Byte es una firma especializada en el desarrollo y comercialización de aplicaciones de software para las complejas necesidades de las industrias de telecomunicaciones y servicios financieros. Con más de 17 años de experiencia, BYTE se encuentra en 15 países y oficinas propias con equipos de desarrollo y soporte en Guatemala, Santo Domingo y Lima. Provee soluciones informáticas en múltiples plataformas que abarcan desde sistemas centrales hasta software complementario para servicio al cliente, canales de distribución, tarifación, “colection/provisioning”, caja y plataforma, etc.

Official site: www.bytesw.com

Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Today, networks are an essential part of business, education, government and home communications, and Cisco Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of these networks.

Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create Internet solutions that allow individuals, companies, and countries to increase productivity, improve customer satisfaction and strengthen competitive advantage. The Cisco name has become synonymous with the Internet, as well as with the productivity improvements that Internet business solutions provide.

Cisco sells its products in approximately 115 countries around the world through direct sales or distributors, value-added resellers and Internet system integrators. Their headquarters are located in the state of California and has more than 430 offices in over 60 countries around the world.

Official site: www.cisco.com

Como firma consultora con oficinas centrales en el Sur del estado de Florida (EEUU), LatCapital Solutions es un proveedor élite de soluciones de sistemas de negocios que agrega valor a la gestión de las organizaciones con base en la plataforma SAP Business.  LatCapital ha desarrollado metodologías altamente competitivas, diseñadas para reducir el costo total de la propiedad del sistema y, al mismo tiempo, obtener el desempeño confiable que requiere su organización. Su práctica de servicio al cliente le guiará a través del proceso de implementación de SAP y cualquier otro requerimiento, garantizando un trato personalizado.  Sus requerimientos nunca serán demasiado pequeños para nosotros y siempre le dedicaremos la máxima atención.  LatCapital le ayuda a diseñar su estrategia de TI y a desarrollar soluciones de ERP integradas con beneficios claros y mensurables para su negocio.

Official site: www.latcapitalsoluciones.com

Official site: www.prosap.com

Compañía Latinoamericana de Aplicaciones Informáticas (CLAI) was founded in 1991 and is located in Colombia. It counts with a subsidiary in Costa Rica and representatives in Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Chile, Guatemala and the United States.

CLAI produces Switch Plus Autoriza400® solutions that run in iSeries® de IBM® (AS/400®) computers with functions that manage channels such as ATM´s, agencies, kiosks, IVR´s, POS´s and transactions via Internet. They administer the cash in ATM´s and bank agencies, as well as credit card with the magnetic band and EMV´s. They also administer claims regarding transactions, reconciliation and compensation, DES cryptography, Triple DES and RSA, supports transactional proprietary interfaces, XML or type ISO8583 and generates transactional and performance statistics.

Official site: www.clai.com

Datapro Inc., was established in Miami, Florida (USA) in 1976 and is one of the main Software Development companies in Latin America who specializes in the Banking Industry. With more than 140 offices in over 27 countries, the company’s scope in the region has grown to 44 offices in just Central America and Panama alone.

The e-IBS-Core is their main product, which was developed in Java, utilizing WebSphere environment, which runs in iSeries servers and other platforms. They complement this product offer with Platform Systems (e-IBS-Platform), e-IBS-Branch), banking systems via Internet (d-IBS y dc-IBS), Management Information Systems (e-IBS-Data Warehouse), CRM Systems (e-IBS-CRM), e-IBS-Trust and Interface systems with Swift, ATM´s, debit and credit cards.

Official site: www.data-pro.com

Diebold´s global strategy has taken the company’s direct operation to over 90 countries around the world, with plant manufacturers in four continents and one of the most solid customer service infrastructures in the market. This company has stood out in the market due to its ATM´s, voting tellers and integrated electronic security solutions.

Official Site: www.diebold.com

DMR Consulting, empresa consultora multinacional, ofrece soluciones de negocio globales a sus clientes en todos los aspectos de la cadena de valor, desde la estrategia de negocio hasta la implantación de los sistemas. La consultora desarrolla su actividad en los sectores de telecomunicaciones, entidades financieras, industria, energía y administración pública.

En 1996, esta compañía, de origen canadiense y que pertenecía al grupo Fujitsu, inició su actividad en España con la apertura de una oficina en Madrid y a partir de ahí comienza su expansión en España, Europa y Latinoamérica. En la actualidad, cuenta con oficinas en Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla, Valencia, Lisboa, Milán, Roma, Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires, México D.F., Sao Paulo y Río de Janeiro, una facturación de 191 millones de euros y 3.500 profesionales (al 31 de marzo de 2005, fecha de cierre de año fiscal). En enero de 2004 los profesionales de DMR Consulting llegan a un acuerdo con Fujitsu para adquirir la compañía, cuyas acciones quedaron en manos de DMR Consulting (54,7%), Apax Partners (38,2%) y FManagers (7%).

