Sponsors

Platinum Sponsor

- About Adaptive
  
  Adaptive has been in the market for more than a decade providing comprehensive, extensible, scalable metadata repository products and services. These support a range of data management initiatives including data governance and stewardship, business glossary, model management, enterprise architecture and improving the quality of business intelligence solutions. Adaptive leverages industry standards to integrate the broadest set of metadata sources, and its powerful query and viewing capabilities provide quick and visual understanding of technology- and vendor-independent data lineage and impacts of change. Our customers benefit from increased common understanding between business and IT, confidence in business information, along with improved productivity.

Gold Sponsors

- About Altilia
  
  ALTILIA turns Big Data into Smart Data by "MANTRA Smart Data Platform”. ALTILIA allows companies to make sense of enterprise and web semi/un/structured Big Data to get faster and deeper insights, better drive business processes and to make more informed decisions. MANTRA transforms information flow into relevant, richer, and usable Smart Data by a workflow-based semantic easy-to-use approach. So, you don’t need data scientists, information architects, ontologists, taxonomists or machine-learning experts to build accurate, flexible, agile, and scalable Smart Data Solutions. MANTRA copes with Big Data variety and complexity enabling to ‘harmonize’ and transform Big Data into actionable information faster and better. MANTRA is a unique blend of NLP, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and knowledge representation approaches offered on full Hadoop Cloud stack.
- About Cambridge Semantics
  
  Cambridge Semantics Inc., “The Smart Data Company”, is an enterprise analytics and data management software company. Our software, the Anzo Smart Data Platform, allows IT departments and their business users to semantically link, analyze and manage diverse data whether internal or external, structured or unstructured, with speed, at big data scale and at the fraction of the implementation costs of using traditional approaches.
- About CapTech
  
  CapTech is a national technology consulting firm offering a full suite of services including IT management consulting, systems integration and data management. The Data Management Practice offers a broad spectrum of services including Strategy & Architecture, Data Integration, Data Quality, Data Governance, Master Data Management, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Business Analytics, and Microsoft Services. We design, implement and integrate IT systems for America’s most respected companies. Working within our clients’ cultures, we tailor business solutions to their unique needs.
- About CA Technologies Erwin
  
  CA ERwin® Modeling provides a collaborative data modeling environment to manage enterprise data. With CA ERwin, both business and technical stakeholders can have a common view of information in context, through both a Web-based portal and desktop-based design tools supported by an enterprise-class model repository. CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) creates software that fuels transformation for companies—from mainframe and distributed, to virtual and cloud. For over 30 years CA Technologies has helped customers transform the highly complex “silos” that characterize vertically disparate IT functions.

- About dashDB
  
  dashDB is IBM’s data warehouse as a service for analytics on the cloud. It is offered through Cloudant, Bluemix, and the IBM Cloud Marketplace. dashDB allows users to upload data from Cloudant and other sources and supports hybrid deployments of data warehousing and analytic workloads – from ground to cloud.
- About Data Advantage Group
  
  Data Advantage Group, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise information asset management software. Data Advantage Group's award-winning MetaCenter® Platform is considered the gold standard in meta data management solutions. It enables organizations to easily find, organize, and catalog information assets and to bridge the gap between business and IT communities. The MetaCenter Platform is used by leading companies around the world to deliver easy to use data governance, regulatory compliance, and metadata management solutions.
- About Embarcadero
  
  Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. is the leading provider of data modeling and management tools that empower data professionals to design, build, and run databases more efficiently in heterogeneous IT environments. Founded in 1993, Embarcadero is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices located around the world. ER/Studio is the company’s flagship data architecture solution that combines data, business process, and application modeling and reporting along with metadata collaboration in a multi-platform environment. Embarcadero is online at www.embarcadero.com.
- About EnterpriseWeb
  
  EnterpriseWeb is a platform for ‘smart’ data-driven services, apps and processes. It enables real-time operational intelligence and predictive analytics for highly-responsive business solutions. The Platform features a schema-less repository where everything (structured and unstructured, data and code, local and federated) can be represented as loosely-coupled, indexed documents. It brings diverse and distributed enterprise systems together in a web of linked application resources. The design provides a Unified Object Model that enables interoperability and sharing across business and IT silos. In this way, EnterpriseWeb facilitates Master Data Management, centralized policy control and widespread code re-use. The Company has Partners and Customers on four continents. The logically multi-tenant platform supports Private on-premise, Public and Hybrid-Cloud deployments.

- About Innovative Systems, Inc.
  
