Sponsors

HDI Charlotte wishes to thank its corporate sponsors:
   

www.frontrange.com
FrontRange Solutions is a leading provider of Service Management solutions. Used by 130,000 companies in 50 countries, FrontRange covers the service support spectrum with award-winning IT Service Management and CRM solutions.  FrontRange extends well beyond core customer service and support with the addition of VoIP, client lifecycle and real-time infrastructure management.
  

www.brooksource.com
Brooksource is your single source for project and supplemental support through contract employment, contract-to-hire labor employment, and direct placements. We are the trusted staffing partner of our clients when it comes to project management, network upgrades, legacy system conversions, ERP implementations, web-based commerce development and other IT services.
    

www.apexsystemsinc.com
Apex Systems is an IT staffing and workforce solutions firm. We specialize in providing IT professionals for contract, contract-to-hire, and direct placements. Apex also offers staffing solutions for other select professional skills and workforce needs.

Apex is in the top 1 percent of all staffing companies, is the 8th largest IT staffing firm in the U.S. and the 31st fastest-growing. In 2009, we placed more than 9,000 professionals with nearly 1,000 different clients.
 
We serve Fortune 500, mid-market, and emerging companies from a wide variety of industries, including financial services, government services, communications, technology, healthcare, energy & utilities and others. Read our industry case studies to learn more.
   

www.roberthalftechnology.com
Robert Half Technology is a leading provider of IT professionals on a project and full-time basis. We offer our clients flexible, cost-effective staffing solutions that allow them to maximize the power of technology for the ongoing success of their business.

Highly skilled IT professionals choose Robert Half Technology to represent them because of our rewarding assignments and competitive pay. Through relationships with top industry organizations, including our status as a Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner, we also provide extensive professional development opportunities, enabling our consultants to continually improve their skill sets and increase the value they provide to our clients.

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www.service-now.com
Born in the cloud, ServiceNow makes IT more accessible, intuitive and social. ServiceNow creates a single system of record for all IT processes within a company. This system brings together IT strategy, design, transition and operation on a powerfully simple cloud platform that just works.

ServiceNow is built to be a productivity tool for all types of business users including the CIO, service desk staff, application developers, IT finance, IT operations and business people. ServiceNow applications are built on a single platform as a service. The platform offers a consistent and intuitive user experience through the entire IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) service lifecycle.
   

www.sigconsult.com
Signature Consultants is a national IT staffing and services firm experienced in the recruitment and placement of IT professionals on a contract, contract-perm or permanent basis. In addition to being the 35th largest IT Staffing Company in the US, Signature was voted the 7th Best Place to Work in Charlotte by the Charlotte Business Journal. Additional services include managed staffing, infrastructure services and project based staffing.
   

www.pinkelephant.com Pink Elephant is proud to be celebrating 20 years of ITIL® experience. Operating through many offices across the globe, the company is the world’s #1 supplier of ITIL and ITSM conferences, education and consulting services. To date, close to 200,000 IT professionals have benefited from Pink Elephant’s expertise. Pink Elephant has been championing the growth of ITIL worldwide since its inception in 1989 – longer than any other supplier – and was selected as an international expert to contribute to the ITIL V3 project – as authors of V3’s Continual Service Improvement book and through representation on the International Exam Panel.       Special Event Sponsor — Zenprise www.zenprise.com Zenprise’s award winning software automatically monitors Blackberry® Enterprise Servers & troubleshoots end user issues across the entire mobile environment. Unlike pure monitoring solutions, Zenprise identifies the root cause of end user issues and provides detailed resolution steps to fix these problems. The software enables administrators to resolve problems before they are reported by the end user, improve service levels and cut support costs in half.     Training Sponsor — New Horizons www.newhorizonscourses.com Since 1982, New Horizons Computer Learning Centers has grown to become the largest independent IT training company worldwide. We offer more courses, at more times and in more locations than any other computer and business training company. Businesses and individuals can choose from hundreds of course offerings, delivered by experts, and offered in hundreds of convenient locations around the world.   HDI SouthEast Regional Sponsor — BVirtual www.bvirtualinc.com B Virtual Inc. is transforming how support is delivered through the VIRTUAL Support Center model. Our exclusive solutions enable companies to increase service and support performance, while reducing overall operating costs to their organization. Education and Training – Support Management and Professionals Building and Deploying – Best Practice VIRTUAL Support Methodologies VIRTUAL-Sourcing – Innovative Outsourcing HDI SouthEast Regional Sponsor — Kavaliro www.kavaliro.com By using best practices and optimal employee recruiting strategies, Kavaliro provides employers with staffing solutions by providing the most qualified professionals who can fill both project and permanent positions in order to ensure the ongoing success of all types of businesses. We use a streamlined-yet-thorough approach to recruiting that saves our clients administrative time, resources and money.   HDI SouthEast Regional Sponsor — PureShare www.pureshare.com PureShare enables the transformation from the traditional reporting paradigm to an “Answers” paradigm. Our proactive metrics management products transform business interactions by providing managers, executives and staff with direct access to the answers they need – anytime and from anywhere.   Additional Sponsors From time to time, our chapter is also fortunate to have sponsors who donate prizes, chapter meeting meals and/or meeting space and more.  The following companies support us presently or have in the past in different ways.  In no particular order, Thank you! Insight Global T-Metrics Global Knowledge Hornbill Microsoft   …if we left you off, our apologies!  Please contact us to be added.      If you are interested in sponsoring the Charlotte Chapter of HDI, please contact us. What is HDI? Founded in 1989, HDI is headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and is the world's largest membership association for internal and external IT Service and Support professionals. HDI is member-focused and remains vendor-neutral in its efforts to facilitate open, independent networking and information sharing within the association's global network. Click to read more on HDI's site.    Interested? If you are interested in learning more about the Charlotte Chapter of the HDI, presenting, sponsoring or attending one of our meetings, or simply being included on notifications of events, please contact us -- one of our officers will be more than happy to reach out to you.     When do we meet next? Click here to read about our next meeting.