Symposium sponsors

Presenting Sponsor

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.

Premiere Sponsor

 

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.

Platinum Sponsors

 

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.

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.

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  

PowerSteering Software is the leader in on-demand enterprise project portfolio management (PPM) solutions for managing Business and IT PMOs. Our flexible, easy to use application empowers leading organizations to accelerate results by improving project selection, optimizing resource allocation, and streamlining project management activities. PowerSteering’s unique configurability and “Enterprise SaaS” delivery model allows clients to deploy quickly, support any process maturity level, and scale from dozens to thousands of users – all without requiring internal IT resources. Executives at over 140 customers, including Ingersoll Rand, Merck, UnitedHealth Group, and the US Department of Defense, rely on PowerSteering to accelerate results in such diverse areas as Information Technology, New Product Development, Lean Six Sigma, and Enterprise Project Management Offices.  For more information, please visit www.powersteeringsoftware.com.

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.

Instantis is the leading on-demand provider of Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) software used by IT and business process leaders to improve strategy execution and financial performance. We do this by providing an end-to-end solution to manage, track, and report on enterprise Strategies, Processes, Projects, Portfolios, Resources, Costs and Benefits.

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.

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.  To learn more, visit www.axisgroup.com

Gold Sponsors



UMT is a thought leader in project and portfolio management consulting, software products and training. UMT consultants provide end-to-end premier implementation and adoption services. We drive results using proven methodologies, technical expertise, training delivery and integrated solutions. UMT offers best in class software products based on hundreds of successfully completed client engagements over the last 20 years.



Eclipse Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a Rich Internet Application that is incredibly easy to use. Management, Project Managers and Resources can all access Eclipse PPM quickly and easily. Organizations are successful, because user adoption rate is quick and making Eclipse PPM a part of everyday process is simple. Eclipse PPM software focuses on three main challenges every organization faces: (1) Project Intake, Prioritization and Approval, (2) Project Visibility, Communication and Accountability: Doing projects “right,” (3) Resource Capacity Planning and Tracking. Eclipse PPM has been successfully implemented in hundreds of organizations using the ‘keep it simple’ implementation approach. The team at Eclipse PPM understands what it takes to be successful with Project Portfolio Management. Delivering the best customer service during all phases of implementing, managing and supporting a PPM initiative is what sets Eclipse PPM apart from other companies.  For more information visit: www.eclipseppm.com.

Silver Sponsors

 

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.

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.

 

Media Partners

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

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

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