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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 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 Finch Computing

Finch Computing, formerly Synthos Technologies, is a division of Qbase, LLC. Together, we build and support new ways of interacting with information via innovative products that address complex data needs at various points in the software stack.

About IDERA

IDERA understands that IT doesn’t run on the network – it runs on the data and databases that power your business. That’s why we design our products with the database as the nucleus of your IT universe. Our database lifecycle management solutions allow database and IT professionals to design, monitor and manage data systems with complete confidence, whether in the cloud or on-premises. ER/Studio is the collaborative data modeling solution for data professionals to map and manage data and metadata for multiple platforms in a business-driven enterprise data architecture. Whatever your need, IDERA has a solution.

About Innovative Systems, Inc.

Innovative Systems, Inc. has been a premier provider of high accuracy enterprise data management and risk management solutions and consulting to major organizations worldwide for more than 45 years. Our unique cognitive approach delivers 5%-20% higher Master Data Management accuracy in one-third the time and one-half the cost of other approaches. Innovative provides solutions for Master Data Management, Data Quality, Data Profiling, Data Governance, Address Validation/Geocoding, and Anti-Money Laundering Compliance, as well as specific-purpose business support applications that support Marketing, Sales, Service, and Risk Management.

About MarkLogic

For over a decade, organizations around the world have come to rely on MarkLogic to power their innovative information applications. As the world’s experts at integrating data from silos, MarkLogic’s operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database platform empowers our customers to build next generation applications on a unified, 360-degree view of their data. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, MarkLogic has offices throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Australia. 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 ROKITT

Information important to your business is trapped within a complex maze of applications and technologies. ROKITT Astra is an automatic, self-learning, and easy-to-use interactive data discovery tool that effortlessly integrates with any prominent industry infrastructure to graphically depict how information flows across and within databases. ROKITT Astra enables companies to increase their business value by simplifying their data availability, improving their understanding of their data, and finding the answers needed to unlock hidden business potential.

About Basho

Basho Technologies makes highly available, fault tolerant solutions for distributed systems that are easy to operate at scale for managing massive amounts of active, unstructured data. Riak from Basho powers businesses’ critical Web, mobile and social applications. Architected for public, private and hybrid clouds, the Basho Data Platform controls and simplifies distributed Big Data and IoT applications – enabling high availability, scalability and operational simplicity. Basho is the organizer of the distributed systems conference RICON – www.ricon.io

About CMMI Institute

CMMI® Institute is the home of Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)®, a process improvement framework that guides organizations in high-performance operations. The Institute is working to build upon CMMI’s success, advance the state of the practice, accelerate the adoption of best practices, and provide new and evolved solutions to meet the emerging needs of small and large organizations in a variety of industries. Continuing in this tradition, the Institute has launched the Data Management Maturity (DMM)SM model, to support organizations seeking to strengthen their data management practices. Learn more at CMMIInstitute.com.

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 Datasource Consulting

Datasource Consulting is passionate about data. We are a consulting company that focuses exclusively on enterprise data management, including both strategic and implementation services. We are experts in data architecture, data integration, data quality, data governance, MDM, reporting & analytics, and program management. Datasource Consulting not only remains close to the latest technology and industry trends, but we also help move the needle with thought leadership. We know how to make your project successful.

About Expert System

Expert System Inc. is a leading provider of cognitive computing and text analytics software based on the proprietary, patented, multilingual semantic technology of Cogito. Using Expert System’s products, enterprise companies and government agencies can go beyond traditional keyword approaches for the rapid sense making of their structured and unstructured data. Expert System technology has been deployed to deliver solutions for a vast range of business requirements such as semantic search, open source intelligence, multilingual text analytics, natural language processing and the development and management of taxonomies and ontologies. Expert System serves some of the world’s largest industries including Banking and Insurance, Life Sciences and Pharmaceuticals, Oil and Gas, Media and Publishing, and Government including companies such as Shell, Chevron, Eli Lilly, Networked Insights, Nalco Champion, US Department of Justice, DTRA, BAnQ, Biogen, Bloomberg BNA, Elsevier, Gannett, IMF, RSNA, Sanofi, SOQUIJ, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Thomson Reuters, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Wiley and Wolters Kluwer.

