Sponsors

Metastorm Inc. With a focus on enterprise visibility, optimization, and agility, Metastorm offers market-leading solutions for Enterprise Architecture (EA), Business Process Analysis & Modeling (BPA) and Business Process Management (BPM). As an integrated product portfolio, Metastorm Enterprise™ allows organizations to maximize business results by unifying strategy, analysis and execution. Metastorm is the only solution provider to bring together these critical disciplines on a single software platform to enable an understanding of enterprise architecture and strategy, accurate impact and opportunity assessment, effective process execution, and accelerated value realization for organizations worldwide.  For more information on powering strategic advantage with Metastorm Enterprise, visit www.metastorm.com.

Intalio, Inc. Intalio is the leading vendor of Open Source BPMS and helps over 10,000 organizations around the world get the most return on investment from their Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) by developing and deploying new business processes without having to write code. Founded in July 1999, Intalio is a privately-held, venture-backed company located in Redwood City, California. For more information please visit: www.intalio.com

Located adjacent to the Al Maktoum International Airport (Dubai World Central) and in close proximity to Jebel Ali Port and Free Zone, with easy accessibility to major highways such as Sheikh Zayed Road, Emirates Road and the Dubai Ring Road, the 560 million square feet Dubai Industrial City is a dedicated industrial destination comprising six industrial clusters featuring food and beverage, base metal, mineral products, chemicals, transport equipment and parts, and machinery and mechanical equipment. Complementary facilities for logistics, warehousing, labour cities, industrial training, in addition to commercial, residential and entertainment zones, position Dubai Industrial City as a comprehensive one stop-shop destination. DI provides tenants with a critical competitive advantage in human resources, logistics and business operations.

Associate Partner

IBM has dominated the market since the 1940s and has survived the massive IT revolution during the 1980s and 1990s by shifting its strategy to center around the customer and offering value added services and solutions while fully supporting open standards. Today, IBM invests billions of dollars each year in research and development, with labs spanning all around the world, to work on all areas of information technology. With five Nobel Prizes to its name, IBM’s research labs collaborate closely with colleagues in academic and government research centres, as well as customers who tend to provide them with challenging research problems. The company established its first presence in the Middle East more than 60 years ago and currently has its regional headquarters based at Dubai Internet City. With the support of over 2,000 employees in the region, In 1984, IBM established its first Development centre in Egypt hosting over 500 professional developers, supporting worldwide labs and customers across the Middle East. IBM and its business partners provide channel and product management, sales and technical support, product distribution, solution offerings and business consultancy.  IBM’s Global Business Services provides business consulting and IT services across the region and in addition the company is represented in most Middle East markets through its general marketing and service representatives – Gulf Business Machines (GBM) and Saudi Business Machines (SBM) in Saudi Arabia. As well as its partners in the UAE, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain, UBS and STS Business One in Jordan, CBM, Quantech and Bluetech in Lebanon