"We make it a festival, natural, a carnival, " said Kenny Lo, the CEO of convention organizer Vertical Expo Services, who sported a pin with blinding LED lights.
Value-added services revenue in this vertical actually grew 7% sequentially.
While incumbent software companies such as Microsoft, Oracle and IBM provide vertical solutions that include an end to end services for developers, Box is challenging them by offering what cofounder and CEO Aaron Levie calls an open system where developers can choose from a variety of providers and plug in to any of them.
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Today, the company has a portfolio of applications that are nearly 100 percent cloud based, with more than a dozen SaaS applications and cloud services ranging from salesforce.com to Vertical Response to Constant Contact.
And DocuSign has managed to penetrate deeply into a number of vertical markets, among them consumer products, insurance, financial services, real estate, healthcare, manufacturing, and education.
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Specifically, we are gaining share within adjacent vertical markets including automotive, medical, avionics, military, location services and broadband communications.
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Samsung Epic 4G is designed to deliver one of the best multi-media experience for business users in several vertical industries such as healthcare, education, public safety, construction and professional services through superior speed and display innovation.
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While competitors such as Microsoft and vertical search engines such as Nextag have complained and will continue to complain that Google favors its own services unfairly, others think the FTC case was weak in the first place.
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There's a new Google Apps icon which opens up a tray containing a number of featured services put out by the search giant, and long-pressing the home button brings up a vertical Honeycomb-style multitasking menu.
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