Auckland City Council

Recognising the important contribution the ICT industry makes to the city’s economy Auckland City Council is delighted to sponsor the Auckland ICT Cluster.

ICT is a key sector in the Auckland economy with over 2500 businesses and over 18,000 employees.
The city accounts for over 80% of regional ICT employment and over 40% of national ICT employment. (2006 figures from Statistics NZ)
ICT is a high value, high growth sector with export potential and requires skilled workers. The council’s Economic Development Strategy has a vision of a productive and globally connected Auckland economy, delivering jobs, higher incomes and an improved standard of living for Aucklanders. Our role is to act as a catalyst to create the right environment for economic growth. We invest, regulate and influence to foster business growth in the city, including working in partnership with key industry organisations.
The ICT sector is a key area of focus in achieving these goals.

To find out more about how Auckland City Council is fostering business growth, please go to:

• Economic Development
• Business and Industry Events

Enterprise North Shore

Enhancing the local economy through helping businesses to start, grow, collaborate, innovate, aspire to best practice and export. Enterprise North Shore has a key focus on the Hi Tech sectors including ICT, electronics, specialised manufacturing and marine. Support for these sectors includes; sponsorship of the Auckland ICT Cluster and the Electronics Group; capability development workshops (Excellerator); assistance with R&D through Government programmes; Starting off Right workshops; business mentoring; advice and access to investment; facilitated access to expertise and skills; and promotion of business performance and business excellence.

For help with your business go to www.enterprisens.org.nz

acquire remains one of a very small number of companies that have built an entire business model based on the use of the internet.

At acquire we focus on some basic service principles that form the foundation of our operation:

• Strong focus on customer service
• Customer-centric online tools to make finding and purchasing less painful
• Friendly and seasoned telephone account management for our business customers

Advantage Software is an International Software Distributor specialising in modeling tools and system utilities.

• AllFusion ERwin & Process Modeler award winning data modeling and process modeling software
• CaseStudio2 data modeling software
• Enterprise Architect provides UML modeling for the enterprise.
• Saphir extracting SAP, Peoplesoft and J D Edwards for reporting or export to a modeling tool.
• Other products include: Sawmill for log file (including web) analysis, Datatect for test data generation, Time Disciple - a project-based time recording and accountability software solution, Hangman for managing Terminal Services processes and Arena for simulation modeling.

Agility Group is a local specialist IT recruitment consultancy with a BIG reputation. Our continued growth in the recruitment market has been down to three things:

• Our focus on speed and precision in what we do. i.e. we don't flood our clients with CVs, but get it right first time.
• Our lean cost model means we offer market beating rates.
• Agility Group is run by two seasoned IT project managers with over 20 years' IT experience. We have an instinctive ability to find even the toughest and most complex skills.

Alpha Personnel Recruitment is a recognised leader in recruiting roles from Executive Support level right through to Senior Management. Since being established in Auckland in 1988 we have provided our customers with the best possible candidates for Permanent, Temporary and Contract jobs. With branches located in Auckland and Wellington, we pride ourselves on being a New Zealand owned full service Recruitment Company.

APT specialise in helping people create practical business, organisation and project plans.

We have a practical rather than an academic approach to business and project planning. Simplicity, speed and a visual thinking approach are my points of difference.

Author-it is the complete solution for the creation, management and publication of content across the whole enterprise. Rather than addressing the symptoms, it addresses the cause of content management issues. Write once, reuse many times, manage translation to any language and publish to multiple outputs: print, web or help. Discover why over 3000 customers across 5 continents have already selected Author-it as their preferred content management solution.

ASPX was established in late 2005 to service the need for the delivery of high quality on demand computing services.

Since its establishment, ASPX has already secured a number of key contracts within the health and tourism sectors.

The ASPX solution ensures 24/7 access to your company’s network, utilising the global reach of the internet. Your users may access the system from wherever in the world they can access the internet – on remote computers, handheld computers and smartphones, or even their own home office.

At Axcel Institute, our philosophy is to fuse knowledge with needs. We do this in our courses and in our research programmes. Students gain accelerated opportunities to learn new skills so that they can fast track their earning potential. Our research programmes give our clients the knowledge they need to achieve their goals.

Business to Markets helps grow your business in domestic and international markets by working with you to develop and successfully implement practical marketing solutions.

We provide effective marketing and business development advice to electronics and software companies targeting industrial and commercial customers. Services include: business and marketing plans, market research, sales and distribution analysis, trade fair participation, business development and assistance with exporting, with particular emphasis on Europe.

Building Integration Software (bisco) will revolutionise building by changing the way information flows through the building industry. Automatically unlocking the information currently held in 3D CAD models is the key and we can do that.

