About Our Sponsors

Ariba, Inc. is the leading provider of collaborative business commerce solutions. Ariba combines industry leading technology with the world’s largest web-based trading community to help companies discover, connect and collaborate with a global network of partners – all in a cloud-based environment. Using the Ariba® Commerce Cloud, businesses of all sizes can buy, sell and manage cash more efficiently and effectively. Over 500,000 companies around the globe use the Ariba Commerce Cloud to simplify inter-enterprise commerce and enhance results. Why not join them? To get on the path to Better Commerce visit: www.ariba.com/commercecloud/

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company.

HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE, ENGINEERED TO WORK TOGETHER
Oracle provides the world’s most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems, with more than 370,000 customers—including 100 of the Fortune 100—representing a variety of sizes and industries in more than 145 countries around the globe. Oracle's product strategy provides flexibility and choice to our customers across their IT infrastructure. Now, with Sun server, storage, operating-system, and virtualization technology, Oracle is the only vendor able to offer a complete technology stack in which every layer is integrated to work together as a single system. In addition, Oracle's open architecture and multiple operating-system options gives our customers unmatched benefits from industry-leading products, including excellent system availability, scalability, energy efficiency, powerful performance, and low total cost of ownership.

For more information about Oracle, please visit oracle.com

Founded in 2000, b-pack is a perennial industry leader and innovator in purchasing solutions and business process optimization. With users on six continents, and offices in North America and Europe, b-pack meets all spend management needs.

b-pack provides a SaaS-cloud ERP-enhancing solution that enables more than 110 medium and large companies to integrate and automate management of their entire purchase-to-pay cycle: from vendor sourcing and contract management through requisition, RFQ, purchase order, invoice, and accounts payable.

b-pack solutions are built on a secure process-oriented transaction technology and are designed for rapid and cost-effective implementation. In the past, clients had to choose between flexibility and functionality but b-pack has successfully combined the two for unprecedented value and results.

CombineNet

Connolly

Connolly has 30+ years of helping clients improve their processes and recover the most money possible, all while keeping intact important client-vendor relationships.

As the recovery audit experts, Connolly partners with 19 of the top 20 US retailers and seven of the largest eight Commercial healthcare insurers, using a custom approach and advanced technology to help clients improve their processes and recover the most money possible,
Connolly also unlocks value from Payments-to-Sourcing. Working closely with its clients, Connolly recovers cash, prevents leakage, improves compliance and manages risk, delivering tangible and sustainable business value.

Strong, open communication and earned trust with our clients enables us to better understand their business and offer advice, deliver best practices for improving processes, and streamline operations.

Key Services:
• Accounts Payable Audit
• Contract Compliance Review
• Contract Compliance – Supplier Field Audits: Cash Recovery
• Contract Compliance – Supplier Field Audits: Non-Cash Recovery
• Source-to-Settle Consulting
• Source-to-Settle Program Development

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GEP

GEP® (Global eProcure) is a leading procurement services firm dedicated to helping enterprises add value and reduce costs through procurement and supply chain transformation. With a comprehensive portfolio of services and solutions, GEP helps many of the world's largest organizations uncover savings opportunities, and deliver these savings to the bottom line. We have managed over $50 billion of spend on behalf of these clients, across industry sectors and geographies. Our blended model combines management consulting, strategic sourcing support, implementation and outsourcing services with a full suite of best-in-class procurement tools and technology solutions.

Our global footprint helps us to deliver these services wherever our clients need them. Headquartered in New Jersey, USA, we have offices in London (UK), Prague (Czech Republic), Mumbai & Hyderabad (India), Shanghai (China), São Paulo (Brazil) and Willoughby (Australia).

For more information, please visit www.gep.com.

IHS

IHS (www.ihs.com)
Price volatility can wreak havoc on your margins and buying strategies but IHS can help you buy smarter. IHS’s Pricing and Purchasing experts can identify potential turning points in the market and help you find the best times to buy, providing you with bottom-line savings. IHS is the leading source of information and insight in critical areas that shape today’s global business landscape: energy, economics, geopolitical risk, sustainability and supply chain management. Businesses and governments around the globe rely on the comprehensive content, expert independent analysis and flexible delivery methods of IHS to make high-impact decisions and develop strategies with speed and confidence. IHS has been in business since 1959 and became a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange in 2005. Headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, USA, IHS employs more than 4,400 people in more than 30 countries around the world.

