The organizations below contribute time and resources to help make this user group successful. We greatly appreciate all of their efforts:

Project Leadership Associates (PLA) is a technology consulting firm based in Chicago, specializing in network integration, software development, management consulting, information security, network support and small business services. PLA has extensive experience developing and implementing small to large-scale projects for the legal, healthcare, education and financial sectors. For more information about PLA visit www.projectleadership.net

Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software - any time, any place and on any device. For more information about Microsoft visit www.microsoft.com

Companies choose Polycom for solutions that enable their geographically dispersed workforces to communicate and collaborate more effectively and productively over distances. Using Polycom telepresence, video, and voice solutions and services, people connect and collaborate from their desktops, meeting rooms, class rooms, and mobile settings. Organizations from a wide variety of industries and the private sector work with Polycom standards-based solutions to:
- Gain a fast return on their investment as their teams easily collaborate "face to face" wherever they are
- Cut the time, cost, and carbon emissions associated with gathering the right people in one place to solve problems
- Apply saved resources, time, and energy to primary business and organizational challenges
Quest Software, Inc. is a leading provider of application management solutions. Quest provides customers with Application Confidence by delivering reliable software products to develop, deploy, manage and maintain enterprise applications without expensive downtime or business interruption. Targeting high availability, monitoring, database management and Microsoft infrastructure management, Quest products increase the performance and uptime of business-critical applications and enable IT professionals to achieve more with fewer resources. For more information about Quest Software visit www.quest.com/microsoft

Directions Training has built a platform for achievement and accelerated progress which allows corporate clients to invest in their human capital efficiently & effectively. Directions Training is dedicated to empowering their clients by translating knowledge into relevant, practical, and ready-to-implement information. Their focus is to offer performance-based training solutions which ensure productivity results. In a technological age, software plays an important part in almost everybody’s working life. If you don’t have the right training you can be behind the ball right from the start. With Chicago Microsoft training from Directions Training you can make your skills stand out from the masses. For more information visit www.directionstraining.com

As one of North America's leading providers of technology solutions and services, Softchoice helps businesses and organizations of all sizes to select, acquire and manage their software and hardware technology resources. Softchoice offers a full range of capabilities, including face-to-face consultations and IT asset management services designed to help customers save time, money and risk in IT procurement. Softchoice currently has 958 employees operating from 45 branch offices located in major cities across the U.S. and Canada. For more information visit www.softchoice.com