Kalido to Sponsor and Speak at 18Th DAMA International Symposium; Data Warehousing and Information Management Expert from Kalido Highlights Innovative Approaches to Data Modeling and Potential Business Benefits

Business Wire, April 24, 2006

BURLINGTON, Mass. & LONDON -- Kalido, the leading provider of adaptive enterprise data warehousing and master data management software, announced that Andrew Davis, product manager of the KALIDO(R) application suite, will present at the 18th Annual DAMA International Symposium in Denver, Colorado on Thursday, April 27th from 8:30-9:30 am. The presentation will explore how adaptive enterprise data warehousing can improve the quality of data models within IT systems to realize dramatic business benefits. Kalido is also a silver sponsor of the event, which takes place April 23 - 27, 2006.

Entitled "Semantics in Data Warehousing and Integration: Associative Data Modeling and ISO Standards," Davis' talk will highlight how many businesses are constrained, rather than supported, by their information systems. Focused on the underpinning theory behind ISO 18876 and 15926 and how these standards can be used to critique and even design flexible data models, he will explore how innovative technology and project approaches to data modeling have enabled hugely complex organizations to achieve the coveted "single view" of management information and save many millions of dollars.

Ensuring management information remains accurate - however much the business evolves - is one of the biggest challenges facing large enterprises today. Many global organizations struggle to achieve the comprehensive, 360-degree view of their business required to make strategic decisions. With disparate operational systems and business processes scattered across multiple corporate divisions, decision-makers find it difficult not only to reconcile the information, but also to quickly address changing business requirements.

Using several case studies from some of the largest companies in the world, Davis will explain the need to keep business change at the heart of any data warehouse initiative, and how ambitious information management projects can be achieved without the need for operational systems to be standardized.

"Large companies are increasingly burdened by building, operating and maintaining their IT systems, and this is holding them back," commented Andrew Davis. "A major cause is that the quality of the data models implemented in systems and interfaces is poor. KALIDO is able to address this by taking a more business-orientated, flexible approach to data modeling. I'm looking forward to demonstrating how this can be done, and highlighting - using real life examples - how huge business benefits can be achieved."

As a Silver Sponsor of the DAMA Symposium, Kalido will have a strong presence at the event (Booth #115), with both technical and business experts on hand to share their data warehousing and master data management expertise.

About DAMA International Conference (April 23-27, 2006)

This is the tenth anniversary of the combined DAMA International Symposium and Wilshire Meta-Data conference. The event held in Denver will host three keynote speakers, ten workshops, and ten tutorials all on a wide range on data management and meta data topics. For further information: http://www.wilshireconferences.com/MD2006/index.htm

About Kalido

Kalido provides adaptive enterprise data warehousing and master data management software to Global 2000 companies. The KALIDO(R) application suite (KALIDO) delivers consolidated views of enterprise performance and can rapidly adapt them to major changes in the business such as mergers and acquisitions, market consolidation, or new regulatory requirements. This improves the speed and accuracy of management and financial reporting without the cost and delay of operational system standardization. Kalido customers who have measured the business benefits of their projects have typically found they have derived annual savings of millions, and in some cases tens of millions, of dollars through improved management of their company performance and reduction of IT costs.

Kalido customers include some of the largest companies in the world, such as BP, Cadbury Schweppes, HBOS plc, Intelsat, Labatt Breweries of Canada, Owens Corning, Philips, Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies (Shell) and Unilever. These companies and many others use Kalido's award-winning software in over 100 countries for their enterprise-wide data warehousing and master data management projects.

A privately-held company, Kalido is headquartered in Burlington, Mass. and London, UK. More information about Kalido can be found at: http://www.kalido.com.