EXHIBIT & SPONSORS

EXHIBIT HOURS:

Tuesday - 5 February   Wednesday - 6 February
10:15-10:45   10:00-10:30
12:45-14:00   12:30-13:45
16:00-16:30   15:45-16:15
17:30-19:00    

PLATINUM SPONSORS:

Evaxyx
www.evaxyx.com
   Evaxyx

Accurate, complete and consistent information as a strategic asset should be at the heart of every successful organisation. Many have tried, and failed, to achieve this goal.

Evaxyx works collaboratively with you, providing the breadth of vision and expertise to ensure that you successfully deliver innovative solutions in complex heterogeneous environments.

Our pedigree in multi-terabyte solutions and our visionary understanding and application of new technologies mean that we are trusted by the largest organisations to help guide their strategy, define their architecture, deliver their systems and mentor their staff.

What can we do with you?


Informatica
www.informatica.com
   Informatica
Informatica Software Limited delivers data integration software and services to solve a problem facing most large organisations: the fragmentation of data across disparate systems. Informatica helps organisations gain greater business value from their information assets by integrating their enterprise data. Informatica’s open, platform-neutral software reduces costs, speeds time to results, and scales to handle data integration projects of any size or complexity. With a proven track record of success, Informatica helps companies and government organisations of all sizes realise the full business potential of their enterprise data. That’s why Informatica is known as the data integration company.

GOLD SPONSORS:

DataFlux
www.dataflux.com
   DataFlux


DataFlux enables organizations to analyze, improve and control their data through an integrated technology platform. With DataFlux enterprise data quality and data integration products, organizations can more effectively and efficiently build a unified view of customers, products, suppliers or any other corporate data asset. A wholly owned subsidiary of SAS (www.sas.com), DataFlux customers can rapidly assess and improve problematic data, building the foundation for enterprise data governance. Effective data governance delivers high-quality information that can fuel successful enterprise efforts such as risk management, operational efficiency and master data management (MDM). To learn more about DataFlux, visit www.dataflux.com.


Exeros
www.exeros.com
   Exeros
Exeros, the leading data relationship discovery company, helps organizations accelerate time to market for their master data management, data governance and integration initiatives. Exeros’ customers include some of the world’s largest financial institutions, from investment banks and credit card issuers, to insurance and financial management firms. The company’s innovative data relationship discovery engine and analyst workbench, Exeros Discovery™, offers the most advanced and complete solution for discovering business rules, data lineage, hidden sensitive data and unknown data inconsistencies buried in corporate data sources. For more information--including extensive educational resources on master data management--visit www.exeros.com.

Imperva
www.imperva.com
   Imperva
Imperva is the global leader in application data security and compliance, delivering unmatched data governance and protection solutions that monitor, audit and secure business applications and databases.

Imperva solutions overcome many of the security and compliance challenges faced today by delivering accurate, actionable information on all data access, usage, and business processes within real-world production environments, and without impacting the efficiency of business functions.

Imperva products provide practical controls that protect data assets by enforcing corporate governance processes and policies. Automated usage modeling simplifies the creation, management and enforcement of these processes and policies in large organizations.

Backed by the security and compliance experts at the Imperva Application Defense Center (ADC), Imperva customers can be confident that they are always armed with the latest defenses against new threats, and the most recent regulatory compliance best practices.


SPONSOR:

AB Initio
www.abinitio.com
   AB Initio

Ab Initio Software is a general-purpose data processing platform for enterprise-scale, mission-critical applications, covering the complete range of data processing architectures from batch, to near real-time, through to request-response services. Ab Initio solves the problems of scalability, development time, performance, business rules, metadata management, and integration. Ab Initio is in production at the world’s largest companies in banking, e-commerce, telecommunications, insurance, retail, government and healthcare; running applications as diverse as web message brokers, billing systems, data warehousing, risk and compliance, marketing analytics, and data integration hubs.


Embarcadero Technologies
www.embarcadero.com
   Embarcadero Technologies
Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. delivers professional grade database tools that companies use to design, develop and manage databases and the data they contain. More than 12,000 customers worldwide and over 90 of the Fortune 100 rely on Embarcadero's cross-platform tools to reduce complexity, improve productivity and strengthen security. The company's flagship database tools include: ER/Studio, DBArtisan, Rapid SQL and Change Manager. Founded in 1993, Embarcadero is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Melbourne, Australia, Munich, Germany and Maidenhead, United Kingdom. For more information, visit www.embarcadero.com.

