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Melville, N.Y., February 15, 2018 – erwin, Inc., the data governance company, today announced that David Casillo, the company’s Senior Vice President for Global Channels and Inside Sales, was recognized by CRN as a 2018 Channel Chief.

For more than 30 years, Dave Casillo has been building and managing best-in-class channel organizations. He is part of a very exclusive group of IT industry executives who have operated within all three major tiers of the channel holding senior leadership roles at one of the largest global distributors, one of biggest worldwide resellers and three of the largest software vendors in the world. At erwin for just over a year, he is responsible for all aspects of the company’s channel go-to-market.

“I’m honored to be among this year’s CRN channel chiefs,” said Casillo. “I’ve worked in the channel community for a long time and I’m more energized than ever. Over the past year, erwin’s partner ecosystem has expanded in the number of consulting partners and new resellers joining the community directly via organic discussions or indirectly through our recent acquisitions. Additionally, we are laser-focused on bringing the best data governance solutions to the channel to help customers model, govern and manage data like never before. Truly exciting times.”

CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, compiles their annual Channel Chief list to recognize leaders in the IT channel who drive growth and revenue for their organizations through channel partners. Channel Chief honorees are selected by CRN’s editorial staff on the basis of their professional achievements, standing in the industry, dedication to the channel partner community, and strategies for driving future growth and innovation. Each of the 2018 Channel Chiefs has demonstrated loyalty and ongoing support for the IT channel by consistently promoting, defending and executing outstanding channel partner programs.

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Melville, N.Y., Feb. 12, 2018 – With less than four months until the May 25 effective date for the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a bare 6% of enterprises say they are prepared for the upcoming regulation, reveals a new research report issued today from erwin, Inc. The company’s 2018 State of Data Governance Report does indicate broader awareness and enterprise focus for data governance, yet challenges remain in terms of understanding, executive support and financing.

Commissioned by erwin through UBM, the reports shows that 98% of respondents view data governance as either important or very important from a business perspective; however, a disquieting 46% don’t have a formal governance strategy in place. More than one in five (21%) are just getting started, meaning they are in the data discovery and inventory phase, and 63% either don’t have a budget for data governance or don’t know if they have one. At 40% of the organizations surveyed, the IT department continues to foot the bill for data governance expenses.

UBM surveyed North American business technology professionals representing more than 16 sectors, including financial services, government, healthcare, IT and telecommunications, about their attitudes toward data governance. Among the 118 respondents were CIOs, CTOs, data center managers, IT staff and consultants.

“The results of the State of Data Governance Report are validating but also a bit shocking,” explains Mariann McDonagh, CMO for erwin. “The fact that 94% of organizations are not prepared for what is arguably one of the most important data privacy and security regulations in recent years – with fines up to four percent of their global revenues – is stunning. However, on the flip side, organizations are now finally recognizing that governing data assets goes well beyond risk management and compliance. To fully realize the value of its data, an organization needs the ability to discover, understand, govern and socialize data assets beyond IT’s shadow. To mitigate risks and realize the desired business results, data stakeholders across the enterprise must be empowered to act as data citizens, and that includes IT and the business funding an ongoing process.”

Other key findings:

• Both IT and the business are responsible for data governance at 57% of the organizations surveyed. Just 34% have put IT solely in charge of data governance.
• The IT department continues to foot the bill for data governance at 40% of organizations. Budget for data governance comes from the audit and compliance function at 20% of organizations, while the business covers the bill at just 8% of the companies surveyed.
• When asked to identity the top three drivers of data governance initiatives, 60% of respondents say their biggest driver is the need to comply with regulatory mandates. However, compliance is not the only driver with 49% seeing data governance as a way to improve customer satisfaction, and 45% use it to support better decision-making. Reputation management and analytics are two other relatively big drivers with 30% and 27%, respectively.
• Big Data is another big driver with 22% of the responding organizations claiming to have more than 10 petabytes of data under management. One-fifth of respondents say Big Data is one of the top reasons for implementing a data governance program.
• 66% percent say that understanding and governing enterprise assets has become more important or very important for their executives. For 64%, data assets are somewhat or much more valuable to the organization than physical assets.
• 68% point to the CIO as driving the process. At four in 10 – or 39% – the data architecture lead drives data governance activities, at 32% the CEO is the biggest cheerleader, and at 34% the CEO is the one advocating it the most.
• Less than one-third of organizations have a fully implemented data governance program. At 42% of the organizations, data governance is a work in progress. Most of the enterprises have completed the data discovery phase and are now developing policies and processes, business rules, data definitions and classifications.
• 27% have fully connected the enterprise architecture (EA) and data governance functions.

