DAMA/Meta-Data Conference - Exhibitors and Sponsors

DAMA International Symposium+Wilshire Meta-Data Confernce, 2006

SPONSORS & EXHIBITORS
Platinum, Gold, & Silver Sponsors
Additional Exhibitors Media Sponsors

To book exhibit space, sponsorships, or program guide advertising please contact Rick Froton at 603-305-0660 or rick@wilshireconferences.com
	PLATINUM SPONSORS
	ASG’s Integrated Metadata Management Solutions provide capabilities to solve understanding and manageability problems related to data warehousing, enterprise architecture, data management and integration, service-oriented architecture, application discovery and understanding, and application portfolio management. Founded in 1986, ASG provides software solutions in the Metadata Management, Applications Management, Operations Management, Content Management, Performance Management, Security Management, and Infrastructure Management areas. ASG has more than 7,200 clients worldwide including leaders such as ABN AMRO, Air France, American Express, Coca-Cola, Daimler Chrysler, General Electric, IBM, Merrill Lynch, Procter & Gamble, Telecom Italia, Toyota, and Wells Fargo. Don't miss our In Perspective session on Wednesday, April 26, 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm
	Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) is a leading worldwide provider of solutions and services for the management of IT infrastructure, business information and application development. CA's solutions address a uniquely extensive range of management challenges to optimize the performance, reliability and efficiency of enterprise IT environments. These solutions include infrastructure management, storage management, security management, business service optimization, mainframe solutions, data and application development, and common services to optimize and understand your IT environment. Don't miss our In Perspective session on Wednesday, April 26, 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
	Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is a leading provider of data integration software. Using Informatica products, companies can access, integrate, visualize, and audit their enterprise information assets to help improve business performance, increase customer profitability, streamline supply chain operations and proactively manage regulatory compliance. More than 2,100 companies worldwide rely on Informatica for their end-to-end enterprise data integration needs. For more information, call 650-385-5000 (1-800-970-1179 in the U.S.), or visit http://www.informatica.com/. Don't miss our In Perspective session on Wednesday, April 26, 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
	GOLD SPONSORS
	Data Advantage Group, Inc. Data Advantage Group is the leading provider of information asset management software. Data Advantage Group's award-winning MetaCenter® Platform enables organizations to easily research, locate, and manage enterprise information assets and to bridge the gap between business and IT communities with a unified real-time view of business and technical assets and their interrelationships. Data Advantage Group's clients include: Allmerica Financial, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Cable & Wireless, Diageo, Fidelity Investments, T-Mobile and VW Credit.
	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 a enterprise architecture, business intelligence, data warehouse and meta data repository investment to attain a competitive business advantage and achieve total value.
	The IBM WebSphere® Information Integration Solutions platform integrates and transforms any data and content to deliver information you can trust for your critical business initiatives. It provides breakthrough productivity, flexibility and performance, so you and your customers and partners have the right information for running and growing your businesses. It helps you understand, cleanse and enhance information, while governing its quality to ultimately provide authoritative information. Don't miss our In Perspective session on Wednesday, April 26, 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
	Sybase introduces PowerDesigner v12! The industry leading traditional database analysis and design tool that combined with powerful technology for business modeling and leading edge UML object modeling, provides complete coverage of all modern techniques in a single tool! With meta-data management, impact analysis features and a true Enterprise Repository, PowerDesigner 12 defines enterprise modeling tools. Don't miss our In Perspective session on Wednesday, April 26, 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm
	SILVER SPONSORS
	Adaptive provides a web based and industry standards compliant Enterprise Knowledge Repository and related "Adaptations" to support Enterprise Architecture for large organizations and governments around the world and to address specific management challenges such as Business Process Management and IT Portfolio Management. Adaptive’s technology enables organizations to understand and align critical enterprise assets and capabilities with objectives and strategies, and to reduce the time, cost and risk of adapting to continuous environmental change.
	ChoiceMaker Technologies combines advanced artificial intelligence technologies with brilliant software architecture to produce the world's smartest record matching/linking software. Our AI technology enables us to provide the high accuracy that our clients need without tedious tweaking and guesswork. Our flexible Java architecture allows us to operate on any kind of data on any major database and to integrate with any kind of system. For database de-duplication, linking, merging, and searching, get it all together with ChoiceMaker Technologies.
	Core Integration Partners We are a complete lifecycle solution provider encompassing information integration, data warehousing and business intelligence. Whether you are searching for professional services, project management, training, or software, we can provide an end-to-end solution that's right for your organization. We bring with us a proven project methodology, The Matrix Methodology, and the latest industry software products and tools. This unique combination, along with our expert consultants, ensures successful implementations for our clients.
	DataFlux offers data quality integration technology and services that ensure a consistent, accurate and unified view of enterprise data. With DataFlux solutions, organizations can discover and manage data on customers, products or suppliers. A single-platform technology suite allows business and information technology users to analyze, improve and control any data. The result is a single, comprehensive view of mission-critical corporate information - accessible from any application and updated in real time.
