Bull, as Architect of an Open World™, is a pathfinder. With the convergence of IT, telecommunications and media, Bull – the only European-based company that masters all the key elements of the IT value chain – helps enterprises and public sector bodies to build, optimize, run and ensure return on investment in their business-critical Information Systems (IS), so they can operate in total security. Modernizing IS by applying open and secure solutions – that is our obsession. Architectures based on open technologies – that is where our know-how lies. Our distribution network and business partners cover more than 50 countries worldwide. Official website >

Alter Way, intégrateur Open Source de référence, accompagne les grands comptes, administrations, collectivités locales et Pme/Pmi dans le développement et l'usage de leur système d'information. Alter Way propose une offre industrielle à 360°, structurée autour de quatre activités : Conseil (Alter Way Consulting), Intégration, développement et infogérance (Alter Way Solutions), Hébergement à valeur ajoutée (Alter Way Hosting), Formation (Alter Way Formation). Accordant une place essentielle à sa contribution et à son implication dans l’écosystème Open Source, Alter Way se caractérise par le niveau élevé d’expertise de ses consultants, reconnus par la communauté. Alter Way fut la première entreprise à fédérer les acteurs historiques de l’Open Source autour d’un projet d’industrialisation du marché. Elle compte aujourd’hui 90 collaborateurs. En 2009, elle a réalisé une croissance de 10% avec un chiffre d’affaires de 9 M€. Pour plus d’informations : www.alterway.fr

Smile est une société d'experts des architectures web et des solutions open source. Avec plus de 300 collaborateurs en France et une expertise open source reconnue dans une variété de domaines, Smile est le premier intégrateur de logiciel libre en France. Avec une devise : faire simple, utile, performant. Acteur engagé dans les progrès de l’Internet depuis 1995, Smile a réalisé quelques-uns des plus grands sites de l'Internet français, des sites à forte valeur ajoutée et à forte audience. Smile a également été choisie par les plus grandes entreprises françaises pour concevoir, réaliser et maintenir des applicatifs Intranet stratégiques, servant des centaines d'utilisateurs sur des milliers de transactions. Grâce à des investissements continus en veille technologique, Smile anticipe les tendances, choisit et maîtrise les produits le plus en amont possible pour apporter à ses clients des solutions open source performantes et sûres.Official website >

Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions and an S&P 500 company, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 65 offices spanning the globe. CIOs ranked Red Hat as one of the top vendors delivering value in Enterprise Software for six consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value survey. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with virtualization, applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide. Official website >

HP is a technology company that operates in more than 170 countries around the world. We explore how technology and services can help people and companies address their problems and challenges, and realize their possibilities, aspirations and dreams. We apply new thinking and ideas to create more simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology, continuously improving the way our customers live and work. No other company offers as complete a technology product portfolio as HP. We provide infrastructure and business offerings that span from handheld devices to some of the world's most powerful supercomputer installations. We offer consumers a wide range of products and services from digital photography to digital entertainment and from computing to home printing. This comprehensive portfolio helps us match the right products, services and solutions to our customers' specific needs. Official website >

INRIA, the French national institute for research in computer science and control, is dedicated to fundamental and applied research in information and communication science and technology (ICST). INRIA has a workforce of 3 800, 2 800 of whom are scientists from INRIA and INRIA's partner organizations. INRIA develops many partnerships with industry and fosters technology transfer and company foundation in the field of ICST. Some ninety companies have been founded with the support of INRIA-Transfert, a subsidiary of INRIA, specialized in guiding, evaluating, qualifying, and financing innovative high-tech IT start-up companies. Official website >

Since its foundation in 2000, Nuxeo has been proposing a robust and extensible open source ECM (Enterprise Content Management) platform to the most demanding organizations worldwide. Nuxeo Platform and all products from the Nuxeo Galaxy suite bring cost effective with no-license costs solutions to meet today's requirements of information management. Official website >

Pilot Systems is a consulting company which provides integration, customization, and support services on open source and free software. They also offer hosting and training. Its customers include mostly French companies (SMB, Fortune 500), Public Administrations and NGOs. While its competences span a wide range of open source softwares and technologies, Pilot Systems is specialized in Python, Zope and Plone. Pilot Systems cares about company networks: it is a founding member of PLOSS (Paris Libre Open Source Software) and Silicon Sentier (100 IT companies in Paris). Official website >

