International Card Establishment, Inc. provides merchant payment processing services and gift and loyalty card products to the small to medium enterprise segment of the merchant marketplace in the United States. Its payment processing services enable merchants to process traditional card-present, or swipe transactions, as well as card-not-present transactions. The company establishes merchant accounts for businesses that enable those businesses to accept credit cards, debit cards, and other forms of electronic payments from their customers; supplies the necessary card readers and other point-of-sale transaction systems; facilitates processing for the accounts; and provides e-commerce solutions. It also markets a proprietary Smart Card-based system that enables merchants to offer private label gift and loyalty cards. The company is based in Camarillo, California.

Founded in 1985 by Ann Budge and Alison Newell, Sopra Newell & Budge serves clients in such markets as financial services, retail, telecommunications, travel, and utilities. Customers include McDonald's, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Standard Life Assurance. Sopra Newell & Budge operated as Newell & Budge before it was acquired by Sopra Group in 2005, the company now serves as the UK operating arm of Sopra's Group. Sopra Newell & Budge provides information technology services, including application development, consulting, systems integration and testing, technical support, and business-intelligence analysis.

Tom Snyder Productions, a Scholastic company, is a leading developer and publisher of educational software for K-12 classrooms. The company was founded more than 25 years ago by Tom Snyder, a former science and music teacher, who pioneered the use of technology in the classroom to enhance teaching and learning. Today we are proud to carry over 125 award-winning software titles covering each curriculum area, developed with strict adherence to our high standards for quality and innovation. Our products help teachers meet curriculum goals and are used in over 400,000 classrooms, improving student performance and understanding.

RFD & Associates was established in 1986. RFD & Associates provides a wide range of information technology services such as custom software engineering, systems integration, database conversion, training, testing, technology assessment, and legacy migration. RFD & Associates' clients come from a variety of industries including financial services, health care, retail, and manufacturing. Strategic partners include BEA Systems and Business Objects.

Empirix helps organizations worldwide to accelerate the development, deployment and profitable operations of new IP communications by validating the quality of user experience and overall performance of complex networks and applications. Since 1992, Empirix’s Hammer-based service quality assurance solutions have helped the world’s largest service providers, equipment manufacturers, and enterprise contact centers successfully transition to new technologies including Unified Communications, IP Contact Centers, VoIP, NGN, and IMS-based networks. Our commitment to quality in everything we do sets the standard for the industry.

Pixelpark AG, once a leading provider of Web design and multimedia services in Germany, has reorganized to focus on information technology (IT) and management consulting. Pixelpark's IT segment offers systems integration and consulting services. Its ZLU subsidiary offers management and logistics consulting services. Its Agency segment provides Web consulting and online marketing services, as well as Web site analysis, design, and support. Customers include BARMER, European Broadcasting Union, and WestLB. German media powerhouse Bertelsmann owns 16% of the company; German private bank OPB Holding owns about 14%.

Strategic Thought was founded in 1987. Strategic Thought's risk management application, Active Risk Manager, is a Web-based system that is compatible with IBM and Microsoft products. Strategic Thought also offers services in the design, building, and support of IBM systems and products. Clients come from government, financial services, telecommunications, defense, retail, and transportation sectors, and include Bank of America, Lloyds Banking Group, Lucent Technologies, Vodafone, BAE Systems, Thales, Argos, and Virgin Atlantic.

IE provides online software products for financial services organisations and their customers, particularly in the credit card and investment markets. Given Intelligent Environments Group plc established and proven success in these markets, Intelligent Environments Group plc recently started to expand Intelligent Environments Group plc offering and have added comprehensive loans and savings products to the IE software suite. Intelligent Environments Group plc products, combined with our extensive business knowledge, help companies realise a rapid return on investment through significant cost savings, new revenue generation and improvements in customer service.

Dunn Solutions Group, Inc. provides systems integration and other technical services, specializing in business intelligence systems and application development. Other offerings include consulting, support, maintenance, network design, project management, and legacy migration. Dunn Solutions Group has sales partnerships with software vendors including Borland, IBM, and BEA. The company is a subsidiary of Bangalore, India-based software provider Cranes Software International.

MailWorkZ provides software and services used for mass e-mail marketing campaigns. Its products include Broadc@st Email Marketing Software that allows users to create, manage, and send their own email campaigns. The company's Black List Monitor Service allows companies that do email marketing to monitor where and when they may be listed on black lists. MailWorkZ also provides online ad tracking through its ezTrackZ service and manages and sends campaigns for clients through its Broadc@st Send Service. The company has received funding from telecommunications and technology investor, In"NOVA"corp. MailWorkz client list includes Intuit, Dartmouth College, Ikea, Softchoice Corporation , and McGraw-Hill .

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