Exhibitors and Sponsors

Good information yields better decisions. IBM helps companies make better, faster decisions to improve their operations and drive competitive advantage because they are confident in the quality of their data. With self-service and IT-managed options, everyone who needs it can get the right data quickly and easily.

Recognized by industry analysts as an integration and governance leader, IBM offers a unified data and analytics platform that can integrate data from any source to help you discover, enrich, integrate and manage data over its lifetime and ensure quality, trust and confidence. We help clients manage data chaos and deliver trusted data to the business in order to enable data excellence.

BackOffice Associates, a worldwide leader in information governance and data migration solutions, focuses on helping customers manage their most critical asset – data. The range of products, built on a revolutionary platform, address the needs of business users seeking to unlock the value of their data assets. BackOffice Associates' products and services enable organizations to accelerate growth, gain actionable visibility and reduce risks. Founded in 1996, BackOffice Associates has an unparalleled track record of success in the most complex data environments across a variety of industries.

SAS is the leader in data management and advanced analytics solutions. Through innovative software and services, SAS helps customers at more than 80,000 sites make better decisions faster. Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®.

Take a look inside any successful organization and you'll find data management technology powering every process. It’s that critical. SAS® Data Management is one platform that’s modularized for rapid results. Designed with IT and business collaboration in mind. And ready to help you transform big data into big opportunities. It's not enough just to manage your data – you need to unleash its potential. Because brilliance isn’t based on bad data. With SAS Data Quality, you can achieve better, cleaner data regardless of volume. And SAS Data Governance and MDM can control and manage your big data, bringing harmony to data discord.

Learn more and discover free white papers, webinars and more at sas.com/data.

As the leader in data governance, Collibra helps global organizations gain competitive advantage by maximizing the value of their data across the enterprise. Collibra is the only solution purpose-built to address the gamut of data stewardship, governance, and management needs of the most complex, data-intensive industries. Our flexible and configurable cloud-based or on-premises solution puts people and processes first – automating data governance and management to quickly and securely deliver trusted data to the business users who need it. Learn more at www.collibra.com.

DATUM drives decision integrity across any enterprise, empowering organizations to discover the right data and make the right decisions faster. By focusing on what data matters and why, DATUM’s proven data governance and stewardship platform delivers business value insights. Today, many Fortune 500 companies trust DATUM as the data governance system of record to improve operational efficiency, deliver greater analytical insights, and simplify compliance and regulatory reporting.  For more information, visit http://www.datumstrategy.com/ and follow us on twitter @datumstrategy.

erwin, Inc. makes the world’s No. 1 data modeling software, trusted by more than 50,000 data professionals in 60+ countries. As a stand-alone company since March 2016, we’ve expanded our focus from data modeling to holistic data management to bring innovation across that spectrum, including enterprise architecture, business processing modeling and data governance. Our “any-squared” (Any2) approach to enterprise data management enables both technical and business stakeholders to access, use and trust “any data” from “anywhere” to make better decisions against organizational objectives. We get the hard stuff right, so customers see results by collecting, connecting and collaborating with their data.

Founded in 2001, Global IDs, Inc. is a provider of Data Ecosystem Management Software.

Global IDs software products allows companies to successfully navigate a data-centric world. Some of the world’s largest organizations use our software to gain transparency, traceability and quality across their data ecosystem, unlocking value from these assets.

Global IDs’ scientific approach to data discovery and profiling enable our customers to establish enterprise-wide programs for data governance, compliance and security, cost reduction and to generate new revenue opportunities. Market leaders in Healthcare, Telecommunication, Retail and Financial Services turn to Global IDs to address their most complex data management challenges.

Prolifics creates a competitive advantage for organizations around the world by implementing customized data solutions that achieve business success, leveraging leading technologies in a global delivery model. For more than 35 years, the company’s technology expertise, industry-specific insights and certified technology accelerators have transformed organizations around the world by solving complex IT challenges. For more information, visit www.prolifics.com.

Protiviti is a global consulting firm that helps companies solve problems in finance, technology, operations, governance, risk and internal audit, and has served more than 60 percent of Fortune 1000® and 35 percent of Fortune Global 500® companies. Protiviti’s Advanced Analytics and Data Management practice helps companies define business standards, plan strategies and integrate data across the enterprise ensuring accurate, reliable and easy to understand information. The company provides solutions for Business Intelligence and Advanced Analytics, Enterprise Information Management, Data Warehousing, Data Governance and Cloud Strategy.

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. For more information, visit www.topquadrant.com.

ASG Technologies brings peace of mind to every enterprise with information access, management and control within legacy and leading-edge environments. Our Enterprise Data Intelligence solution provides deep insights into critical business data and keeps your business compliant with regulatory governance requirements using zero gap data lineage.

Meridian delivers sound data governance best practices through a rich set of processes and procedures geared towards promoting quality, enforcing consistency and streamlining productivity, reliability and integrity. Our flagship software, EDMS, is an enterprise data management platform used to streamline the technical facilities of data governance; including copy data management, software configuration management, data retention management, data quality management; along with many other key aspects of a data governance enforcement and stewardship program.

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 and data management. The primary purpose of DAMA International is to promote the understanding, development, and practice of managing data and information to support business strategies. DAMA International has chapters and members throughout the world.

The Data Governance Professionals Organization (DGPO) is an international non-profit, vendor neutral, association of business, IT and data professionals dedicated to advancing the discipline of data governance.

The DGPO provides a forum that fosters discussion and networking for members and seeks to encourage, develop and advance the skills of members working in the data governance discipline.

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.

The Insurance Data Management Association, Inc. (IDMA) is an independent, non-profit professional association that provides education seminars and forums, one-day classes, and a formal certification curriculum for individuals who want to further their career with training in Insurance Data Management ­ including Insurance Statistical Data, Financial Data, Data Administration and Warehousing, Systems and Project Management, Data Processing and Data Quality.

Reference Data Digest is a monthly newsletter that provides data managers with updates on changes to commonly held reference data tables (code tables).  This means that data managers have a single source for information about reference data changes.  Additionally, important announcements from reference data standards bodies are summarized, and expert commentary on the reference data space is provided by Malcolm Chisholm.  More information is available at www.referencedatadigest.com.

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.