Life. Connected with technology. From the written word, to image and photos, to music, to videos, games, streaming content, and more, Qualcomm is on a never-ending quest to feed the mind. Whether by developing our technologies or partnering with companies who share our vision, we're leading the charge in the digital revolution. The world leader in next generation mobile technologies, Qualcomm ideas and inventions are driving wireless growth and helping to connect people to information, entertainment and one another. Official website >

Canonical is committed to the production and support of Ubuntu - a fast-growing open-source operating system. Canonical partners with hardware manufacturers to certify Ubuntu, provides migration, deployment, support and training services to businesses, and offers online services to end-users. Official website >

Capgemini, one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, enables its clients to transform and perform through technologies. Capgemini provides its clients with insights and capabilities that boost their freedom to achieve superior results through a unique way of working, the Collaborative Business Experience. The Group relies on its global delivery model called Rightshore®, which aims to get the right balance of the best talent from multiple locations, working as one team to create and deliver the optimum solution for clients. Present in more than 30 countries, Capgemini reported 2009 global revenues of EUR 8.4 billion (approximately USD $11.6 billion) and employs 90,000 people worldwide. Official website >

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. Official website >

Jaspersoft's open source business intelligence suite is the world's most widely used BI software, with more than 8 million total downloads worldwide and more than 10,000 commercial customers in 96 countries. Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite provides a web-based, open and modular approach to the evolving business intelligence needs of the enterprise. Jaspersoft's software is rapidly updated by a community of more than 90,000 registered members working on more than 350 projects, which represents the world's largest business intelligence community. The company is based in San Francisco and is backed by leading venture capital firms Morgenthaler Ventures, DCM, Partech International, Scale Venture Partners, SAP Ventures, Adams Street Partners and Red Hat. Official website >

SugarCRM makes CRM Simple. As the world's leading provider of open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, SugarCRM applications have been downloaded more than seven million times and currently serve over 600,000 end users in 80 languages. Over 6,000 customers have chosen SugarCRM's On-Site and Cloud Computing services over proprietary alternatives. SugarCRM has been recognized for its customer success and product innovation by CRM Magazine, InfoWorld, Customer Interaction Solutions and Intelligent Enterprise. Official website >

Zimbra, as part of VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), is the leader in open source, next-generation email and collaboration software. Zimbra is simplifying IT and setting the standard for web and cloud based collaboration with innovative user experiences, such as a rich AJAX web interface. Streamlined administration, advanced mobility and both on-premises and hosted cloud deployment options have quickly made Zimbra a preferred collaboration platform for businesses, service providers, government and educational institutions. With more than 60 million paid mailboxes worldwide, Zimbra is one of the largest and fastest growing email providers. Official website >

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With approximately 177,000 people serving clients in over 120 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$23.39 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2008. Official website >

Af83 creates the next generation of applications. Our expertise lies in Application Engineering and Experience Design, with a strong focus on leveraging the most cutting edge technologies and most innovative practices. We are able to help you in the whole process of designing, building and releasing your application. Af83 is multidisciplinary team of engineers, designers, media, international specialists and seasoned technology executives. Our Application Engineering and Experience Design departments are focused on designing and delivering the best applications for our customers. Our R&D is a leading contributor and creator of Open Source projects. Our Media and International divisions allow our clients to build community, content and reach international markets. We work for the High Tech, Communication, Finance, Startups, Consumer products, Public Services and Entertainment and Media sectors. Our clients include Google, Vodafone, Cap Gemini, La Poste, Colgate and TF1. Official website >

L’offre principale d’ayeba est le pilotage de projets et la coordination des différents intervenants. Elle est complétée d’interventions ponctuelles de diagnostics et préconisations, de formations, d’accompagnement de projets ou d’équipes. ayeba intervient sur tous types de projets impliquant des technologies de l’information et de la communication. Depuis les projets amonts d’expression des besoins, d’assistance à maîtrise d’ouvrage, de structuration du Système d’Information, comme le schéma directeur, le pilotage du portefeuille de projets, le cadre technologique, les méthodes de pilotage de projet, ou l’organisation de l’exploitation… Jusqu’aux projets de développement de solutions ou ayeba s’appuie sur un socle technologique FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software) et un réseau de compétences éditeurs ou contributeurs de premier rang de ces technologies. Official website >

eNovance est spécialisée dans l'hébergement et l'infogérance d'applications Open Source critiques. Avec une expertise reconnue sur un ensemble de technologies de pointes nous intervenons sur 3 axes principaux :

