Emptoris is excited to announce the following conference sponsors:

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 more than 180,000 people in 49 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$19.70 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2007. Learn more at www.accenture.com.

Huron Consulting Group helps clients effectively address complex challenges that arise in litigation, disputes, investigations, regulatory compliance, procurement, financial distress, and other sources of significant conflict or change. The Company also helps clients deliver superior customer and capital market performance through integrated strategic, operational, and organizational change. Huron provides services to a wide variety of both financially sound and distressed organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, medium-sized businesses, leading academic institutions, healthcare organizations, and the law firms that represent these various organizations. Learn more at www.huronconsultinggroup.com.

IBM Global Business Services
With more than 60,000 consultants and professional staff in more than 160 countries globally, IBM Global Business Services (GBS) is the world’s largest consulting services organization. IBM GBS provides clients with business process and industry expertise, a deep understanding of technology solutions that address specific industry issues, and the ability to design, build and run those solutions in a way that delivers bottom-line business value. Learn more at IBM Global Business Services.

Alliance Consulting delivers IT consulting and software solutions to targeted clients in the Life Sciences, Financial Services, Manufacturing and HighTech Industries.  With a formal partnership with Emptoris and a dedicated Agreement Management practice, Alliance provides operational support, integration and application enhancement services for Emptoris and other off-the-shelf contract management packages. Alliance’s key success factors include in-depth knowledge of the complete agreement management lifecycle; from financial modeling, editing and creation, through execution and management, to results and profitability analysis. Learn more at www.allianceconsulting.com

Alti is a global Information Technology Consulting and Professional Services company, founded in 1995. Alti has served over 200 large national and multi-national clients with over 1200 professionals worldwide.  Alti assists corporate organizations to clarify operational understanding by facilitating the flow of ideas, information, and the development of appropriate technology goals and strategies. Learn more at www.altiamerica.com.

EMC Consulting provides a rich portfolio of professional service offerings to help customers transform information into business results – to get more value from their information and clear business impact from their information infrastructure investments. EMC Consulting is a worldwide organization with 2,700 consultants that combine objectivity with deep industry, business and technology skills and expertise to solve today’s toughest business, IT and information management challenges. These services are delivered through highly customized consultative engagements that extend a customer organizations’ own skills, focus and global execution capabilities. We use field-tested tools, proven methodologies, best practices and industry standards to optimize time-to-value for customer information infrastructure initiatives. Learn more at www.emc.com/consulting.

SciQuest's procurement automation and supplier enablement solutions empower leading organizations to realize the potential of strategic procurement. The company's specialized knowledge, on-demand software, and service-first approach enable public and private enterprises across the globe to manage spend, drive ROI, and advance their critical missions. Learn more at www.sciquest.com.

TriZetto is Powering Integrated Healthcare Management™. With its technology touching nearly half of the U.S. insured population, TriZetto is uniquely positioned to drive the convergence of health benefit administration, care management and constituent engagement. The company provides premier information technology solutions that enable payers and other constituents in the healthcare supply chain to improve the coordination of benefits and care for healthcare consumers. Healthcare payers include national and regional health insurance plans and benefits administrators that provide transaction services to self-insured employer groups. The company's payer-focused information technology offerings include enterprise and component software, hosting and business process outsourcing services and consulting. Headquartered in Newport Beach, Calif., TriZetto can be reached at 949-719-2200 or at www.trizetto.com.