John Randles

PolarLake’s Financial and Reference Data Management Platform enables some of the largest firms in Financial Services to acquire, manage and distribute Reference Data with speed, agility, control with embedded Security not seen before in the Reference Data Management Market. A number of leading Financial Services firms are using PolarLake to load data up to 11x faster, query securities from the store 17x faster and onboard new data feeds 20x faster than their legacy Data Management Platforms. PolarLake have implemented a truly disruptive technology based on a unique combination of XML streaming, storage and semantic web technologies. PolarLake's Data Management Platform is a post relational database solution, enabling firms to utilize semantic web technology to solve problems that relational data models were never designed to solve. The Platform also has the leading Reference Data Distribution capability in the market. PolarLake has been recognized by Industry Analysts as a leader in the Reference Data Distribution and Integration space, named by Aite as the most packaged Reference Data Distribution solution and included in the Gartner visionaries' quadrant.

EDM Council, Inc. operates as a neutral business forum to elevate the practice of data management as a mandate for efficient business operations. The firm creates and implements standards for data management, develops best practice recommendations for enterprise data management implementation, conducts data management-related research and provides a network for all segments of the data management industry to use for the development of business relationships. The company was founded by Michael Meriton in 2005 and is headquartered in Kensington, MD.

Sindice Ltd. develops data intelligence platform. It provides search and analytics jumpstart services that include Kibi; Solr, Lucene and Elasticsearch; custom search and analytic solutions; and knowledge graphs. The company was founded by Giovanni Tummarello and Renaud Delbru in 2011 and is headquartered in Mervue, Ireland.

Eontec Ltd. produces Java based banking software. The company is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Siebel Systems, Inc. develops customer relationship management software that automates sales and customer-service operations of large corporations. It products enable companies to distribute customer information to call centers, direct sales teams, resellers, retailers and web-based sales forces. The company was founded in 1993 by Thomas M. Siebel & Patricia A. House and is located in San Mateo, CA