“The survey presents a cautionary tale about what enterprises need to do in 2018 to move their data governance agendas forward,” adds McDonagh. “It shows that while the business is beginning to realize the potential of data governance, it is not entirely clear on how to justify the budget or how to move the ball forward. We suggest starting with clear goals about what you want your program to achieve, building a budget to justify it like any other business initiative, educating and involving all data stakeholders, and absolutely getting ready to meet the requirements for GDPR.”

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Melville, N.Y., January 12, 2018 – Nearly two years after becoming a standalone company, erwin, Inc., today announced its evolution to “the data governance company,” based on its expertise and the centering of its technology platform around data governance. As part of this focus, the company has acquired A&P Consulting, a technology and consulting services firm based in Rome, Italy. A&P gives erwin a powerful technology for harvesting operational data, now called erwin Collector, and a suite of high-impact corporate and data governance consulting services.

“For more than 30 years, erwin Data Modeler (DM) has been the first choice of CDOs, CIOs, data architects and other IT professionals. During the past 20 months, we have steadily and strategically transformed our anchor data modeling technology into the ultimate data governance platform,” said Adam Famularo, CEO of erwin. “With three acquisitions and significant investment in R&D, we’ve integrated our data governance, enterprise architecture, business process and data modeling capabilities to deliver the erwin EDGE, a platform delivering on the promise of Data Governance 2.0.”

The erwin EDGE platform creates an “enterprise data governance experience” for data-driven insights, agile innovation, regulatory compliance and business transformation. It delivers on the Data Governance 2.0 imperative by enabling organizations to discover, understand, govern and socialize their data assets – regardless of format or location –  for greater visibility, control and value across the enterprise. It serves as the foundation for using data not only to mitigate risk in terms of data exposures but also to accomplish other organizational objectives, including boosting topline revenue.

According to Forrester’s Henry Peyret in a blog entitled Another Serious Player Is Entering the Data Governance 2.0 Market, “erwin Data Governance (DG) is promising in connecting data modeling, enterprise architecture and business process information within a unified metamodel to deliver on the new Data Governance 2.0 expectations that enterprise customers are looking for: less driven to support compliance only, more agile while involving and supporting more stakeholders, and more efficient in delivering the right business outcomes by finding the best compromise between ‘opposite’ constraints and regulations.”

With the addition of erwin Collector through its latest acquisition, the company now provides automated harvesting and transformation of operational data from a variety of enterprise systems, including ServiceNow, RSA Archer and any source with a RESTful API. erwin Collector aggregates data from these systems and delivers it in a variety of formats to the erwin DG solution for integration into the data dictionary. By automating complex data aggregation, in both real time or via scheduled updates, erwin Collector ensures that erwin DG is robust, relevant and up-to-date.

Readiness is key to Data Governance 2.0, so the acquisition of A&P Consulting not only gives erwin a product with great time-to-value but also an expert services arm. For more than 15 years, A&P Consulting has advised some of Italy’s most prestigious energy, financial services, infrastructure, retail and telecom brands in addition to government agencies.

“We believe Data Governance 1.0 has failed because it forced IT to serve as data custodians, cataloging data elements without insight into its relevance or relationships. In this framework, the cost of controlling data risk is needlessly excessive and opportunities to enhance business agility are lost,” continued Famularo. “Data Governance 2.0 was conceived with the vision that everyone within the enterprise has a stake in data governance. Therefore, all stakeholders must be empowered to act as data citizens, directly involved in defining the terms, rules and policies that govern data use. Supplemented with the appropriate tools, they will collectively justify, execute and sustain data governance initiatives that deliver a return on investment and a return on opportunity for the enterprise.”

The erwin EDGE platform provides:

• Support for any data, anywhere (Any²) enabling relational, unstructured, on-premise and cloud-based data assets to be coupled with well-documented business rules to ensure standards are followed
• Collaboration and organizational empowerment so both business and IT users have consistent, persona-based views of data relevant to their roles to build trust, ensure alignment and enhance decision-making
• An integrated ecosystem and visibility across domains to improve the enterprise’s facility with data across Data Governance 2.0
• Regulatory peace of mind through compliance with government regulations (GDPR, HIPPA, FINRA) and cybersecurity measures, also protecting customer trust and preventing reputational damage
• Data impact analysis because of seamless, out-of-the-box integration of DG, EA, BP and DM showing all places where specific data resides to determine how changes will impact people, processes and systems before they are implemented