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— Kalido, the leading independent provider of business-driven data
        governance solutions, today announced the latest release of the
        Kalido(R) Data Governance Director(TM), which drives broader
        organizational participation to improve program success.
        — The new release enables anyone in the organization to quickly and
          easily raise data issues.
        — New policy requirements or updates can be tracked through issues
          logged by users anywhere in the organization.
        — Raised issues can now be tracked from the time they are raised all
          the way to resolution.
    — In a recent Kalido survey, 75% of respondents said they have no means
        to raise issues with bad data they encounter in their day to day jobs.
        This inability to fix data issues—particularly persistent,
        recurring data issues—can significantly impact the effectiveness of
        core business processes.
     
     

Democratizing Data Governance

     
    — The latest release provides an instant, easy to use way to report data
        issues through a new web-based interface that can be easily embedded
        into any application or employee portal.
    — Issues are automatically routed to data owners according to role and
        responsibility for triage and remediation. Automated monitoring tracks
        the progress of each issue.
        — Triage is determined based on the owners of the data, system or
          business process most affected by the issue.
        — Kalido’s new capabilities bypass the need for a single triage
          owner responsible for routing all data issues—typically found
          in issue management systems—eliminating a critical bottleneck
          and enabling fast resolution.
     
     

AMore Strategic Approach

     
    — Today’s budding data governance programs too often rely on manual
        orchestration to resolve data issues due to a lack of process-specific
        solutions to manage this time-consuming process. Kalido Data
        Governance Director automates and streamlines this time-intensive
        approach, operationalizing the program and minimizing manual effort.
     
     
    — In addition, the latest release provides insight into issues logged—
        allowing governance teams to view and analyze similar issues across
        the organization. As governance teams analyze emerging data patterns,
        they can identify the need for new or updated policies to address
        recurring issues more proactively.
     
     
     

Quotes

Bill Hewitt, CEO at Kalido, said:

     
    — “Governance teams know that to add value to the business process
        owners that consume data they have to do whatever it takes to improve
        data quality. Until now, these teams have had to do this manually or
        use tools ill-suited for this effort. By providing a level of process
        support that can be deployed across the organization, Kalido is giving
        these programs a fighting chance of not only fixing—but improving
        data governance across the enterprise.”
     
     

Additional Resources

     
    — Join our webinar, “A Roadmap from Data Management to Data Governance:
        You CAN Get There from Here!” on Thursday, November 17, 2011 at

http://bit.ly/datagov-roadmap-webinar       — Download Kalido’s Data Governance Maturity Report or take the Kalido
        Data Governance Maturity Assessment by visiting

www.kalido.com/dgmaturity.htm       — Join the conversation by joining Kalido’s online community, Kalido

www.kalidoconnections.com           @kalido
    — Visit the Kalido blog, “Kalido Conversations”
     
     

About Kalido Kalido is the leading provider of business-driven data governance software. Kalido enables companies to manage data as a shared enterprise asset by supporting the business process of data management. Kalido software has been deployed at more than 300 locations in over 100 countries, including 20 percent of the world’s most profitable companies as determined by Fortune Magazine. More information about Kalido can be found at: http://www.kalido.com .

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