Siperian Strengthens Business Data Director Solution–Enables Business Users to Easily Consume Master Data
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Wipro and Cognizant Win First Ever Siperian Gooey Award – Partners Recognized for Their Innovative Use of Siperian’s Data Governance Solution Foster City, CA – November 16, 2009Siperian, Inc., a leading provider of multidomain master data management (MDM) solutions, today announced new enhancements to its Siperian Business Data Director™ offering. Launched in March 2009, Business Data Director is a web-based, intuitive and configurable data governance application for Siperian MDM Hub™ that provides business users and data stewards with the ability to effectively create, consume, manage and monitor master data. Today, one out of three Siperian customers use or are currently implementing Business Data Director to gain immediate efficiencies within their business processes. The new version of Business Data Director significantly improves the overall productivity of business users by allowing them to customize the look and feel of the application to suit their preferences. Other new enhancements include Business Data Director’s ability to integrate with external applications and provide “custom action” capabilities, which allow users to extend the data to other applications. Using advanced data federation features, line of business users can see critical transactional data within Business Data Director that enables them to perform more complex, real-time business processes such as order to cash and cross-sell and up-sell of additional products to existing customers. Several of Siperian’s system integration partners are leveraging Business Data Director to build viable and replicable business-specific solutions on top of the Siperian MDM Hub. Business Data Director was designed to be flexible so that solid MDM governance could be applied to any vertical application. In order to showcase the flexibility, configurability and the rapid enablement of Business Data Director, Siperian recently presented the first Gooey Award to Wipro and Cognizant at Siperian’s User Group 2009 event. Selected by attendees and a panel of judges, the Gooey Award, named for its sticky and enduring value to business users as well as its usage as a Graphical User Interface, or GUI, was open to partners and customers and was awarded to those companies with the most compelling and innovative use of Siperian’s data governance application. According to attendees, Wipro’s Reference Data Management solution for financial services and Cognizant’s MDM-in-a-Box solution for life sciences were deemed the best use of Business Data Director. “Wipro, has vast experience in implementing large scale, complex Master Data Management solutions to our global customers. We see Data steward productivity and the GUI usability as one of the key critical factors for sustainability of a robust Master Data Management or Reference Data Management Solution,” said Pawan Kumar S, Vice President, Business Intelligence and Information Management, Wipro Technologies. “The bolt-on functionality we have built on the Siperian’s Business Data Director, leveraging its tremendous extensibility, is aimed at enhancing further, the usability for our customers.” “Data governance is the key to the overall success of any MDM initiative,” said Ken Hoang, Founder and CTO, Siperian. “Unlike other solutions, Business Data Director allows users to create, correct and complete data from the outset, resulting in reduced downstream data management issues and better decision making by business users.” About Siperian, Inc.Siperian’s multidomain Master Data Management (MDM) software solution provides a reliable and unified view of critical customer, product, supplier, and employee data to business users in Global 500 companies across 15 different industries. The Siperian solution meets the needs of data-intensive companies by enabling them to improve access to real-time information from distributed data sources. Through this unified view, organizations can achieve enhanced customer relationship management, regulatory compliance, and order-to-cash processes. Siperian’s MDM Hub™ is a flexible and integrated software platform that significantly lowers total cost of ownership and delivers faster time-to-value and superior return-on-investment. With corporate headquarters in Foster City, 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 www.siperian.com or call 1-866-747-3742. Siperian and Siperian MDM Hub are trademarks of Siperian, Inc. The names of actual companies or products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. MEDIA CONTACTS:Chris McCoin or Richard Smith |