We use information technology to improve communication within the building industry. We have developed a technology that allows us to extract information from a range of generic 3D CAD design models and then use it automatically for subsequent processes such as cost estimation, specification documentation, or project planning.

In a nutshell, BITT LIMITED aims to provide remote access to any data either from the office or in the field. This includes access to physical measurements of sound, vibration, temperature, humidity and pressure.

We also provide independent advice, design and implementation services for wireless data and remote access solutions.

The mission of Massey University's Centre for Mobile Computing is to engage in leading edge research to enhance New Zealand's capability in mobile computing. Currently, our research activities focus on mobile business, mobile health and mobile learning.

We fulfil our mission in a variety of ways including applied research, research transfer, maximising research funding opportunities, research-based teaching, membership in professional organisations such as the Auckland ICT Cluster and, especially, research partnerships. We welcome opportunities for development of research that is relevant to the needs of the business, health and education communities we serve. If you have an idea or a proposal that will benefit both of us, we want to hear from you.

Concentrate delivers market clarity for technology-based companies. We’ve helped companies like WhisperGen, AuCom Electronics, Eaton, Designline Citibus, Tait Radio Communications, Jade Software and 2005 Hi-tech Marketer of the Year - SLI Systems sell more of their products.

Making the right marketing decisions can be tough. There can be a lot of factors to consider with no clear way to decide.

Concentrate has the tools and experience to help you gain clarity around your marketing. This clarity helps you make the decisions that will realise the market potential of your product or service.

Concept To Market specialise in provision of business development services and technology development services in the IT & related sectors, particularly in areas of market identification & mapping, business strategy, commercialisation, business risk management and tactical execution of business strategy including mentoring.

Strength in commercialization of valuable IP & identification of constraints to sales/export performance are key attributes, as is their experience in creating strategies/choosing appropriate business models to maximize revenue returns. For over 3 years CTM has provided course content for & currently facilitates an Accelerated Business Growth programme for owners and directors of technology companies.

Concerto Networks is a SME /B2B Managed Service Provider. Concerto Networks has a suite of powerful software tools that deliver proactive network management. Welcome to the Simple Office!

• Application Development
• Business Intelligence & Enterprise Reporting
• Application Management
• Application Testing
• Migration & Re-engineering
• Consulting Services

Data over Radio have developed solutions to allow organisations and companies to bring their existing radio networks up to speed with the new systems that are being developed.

We have developed bluetooth applications that allow PDAs to operate with the radio. We have developed easy to use software to allow quick and easy integration to most host systems.

An example of our innovative work is V-Track which utilizes the latest in microprocessor technology to control the GPS receiver and radio to ensure all data is as up to date as possible.

NZ owned and operated International Distributor of Software

• Log Explorer for SQL Server to recover databases
  
• AuditDB for SQL, Oracle and Sybase for Privacy Act and SOX Compliance
  
• Transit - automated web publishing of content from any source. Maintain your own website using desktop products that you are familiar with.
  
• NetTracker - web visitor analysis, employee internet usage monitoring and ISA Server reporting all in one product!
  
• Allround Automations PL/SQL Developer
  
• JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA
  

Electronic Partners is a New Zealand based company with extensive knowledge in electronic product design and development. We provide research and development plus we develop electronic hardware and embedded software for the electronic industry start-up ventures. We assist our clients with development advice, prototype design, product development.

FieldLinx is a creative software company that provides innovative solutions to link companies and their mobile staff in such a way that creates synergies across the entire company.

Our solutions equip mobile staff with smart portable devices that automate data collection and integrate these tools with other office systems such that whole business processes are streamlined and a platform is created for powerful utilisation of information.

With these tools FieldLinx Solutions add real value to client businesses. The performance of mobile staff is improved, business wide productivity enhanced and best practices encouraged through out the operations of the business.

GeoSmart Maps Ltd is the leading supplier of cartography, web mapping , Location Based Services, Fleet Management and Car Navigation (GPS) Map data for New Zealand.

GeoSmart is your backroom partner in delivering Location Based Services. We have the only full turn restriction database covering all of New Zealand. Sites including Wises, AA MAPS, Bayleys Real Estate use our API’s. We also support Navman, Navman Wireless, TomTom, Siemens VDO, NavNGO, Horizon.

Web Services and API include Route Optimisation, Geocoding, Reverse Geocoding, Vector Graphics, Business Data Visualisation, Mesh Block data visualisation, Driving Directions, Trip Planning, Points of Interest (POI) and more.

Global Village Technology specialises in helping your company use IT to grow your business and provide better service to your customers.