  - Haute Performance

  - Haute Disponibilité

  - Plateformes critiques et complexes

Très investi en matière de Recherche & Développement, eNovance se positionne également comme un acteur majeur en matière d'infogérance de cloud privés, publics ou hybrides. Que ce soit pour dynamiser les performances, adresser une audience internationale ou optimiser les coûts, nous proposons un ensemble de services à forte valeur ajoutée nous permettant de prendre des engagements de qualités de services élevés.(Rendez vous le 25 septembre sur eNovance.com pour découvrir eNovance V2 en avant première) Official website >

L’Atelier is a company specialized in tracking innovation since 1978. L’Atelier has an acknowledged expertise and an extended network within its international presence in Paris, San Francisco and Shanghai. L’Atelier provides its extended set of connections, know-how in innovation, studies, consulting services, to innovative companies within different services: custom-built expertise, surveys, Business Tech tours… Official website >

Créé en 2002, le CMit est une association qui s’adresse aux directeurs marketing du marché des TIC, B2B et B2C et qui est gérée à titre bénévole par certains d’entre eux. Depuis, plus de 80 directeurs marketing, de tous les horizons des TIC, ont rejoint le club et participent activement aux manifestations.Le Club des Directeurs Marketing & Communication des TIC a pour vocation d’enrichir et de promouvoir les fonctions Marketing & Communication dans le secteur IT en France. Il à ses adhérents, Directeurs Marketing et Communication des TIC, un cadre idéal pour le partage d'expérience, un accès privilégié à des connaissances Marketing/Communication, management et marché ainsi que l’opportunité de développer des partenariats business et technologiques. En tant que référence de la profession, il se donne pour mission d’être le porte-parole des fonctions Marketing & Communication du secteur IT. Official website >

The Electronic Business Group (EBG) is an international business network which purpose is to boost innovation, new technologies, Internet and digital medias. The members of this organisation are both large companies and fast growing ventures. The Electronic Business Group manages seven committees: marketing, media, mobile strategies, telecommunications, buying management, technologies & ROI, entrepreneurship, and law. Each committee meets once a month on a precise and concrete topic, gathering 100 to 600 people. Some other VIP meetings, such as evening conferences and diners, join together CEO’s, CFO’s, CMO’s and entrepreneurs. Amongst the guests that the Electronic Business Group has already received, we can mention Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Arnaud Lagardère, Pascal Lamy (WTO), Luca di Montezemolo (Ferrari/Confindustria), Ben Verwaayen (British Telecom), Gerhard Zeiler (RTL Group)… Official website >

The Open Source Think Tank (OSTT)  2010 Paris Edition will be held September 28 and 29 in Paris, France in conjunction with the Open World Forum. The OSTT is the industry's only by-invitation only event wherein 140 senior executives and open source thought leaders gather and discuss the opportunities and challenges facing the future of commercial open source. Through a series of brainstorm sessions and interactive working groups the audience will address actual and highly relevant business cases. For example, the focal piece of the Spring 2010 event held in April, was the business case presented by the State of California by the State's CTO and Chief Open Source Architect. The relatively few panel sessions offered at the OSTT focused on presenting the voice of the customer to the audience in the form of CIO panels, expert advice on cloud computing, and the open source mergers and acquisitions landscape. The Paris Think Tank will be structured along similar lines with real business cases and leading edge advice. These are some of the reasons the Open Source Think Tank has become the must-attend event for executives to network with their peers, build deep and profitable relationships, gain practical insights and stretch their minds. To learn more about the recent Spring event please go to: thinktank.olliancegroup.com.  To request an invitation for Paris 2010 send an email to: [email protected].

Founded in 1994, ITEMS INTERNATIONAL is a consulting company specialized in strategic consulting in the area of telecommunications and the Internet. The company is specialized in strategy, marketing and international think-tank fora in the area of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). We have extensive experience in helping public institutions and companies develop their ICT strategies. Our main areas of expertise are: Market definition, market opportunities, organization, conducting of strategic audits, due diligence, partners investigations, products and services analysis, Business Plans, Local authorities ICT development strategy. ITEMS INTERNATIONAL has developed a strong expertise in Software strategies and IT Management including Web2.0, Collaborative organizations, open source and cloud computing strategies.. Official website >