Recent enhancements to OneData enable organizations to develop or build on an EIM framework

Englewood Cliffs, NJ - April 28, 2005 - Data Foundations, Inc today announced their flagship product OneData 3.5 is ready for EIM implementation. It will encompass the different components of EIM including master/reference data, metadata, taxonomies, registries and content.

According to Gartner, EIM is defined as the set of disciplines, technologies, and solutions used to create and maintain consistent interpretation of business data by all stakeholders (users, applications, processes, enterprises). It is a holistic framework for structured and unstructured data. EIM is a semantic "blanket" across the business that is developed independently of any one application or IT project. It provides a consistent, "always on, always available" stakeholder-interpreted information layer describing all forms of reference data across the company.

"The semantic layer of OneData has been very strong but with the recent enhancements to OneData, we have made the leap over the main hurdle of establishing a central or virtual repository which can speak to multiple systems through various interfaces. This makes OneData an out of the box EIM tool," said Richard Augusty, Director of Sales.

OneData not only provides a means to setup the EIM visibility layer but also a means to resolve and rectify inconsistencies which is an important part of addressing the problem at its root.

About Data Foundations

Data Foundations is a leader in collaborative data management software. The company has pioneered the concept of the Standard Data Foundation™ - an information infrastructure layer essential for organizations to become more integrated in their data assets and coherent in business processes.

The company’s flagship product, OneData, is enterprise-class packaged software coupled with a proven methodology that addresses the challenges of implementing and maintaining a global Enterprise information solution, by effectively enabling organizations to define, maintain, store, and deploy a single set of Master Data, Reference Data, and metadata worldwide. Current customers include Avon Products, Pepsico, Glencore AG and the State of New Jersey.