  Innovative Systems, Inc. (ISI) is a global leader in the development and delivery of enterprise data management solutions to organizations whose success depends on a complete and accurate understanding of their customers. ISI provides high-performance technology solutions and expertise for MDM, Data Quality, Data Profiling, Data Governance, Address Validation/Geocoding, and Anti-Money Laundering Compliance, as well as specific-purpose business support applications to reduce credit losses, identify better prospects, improve customer service, better align service channels to customer value, and better execute marketing and business intelligence projects. ISI’s proven solutions are known for delivering the highest data quality within the shortest time frame, even under the most demanding circumstances.
- About MarkLogic
  
  For more than a decade, MarkLogic has delivered a powerful, agile and trusted Enterprise NoSQL database platform that enables organizations to turn all data into valuable and actionable information. Organizations around the world rely on MarkLogic’s enterprise-grade technology to power the new generation of information applications. MarkLogic is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Chicago, Frankfurt, London, Munich, New York, Paris, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, Tokyo, Utrecht, and Washington D.C. For more information, please visit www.marklogic.com.
- About Meta Integration
  
  Meta Integration is the leading "Metadata Component Provider" to major database, data integration, business intelligence, repository, and modeling tool vendors. MITI has established itself as the "Switzerland of Metadata" as Lou Agosta, a Giga Information Group analyst expressed in a recent IdeaByte article. In 2005, Meta Integration received the Technology Partner Award Of The Year by Cognos, and DM Review's readers nominated Meta Integration as a company that provides total quality customer satisfaction in its December issue on Readership Merit Awards.
- About SAS
  
  SAS understands that data drives everything. We want to help you make sure it’s right. SAS® Data Management is based on data quality. It’s built on a unified platform and designed with IT and business collaboration in mind. When it comes to master data management, data integration, data quality and data governance, SAS can help you transform big data into big opportunities. Learn more and discover our free white papers, webinars and videos: SAS.com/data

- About Trillium Software
  
  Trillium Software, a Harte Hanks company, is a leading, global enterprise data quality solutions provider. Our data quality specialists help organizations achieve increased business from data management initiatives and business-critical processes by providing enterprise data profiling and cleansing software and services. Trillium offers industry-specific business solutions that help solve data problems experienced by professionals in all industries. To learn more visit www.trilliumsoftware.com.

Silver Sponsors

- About Accel BI
  
  For over 15 years Accel BI has worked with government and commercial clients to bring Simplified Integration As A Service (SiaaS ™), to data management, project management, business analytics, application integration, mobile and cloud based solutions. We are highly skilled in managing, analyzing, designing, developing, delivering and full end-to-end information systems.
- About AnalytiX DS
  
  AnalytiX DS specializes in developing data mapping and ETL conversion tools for data integration industry. Their award winning products, such as AnalytiX Mapping Manager and LiteSpeed Conversion help automate source-to-target data mapping and ETL conversion/migration processes thus enabling organizations to accelerate project delivery and operate more efficiently while lowering cost. Their products are compatible with the leading ETL tools like Informatica, IBM DataStage, Talend, Microsoft SSIS, Oracle Data Integrator, Ab initio, etc. Please visit www.analytixds.com for more details.
- About ASG
  
  EDW attendees visiting ASG at booth #311 will get a firsthand look at how ASG’s solution for Data Governance integrates support for business glossaries, reference data and metadata management. This accelerates data governance and supports the rationalization and standardization of corporate data assets. With ASG’s new Reference Data Management solution, ASG-metaRDM, businesses now have a reliable, accurate and controlled view of business data, significantly reducing the risk of incorrect values and any related business impacts.
- About Ataccama
  
  Ataccama Corporation combines data quality, master data management, and data governance in a single technology platform ready for operational, analytical, and big data deployments.Leading financial, commercial, and government organizations choose Ataccama technologies for their proven ability to execute and deliver real business benefits. Gartner has positioned Ataccama as Visionaries in their Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools in 2013. Download our free data profiling tool or request a complimentary Big Data Test Drive.
- About Basho
  
  Basho is dedicated to making software that is highly available, fault-tolerant and easy-to-operate at scale. Basho’s distributed database, Riak, the industry leading distributed NoSQL database, and Riak CS cloud storage software, power one third of the Fortune 50’s critical Web, mobile and social applications, and their public and private cloud platforms. Riak and Riak CS are available open source. Riak Enterprise and Riak CS Enterprise offer enhanced multi-datacenter replication and 24×7 Basho support. Visit basho.com.
- About CMMI Institute
  