Global Address
www.globaladdress.net
   Global Address
Harte-Hanks Global Address helps worldwide corporate clients manage their international customer data. The company’s proprietary software captures and cleanses name and address data for 238 nations and territories, and appends enhancements such as geocodes and time-zone data. The company also offers a high-quality data management service which combines a class-leading technology platform with international expertise to provide clients with a single, clean, usable database regardless of number of records, number of data sources, or number of languages. Unicode capability provides processing in all major character sets, including non-Roman based languages such as Chinese, Hellenic and Russian. Harte-Hanks Global Address operates from offices in the UK and the US and through a worldwide network of resellers and OEM integrators. Harte-Hanks (NYSE:HHS) is a worldwide direct and targeted marketing company.

ENDORSED BY:

MPO
www.metadataprofessional.org
MPO    

The Meta-Data Professional Organization (MPO) is a non-profit, international professional association comprised of business and IT professionals in all areas of meta-data practice. MPO provides meta-data professionals with a community that fosters discussion, advancement and increased understanding of meta-data as it is applied in the field.

The MPO brings together individuals with interests, expertise, or hands-on experience in meta-data use from all areas of private and public enterprise throughout the world and seeks to disseminate technical and professional information to meta-data practitioners of all levels of experience.

For further information please visit http://www.metadataprofessional.org or our free online discussion group mpo_discuss@yahoogroups.com.


DAMA UK
www.damauk.org
DAMA - UK Chapter    

The drive for the future is to successfully focus on providing quality support to core members whilst guaranteeing sufficient financial income to ensure sustained activity.

The four areas which DAMA UK recommends addressing over the next two years are:

Academic - to survey UK organisations to understand their Data Management skill set needs and then induce academic institutions to supply them.

Data Quality (DQ) - to benchmark data quality standards in the UK and encourage development of business awareness of the importance of DQ and help develop DG metrics.

Government regulations versus data - to increase awareness of the legal implications of data management, assist organisations in reducing their legal liabilities and support ETA (and others) lobby for "data clever" legislation.

Data Standards - survey requirements then work with other organisations (eg BCS) to develop effective data standards.


DAMA INTERNATIONAL
www.dama.org
DAMA    

DAMA International is a not-for-profit, vendor-independent association of technical and business professionals dedicated to advancing the concepts and practices for data resource management and enterprise information. The primary purpose of DAMA International is to promote the understanding, development, and practice of managing data and information to support business strategies.

DAMA International has chapters throughout the world. As a DAMA member you receive the benefits of your local chapter’s activities. You can network with other professionals to share ideas, trends, problems, and solutions. You will receive a discount at DAMA International conferences and seminars, and on associated vendor’s products and services. DAMA also has a virtual Global chapter. As a member of the Global chapter, you receive all the benefits of DAMA International.

To learn more about DAMA International, local chapters, membership, achievement awards, conferences and training events, discounts, job listings, education and data management certification, please visit the DAMA International web page at www.dama.org.


BCS
www.bcs.org
BCS    
The Data Management Specialist Group of the BCS is a study group for the exchange of experience and good practice on data analysis, database design, repositories, data management and information resource planning. The group addresses data-centric aspects of project development as well as techniques for data interchange and understanding across separate information systems.

MEDIA SPONSORS :

TDAN.com
www.tdan.com
TDAN    

The Data Administration Newsletter, LLC -- http://www.tdan.com -- is an award winning electronic publication that focuses on the various disciplines of data management. TDAN.com celebrated its 10th Anniversary in July of 2007 and presently attracts close to 100,000 visitors a month. The publication is produced by Robert S. Seiner of KIK Consulting & Educational Services, LLC, a well-known data management specialist that focuses on "Non-Invasive©" Data Governance & Data Stewardship programme development.


DM Review
www.dmreview.com
DMReview    

DM Review delivers market-leading insight through interviews, tutorials and columns written by the best consultants, hands-on practitioners and technology solution leaders the industry has to offer. Editorial focus is on business intelligence, performance management, analytics, integration and enterprise data warehousing as well as emerging areas that include business process management and technology architectures. Technologists as well as corporate decision-makers read DM Review for the information management insights they need to maintain competitive advantage, contain cost and drive growth.


Business Intelligence Network
www.B-eye-NETWORK.co.uk
b-eye    

The Business Intelligence Network™ delivers industry-based content hosted by domain experts and industry leaders in Business Intelligence, Business Performance Management, Data Warehousing and Information Quality. The Business Intelligence Network serves these communities with unparalleled industry coverage and resources. Visit www.BeyeNETWORK.co.uk to experience the most advanced technology available for delivery of content over the web including RSS feeds, expert hosted blogs, audio driven interviews and podcasting.