NTG Clarity Networks Inc. provides network services as well as niche software products on an outsourcing basis or as consultants. It offers an operational support system (OSS) for communications services providers (called NTS). The company's clients have included BP p.l.c., Rogers Communications, the Royal Bank of Canada, and TELUS Corporation. NTG Clarity has subsidiary operations in Egypt and the US. Chairman and CEO Ashraf Zaghloul owns about 15% of the company.

InQuira develops and markets natural-language processing and information retrieval software that analyzes user questions and then finds and returns corresponding data. InQuira has specific applications for customer service representatives, call centers, and corporate Web sites. The company was formed in the 2002 merger of two competitors, Answerfriend and Electric Knowledge. Its customers have included AT&T, Bank of America, Honda, and Honeywell. Investors in the company have included Sutter Hill Ventures, Investor Growth Capital, and Partech International.

Medasys assists hospitals and other health care providers with their information technology. Medasys SA provides information technology services and software to companies in the health care, research and industrial sectors, specializing in custom systems (centralized data backup, storage, networks, data security) for large customers. While most of Medasys' business is in France, Medasys SA also sells in other European countries and in Asia.

Astra HR is a leading provider of full service HR management solutions that is firmly rooted in the commitment to helping our clients maximize their people and business performance. Headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, Astra HR has been helping clients streamline HR administration processes and leverage their HR investment since 1994, with over 10,000 work site employees and upwards of $1.3 billion in total portfolio revenue. Astra HR offers HR management solutions that adhere to HR best practices for companies of all sizes. This approach empowers your people and enables your company to meet and exceed your business goals.

The Bernd Group distributes computer hardware and software and a wide range of industrial equipment and supplies to companies in the aerospace, construction, manufacturing, and transportation sectors. Customers have included Johnson Controls, Lockheed Martin, Pratt & Whitney, and Tampa Electric. The Bernd Group draws upon a network of more than 15,000 vendors. President Pilar Ricaurte Bernd owns the company, which she founded in 1989.

Avanade tries to give its customers a fresh view into their own operations. A subsidiary of information technology (IT) services provider Accenture, the company provides IT consulting services centered primarily around Microsoft products. With customers and offices worldwide, Avanade helps large corporations with the design, implementation, and support of software systems related to communications, operations management, resource planning, and customer relationship management. A large portion of Avanade's business comes from subcontracting services provided to its parent company and minority shareholder Microsoft. The company's other clients have included European electricity company Vattenfall and EMI Music.

Klocwork is a leading innovator of enterprise-class source code analysis tools for mission-critical software development. We have helped hundreds of software development organizations create better code.Klocwork delivers tools that enable developers to identify critical security vulnerabilities, quality defects and architectural issues quickly and accurately. Klocwork products integrate within the normal development environment, enabling risk assessment and fast critical-bug fixing in mission-critical C, C++, Java and C# software.Klocwork products are used by professional software developers, software development organizations, and software security specialists who work on very large, globally distributed, complex, and mission-critical code bases.

Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Services (IS&GS) likes to get technical for NASA and assorted defense and non-defense agencies. A division of Lockheed Martin, IS&GS is a major IT contractor with the US government in the areas of civil government, defense, and intelligence. Its three business segments (Mission Solutions, Information Systems, and Global Services) include operations in IT integration and management, application development, aircraft maintenance and modification services, and management and logistics services for government and military systems. ISGS operates from facilities in Arizona, California, Maryland, Washington, DC, Pennsylvania, and Texas.

Brammer is building a new name for itself. The company has dumped its Livingston division, which rented, sold, and serviced electronic testing and measurement products and computing equipment in to customers in Europe and China. Brammer is now focusing on the development of its Brammer Industrial Services (BIS) business, which supplies technical equipment and services to the repair, maintenance, and manufacturing markets throughout much of Europe. The company agreed to acquire 51% of Polish industrial services specialist Fin S.A. in 2007, and pledged to buy the remaining stake by 2012.

MetraTech Corp. offers a new approach to charging, billing, settlement and customer care that enables organizations to embrace change without compromise. MetraNet, our flagship product, is unique in its ability to automate business processes and business models that address rapidly changing, complex or radical business strategies across any industry for an unlimited number of services.This approach enables organizations to actively sell products and services in circumstances where the commonly accepted methods of operating are challenged, or are no longer sufficient, to remain competitive. MetraNet is deployed globally, enabling diverse customers to build innovative and successful business models, securely collect revenue, and manage their entire customer lifecycle in some 12 languages, 26 currencies and 81 countries.

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