CRN is part of a group of editorial products that are managed by the Technology Solutions Group owned by the CMP Media publishing company. Within this group is a sister entity of CRN known as our XChange events group, which this week in Phoenix is hosting its annual Tech Innovators conference for solution providers.
With that in mind, I thought I would take the opportunity to look back at a few of the smaller companies I have met in the last four months, just to remind myself that innovation is alive and well in this industry.
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Cardiff Software: created a neutral platform for electronic forms that spans HTML, PDF and now InfoPath in the Microsoft Office System.
Composite Software: the first company to build a true platform-neutral approach to creating and deploying Web services.
Fast Search & Transfer: a provider of search technologies for intranets that make finding information as easy inside the firewall as it is on the Internet.
Forward Solutions: makes a USB device that lets you carry your desktop environment around.
Infoblox: provider of a network-based identity management solution that runs on a dedicated appliance and leverages DNS.
KnowNow: offers a lightweight protocol for enabling event-driven transactions across disparate applications in realtime.
Layer7 Technologies: allows organizations to apply security policies to Web services with hard code programming.
Net Integration Technologies: provides a simple-to-install Linux-based file, print and Web server for the SMB market.
Nominum: created an industrial-strength DNS server needed to fuel the next generation of Internet applications.
Proofpoint: markets a policy-based enforcement engine for policing hostile content, including spam, and for making sure that e-mail messages adhere to corporate guidelines.
RightNow Technologies: an ASP focused on helping organizations reduce costs through Web self-service applications.
All in all, innovation is alive and well.
Where do you see innovation happening? I can be reached at (516) 562-7477 or via e-mail at mvizard@cmp.com.
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