of three generations (tres generaciones) of Latinos living in the U.S. – Foreign Born Spanish-Speaking, U.S. Raised Bilingual Speakers, and U.S. Born English Speakers. Vista Latinos’ goal is to maximize its clients’ profits by ensuring that corporate marketing and advertising execution reaches the nation’s largest minority group. Latinos have a purchasing power of $650 billion today, and that is expected to grow to $1 trillion by the end of the decade.

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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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