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The leading audit and consulting practice in Belgium, Deloitte, offers value added financial, assurance, legal, tax, and consulting services.

In Belgium, Deloitte has more than 2,600 employees in 16 offices across the country, serving national and international companies, from small and middle sized enterprises to public sector and non-profit organisations. The turnover reached more than 308 million euro in the financial year 2007-2008.

The Belgian practice is part of the international firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. For the fiscal year ended 31 May 2008, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu realised a turnover of US$27,4 billion worldwide, with approximately 165,000 members of staff in over 140 countries.

MÖBIUS is a consulting firm focusing on supply chain and business process management. Our objective is to coach our clients to become the best in their class. We do so by optimising processes and by linking employees' attitude, competences and IT systems to meet business objectives. At MÖBIUS we believe that critical decisions should be based on factual information. We offer independent advice and solid, measurable foundations for your strategic, tactical and operational decisions.

SAS software helps companies in every industry transform their data into predictive insights about company performance, customers, markets, risks and more. With 32 years of experience, They deliver proven solutions to access relevant, reliable, consistent information throughout your enterprise, giving you the ability to make the right decisions and achieve sustainable performance improvement. SAS is one of the largest software companies in the world. With consistent revenue growth and profitability since 1976, SAS has the depth of resources to sustain excellence in product development and customer support.

Enqio helps managers and sales and marketing executives to take business decisions based on innovative analyses of internal and external data sets. With Enqio's recommendations, companies can achieve improved results in relation to sales, marketing campaigns, stock and customer management, turnover, margin and profit.

Enqio has strategic partnerships with SAS, Microsoft, SPSS and KxEN, besides Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School and the University of Louvain-la-Neuve. Enqio is joint founder of the data mining user group, The Datamining Garden.

Oracle Corporation, an enterprise software company, engages in the development, manufacture, distribution, servicing, and marketing of database, middleware, and application software. The company operates in five segments: New Software Licenses, Software License Updates and Products Support, Consulting, On Demand, and Education. The New Software Licenses segment provides licenses for database and middleware software, including database management software, application server software, analytics, development tools, and collaboration software; and applications software, which provides enterprise information for the financials, human resources, maintenance management, manufacturing, marketing, product lifecycle management, procurement, projects, and supply chain planning sectors. The Software License Updates and Products Support segment provides customers with rights to unspecified software product upgrades and maintenance releases, and Internet access to technical content, as well as Internet and telephone access to technical support personnel. The Consulting segment designs, implements, deploys, and upgrades database, middleware, and applications software. The On Demand segment provides multifeatured software and hardware management, and maintenance services for clients deploying its database, middleware, and applications software. This segment also provides support centers, assistance, technical account management, configuration and performance analysis, personalised support, annual on-site technical services, and other related services. The Education segment offers online courses and self paced media training on CD-ROMs. The company distributes its products and services to resellers, system integrators/implementers, consultants, education providers, Internet service providers, network integrators, and independent software vendors. Oracle Corporation was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

CA is one of the world's largest IT management software providers. Our software and expertise unify and simplify complex IT environments in a secure way across the enterprise for greater business results. We call this Enterprise IT Management (EITM™) — our clear vision for the future of IT. It's how you can manage systems, networks, security, storage, applications and databases securely and dynamically. Widely regarded as having the deepest and broadest IT governance feature set CA’s Project and Portfolio Management solution offers an architecturally superior IT governance system for best-in-class scalability, flexibility and ease of implementation.
Founded in 1976, CA today is a global company with headquarters in the United States and 150 offices in more than 45 countries.

With a focus on enterprise visibility, resource optimization, efficiency and agility, Metastorm offers market-leading software for enterprise and business architecture (EA), business process analysis (BPA) and business process management (BPM). As an integrated product portfolio, Metastorm Enterprise allows organizations to improve business results by better aligning strategy with execution.

By combining the power of these three disciplines onto a common platform, Metastorm is helping organisations worldwide focus on the right business improvements, instill stronger governance, and accelerate time to value.

Metastorm continues to deliver on its strategy to be a market leader and innovator for software and solutions that drive enterprise effectiveness and optimization. Its ability to establish and sustain leadership has made Metastorm an ideal partner for organizations seeking proven technology, a commitment to innovation, and long-term growth.

Teradata is the acknowledged global leader in data warehouse innovation and analytical solution development. Every day we raise our customers' intelligence to higher levels, making them more focused and competitive by gathering enterprise information and extracting actionable insight.

Teradata elevates enterprise intelligence by giving every decision maker the insight required for smarter, faster decisions. We add value and reveal opportunity across more dimensions than any competing solution.

