Sponsors

Core Sponsors

Adobe

Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information. For more than two decades, the company's award-winning technologies and software have redefined business, entertainment, and personal communications by setting new standards for producing and delivering content that engages people anywhere at any time. From rich images in print, video, and film to dynamic digital content for a variety of media, the impact of Adobe solutions is clear to anyone who creates, views, and interacts with information.

NC State University / College of Textiles

With more than 31,000 students and nearly 8,000 faculty and staff, North Carolina State University is a comprehensive university known for its leadership in education and research, and globally recognized for its science, technology, engineering and mathematics leadership.

With over 110 years of teaching, research, and extension, the College of Textiles has proven to be the leading textile college in the world and is located on Centennial Campus.

NC State’s Centennial Campus is a unique community of collaboration. Industry and government partners work alongside faculty, staff, post-docs and students conducting cutting-edge research in state-of-the art facilities. Home to more than 130 corporate and government research partners, as well as incubator companies, and NC State University research units, Centennial Campus is the premier university research campus in the country.

Triangle Area ColdFusion User Group

TACFUG, or the Triangle Area ColdFusion User Group, is the home for ColdFusion in the Research Triangle Area of North Carolina. Serving Raleigh, Cary, Durham, Chapel Hill, Apex, Holly Springs, Clayton, Garner, Wake Forest, Creedmore, Butner, Morrisville and those brave souls from the Piedmont Triad who come out to the meetings.

GOLD

Fig Leaf Software
Fig Leaf Software is a premier design, development, training and product sales company serving a broad range of clients from the public and private sectors. During the last seventeen years our consulting practice has helped thousands of organizations become more effective through the application of web and database technologies while our training group has instructed more than 30,000 professionals about the nuances that comprise excellent web design and application programming.
Mura CMS
Mura CMS is a Free, Open Source, CFML-based Content Management System used by organizations such as Apple, Inc., Intel, VTech, The Smithsonian, National Parks Service, and more. Mura CMS is a dream for Marketing and Developers alike. Get more done in less time.
Universal Mind
Universal MindWe are experts in Rich Internet Applications. Whether those are complex financial analytics, high speed data visualizations, advanced graphic information systems - or whatever your particular value promise happens to be - we can help you in your next project!

SILVER

Alagad

Alagad builds Rich Internet Applications and provides Web development, consulting and mentoring services based on the latest web technologies. Alagad's custom, high-performance applications enable mid- to large-sized organizations to achieve corporate goals through a focused and iterative development process. Additionally, TaskForce - Alagad’s latest service offering - provides ongoing maintenance of legacy applications and allows companies and developers to more effectively and efficiently move into the future, instead of being distracted by maintaining legacy applications and customers.

Since 1996, the company's proven application development processes and team of acclaimed Web development experts have worked in partnership with dozens of organizations, including universities, non-profits and Fortune 100 companies across a variety of industries, including manufacturing, creative services, technology, travel and leisure, and retail and consumer goods. The company is headquartered outside of the Research Triangle Park area in Chapel Hill, N.C.
RTI International
RTI International is one of the world's leading research institutes, dedicated to improving the human condition by turning knowledge into practice. Our staff of more than 2,800 provides research and technical expertise to governments and businesses in more than 40 countries in the areas of health and pharmaceuticals, education and training, surveys and statistics, advanced technology, international development, economic and social policy, energy and the environment, and laboratory and chemistry services. For more information, visit www.rti.org.
Verian Technologies
Verian Technologies helps mid- and large-sized organizations reduce costs and increase efficiency with intelligent, easy-to-use solutions that automate the entire purchase-to-pay process including procurement, invoice processing, employee reimbursements and asset management — capturing all spend intelligence in a single database for analysis. Verian was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Charlotte, N.C. The company’s clients include Macy’s, Recreational Equipment Inc (REI), Boeing, Allstate Insurance, PETCO and General Nutrition Centers (GNC).
DZone
DZone communities deliver over 6 million page views each month to more than 3.3 million software developers, architects, designers, and decision makers. As a technology publisher, we offer something for everyone, including news, tutorials, cheat sheets, blogs, feature articles, video tech chats and interviews, source code, and more.

BRONZE

Railinc
Railinc is the rail industry's innovative and reliable resource for IT and information services. The company deploys data that helps railroads, rail equipment owners and other industry participants manage their businesses more effectively and efficiently. Its products and applications are deeply embedded in critical rail industry systems to facilitate the movement of freight across North America. Railinc is the largest single source of real-time, accurate interline rail data for the North American railroad system. Located in Cary, N.C., Railinc is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Association of American Railroads. For more information, please visit www.railinc.com.
Railo Technologies
Railo Technologies provides consulting for all your CFML project needs as well as support, extensions and training for Railo Open Source - the high performance open source CFML engine. Learn more about why people are choosing Railo and the team behind the company. Also, see what other people are saying about Railo.
Savvy Software
Savvy Software is the developer of Savvy Content Manager - rapidly becoming the go to solution for web content management. Painless installation, ease of use and quick training times are its hallmark. Savvy CM is supported by many ColdFusion hosts, is low cost and incredibly easy for your end users. Easily extend the cms with your own code. Our partner program is growing quickly, and a great option for those in the web development field who don't wish to rebuild the wheel, but instead build upon it.

GIVEAWAYS

Intergral
Since the 90's, Intergral has been providing innovative products, software solutions and IT Services to thousands of customers across the globe. In the ColdFusion community, Intergral is best known for its Fusion products, which include FusionDebug, the first interactive step debugger for ColdFusion and FusionReactor, the leading ColdFusion server monitor.
O'Reilly
O’Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazine, and conferences. Since 1978, O’Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying “faint signals” from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.
Packt
Packt, pronounced Packed, published its first book in April 2004 and subsequently continued to specialize in publishing focused books on specific technologies and solutions. Their books and publications share the experiences of fellow IT professionals in adapting and customizing today's systems, applications, and frameworks. Packt's solutions-based books give the knowledge and power to customize the software and technologies to get the job done. Packt books are more specific and less general than the IT books seen in the past. Packt's unique business model allows them to bring more focused information, giving developers more of what they need to know, and less of what you don't.
TechSmith
Founded in 1987, TechSmith is the world’s leading provider of screen capture and recording software for individual and professional use. People everywhere use our products to capture content from their screens in ways that help them communicate more clearly, create engaging presentations for diverse audiences, and analyze product usability and customer experience.