We are experienced at providing assistance to your leadership team through our management consulting services.

Typically we combine our real-world management experience with our business analysis skills to help define and deliver IT projects.

• Management Services
  General management & Professional Services management consulting, Procurement Consulting, Executive Leasing.
• Business Services
  Business analysis, business process mapping, Business<->IT interfacing, project & change management.
• IT Services
  IT strategy, IT architecture, software consulting, development, testing, support services.

Providing creative solutions to communication problems. GWD produces work in a wide variety of formats to help our clients communicate their message.

• Print
  
• Corporate Identity
  
• Digital Print
  
• Signage
  
• Web Site Design
  

Kevin Andreassend created ICE AV as a result of a life long passion with audio visual technology.

Today ICE AV is at the fore-front of audio visual communication and video projection with a range of revolutionary screen technologies. ICE Digital Daytime screens enable projection in highly lit ambient environments by increasing the projected image brightness by up to 2000%.

Currently ICE AV is active at numerous levels in the technology market both in New Zealand and within Asia. We represent various manufacturers, offer professional services, market our own brands of product, represented by Asian appointed distributors and representatives. We have a particular interest in the AV convergence market, digital signage, AV telecommunications integration, theatre systems, and signal management. This focus has resulted in our involvement in developing home theatre systems, commercial meeting rooms, interactive motion systems, control technology, digital signage and associated areas in a variety of industry sectors.

Companies with a commitment to growth exceed the performance of all other companies. These companies create value for shareholders, for customers, for employees and for New Zealand. These companies and their founders are the sustainable heroes of the New Zealand economy.

Ignition Partner uses its practical experience to help New Zealand companies that wish to grow. Ignition Partner, through Chad Wilkie and John Cunningham, advises and implements. It doesn't just consult and report. Ignition Partner offers pragmatic advice and practical assistance.

Iterate is a specialist IT recruitment firm, with offices in Auckland and Wellington. Iterate works with a range of New Zealand companies, hiring permanent and contract IT staff, including developers, business analysts, project managers, testers, and engineers.

Today’s business relies on its networks to keep its teams working and being productive. They rely on their ICT partners to give them the best advice and the best solutions to keep them operating. They need ICT partners they can trust to give impartial advice, and the highest level of skill and care to back it up.

They need Kinetics. The networking partner that doesn’t sell products, the partner that puts the customer first. An award winning IT partner with the highest level of certification from Microsoft. Kinetics is the networking partner you, and your clients, can rely on to put you first.

McLaughlin Law is a boutique law firm which offers a comprehensive range of specialist legal services for ICT companies. Our clients include established and emerging ICT companies to whom we provide assistance with the legal aspects of their ICT businesses and product offerings both nationally and internationally.”

At MGF Webb our mission is to be one of the leading law firms in Australasia serving clients in technology and communications transactions and competition and regulatory advice.

• focus on what we excel at - technology and communications transactions and competition and regulatory advice
• be innovative, responsive and effective in everything we do
• attract and nurture the best legal talent

Neotek - Powering Sales for distributors and manufacturers through the delivery of Sales Force Automation (mobility), online ordering (eCommerce) and comprehensive catalogue tools is the domain of Neotek Limited. A North Shore based software company started 2001.

Being able to deliver Neotek’s fully integrated eCommerce, EDI, Sales Force Automation, public marketing web sites, along with print and CD catalogues from a single application is totally unique in the world today.

New Zealand School of Education is Microsoft IT Academy and NZQA accredited. We train students for National Diploma in Computing levels 5 and 6 with the aim of students attaining international certifications as well. Most students are upskilling or re-training for an IT career.

Our mission is “To deliver quality education to produce graduates with globally competitive qualifications in an open, friendly and relaxed environment with flexible approach that values the diversity of students”.

New Zealand Technology Park will contain 14,000sqm of flexible, modern work space, cafes, a gym, seminar and conference facilities as well as other communal networking areas. It will be built in two stages and be available at competitive lease rates.

For business, the proximity to research will be profitable and invigorating; and research institutions will benefit from the commercialising power of the proven high tech industry. Refer to www.nztp.com

Orcon can offer you a complete customised solution for your Internet requirements. We offer a full range of Internet and data services including:

OSL - Real Estate Information Solutions, sets the standard in Real Estate information solutions. Our leading edge technology and software is advanced, yet easy to use and implement, plus very simple to learn. The Real Estate information products and services we provide, specifically meet requirements, and our technical and industrial knowledge supply direction and first class customer support.