About FairCom

FairCom is a pioneer in the software industry, the first company to offer a commercial package using binary tree algorithms on microcomputers in 1979. Today, FairCom maintains its sole technical focus on database technology, continually enhancing its core database technology while keeping up with the latest industry platforms and APIs. FairCom’s c-treeACE engine is the industry's choice solution for enterprise data providing the most powerful simultaneous multimodel access through NoSQL and SQL, giving developers in companies of any size the control to customize their database, and ultimately enhancing performance gains.

FairCom technology has been used in solutions serving industries including financial, healthcare, telecommunications, manufacturing automation, accounting, legal, dental, education, construction, aerospace, trucking, gaming, space exploration, oil and gas, energy, major league baseball, fraud detection, public safety and infrastructure management. For more details, please visit: www.FairCom.com

About Informatica

Informatica is a leading independent software provider focused on delivering transformative innovation for the future of all things data. Organizations around the world rely on Informatica to realize their information potential and drive top business imperatives. More than 5,800 enterprises depend on Informatica to fully leverage their information assets residing on-premise, in the Cloud and on the internet, including social networks. For more information, call +1 650-385-5000 (1-800-653-3871 in the U.S.), or visit www.informatica.com.

About LeanXcale

LeanXcale is an ultra-scalable Full ACID Full SQL database that scales out from 1 to 100s of nodes and able to deliver million transactions per second. It is the only scale-out technology able to substitute mainframes. It provides both OLTP and OLAP capabilities what allows to avoid ETLs and perform Real-Time Big Data Analytics. It brings polyglot integration with MongoDB, HBase and Neo4J enabling ACID transactions and queries across SQL and all of them.

About Manta Tools

Manta Tools is the only solution that allows you to fully control your BI environment. Our core product, Manta Flow, allows enterprises to save resources by optimizing data flows and reducing the amount of manual work. It helps to visualize end-to-end data lineage, improve data governance and analyze custom SQL code. Manta Flow supports Teradata, Informatica, Oracle and Microsoft SQL and it's currently deployed in the US & EU in companies such as PayPal, Comcast and others.

About MapR

MapR provides the industry's only converged data platform that integrates the power of Hadoop and Spark with global event streaming, real-time database capabilities, and enterprise storage, enabling customers to harness the enormous power of their data. Organizations with the most demanding production needs, including sub-second response for fraud prevention, secure and highly available data-driven insights for better healthcare, petabyte analysis for threat detection, and integrated operational and analytic processing for improved customer experiences, run on MapR. A majority of customers achieves payback in fewer than 12 months and realizes greater than 5X ROI. MapR ensures customer success through world-class professional services and with free on-demand training that 5,000 developers, data analysts and administrators have used to close the big data skills gap. Amazon, Cisco, Google, HPE, Microsoft, SAP, and Teradata are part of the worldwide MapR partner ecosystem. Investors include Google Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, NEA, Qualcomm Ventures and Redpoint Ventures.

About Melissa Data

Melissa Data provides full spectrum data quality solutions to profile, cleanse, verify, enrich, match/dedupe, and monitor global contact data for custom applications, ETL, databases. websites, and enterprise ERP systems. Preview our comprehensive data quality solution, the Global Data Quality Suite– an affordable collection of tools that can be integrated on the front end or the back end of business operations to maintain consistent, accurate, deliverable data. The Global Data Quality suite verifies address/phone/email/name information for 240 countries, and empowers initiatives in data governance, BI, and MDM. Free trials available upon request.

About Noah Consulting

Noah Consulting, a wholly owned subsidiary of Infosys, delivers information management solutions to clients by providing best-in-class data management, business intelligence, analytics, data integration, information quality, master data management, and governance solutions. Steered by veteran consultants, Noah Consulting delivers practical solutions for the most complex information challenges. Using a client-focused, product agnostic approach, Noah Consulting helps businesses extract value from the flood of data they are awash with every day.

