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 PLATINUM
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| Embarcadero empowers software developers and database professionals with award-winning tools to design, build, optimize, and run software applications and databases across multiple platforms and programming languages. Embarcadero serves more than three million professionals worldwide with IDEs and database tools that dramatically simplify and accelerate development. Embarcadero’s tools are used in the most demanding vertical industries and by 90 of the Fortune 100 worldwide and the introduction of Embarcadero All-Access has transformed the way that people can provision and use software tools. |
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| Many of the largest organisations and most
experienced BI professionals have taken a smarter and more
strategic approach to analytics with purpose-designed, heterogeneous,
analytical database technology from Sybase
- proven to be the most cost-effective, high-performance and
scalable reporting platform.
With over 20 years success in managing and mobilising data
and 80 customers in the Fortune 100, Sybase specialises
in delivering pro-active, agile business intelligence, fast
ROI and solutions that scale with your business. |
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| Denodo provides data virtualization software that uses a declarative approach to abstract, unify and understand disparate data sources and systems, supporting multiple acquisition and delivery modes and latency requirements, as well as a rich set of easy to use data transformation and data mashup capabilities. Through data virtualization, Denodo makes data integration more flexible to adapt to the changing business needs and the evolution of the IT infrastructure, more universal to connect to a wider range of internal and external data sources, including the Web, Cloud applications and less structured sources, and more cost-effective, by radically reducing licenses costs and the need for professional services and support. For more information please visit www.denodo.com. |
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SAP is the world’s leading provider of business software(*), offering applications and services that enable companies of all sizes and in more than 25 industries to become best-run businesses. With more than 89,000 customers in over 120 countries, the company is listed on several exchanges, including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE, under the symbol “SAP.” For more information, visit www.sap.com.
From Walldorf to Wall Street: The SAP Success Story
As the world's leading provider of business software, SAP delivers products and services that help accelerate business innovation for our customers. We believe that doing so will unleash growth and create significant new value – for our customers, SAP, and ultimately, entire industries and the economy at large. Today, customers in more than 120 countries run SAP applications – from distinct solutions addressing the needs of small businesses and midsize companies to suite offerings for global organizations.
Founded in 1972, SAP has a rich history of innovation and growth as a true industry leader. To further demonstrate our commitment for ongoing innovation, growth, and market leadership, SAP acquired Business Objects in 2008. Together, SAP and Business Objects, an SAP company, offers the industry's most comprehensive portfolio of business performance and optimization solutions for companies of all sizes. |
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GOLD
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Data quality is a critical factor in the successful implementation of data warehousing, business intelligence, customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, customer data integration and master data management. Harte-Hanks Trillium Software is a global leader in Total Data Quality, providing a suite of products for data profiling and discovery, data cleansing and standardisation, and data quality monitoring and trending. Trillium Software data quality solutions analyse, cleanse and correct millions of records for many of the world's leading global enterprises, translating data improvements into real bottom-line benefits.
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| Datanomic’s
holistic approach to data integrity for compliance, migration
and single view of entity, enables its growing list of European
and North American blue chip clients to achieve a rapid Return
on Investment by exposing and correcting deficiencies in information
the business relies upon, via our easy-to-use, quick-to-implement,
award-winning software dn:Director. Our clients come from
a wide spectrum of industries including financial services,
telecommunications, government, healthcare, utilities, professional
services and engineering. |
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| Informatica Corporation
provides data integration software and services that empower
your organization to access, integrate, and trust all its
information assets, giving your organization a competitive
advantage in today’s global information economy. As
the independent data integration leader, Informatica has a
proven track record of success helping the world’s leading
companies leverage all their information assets to grow revenues,
improve profitability, and increase customer loyalty. That
is why Informatica is known as the data integration company. |
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| Aster Data is
a proven leader in big data management and big data analysis
for data-driven applications. Aster Data’s nCluster
is the first MPP data warehouse architecture that allows applications
to be fully embedded within the database engine to enable
ultra-fast, deep analysis of massive data sets. Termed a “Massively
Parallel Data-Application Server,” Aster’s solution
effectively utilizes Aster’s patent-pending SQL-MapReduce
together with data and application parallelization to address
the big data challenge. Companies using Aster Data include
Coremetrics, MySpace, aCerno (an Akamai company), and ShareThis.
Aster is headquartered in San Carlos, California and is backed
by Sequoia Capital, JAFCO Ventures, IVP, Cambrian Ventures,
and First- Round Capital, as well as industry visionaries
including David Cheriton and Ron Conway. For more information
please visit http://www.asterdata.com,
or call 650-232-4400. |
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InQuera is
an Israeli software company specializing in Product Data
Quality.
