Leading-Edge Technology

Cadenza continually evaluates and tests new technologies to ensure that it can harness technology to serve clients - and not the other way around.

Articulate & Connected

Cadenza's people have strong presentation skills and insightful analytical abilities in addition to technical expertise. We are actively involved in the developer community, presenting new ideas at seminars and user groups. Our people cooperate with partner consulting firms whenever finding the right answer requires skills outside our areas of primary expertise.

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D-Link Systems, Inc., is a leading manufacturer of Networking, Connectivity, and Data Communications products. Founded in 1986, the Company revenues have grown in excess of $360 Million. With more than 1,500 employees, D-Link serves 60 countries from 16 offices worldwide.

Dedicated to building networks for people with the highest quality and reliability, D-Link manufactures more unmanaged Hubs and Dual Speed Hubs than any other company in the world, according to the Dell Oro Group, IDG and DataQuest. In addition, D-Link ranks as the second largest Ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC) manufacturer worldwide.

D-Link delivers complete Ethernet solutions for the Small Office/Home Office (SOHO), Workgroup, and Enterprise environments. The Company offers a full line of Dual Speed Hubs, Switches, Network Interface Cards, Print Servers Transceivers and Accessories.

D-Link has earned patents and copyrights on a variety of Connectivity products including ASIC computer chips, technology designs, software and other intellectual properties.

Excellence in manufacturing, innovation and a commitment to quality has allowed D-Link to produce cutting-edge, high-performance products within standard-based technologies. The Company continues to offer the best value in the connectivity market today by combining high quality products with the most affordable price point.

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Epson America, Inc. is the U.S. affiliate of Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, a global technology company that manufactures printers, computers, liquid crystal displays (LCDs), integrated circuits, electronic and crystal devices, optical products, factory automation systems and watches.

The company draws its products primarily from manufacturing facilities located in Portland, Oregon, as well as Seiko Epson Corporation in Japan. The company has sales offices throughout the United States; a Canadian affiliate in Toronto, Ontario; subsidiaries in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico and Venezuela; and a sales office in Colombia.

EPSON's history spans over 100 years with a heritage that began in watchmaking and led to the invention of the world's first quartz watch along with many other technology "firsts". Today, EPSON's executive management team continues to lead the company into the next century, guided by a sound product development philosophy and a commitment to customer service and support.

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 Fortinet was founded in 2000 by Ken Xie. The company is privately held and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with offices in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and the UK.

Fortinet’s award-winning FortiGate™ series of ASIC-accelerated Antivirus Firewalls are the new generation of real-time network protection systems. They detect and eliminate the most damaging, content-based threats from email and Web traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions, inappropriate Web content and more in real time — without degrading network performance. The FortiGate systems deliver a full range of network-level services — firewall, VPN, intrusion detection and traffic shaping — as well as application-level services such as antivirus and content filtering, in dedicated, easily managed platforms.

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HP delivers vital technology for business and life. The company's solutions span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing for consumers, enterprises and small and medium business.

The 2002 merger with Compaq Computer Corporation forged a dynamic, powerful team of 140,000 employees with capabilities in 178 countries doing business in more than 40 currencies and more than 10 languages. Revenues for the combined companies were $72 billion for the fiscal year that ended October 31, 2002. Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina leads HP, which has corporate headquarters in Palo Alto, California.

Two Core HP’s Business Groups

Imaging and Printing Group (IPG) - HP is the leading provider of printing and imaging solutions for both business and consumer use. IPG includes printer hardware, all-in-ones, digital imaging devices such as cameras and scanners, and associated supplies and accessories. It also is expanding into the commercial printing market.

Personal Systems Group (PSG) - focuses on supplying simple, reliable and affordable personal-computing solutions and devices for home and business use, including desktop PCs, notebooks, workstations, thin clients, smart handhelds and personal devices.

In addition to the four business groups, HP Labs provides a central research function for the company. HP Labs is focused on inventing new technologies that change markets and create business opportunities.

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IBM was incorporated in the state of New York on June 15, 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company. But its origins can be traced back to 1890, during the height of the Industrial Revolution, when the United States was experiencing waves of immigration. The U.S. Census Bureau knew its traditional methods of counting would not be adequate for measuring the population, so it sponsored a contest to find a more efficient means of tabulating census data.

The winner was Herman Hollerith, a German immigrant and Census Bureau statistician, whose Punch Card Tabulating Machine used an electric current to sense holes in punch cards and keep a running total of data. Capitalizing on his success, Hollerith formed the Tabulating Machine Co. in 1896.

In 1911, Charles R. Flint, a noted trust organizer, engineered the merger of Hollerith's company with two others, Computing Scale Co. of America and International Time Recording Co. The combined Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co., or C-T-R, manufactured and sold machinery ranging from commercial scales and industrial time recorders to meat and cheese slicers and, of course, tabulators and punch cards. Based in New York City, the company had 1,300 employees and offices and plants in Endicott and Binghamton, N.Y.; Dayton, Ohio; Detroit, Mich.; Washington, D.C., and Toronto, Canada.

When the diversified businesses of C-T-R proved difficult to manage, Flint turned for help to the former No. 2 executive at the National Cash Register Co., Thomas J. Watson. In 1914, Watson, age 40, joined the company as general manager.

