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Welcome to the Houston SharePoint User Group. The place to learn more about SharePoint in the Houston area.

SharePoint Sponsorship Program in Houston

 

Is your company interested in participating with H-SPUG as a sponsor? For 2013, we have implemented a tiered sponsorship program fully outlined in this document. We have the following options available:

Platinum:  Platinum sponsors are our group of sponsors the commit to sponsoring three events for the calendar year, year end event and SharePoint Saturday Houston Gold tier. This sponsorship is prepaid and allows the sponsor flexibility to sponsor three events throughout the year. H-SPUG officers will coordinate with our sponsors on scheduling their sponsorship. These sponsors are also recognized on our website as our Platinum Sponsors. We limit this to three (3) sponsors per calendar year.

Gold:  Our Gold event sponsors will be able to sponsor two events for the year. H-SPUG officers will coordinate with our sponsors on scheduling their sponsorship. We limit this to four (4) sponsors per calendar year.

Silver:  Our single event sponsors will be able to sponsor one event for the year. H-SPUG officers will coordinate with our sponsors on scheduling their sponsorship. We limit this to four (4) sponsors per calendar year.

Door Prize:  If you are unable to participate, we also offer the option of your company providing us with a door prize. H-SPUG officers will work with you on these details.
 

In order for us to be fair for all sponsors, we will update the sponsor page to reflect sponsors that participate in any of the following: Sponsor tiers, Door Prize, Year end event and/or SharePoint Saturday Houston. If you find that your company is no longer listed, we encourage you to actively participate as a sponsor.

Click here to contact us about sponsoring.

Are you a current sponsor and need our W-9 form, click here.

 

 

 Platinum Sponsors

 
  
Biography
  
K2

Process is pervasive to all enterprises. More efficient processes save time and money while increasing productivity and profitability. SourceCode’s K2.netTM offering is a business process management solution that enables customers to quickly design and deploy solutions that automate, manage and optimize processes.​

K2
New Horizons
For thirty years, New Horizons Computer Learning Centers has provided practical and innovative corporate training solutions to help organizations overcome operational challenges and take advantage of emerging opportunities. We are part of the largest, independent training organization worldwide. We help organizations and individuals achieve results, increase productivity and efficiency, drive revenue and reduce costs by providing the high quality yet cost effective learning solutions. know us and are dedicated to promoting the success of our clients through quality training.
New Horizons offers a variety of learning solutions to fit the needs of any organization, individual, or government agency. Our offerings include PC applications and graphics software instruction as well as highly technical IT training and certification program training, professional development, and business skills training. In addition to offering public classroom-based courses, we can customize courseware, provide training at your company location, or roll-out an enterprise-wide training program. We even offer room rentals, with or without computers, at our state-of-the-art facilities.
New Horizons Houston

 

 

 

 Gold Sponsors

 
  
Biography
  
Catapult Systems

Catapult Systems is a national Microsoft-focused IT consulting company that provides application development, enterprise solutions and infrastructure services. With offices in Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Denver, Tampa and Washington D.C., Catapult implements innovative technology solutions that enable our clients to achieve their business objectives while deriving the maximum value from their Microsoft technology investments.
Our experienced team uses a proven approach and a personal relationship style to deliver the right solutions for our clients. We pursue new and unique approaches to applying Microsoft solutions to meet the most demanding enterprise needs, and we back up this commitment by employing the most experienced staff of certified Microsoft consultants.
A Microsoft National Systems Integrator (NSI), Catapult is dedicated to our Microsoft partnership and expertise in its technologies. Our NSI status is an elite ranking attained by fewer than 40 consulting firms nationwide, while our gold certified partner status and competencies demonstrate that we’ve met a stringent set of criteria, including specialized certifications and an extensive portfolio of real-world customer references, to be identified as the most skilled partner available in the solution areas we serve.
To date we hold 11 gold and 17 silver Microsoft competencies, an accomplishment unmatched by any other Microsoft partner. Boasting an unparalleled depth and breadth of expertise, Catapult is your Microsoft partner of choice.

Catapult Systems
CriticalPath Training

Critical Path Training is a joint venture between Ted Pattison and Andrew Connell dedicated to educating Professional Developers, Designers, IT Professionals and Information Workers how to become successful with Microsoft's SharePoint Products and Technologies. We offer instructor-led training classes across the United States in Microsoft Technology Centers and a few selected professional training facilities that are owned and managed by our partners. We reach many other customers throughout the world by offering online versions of our most popular SharePoint training classes.

We pride ourselves in the fact that we conduct extensive research and author the SharePoint industry's most in-depth training. Our mission is to provide you with an objective viewpoint and key insights about the architecture as well as best practices and essential coding techniques. We also believe that training is about more than just telling people a set of technical facts. There is a fine art to writing a great technical training course. A course author must be able to create a story that teaches concepts and reinforces technical skill in a series of lectures and lab exercises that build a student's understanding layer by layer through the week.

