Serif software company has product offerings that include applications for desktop publishing, digital imaging, drawing and graphics, 3D effects, and web publishing. Serif was founded in the UK in 1987 to provide a lower cost alternative to the expensive desktop publishing programs available at the time. The company was acquired by the US-based Allegro New Media, but senior management bought them out in 2001, returning Serif to UK ownership. The company still has offices in the UK and US. Clients include 3M UK, British Telecom, GE Energy UK, Siemens, and Amtrak.

Blackboard Inc. provides enterprise software applications and related services to the education industry in the United States. Its Blackboard Learning System allows education providers to support an online teaching and learning environment; and the Blackboard Community System includes functionality for student organizations, faculty and staff, departmental collaboration, information distribution, and single sign-on access to existing administrative systems. The company's Blackboard Content System provides enterprise content management capabilities; and supports teaching, learning, research, archival and library, extracurricular, and departmental activities. Its Blackboard Outcomes System enables the planning and measuring of student, teaching, and institutional outcomes, as well as provides a set of instruments for student and program assessment; and the Blackboard Portfolio System is a personal portfolio application that enables users to collect and organize their academic work.The company's Blackboard Transaction System is an enterprise software application to establish an integrated student debit account program for charging incidental expenses, such as meals and academic materials using the campus ID card. Its Blackboard One system enables students and faculty to use their university ID cards as a form of payment off-campus. The company also offers application hosting services for clients to outsource the management of their Blackboard Academic Suite systems. In addition, it offers project management, integration of its applications with existing campus systems, user interface customization, installation and configuration, course and content migration, custom application development, training, and consulting services. Blackboard Inc. serves colleges, universities, schools and other education providers, textbook publishers, and student-focused merchants. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Washington, the District of Columbia.

First American CoreLogic provides a database of real estate information on more than 140 million properties annually, and on 4.5 million property and mortgage transactions each month. The company collects information from more than 3,000 counties across the US. Its data products feature sales, property valuations, household demographics, neighborhood analyses, information on schools and crime records, flood data, appraisal data, and other proprietary and supplemental information. First American CoreLogic sells its data to more than 600,000 customers.

BT Expedite is the retail solutions division of BT – BT Expedite have a fanatical focus on retail, providing solutions to more than 60 of Europe's leading retailers to streamline processes, optimise information, and meet the evolving merchandise and service expectations of multi-channel shoppers.BT Expedite solution set spans every area of retailing; planning, sourcing, merchandising, store solutions, sales analytics and CRM, plus network infrastructure, hardware, training and professional service expertise.

, Ecora is the market leader in transforming enterprise-wide configuration data into clear, actionable reports for regulatory compliance and enabling IT best practices. The Company's flagship solution, Auditor Professional™, provides immediate value with its agentless architecture matched with rich report templates and pre-defined policies providing the foundation for effective change and configuration management. Ecora Software ensures that you are prepared for any IT audit before the auditor arrives, taking the cost and complexity out of compliance audits and enabling IT best practices for more than 800 worldwide customers across a wide range of industries, including many of the Fortune 1000.

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. provides technology-based solutions to the financial services industry in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The company operates through three segments: Investor Communication Solutions, Securities Processing Solutions, and Clearing and Outsourcing Solutions. The Investor Communication Solutions segment involves in the processing and distribution of proxy materials to investors in equity securities and mutual funds, and facilitation of related vote processing; and distribution of regulatory reports and corporate action/reorganization event information, as well as provides tax reporting solutions. This segment also offers financial information distribution and transaction reporting services to financial institutions and securities issuers; shareholder forum and virtual shareholder meeting solutions; and data aggregation and data management solutions.The Securities Processing Solutions segment offers computerized real-time transaction processing services, which automate the securities transaction cycle. Its products and services include desktop productivity tools, portfolio management, order capture and execution, trade confirmation, settlement, and accounting. The Clearing and Outsourcing Solutions segment provides securities transaction execution, clearing, and settlement services, including matching, recording, and processing transaction instructions, as well as exchanging payment between counterparties; and operations outsourcing services. This segment also offers financing for client inventory through margin lending. The company offers its services to retail and institutional brokerage firms, global banks, mutual funds, annuity companies, institutional investors, specialty trading firms, and clearing firms, as well as to corporate issuers. Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. is headquartered in Lake Success, New York.

Dolphin Software, Inc., was acquired by IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS – www.ihs.com) in March, 2008. IHS has been in business for nearly 50 years, providing critical information and insight to governments and companies in a broad range of industries in 180 countries. IHS customer product and service solutions span four major areas of information: energy, environment, security and product lifecycle.Dolphin Software strengthens the IHS position as a global leader in the environment information domain at a time when environmental and sustainability issues are of significant and growing importance to businesses and governments worldwide.

VaST Systems company provides tools and models for designing not only semiconductors, but the compact systems and modules that go into automobiles, consumer electronics, wireless devices, and other applications, along with software development tools. Customers include Freescale Semiconductor, Infineon Technologies, and NEC Electronics. Graham Hellestrand, an Australian engineering professor, founded VaST in 1997. Allen & Buckeridge, ZenShin Capital, Foundation Capital, and Mohr, Davidow Ventures are investors in the company. VaST Systems Technology has offices in Australia, France, Germany, Japan, and the US.

Hitachi Software Engineering (also known as HitachiSoft) provides systems integration and outsourcing, as well as software and systems development services. Serving the government, financial services, and insurance industries, the company develops software for mainframes and other large-scale computing systems. Other areas of expertise include geographical information systems (GIS), multimedia technology (such as its StarBoard electronic white board), network security software, and DNA analysis products. Hitachi Software Engineering was established in 1970 and is a subsidiary of Hitachi.

Forest2Market, Inc. specializes in forest and wood products information and pricing serving clients from landowners selling their products to forest products companies that buy the timber. The company provides Web-based e-commerce applications that help firms in the forest and wood products industries manage their product supply chain. Forest2Market's offerings are used to manage supply chains, price timber, handle logistics and inventory, and manage marketplace data.

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