  CMMI Institute is the home of the Data Management Maturity (DMM)SM Model. The DMM is a global standard consisting of best practices for data management that incorporates the proven auditing approach, structure and principles of the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI®). It is the only comprehensive reference model that focuses on alignment of data management with business goals and strategies. The DMM provides organizations in all industries the ability to evaluate, improve, and demonstrate their capabilities. The model was created by industry experts to facilitate the management of data as a critical enterprise asset. It addresses the escalating requirements for trusted data, effective analytics, sustainable governance, and regulatory reporting.
- About Data Blueprint
  
  Data Blueprint is a Data Management consulting firm that enables organizations to leverage data for operational efficiency and competitive advantage. The company conducts engagements with a wide array of commercial, non-profit and government organizations to improve internal capabilities & processes, design and implement data platforms, and optimize data handling. The company’s unique approach begins with business goals or objectives, identifies the data required to achieve those goals, then designs and applies a comprehensive data solution utilizing its core competencies in both foundational and technical data management practices. Learn more at www.datablueprint.com
- About Expert System
  
  Expert System’s software combines the power of language and technology to transform your ability to use unstructured content. Business and government can enhance insight, make more enlightened decisions, and strengthen what analytics can reveal.

- About iCEDQ
  
  iCEDQ (Torana Inc.) is the leading software provider for ETL Testing, Data Migration Testing and Data Quality Governance. The platform is based on our unique Data Development Life Cycle methodology used for testing and monitoring your data centric system/ projects. iCEDQ (Torana Inc.) also provides managed data testing services to our customers.
- About Melissa Data
  
  Melissa Data provides multiplatform data quality solutions to validate, standardize, dedupe, geocode, and update U.S./Global contact data in real time or batch for customers, websites, and enterprise data applications. Preview our comprehensive data quality solution, Contact Zone – an affordable data integration and data quality system that connects to any database. It operates as the central hub for cleaning, enriching, and managing critical data assets used in data governance, BI, and MDM initiatives. Free trials.
- About Morgan Kaufmann / Elsevier
  
  Morgan Kaufmann, an imprint of Elsevier, publishes books for the data management researcher, student and professional, covering topics such as database design, DBMSs, database tuning, data modelling, data mining, data quality, SQL, XML, Web services, and management and integration issues. Our list of authors includes John Ladley, David Loshin, Peter Aiken, David Hay, Danette McGilvray, Bill Inmon, Bonnie O’Neil, Malcolm Chisholm, James Bean, and Dean Allemang. Please visit our booth to view our latest titles.
- About Reltio
  
  Reltio delivers reliable data, relevant insights and recommended actions so companies can be right faster. Reltio Cloud combines data-driven applications with modern data management for better planning, customer engagement and risk management. IT streamlines data management for a complete view across all sources and formats at scale, while sales, marketing and compliance teams use data-driven applications to predict, collaborate and respond to opportunities in real-time. Companies of all sizes, including leading Fortune 500 companies in healthcare and life sciences, distribution and retail rely on Reltio.

- About RepreZen
  
  RepreZen redefines API design in large organizations and complex ecosystems.
  
  RepreZen API Studio is the first enterprise-class API design platform, built from the ground up to meet the demands of large-scale integration programs. While other tools only address individual APIs, RepreZen optimizes at the organizational scale by standardizing canonical data definitions from application-level microservices to federated enterprise service architectures. With RepreZen, stop runaway spending on remedial data integration, and solve the problem at the source.
- About Sandhill Consultants
  
  Sandhill Consultants is an organization providing industry acclaimed Standards Based, Model Driven Enterprise Architecture and Design solutions, products, services, and training to business organizations around the world. Sandhill Consultants combines its deep technical product knowledge with unrivalled enterprise modeling expertise and an unmatched reputation as a trusted partner and advisor. Sandhill offers the accumulated knowledge, analytical insight, and enterprise architecture experience that enables businesses to effectively manage and govern enterprise information design cost and performance.
- About Silwood Technology
  
  Silwood Technology specialise in unlocking the secrets of packaged application metadata. Find out how Safyr, our unique solution for automated harvesting, exploiting and communicating metadata from your SAP, Oracle, Salesforce and other packaged systems as implemented, can help you reduce source data analysis costs whilst at the same time improving productivity and accuracy. Stop wasting time and effort using manual or ineffective methods and let Safyr bring your application metadata alive.
- About Splice Machine
  
  Splice Machine’s Hadoop RDBMS is designed to scale real-time applications using commodity hardware without application rewrites. The Splice Machine database is a modern, scale-out alternative to traditional RDBMSs, such as Oracle®, MySQL™, IBM DB2® and Microsoft SQL Server®, that can deliver over a 10x improvement in price/performance. As a full-featured Hadoop RDBMS with ACID transactions, the Splice Machine database helps customers power real-time applications and operational analytics, especially as they approach Big Data scale.

