Exhibit, Sponsors and Perspective Sessions

• Platinum Sponsors
• Gold Sponsors
• Sponsors
• Endorsed By
• Media Sponsors
• Perspective Sessions
• Hosted By

EXHIBIT HOURS:

Monday 27 October			Tuesday 28 October
	10:30-11:00			10:30-11:00
	12:30-14:00			12:00-13:30
	15:30-16:00			15:35-16:05
	17:30-19:00			17:05-18:45

PLATINUM SPONSORS:

TRILLIUM SOFTWARE www.trilliumsoftware.com

The Trillium Software System® provides a failsafe source of total data quality for enterprise business systems. It's why more than 9 out of 10 firms that have bought the software since 2000 still use it. Trillium Software™ can't ensure your systems will work, but we can guarantee that data quality won't fail them. Trillium Perspective Session

GOLD SPONSORS:

Ab Initio Software www.abinitio.com

"Ab Initio has created a new class of software for building, powering, and managing mission-critical information processing systems. Ab Initio software solves the hardest problems in corporate computing — how to take massive amounts of data from the widest array of sources and process them using any and all hardware resources available; how to make that process scale infinitely as the volumes of data grow; and how to give developers building specific processing applications the flexibility to quickly translate complex logic into reality. The world’s leading companies are using Ab Initio software to build enterprise-scale applications with unmatched performance and complete scalability." Ab Initio Perspective Session

AVELLINO www.avellino.com

Avellino provides solutions to help organisations integrate and migrate data and manage data quality accurately and effectively. Our solutions include Avellino Discovery, a unique software product that automates data profiling and analysis and discovers data integrity and quality. Avellino Discovery enables organisations to accurately plan their data integration and migration projects, reduce risks associated with data quality problems, reduce cost and increase productivity by as much as 90% over manual methods. Customers include Abbey National, BT, Ford, Lloyds TSB, Old Mutual, Co-operative Insurance, Electrocomponents, RAC & Sun Life of Canada. Avellino Perspective Session

DATAFLUX www.dataflux.com

DataFlux is a North Carolina-based software company that provides leading edge data management technology for data profiling, data quality, data integration, and data augmentation. The versatile DataFlux products are designed to significantly improve the consistency, accuracy and reliability of an organization's critical data, enhancing the effectiveness of data-driven applications and initiatives such as data warehousing, business intelligence, e-commerce systems, data mining, customer information systems, sales force automation, database marketing, customer/prospect profiling and list management. DataFlux is a wholly owned subsidiary of SAS Institute, the market leader in providing business intelligence software and services that create true enterprise intelligence. For more on DataFlux, visit: www.dataflux.com. Dataflux Perspective Session

DATANOMIC www.datanomic.com

Datanomic's breakthrough software product combines data audit and discovery with flexible data cleansing, validation and re-engineering in an integrated package. Datanomic eliminates poor quality or 'dirty' data without the need for extensive custom coding or manual re-keying of data. Through ease of use, speed of implementation and flexibility, Datanomic ensures that problems or uncertainties with data are identified and resolved within a repeatable, standards-based solution. Datanomic is used within the Finance, Telecoms, Utilities, Manufacturing, Process Industry, Retail and Defence sectors, with proven IT project cost savings of 80% and multi-million pound business benefits. Datanomic Perspective Session

EVOKE www.evokesoftware.com

Evoke Software is the leading global provider of data analysis and mapping software. The Evoke Axio Product Suite automates the analysis of data residing in disparate systems across the enterprise, thereby enabling companies to accelerate and enhance their data centric initiatives and deployments of new applications and data warehouses. Axio discovers data relationships and dependencies and identifies data quality issues, inconsistencies between different systems housing similar information, and incompatibilities between data sources and target systems. The results of this process-accurate metadata about existing systems-are stored in the Evoke Repository and are used to implement transactional and business intelligence applications. Evoke Perspective Session

INFORMATICA SOFTWARE LTD. www.informatica.com

As well as being a leader in data integration and business intelligence software, Informatica offers an enterprise metadata management solution that unifies metadata from disparate systems for greater visibility and control of your IT environment. For the first time, decision makers have cross-system visibility that enables quick assessment of the impact of change, greater confidence in the data driving business decisions, and identification of redundancies and opportunities for the re-use of information assets. The solution is based on an extensible, Web-based architecture featuring integration, customisation, visualisation, and analysis capabilities designed to deliver insight customised to every user's perspective. Informatica Perspective Session

KALIDO www.kalido.com

Kalido Group of Companies provides information integration software to support enterprise management of complex change such as mergers, acquisitions, reorganization and globalization. The KALIDO Dynamic Information Warehouse software is used in over 90 countries with multi-nationals such as Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies (Shell), Unilever and Philips. Originally founded by Shell, Kalido Group of Companies has worldwide operations in US and Europe, providing sales, high-level consulting, technical support and training. Kalido Group works closely with large system integrators for the deployment of global projects. The Kalido Group's website is at http://www.kalido.com. Kalido Perspective Session

