Symposium sponsors

Presenting Sponsor

The PMO Symposium is presented by the PMI Program Management Office SIG, a diverse, global group of over 4,000 members focused on advancing PMO knowledge and practice.  The PMOSIG 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 Program Management Office SIG by visiting www.pmosig.org.

Platinum Sponsors

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.

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.

Collabera is one of the fast growing end-to-end information technology services and solutions firms working with leading Global 2000 firms from the Technology, Communications & Media, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail and Utility domains. Collabera delivers highly responsive and innovative IT solutions that help clients to align their IT strategy with their business goals and address the most important IT needs today through a combination of consulting solutions, proprietary methodologies, assets based services and Collaborative Engagement Model. With revenues of over USD 300 million, Collabera employs close to 4500 professionals across 19 locations and 3 development facilities in North America, Europe and India. Visit Collabera online at www.collabera.com.

The Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (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.  

Now more than ever, executives are challenged to "do more with less" and as a result have to be judicious about where they spend money and how they allocate resources. Microsoft's EPM Solution can help organizations select and deliver the right projects, reduce costs, drive efficiencies, and ultimately plant the seeds to grow the business.    Visit http://www.microsoft.com/project for more details.

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

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.

Gear Stream is the leading provider of PMO sponsored Agile Adoption Services.   Our Agile PMO Enablement, Governance, and Performance Management Services Frameworks are designed to accelerate a PMO’s strategic planning, adoption, and management of high impact Agile processes and practices to ensure better alignment across teams, scalability across the enterprise and measurements mapped directly to desired business impact. 

Gear Stream Agile PMO Services Frameworks enable PMO’s to effectively guide Project Sponsors, IT Executive Management, Project Management, Development, QA and Release Management into a sustainable, highly synchronized Agile operating model while avoiding conflicts with those teams in the organization who continue to utilize traditional planning, governance, and execution processes.   To learn more visit: www.gearstream.com

Gold Sponsors

Journyx ProjectXecute takes companies beyond just planning projects towards successful execution and significant return on investments. The solution integrates project plans, resource availability and financials to provide a complete view of project profitability in a single system. This powerful project and resource management technology, combined with implementation from project management best practices experts, gives customers a flexible solution that scales to different levels of need.  Visit www.ProjectXecute.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.

Cognitive Technologies, Inc. www.cognitive-technologies.com is a consulting firm specializing in project management, collaborative processes, and organizational effectiveness.  Their mission is to provide clients with appropriate solutions that improve the performance of business units through the application of our expertise in projects, people and technology. They collaborate with their clients to create workable solutions that solve real business problems and produce measurable results.

Cognitive Technologies, a 2008 Microsoft Partner of the Year, is a Microsoft Certified Partner, a Journyx Preferred Partner, and holds a GSA schedule. They are headquartered in Austin TX and have offices in Atlanta GA and the DC Metro area. Check out their project management blog at http://FearNoProject.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.

 

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 2009, nearly 300 PMO practitioners 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 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 2010 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 for complete details or to have a sponsorship package mailed to you.  You may also download the PMO Symposium sponsorship package.

You may also want to consider becoming an exhibitor at PMO Symposium 2010.  Please visit our exhibitors page for complete details.