Headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, SAP is the world's largest business software company with more than 51,500 employees at sales and development locations in more than 50 countries worldwide. Founded in 1972, SAP has a rich history of innovation and growth as a true industry leader. SAP currently has sales and development locations in more than 50 countries worldwide and is listed on several exchanges, including the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and NYSE under the symbol "SAP." A global network of SAP Labs spanning Bulgaria, Canada, China, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, and the United States, enables SAP to operate locally, yet organize globally.
Vodafone Group Plc is the world's leading mobile telecommunications company, with a significant presence in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and the United States through the Company's subsidiary undertakings, joint ventures, associated undertakings and investments.
EADS is a global leader in aerospace, defence and related services. In 2008, EADS generated revenues of 43.3 billion and employed a workforce of about 118,000. The Group includes Airbus as the leading manufacturer of commercial aircraft, with Airbus Military covering tanker, transport and mission aircraft, Eurocopter as the world's largest helicopter supplier and EADS Astrium, the European leader in space programmes from Ariane to Galileo. Its Defence & Security Division is a provider of comprehensive systems solutions and makes EADS the major partner in the Eurofighter consortium as well as a stakeholder in the missile systems provider MBDA.
Thales is a world-leading provider of onboard and ground systems for the civil aerospace market. The company's Aerospace activities employ 13,000 people, who are helping to define tomorrow's air transport solutions: cleaner, quieter and more efficient aircraft designed to fly safely in ever-more crowded skies. Thales provides systems and functions for all types of aircraft — commercial airliners, regional, business aircraft, and helicopters — and is a first-tier partner of the world's leading manufacturers, including Airbus, ATR, Boeing, Bombardier, Gulfstream and Sukhoi, on all of their major programmes. Thales provides world-class expertise in onboard electronics, drawing on recognised engineering know-how, a proven ability to innovate and an in-depth knowledge of customer needs, and local operations around the globe. Building on a strong industrial base in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, Thales has established aerospace centres of excellence on all five continents and is committed to providing secure and seamless solutions to its vast array of customers around the globe.
Columba Global Systems is an Irish software technology company founded in 2000 whose employees hail from around the world and have very experienced and diverse backgrounds in software product development, project management and consulting. In particular, Columba's involvement in Data Fusion Platform technology is based on extensive domain knowledge in mission-critical Security and Intelligence applications and its active involvement in the provision of advisory services, consulting and managed services across police, regulatory compliance, legislative, civil and military, as well as commercial domains including financial services and telecommunications.
SAIL LABS Technology is a leading global provider of speech recognition technology and was founded in 1999 in Vienna, Austria. SAIL Labs are one of the world's leading innovators in the field of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and speech technology systems, creating cutting-edge software for speech and multimedia analysis solutions. In the area of OSINT actionable intelligence can readily be retrieved using our high-end software products. SAIL Labs develops technologies to mine multi-media data and text including the indexing of audio, video and text, automatic speech recognition (ASR), transcriptions in multiple languages, named entity detection as well as topic detection. Our solutions allow content based search in multi-media files, automatic summarization and visualization (GIS, Trend, Cluster, Relationship). SAIL LABS Technology supports commercial applications (e.g., news monitoring, broadcast news transcription and indexing) as well as government applications (e.g., public opinion monitoring, surveillance and intelligence gathering).
Denodo Technologies, Inc. is the recognized innovator of Enterprise Data Mashups. Denodo extends the value of enterprise data integration initiatives with its ability to merge data across any digital source, whether it be structured (databases, applications and XML), unstructured (documents, static HTML and e-mail), or semi-structured (Web content and data behind any web interface). Organizations looking to leverage their information assets can now integrate all relevant data sources regardless of structure or location to create new business applications based on fresher and more complete data feeds. Denodo's customer base includes leading telecommunications, financial services, government, and B2B entities that use Enterprise Data Mashups to create single customer views, data aggregation feeds for information businesses, competitive and business intelligence applications, B2B/B2C Web automations, and data services for service-oriented architectures (SOA). Denodo is a privately held, venture-backed company headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, and Madrid, Spain.
The International Relations and Security Network (ISN) is the world’s leading open access information service for international relations and security professionals. Established in 1994, ISN mission is to promote greater knowledge sharing, learning and collaboration. ISN is building a portfolio of free, high-quality information services; providing e-learning consulting, content and technology services and products; hosting a comprehensive security training program for the intelligence community; and offering technical, editorial and administrative support to a host of online communities. The ISN is an online project of the Center for Security Studies (CSS), at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). It is jointly funded by the Swiss Department for Defence, Civil Protection and Sport (DDPS) and ETH Zurich.
Cubic's Defense Group supplies live, constructive and virtual military training systems, mission support services and communications technologies to the U.S. Department of Defense, government agencies and allied nations. The company's communications products are aimed at intelligence, surveillance and search-and-rescue markets. These include jam-resistant data links, signal intelligence receivers and Direction Finding (DF) systems for the military and signal intelligence markets.