SIMILARITY SYSTEMS www.similaritysystems.com

Similarity Systems is a leading provider of enterprise Data Quality management software. The company's flagship offering, ATHANOR is a patent-pending suite of Data Quality software products that enables organizations to rapidly identify and correct Data Quality problems based around an end-to-end Data Quality management and improvement process. From extraction and upfront Data Quality analysis, to cleansing and transformation ATHANOR is a powerful and easy to use system that quickly leads to tangible results. The product handles all the key functions of a Data Quality strategy from profiling and matching to standardization and consolidation. Leading organisations in financial services, utilities, telecommunications and government use ATHANOR to guarantee data quality in CRM, BI, Data Warehouse, Asset Management and ERP systems. For further information, please visit http://www.similaritysystems.com. Similarity Systems Perspective Session

SPONSORS:

ADAPTIVE www.adaptive.com

Adaptive, Inc. is a global corporation providing business transformation knowledge management software and consulting services. The software and services platform is very versatile and adaptable to handle many problems faced by enterprises today, including IT portfolio optimization, project portfolio management, business process management, operational risk management, pre and post merger planning and design, and performance scorecard implementation. Adaptive works with a number of large commercial organizations and government agencies across the globe, in support of their Enterprise Architecture, IT Portfolio Management and Business Process Management initiatives.

ASCENTIAL SOFTWARE www.ascential.com/uk

Ascential Software Corporation is the leading provider of enterprise integrated solutions to the Global 2000 and government agencies. Customers use the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite to turn vast amounts of disparate, unrefined data into reusable information that drives business success. Ascential's unique comprehensive data integration suite enables customers to easily collect, validate, organise, administer and deliver information to realise more value from their enterprise data, reduce costs and increase profitability. Headquartered in Westboro, Mass., Ascential has offices worldwide and supports more than 2200 customers in such industries as financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, consumer goods and retail.

ASG www.asg.com

ASG's business is to partner with clients to improve productivity and significantly enhance performance through the intelligent use of technology. ASG is a privately-held global enterprise software and professional services firm that provides a full range of software solutions in Identity Management, Applications Management, Operations Management, Information Management, Performance Management, and Infrastructure Management services - including business re-engineering, systems integration, and systems development. Founded in 1986, ASG has 900 employees and $175 million in revenues. Serving the majority of Global 5000 firms, ASG has 7,000 customer sites and 18,000 software licenses worldwide. ASG is headquartered in Naples, Florida, USA, with more than 45 offices throughout the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia/Pacific. For more information, visit ASG at www.asg.com.

DATA ADVANTAGE SOFTWARE www.dag.com

MetaCenter is a web-based metadata repository enabling business and technical users to easily access and analyze data assets across a diverse enterprise information system. Key features include a search engine, audit tracking, impact analysis, data lineage, reporting, import/export, XML/XMI compatibility and 100% repository customization. MetaCenter includes a customizable out-of-the-box data dictionary utilizing a standards-based architecture. Based on an industry-leading secure and scaleable platform, MetaCenter boast's real-time access to third-party applications for simple and rapid deployment. For more info visit: www.dag.com.

DATACTICS www.datactics.co.uk

Datactics - a software research and development company, which specialises in licensing its core fuzzy, parallelisable, data matching and transformation engine to partner organizations and data specialists worldwide. Its products improve data quality where extracting, transforming and loading of data is crucial to business success. DataTrawler is the first fully fuzzy parallelised data matching and transformation tool. The product is cross platform and fully scaleable, able to run on clusters or across networks with 97.5% load balancing. ForensicsTrawler is forensic accountings first fully fuzzy, scaleable matching tool designed to assist in computer-aided accounting. Datactics will also be debuting its SDN and banking compliance tool, OFACTrawler.

INFOSHARE www.infoshare-is.com

Most datawarehouses, crm's, erp systems and the like cannot prove the accuracy of outputs. Does the system work? Are business decisions based on garbage? Where is the evidence? Would it stand up in court? Infoshare audit trails the history of each data record at sub field, field and record level from the source system to the warehouse. Audit trails let end users validate output, identify errors and track back to fix them. Infoshare's virtual model: is IT independent; sits outside IT structure on a laptop as an add on provides single view of a client, product, service across all systems links millions of records across multiple systems without disruption is turnkey and simple to operate in house makes data flow processes of any organisation transparent is richly populated metadata repository of proven accuracy; holds information about business process management data at sub field level

OASIS www.oasis-open.com

OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit, global consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of e-business standards. Members themselves set the OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open process expressly designed to promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. OASIS produces worldwide standards for security, Web services, XML conformance, business transactions, electronic publishing, topic maps and interoperability within and between marketplaces. OASIS has more than 400 corporate and individual members in 100 countries around the world. OASIS and the United Nations jointly sponsor ebXML, a global framework for e-business data exchange. OASIS operates XML.org, a community clearinghouse for XML application schemas, vocabularies and related documents. OASIS hosts The XML Cover Pages, an online reference collection for interoperable markup language standards.