InQuera’s DataRefiner is a comprehensive artificial intelligence based software package that covers all aspects of product data quality. InQuera’s technology automatically transforms raw dirty product data, in any language or format, into a usable, classified, normalized table of attributes and values – 'a single version of the truth' - consolidates products by their functionality, automatically enforces standards and regulations and maintains a high quality of product data. Inquera solutions enable continued saving on purchasing and inventory as well as improve operational efficiency, information quality and decision making.
InQuera’s accumulated experience includes projects in the USA, Europe and the Middle East and the refinement of more than 7 million products.
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| Talend is the
recognised market leader in open source data integration.
More than 600 paying customers around the globe, including
Yahoo!, Virgin Mobile, Sony and Swiss Life, use the Talend
Integration Suite of products and services to optimise the
costs of data integration, ETL and data quality. With more
than five million lifetime downloads and one million core
product downloads, Talend’s solutions are the most widely
used and deployed data integration solutions in the world.
The company has major offices in North America, Europe and
Asia, and a global network of technical and services partners.
For more information, please visit http://www.talend.com. |
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| Jaspersoft’s
open source business intelligence suite
is the world’s most widely used BI software, with more
than 9 million product downloads worldwide and more than 11,000
commercial customers in 96 countries. The company’s
Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite provides a web-based,
open and modular approach to the evolving business intelligence
needs of the enterprise. Jaspersoft’s software is rapidly
updated by a community of more than 100,000 registered members
working on more than 350 projects, which represents the world’s
largest business intelligence community. More information
is available at www.jaspersoft.com
and www.jasperforge.org. |
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Pitney Bowes Business
Insight (PBBI) is a division of Pitney Bowes Inc.
PBBI provides a unique combination of location and communication
intelligence software, data and services that enable organisations
to make more informed decisions about customers, competition
and market expansion. With the industry’s most comprehensive
set of solutions for maximising the value of customer data,
PBBI provides the tools required to more effectively locate,
connect and communicate with customers and citizens in today’s
global markets.
PBBI was formed in September 2007, by the merger of two-industry
leaders - Group 1 Software and MapInfo Corporation. Today,
PBBI is a top 100 global software company with offices in
over 20 countries. PBBI has more than 10,000 customers in
over 60 countries. www.pbinsight.com |
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STANDARD
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WhereScape RED
is an integrated development environment for building and
managing all aspects of a data warehouse.
WhereScape RED designs, prototypes, deploys, operates,
and enhances data warehouses 10-100 faster than any traditionalsoftware
approach. WhereScape RED provides an intelligent set of
deployment cycle-time reduction tools, including partitioning
wizards, database transformation, automated cube creation,
automated load scripting, automated surrogate key creation
and key space management, inline editing and error management,
and automated documentation creation. WhereScape also offers
support, maintenance and consulting services. The company
was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
WhereScape's European headquarters are located in the United
Kingdom. |
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Collibra is an enterprise software company integrating with and adding Business Semantics to all major SOA, EAI & Data integration vendors.
Business Semantics Management defines the specific meaning and context of key business assets ( e.g. 'customer', 'product', 'interest rate',... ) for organisations, converting them into clearly defined business facts and rules compiled in a 'Business Glossary'.
The solution translates these key business assets into executable models that drive EAI/SOA, BI, Semantic Data Integration and Metadata based on relevant business context instead of pure system to system integrations. |
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Evaxyx is a leading UK based Data Management Consultancy with clients that include Barclays, Standard Life, O2, Scottish Widows, Barclaycard, Pfizer, Daimler, nPower, Orange, Deutsche Bank, Johnson & Johnson, Cadbury and Merrill Lynch.
Our goal is to help organisations achieve sustained improvement in the management and delivery of information by providing a range of consulting services and methodologies to support the evolving, complex information demands of our clients’ businesses.
Evaxyx has a strong reputation for expertise in Data Governance, Customer Data Integration (CDI), Master Data Management (MDM) and Business Intelligence. We deliver high-impact advice, consultancy and professional services, partnering with clients to develop and implement management information solutions from strategy through deployment.
Our deep understanding of the unique challenges found in complex data environments is derived from the successful delivery of referenceable high volume, data-centric projects. |
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Platon is
a leading global independent consulting company, specializing
exclusively in Information Management, which covers: Business
Intelligence, Performance Management, Data Warehousing,
Master Data Management, Information Life Cycle Management
and Data Integration.
Platon does not sell hardware or software, but concentrates
solely on consulting, project management, solution implementation,
support and training. Over the last 10 years Platon have
successfully solved the toughest Information Management
related challenges in over 300 organizations worldwide.
