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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.

Navigant Consulting , Inc. (NYSE: NCI) is a specialized independent consulting firm providing management, financial, healthcare, energy and operational consulting services to government agencies, legal counsel and large companies facing the challenges of uncertainty, risk, distress and significant change. The Company focuses on industries undergoing substantial regulatory or structural change and on the issues driving these transformations.

NEON Enterprise Software, Inc. is the technology leader in enterprise data management software and services. As the rules of business change, our solutions let you efficiently control, protect and manage your data with confidence. Founded in 1995, NESI is headquartered in Sugar Land, Texas and serves customers worldwide with its dedicated team of industry experts. For more information about NEON Enterprise Software, visit www.neonesoft.com or contact us at 1.888.338.6366.

Business Objects is the world’s leading BI software company, helping organizations gain better insight into their business, improve decision making, and optimize enterprise performance. The company’s business intelligence (BI) platform, BusinessObjects™ XI, offers the industry’s most advanced and complete platform for reporting, query and analysis, performance management, and enterprise information management including data integration, data quality and metadata management. BusinessObjects XI includes Crystal Reports®, the industry standard for enterprise reporting.

CA (NYSE: CA), one of the world's largest information technology (IT) management software companies, unifies and simplifies the management of enterprise-wide IT for greater business results. Our vision, tools and expertise help customers manage risk, improve service, manage costs and align their IT investments with their business needs. Enterprise IT Management, or EITM, is our industry vision for the future of IT and how customers can realize the full power of their technology. Today, we serve more than 98 percent of the Global 1000® companies, as well as government organizations, educational institutions and thousands of other companies in diverse industries worldwide.

Data Advantage Group, Inc. 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.

EW Solutions, 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.

Exeros, headquartered in Santa Clara, California, was founded in 2002 by senior data management executives. Funded by Alliance Bernstein, Bay Partners and Globespan Capital Partners, the company’s mission is to increase the efficiency and accuracy of data integration projects through automated data relationship discovery and data mapping. Effective data mapping significantly reduces the time and cost involved in corporate data integration and ensures higher quality data with less risk.

IBM solutions provide breakthrough productivity, flexibility and performance so you and your customers and partners have the right information for running and growing your business. IBM showcases three new products from its portfolio: WebSphere Business Glossary, a web-based tool for authoring, managing and sharing business metadata; Rational Data Architect, an enterprise data modeling and integration desing tool; IBM Information Server, a unified data integration platform that helps organizations derive more value from the complex, heterogeneous information spread across their systems. All of these offerings are built on an active-metadata foundation. Deployed separately or in combination, these products links business users to trusted, meaningful and consistent data.

Informatica Corporation delivers data integration software and services to solve the problem of data fragmentation across disparate systems, helping organizations gain greater business value from all their information assets. Informatica's open, platform-neutral software reduces costs, speeds time to results, and scales to handle data integration projects of any size or complexity. With a proven track record of success that extends back to 1993, Informatica helps companies and government organizations of all sizes realize the full business potential of their enterprise data. That’s why Informatica is known as the data integration company.

Oracle's business is information-how to manage it, use it, share it, protect it. For nearly three decades, Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), the world's largest enterprise software company, has provided software and services that enable organizations to get the most accurate and up-to-date information from their business systems. Today, Oracle has over 275,000 customers-including 98 of the Fortune 100-in more than 145 countries.

Sybase PowerDesigner, an enterprise modeling and design solution that implements effective Enterprise Architecture. PowerDesigner uniquely combines standard modeling techniques (market-leading data modeling, BPM, UML & Requirements Management) with leading development environments to bring full impact analysis through complete Enterprise metadata management. PowerDesigner DEFINES Enterprise Modeling!