Official site: www.everis.com

Cognos, the leading provider of Business Intelligence (BI) worldwide, develops software that contributes to the business´ performance, improving the decision-making process at all levels of the organization.

As a pioneer of the Business Intelligence category, the company already offers the next level of competitiveness, Corporate Performance Management (CPM), a strategic implementation of Business Intelligence from a global perspective.

Corporate Performance Management allows organizations to measure the alignment and possible diversions that exist within the execution of an activity and the business strategy foreseen at all levels of the organization.

The company also provides a unique framework that manages an employee’s performance and information and business processes that provide a complete management cycle that integrate planning, budget elaboration, reports, analyses software tools.

Cognos serves more than 23,000 clients in more than 135 countries around the world. It has over 3400 employees and its BI products are available to the general public through a network of 3000 partners and distributors.

Official site: www.cognos.com

Excelsys was founded in Chile more than 15 years ago and counts with ample presence in the region. They have vast experience in resolving problematic transactions in the Financial and Services Sectors (Banking, Insurance, Stocks and Forecasting).

Their main product is the ExcelsysEngine framework, which makes business logic available in back office systems to different users through the Web. It is a fast and cost-efficient solution, which makes it possible for a company’s internal and external users to access existing applications or those developed in the framework’s environment.

Official site:www.excelsys.com

Fiserv CBS Worldwide is the world leader in information management and e-commerce systems for financial services throughout Europe, Asia, and the Pacific, Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada and the United States. Fiserv allows more than 280 commercial financial institutions to offer integrated solutions for the client’s life cycle management, including central banking for contacts with clients through multiple channels and databases.

Fiserv CBS Worldwide operates in Latin America since 1989 with dedicated sales resources, implementation and solution support, designed to provide a competitive advantage for the financial institutions en personal banking, consumer financing, credit cards, private banking and treasury.

Fiserv, Inc. was founded in 1984 and today has more than 6.000 clients in more than 60 countries around the world, serviced by more than 22.000 employees.

Official Site: www.fiserv.com

i-flex is a company that offers information technology solutions to companies within the financial sector. They provide integrated solutions that include corporate and personal banking activities, investment services, mutual fund management, internet solutions, systems that analyze financial risk, development, maintenance, software support and IT consulting.

i-flex´s main objective is to create a solution for each and every one of its clients that can reduce costs, respond to the markets needs and mitigate risk The company has over 595 clients in more than 115 countries around the world.

Official site: www.iflexsolutions.com

Klein es una firma internacional dedicada al desarrollo de software para la automatización de los procesos en los negocios. Fundada en 1982, se ha especializado en comprender el negocio de la industria marítima especialmente en Canadá, Estados Unidos y el Caribe. Sus oficinas centrales se encuentran en Vancouver, Canadá, y entre las soluciones que ofrece, sobresalen las interfaces de usuarios, avisos de procesos de llegada (NOA), monitoreo de embarcaciones y anticipación de conflictos. Asimismo, el ordenamiento de atracaderos, facturación, ordenadores de gerencia y herramientas para planeamiento.

Official site: www.kleinsystems.com

Lenovo is an innovative technological company, formed as the result of acquisition of IBM´s Personal Computers Division. It has been catalogued as a leading firm n the PC market, developing, producing and commercializing PC products with hi-tech and innovative technology.

Their offices are located in Parchase and New York (USA) and their main operations are located in Beijing (China) and Raleigh, North Carolina (USA).

It maintains a business sales network in over 160 countries and employs over 27,000 people around the world. The company offers its customers PC´s, monitors, video beams, services, accessories, updates and tech-support.

Official Site: www.lenovo.com

Nasoft tiene como visión ayudar a sus clientes a alcanzar el balance adecuado entre las inversiones en TI y los beneficios del negocio. Es una empresa de consultoría especializada en dar soluciones empresariales tecnológicas para integrar y hacer más eficiente los procesos dentro de una organización, enfocándose en la flexibilización de adaptarse a los requerimientos o necesidades de cada uno sus clientes.

Nasoft está integrado por tres grandes divisiones: consultoría estratégica de negocios, soluciones de negocio y desarrollo complementario de servicios profesionales de tecnología de información. Cuenta con oficinas en Estados Unidos, México, Centroamérica y Colombia.

Plus Technologies & Innovations, empresa de software independiente, líder internacional con más de 80 clientes en 16 países, oficinas en Georgia (casa matriz), Florida, Guatemala, Perú, Colombia y una red mundial de distribuidores.

