SIIA Content Forum - May 15-16 - Westin St. Francis  - San Franciso, CA
SPONSORSHIP

We thank the companies listed below for their sponsorship support of the Content Forum. Please read their profiles to learn how you can benefit from their products/services.

All sponsorships are now sold out. If you'd like information on future Content Division sponsorship opportunities, please contact Brian Rosenberg via e-mail or +1.646.649.2027.


Silver Sponsors

Silver Sponsor - ECNext
ECNext
In today's fast paced self-service world, more and more business professionals turn to search engines for finding information to meet specific individual needs. ECNext helps publishers fulfill this trend towards delivering personalized information by illuminating publisher's "hidden Web" assets to bring an individual from a search engine directly to the publisher's content with the answer the user was (?) searching for. ECNext's Web marketing services and technology platform combine to turn individual searches into traffic and traffic into content sales. We serve publishers by building, managing and marketing their branded site or by licensing content for sale on Manta.com, ECNext's business information site.
Silver Sponsor - Marlin & Associates
Marlin & Associates
M&A provides transaction-related advice and strategic consulting to international and domestic firms in the digital information economy. We advise clients on mergers & acquisitions, divestitures, private placements, business strategy, and valuations. Our clients supply software and technology, on-line and off-line content, and related services and tools.

Our team brings a wide breadth and depth of experience and has advised on hundred's of transactions, including eight successfully concluded in 2005. M&A's founder was a CEO in this space four times.

This is our space. No one knows it better.

Silver Sponsor - Scope e-Knowledge
Scope e-Knowledge Center Pvt Ltd
Established in 1987, Scope e-Knowledge is an integrated business information & knowledge organization. A globally oriented firm, with offices in New York, London, Brussels, Cologne and Chennai , Scope's services include business research, BI/CI, STM & business databases, A&I, taxonomy / ontology and patent / IP services.

Scope's clients include global publishers, portals, industry bodies, patent / IP law firms, and corporate companies in the U.S. U.K. and Europe. Scope's value proposition is in providing world-class, reliable knowledge services using top notch expertise out of its delivery centers in India to enable savings of 30-40%. Scope's domains of focus include Engineering, Chemicals & allied areas and Healthcare & Life Sciences. Scope currently has over 400 people including such domain experts and in research, editorial, legal and general business.


Networking Reception Sponsors

Networking Reception Sponsor - Softrax
Softrax
Successful content providers require robust capabilities for customer tracking, metering, and billing. Subscriber relationships and usage patterns must be integrated into the billing system to keep up with the constant stream of new products, services and customers. Otherwise revenue can fall through the cracks. Softrax delivers an integrated solution that manages all your customer, contract, pricing, metering, and billing data in one system. Companies that use Softrax maximize their revenue, reduce operating expenses and comply with revenue recognition regulations and Sarbanes-Oxley requirements. For more information, visit www.softrax.com, www.revenuerecognition.com, or call 1.888. 4 SOFTRAX.
Networking Reception Sponsor - Uniloc
Uniloc
Uniloc USA is the technology leader in electronic “device recognition” for software copy control and license management.

Device recognition is the method of uniquely identifying a user device, such as a PC, smart phone or cell phone, by the naturally occurring, inherent physical imperfections of that device. The resulting “device fingerprint” is then used as a strong authentication factor to “device lock” user licenses or access credentials. Uniloc’s technology can identify devices with more comparable accuracy than human DNA.

Uniloc is the inventor and holder of the seminal device recognition patent (US 5,490,216), and has 10 related patents pending. Key software copy control customers have included IBM and Toshiba.


Geoffrey Moore Keynote Sponsor

Geoffrey Moore Keynote Sponsor - Business Objects
Business Objects
Business Objects is the world’s leading business intelligence (BI) software company. The company’s solutions help organizations gain better insight into their business, improve decision making, and optimize enterprise performance. Business Objects has more than 30,000 customers worldwide, over 3,500 global partners, and can be found on the Internet at www.businessobjects.com.

Bronze Sponsors

Bronze Sponsor - Copyright Clearance Center
Copyright Clearance Center
Copyright Clearance Center is the world's premier provider of copyright licensing and compliance solutions for the information content industry. We are a trusted intermediary between copyright holders and content users, facilitating the exchange of reuse rights and royalties through a wide range of licensing services. Copyright Clearance Center manages the rights to over 1.75 million works and represents more than 9,600 publishers and hundreds of thousands of authors and other creators.
Bronze Sponsor - DeSilva & Pillips
DeSilva & Phillips
DeSilva & Phillips, founded in 1996, is an investment bank providing M&A services and private placement of debt and equity to the media and digital technology industries. Our Digital Media and Technology Group is organized to service the entire marketplace for electronic content in its many - and still-evolving - forms.
Bronze Sponsor - FAST
FAST Publishing
Fast Search & Transfer™ (FAST™) creates the real-time search and filter technology solutions that are behind the scenes at the world's best known companies with the most demanding search problems. Fast's flexible and scalable integrated technology platform elevates the search capabilities of enterprise customers and connects people to the relevant information they seek regardless of medium. This drives revenues and reduces total cost of ownership by effectively leveraging IT infrastructure.

FAST operates globally with presence in the US, Europe, and Japan. FAST is traded under the ticker symbol 'FAST' on the Oslo Stock Exchange.

Bronze Sponsor - Lexis Nexis
Lexis Nexis
As a world-leading provider of enhanced information services and management tools, LexisNexis® delivers comprehensive and authoritative business, news, legal, government, and tax information in 100 countries worldwide. It unites proprietary brands, advanced Web technologies, and premium information sources to offer an extensive range of products and customized tools that address job-specific and organization-wide information needs, driving productivity and confident decision-making. LexisNexis recently was named one of KM World magazine's "Top 100 Companies in Knowledge Management."
Bronze Sponsor - Mark Logic Corporation
Mark Logic Corporation
Mark Logic Corporation provides the industry's leading XML content server. Mark Logic works with providers of information products to accelerate new product creation, deliver products through multiple channels, integrate content from different sources, repurpose content into multiple products, build custom publishing systems, and mine content for previously undiscovered information. MarkLogic Server does this by enabling companies to convert, query, manipulate, and render XML content using the W3C-standard XQuery language. Designed for high performance and scalability, MarkLogic Server can deliver millisecond response times against multi-terabyte contentbases. Mark Logic is privately held and backed by Sequoia Capital and Lehman Brothers.



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