Infosys BPO Ltd. (www.infosysbpo.com), the Business Process Outsourcing subsidiary of Infosys Limited, was set up in April 2002. Infosys BPO focuses on integrated end-to-end outsourcing and delivers transformational benefits to its clients through reduced costs, ongoing productivity improvements, and process reengineering. Infosys BPO operates in India, the Czech Republic, China, the Philippines, Poland, Mexico, USA and Brazil and as on March 31, 2011 employed approximately 18, 947 people. It closed FY 2010-11 with revenues of $426.8 million.

Sourcing and Procurement Outsourcing

Procurement BPO is garnering significant attention from CPO’s / CFO’s and this stems from increased maturity of service providers, innovative solutions and successful case studies of successful global procurement transformation through outsourcing. Infosys BPO has emerged as one of the fastest growing providers in the procurement BPO space with approximately 20 plus global sourcing and procurement clients and manages close to 50bn of Direct and Indirect spend. Infosys has close to 1400 professionals engaged in pure-play sourcing and procurement services spread across 10 global delivery centers servicing top Fortune 500 clients across industry segments. Infosys provides both transactional procurement outsourcing solutions and also has significant category expertise and end to end solutions for most indirect spend categories. Infosys brings the added advantage of superior technology enablement and transformation embedded in its Sourcing & Procurement practice which enables it to provide its clients with added benefits since sourcing and category management can only be sustained with complementary information management and analytics capabilities.

Infosys has close to 1400 professionals engaged in pure-play sourcing and procurement services spread across 10 global delivery centers servicing top fortune 500 clients in each of the individual industry verticals.

IQNavigator

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Rearden Commerce

Xchanging

Work Nexus® is a leading Vendor Management System (VMS) used around the world by Fortune 500 companies and emerging industry leaders. First deployed in 1998 to streamline all of the processes associated with contingent labor requisitioning and management, Work Nexus has since expanded its core functionality set to include the web-enabled administration of SOW vendors, independent contractors, and procurement process outsourcing. This suite of offerings provides customers with real-time access to sophisticated reporting—reporting that provides the data needed to construct meaningful forecasts and buying strategies.

Earning Staffing Industry Analysts’ “Top Performer” award in Customer Loyalty, Work Nexus is a user-friendly and highly-configurable VMS. Our customers appreciate this key point of differentiation, as our Work Nexus architects deploy solutions that uniquely reflect their nomenclatures, business cultures, and preexisting processes. And this level of support doesn’t end after implementation; our teams continue innovating throughout each program’s lifecycle.

Learn more at http://www.worknexus.com

Summit Energy provides sustainability and energy management services to businesses in a wide range of industries, leading companies to cost-effective strategies by providing energy procurement, risk management, rate analysis, demand reduction and sustainability services. Summit manages more than $20 billion in annualized energy spend for more than 650 clients worldwide.

The world's best-run businesses utilize Aravo's SaaS-based Supplier Lifecycle Management and B2B information and collaboration solutions to find and manage trading partner relationships, reduce supply chain risk, ensure global regulatory compliance and lower the cost of managing suppliers by up to 72%. General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Accenture, and Pfizer rely on Aravo to manage information and processes for over 1.5 million global suppliers. Aravo is based in San Francisco, with offices in Chicago, Dallas, Portland and Ahmedabad, India, and is backed by over $50 million in investment from Cisco Systems, Big Sky Partners, and the Charles Schwab family. For more information regarding Aravo's award-winning solutions please visit our websites http://www.aravo.com and http://www.aravoassure.com or view our blogs at http://www.2sustain.com and http://atrisk.net.

Opera Solutions is an advanced analytics firm that delivers rapid profit improvement by coupling machine intelligence with human insight. Established in 2004, Opera now has 500 professionals (including 150+ machine learning scientists — one of the largest groups in private industry) and offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. We are proud to serve a global array of Blue Chip clients.