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CriticalPath Training
Muhimbi

​Based in the United Kingdom, Muhimbi is an international provider of products for the SharePoint and InfoPath markets. From our PDF Converters to our Workflow Tools, our products are compatible with MOSS, WSS 3 as well as SharePoint 2010 and available in a number of languages.

Muhimbi
Webtrends

​Webtrends is the global leader in unified mobile, social and web analytics and engagement. We help marketers create, measure and improve campaigns for more than 3,500 global brands including: The New York Times, Microsoft, BMW, RIM, China Telecom, China Mobile, CCTV, Tencent QQ, Hitachi, The Associated Press, HSBC, Barclays, Vivo Cellular and Petrobras. Our leadership extends beyond the web analytics industry we founded to the measurement, optimization and integration of all digital content and customer intelligence, including web sites, social media, mobile and paid-search advertising. Webtrends is a registered trademark of Webtrends Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

Webtrends

 

 

 

 Silver Sponsors

 
  
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CTREC Hilton IT Academy

As the largest IT training provider in the State of Texas, CTREC Hilton IT Academy understands that every student who walks through our door has certain goals and objectives in mind. Whether the requirement is professional development, project and team goals, or the business objectives of an entire company, our Training Solutions Consultants are ready to provide a complete solution for your IT training needs. ​

CTREC Hilton
Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software-any time, any place and on any device.​

Microsoft
News Gator

​NewsGator is paving the way to true enterprise social. Leveraging the Microsoft Ecosystem, we are developing solutions for organization who believe in the future of work. Solutions that improve productivity, engage employees, and drive SharePoint adoption. Our mission is clear: We Make Social Real.

Evaluate the capabilities required to drive productivity and engagement in your organization by visiting our social evaluation pages. NewsGator is also inviting H-SPUG members to Score Your Social Readiness, a complimentary consultation resulting in a customized report to help you find out precisely where and how social can benefit your business.
News Gator
Rackspace Hosting
Rackspace® Hosting is the world’s leading specialist in SharePoint hosting and cloud computing industry, and the founder of OpenStack™, an open source cloud platform. The San Antonio-based company provides Fanatical Support® to its customers, across a portfolio of IT services, including Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing. In 2010, Rackspace was recognized by Bloomberg BusinessWeek as a Top 100 Performing Technology Company and listed on the InformationWeek 500 as one of the nation’s most innovative users of business technology. The company was also positioned in the Leaders Quadrant by Gartner Inc. in the “2010 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting.” For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.
Rackspace
Ramp Logo

RAMP has developed the next generation of search & video experiences to make video more valuable.  Using RAMP, clients are able to fully leverage the value of all of their video content by driving increased discovery across search and social sites, enhancing user engagement through dynamic search and publishing solutions, and maximizing revenue through sophisticated advertising capabilities.

Leading media companies and enterprises using RAMP include Thomson Reuters, FOXNews, ABCNews, NBC, Dow Jones, Meredith, Citibank, and others. For more information visit RAMP.com, or contact us at info@RAMP.com.​

http://www.ramp.com

 

 

 

 

 Door Prize and Website Sponsors

 
  
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BTSharePoint

BTSharePoint Consulting has formed a team to walk in Houston's 23rd annual Susan G. Komen Race For the Cure 2013 event. This race helps raise funds for the fight against breast cancer, celebrates breast cancer survivors, and honors those who have lost their lives to the disease. Furthermore, these funds will help with research, treatment, screening, education, and support programs. Susan G. Komen is a great organization and fighting breast cancer is a great cause. However, for our family it is also a personal fight. If you want to help us fight breast cancer, join us on October 5, 2013.  There are many ways you can help, so we're asking you to help out in any way you can. Together, we are choosing to stand our ground and not allow breast cancer to win.​

BTSharePoint
Compu-Data

COMPU-DATA International, LLC is an innovative and customer-centric integrator and value-added reseller offering leading edge Document Management, ECM, Document Imaging, and Data Capture solutions. We specialize in Content and Data Integration (CADI) as well as document imaging hardware, software, and services.

Our Document Management experts have extensive experience in applying Enterprise Content Management - ECM solutions including Document Imaging and Data Capture to a wide range of industries including Defence, Intelligence, Law Enforcement, and Health Care.  We streamline our client's Document Management processes by facilitating access to their data, irrespective of its source, and can generate short returns on investment.

 

Compu-Data
Gimmal

Gimmal is the world’s leading provider of software solutions built on Microsoft SharePoint for enterprise information governance, certified records management, and SAP content archiving and interoperability. Microsoft has recognized Gimmal as one of their top three global Enterprise Content Management Partners for 2012. With Gimmal’s ground-breaking and award-winning software you can easily transform SharePoint into a platform that consistently governs and manages all content, documents and records stored in SharePoint. Gimmal’s SAP-certified content archiving and application development software takes document and records productivity further through the enablement of composite business applications to deliver business efficiency. For more information, visit http://www.gimmal.com.

Gimmal
GUIO Logo

Other companies promise to be experts in every technology; we choose to excel in only one – SharePoint. If you are tired of over-committed, half-delivered, SharePoint solutions, give us a call – we’ll take good care of your business.

