Our 2013 Sponsors

IIBA® is the independent non-profit professional association serving the growing field of Business Analysis. Whatever your role requirements management, systems analysis, business analysis, requirements analysis, project management, or consulting IIBA® can help you do your job better.

With a wholly-owned network of operating companies all over the world  and clients in more than 150 countries, IIL is a global leader in  training, consulting, coaching and customized course development.  Our core competencies include:  Project, Program and Portfolio Management; Business Analysis; Microsoft(r) Project and Project Server; Lean Six Sigma; PRINCE2(r); ITIL(r); Leadership and Interpersonal Skills. A PMI(r) Charter Global Registered Education Provider, a member of PMI's Global Executive Council, an ATO for PRINCE2 and ITIL and a Microsoft Partner (with a Gold Project and Portfolio Management competency) IIL is the training solution partner of choice for many top global companies.

Business Rule Solutions, LLC (BRS) is the recognized world leader in the advancement of the Business Rule Approach. Our principal, Ronald G. Ross is acknowledged globally as the “father” of business rules. BRS provides the complete set of services and the expertise that enable organizations to apply the business rule approach effectively, quickly, and successfully. BRS offers public seminars, in-house training, publications, tools, and Proteus®, the internationally acclaimed and proven business rule methodology.

RuleXpress by RuleArts is a software tool aimed toward the business-level capture, analysis and management of business rules, including the terms and facts that support them. It is intended to be a business-friendly tool for business workers to use directly in developing guidance (business rules and/or other elements of governance) for the business in business terms, as well as the business glossaries to support them.

Watermark Learning delivers expert Business Analysis, Project Management, and Business Process Management training and certification preparation. Since 1992, we’ve fostered results through our unique blend of industry best practices, practical approach, and engaging delivery. We teach real-world skills that motivate and enhance staff performance, adding up to enduring results that enable people to analyze and deliver solutions to business problems. With our academic partner, Auburn University, Watermark Learning provides Certificate Programs to help organizations be more productive, and assist individuals in their professional growth. Watermark is a PMI^® Registered Education Provider, and an IIBA^® Endorsed Education Provider. Watermark Learning principals and associates have contributed to the PMBOK^® Guide, 4^th and 5^th Editions and to the BABOK^® Guide versions 1.6 and 2.0, providing you intimate knowledge of these resources. They have developed the best-selling CBAP^® Certification Study Guide and the CBAP/CCBA^® Online Study Exam. Contact us at 800-646-9362, or visit www.WatermarkLearning.com.

At BusinessGenetics we pride ourselves in taking what is chaotic and complex in the business requirements world and transforming it into something that is clear and predictable. Both our methodology and tools help get our clients to that end goal—a set of precise and calculated business models that inform and auto-generate business requirement documents that are clear and concise.  We work with customers across many industry sectors to include manufacturing, energy and utilities, telecommunications and Federal organizations.  Our solutions and methodology correlate the complex relationships between the business, its processes, resources, personnel and information and technology.  With our unique visual representation, companies can quickly perform gap analysis and identify process improvement and automation opportunities.  Our software suite of applications is designed from the ground up to provide BML Practitioners a comprehensive set of powerful and intuitive business analysis tools.

BiZZdesign's core competencies include: enterprise architecture management, business requirements management, business process design and improvement, business process management and structured implementation and governance.

Numerous customers worldwide gain competitive advantage by using our specialists' consultancy, training and software tools. BiZZdesign has a proven international track record with successful customers and effective solutions. Learn more at: http://www.bizzdesign.com or email Brenda Cowie - Director Client Services, BiZZdesign North America at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Blueprint develops requirements definition and management software that is purpose-built to resolve virtually every problem encountered in requirements definition and management today. Designed specifically for use by Business Analysts and Requirements Authors, Blueprint automates the time-consuming, costly, error-prone nature of requirements.

With Blueprint, all the key players collaborate in real time. Through extensive use of visuals and simulation, everyone gets a common vision of what’s to be built – way before anything hits development.

