2009 Sponsors and Exhibitors

GOLD Sponsors

Digital Measures makes web-based software for higher education. Our four flagship solutions are used by more than 800 schools and colleges in more than 25 countries. The focus of our solutions is on making it easy to collect information from a broad base of people so that powerful reports can be run. Our solutions each perfectly fill the need for which they are designed; they can be tweaked and tailored to meet your exact needs.	SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions, SAS helps customers improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. SAS gives you THE POWER TO KNOW®.

For more than three decades, Scantron has helped education, commercial, and government organizations worldwide measure and improve effectiveness with assessment and survey solutions. The company is best known for its pioneering and exceptional products and services that allow the rapid, accurate and reliable capture of student performance data. Today, approximately 80% of schools in the United States use Scantron products.	Strategic Planning Online empowers and integrates the planning process so planning and budget managers can focus on objectives, targets, and assessment as a system to facilitate continuous improvement as well as documenting compliance with the SACS institutional effectiveness standards.

Silver Sponsors

Nuventive is a leading provider of solutions for assessing, managing and demonstrating continuous improvement in education. Our enterprise suite of software solutions: TracDat for enterprise assessment management and integrated planning; Insight for presenting and communicating programmatic and institution-wide initiatives; and iWebfolio for electronic portfolio solutions; equip individuals and organizations to better understand, assess, improve, and communicate personal and institutional improvement.	TaskStream was founded in the late 20th Century to develop affordable Web-accessible technologies and supporting services to evolve flexible systems and processes to make learning more purposeful, engaging, efficient, and relevant. Our pioneering approach to meeting the evolving needs for a more robust learning framework is helping to redefine the educational landscape. We advance educational excellence by providing our clients with the highest quality Web-based software and supporting services to efficiently plan and manage the assessment process, facilitate the demonstration of learning achievement and foster continuous improvement throughout the education network.

Concord is celebrating 25 years providing technology solutions to education institutions. Its proven Xitracs™ system can manage your accreditation, faculty credentials and planning projects. All major agencies are supported. Use Xitracs™ to build a project calendar, assign people, collect evidence, maintain credentials, create strategic plans, view management reports and easily publish self-study submissions.	Compliance Assist! powered by Dataliant, is the leading hosted solution to simplify your initial accreditation and reaffirmation initiatives. CA! Accreditation is a proven, time-saving, customizable, web-based solution that supports multiple accrediting bodies and various publishing and presentation formats. Companion product, CA! Planning includes strategic planning, assessment, credential management, and report archival tools. CA! pricing starts at $4,995 for schools with 3,000 FTE or less. Dataliant is headquartered in Atlanta, GA and specializes in technology solutions for the academic market.

Mythics has developed a web enabled reporting solution that allows non-technical users to create powerful reports, alerts, and dashboards as well as run or schedule complex parameter driven reports against data from nearly any source. Mythics Data Analyzer leverages Oracle Application Express which is an included feature of the Oracle Database; a solution that can be deployed to any customer that currently owns an Oracle Database. This approach to reporting is 100% supported by Oracle and lowers your total cost of ownership by empowering you to manage your own reports without a costly and complex software investment, or sustained consulting requirement. For customers who do not own Oracle, Mythics makes it easy by including a full use license of the necessary Oracle components with the Mythics Data Analyzer software bundle. The Mythics Data Analyzer was specifically built to address the challenges of smaller organizations by providing a low cost reporting tool that can work with traditional and non-traditional data sources.	ACT is an independent, not-for-profit organization that provides more than a hundred assessment, research, information, and program management services in the broad areas of education and workforce development.Though designed to meet a wide array of needs, all ACT programs and services have one guiding purpose: helping people achieve education and workplace success.

CampusWide is a comprehensive assessment and reporting system for collecting and managing your program, departmental, and institutional data, both academic and non-academic, for the measurement of accountability, institutional effective-ness, and accreditation. CampusWide lets you collect your data systematically, plan your assessments, compare them against desired outcomes/objectives, and generate detailed reports for compliance, analysis, and program improvement.	Inquisite , an Allegiance company, is an innovative provider of online survey software. The company offers a robust and proven end-to-end survey solution designed for gathering and understanding the opinions and insights of customers, partners and employees. Its flexible, self-administered survey product gives users the ability to build higher quality surveys and make better and faster decisions. Inquisite solutions are preferred by a growing customer base of Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T;, Chevron, Dell, Intel, Visa, Citi, Johnson & Johnson, Marriott, Dupont, Xerox, SAP, Siemens, USPS, FDIC, GAP and Target.

Build a "culture of evidence" in your campus. CoursEval™ software gives deans and faculty the means to create, deploy, and analyze peer and self-assessments, formative and summative assessments, longitudinal or cohort assessments, etc. Our remote portal tool, MyCoursEval, offers a dynamic interface between CoursEval and Blackboard, Jenzabar, Sakai, and Moodle.
Bronze Sponsors

In Los Angeles, in the summer of 1955... ..Robert Paul Apperson established his new printing company, Apperson Business Forms, to supply precision forms to the import-export industry. The Apperson company pleased customers with high-quality printing and impressed them with a rock-solid integrity that resonated with their values. Times have changed, but the perennial need of customers to find companies that consistently do a good job and keep their word is as strong as ever.	The ability to select content that matches departmental learning goals has made the ACAT the nationally normed instrument of choice for more than 500 colleges and universities. ACATs are available in twelve disciplines for administration online or in traditional paper format.

ZogoTech aims to revolutionize how educators and administrators use technology. Built through partnerships with higher education institutions, ZogoTech's software answers the data needs of executives and institutional researchers through student services personnel. Our in-depth knowledge of higher education, superior customer support, and software solutions are highly-acclaimed for their usability.	Software solutions from Rapid Insight Inc. for data analysis, reporting, and predictive modeling are changing the way Institutional Research Departments are working with data. From automation of reports and ad-hoc analysis to predictive modeling, our software solutions help to streamline data processes and enable your data to work FOR you.

Academic Analytics is the creator of the Faculty Scholarly Productivity (FSP) Database that compiles data on books and journal publications, citations, federal grants, and scholarly awards for each PhD program in the US. The FSP Database provides valuable information on faculty productivity for the assessment and strategic management of institutions.	The Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) serves as an interdisciplinary center for research, evaluation, information, policy studies, and research training in postsecondary education. HERI is housed in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies (GSE&IS;)at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The Institute's research program covers a variety of topics including the outcomes of postsecondary education, leadership development, institutional transformation, faculty performance, federal and state policy, and educational equity. Visiting scholars, faculty, and graduate students have made use of HERI facilities and its research resources since its affiliation with UCLA in 1973.

The National Student Clearinghouse is the nation's trusted source for academic verification and reporting. Over 3,300 colleges, enrolling 92% of US college students, submit updated degree and enrollment records to us several times a year. Our StudentTracker service enables the education community to track student enrollment and degree attainment nationwide.
Special

Texas Association for Institutional Research	Richland Community College

America's first interstate compact for education, the Southern Regional Education Board is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that helps government and education leaders in its 16 member states work together to advance education and improve the social and economic life of the region. Member states include: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.