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MELVILLE, N.Y., July 16, 2019 – erwin, Inc., the data governance company, today announced it is included as a “Representative Vendor” in the 2019 Gartner “Market Guide for Information Stewardship Applications”¹.

According to this Gartner report, “there is an increasing need both to ingest metadata from remote applications and systems in which data is being governed and/or stewarded, and to ’push out’ to those same systems any changes in policies.”

erwin believes its data intelligence (DI) suite, which combines data cataloging and data literacy capabilities, meets this need and more by providing an automated, metadata-driven framework for:

• Discovering data – Identify and interrogate metadata from various data management silos.
• Harvesting data – Automate the collection of metadata from various data management silos and consolidate it into a single source.
• Structuring and deploying data sources – Connect physical metadata to specific data models, business terms, definitions and reusable design standards.
• Analyzing metadata – Understand how data relates to the business and what attributes it has.
• Mapping data flows – Identify where to integrate data and track how it moves and transforms.
• Governing data – Develop a governance model to manage standards, policies and best practices and associate them with physical assets.
• Socializing data – Empower stakeholders to see data in one place and in the context of their roles.

“We believe our inclusion as a ‘Representative Vendor’ in this particular Gartner Market Guide validates why the world’s most discerning enterprises rely on erwin as the foundation of their data stewardship and governance initiatives,” said Adam Famularo, CEO of erwin. “We further believe that our innovative data intelligence suite fuels an automated, high-quality data pipeline for all enterprise stakeholders – data scientists, data stewards, ETL developers, enterprise architects, business analysts, compliance officers, CDOs and CEOs – so they can access data relevant to their roles and transform insights into actions that improve everything they do.”

¹Gartner, Inc. “Market Guide for Information Stewardship” by Guido De Simoni. Andrew White. June 19, 2019.

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MELVILLE, N.Y., June 20, 2019 – erwin Inc., the data governance company, today announced the general availability of erwin EA/BP powered by Casewise 2018.1. This latest release, developed in response to global enterprise customer needs, includes new performance and scalability features and enhancements and can be deployed on premise or hosted in the cloud.

“Enterprise architecture and business process modeling tools are being employed more strategically across the wider organization to transform some of the most important value streams in the business,” explains Manuel Ponchaux, erwin’s Director of EA/BP Product Management. “Therefore, our customers need more power to process the higher volumes of data they are importing, integrating and analyzing to deliver actionable intelligence to business users so they can optimize journeys, accelerate innovation and realize their digital potential.”

Enterprise architecture and business process modeling are critical for risk management and regulatory compliance, a major concern for financial services customers when it comes to ever-changing regulations on money laundering, fraud and more. However, erwin helps model, manage and transform mission-critical value streams across industries, as well as identify sensitive information. “When thousands of employees need to know what compliance processes to follow, such as those associated with the General Data Protection Regulation, ensuring not only access to proper documentation but current, updated information is critical,” Ponchaux adds.

“We continue to work with erwin and appreciate their willingness to respond to industry and customer needs, especially in developing features that will help address the ever-changing risk and regulatory environment,” says Andi McCann, Design Lead, HSBC. “The latest performance enhancements for erwin EA/BP allow us to scale to and support tens of thousands of processes enabling employees to carry out their responsibilities with greater efficiency and accuracy.”

Also available today are a range of new or enhanced professional services to help customers maximize their EA/BP software investments. These include:

Quick starts: These are 10- to 50-day engagements to install, configure and deploy the erwin EA/BP software and include defining requirements and objectives; designing the metamodel, template and portal; reviewing, assessing and migrating existing collateral; and providing mentoring, support and maintenance.

Custom development: erwin EA/BP solutions can be customized to meet specific customer requirements. The erwin Professional Services Team has worked directly with customers and erwin Product Management to develop detailed use cases with embedded best practices for custom workflows (process change management, object attestation and impact analysis), applications and utilities (audit trail display, user access management and on-demand background actions), outs) and layouts (dynamic pivot tables, network diagrams and reporting, search within diagrams and expanded pop-outs).