Los productos Monitor Plus e Intertrade Plus cubren, entre otras, las siguientes áreas: Control y reducción del riesgo operativo, control del fraude en tarjetas de crédito y débito y canales electrónicos, administración de alertas de riesgo, control y prevención de lavado de activos, control de operaciones internacionales (swift), cumplimiento y fortalecimiento de políticas corporativas y procesos, aseguramiento de los ingresos, gestión de relación con el cliente (CRM Exploitation), operaciones de comercio exterior,comercialización de divisas e interfaz con swift y control de la calidad de los datos.

SAP is the world's leading provider of business software. It delivers products and services that help accelerate business innovation for more than 32,000 customers in over 120 countries around the world. SAP solutions respond to the small and medium sized business needs, as well those of large multinational companies and corporations, unleashing growth and creating significant new value – for entire industries and the economy at large.

Today, customers in more than 120 countries run SAP applications – from distinct solutions addressing the needs of small businesses and midsize companies to suite offerings for global organizations.

SAP México & Central America initiated its operations in 1994 with the objective of offering its client’s security and flexibility in its business solutions.

With over 12 years of experience and leadership in the market and more than 1,200 customers in the region, SAP has allowed businesses to be more profitable, competitive, more efficient in their business processes, while reducing costs through technological innovation.

Official Site: www.sap.com

In 1980, after seeing the need to provide backup power to prevent loss of data and damage to hardware or other sensitive PC components, Tripp Lite decided to produce and commercialize UPS systems. In 1982, Tripp Lite was the first company in the world to create a UPS for personal computers and the world’s most advanced suppressor, –el Isobar®–, with currently more than 14 million units in use. In 1999, they received recognition from IBM for their quality products that provide reliable protection for workstations, file servers, telephone systems, audio and video, laboratory equipment and POS terminals.

Their presence today extends to over 100 countries around the world, where they offer a wide range of solutions. Their global sales surpass $300 million.

Official site: www.tripplite.com

ZyXel, was founded in 1989 and is currently a leading company in specialized solutions for bandwidth access. Their most important products include DSL lines, IP DSLAMS, switches, gateways, wireless, routers, LAN equipment, adaptors with ISDN terminals and analog modems.

Their main offices are located in Taiwan. They also have operations in the US, Europe and Asia. The currently employ over 1800 people and distribute in over 150 countries in 5 continents. Zytel opened up an office in Costa Rica this year which is located in Plaza Roble.

Official site: www.zyxel.com

Lexmark is the leading equipment, supplies and printing provider around the world. Lexmark International, Inc. (NYSE: LXK) provides services to businesses and consumers in more than 150 countries around the world, with an ample range of printing products and image solutions and services to help them be more productive. In 2006, Lexmark reported US$5 billion in revenue.

In Latin America their main offices for the region are located in Miami. Lexmark also has subsidiaries in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, México, Puerto Rico and Venezuela; three Regional Distribution and Manufacturing Centers as well as four Customer Service Centers.

Lexmark´s printing solutions are commercialized in over 19 countries through a highly qualified distribution network that contains direct support from Lexmark technicians, from a commercial or technical perspective.

The progress obtained in the region in such a short period of time have been vital for the company, making Lexmark International one of the leading companies in the market. They are committed to operating in the Latin American region and today have more than 450 employees.

Official site: www.lexmark.com

VMware® was founded in 1998 with the objective of bringing the technology of virtual machines to the standard computer industry. The company launched its first product VMware Workstation in 1999 and entered the servers market in 2001 with the VMware GSX Server and the VMware ESX Server.

With the revolutionary launch of the VMware VirtualCenter and the VMware VMotion™ in 200 the company had become the leader in virtual infrastructure technology by introducing a new category of capabilities for data centers.

In 2004, the company extended its virtual infrastructure capabilities and presented the VMware ACE. By launching VMware Player by the end of 2005 and VMware Server in early 2006, VMware introduced the first virtualization products available for new users in the virtualization area.

In June 2006, VMware introduced VMware Infrastructure 3, the first complete virtualization infrastructure software in the industry that offered integral virtualization functions, management, resource optimization, application availability and operational automation capabilities in an integrated offering.

More than 4 million users and 20,000 corporate clients of all types and sized utilize VMware software, incuding 99 of the Fortune 100 companies. By implementing the VMware software to resolve complex business issues, such as the availability and use of resurces, clients have noticed great benefits, which include a lower total proprietary cost, bigger returns for the investment and improved lever of service for their clients.

