A Not-for-Profit Organization Addressing the Business Strategies & Practical Implementation Realities of Enterprise Data Management

EDM Council Sponsors >>   The EDM Council would like to acknowledge the support and commitment of its sponsors in the pursuit of the Councils agenda. If you would like further information on how to become a sponsor of EDM Council please contact Carole Mahoney. Sponsorship Opportunities.   Premier Sponsors   Avox utilises an innovative approach to validating, correcting and enriching business entity data. The firm has established a shared pool of business entity data regularly contributed to by their international clients. This industry data is combined with up-to-date content from other authoritative sources including regulators, business registries and company filings. Changes made by an Avox client to a data record are immediately revalidated by an Avox analyst and, if proven correct, are broadcast, complete with a full audit trail, to all other clients holding the same record. Data in Avox includes corporate hierarchies, addresses, industry codes, identifiers, regulatory content and links to issued securities. Helping our clients get sustainable, measurable results BearingPoint is a leading management and technology consulting company serving Global 2000 companies and government organizations in 60 counties worldwide. Our 17,000 professionals have built a reputation for knowing what it takes to help clients achieve their goals, and working closely with them to get the job done. Our service offerings are designed to help our clients generate revenue, increase cost-effectiveness, manage regulatory compliance, integrate information and transition to “next-generation” technology. To learn more, contact us at 1 866 BRNGPNT (+1 508 216 2523 from outside the United States and Canada), or visit our Web site at www.bearingpoint.com. Cicada is a leading, innovative provider of data management technology and compliance solutions for financial institutions, exchanges and data vendors. The company's products address reference data management, real-time market data dissemination and low latency data distribution for algo trading, as well as a wide range of today's compliance requirements. Cicada also produces a software solution for customer data management and due diligence requirements for anti-money laundering and KYC compliance, Cicada Profiler. The technology foundation for the company's solutions is its proven Cicada Composer data management software infrastructure, which provides end-to-end capability for all data management processes and workflows. GoldenSource Corporation delivers Enterprise Data Management (EDM) solutions to financial institutions globally. EDM is a technology and operations strategy that will consolidate data, and the data management function, to better manage the distribution of critical data to business applications. Financial institutions that embrace EDM are able to target a broad spectrum of data sets including security master files, trading positions, legal entity definitions and transaction data. GoldenSource's solutions provide the fundamental integrated platform to improve information quality and efficiency throughout an enterprise. As a pioneer of EDM solutions, GoldenSource powers managed data services via the innovative Powered by GoldenSource program. Launched in 2004, Powered by GoldenSource supports outsourced data management services for many of the world's leading global institutions, including IBM, Broadridge Financial Solutions, HSBC and OpHedge. GoldenSource and its certified partners provide a wide range of implementation and support services to ensure initial and continued success. The company is dedicated to the business principles that ensure its customers are its best references. SunGard’s ReferencePoint is a global, scalable framework for creating and controlling reference and market data on an enterprise-wide basis. ReferencePoint provides data acquisition, mapping, cleansing and enrichment, as well as permissioning and distribution across an organization. ReferencePoint helps customers reduce operational risk through increased data quality and consistency; improve regulatory readiness through increased transparency; support new business opportunities; lower time-to-market of new products; and enhance operational efficiency through increased automation. ReferencePoint is available through a variety of deployment models, including a fully outsourced Managed Data Service solution.   Affiliate Sponsors   CounterpartyLink, Ltd., an Investors Guaranty Global Alliance company, provides global legal entity data, collected and maintained with processes designed to be consistent with the stringent standards driven by today's risk management and regulatory compliance requirements for financial institutions. Detailed information on legal entities, including corporations, governments and funds, containing amongst other things addresses, ownerships, listings and industry identifiers, is collected in data centres around the world, using only primary sources and registration documents, with all data supported by an audit trail back to the source documents. CounterpartyLink employs rigorous, documented procedures to collect and verify all data and updates the information for corporate actions and other events affecting the data on a daily basis. PolarLake enables firms to deliver on the full promise of EDM, integrating into downstream systems with 75% less time and 80% less resources than generic integration products. It’s flagship product, PolarLake RDD (Reference Data Distribution) is a domain specific Integration application built to manage to end-to-end process of Reference Data Distribution. PolarLake RDD provides unique capabilities for Business Operations, Business Analysts and Technology to manage and control Reference Data Distribution. PolarLake has been recognized by Industry Analysts as a leader in its space, named by Aite as the most packaged Reference Data Distribution solution, included in the Gartner visionaries’ quadrant in 2007 and named by Forrester as the best current offering in the ESB market. PolarLake’s clients include Global Sell side, Buy side and Asset Servicing Institutions.

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