Integrations: We can integrate erwin EA/BP with third-party tools, including CAST, Cloud Health, RSA Archer and ServiceNow. We also can help customers integrate with other erwin products, including erwin Data Catalog to ensure metadata from data sources, operational processes, business applications and data models is automatically harvested, transformed and fed into a central data catalog and then made accessible and understandable in role-based views.

Cloud-based trials, extended demos and/or proof-of-concepts: Easy, zero-risk environment for evaluating erwin EA/BP as a first-time user or testing new features so customers can plan their upgrades. This seamless experience enables data to be ported over to a live environment once the trial is complete, whether the solution continues to be cloud-hosted or not.

“Acceleration, speed to insights, that’s what’s driving development and services on all fronts,” explains Wendy Petty, SVP and head of erwin’s EA/BP Center of Excellence. “Increasing regulatory pressure, competitive differentiation, operational excellence, everything in today’s business world depends on quick response but those actions also have to be based on accurate information. Our software suites, including those for enterprise architecture and business process modeling, are helping enterprises be both faster and smarter in managing risk as well as innovating to better serve their customers.”

Melville, NY, June 18, 2019 – erwin, Inc., the data governance company, today announced that Wendy Petty, the company’s Senior Vice President of Global Field Sales and Services, has joined the Business Applications Advisory Council of CompTIA, the leading trade association for the global technology industry. As a member of the council, Petty will help drive CompTIA’s efforts to educate SaaS companies on progressive go-to-market growth strategies for selling business solutions using multiple sales channels.

Petty is responsible for co-leading erwin’s global sales organization and professional services teams. She has spent more than 30 years building software startups and running enterprise software sales organizations. Before joining erwin, Petty held executive channel sales positions at Verizon Enterprise Solutions and CA Technologies.

The CompTIA Business Applications Advisory Council is focused on driving business growth of SaaS companies and their solution providers, and Petty’s expertise will be integral to driving those efforts.

“With the breadth of her experience in our industry, Wendy is a strong addition to our Business Applications Advisory Council,” said Annette Taber, CompTIA’s vice president for industry outreach. “Her insights into the business of technology – how it is developed, marketed, influenced, purchased and deployed – will help guide the actions we take as an advisory council, an association, and an industry.”

“I’m looking forward to working in a collaborative environment with CompTIA’s Business Application Advisory Council members to help SaaS companies tap into their true potential,” said Petty. “For more than three decades, I have focused on building software companies, working directly with enterprise organizations and the partner community.  The channel is key to any company’s success and partners should be front and center to any company’s overall sales strategy.”

The CompTIA Business Applications Advisory Council includes executives from organizations that deliver cloud software platforms and applications specifically developed for the line-of-business buyer seeking to achieve specific objectives. The council also includes specialized partners – such as CPAs and digital marketing agencies – who influence the sale of these solutions to line of business managers within organizations.

This year, the council’s strategies include:

• Understanding vertical market and line of business buyer needs and connecting them with the right SaaS solutions
• Identifying the current skills needed in the SaaS Solution Provider space
• Distinguishing programs SaaS vendors should build for customers and prospects
• Continuing to ensure CompTIA’s resources and expertise reach relevant business application providers

About CompTIA

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MELVILLE, N.Y., May 7, 2019 – erwin, Inc., the data governance company, and Avydium Data Software Solutions, LLC are working together to help enterprises accelerate their digital transformation efforts, including those focused on analytics, data warehousing, cloud migration, application rationalization, data curation, regulatory compliance and data privacy.

Avydium is an enterprise information management (EIM) software and services firm helping clients modernize, enhance and/or augment how they manage and use their data. With significant engagements in the financial services, healthcare and manufacturing industries, the company evaluates everything about the current state – hardware, software, people, processes and data – to develop a detailed data strategy/plan plus the optimal organization to support the desired future outcome.