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 Semarchy

Semarchy provides master data value in weeks not months, using an agile, value-driven approach to design and manage master and reference data. Our unique approach creates value for the business quickly and cost effectively, supports all domains within a single environment, adapts to evolving business requirements, and allows deployments in any environment with any style of MDM and RDM. Results can be trusted with complete visibility to all underlying data and lineage. Semarchy Convergence is a multi-domain, rules driven, fast to implement, and scalable enterprise solution. We are the Evolutionary MDM™ company.

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, Salesforce and Oracle Applications (JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, etc.) 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 TopQuadrant

As an Enterprise Information Management (EIM) innovator, TopQuadrant helps organizations succeed in data governance by managing information regardless of its structure, origin or location, so that it can be easily organized, shared and exchanged. Our products use standards-based graph technologies to provide our customers with agile information management capabilities—because connections are important. TopBraid Enterprise Data Governance™ supports the governance and provisioning of enterprise metadata, business glossaries and reference data. TopBraid Enterprise Vocabulary Net™ supports collaborative management of taxonomies and ontologies and offers auto-classification of documents and search enhancement. 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.

About Trillium Software

Trillium Software, A Harte Hanks Company, is a leading, global enterprise data quality solutions provider. Trillium’s solutions include global data profiling, cleansing, enrichment, and matching for Big Data, CRM, and more.

About WhereScape

WhereScape is the pioneer of data warehouse automation software for profiling, building, extending and managing BI environments, data warehouses, analytic systems and big data platforms. More than 700 customers including Cornell University, Tesco, Union Bank and Volvo use WhereScape’s integrated development environment to accelerate development and deliver a fully documented solution in IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server and Analytics Platform System, Oracle, Greenplum, and Netezza as well as Hive and Hadoop big data environments.

At Data Clairvoyance, we specialize in data governance and management for Fortune 500 firms, aligning technical strategy with corporate goals. Our expertise goes further than other firms, providing the statistical, financial, and IT insight to tackle every facet of your data needs. And our extensive experience as corporate leaders and consultants means we understand exactly what it takes to address your challenges efficiently. For data strategy that is proven to move organizations forward, enterprise leaders depend on Data Clairvoyance.

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.

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 GraphGrid

GraphGrid is the complete Neo4j data platform, architected for the enterprise to unleash the full power of globally distributed Neo4j graph data architecture by enabling rapid data connection and analysis by providing all the integration, ETL and compute frameworks required to get your data sources into your connected graph database. As a trusted Neo4j solution partner we walk with you from information and solution architecture through development and operations to help you succeed with graph.

About Neo4j

Neo4j, the world’s leading graph database, helps businesses create new products and services and reimagine existing ones, by bringing data relationships to the fore. The connections between data are stored as they naturally occur, and analysis takes place in real time; data is stored in the exact same shape in the data store as in your application.Graph databases are the best way to model, store, and query both data and its relationships, which is crucial for next-generation applications. From companies offering personalized recommendations; to telcos diagnosing network issues; to enterprises reimagining master data, identity, and access models; organizations adopt graph databases to model, store and query both data and its relationships.

About Orchestra Networks

Orchestra Networks helps organizations manage their most important data. Our EBX5 software lets users manage, govern, and share any and all data assets—including master data, reference data, and metadata—in a single, multidomain solution so flexible it can manage data needs you may not have even thought of yet.

About Snowflake Computing

Snowflake Computing, the cloud data warehousing company, has reinvented the data warehouse for the cloud and today’s data. The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse is built from the cloud up with a patent-pending new architecture that delivers the power of data warehousing, the flexibility of big data platforms and the elasticity of the cloud – at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions.

About Texas A&M Analytics

The Department of Statistics in partnership with Mays Business School at Texas A&M University offers a MS in Analytics degree which prepares working managers and professionals to make quicker informed decisions to optimize business performance and identify new business opportunities. Courses will be taught at Houston CityCentre and via live video around North America in the evenings, offering a convenient two year, part-time program for working professionals. Accepting pre-questionnaires now for our next fall cohort.

About TDAN

The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN.com) 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.