Blueprint transforms the business-IT relationship into a visual, engaging collaboration – reducing ambiguity, miscommunication and mass confusion. For Blueprint customers, the requirements lifecycle becomes a process where clear strategy, sound decisions, and quality outcomes are the new norm.

The result? More predictable budgets and schedules, better visibility throughout the organization, faster-time-to market, and higher quality outcomes with far less rework along the way.

Blueprint is a proven enterprise-scale solution that can be deployed on-premise or in the cloud.

BonitaSoft democratizes business process management (BPM) by bringing a flexible yet powerful BPM suite to organizations of all sizes and industries. BonitaSoft and its open source community delivers an unmatched ecosystem of connectors for nearly any application and/or system. With BonitaSoft, organizations can model, automate, and optimize process workflows in Finance, Human Resources, Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, E-Government, and more. As the world’s fastest-growing BPM provider, BonitaSoft has more than 2,000,000 downloads, 600 customers, and a community of over 60,000 contributors.

inteGREAT is a Requirements Lifecycle Management platform that enables users to elicit, analyze, validate, review and manage requirements more efficiently. It allows stakeholders to collaborate on a common understanding of requirements, while automatically generating all documents, diagrams, simulations and test cases required.

inteGREAT supports common software development methodologies, including Agile, Scrum, Iterative and Waterfall.

inteGREAT provides bi-directional integration with Microsoft Excel and Word; allowing business users to author requirements in tools that are familiar to them. It embeds Visio within the tool to facilitate the creation of many types of diagrams. Users can publish documents to SharePoint, and then version and manage their workflow appropriately. inteGREAT also integrates with manyother 3rd party tools, making adoption much easier.

Created by eDev Technologies (http://www.edevtech.com), inteGREAT is available in the Professional, Premium and Ultimate versions. Each version has a desktop client and optional Team Access for web collaboration.

ESI is a global project-focused training company, helping people around the world improve the way they manage projects, contracts, requirements and vendors through innovative training in project management, business analysis andcontract management. In addition to ESI’s more than 100 courses delivered in more than a dozen languages at hundreds of locations worldwide, ESI offers several certificate programs through our educational partner, The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1981, ESI’s worldwide headquarters are in Arlington, Va., USA. To date, ESI’s programs have benefited more than 1.35 million professionals worldwide.

We power the people who build great companies.

For more than a decade, K2 has been helping customers rapidly transform their companies with applications that connect the right people to the right information and work.

With offices and distributors all over the globe and a powerful partner network, more than a million users in 40 countries rely on K2 to streamline operations, save money and reduce risk.

Dispute impossible.

As an IIBA^® Endorsed Education Provider, Requirements Quest delivers world-class, role-based requirements management and business analysis training. With an emphasis on process improvement and metrics, Requirements Quest brings industry best practices into your business so that you achieve better project results. Requirements Quest's consulting services include current-state practice assessments, building capability maturity and BACOE (center of excellence) frameworks, and requirements management process implementation and support. Requirements Quest is committed to bringing your business into focus. Are you? Call 608-850-6377 to get started.

Accelare is the leading strategy-to-execution enablement company. Through a unique blend of thought leading business architects, innovative process design, and our award-winning WhatFirst™ business architecture tool, we help organizations discover what is truly important to their success and execute on it. We guide organizations through implementing the strategy-to-execution process which clarifies business strategy, defines and assesses business capabilities, builds the strategy execution plan, and monitors performance against the plan. The result is a focused agenda, high levels of employee collaboration, and targeted investments leading to dramatic performance improvement.

Our services include: strategy development, capability management, project portfolio construction and management, business performance assessment, business architecture practice design, enterprise architecture design, process reengineering, and change management.

Ivar Jacobson International is a global services company providing high quality consulting, coaching and training solutions for customers implementing enterprise-scale agile software development. Founded in 2004, the company was established by Ivar Jacobson, the "father" of use-case driven requirements, and many other innovative software engineering solutions.