SEARCH SOFTWARE AMERICA www.searchsoftware.com

Search Software America is the industry's leading supplier of identity search and matching software. SSA has offices in Australia, the UK, and the US, and is a division of SPL WorldGroup. SSA has specialized in helping Global 5000 corporations achieve optimal quality and performance in critical identity search and matching systems. Customers rely on SSA technology to overcome error and variation in identity data, gain control over data quality, and optimize their business applications such as Data Warehouse, CRM, Fraud, Marketing, CIS, Public Safety and Web-enabled IM systems. Currently, SSA has 50 professionals dedicated to Research and Development, Sales and Marketing, and Technical Support. SSA has over 500 customers worldwide including Citibank, AT&T, Reader's Digest, The Hartford, Equifax, Hewlett Packard, as well as Tax, Criminal Intelligence, and Law Enforcement Agencies. SSA's products are used in over 40 countries, and support all languages and character sets.

UNICORN www.unicorn.com

Unicorn leverages a semantic metadata approach to deliver the world's leading system for managing enterprise information assets, supporting the core mission of the information architecture departments of the Global 1000. The Unicorn System provides a seamless business view by relating disparate data formats and interfaces to an agreed-upon model of the business. This semantic understanding is leveraged to automate tasks of data management, data integration and data quality. Unicorn's customers achieve a higher quality of information, realize business changes in real-time and substantially lower IT costs. Unicorn is headquartered in New York City. For more information please visit www.unicorn.com.

ENDORSED BY:

BCS QUALITY SIG www.bcs.org/sg/quality

The Quality Specialist Group is one of the larger Specialist Groups and has several active regional sub-groups. Interests are wide ranging and cover all aspects of quality in IT.

MEDIA SPONSORS:

Information Age www.infoconomy.com

Information Age is the UK's leading monthly magazine dedicated to helping managers maximise the use of technology for business advantage. Information Age is a monthly, business magazine for technology decision makers: the people who are defining the strategy & the budget, buying the products & the services, & delivering the value to their businesses through technology. Information Age provides analysis, information & insight in three streams: technology, which covers the latest developments in software, hardware & services strategy, which covers how organisation should, or are, implementing technology & new business practices; finance, which discusses the costs & the financial implications of technological decisions.

Business Briefings www.bbriefings.com

Business Briefing: Data Management and Storage Technology is a media partner of the Data Management and Information Quality Conferences Europe 2003. The second edition continues to provide comprehensive analysis and insight into the challenges and opportunities available within the data storage sector. The report focuses on issues that corporations worldwide are faced in today's rapidly changing environment, as the amount of data exponentially increases and the need to store and retrieve information becomes essential to gain and maintain a competitive edge. The report includes an exclusive CD-ROM with further in-depth industry articles. For more information please go to www.bbriefings.com.

TDAN www.tdan.com/

The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN.com) is a reputable and non-biased on-line source for information about the data management and business intelligence industries. TDAN.com was recently named an "exceptional resource" by DM Review and has received "Editor's Choice" honors from America Online, Netscape, datawarehouse.com, and searchdatabase.com over the past five years.

CUTTER CONSORTIUM www.cutter.com

Cutter Consortium's Business Intelligence Practice shows you how to empower your corporate decision making! Through our subscription-based service, you receive monthly Reports, Summaries, Updates and weekly E-mail Advisors of the latest business intelligence technologies and strategies on topics including data warehousing, data quality and management, knowledge management, CRM, portals, ERP, supply chain intelligence and more! Please visit <http://www.cutter.com/advisory/intel.html>.

XML ORG www.www.xml.org/xml/news_market

XML.ORG is a credible, independent resource for news, education, and information about the application of XML in industrial and commercial settings. Hosted by OASIS and funded by organizations who are committed to product-independent data exchange, XML.ORG offers valuable tools, such as the XML.ORG Catalog, to help you make critical decisions about whether and how to employ XML in your business. For businesspeople and technologists alike, XML.ORG offers a uniquely independent view of what's happening in the XML industry.

WILEY www.wileyeurope.com

John Wiley & Sons is a global publisher of print and electronic products specialising in scientific, technical, and medical books and journals; professional and consumer books and subscription services; and textbooks and other educational materials for undergraduate and graduate students. As the leading data warehouse publisher we are delighted to bring books from the top names in the field including David Marco, Larry English, Bill Inmon, Ralph Kimball and Claudia Imhoff. We can provide you with expert guidance and real-world know-how on just about every aspect of data warehousing. For more information visit www.wileyeurope.com/computerscience <http://www.wileyeurope.com/computerscience>.

PERSPECTIVE SESSIONS:

This is your opportunity to hear from leading vendors. This information will be updated on a regular basis so please do visit this section again at a later date.

HOSTED BY:

DAMA UK Chapter www.dama.org/chapters/UK.htm

 

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