“Most digital transformation efforts fail due to lack of planning and/or insufficient business requirements and poor organization,” explains Rom Linhares, Chief Solution Architect and Managing Partner for Avydium. “It’s about having the right roles and responsibilities in place to support a data governance framework so data can be understood and shared across the enterprise. That’s why erwin’s data governance software is a key component of the data governance layer we implement for our clients as part of their detailed, prioritized technology roadmaps.”

For example, if a healthcare client wants to integrate its various patient databases within a data lake, this client will need to standardize how it refers to medications within its EMR (Electronic Medical Records) systems. Some EMRs refer to the technical drug name while others refers to the brand name (atorvastatin versus Lipitor, a commonly prescribed statin used to treat high cholesterol). erwin Data Catalog could be used to automatically harvest all the drug names and map them back to the central data catalog, reconciling the terms and determining their lineage and any impacts to changing the data design.

Another success factor in the erwin-Avydium partnership is that erwin’s enterprise architecture and business process modeling solutions are standard tools to facilitate and accelerate system modernization and cloud migration. “Without erwin EA and erwin BP, our clients would be left guessing as to whether they’ve identified and mapped out all their systems and processes prior to modernizing their applications or moving to the cloud,” notes Linhares.

“We’re excited about the opportunities to work with Avydium on such important projects,” says David Casillo, erwin’s Senior Vice President for Global Channels and Enterprise Sales. “While healthcare literally has critical data governance use cases like the one above, most industries face similar challenges in trying to modernize their architectures so they can take advantage of the latest technologies to serve customers, save money and comply with industry and government regulations. The erwin and Avydium difference lies is our ability to avoid typical digital transformation failure points, accelerate project delivery, and fortify technology frameworks with best-in-breed, collaborative and contextual tools.”

In addition, both companies have deep subject-matter expertise and share similar values in how they treat customers. “We’re not pushing technology for technology’s sake. Our shared goal is to help our clients solve their problems, so we put on their badges,” says Linhares. Adds Casillo, “We’re not going to provide you what you don’t need but focus on discovery, evaluating your current state, understanding your vision, and determining what you need to make it a reality from a data governance and EIM perspective.”

About Avydium Data Software Solutions, LLC

Avydium™ develops and commercializes industrial-grade data services and solutions derived and enabled by the Third Platform Computing Model and Avydium’s foundation composable services. Our mission is the advancement of data-driven business strategies where new data sources converge with open systems, AI, industrial IoT, blockchain and advanced digital technologies to unleash innovation, market leadership and economic impact. Avydium combines key competencies in end-to-end architecture and design, a portfolio of leading data governance and information management assets, unified data models for manufacturing, healthcare and financial services as well as client-centric engagement models for commercial success. Visit www.avydium.com for more information.

MELVILLE, N.Y., May 2, 2019 – erwin, the data governance company, announced today that it has been named to CRN’s 2019 Big Data 100 list for Big Data management and integration. This annual list recognizes technology suppliers bringing to market ground-breaking offerings to effectively manage the ever-growing amounts of data generated every day.

To compile the list, the CRN editorial team identifies IT vendors at the forefront of data management, business analytics and infrastructure technologies and services. The resulting Big Data 100 list has become a trusted resource to solution providers, helping them identify the right vendors with whom to partner.

“Organizations today face a huge data dilemma: not knowing what data they have or where some of it is—plus integrating known data in various formats from numerous systems without a way to automate that process,” said David Casillo, erwin’s Senior Vice President for Global Channels and Enterprise Sales. “The impact of Big Data and the importance of how global organizations manage and govern it cannot be overstated. Together, with our partners, we help enterprises accelerate the transformation of business-critical information into accurate and actionable insights, with an automated, real-time, high-quality data pipeline.”