Our products and services offer you:

• the ability to implement procedures
• a cost effective solution
• relationship building tools
• business driven software
• solutions for the future

The Environmental Monitoring and Smart Metering Hub

OutpostCentral.com is a web based analysis and reporting solution for remote monitoring of environmental and industrial data. We design and manufacture a range of wireless products to get information from remote sensors to the web.

OutpostCentral.com is an Enterprise web solution which makes it simple to deploy and manage large networks of remote sites and has web templates for many sensors and meters.

Our customers consist of businesses, councils, schools and utilities throughout Australia and New Zealand. There are thousands of remote sensors connected to Outpost Central and the number is growing quickly.

Powershield develops permanent monitoring for stand-by battery banks. Powershield is predominantly a design and development company, with battery monitoring as its core business. We do not promote any other equipment and are independent of battery manufacturers and equipment suppliers.

Although battery-monitoring systems have been on the market for a number of years, we identified the high cost of monitoring in relation to the cost of the battery installation as the main barrier to wide acceptance of battery monitoring. It was therefore determined that the Powershield System had to be more cost effective than systems already on the market. An innovative approach was taken which lead to the development of the optically isolated Measurement Module. This provides an electrically safe environment for high voltage systems and reduces the cost of installation.

Powyr is a supplier of high-performance business intelligence tools for superior project and portfolio management, financial management and business planning.

Our pioneering business solutions include:-

• Strategic Planning
• Portfolio, Programme and Project Management (PPM)
• Contract and Asset Management
• Enterprise Resource Planning, Collaboration and Investment Planning Solutions for property development, construction and engineering.
• Loan Management and Anti-money Laundering (AML) Solutions for the financial services industry

Profiles International NZ Ltd

Prolificx is an electronics solutions company specialising in mobile computing platforms for automotive and machine to machine applications.

Providing off the shelf and custom solutions, our products are specifically targeted to meet the rapidly growing market for high performance, low power, embedded computing devices in applications such as fleet management, mobile gateways, and other location based products.

QBE Insurance has been operating in New Zealand since 1890 and is Australia’s largest international general insurance and reinsurance group, one of the top 25 insurers and reinsurers worldwide and New Zealand’s largest and most experienced provider of liability insurance solutions to the ICT industry.

QBE New Zealand offers a comprehensive range of quality business insurance products to cover businesses of all sizes from smaller enterprises to large corporates.

QBE provides all classes of business insurance including liability insurance, property insurance, marine insurance, trade credit insurance, contract works & engineering insurance and accident & health insurance.

For many years we've strived to understand the needs of our customers in New Zealand and Australia. What we've found is that our customers keep asking for the same, simple equation:

• Provide you with a reliable and fast response support to computer problems
• Give you options for every budget and situation
• Do not make you go to other vendors for different computer related products or services, make it simple

Is too much time being spent administering your Sport and not enough developing it?

Why not consider the RealSports suite of solutions - designed to connect your Sport with your members.

Proven by 'best practise' sporting organisations from around the world, RealSports solutions enable you to effectively manage your members from grassroots to gold, optimise competition and event management as well as developing your elite athletes to success.

At Robot-Hosting.com we produce two types of Robots.

Type 1 - Simulated Robots on computer screen. They look like human and have emotions, artificial intelligence, logical reasoning ability and talk with people.

Type 2 - Mechanical Robots that their brain is connected with wireless network to our server clusters.

Both models access large complex data bases and speak eight human languages. They are working as assistant lecturers for universities and sales persons for retail stores.

The Service Advantage programme has one simple objective – to ensure the IT Service Management outcomes are closely aligned with business needs and priorities, using the most cost-effective possible means.

At Service Advantage, we believe the knowledge and experience to achieve best practice is already in your organization.

Your people know the IT systems and often know how to make them work at their best. Our role is to guide and train the knowledge and skills already present, to achieve an ITSM improvement plan that is owned and fostered internally.

Silicon Avenue is an international company providing both in-house and outsourced IT services and software solutions.

We primarily specialise in IT consulting services and business intelligence software solutions primarily for banking, investment management and trading organisations. Our skills mainly centre on pricing and financial market risk, requiring detailed expertise in financial instruments, structures and their behaviour. Originally established in the UK in 1996, Silicon Avenue has grown significantly and now provides consultancy and support services from offices in New Zealand, the UK and US.

Simpson Grierson is one of New Zealand's leading commercial and technology-focused law firms. We're a full service firm - which means that we can call in expertise specific to your business or transaction at a moment's notice. Our ICT team is one-such specialist group and is one of the country's foremost ICT legal advisory resources.

