Puneet Gupta

Connectbeam's architecture and core application (Spotlight) were designed to help people in any role, across the enterprise, connect with both the growing pool of information and colleagues with the expertise and experience to help them get their jobs done more intelligently and more quickly. The company enables this by aggregating the social metadata that is generated naturally by using the web into a single repository that everyone in the company can access and use. Connectbeam is the first company to integrate concepts of social bookmarking and tagging with those of social networking. Connectbeam brings the 'Web 2.0' information-sharing, collaboration, and ease of use of sites like MySpace and del.icio.us to the daily work-flow of enterprise employees. It helps companies boost innovation, improve decisions, intensify collaboration, and build critical stakeholder relationships. To see what others think please search for the many positive reviews Connectbeam has received from the press, such as The Wall Street Journal; Blogs, such as TechCrunch; and analyst firms such as Gartner. Connectbeam was founded by experienced entrepreneurs with decades of experience in the enterprise software market. The company is venture backed and privately held.

PeopleSoft, Inc. provides enterprise software that ties together back-office applications and databases. Its software addresses such tasks as accounting, human resources management and supply chain management. PeopleSoft has expanded its product lines to include vertical applications for manufacturing firms and government agencies. In late 2003 Oracle launched a hostile attempt to purchase PeopleSoft, which ultimately agreed to be purchased for $10.3 billion in December 2004. Oracle completed the acquisition of the company in January 2005. PeopleSoft is located in Redwood Shores, CA.

Selectica, Inc. provides cloud-based software solutions that help companies close deals faster, with less cost, and with lower risk. It has two technologies Contract Lifecycle Management and Configured Price QuoteSelectica. Contract Lifecycle Management combines a single, company-wide contract repository with a flexible workflow engine capable of supporting each organization's unique contract management processes. The company cloud solution streamlines contract activities, from request, authoring, negotiation, and approval through ongoing obligations management, analysis, reporting, and renewals. Selectica Configured Price Quote (CPQ) streamlines the management and dissemination of complex product information, enabling companies to streamline the opportunity-to-order process for manufacturers, service providers, and financial services companies and the CPQ solution can be seamlessly integrated with leading CRM systems, as well as ERP systems like Oracle and SAP, to ensure that the latest product, customer, and pricing data is always being used. The company was founded by Jaswa Rajen and Mittal Sanjay on June 6, 1996 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.