 ​GUIO is a local SharePoint consulting firm and long time supporter of the Houston SharePoint User Group.

GUIO Website
Idera

Idera delivers a new generation of tools for managing, administering, and securing Microsoft Windows Servers. Idera's products help companies ensure server performance and availability and reduce administrative overhead and expense. Idera provides solutions for SQL Server, SharePoint, PowerShell and Microsoft Dynamics Servers. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Idera's products are sold and supported directly and via authorized resellers and distributors around the globe.​

Idera
Informative Graphics Corp
Informative Graphics® is a recognized leader in viewing, collaboration and redaction software, offering products that speed workflows, increase efficiency, and aid in regulation compliance. Our solutions are deployed across almost every industry, with millions of installed seats worldwide. Brava!® gives users access to needed information in documents quickly and allows them to make comments, remove sensitive information and create sanitized version as PDF, TIFF or DWF. Brava supports virtually any format, including office documents, images (e.g., TIFF, JPG, GIF) and CAD drawings. Redact-It® automatically creates public renditions of documents with sensitive content completely removed as part of a workflow. Blazon™ automatically creates a TIFF or PDF version of the source document. Add stamps, a watermark, or other information based on metadata from Microsoft SharePoint
Informative Graphics Corp
Pluralsight
The professional On-Demand! training library designed for developers, by developers.
 
Comprehensive developer training is our life. We know how to help developers because we are developers ourselves. Our MVP instructors can explain new technology in easy to understand terms, just like reading a story.
 
Once you experience the quality and depth of our On-Demand! training videos, you'll never accept anything less.
Pluralsight Training
SharePoint Solutions

SharePoint Solutions is a privately-held company headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, with training locations in Chicago, Dallas, Nashville and Washington, DC. We have been a pioneer in the SharePoint training industry since the introduction of the groundbreaking second version of SharePoint in early 2003. Since then, we have custom developed over 30 advanced SharePoint training courses and have trained thousands of professionals from more than 3,000 organizations around the world.​

 

SharePoint Solutions

Total Training is a pioneer in innovative video training for leading creative print, web design, web development, digital video, audio music technology and office productivity software programs.​

Total Training
Webucator

Webucator provides technical and business training.

  • Our private classes can be delivered at your offices, in a nearby hotel or rented training room, or in a live virtual environment.
  • Our public classes are delivered in a live virtual environment.
  • We also offer self-paced courses.

Webucator is a Microsoft Certified Partner for Learning Solutions (CPLS)

Webucator is a Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.) approved by PMI to issue professional development units (PDUs) for its training courses.

Webucator has a GSA Contract (GS-35F-0556S).

We have provided training to over 70% of the Fortune 100 companies.

Webucator just released new Sharepoint 2013 training courses.

Webucator

 

 

 

 Book Sponsors

 
  
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Apress

Apress Media LLC is a technical publisher devoted to meeting the needs of IT professionals, software developers, and programmers, with more than 1,000 books in print and electronic formats. Apress provides high-quality, no-fluff content that helps serious technology professionals build a comprehensive pathway to career success.

 

Apress
IHF Publishing

Ira Fuchs has been working with computer technology for over forty years and with SharePoint and InfoPath since 2003. He has worked with some of Microsoft’s largest accounts, helping them investigate, implement and exploit the capabilities of SharePoint. He also speaks, and runs workshops at SharePoint conferences and training centers. Ira’s first book, Enterprise Application Development in SharePoint 2010 – Creating an End-to-End Application without Code, is widely recognized as one of the best technical books on the market. In addition to books, he has written numerous white papers for Microsoft and other companies.​

IHF Publishing

We publish computer books for professionals--programmers, system administrators, designers, architects, managers and others. Our key people work from their own offices across the US, all communicating with the center in Greenwich, CT, and with each other and our authors by email, Web, phone and mail.

Manning
PACKT
Packt is one of the most prolific and fast-growing tech book publishers in the world. With over 1000 books published, Packt books focuses on practicality, recognising that readers are ultimately concerned with getting the job done. Packt’s digitally-focused business model allows us to publish up-to-date books in very specific areas.
PACKT
SharePoint Shepherd
Frustrated with the complexity of SharePoint and finding answers to complete tasks?   Want to get fast answers on how to make SharePoint a more productive tool for your organization?
 
Our organization is here to help you find solutions in the SharePoint world.  Our depth of experience, integration with Microsoft factory and field staff, and hands-on approach with tons of clients allows us to have un-matched expertise in solving the most complex SharePoint issues.
 
With years of experience in working with organizations like yours, we have built tools and processes to help you maximize your investment in SharePoint and create real exciting value to your organization.   We have built several solutions to help you move forward in accomplishing more with SharePoint.

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Sharepoint Shepherd
Wrox

Wrox Press, established in 1992 to publish books for computer programmers, is driven by the Programmer to Programmer philosophy. Wrox books are written by programmers for programmers, and the Wrox brand means authoritative solutions to real-world programming problems. Wrox's unique author-editorial process delivers the best and most useful information you need in the timeliest manner.

 

Wrox