Main Sponsors

Platinum Sponsor 2005

Lawson Software provides business process software solutions that help services organisations such as healthcare, retail, banking, insurance, public sector, and a variety of other strategic markets achieve competitive advantage. Lawson 's solutions include enterprise performance management, distribution, financials, human resources, procurement, retail operations, and project management. Lawson's key strengths are about enabling actionable information to drive and increase business performance whilst the business is responding to changing markets, constantly evolving legislations and competition at the lowest total cost of ownership compared to other vendors. Lawson's customers include; New Look, Trinity Mirror, NHS Walton Centre, Mott MacDonald and Schlumberger. With over 2,000 customers worldwide using Lawson with the majority in the mid-market space, Lawson's strength comes from working with our customers for over 30 years in the Services Sector.

Gold Sponsors:

Geac is a global and award winning strategy and performance management application solution provider. Our software combines innovative technology with financial best practices enabling you to set strategy, define goals, create budgets and forecasts, plan, consolidate, track results and take corrective action in a single integrated application, providing high-level visibility based on a continuous flow of real-time performance data. Geac software and solutions are deployed at more than 18,000 organisations around the world: UK customers include Aston Martin, ICI, Ernst &Young, Cable and Wireless and Old Mutual.

Citrix Systems, Inc. is the global leader in access infrastructure. With the Citrix Access Platform, 160,000+organisations worldwide provide secure, well- managed access to business information wherever it lives -on demand. Citrix and its 6,200 partners offer access solutions for individual professionals, small and mid-sized businesses, and enterprises.

Agresso delivers an integrated business system, Agresso Business World, which offers a solution for finance, purchasing, project accounting, HR and payroll. Agresso is well suited for service or project based organisations in both the commercial and public sectors, with customers including LogicaCMG, Hogg Robinson,3i,Halcrow Group,74 councils,50 healthcare,54 educational institutions, the emergency services and the House of Commons. Agresso 's Business World is designed to streamline business processes and provide essential business information across the organisation and is particularly suited for complex and devolved organisations. A key strength is its ability to easily respond to business change.

TeleWare plc is a leading supplier of intelligent communications solutions provided as packaged and tailored Application Software. TeleWare 's applications are delivered as on premise solutions or hosted services to enterprise and service providers. TeleWare 's solutions provide business benefits in increased personal contactability, enhanced team working and empower flexible workstyles.

are also sponsoring the MCA Annual Reception

InterSystems delivers innovative integration and database software technology which enables rapid integration of complex systems, rapid new application development and delivery of high performance mission-critical systems. InterSystems integration product Ensemble won Product of the Year at the IM2004 Awards. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, InterSystems Corporation has served the needs of IT organisations and independent software vendors for more than two decades.

NetIQ is a leading provider of integrated systems and security management solutions that empower IT with the knowledge and ability to assure IT service. NetIQ 's Knowledge-Based Service Assurance strategy embeds knowledge and best practices to ensure operational integrity, better manage service levels and risk and ensure policy compliance. Our modular, best-of-breed solutions for Performance &Availability Management, Security Management, Configuration &Vulnerability Management, and Operational Change Control integrate through an open, service-oriented architecture allowing for common reporting, analytics and dashboards.

Silver Sponsor of the Annual Consultants' Forum and
the MCA Annual Reception

Silver Sponsor of the Annual Consultants' Forum

Silver Sponsor for the Annual Consultants' Forum

Silver Sponsor for the Annual Consultants' Forum

Sponsor of the business lounge

The MCA was formed in 1956 to represent the consultancy industry to its clients, the media and government. Management consultancy is an increasingly important industry for the UK economy with revenues for 2004 estimated at just over £10.1bn. MCA members represent around 65%of the UK consulting sector, employ approximately 40,000 consultants and work with the FTSE100 and all government departments. Nine of the top ten UK-based consulting firms (by consulting fee income) are in membership.

PMP provide a range of marketing services in the UK and globally, including highly regarded publications, newswires, conferences and market research for both consultants and decision makers. Of PMP 's 30,000 consultant readers in Europe the fee income generated is around £4.2bn and approximately £2.1bn of this is in the UK market.