The 17th Information Quality Conference 2005 Houston, TX, USA  September 19-23, 2005   Sponsors and Exhibitors

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Platinum Sponsors

IBM

IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and key Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take full advantage of the new era of On Demand Business. For more information about IBM, visit www.ibm.com.

Gold Sponsors

Dataflux

The DataFlux mission is to design and build sophisticated easy-to-use technology to empower our customers to quickly transform raw data into intelligent information. Established in 1996, the DataFlux Corporation, based in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina, is a leader in the development of innovative, intuitive, and cost-competitive data quality products. Our Blue Fusion technology has been widely accepted as a new standard in the growing data quality field. DataFlux became the first company to develop the data quality tools needed on networked, user-friendly environments and we've been pushing the envelope ever since.

Trillium

Trillium Software® a division of Harte-Hanks, has been selected by companies worldwide, both large and small, to improve their operational and analytic business decisions through accurate and timely information. Trillium Software offers an integrated suite of Total Data Quality software and services architected to turn raw, inaccurate data into usable, real-time information that supports business functions. The Trillium Software System® and Trillium Software Discovery are recognized as critical to the success of data warehouse, business intelligence, customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, e-business, and other enterprise applications, and data integration, data migration, data stewardship, and data governance initiatives.

Innovative Systems, Inc.

Innovative Systems, Inc. is a world leader in delivering enterprise data quality management solutions to organizations whose success depends on a complete and accurate understanding of their customers. Our i/Lytics® end-to-end data quality management solution combines robust capabilities for data profiling, data integration, data cleansing, data linking, change management, address verification and geocoding, Know Your Customer (KYC) and Customer Identification Program (CIP) compliance, and suspect, sanctions and do-not-call list matching. It provides a seamless solution for efficiently managing and enhancing the quality of enterprise data used for customer service and relationship management, sales and marketing, regulatory compliance, and strategic planning and decision-making.

DataDelta

DataDelta analyzes & enhances the Single Customer View match accuracy of your CURRENT merge/purge, dedupe, householding and CDI data quality software, including custom in-house technology. Our unique, patent-pending technology also enables you to scientifically compare competing systems and see their true, previously hidden strengths & weaknesses for vendors such as Acxiom, Ascential, DataFlux, Firstlogic, Group 1 Software, Innovative Systems, Oracle, Siebel, Trillium and more. "At DataDelta we don't make the match engine, we make your current match engine work better!"

Silver Creek Systems

While other DI technologies emphasize moving data, Silver Creek Systems' Data Refraction technology standardizes, enriches and localizes data on-the-fly and makes it truly usable. The company's DataLens™ System acts as a real-time "lens" in the data stream and delivers 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.

Exhibitors

Firstlogic

Firstlogic's data quality software measures and analyzes data defects, standardizes customer and operational data, and builds relationships through matching and consolidating records. Its new IQ8 Integration Studio is the industry's first comprehensive environment offering centralized data quality services. Tuned for systems integrators and corporate IT engineers, IQ8 Integration Studio is changing the way companies look at data quality integration.

Human Inference

Human Inference is a European company and market leader in data quality software. This software guarantees and improves the quality of data and optimizes the communication and interaction between organizations and their relations. Human Inference focusses on high quality solutions developed for large databases and mission-critical systems. The solutions are based on natural language processing and contain a core of knowledge to deliver the best quality possible. The software of Human Inference is used for profiling, contact efficiency, identification and enrichment of data. Data quality is a prerequisite to achieve and maintain a single customer view, compliance, fraud detection and efficient search processes in large databases.

BetweenMarkets

BetweenMarkets unlocks the value of the world's largest B2B information chains by enabling radical improvements in business data accuracy. The company drives millions of dollars of benefits across Fortune 500 order-to-cash cycles by constructing a Data Quality Firewall(tm) to ensure the integrity of eBusiness data exchanged with trading partners. BetweenMarkets' managed service model enables large enterprises and their trading communities to quickly eliminate the critical data quality issues that undermine B2B process performance, without dependence on IT resources or infrastructure. The company is based in Austin, Texas.

Media Sponsors

IAIDQ

The purpose of the association is to create a world-wide community of people who desire to reduce the high costs of low quality information and data by applying sound quality management principles to the processes that create, maintain and deliver data and information/ The mission of the association is to:
* Increase the awareness of the impact of poor quality data and information.
* Help leaders understand that the high losses can be dramatically reduced.
* Provide a network for members to exchange tips and techniques for quality improvement.
* Provide opportunities to learn critical skills for making quality information and data a reality.

DM Review

DM Review provides timely, high-quality editorial for corporate, line of business and IT management by covering business intelligence and data warehousing issues and solutions from both perspectives - business and technology.

DAMA International

DAMA - the Data Management Association is an international not-for-profit affiliation of local and regional chapters and Members-At-Large around the world consisting of thousands of data resource management professionals. Data Resource Management (DRM) is the development and execution of architectures, policies, practices and procedures that properly manage the full data lifecycle needs of an enterprise. DAMA International is governed by an Executive Board and an Advisory Board consisting of recognized leaders in the field of information management. DAMA produces an annual Symposium that is the premiere event in the arena of Data and Information Management. DAMA also annually honors individuals who have distinguished themselves in the area of data and information management with an Individual Achievement Award.

AllConferences.com

AllConferences.com is a directory focusing on conferences, conventions, trade shows, exhibits, workshops, events and business meetings. This is a unique search directory that serves users looking for specific information on conference or event information; while at the same time provides services to the meeting planners, such as online registrations and payment processing.

Taylor & Francis

Building on two centuries' experience, Taylor & Francis has grown rapidly over the last two decades to become a leading international academic publisher. With offices in London, Brighton, Basingstoke and Abingdon in the UK, New York and Philadelphia in the USA and Singapore and Sydney in the Pacific Rim, the Taylor & Francis Group publishes more than 1000 journals and around 1,800 new books each year, with a books backlist in excess of 20,000 specialist titles. We are providers of quality information and knowledge that enable our customers to perform their jobs efficiently, continue their education, and help contribute to the advancement of their chosen markets. Our customers are reseachers, students, academics and increasingly professionals. Taylor Francis is the publisher of the Journal "Quality Assurance: Good Practice, Regulation, and Law."

TDAN

The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN.com), published by Robert S. Seiner, is a web-based publication that focuses on sharing knowledge and best practices in the field of data management. Each issue includes new articles, columns and special features as well as lists of new books, conferences, companies and products, and web-sites of interest for the data management professional.

Business Intelligence Network

The Business Intelligence Network™ delivers industry-based content hosted by domain experts and industry leaders in Business Intelligence, Business Performance Management, Data Warehousing and Information Quality. The Network's utilizes the most advanced technology available for delivery of content over the web which includes RSS feeds, expert hosted blogs, audio driven interviews and podcasting

Insurance Data Management Association (IDMA)

The Insurance Data Management Association, Inc. (IDMA) is an independent, non-profit, professional, learned association dedicated to increasing the level of professionalism, knowledge, and visibility of insurance data management.

The principal means to achieve this is through education. The Association maintains a curriculum for developing insurance statistical, data administration, and data quality professionals. When testing is successfully completed, the Association offers professional certification.

IDMA also offers seminars, forums, roundtable discussions, newsletters and bulletins, white papers, an Inventory of Carrier Reports, cooperation and collaboration with other professional and learned associations, and other ongoing professional activities. For more information, contact Richard L. Penberthy, Executive Director, at rpenberthy@idma.org and visit the IDMA web site, www.idma.org.

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