Record Number of Attendees Convene to Exchange Ideas, Best Practices and to Compare their MDM Journeys SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 10
SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Siperian, Inc. -- developers of
an industry leading master data management (MDM) platform -- recently hosted
its 4th annual gathering of the Company's customers and partners. The event
was designed to showcase and honor successful implementations and to exchange
ideas about how master data management can be expanded across the enterprise.
With more than two hundred attendees present across seventy plus companies,
the Siperian Masters User Conference 08 (SM08) included a variety of
educational topics, and a keynote address from Forrester Research vice
president and principal analyst R "Ray" Wang, who discussed MDM trends and
directions, industry best practices and the importance of a solid data
governance and change management strategy. Additional sessions included a
company update from Siperian president and CEO Peter Caswell and business
presentations by Platinum sponsors, Accenture, CSC, Wipro as well as several
Fortune 50 customers.
Ray Wang reiterated some key findings and product differentiators from the
August 4, 2008 Forrester Wave(TM): Customer Hubs, Q3 2008, stating, "While
Forrester believes that CRM systems, BI, trusted data sources, and data
warehouses represent pieces of the story, the continuous customer management
process represents a much bigger picture of how enterprises collect,
distribute, and use data in an organization to create value. Siperian
continues to blaze the MDM trail with its best-in-class market vision,
implementation and technology roadmap, and advanced feature sets." He also
made reference to Siperian's numerous and successful customer installations in
a post event blog.
The event theme, "Navigating your MDM Journey" supported recent industry
analyst reports which credit Siperian customers and partners as having some of
the most sophisticated MDM deployments in the industry. Through its focus on
successful MDM journeys, the event gave customers and partners the opportunity
to showcase and share a wide range of MDM roll-outs across a multitude of
industries and for numerous mission-critical business processes. Continuing a
tradition from earlier conferences, Siperian presented its MasterPiece Awards,
honoring those customers with the most successful and innovative
implementations of Siperian MDM Hub.
As further evidence of the Company's expanding and successful partner
ecosystem, the conference was sponsored by thirteen Siperian partners
including Accenture, Acxiom, Cognizant, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC),
EMC Corporation, GalaxE.Solutions, Harte-Hanks Trillium Software, Informatica,
Lombardi Software, MicroStrategy, Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software, Silver Creek
Systems, and Wipro.
"Our customers continue to push the envelope, moving from early MDM
pioneers to true business innovators as they evolve their MDM journey beyond a
single business case to a broader, more enterprise use," commented Peter
Caswell, Siperian president and CEO. "This year's conference allowed us to
recognize our customers' ongoing successes and share how MDM can be applied
across the enterprise to solve a myriad of complex business requirements."
About Siperian, Inc.
Siperian, Inc., an innovative provider of a flexible master data
management (MDM) platform, helps companies unify their critical data about
customers, products and organizations -- and delivers reliable, complete views
of this data within existing business processes. The Siperian MDM Hub(tm)
offers the next generation of architectural flexibility for managing all types
of master data. It is an integrated, model-driven software platform that
adapts to today's business requirements delivering rapid return on investment,
while evolving to a complete enterprise master data management platform.
Siperian's approach enables rapid implementation and has earned the company
its reputation for leadership and proven success by meeting the complex
requirements of market-leading companies in health and life sciences,
technology, insurance, manufacturing, retail, financial services, media and
information services. With corporate headquarters in San Mateo, California,
Siperian has offices throughout the United States and in Toronto, Canada; the
Company's EMEA operation is headquartered in London. To learn more about
Siperian visit http://www.siperian.com or call 1-866-747-3742.
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