Many companies are currently in the process of determining their response to the demands of corporate compliance such as sanctions, anti-money laundering, Basel II, fraud detection and corporate governance. Few, however, really understand the issues associated with poor data quality and the threat these pose to their business. In this presentation, we will cover the following key points:

• How to automate the auditing and understanding of data dispersed across multiple silos
• What do we mean by data quality metrics and why are they important to your business
• How to conduct a gap-analysis to assess the completeness and validity of available data
• SOA for data quality - Implementing data quality processes and rules across multiple systems

With hundreds of millions of customers in 178 countries, Hewlett-Packard (HP) is truly a giant in the technology industry. Its acquisitions and mergers – have dramatically increased HP's product portfolio, customer base and market share.HP required a single, standardized view of all their business-to-business customers so they could build an exceptional total customer experience (TCE). However, distributed systems carried customer data in proprietary and often conflicting formats, preventing accessibility from elsewhere in the enterprise. They needed a single system that would:

• Allow a comprehensive view of their business-to-business customers across the enterprise. regardless of geography, language, or complex character sets
• Identify duplicate customer site records
• Enrich these records with intelligence from HP or third parties
• Handle Unicode requirements as well as languages such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean
• Simplify system integration efforts and process flows tied to the same customer in multiple systems.
• Be callable in real-time or batch.

Address quality is no longer confined to enabling correct addressing for successful postal delivery. With the sudden and increasing importance of compliance and transparency, Martin Turvey will show you what Global Address clients have learnt in applying international address quality to areas such as the following:

• purchasing patterns
• fraud detection
• cross-selling/up-selling
• direct marketing
• location-based services.

The session will cover how to overcome challenges such as languages and character sets, international address formats, and file enhancements such as time zones and geo-coordinates.

• Accuracy
• Scalability
• Performance
• Time to business value
• Ease of implementation/management
• & Critically - Return on investment.

It will refer to case studies where real time identity resolution is operational across millions of records and is proving invaluable including:

• Microsoft - Individuals and Organisations
• Healthcare, where Initiate’s products are the de-facto standard
• Project LInX – Data sharing between USA police agencies such as the FBI, the NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service), local and regional law enforcement agencies and InQTel, the USA’s intelligence community.

Zoomix brings an innovative approach to achieve and maintain high-quality master data. Using unique, self learning mechanisms to automate set up and analysis, results are provided almost instantly with significantly less effort.

Even millions of records can be matched, normalised and categorised without the hassle of maintaining complicated rules to manage the data. Raab Karcher used Zoomix to consolidate, cleanse and categorise data from 7 different ERP systems. Zoomix reduced the time required for the migration by 70% while the ongoing margin improvement is even more compelling.

Does it sound too good to be true? Please come and join us during this session and judge yourself.

Denodo solves the problem of Real-Time Information Integration & Retrieval across diverse sources, including information in applications/databases, free-form documents and files and from any website. Companies that are able to capture, relate and present data from multiple sources in real-time can have significant advantages in driving innovation and revenue growth, providing better customer service, identifying market opportunities and threats sooner and increasing operational efficiency and productivity.

To make the best business decisions, you need to have the right information. Business Objects recently introduced its Enterprise Information Management (EIM) framework, which helps you eliminate doubt and build confidence in your data. EIM is a combination of strategy, practices, and open technologies that allow you to deliver trusted, integrated, and timely information.

• Learn how EIM can help you better serve and retain customers, meet today’s stringent compliance requirements, and manage your growing data volumes more effectively
• Find out how the specific technologies within the EIM product stack can help you gain faster data access, build a reliable data structure, and monitor and improve the quality of your critical data
• See examples of how companies have leveraged EIM to improve trusted information and ensure a more comprehensive view of their business

• Why the principles for U.K. data do not work for worldwide data
• Alphabets, Abugidas, Abjads, Syllable and Symbol characters - The 5 ways of writing and why different may be the same
• What makes finding similarities so difficult
• Name conventions & name distribution
• Lack of reference data