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Event Sponsors
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Chartwell Inc. is an enterprise transformation management consulting firm dedicated to enhancing government effectiveness.
We are thought of as leaders, innovators and educators, having developed the new management discipline of public sector business design.
We have established government’s standard reference models in all jurisdictions. How have we accomplished so much? Our team of highly experienced, veteran practitioners believe in developing pragmatic planning and implementation. This focus on realistic goals enables us to exceed our clinet’s expectations in every engagement.
Chartwell is very proud of our corporate social responsibility and has been recognized as a national leader to fight homelessness |
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IBM Canada was established in 1917 and currently has 20,000 employees, with locations in every province and major cities across the country. In 2006, IBM Canada invested $360M in R&D and generated $1.9B of IT exports
Headquartered in Markham, Ontario, IBM Canada has nationwide
responsibilities for sales, marketing and service. Our manufacturing and development operations include:
- a semiconductor packaging plant in Bromont, Quebec
- software development laboratories in Markham, Ottawa, Montreal and Victoria.
IBM In Atlantic Canada
IBM Atlantic is a group of talented 450 Atlantic Canadians who are
committed to their communities and the success of the region. IBM Atlantic contributes cash and technology to more then 100 local charities,
organizations and community associations across the Atlantic region.
IBM invests in competencies that provide leading-edge services to our clients in Atlantic Canada. This approach not only creates highly-skilled jobs; it
creates a need for continuous training to enable our workforce to deliver the latest and best IBM solutions available.
Within IBM Canada, there are approximately 2000 employees working with Public Sector customers, most of whom are professional/technical and
support personnel. IBM ‘s organizational structure is by Industry Sector and then by Solution. Public Sector, which includes Healthcare and Government, is one of the top two industry focuses for IBM. There are 550 resources within IBM Canada’s Business Consulting Services Public Sector Practice alone, a subset of the 2000 resources in IBM Global Services working with Public
Sector in Canada. Within each Sector, we are focused by practice on Solution Sets spanning strategic change, customer relationship management, supply chain operations, financial management, human capital, IT, and business-process outsourcing. As the world’s largest consulting organization, IBM is the industry leader for end-to-end Government solutions and is recognized by Gartner as top provider of e-govt services to state and local Government (February 19, 2003).
Whether it is to lead an entire project, or to augment existing expertise within a client project team, IBM has the management, resources and processes in place.
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The Intersol Group is a team of industry trusted consulting, facilitation and learning professionals whose expertise lies in the ability to harness and build lasting organizational capacity through proven people engagement approaches and methods. Whether the focus involves shaping vision, mission, strategy, corporate renewal, organizational development, business plans, operational plans, or enhancing high performance and project teams, Intersol helps organizations leverage the knowledge, experience and expertise inherent in their people to turn strategies into action and high performance results.
Intersol truly partners with its clients to achieve desired results through a balanced approach of outcome-focused dialogue and people-focused processes, that:
- Build customer focused strategies and plans that drive high performance results
- Increase awareness, ownership, accountability and responsibility for performance
- Create collaborative, innovative, engaged and productive organizational environments
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SAP Canada, based in Toronto, is a fast-growing subsidiary of SAP AG, the world’s leading provider of business software. SAP applications are helping Canadian enterprises improve productivity and customer relationships, reduce costs, increase revenues and profitability, and create efficiencies across supply chains and business operations. SAP Canada has more than 600 customers and 800 employees in five offices across the country. In addition, SAP Labs Canada develops cutting-edge software for a wide array of SAP applications from its Montreal location.
For further information, please visit www.sap.ca.
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xwave, a division of Bell Aliant, is one of Canada’s largest business-solutions providers, delivering a full range of information technology and business services to clients through systems integration, infrastructure services, and fulfillment. For over three decades xwave has helped government organizations at all levels support economic, innovation and information-management strategies while promoting the independence and well-being of citizens. We plan, design, build and operate complete solutions,supporting public-sector clients at all stages of technology life-cycle management and helping them generate an optimal return on their IT investments.
Bell Aliant (TSX: BA.UN) is one of North America’s largest regional communications providers. Through its operating entities it serves customers in six Canadian provinces with innovative information, communication and technology services including voice, data, Internet, video and value-added
business solutions. Through its xwave offices, Bell Aliant also provides IT professional services in Canada and the US. Bell Aliant’s 10,000 employees are committed to deliver the highest quality of customer service, choice and convenience.
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Governments in Canada are under tremendous pressure to exceed citizen’s and businesses’ needs, meet legislation, policies and regulations, reduce ever-rising costs and help their staff to do more with less.
To meet these challenges, many organizations are looking for ways to maximize information management systems. They are seeking the improved integration of systems that are easier to implement and maintain.
