Exhibitors

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IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and key IBM Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take full advantage of the new era of e-business. The IBM Software Development Platform provides a comprehensive set of tools, shared proven best practices and industry-leading services. This modular solution provides everything that individual developers and teams need to successfully build, integrate, extend, modernize, and deploy software and software-based systems successfully. Additional information is available at http://www.ibm.com/software/sdp.

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Der dpunkt.verlag ist einer der führenden deutschen Fachverlage zum Thema Informationstechnologie. dpunkt bietet Bücher sowohl für professionelle Anwender als auch für Computerprofis in der Aus- und Weiterbildung. In den Bereichen Software-Entwicklung & Programmierung, Internet, Netzwerke, Datenbanken & Informationssysteme, Design & Publishing und IT & Business erscheinen ca. 40-50 neue Titel pro Jahr.

dpunkt publiziert zudem 2 Fachzeitschriften: "HMD - Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik" und "Datenbank-Spektrum". dpunkt betreut das Fachbuchprogramm des Heise Zeitschriften Verlags. Außerdem hat dpunkt die Titel des amerikanischen Verlages No Starch Press im deutschsprachigem Raum im Vertrieb und kooperiert mit Morgan Kaufmann Publishers mit einem weiteren amerikanischen Verlag.

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imbus is a leading and standard-setting specialist for software quality assurance and testing. If you are a software vendor, IT company, or IT user and you want to assure that your software systems run secure and reliable, talk to us!

Our services include Software Process Improvement, Software Testing Solutions, Software Testing Services and Trainings. Visit www.imbus.de to learn more on our methods and tools, e.g. imbus SPICE mini-assessment, imbus TestBench®, imbus Testlab and our Certified Tester courses.

imbus was founded in 1992 by six partners. Today, a staff of about 80 highly qualified experts work in our offices in Möhrendorf/Erlangen, Hofheim/Frankfurt a.M. and Munich.

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method park Software AG is a service provider and product company for software engineering. The services offered include training, consulting and engineering as well as software development on the customer's behalf, including requirements engineering and testing. Our focus lies on software processes, knowledge management, requirements management and object oriented software technology. Our web based project portal »project>kit« supports our customers' development teams in process and project management.

method park was founded in Erlangen in 2001 and at present has 48 regular employees. The subsidiary method park Berlin GmbH, offering the entire range of services, was founded in Berlin at the beginning of 2004.

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SQS AG – Software Quality Systems is the German and European market leader in the area of software quality management and testing. SQS offers high-value consulting services aimed at increasing IT efficiency and optimising IT quality. These services are offered for commercial applications as well as for the area of embedded systems.

Founded in Cologne in 1982, the SQS Group employs around 340 consultants today and has 11 subsidiaries in 7 different European countries. In the last 10 years the SQS Group has grown by 21.5% a year on average and in 2003 achieved sales of around 50 million euros. SQS can count every second DAX company and every third STOXX-50 company as its customer and is also active in the public sector as well as for many international companies.

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SYNSPACE concentrates on IT Process Management & Optimization. We rely thereby mainly on international standards like ISO 15504, ISO 12207 and ISO 61508. In about 200 assessments, we have also gathered during the past 15 years considerable experience in applying assessment methods like BOOTSTRAP, CMM and CMMI as well as our own approaches for "light" assessments as a first step on a track to improve the software processes of our customers.

We have devised custom versions of SPiCE for Space, Automotive and Public Administration, and provided major extensions both for the development of safety critical systems and for the whole field of IT processes, covering also IT procurement, operation and service activities. Our assessment tools SPiCE 1-2-1, S4S, SYNEdit and SYNEval are leading on the market.

SYNSPACE employs over 30 consultants with practical background in Space, Automotive, Medical Devices and Public Administration. We are also providing support and training in specialized domains like Requirements Management, Software Configuration & Change Management as well as Product Reviews & Testing.

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LogicaCMG is a major international force in IT services and wireless telecoms. It provides management and IT consultancy, systems integration and outsourcing services to clients across diverse markets including public sector, telecoms, financial services, energy and utilities, industry, distribution and transport. Formed in December 2002, through the merger of Logica and CMG, the company employs around 20,000 staff in offices across 34 countries and has nearly 40 years of experience in IT services. Headquartered in Europe, LogicaCMG is listed on both the London and Amsterdam stock exchanges (LSE: LOG; Euronext: LOG). More information is available from www.logicacmg.com.

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Quality is our capital. We combine financial and technical competence under one roof. Having the essential achievement potential, we satisfy the demands of our clients in successful project works. Planning and development of projects as well as the implementation of short-dated measures are our advice and support. Our clients are accompanied by the first requirement analysis following conceptions and finding joint solutions in productive processes. Diaz & Hilterscheid owns a testing tool which pragmatically and economically supports the process of quality assurance. CaseMaker testing tool was developed in Java and works wich all Java suppored operating systems. The keeping of all data is in XML. For CaseMaker you don't need a server.

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SAP Systems Integration (SAP SI) is an independent consulting and service company and an integral part of the SAP Group. SAP SI's range of solutions for end-to-end IT consulting as well as hosting and application management is tailored to the needs of companies in which the main IT-related task is to integrate heterogeneous systems and operate these systems.

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MKS - Advancing Enterprise Software Configuration Management

MKS (TSX:MKX) provides enterprise software configuration management (SCM) and MKS Toolkit products enabling Global 1000 companies to better manage and control the complete process of software development. Founded in 1984 with over 10,000 customers worldwide, MKS has built its brand on the combination of superior technology and extraordinary customer service.

MKS & Enterprise Software Configuration Management

MKS has grown its enterprise license sales to over 25,000 seats in just two years. New license revenues of MKS's enterprise SCM solution are growing 2x faster than the overall SCM market.

Our global reputation as a technology innovator and supplier of quality solutions has attracted thousands of companies such as HSBC Plc, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Knorr-Bremse Systeme für Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH, WMF AG, Continental Teves GmbH, Northrop Grumman and L-3 Communications. There are now over one million people using MKS products worldwide, and millions more benefiting from them.

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Borland Software Corporation is the leading provider of technology that helps Global 1000 companies develop, deploy, and integrate software applications.

Borland is the world leader in Java and cross-platform development solutions and Microsoft's number-one partner in development for the .NET and Windows platforms. Squarely focused on improving customers' development and deployment capabilities, Borland continues this tradition of excellence with technologies designed to accelerate the entire application lifecycle. Borland is recognized by industry and financial analysts as one of the premier companies in advancing development technology. Fiercely independent for over 20 years and dedicated to producing excellent technologies, Borland is committed to helping companies create sustainable competitive advantage with custom software.