As the IT community continues to collect massive volumes of valuable data, managing this giant information stream continues to be a complex and delicate process. It requires expertise in data capture, storage, organization, tiering, security and analysis. Businesses are constantly struggling with the exploding volume, speed and variety of information they produce and utilize on a daily basis. Solution providers are on a never-ending mission to help them fully manage and optimize this data with innovative tools, technologies and services that can convert it into meaningful information.

The erwin Data Catalog (DC) automates enterprise metadata management, including data cataloging, data mapping, data quality, code generation and data lineage for faster time to value and greater accuracy for data movement and/or deployment projects. Harvest metadata from various data sources and map data elements from source to target, including “data in motion,” and harmonize data integration across platforms. With this accurate picture of your metadata landscape, you can accelerate digital transformation projects, including Big Data deployments, Data Vaults, data warehouse modernization, cloud migration, etc., without heavy reliance on technical resources.

The 2019 Big Data 100 list is available online at www.CRN.com/BigData100.

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Melville, NY, April 17, 2019 – erwin, Inc, the data governance company, announced today that it has received a 5 Star Rating by CRN, a brand of The Channel Company in its 2019 Partner Program Guide. This annual guide identifies the strongest and most successful partner programs in the channel today, offered by the top technology suppliers for IT products and services.  This recognition marks the second consecutive year that erwin has received the highest distinction from CRN for its partner program.

The 5 Star rating recognizes an elite subset of companies that offer solution providers the best partnering elements in their channel programs. To determine the 2019 5 Star ratings, The Channel Company’s research team assessed each supplier’s partner program based on investments in program offerings, partner profitability, partner training, education and support, marketing programs and resources, sales support, and communication.

“The channel is part of erwin’s DNA,” said David Casillo, erwin’s Senior Vice President for Global Channels and Enterprise Sales. “We understand what our partners want and continue to increase our investment in our program.”

Casillo continued, “Additionally, the data governance market continues to grow. erwin is one of the industry’s only software providers to own every critical piece of the data management and data governance lifecycle. Together, with our partners, we have a strong value proposition to our joint enterprise customers – helping them answer to key questions – what data do we have and where is it?”

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The complete 2019 Partner Program Guide is featured in the April issue of CRN and online.

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Melville, N.Y., March 12, 2019 – erwin, the data governance company, today announced that CEO Adam Famularo will present at the Strata Data Governance Conference 2019 in San Francisco on March 28. During his session, “Solving the Enterprise Data Dilemma,” Famularo will dive deep into how organizations answer these tough data questions: What data do we have? Where is it? Are there any sensitivities or risks? How do we get value from it?

“Organizations are inundated with data, and if its volume, variety and velocity weren’t challenging enough, companies also are scrambling to derive meaningful insights from it,” Famularo explains. “The modern enterprise needs the ability to discover all its data, track its physical existence and lineage, understand what it means within a business context, and then maximize its security, quality and value.”

The erwin EDGE platform, with data governance as the hub, gives organizations visibility and control over their disparate architectures and all the supporting data. Both IT and business stakeholders have role-based, self-service access to the information they need to collaborate in making strategic decisions. And because many of the associated processes can be automated, errors are reduced while the speed and quality of the data pipeline increases.

“If enterprises can see and use their data as an asset, they can unlock its value,” Famularo adds. “That means they can accomplish any organizational objective they apply it too – from regulatory compliance to competitive differentiation and operational excellence to revenue generation. Of course, these outcomes depend on the integration of data management and governance capabilities in an automated flow that connects IT and business users to the information they need for greater data intelligence and collaboration.”

In addition to the Strata conference, erwin will be presenting and/or demonstrating its data governance, data mapping, and business process, enterprise architecture and data modeling solutions at these other events in March:

• Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2019 (Orlando): March 18-21
• Enterprise Data World(EDW) 2019 (Boston): March 18-21
• Business Transformation & Operational Excellence World Summit (BTOES19) (Orlando): March 18-22
• Chief Data Officer Exchange (London): March 26-27