TUSC — The Oracle Experts since 1988: As an Oracle Certified Advantage Partner, TUSC provides integrated functional and technical solutions in the areas of Business Intelligence / Data Warehousing, Oracle Applications Consulting, Oracle 11i Implementation and Upgrade, Project Management and Implementation Support, Custom Development (Fusion Middleware), Oracle Database Services, Remote DBA Support and Oracle DBA Troubleshooting, Oracle Software Licensing, and Oracle Training & Mentoring. For more information, please call 800.755.TUSC

Zoomix — Taking enterprises to the next level of Master Data Management (MDM), Zoomix’s advanced software synchronizes master data across the organization by self-learning the enterprise’s particular information and improving data quality on-the-fly. The company’s proprietary Self-Learning Technology provides in-line, real-time master data matching, normalization and classification to automatically synchronize and perfect all types of enterprise master data. The intelligent system requires no manual rule development, and may be deployed for use by business users almost immediately.

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.

DataFlux enables organizations to analyze, improve and control their data through an integrated technology platform. With DataFlux enterprise data quality and data integration products, organizations can more effectively and efficiently build a solid information foundation that delivers a unified view of customers, products, suppliers or any other corporate data asset. DataFlux customers can rapidly assess and improve problematic data, building the foundation data governance, compliance and master data management initiatives. Visit www.dataflux.com to learn more.

DecisionPath is a full lifecycle BI/DW consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations extract maximum business value from their enterprise information. DecisionPath’s framework, called the BI Pathway, ensures that enterprise missions and strategies are clearly aligned with the technologies, architectures and BI delivery methods that lead to superior financial and operational performance. DecisionPath Consulting will Lead You to the Point of Return.

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.

Initiate Systems is the leading provider of customer-centric master data management (MDM) software for companies that want to create complete, real-time views of people, households and organizations from data dispersed across multiple divisions, locations, lines of business, application systems and databases. Initiate Identity Hub™ software is more widely used than any other customer-centric MDM solution, because it is the most accurate, scalable and rapidly deployed offering available.

ISI is a world leader in delivering enterprise customer information solutions to organizations whose success depends on a complete and accurate understanding of their customers. ISI'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.

Masai Technologies — As an industry first, Masai is introducing the M:Scan Appliance “Metadata in a Box” and the M:Scan GRID “Metadata Matrix” as part of the company’s product suite - a completely re-engineered view of what Metadata 2.0 is all about. Masai has created an advanced combination of software and hardware approaches in addressing Metadata scanning, transformation, analysis and visualization. Visit Masai for solutions designed for large and complex enterprises in both distributed and mainframe meta-data environments.

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 Kaufmann publishes 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.

SchemaLogic is the leading provider of Business Semantics Management solutions, providing a framework enabling companies to model the structures and relationships of business semantics that define corporate knowledge and content. Facilitating dynamic changes to the business semantic models through a Web-based governance and collaboration process, enabling participation across organizational, corporate and industry boundaries. SchemaLogic solutions increase competitive advantage and reduce operational costs through better information management, increased data quality and more agile, intelligent business decisions.

Syncsort is a leading developer of data management and disaster recovery software. For over 35 years, Syncsort, named one of the top Data Warehouse 100 Vendors for seven consecutive years, has been known for superior product performance and technical support. DMExpress is our high-speed data management solution for ETL, data warehousing, BI, and other mission-critical applications on UNIX, Windows, and Linux. DMExpress makes applications run faster, especially those processing large amounts of data.

Sypherlink, Inc. is a privately-held information integration software company serving the global 1000, public sector organizations, and any company with a need to manage or access information across multiple data sources. Sypherlink's suite of products significantly reduces the time, cost and risks associated with data integration initiatives by enabling companies to quickly understand where key information exists and how it relates across disparate sources. Today, this process — an essential first step in every data-sharing initiative — is typically manual, costly, and error-prone. Sypherlink automates it, resulting in a much faster, less costly and higher-quality implementation. Sypherlink was founded in 2001 and is based in Dublin, Ohio.

Harte-Hanks Trillium Software® offers robust, comprehensive data quality solutions, used by organizations worldwide. Trillium Software offers an integrated suite of Total Data Quality software and services architected to discover and correct today’s data quality problems and establish a platform prepared for tomorrow’s data challenges. The Trillium Software System® is recognized as critical to the success of CRM, MDM, CDI, data warehouse, BI, ERP, SCM, e-business, and other enterprise applications, and data integration, data migration, data stewardship, and data governance initiatives.