The Platon Group has offices in Denmark, Sweden, Norway,
Finland, Iceland, United Kingdom, USA and Australia, and
currently has over 200 competent and highly qualified employees.
For more information please visit www.platon.net. |
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| Syncsort Incorporated
is a leading developer of high-performance data management
and data warehousing software. For nearly 40 years, Syncsort
has built a reputation for superior product performance and
technical support. Syncsort’s most recent innovation,
DMExpress represents the fastest in data integration. When
it comes to speed, DMExpress consistently outpaces high-priced
competitors by replacing long-running processes and saving
customers hours, even days of processing time. Whether it's
ETL, data warehousing, data cleansing,
data quality, large-scale data consolidations that accompany
MDM projects, or other large-volume applications, DMExpress
delivers the information you need – how
and when you need it! |
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Glue Reply is UK’s leading consulting services organisation focused exclusively on optimising IT/Business alignment and minimising the cost of business and IT technology change. Our core proposition is to help organisations maximise the value from their change and technology investments by helping them define, design, implement and resource best practice:
- Enterprise architecture, incorporating the information and data architecture domains
- Data management & data governance
- Business and technology change management processes, roadmaps and competencies
- Business design and process management initiatives
- SOA and integration architecture, methods and platforms
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| aap3 is a leading global IT and Business Solutions company delivering via three areas IT engineering, Business Solutions and Recruitment. aap3's product offerings for Business Intelligence cover the full information lifecycle. From Raw Data Collection and Cleansing, Data Management and Reporting, through to Data Analysis and Predictive Analytics, aap3 have a specific product offering to enable your business to harness the power in its data. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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The purpose of the association is to create
a world-wide community of people who desire to reduce the
high costs of low quality information and data by applying
sound quality management principles to the processes that
create, maintain and deliver data and information. The mission
of the association is to:
- Increase the awareness of the impact of poor quality
data and information.
- Help leaders understand that the high losses can be
dramatically reduced.
- Provide a network for members to exchange tips and
techniques for quality improvement.
- Provide opportunities to learn critical skills for
making quality information and data a reality.
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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. |
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| The Insurance Data Management
Association, Inc. (IDMA) is an independent, non-profit
professional association dedicated to increasing the level
of professionalism in insurance data management. IDMA is your
source for insurance Data Management (DM) news; training and
certification programs; educational workshops, seminars and
webinars; best practices; DM research; regulatory reporting
newsletter and resources; and peer-to-peer networking. |
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The EDM Council
is an industry association specifically focused on facilitating
and leveraging Enterprise data as a critical asset to a
firm to:
- increase efficiency,
- minimize risk, and
- create competitive advantage.
As a business forum the EDM Council enables senior officers
responsible for content management to share information
on the business strategies and practical implementation
realities associated with achieving enterprise-wide control
over data content.
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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. |
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MEDIA
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| 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 program development. |
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| 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. |
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The Institute has three
arms:
- Consulting and Training,
addressing specific data needs, program design and checkups,
the establishment of sustainable information strategies,
communications, and proving the value of efforts.
- The Data Governance and Stewardship
Community of Practice, offering peer-to-peer interactions
and hundreds of program artifacts, available at www.DataStewardship.com.
- Information Resources,
including the Web’s largest collection of free information
about Data Governance and Stewardship at the institute’s
website, www.datagovernance.com,
and featuring Guidance
by Gwen, from the Institute’s founder Gwen Thomas.
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| Data Migration Pro
is the free community resource dedicated entirely to the data
migration profession, featuring articles, coaching, tutorials,
research and software. If you wish to learn, share and get
ahead within the data migration industry then why not join
the community today? |
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| Data Quality Pro™
is a free independent community resource dedicated to helping
data quality professionals take their career or business to
the next level. Founded and managed by data quality professionals,
our mission is to create the most beneficial data quality
resource that is freely available to members around the world. |
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| Enterprise Technology
Management (ETM) is a global publication that provides
decision makers and end users with the information they need
to succeed in the ever-changing field of business technology,
from developing strategy to making cost-effective purchase
decisions and managing their organization’s projects.
ETM does this through independent world-leading analysis and
vendor thought leadership in the form of original white papers,
podcasts, analyst research, and case studies detailing up-to-date
industry trends and data. |
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| Reference Data Review is a complete online information resource and newsletter of business intelligence for the reference data community. Powered by the expert editors at A-Team Group, Reference Data Review is read by executives at financial institutions and the data vendors and software providers that service them to keep abreast of industry solutions to regulatory and operational challenges. Download a free issue and access a library of free resources at www.ReferenceDataReview.com |
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