Open Source Awards Sponsors

We're delighted that the following companies and organisations have agreed to sponsor this years awards:

Informatics Ventures	Informatics Ventures seeks to engage Scotland’s high-tech serial entrepreneurs and investors for advice and wisdom. The initiative will support ambitious software startups and contribute a significant entrepreneurship agenda to the Informatics and Computer Science base across Scotland.

Craneware	Craneware is the leading provider of solutions that improve financial performance for US hospital and healthcare organisations through strategic pricing, revenue cycle and supply management solutions. Founded in 1999, with the introduction of the US healthcare industry's original chargemaster management solution, Craneware is celebrating its 10th Anniversary this year. Craneware has established significant market leadership with a client base of more than 1,000 healthcare facilities of all sizes, from critical access hospitals to integrated delivery networks. Of the more than 5,700 hospitals in the US, it is approximated that less than half have purchased a technology-based chargemaster management solution representing a substantial market opportunity. Craneware solutions support the transformation of healthcare organisations' revenue integrity processes. Craneware's market-led revenue management solutions allow healthcare organisations to quickly see dramatic advances in sustainable financial and operational performance improvement.

OSS Watch	OSS Watch provides unbiased advice and guidance on the use, development, and licensing of free and open source software. OSS Watch is funded by the JISC and its services are available free-of-charge to UK higher and further education. If you want to find out more about open source software, we're the people to ask.

Bright Purple	Bright Purple are a specialist Financial Services and IT recruitment organisation based in the centre of Scotland's busy capital city Edinburgh as well as in the heart of the financial district of London, UK. As IT and Financial Services recruitment professionals we specialise in permanent and contract resourcing for IT and Financial Services roles in Scotland, England and throughout the UK and Europe. Our IT recruitment business has matured to allow us to also deliver recruitment services for the securing of Senior Appointments across IT, Financial Services, Business Process Re-engineering (BPR), Business Change and Business Transformation skill sets. The Bright Purple mission is to quite simply deliver an exceptional IT and Business Change recruitment service within these specialist markets. Our expertise spans across; Financial Services, Investment Banking, Consultancy, Media, Energy & Utilities and Public Sector. We focus on recruiting, developing and retaining the best recruiters to deliver a high quality, personal service to both clients and candidates. We call it perfectly placed.

ScotlandIS	Vision To be the expert voice that supports the success of the ICT industry in Scotland Mission To foster a world-class technology environment in Scotland that propels the ICT industry to maximise its impact locally, to exploit global opportunity, and to achieve growth and success.

Acumen-PR	Founded in Edinburgh in 2002, Acumen is a public relations consultancy that works with its clients throughout the UK and overseas to help them achieve their business objectives. Our creative and innovative public relations strategies generate the results our clients expect. These strategies underpin a wealth of PR services delivered to a range of organisations. We work with clients to identify the right target audiences, the correct messages for those audiences and the best means of delivery.

SICSA	Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) SICSA will sustain and expand Scotland's research excellence in Informatics and Computer Science. The Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) is a collaboration of leading Scottish Universities. Our aim is to work together to consolidate and develop Scotland's position as an international research leader in informatics and computer science (ICS). In Scotland, we have one of the five biggest top-quality research clusters in ICS in the world, with more than 200 world-class academic researchers. We are the foremost cluster of ICS research in the UK: about 16% of the very best research output comes from Scotland, and SICSA members hold about 20% of national ICS research funds.

Nominet	Nominet is the Internet registry for .uk domain names. We operate at the heart of e-commerce in the UK, running one of the world's largest Internet registries and managing over seven million domain names. We maintain the register of .uk domain names. We run the technology which locates a computer on the Internet hosting the web site or email system you're looking for when you type in a web address or send an email to an address that ends in .uk.