- About Synthos Technologies
  
  Synthos Technologies is a division of Qbase, LLC. We’re building an entirely new way of interacting with information, leveraging new IP as well as our existing portfolio of products. We’re bringing to market a powerful suite of analytics tools built specifically for the big data world, helping customers become more profitable and more effective by providing accurate, real-time awareness on a massive scale. Learn more: www.synthostechnologies.com.
- About TopQuadrant
  
  TopQuadrant’s standards-based solutions enable organizations to evolve their information infrastructure into a semantic ecosystem, the foundation for intelligent business capabilities and integrated big data. As a result, data can be organized, shared and exchanged regardless of its structure, origin or location. TopBraid Enterprise Vocabulary Net™ supports collaborative management of enterprise metadata, models, business glossaries and taxonomies used in search, content navigation and data integration. TopBraid Reference Data Manager™ supports the governance and provisioning of reference data, including the enrichment of reference datasets (code lists) with comprehensive metadata. TopBraid Insight™ is a semantic virtual data warehouse that enables federated querying of data across diverse data sources as if they were in one place. TopQuadrant customers include many government agencies and Fortune 1000 companies in numerous industries including pharmaceutical, financial services, energy and digital media.

Additional Sponsors

- About Access Sciences
  
  Founded in 1985, Access Sciences is an employee-owned, professional-services firm. Access Sciences enables clients to achieve their business priorities by optimizing assets, information, processes, systems, and human performance. Access Sciences accomplishes this by offering services in Business Analysis and Strategy, Solution Design, Development, and Deployment, Program and Change Management, Critical Skills Sourcing, and Operational Support. Access Sciences has performed Information Architecture, Technology Integration, and Change Management project work for more than 100 clients in 15 countries and in over 20 different industries. With Access Sciences as your trusted partner, you can expect your information assets to work for you.
- About Adeptia
  
  Business users should be able to access information anywhere, anytime by creating data connections themselves in minutes. With Adeptia, “citizen integrators” can respond to business opportunities and earn revenue faster while IT maintains control. Adeptia is a software company that provides data connectivity in the cloud and on-premise enterprise integration.
- About Anchor Computer Software
  
  Anchor Software provides multi-platform,best-of-breed data quality functionality, helping companies make better informed business decisions.Powerful parsing, matching algorithms, and advanced international address validation and geocoding for 240+ countries helps users capture, standardize data and link related information to expand customer or prospect knowledge. Anchor Software has been providing software solutions for database management, data enhancement, data quality and mailing efficiency since 1998, with over 2000 software applications installed.
- About CIO Talk Radio
  
  With a weekly live broadcast on strategic issues related to IT and Business since 2003, CIO Talk Radio and host Sanjog Aul bring together C-Level leaders, subject matter experts and analysts to engage in lively and thoughtful panel discussions on Thought Leadership challenges, topics and solutions facing today’s IT practitioners. Featuring guests from Fortune 500 and $1 billion plus organizations, find shows, blogs and analysis on demand only at ciotalkradio.com.
- About Collibra
  
  Collibra is a global data governance provider founded to address data management from the business stakeholder perspective. Delivered through a cloud-based or on-premise solution, for both big data and relational environments, Collibra is the trusted data authority that provides data stewardship, data governance and data management for the enterprise business user.
- About DGPO
  
  The Data Governance Professionals Organization (DGPO) is the only non-profit, vendor neutral professional organization dedicated to data governance. The objective of the DGPO is to provide a forum for business, IT and data professionals that fosters discussion and networking and to encourage, develop and advance the skills of members working in the data governance discipline. Since the founding of the group in 2011, the DGPO has grown to 4,000 list members and nearly 1,000 members representing 16 countries.
- About EWSolutions
  
  Enterprise Warehousing Solutions, Inc. (EWSolutions), headquartered in Chicago, is a full-service strategic consulting partner & systems integrator providing corporations and government agencies with best-in-class, knowledge-based solutions using business intelligence / data warehousing and managed meta data environment technologies. EWSolutions delivers a total solution for designing, building, maintaining, or improving an enterprise architecture, business intelligence / data warehouse and meta data repository.
- About First San Francisco Partners
  
  First San Francisco Partners (FSFP) is a unique consulting firm that specializes in the definition and implementation of enterprise information management and big data strategies. FSFP helps organizations better govern, manage, integrate and share their critical information assets to ensure companies can maximize profits, reduce risks, increase operational efficiency and reduce operating expenses.