We work with customers across many industry sectors, including government, finance, telecoms and manufacturing. Our Agile Transformation Approach focuses on the key imperatives for successful agile transformation of enterprise-scale application development organizations: Scalable Delivery, Sustainable Change, and Supportable Solutions

• Rule Dialog allows non-programmers to create intelligent Web-based questionnaires
• Rule Solver integrates Business Rules with Constraint Programming and other Optimization technologies
• Rule Learner utilizes different Machine Learning tools for rules discovery and predictive analytics.

• Virtual Classroom (Live Instructor-Led)
• Traditional Classroom through our University Alliance (Live Instructor-Led)
• Private and Custom Training (Live On-site or Live Virtual)

Seilevel is a professional services company that creates software requirements for Fortune 1000 businesses. These organizations, and their business analysts, turn to Seilevel to identify what their software must do, drastically cutting features from scope and still delivering the needed business value. Seilevel gets the software requirements right, so our customers get their software (and business outcomes) right. The Seilevel mission is simple: we will revolutionize the way our customers create software requirements.

BPTrends (http://www.bptrends.com) is the primary source of business intelligence for business executives and process change practitioners around the globe. Industry thought leaders provide analysis and opinion on trends, directions and best practices relating to all aspects of business process management. BPTrends is the most comprehensive, in-depth business process management resource devoted to educating and informing the market. The BPTrends BP Tools Reports are the most widely read reports on BP software tools available and our BPTrends Surveys are widely quoted. With over 20,000 members, BPTrends is the largest community of BP Professionals in the world. BPTrends Associates provides BPM professional services to organizations, assisting them in the planning, architecting, designing, measuring and managing of their business processes.

Business Rules Community, sponsored by Business Rule Solutions, LLC (BRS), is a vertical, non-commercial community for business rule professionals. BRCommunity provides articles, commentary, discussion areas, and a variety of other valuable hands-on resources, and is home to the Business Rules Journal, which appears there free-of-charge. BRCommunity.com is much more than simply an on-line publication. With the help of a talented staff and generous supporters, it has grown into the place to be for business rules. Join today free-of-charge!

Business Process Incubator is the online resource for all things related to process. Free membership provides access to BPM, Change Management, Process Improvement, Lean and Six Sigma resources. Whether your challenge is to assess your organization’s readiness-to-change, prepare to participate in a process related project or obtain process modeling tools, we have the solution.

Future Strategies Inc. (http://www.FutStrat.com) publishes unique books and papers on business process management and workflow, specializing in dissemination of information about BPM, workflow and electronic commerce.

As such, the company contracts and works closely with individual authors and corporations worldwide and also manages the renowned annual Global Awards for Excellence in BPM and Workflow and the new annual Adaptive Case Management Awards. Future Strategies Inc., is the publisher of the business book series New Tools for New Times, the annual Excellence in Practice series of award-winning case studies and the annual BPM and Workflow Handbook series, published in collaboration with the WfMC.

The Object Management Group® (OMG®) is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry standards consortium. OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration standards for a wide range of technologies and an even wider range of industries. OMG’s modeling standards, including the Unified Modeling Language® (UML®) and Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®), enable powerful visual design, execution and maintenance of software and other processes, including IT Systems Modeling and Business Process Management. OMG’s middleware standards and profiles are based on the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA®) and support a wide variety of industries. OMG has offices at 140 Kendrick Street, Building A, Suite 300, Needham, MA 02494 USA. For more information about OMG, please visit http://www.omg.org/, or call Ken Berk at +1-781-444-0404.

The Official Bookstore of Building Business Capability 2013! 

Be sure to stop by the official BBC 2013 Conference Bookstore for some of the best—and most popular—Business Analysis books in existence! Browse a wide range of titles in all areas of Business Analysis including Fundamentals, Requirements, Certification Preparation, Communication, Leadership, Risk Management, Real-World Tools, and much more.

We will also host book signings for a number of conference presenters and speakers, and all books will be available at a significant discount from List Price. Please watch for book signing announcements during the conference, or stop by the bookstore for a complete schedule. We look forward to seeing you at the event!