Opera’s Supply Chain Solutions group marries Opera’s cutting edge analytics and proprietary spend optimization technology with the deep domain knowledge of its professionals to rapidly deliver significant, sustained savings. Our view: it’s time to change the massive information asymmetry between purchasers and purveyors. We are doing so by bringing deep spend insights, critical market information, and analytics to the desktops of procurement professionals, leveling the playing field and enabling them to rapidly identify and capture savings.

A leader in “source-to-pay”, The Shelby Group offers a complete array of professional services focused on delivering successful source-to-pay spend management solutions for the Fortune 500 and mid-sized enterprises. Organized by practice area, Shelby is comprised of professionals with deep experience in Spend Analytics, Category Management, e-Sourcing, Contract Management, eProcurement, e-Invoicing, and Master Data Management. Shelby’s consulting services include the strategic planning, selection, deployment, and middleware integration, combining business process consulting with technical expertise on the most recognized licensed-based and SaaS platforms in the industry.

Based on proven best practices and real world experience in the field, our integrated approach will help you gain a competitive advantage in your corporate spending. Our thought leadership in the source-to-pay supply chain arena has been recognized by Supply & Demand Chain Executive having been selected as a “Pro to Know” in 2009 and SDCE 100 Company in 2010.

Spend Radar is a leading software technology company focused solely on conquering the challenges of spend analysis and spend management. Spend Radar was founded to overcome many of the challenges that previous generation spend analysis and data classification solutions fail to address in a complete or optimal way. Our entire focus is to help any organization working with spend or supplier-related data to take action more quickly and effectively, significantly reducing the time spent to create actionable analysis. By enabling organizations to gather and structure complicated, distributed and diverse sets of information in a completely new manner, Spend Radar sets a new standard for data management. Spend Radar customers achieve greater savings faster.

Manufacturing depends on precision, but how precise is your data?

A broken spare part in a key production line can cost your organization thousands of dollars for every minute of downtime. To keep lines running optimally, you need to understand what parts in your inventory are identical, can serve as substitutes for others, and how to optimize them to reduce downtime risk.

Your organization is also faced with the challenge of reducing procurement costs, a challenge that can be impossible to solve without accurate product information. Your inventory needs to be optimized across plants, regions, and countries. Poor-quality product information costs global organizations billions of dollars annually.

ByteManagers is the leading provider of elegant enterprise data solutions. Since 1999 we’ve helped many of the Global 1000 increase profitability, by providing a full range of data classification and inventory evaluation services designed to classify, quantify and enrich the product data vital to effective decision-making.

The Smart Cube is a global research firm that was named as the #1 Knowledge Process Outsourcing Firm globally, based on customer satisfaction, in The Black Book of Outsourcing's prestigious 2011 Survey Rankings. We specialize in providing customized corporate, procurement and supply chain research and analytics to global corporations, management consulting firms and specialist procurement service providers. Our research capabilities cover the entire sourcing spectrum as well as critical business areas including category insight, supplier risk analytics, should cost modeling and forecasting.

Through our global delivery model, The Smart Cube is able to deliver high value, insightful research and analytics at a fraction of the cost of local equivalents. In addition, The Smart Cube's research breadth extends to all critical markets globally - from North/South America and Western Europe to Low Cost Countries, including China, India and Eastern Europe.

Additionally, The Smart Cube was named in Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine's 2011 Annual Pros to Know in the Supply Chain Industry as well as an SDCE Top 100 Vendor. The firm has offices in New York, Chicago, Detroit, London, Zurich, Timisoara and New Delhi. For more information, visit <http://www.thesmartcube.com> http://www.thesmartcube.com.

Dragon Sourcing is a Procurement Service Provider focused on providing Market Intelligence services and Global Sourcing services from emerging markets operating with Sourcing offices in China, India, Vietnam, Turkey and Brazil and Sales offices in the US, UK, France and Germany. We provide an end-to-end solution customized to clients’ business requirement to include:

 Market Intelligence, opportunity identification and emerging market business case formulation

 Sourcing, supplier qualification and selection, negotiations

 Operational management of the spend (QC, logistics, payment, supplier development)

 Full outsourcing of the International Purchasing Office

We have built an integrated team of highly experienced procurement professionals who originate from the Americas, Europe and Asia and work for clients across a range of industries (automotive, pharma, construction, FMCG, chemicals, retail, food & beverage, hospitality, packaging,…)