- About IAIDQ
  
  www.iaidq.org
- About IDMA
  
  IDMA is a global, non-profit, professional association dedicated to increasing the level of professionalism, knowledge, and visibility of the insurance data management profession through education, research, best practices, forums, and peer to peer networking. For more information, please visit www.IDMA.org.
- About KM Institute
  
  Based in Washington DC, The Knowledge Management Institute (KMI) is the global leader in KM Certification/Training, with thousands certified since 2001 and classes delivered in up to 15 countries each year. KMI trains and certifies KM Team Members and Knowledge Workers in the methods and tools that enable individuals and organizations to transform (and substantially improve) human performance in the Knowledge Age.
- About Loqate
  
  Almost all data has locations, and accurate locations power a wealth of business processes: Customer Relationship Management, data quality, delivery of materials, goods or services, fraud detection, insurance risk assessment, data analytics, store and territory planning, and much more. New applications that harness the information in Big Data, location based services, customer analytics, and market intelligence need the accuracy and intelligence that only comes from great address quality. Loqate, the definitive source of everything location can power your applications with a combination of address capture, verification, and geocoding – all for 240+ countries. Loqate becomes the single global source for high quality, accurate location information.

- About MapR
  
  MapR delivers on the promise of Hadoop with a proven, enterprise-grade platform that supports a broad set of mission-critical and real-time production uses. MapR brings unprecedented dependability, ease-of-use, and world-record speed to Hadoop, NoSQL, database and streaming applications in one unified Big Data platform. MapR is used across financial services, retail, media, healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications and government organizations and by leading Fortune 100 and Web 2.0 companies. Visit www.MapR.com to download MapR or learn more.
- About Neo Technology
  
  Graphs are everywhere. From websites adding social capabilities to Telco's providing personalized customer services to innovative bioinformatics research, organizations are adopting graph databases as the best way to model and query connected data. Neo4j researchers have pioneered graph databases since 2000 and have been instrumental in bringing the power of the graph to numerous organizations worldwide, including 25 Global 2000 customers, such as Cisco, Accenture, Deutsche Telekom, and Telenor. Serving customers in production for over a decade, Neo4j is the world's leading graph database with the largest ecosystem of partners and tens of thousands of successful deployments.
- About Phasic Systems Inc.
  
  Phasic Systems Inc. (PSI) uses Data Science methods and our DataStar Data Normalization system to help clients manage and develop accurate, meaningful corporate data. PSI reconciles data across organizations and applications for common use, and decision-making quality analytics. DataStar provides widespread and easy visibility into all legacy and to-be Enterprise Data Model entities with analytics to determine existing system variations and source discrepancies, the root causes and impacts of these conflicts, and determine the semantic basis of how or if variations can be consolidated into a standard entity or recognized as distinct operational data entities. DataStar uses a special Hadoop configuration to enable small cluster low-cycle time data processing so new governance and knowledge can be operational within business tempo while automatically synchronizing data merging with current designs and rules.
- About Search Business Analytics
  
  SearchBusinessAnalytics.comconnects IT and business leaders with information and resources on a wide range of BI-related subjects, covering strategy, technology decisions and best practices. Get a free copy of our latest e-book on embedded BI tools. This resource delivers trends in embedded BI strategies and provides insight on how to implement an embedded BI application. Access this e-book today!

- About TDAN
  
  The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN.com) is an industry leading on-line publication for people interested in learning about data administration and data management disciplines & best practices. Each issue provides content from recognized experts as well as practitioners sharing their ideas, and addresses the most challenging issues of the day. The newsletter is published on a monthly basis by Robert S. Seiner of KIK Consulting & Educational Services (KIKConsulting.com).

Sponsors

Platinum Sponsor

About Adaptive

Gold Sponsors

About Altilia

About Cambridge Semantics

About CapTech

About CA Technologies Erwin

About dashDB

About Data Advantage Group

About Embarcadero

About EnterpriseWeb

About Innovative Systems, Inc.

About MarkLogic

About Meta Integration

About SAS

About Trillium Software

Silver Sponsors

About Accel BI

About AnalytiX DS

About ASG

About Ataccama

About Basho

About CMMI Institute

About Data Blueprint

About Expert System

About iCEDQ

About Melissa Data

About Morgan Kaufmann / Elsevier

About Reltio

About RepreZen

About Sandhill Consultants

About Silwood Technology

About Splice Machine

About Synthos Technologies

About TopQuadrant

Additional Sponsors

About Access Sciences

About Adeptia

About Anchor Computer Software

About CIO Talk Radio

About Collibra

About DGPO

About EWSolutions

About First San Francisco Partners

About IAIDQ

About IDMA

About KM Institute

About Loqate

About MapR

About Neo Technology

About Phasic Systems Inc.

About Search Business Analytics

About TDAN

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