Official site: www.vmware.com/lasp

Eaton is the leading company in energy control and distribution systems, uninterrupted supplies of energy and automated industrial products and services. Eaton´s global electrical brands include Cutler-Hammer®, Powerware®, Holec® and MEM®. They offer solutions oriented towards the client and based on the PowerChain Management™ concept, with the intent of tending to the needs of the energy, institutional, governmental, commercial, and residential and IT industries.

Eaton Corporation is a diversified industrial producer with sales of up to $12.4 billion in 2006. Eaton is the leading company in electrical systems and components for quality, distribution and energy control matters. They also monitor energy systems and services for industrial equipment, transmission systems that reduce costs and increase security, administration systems that control air released from the motor, specialized controls that measure performance and power.

Eaton has over 60,000 employees and sells its products in over 125 countries around the world.

Official site: www.eaton.com

Systech S.A. is an IT consulting company that specializes on the prevention and detection of financial felonies and development methodologies.

Based on their ability and experience in several areas, primarily with financial organizations and government, the company provides solutions for reengineering processes, strategic consulting, information security, implementation of information systems and a software factory.

To achieve these goals, the company has operated under four pillars: Organization, Methodology, Technology and Strategy.

Systech provides companies dealing with financial felonies and fraud with an ample range of solutions, such as the VIGIA® for Banks, Foreign Exchange and Currency Transfer Companies, Insurance Companies; SIRTECH® for Central Banks, SSF, UIF, Fiscal Intelligence and Control Organizations in general; VisuaLinks™, the most advanced, flexible and adaptable tool for a visual analysis of entities, relations and behavior patterns that are concealed in data; and DIG™, the unrivaled solution that integrates different data resources scattered across distinct organizations and in various levels within one organization, in a safe and efficient manner forming a virtual Data Warehouse.

Official site: www.systechsa.com

Apple Inc was founded on January 3rd 1977 in Cupertino, California. Apple designs, produces and commercializes consumer electronics and computer software products. Apple has made a name for itself by innovating and revolutionizing the music industry with its popular IPod, breaking all paradigms and surprising the technological world with every new product they launch into the market. Their products have been designed for all types of consumers: students, professionals, business people, governments, artists, tech-saavy people and even avant-garde subcultures.

For reasons as various as its philosophy of comprehensive aesthetic design to its distinctive advertising campaigns, Apple has established a unique reputation in the consumer electronics industry.

Apple software includes the Mac OS X operating system, the iTunes media browser, the iLife suite of multimedia and creativity software, the iWork suite of productivity software, and Final Cut Studio, a suite of professional audio and film-industry software products. The company operates more than 250 retail stores in nine countries and an online store where hardware and software products are sold.

Official Site: www.apple.com

SteelEye is a leading provider of business continuity solutions that focus on "Data Protection, Data Replication and Disaster Recovery." The products are designed to easily integrate into complex IT infrastructures, to provide these services either at a local, national or global level.

SteelEye enables companies of all sizes to ensure a continuous operation of their critical systems. They have "out-of-the-box" support for a wide variety of applications, databases and storage systems running in Windows environments, Linux or VMware on Intel platform, such as the IBM System X & BladeCenter servers.

SteelEye´s products ensure world-class reliability for complex systems relating to traditional business continuity at a fraction of the cost. In addition, SteelEye provides consultancy services and assistance to organizations, in order to assess, design and implement solutions.

SteelEye has proven successful in high demand environments across the globe. Today, companies in the "Global 1000" group trust their products to keep their systems running and continue increasing the productivity of their staff.

Official site: www.steeleye.com

Founded in 2002, Vizioncore helps clients solve their ´real world´ problems with intelligent software. Vizioncore provides software to safeguard and maximize virtualized environments and attain maximum return over the investment in the VMware platform. Vizioncore software products support the essential IT strategies, including "Business Continuity", "High Availability", and "Disaster Recovery".

What makes Vizioncore stand out is their understanding of Virtualization’s unique and required characteristics. As a Member of the VMware Community Source and the Technical Alliance Partner of VMware, and as a recognized and active member of the Virtualization community, Vizioncore has a unique perspective in the industry, informing and giving form to the development of products that have transformed into the standards and essentials of the industry to run robust virtual environments.

Official site: www.vizioncore.com

Synthesis Retail Solutions is an Argentinean company with operations in Latin America, dedicated since 1988 to research, development, consulting and services aimed at providing solutions for the modern Retail industry.

SRS has a strong expertise in corporate networks and technological platforms for POS´s available around the world. SRS has offices in Miami, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Santiago de Chile and runs its business operations from countries such as Venezuela, El Salvador, Colombia, Panama and Dominican Republic.

Official site: www.synthesis-rs.com