Our ICT work includes both sector and project involvement. Our clients range from software, hardware & service suppliers (right through from start-up to exit phases) and telecommunications companies, to central government agencies, local government bodies and major corporates. Example ICT sector clients include the likes of Direct Payment Solutions, YourBiz, Zeacom, Advantage Software, CallTime Solutions and Orbiz.

Simpson Grierson has offices in Auckland and Wellington and exceptionally strong global business and legal connections.

SolaStat design, and manufacture quality instrumentation for the industrial sector. Our product range includes data loggers, signal processors, transmitters, sensors, and power supply's for many industrial sectors including the dairy industry and the wine industry. We also manufacture a range of solar hot water controllers.

Our products are sold locally and also worldwide through our key distributor arrangements. SolaStat controllers incorporate innovative hardware and software concepts and are gaining a reputation as a high quality product.

Strategic Improvement Limited provides:

• Facilitation of Business Strategy
• A software tool to support Strategy Implementation
• Consulting advice - manufacturing systems, collaboration tools

Tachyon Microsystems goal is to make computers a simple and carefree experience for all people and for all companies. Tachyon Microsystems is a company committed to service and support. We promise to do our utmost to provide the highest quality hardware, support and advice for any computing situation.

The Complete Package provides Digital media products and services for public places focusing on self-service kiosks and digital signage. Interactive media for retailers, museums, trade shows and tourist sites. From concept, design & production to supply of AV, tiny PC’s & touch screen systems. Producer of hospitality guest information channels.

NZ distributor for several new media companies including Redten (UK), Digit (Holland) and Centrica (Italy). Supplier of XLimage, the leading image licensing system for sale of images over the web. Developer of Jackie, self-service receptionist & PowerPac Digital, narrowcasting content management software; combining the best of web & TV technology.

Thrive At Work is a consulting and training organisation. We are in the business of creating healthy workplaces where people and productivity flourish.

• Engaging Potential – Leading edge training to add value to your existing investment.
• Trouble-shooting – Strategies and solutions for all workplace people problems.

• Thrive At Work investigates the impact of issues throughout the system.
• Specific leadership training, coaching and team enhancement are combined with an analysis of the interface where different parts of the system interact.

The Resources Group is a professional services partnership expert in securing government co-investment for New Zealand technology companies. The highly experienced team at The Resources Group work through a time proven process with client companies that establishes a current position, determines plans for growth then develops the optimum strategy for accessing government co-investment.

Once a strategy is agreed upon, The Resources Group take full responsibility for the entire application process from preparing project plans and budgets and identifying resource requirements to the preparation of the co-investment application and assisting with project management and administration.

TradeTech is a leading New Zealand electronic component supply company - specialising in electronics parts stock, purchasing and logistics.

TradeTech is the national spare parts distributor for Sony, Philips, Aiwa and The Warehouse Ltd.

As winners of multiple industry awards from organisations such as the Appliance & Electronic Industry Association and Westpac Enterprise North Shore, TradeTech is proud of its culture of excellence in service delivery. TradeTech customers include electronic manufacturers; repair, service and maintenance companies; system designers and installers; retailers; educational providers; military; IT/telecommunications sector; electronic and electrical wholesalers.

Transfield Services is a design and build contractor of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) to improve the efficiency and safety of NZ roads. We design, install, commission systems for traffic management on motorways , state highways and major arterial roads.

Unfold provides software development and consulting services. Our main expertise is in the area of GNU/Linux-based Free Software. If you are looking for professionally developed bespoke web applications or expertise in the programming language Python and its development frameworks, your search may well have come to an end.

The University of Auckland's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is committed to research and dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, innovation and knowledge.

Our recognised and respected undergraduate degrees:

• Electrical & Electronic Engineering
• Computer Systems Engineering
• Software Engineering

Vient is a virtualization focused professional services firm and IT reseller specializing in VMware, Platespin, Vizioncore, Datacore, Xen Linux, Virtual Iron, and Microsoft Virtual Server..

Xelocity is a New Zealand owned Consulting and Enabling solutions company focussed on delivering powerful business results to the clients through a combination of excellence and velocity providing services and solutions to a range of multinational clients and vertical markets.

We have a Business Improvement Value Proposition around project management and business analysis where it is customer rather than product driven.

Xelocity have direct geographic presence in New Zealand, USA and Fiji and focus on the provision of software, consulting, development and support services in the areas of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP) and Value Chain Management Systems (SCM).

The WHK Business Growth team was established as a specialist division within WHK Gosling Chapman.

The team is responsible for designing, delivering and the management of training and development programmes to SMEs as well as Corporates, both in New Zealand and Australia.

The team has worked extensively with ICT companies to commercialise and globally market their technologies, as well as preparing them for obtaining investment funding.