Microsoft Canada and its partners understand the issues confronting governments in Canada. With our partners and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) we have developed cost-effective solutions that enable Canadian goverments to streamline and automate daily processes that improve
productivity and deliver information to citizens, employees, businesses and other community organizations whenever and wherever it is needed. The result is enhanced employee productivity, citizen and business responsiveness and reduced costs for all.
Microsoft Canada is committed to governments in Canada. The Microsoft Canada government team is mandated to ensure that Microsoft is focusing the appropriate resources: licensing, partners, ISVs and others to ensure that our customers are successful in building repeatable, secure and manageable municipal solutions using the Microsoft technology that they own today.
For more information: www.microsoft.ca/publicsector
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Cúram Software is the leading provider of Social Enterprise Management (SEM) software solutions, delivering best-in-class applications for social enterprises globally including, health and human services, workforce services, and social security organizations. Using the Cúram Business Application Suite™ agencies can immediately reap the benefits of client-centric business processes and an outcomes-driven integrated service delivery model.
The Cúram Business Application Suite, underpinned by the Cúram Enterprise Framework™, combines the advantages of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software, an enterprise platform and service oriented architecture with the business and technical flexibility required to allow agencies to implement solutions to meet their strategic objectives. Cúram Software is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with additional offices located in New York, Washington, D.C., United Kingdom, Australia and Bangalore, India.
For more information, visit www.curamsoftware.com |
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Nexient is Canada’s largest provider of corporate education and learning
consulting services. Nexient maintains over 25 offices from coast to coast, services over 180,000 clients annually, and currently generates revenues in excess of $65 million. With over 30 years experience in the industry, Nexient is recognized as the pre-eminent provider of corporate training in Canada – from learning services, such as consulting, training delivery, courseware authoring, and other services related to the design, delivery and management of learning. We have become a strategic learning partner to organizations around the world. Our four lines of business are:
- Information Technology (all levels from End User to Technical)
- Business Process Improvement (Project Management, Business Analyst, ITIL, Sourcing Management and Business Architecture)
- Business and Leadership Skills
- Learning Services (our ability provide tailored and custom training solutions, portals, and Learning Management Systems)
Currently, Nexient has over 390 full and part-time employees, who are complimented by an extensive network of approximately 350 contractors and consultants, which includes facilitators, instructors, instructional designers, eLearning specialists, technical staff and programmers. Nexient provides education and training outsourcing and skills management services to many of Canada’s largest corporations and government departments. |
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Founded in 1979, Gartner is the premier provider of independent research and analysis on the global IT industry. Gartner clients get actionable IT research, advice and consulting under one roof from a community of 3,900 associates.
”In a league of our own”, Gartner can help you make smarter and faster decisions. Gartner’s years of relevant experience and institutional knowledge prevent costly and avoidable errors. Be confident that with Gartner, your decisions are the right decisions. |
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Government Insights, an IDC company, provides government organizations and IT vendors who serve them with research-based advisory and consulting services that enable government executives to maximize the value of their technology investments; minimize technology risk through accurate planning; benchmark themselves against industry peers; adopt industry best practices for organizational/technology alignment; make more informed technology decisions; and drive technology-enabled performance and innovation.
Government Insights provides full coverage of the government value chain, with special emphasis on developing and employing strategies that leverage IT investments to maximize organizational performance. Staffed by senior analysts with significant technology experience in government, Government Insights provides a portfolio of research and advisory services that are relevant to the needs of both the government and IT vendor communities. |
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Treasury Board Secretariat, Chief Information Officer Branch, Enterprise Architecture and Standards Division
The Enterprise Architecture and Standards Division (EASD) works to help government become more coherent and efficient through the application of Enterprise Architecture (EA).
EASD leads the design, development and implementation of the Government of Canada’s (GC) enterprise architecture (EA), a framework of principles, standards and practices used to guide the design and implementation of service transformation and IM/IT initiatives. In addition, the Enterprise Architecture and Standards Division supports the development and stewardship of common municipal and provincial government architectural frameworks.
The Government of Canada enterprise architecture reference models, tools and methods are available at http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/inf-inf/index_e.asp .
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The Barrington Consulting Group is an Atlantic Canadian based firm centered on delivering exceptional results to its clients. With a professional staff of25 consultants, Barrington assists clients with enabling and enhancing their business success by providing consulting talent that is adaptable, flexible and supportive of their client’s culture and objectives. Since its inception in January 2004, Barrington has worked in many areas of government throughout Atlantic Canada including Health Care, Government Services, Education, Finance,
Transportation and Public Works, Community Services, Environment and Labour, Economic Development, Justice and Natural Resources.
Barrington, delivers independent, objective advice to our clients and focuses on seamlessly integrating our resources into client teams. Barrington provides professional services in a number of diff erent areas including: Management Consulting, Project Management, Business Solution Delivery, IT Services
Management and Technology Consulting.
For more information about Barrington Consulting Group, please see www.barringtongrp.ca |
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