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	Ab Initio Software is a general-purpose data processing platform for enterprise-scale, mission-critical applications such as data warehousing, batch processing, clickstream analysis, data transformation, and analytics. Ab Initio solves the problems of scalability, development time, performance, metadata management, and integration at the world’s largest companies in banking, e-commerce, telecommunications, insurance, retail, and healthcare.
	AXIS Software Designs Axis Software Designs has been specializing in data model management best practices since 1990. We understand the significant return on investment of modeling within a formal infrastructure, ensuring the integrity and reusability of your models. We provide customized infrastructure solutions including modeling training, consulting and our infrastructure product, ‘DM SOS!’ (Data Modeling Set of Standards). DM SOS! provides the foundation for your modeling Best Practices with a critical set of over 25 customizable standards, procedures, templates and forms.
	DAMA, The Data Management Association International, is a not-for-profit, vendor independent association of technical and business professionals dedicated to advancing the concepts and practices of information resource management (IRM) and data resource management (DRM). The association is comprised of local and regional chapters around the world. DAMA's mission is to promote, the understanding, development and practice of managing information and data as key enterprise assets.
	DataMirror is a leading provider of real-time data integration, protection, and audit software solutions that improve the integrity of information across all systems that create and store data. DataMirror’s flexible and affordable solutions allow customers to easily and securely detect, transform, and communicate all information changes throughout the enterprise. Over 2,000 companies use DataMirror software to gain access to the continuous, accurate information they need to make better business decisions and take timely action. www.datamirror.com.
	EMC Corporation is the world leader in products, services and solutions for information management and storage, helping customers manage their growing information assets throughout the information lifecycle management. Using networked storage as the foundation, EMC unifies technologies, platforms, software and services to help extract maximum value from information, at the lowest total cost. www.emc.com
	Netrics is the world’s leading innovator and provider of intelligent database record matching software, built on patented fourth-generation technologies. The company’s software provides a unique and revolutionary human-like capability to match any type of database records with impeccable accuracy—even when the match is not exact—and learn the rules for matching to continually improve accuracy over time. Netrics software improves data quality for more successful data integration projects, and is easily integrated into a wide range of solutions, including Master Data Management, as well as specialized applications in markets such as healthcare, government, financial services, membership organizations . Netrics complements its software with a full suite of services, working with systems integrators and large enterprises to solve their most challenging database problems. Netrics was named 2006 Gartner “Cool Vendor” in data management and integration for its “innovative, impactful and intriguing” database record matching software.
	Teragram is the market leader in multilingual natural language processing technologies that use the meaning of text to distill relevant information from vast amounts of data. Teragram helps customers perform more efficient searches and better organize information. Teragram Solutions include Taxonomy Management, Automatic Categorization, Entities Extraction, and Direct Answers.

	The Business Intelligence Network™ The Business Intelligence Network™ delivers BI-based content through a network of five unique Web sites. BeyeNETWORK.com and BeyeNETWORK.co.uk provide news, articles, spotlights, podcasts, expert-hosted channels and blogs. BeyeSEARCH.com is a search engine specially built to serve the BI industry. BeyeRESEARCH.com features comprehensive industry research, and BeyeBLOGS.com is a BI-specific open forum for the BI community.
	Business Rules Community is a vertical, non-commercial community for business rule professionals. BRCommunity provides articles, commentary, discussion areas, and a variety of other valuable hands-on resources. BRCommunity is sponsored by Business Rule Solutions, LLC (BRS). BRS established BRCommunity.com, and its flagship on-line publication, the Business Rules Journal, in 2000. The Journal, which appears there free-of-charge, continues and expands the long-running publishing success of the DataToKnowledge (D2K) Newsletter (formerly Data Base Newsletter)
	DBAzine.com is a hype-free online community dedicated to providing in-depth, informative articles from the world's best DBAs. Open to all, the site presents the latest tips and techniques to optimize your ORACLE, SQL Server, DB2, and IMS systems. We provide practical information on database performance issues, including performance tuning, optimization strategies, data-warehousing strategy, meta-data administration, and security. Registered members get free weekly tips from experts, in-depth reports, and monthly updates.
	Database Trends and Applications provides corporate information teams with timely coverage of the technology, intelligence and insight needed to conceptualize, plan, initiate, implement and manage large-scale, integrated information-rich projects. Our family of print and online publications address the full range of enterprise information issues, including operational, transactional and analytical systems.
	DM-Discuss is a moderated discussion list for anyone interested in Data Management issues. To subscribe, click here.
	DM Review delivers market-leading insight through interviews, tutorials and columns written by the best consultants, hands-on practitioners and technology solution leaders the industry has to offer. Editorial focus is on business intelligence, performance management, analytics, integration and enterprise data warehousing as well as emerging areas that include business process management and technology architectures. Technologists as well as corporate decision-makers read DM Review for the information management insights they need to maintain competitive advantage, contain cost and drive growth. Click here for a subscription form.
	IAIDQ, chartered in January 2004, is a non-profit, vendor-neutral society composed of dedicated professionals with a passion for improving information and data quality in their businesses. The mission of IAIDQ is to advance the quality of information and data around the world by building a community in support of educating and sharing knowledge for the benefit of all information consumers. For more information on the association visit www.iaidq.org.
	InfoAdvisors administers the following discussion groups: Data Modelling Group, CA ERwin User Group, CA Repository Group, Embarcadero ER/Studio Group, Embarcadero DBArtisan Group, Visible Systems Visible Analyst Group, CASEwise Corporate Modeler Group.
	The Meta-Data Professionals Organization (MPO) is a non-profit, international association comprised of business and IT professionals in all areas of meta-data practice, including administrators, developers, architects and managers. 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.
	The Object Management Group (OMG™) is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry consortium. OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration standards for a wide range of technologies, and an even wider range of industries. OMG’s modeling standards enable powerful visual design, execution and maintenance of software and other processes. OMG’s middleware standards and profiles are based on the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA®) and support a wide variety of industries. All of our specifications may be downloaded without charge from our website.
	The Data Administration Newsletter is an electronic newsletter that focuses on the exchange of ideas between individuals related to data administration. Every article focuses on tips, techniques, and strategies on how to manage corporate data as a valued asset.
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