Non open source data integration vendors include Ab Initio, SAS Institute, Pervasive Software, IBM, Informatica, and SAP.

Members of this IT-focused alliance include Microsoft, Oracle Corporation, Sun Microsystems and SAP.

The company's partners included SAP, Nortel, Genesys, Avaya, BEA, Oracle, and IBM.

Examples could include: Excel, Oracle, Sage, SAP and PeopleSoft.

Challengers include the Oracle Corporation, PeopleSoft and SAP, which are trying to package customer management software with their broader corporate offerings, such as supply chain management and database systems.

Other members of the group include HP, Oracle, SAP and numerous others.

Examples of such application software includes Oracle Applications, Siebel and PeopleSoft (both now part of Oracle Corp.) and SAP.

Strategic partners include Microsoft, Oracle Corporation, and SAP.

Clients have included TCS, Ernst & Young, Oracle, SAP and many other household names.

Those makers include SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft, and of course Microsoft, whose Windows and Windows NT programs are dominant.