In every industry and geography, our technologies and expertise make the difference. Simply put, Teradata solutions make companies smarter and give them the competitive advantage to win.

Ideas@Work is a consultancy company that focuses on Business Process Management and Project Management. In our advisory capacity, we optimise the day-to-day operations and performance of large and medium-sized organisations, both through direct consulting services, as well as via individual training and workshops.

Compuware's enterprise portfolio management tool, Changepoint, provides an integrated view of your project portfolio-a view that allows you to effectively manage your projects, applications, people and client relationships. Compuware Changepoint enables executives to align and manage project portfolios, improve organizational effectiveness and enhance the quality of service delivery. With greater control over processes, visibility into key portfolios and a focus on quality throughout service delivery, you can deliver direct results to the bottom line-and greater value to the business.

Compuware Belgium is the subsidiary of Compuware Corporation who is a recognized industry leader in enterprise software and IT services that help maximize the value of technology investments. We offer a powerful set of integrated solutions for enterprise IT including IT portfolio management and IT service management.

Compuware serves the world's largest IT organizations, including 95 percent of the Fortune 100 companies. In addition to the popularity of our award-winning solutions, we have over 7,000 organizations utilizing the knowledge, skill and dedication of our global professional services team.

Since 1993 Pallas Athena has been a leading European supplier of innovative BPM software, solutions and services. Our more than 1,800 satisfied customers and over 1 million users are to be found in many different types of companies in all industry sectors. For sectors like health care, insurance, financial institutions and government. Pallas Athena developed standard BPM solutions for common recurring processes. Pallas Athena's software and solutions are sold in more than 30 countries throughout the world. With offices in Belgium, Curacao, Germany, Netherlands, UK and USA; and backed up by a network of carefully selected resellers and partners with the necessary experience and knowledge for a verity of markets and specific sectors. The success of the Pallas Athena BPM software and solutions has led to international recognition and a vast number of awards. Recently, Gartner positioned us as Cool Vendor for our innovative BPM Solution.

The Ascentn Corporation has developed the first comprehensive BPM solution for the Microsoft platform. Ascentn's deep enterprise experience and its utilization of the latest Microsoft technology enable it to provide the first secure, reliable, scalable, and affordable BPMS solution on the market.

Ascentn's solution is designed to enable business users to quickly implement and deploy cross-functional and cross-organizational business processes in the form of process-based applications, all while in an easy-to-use process-modeling environment running on their desktops using reusable business activity modules and executable functional parts built by IT. The result is the first Microsoft based BPMS to rival its J2EE counterparts in functionality, scalability, and extensibility while surpassing in usability and manageability, all at up to five times cheaper than its J2EE counterparts.

Delaware Consulting is a leading IT services provider. We are committed to the motto 'closer to'. Because we design, develop, implement and manage IT solutions in close cooperation with our customers and partners. Because we close the gap between business and technology. And because our solutions are aimed at bringing our customers closer to great bottom line results.

Our state-of-the-art IT solutions and services are based on the Microsoft and SAP technology platforms. We combine our deep know-how of these technologies with extensive hands-on experience and a pragmatic attitude. This approach leads to results-oriented solutions that meet - or rather exceed - our customers' expectations. Microsoft and SAP have confirmed our competence by awarding us the titles of Gold Certified Microsoft partner and Gold SAP Channel, NetWeaver and Business Objects partner.

To keep supporting our customers professionally, we are continually strengthening and expanding our organization. The Delaware Consulting team consists of over 360 professionals at offices in Kortrijk, Antwerp, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, China and the US.

RealDolmen is an independent single source ICT solutions provider and knowledge company with over 1900 highly skilled IT professionals and more than 2000 customers in the Belux and France. The company offers innovative, effective and reliable ICT solutions and professional services designed to help its clients achieve their objectives by optimising their business processes.

Onetowin is a pragmatic, no-nonsense recruitment and consulting company. We help our customers transform their business services strategy into managed processes, agile systems and optimised organisations. We partner with our customers to create added business value by sharing our pragmatic, no-nonsense experience and people who will drive and fulfill their projects and business objectives.

Established in 1989, Casewise provides software and consultancy solutions to major global organizations for Business Process Analysis & Management, Enterprise Architecture and Governance Risk & Compliance purposes.

Our enterprise modeling products enable teams to visualize, understand, analyze, improve, audit and continually enhance complex operating processes and IT infrastructures.

With offices in London, New Jersey, Paris, Brussels and Frankfurt – and a network of global resellers – Casewise provides the right knowledge and support to help organizations of all kinds make informed decisions and achieve success by design.

