Symposium sponsors

The PMO Symposium is presented by the Project Management Institute's Program Management Office Community of Practice (PMO CoP), a diverse, global group of over 5,000 members focused on advancing PMO knowledge and practice. The PMO CoP is not affiliated with any vendor or PMO service provider and provides the PMO Symposium as an opportunity for PMO, program management, and portfolio management professionals to learn from their peers in the PMO community. You can learn more about the PMO CoP at www.pmo.vc.pmi.org.
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Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) helps individual teams and enterprises better manage resources, and gain control across all kinds of work— from simple tasks to complex projects and programs. It’s a work-management solution with flexibility, so people can use the right tools to deliver business results ahead of the competition.
The Microsoft EPM solution is a flexible, end-to-end platform, used across a broad variety of industries to select and effectively deliver the right project portfolios. The EPM solution includes Microsoft Project Professional 2010 and Microsoft Project Server 2010 to provide a unified PC and Web-based Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) offering. PMOs will enjoy all of the business intelligence capabilities included in Project Server 2010, SharePoint Server 2010 (Excel Services, PerformancePoint Services, etc.) and SQL Reporting Services to create powerful dashboards to quickly gain transparency across all portfolios.
Microsoft joins with SharkPro Software in this year’s PMO Symposium Premiere Sponsorship. SharkPro Software, a 2011 Microsoft Project and Portfolio Management Partner of the Year Finalist, delivers world-class consulting, training and preconfigured implementations of Project Server 2010 to reduce the time, cost, and risks of implementing project management solutions.
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Sciforma, with a 27 year heritage in PPM, provides PSNext, a project and portfolio web solution used by a quarter million users worldwide. Our recent release, version 3.0 addresses enhancements for Portfolios, Resource Allocation, along with Document, Email and Issue work flow improvements. PSNext is available in SaaS, hosted or on-premises. Visit Sciforma online at www.sciforma.com.
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Planview focuses on providing the most comprehensive portfolio management solutions in the industry to enable better decision making and business accountability. Planview provides solutions for the most successful technology organizations in the world, and they are successful for a reason. These market-leading, knowledge worker organizations have savvy managers who lead the way in optimizing the business by balancing strategy against their scarce resources of people and money. They do this by using Planview solutions, which give them a proven discipline for investment decision-making, resource allocation, and staying on track. For a complete overview of Planview's products and services, visit www.planview.com.
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BOT International is a boutique business-driven PMO setup firm. Our product, Processes On Demand, is a productized offering for PMO content assets that can be installed in minutes and fully rebranded, customized, and integrated into your PMO tools in a day. What are PMO content assets? They are all of the non-application knowledge and informational assets such as processes, templates, dashboards, and learning resources that ensure the integrity of projects, the effective use of tools, and the successful management of the PMO. Visit us at www.botinternational.com
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Founded in 1997, Daptiv is the leading provider of on-demand Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solutions. Daptiv has helped thousands of companies improve their strategic planning and business execution by offering flexible PPM solutions and expert professional services. Daptiv's customers include world-class organizations such as BASF, Chase Paymentech, Harvard University, Honeywell, La Poste and Virgin Blue. Learn more at www.daptiv.com.
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Leading global corporations like Abbott, Baxter, Credit Suisse, DuPont, France Telecom, Lilly, RIM and Xerox rely on a single system called EnterpriseTrack to fulfill the distinctive requirements of their strategic project portfolios such as IT/PMO, Lean Six Sigma, CapEx and new product development. Unlike competitive alternatives, EnterpriseTrack is easy to deploy quickly, easy to use and administer, and easy to afford. Visit www.instantis.com.
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Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world’s most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company. With more than 370,000 customers—including 100 of the Fortune 100—in more than 145 countries around the globe, Oracle is the only vendor able to offer a complete technology stack in which every layer is engineered to work together as a single system. Oracle's industry-leading products give customers unmatched benefits including unbreakable security, high availability, scalability, energy efficiency, powerful performance, and low total cost of ownership. For more information, visit oracle.com.

For more than a decade, Axis has delivered hundreds of
business intelligence solutions to satisfied customers at Global 1000 and
mid-market organizations. What makes Axis stand out from other BI firms is
that we excel at putting all the pieces of the puzzle together.
Axis recognizes that tools, processes, and people must all fit
together to deliver a successful solution.
Axis professionals average over 20 years of experience and combine
business process acumen with technical excellence. Our customers are
successful because we understand their business and the key business drivers
behind their BI initiatives.


With more than 100 years of combined professional experience and a commitment to meeting the distinct needs of the marketplace, J. Ross Publishing is redefining how professional and technical books and multi-media products are published. Instead of traditional corporate structures and operational roadblocks that impede innovation and delay publication, we are committed to bringing quality products to market faster and at the time of greatest demand. We recognize that the needs of industry are highly competitive and time sensitive; thus, we view publishing as an all-inclusive system where the needs of the market, quality information, and speed to market intersect. J. Ross Publishing is an industry leader in project, program, and portfolio management publishing, bringing together industry leading authors to create practical, in-depth publications of interest to the project management community. Visit J.Ross Publishing online at www.jrosspub.com.
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PM Solutions is a project management firm helping organizations
execute, govern, and measure their portfolios to improve business
performance. We are the leader in applying project and portfolio management
processes and practices to drive operational efficiency for our clients. Our
proven ability to deliver against business priorities ranging from
organizational process improvements to the execution of mission-critical
projects is why PM Solutions is trusted by top organizations around the
world. PM College (www.pmcollege.com),
the corporate training division of PM Solutions, offers a comprehensive
curriculum of onsite and online training and professional development
programs to advance organizational and individual project performance.
For more information, visit
www.pmsolutions.com.

PMForum operates www.pmforum.org, the world’s first website devoted to professional project management and one of the world’s most popular sources of project management news and information. PMForum also produces the monthly PM World Today eJournal where articles, reports and stories about projects and project management around the world can be found; free subscriptions at www.pmworldtoday.net.
Becoming a sponsor is a cost effective way to get your company's products and services in front of an audience of project, program, and PMO practitioners. During PMO Symposium 2010, over 350 PMO leaders and decision-makers attended the event, making the PMO Symposium one of the largest PMO-specific events globally. We have a variety of sponsorship opportunities available and would welcome the opportunity to discuss how you can partner with us for this exciting event.
Benefits of sponsorship include recognition on the PMO Symposium website, in the symposium proceedings, in pre- and post-event marketing (email and print), and in signage located at the event. Additional benefits such as complimentary admissions and access to marketing lists vary based on the level of sponsorship provided.
Why pay more? Some project management events have sponsorship costs that begin at over $5,000. PMO Symposium 2011 sponsorship packages are designed in three easy tiers and all tiers are priced at under $3,000:
Each package includes a specific set of benefits designed to help you meet your marketing goals. Please contact us at sponsors@pmosymposium.org to discuss how we can customize a sponsorship package to meet your needs.
Download the PMO Symposium 2011 Sponsorship Opportunities Brochure
You may also want to consider becoming an exhibitor at PMO Symposium 2011. Please visit our exhibitors page for complete details.