The son of Scottish immigrants, Watson had been a top salesman at NCR, but left after clashing with its autocratic leader, John Henry Patterson. However, Watson did adopt some of Patterson's more effective business tactics: generous sales incentives, an insistence on well-groomed, dark-suited salesmen and an evangelical fervor for instilling company pride and loyalty in every worker. Watson boosted company spirit with employee sports teams, family outings and a company band. He preached a positive outlook, and his favorite slogan, "THINK," became a mantra for C-T-R's employees.

Watson also stressed the importance of the customer, a lasting IBM tenet. He understood that the success of the client translated into the success of his company, a belief that, years later, manifested itself in the popular adage, "Nobody was ever fired for buying from IBM."

Within 11 months of joining C-T-R, Watson became its president. The company focused on providing large-scale, custom-built tabulating solutions for businesses, leaving the market for small office products to others. During Watson's first four years, revenues doubled to $2 million. He also expanded the company's operations to Europe, South America, Asia and Australia. In 1924, to reflect C-T-R's growing worldwide presence, its name was changed to International Business Machines Corp., or IBM.

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, IBM managed to grow while the rest of the U.S. economy floundered. Watson took care of his employees. IBM was among the first corporations to provide group life insurance (1934), survivor benefits (1935) and paid vacations (1936). While most businesses had shut down, Watson kept his workers busy producing new machines even while demand was slack. Thanks to the resulting large inventory of equipment, IBM was ready when the Social Security Act of 1935 brought the company a landmark government contract to maintain employment records for 26 million people. It was called "the biggest accounting operation of all time," and it went so well that orders from other U.S. government departments quickly followed.

The Social Security deal was secured even while IBM was at odds with another branch of the federal government. The Justice Department filed an antitrust case against IBM and Remington-Rand in 1932, alleging that the two companies, which controlled virtually the entire market for punch card machines, were illegally requiring customers to buy their punch cards. The case went to the Supreme Court, which ruled in favor of the Justice Department in 1936.

In subsequent years, IBM's size and success would inspire numerous antitrust actions. A 1952 suit by the Justice Department, settled four years later, forced IBM to sell its tabulating machines -- at the time, IBM offered them only through leases -- in order to establish a competing, used-machine market. Another federal antitrust suit dragged on for thirteen years until the Justice Department concluded it was "without merit" and dropped it in 1982. IBM's competitors filed 20 antitrust actions during the 1970s. None succeeded.

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InFocus® is the worldwide leader in data/video projection. Since 1986, InFocus has pioneered the projector market from the introduction of the flat panel overhead display through the evolution of the data/video projector and network-projector technology. InFocus manufactures best-selling products for ultra-portable needs, conference rooms and fixed installations. InFocus projectors are the benchmark against which other projectors are measured because of their consistently high quality, superior image reproduction, easy set up and intuitive, user-friendly operation. InFocus is the world's best-selling brand of projectors, bringing the power of electronic projection to everyone. Supporting a broad range of applications and user requirements, InFocus projectors empower anyone to communicate with confidence and persuasive style. Headquartered in Wilsonville, Oregon, InFocus also operates globally out of offices in Singapore and The Netherlands, with salespeople in countries all over the world. InFocus is publicly held and is traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange (NASDAQ:INFS).

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Microsoft's vision is to empower people through great software - any time, any place and on any device.

As the worldwide leader in software for personal and business computing, Microsoft strives to produce innovative products and services that meet our customers' evolving needs. At the same time, we understand that long-term success is about more than just making great products.

Corporate Profile
Microsoft Corp. recently undertook the reinvention of its core structure, updating its vision and its fundamental approach to business to better meet customer needs in the new Internet era. The company's organizational structure will continue to change for some time in response to its new direction. These pages provide an outline of the new organization, but details are subject to change as the company adapts to customer needs.

Introduction to Microsoft Corp.
Since its founding in 1975, Microsoft Corp.'s mission has been to create software that empowers and enriches people in the workplace, at school and at home.

Organizational Structure Overview
In March 1999, Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates restructured the company into distinct customer-centered business groups. This reinvention of the company is part of an ongoing process and will be fully implemented over several months.

Key Management
A new senior-level decision-making team was formed in March 1999 to replace the Executive Committee that had been in place since December 1996. The new Business Leadership Team includes executives from across the company.

Products
Microsoft offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software -- any time, any place and on any device. For a detailed list of products, see the Microsoft Product and Technology Catalog.

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Symantec is ...

Technology and Customer Focus
Symantec Corporation serves the needs of two customer groups:

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Headquartered in Walnut, Calif., ViewSonic® Corporation was founded in 1987 and is a privately held corporation with approximately $1 billion in worldwide annual sales. The company is a leading global provider of visual technology, including CRT monitors ,LCD displays, projectors, plasmas, HDTV technology and the latest in mobile products from Tablet PCs to Wireless Monitors for today's business, education, entertainment, Internet and professional markets.

From its inception, ViewSonic has had a simple goal: to design products that would make the workplace desktop more productive and ergonomically comfortable. Since then, ViewSonic has continued to make the customer's visual technology experience easier and more enjoyable.

Visual Revolution

Today, ViewSonic is leading what it calls the visual revolution, where the display-whether it is on the desk, on the wall or in your hands-becomes the focal point for accessing and controlling both information and entertainment. As a worldwide Visual Technologies™ leader, ViewSonic is well positioned to help lead this transformation from a "PC-centric" to a "Display-centric" world.

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