Casewise is acknowledged as an established market leader, earning the highest score for its modeling solutions by independent analysts. The company is cited an innovator and pioneer in its market and is ISO 90001 and ISO 140001 certified as well as a Microsoft^® Gold Certified Partner.

AE is a Belgian consultancy company which is recognised by its customers as the local leader and trusted partner in aligning Business & ICT, by delivering mission critical business solutions, grounded in a solid but flexible architecture.

AE integrates BPM, Enterprise Architecture, Software Solutions and BI into a holistic approach to make sure we understand the business requirements and deliver business driven IT solutions, guided by just enough architecture and methodology, both at enterprise level and project level.

Today, more than 110 consultants are realising business and ICT projects for leading companies in the industrial, financial, transport, energy and media sectors, as well as for the government.

SPSS has become a leader in predictive analytics technologies through a combination of commitment to innovation and dedication to customers. You will find SPSS customers in virtually every industry, including telecommunications, banking, finance, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, consumer packaged goods, higher education, government, and market research.

Customers use SPSS predictive analytics software to anticipate change, manage both daily operations and special initiatives more effectively, and realize positive, measurable benefits. By incorporating predictive analytics into their daily operations, they become Predictive Enterprises—able to direct and automate decisions to meet business goals and achieve measurable competitive advantage.

TRILATIONS is founded in 2001 by senior managers of big-4 consulting companies and is a professional, experienced and fast growing consulting company with a strong focus on following services for the utilities, public services and pharma market:

• Enterprise Architecture (EA):

We  assess your business processes and ICT in order to align your ICT with the changing needs of your company.  This assessment helps you translating the business strategy into an ICT strategy, selecting and managing strategic project portfolio. You will have a clear insight in the relation between your processes, applications and infrastructure.

• Business Process Management (BPM):

We analyse and re-design current operations and procedures to make them more measurable, customer oriented, cost-effective or simply stated: we optimise processes and organisations to address existing or future business challenges.

• Portfolio - Program - Project Management (PM):

We manage and facilitate change within companies. We take care of defining the project and to doing the follow-up of it. But most important, we mobilise teams around the project that are required to realise the benefits and project results.

As 'technology watcher', Solutions Magazine advises companies and organisations that want to maximise the benefits from IT. The magazine offers a detailed overview of the most relevant articles in the recent press. It is translated in items such as technical dossiers, case studies, advice and many more.

www.solutions-magazine.com

As 'technology watcher', Soluxions Magazine advises companies and organisations that want to maximise the benefits from IT. The magazine offers a detailed overview of the most relevant articles in the recent press. It is translated in items such as technical dossiers, case studies, advice and many more.

www.solutions-magazine.com

The Vlerick Business Process Management Network is a network organisation between the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School and the business community represented by companies with complementary experiences in the world of Business Process Management (BPM). It is a research centre created to offer high-level and up-to-date information on BPM (methodologies, benchmark results, best practices, lessons learned, used tools,...), and to develop, detect, validate and diffuse new management concepts and theories in the field of Business Process Management. The knowledge and expertise from the partners is combined, thereby covering all branches of industries, services and governmental organisations. The BPM Network creates a unique platform to share ideas and learn from other businesses. By organising seminars, training courses, BPM conferences, and creating a web-portal we aim to materialise theoretical approaches in the most practical way by learning how others did it before you.

BPTrends is the primary source of business intelligence for business executives and process change practitioners around the globe.  Industry thought leaders provide analysis and opinion on trends, directions and best practices relating to all aspects of business process management.  BPTrends is the most comprehensive, in-depth business process management resource devoted to educating and informing the market.  The BPTrends BP Tools Reports are the most widely read reports on BP software tools available and our BPTrends Surveys are widely quoted.  With over 20,000 members, BPTrends is the largest community of BP Professionals in the world.  BPTrends also provides executive education, training, mentoring and consulting services. 

The main objective of the Flemish Quality Management Center is to inspire Flemish companies to work and develop themselves in a competitive and efficient way, in the spirit of total quality management. Through result-oriented activities and projects, we aim at a generalized knowledge and use of good management practices, innovation and quality awareness. We work in close cooperation with the Flemish Government and are member of EOQ (European Organisation for Quality).

Join us for the 22nd yearly Quality Conference "Resilient Thinking" on 26 & 27 November 2009. Discover the power of appreciating via keynotes from the co-creators of the Appreciative Inquiry theory and method: Ronald Fry and Frank Barrett.

Participate in interactive sessions and see the power of appreciation and inquiry in organisations. Get your inspiration and energy renewed: www.resilientthinking.com or www.veerkrachtigdenken.be