	Data Foundations - Come visit us at Booth 323 to see how OneData can help you manage your data resources, from building subject-independent Master Data Management (MDM) solutions, to Reference Data / Hierarchy Management applications, and standards-compliant Data Registries and Taxonomy systems. For more information, visit datafoundations.com. Take the 24-Hour POC at our booth. Give us your toughest Master Data/Reference Data model on a piece of paper or electronically, and within 24 hours we will show it implemented live in OneData (some restrictions apply).
	Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. has achieved its reputation by building intuitive and powerful database support and development solutions. Led by the success of DBArtisan, the award-winning database administration environment, Embarcadero now carries the same usable approach to database design with ER/Studio and SQL development with RapidSQL. San Francisco based Embarcadero Technologies is committed to ensuring Customer success by increasing system availability , performance, reducing project risk, and shortening learning curves for new database technology.
	Firstlogic develops data quality software to help organizations make effective business decisions. Its data profiling solution measures, analyzes, and reports on the quality of information. Firstlogic's industry-leading data quality technology cleanses and standardizes customer and operational data, appends third-party information, and builds relationships through matching and consolidating records. Empowered with accurate and complete information resources, businesses can realize their ultimate goal of superior market knowledge and customer intimacy more quickly.
	Identity Systems is a global leader in identity searching and matching software, providing highly accurate and reliable solutions to search, find, match, screen and group identity data within computer systems and network databases. Identity Systems solutions add data intelligence and quality to critical information-intensive systems in a range of vertical industries, including government, financial services, law enforcement & homeland security, healthcare, and telecommunications. The company has built a client roster of more than 500 global organizations, including the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, Florida Dept. of Law Enforcement, GE Capital, Equifax, Experian, The Hartford, Kaiser Permanente and Federal Express.
	Innovative Systems is a world leader in delivering enterprise customer information solutions to organizations whose success depends on a complete and accurate understanding of their customers. Innovative's i/Lytics® Enterprise Data Quality Suite includes proven solutions for data profiling; customer data management; fraud and regulatory compliance; and address verification. Since 1968, enterprise-class companies in more than 30 countries have relied on Innovative's data quality software, systems integration, database solutions and customer data quality audits to ensure accurate data.
	Kalido gives Global 2000 decision makers insight into corporate performance - across divisions, departments and geographies - throughout major changes in the business such as mergers and acquisitions, reorganization, market consolidation, or regulatory requirements. With the KALIDO® application suite for enterprise data warehousing and master data management, you can improve the speed and accuracy of management and financial reporting without the cost and delay of operational system standardization. For more information please contact us at www.kalido.com, info@kalido.com, or 781-202-3200.
	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.
	Morgan Kaufmannpublishes books for the data management researcher, student, and professional, covering topics such as database design, DBMSs, database tuning, data modeling, data mining, data quality, SQL programming, XML, Web services, and management and integration issues. Our list of authors includes popular DAMA speakers such as Graeme Simsion, Dave McComb, Dave Hay, James Bean, Joe Celko, Malcolm Chisholm, Terry Halpin, David Loshin, and DAMA International Award Winner, Peter Aiken. Please visit our booth to peruse our books and meet the authors.
	Safe Software is the leading provider of innovative map data translation/transformation tools that bridge the gap between MIS and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) through seamless integration of location data into existing business applications. Our core technology, FME, is used worldwide, in business, industry and government and is embedded in numerous market-leading GIS and ETL applications. Visit www.safe.com for more information and free product evaluations.
	SchemaLogicis the global leader in reconciliation and information change management for Global 5000 companies, providing a Business Semantics Management (BSM) solution to manage the ever-changing language of the enterprise. SchemaLogic's solution helps employees, partners and customers access commonly understood terminology and information. With our solution, organizations increase their competitive advantage and reduce operational costs through better information management, increased data quality and more agile, intelligent business decisions.
	While traditional IT methods emphasize moving data, Silver Creek Systems' Data Refraction technology standardizes, localizes and enriches complex data on-the-fly to make it truly usable. The company's DataLens System uses semantic processing to achieve much higher match rates and overall usability than traditional techniques. This allows organizations to more easily tap, migrate and re-purpose data for key business initiatives, such as supply chain integration, business intelligence and systems consolidation.
	Software AG, Inc. is an expert in world-class enterprise modernization and information integration. The company provides solutions that help customers protect and enhance their IT investments, while at the same time enabling them to integrate information from disparate systems in order to deliver real-time information whenever and wherever it is needed. Visit us at softwareagusa.com.
	Harte-Hanks Trillium Software®offers robust, comprehensive data quality solutions, used by organizations worldwide. Trillium Software provides software and services architected to discover and correct today's data quality problems and establish a platform prepared for tomorrow's yet unknown data challenges. Organizations turn to Trillium Software, a reliable, loyal partner, to help them embed Total Data Quality across their enterprise.
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To book exhibit space, sponsorships, or program guide advertising please contact Rick Froton at 603-305-0660 or rick@wilshireconferences.com

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