Hicks Consulting Group, Inc

Accela is the leading provider of government enterprise software solutions that provide agencies with the ability to automate workflow, track information and manage data from a centralized database. Its products allow agencies to reduce workload, increase efficiencies and provide citizens and businesses with easier, more convenient access to government services. Accela has more than 25 years of experience developing and implementing enterprise solutions for asset management, emergency response, permitting, planning, licensing, public health, public works and more. The company provides software products and services to hundreds of government agencies throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Accela was created in 1999 from the three-way merger of Sierra Computer Systems, OpenData Systems and Accela Corporation. More than 500 state and local government agencies are utilizing Accela software solutions to deliver services to their citizens.

Established in 1981, Wind River Systems focuses on the design, development and deployment of device software optimization technology. The company s device software optimization solution can be built on a choice of operating systems with an ecosystem of validated and integrated partner technologies. Key tenets of the company s solutions are the standardization of technologies and processes throughout projects, teams and sites, in addition to the use of open standards to provide companies with the broadest possible choice of tools, technologies and architectures. Industry leaders, including Apple, Hewlett Packard, Boeing, Motorola, NASA and Mitsubishi, deploy Wind River technology in more than 300 million devices worldwide. Wind River Systems is a publicly held company headquartered in Alameda, Calif., with operations throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, the Middle East and Asia.