Edward L. Hamburg

Interactive Intelligence, Inc. provided business communications solutions. It offered a suite of applications that can be deployed as a cloud-based or on-premise multichannel communications platform. The firm solutions were used by businesses and organizations across a wide range of industries, including teleservices, insurance, banking, accounts receivable management, utilities, healthcare, retail, technology, government, and business services. The company was founded by Donald E. Brown in October 1994 and was headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.

The integrated suite of solutions for Predictive IT Management from Hyperformix enables IT organizations to make informed business decisions to predictably, efficiently, and dependably deliver good business outcomes, productivity and growth. When planning for budgets, virtualization, service levels, and successful IT rollouts, there is no substitute for predictable and accurate insights into future performance. Hyperformix is a US-based, venture-backed independent software company delivering software, solutions and services that help CIO's make informed decisions about IT. Hyperformix offers products and solutions for capacity planning and management at progressive levels of sophistication and automation. Depending on customer needs, Hyperformix provides software and services for application profiling, IT decision support and detailed performance operations. Application Profiling: A profile of existing applications and infrastructure to determine current performance and capacity, identify risks to committed business service levels, and predict 'time to live' for key applications and business functions. IT Decision Support: Solutions to quickly identify the costs and risks inherent in IT projects, to accurately plan IT budgets in support of business goals, and to simulate alternative IT cost scenarios to support business planning. Detailed Performance Operations: Sophisticated capabilities for comparing virtual IT scenarios, optimizing resources and identifying bottlenecks in systems and applications. Detailed Performance Operations solutions from Hyperformix prescribe architecture and configurations that allow IT to guarantee service levels. These solutions are delivered through an integrated suite of software products designed to automate IT capacity projects and make predictive capacity planning accessible to every IT organization. Hyperformix customers have consistently realized infrastructure cost savings of over 17% and improved responsiveness of key applications leading to 21% higher end-user satisfaction. As IT organizations struggle with the complexity and cost of virtualizing servers, major application upgrades, consolidations and power costs, the ability to accurately predict budget and capacity requirements is indispensable. Hyperformix solutions have been proven and battle tested with hundreds of blue chip customers including Wells Fargo, Aetna, Cemex, McKesson, and many others.

Core Security Technologies, Inc. provides information technology security solutions. It offers core security attack intelligence platform, an attack intelligence platform that helps customers to identify the vulnerable areas of their IT environments to improve the effectiveness of remediation efforts and secure the business. The firm services include comprehensive penetration tests, application penetration tests, web services assessments, source code audits and wireless penetration tests. The company was founded by Emiliano Kargieman, Ariel Futoransky, Jonatan Altszul and Ivan Arce in 1996 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Sendmail, Inc. designs and develops software solutions. It provides message processing appliances, applications, and services that enable enterprises to modernize their messaging infrastructures. The company was founded by Eric Allman in 1998 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

ThruPoint, Inc. was provided collaboration solutions and unified communications as a service. The company was founded in 1996 and was headquartered in New York, NY.

SPSS, Inc. provides predictive analytics software and solutions. It offers analytics, IT architecture and business process services. The company develops Predictive Analytics Software which provides data collection, statistics, modeling and deployment services. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Learning Point Associates operates as a educational consulting organization. It includes transforming education systems and student learning, designing and conducting relevant education research and evaluation, developing and delivering tools, and analyzing and synthesizing education policy trends and practices. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

The American Institutes for Research is a behavioral and social science research and evaluation company. It also offers policy, practice and systems change services. The company was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.