Jeff,  I hope the information below will be of benefit you your efforts.
Please review and pass to the appropriate people.
The risks associated with data-intensive information technology projects are overwhelming.
The business and IT people responsible for working with corporate data often discover that it is poorly documented, unreliable, and spread out among different computing environments.
Data-specific projects like e-business, merger & acquisition-related business systems consolidation, data warehousing, customer relationship management, supply chain management, business intelligence, etc often fall short of the benefits they were designed to provide.
In addition:  "The amount of data that most organizations have created and the inconsistencies that exist in that data make it more of a liability than an asset."
The Gartner Group  "Only 17% of corporate projects that require integration, migration or consolidation of data succeed.
83% of these initiatives either over run or fail.
The key reason being a lack of understanding of the source data."
The Standish Group  Evoke Software's AXIO product suite enables companies to accelerate and enhance their business initiatives and deployments of new applications.
AXIO automates the analysis of corporate data residing in disparate systems across the enterprise.
It discovers data relationships and dependencies and identifies data quality issues, inconsistencies between different systems housing similar information, and incompatibilities between data sources and target systems.
The results of this process-accurate metadata about existing systems-are stored in the Evoke Repository and are used to develop accurate maps and transformation specifications that drive subsequent extract, transform and load or application integration processes.
AXIO sometimes gets confused with data cleansing and ETL Tools.
Evoke's products do not move or cleanse your data.
We provide the ground-zero analysis of data from any source to ensure the success of your data-specific projects and avoid costly re-work of data issues.
The attached document explains the business reasons why companies like IBM, AT&T, Agilent and Kraft utilize our technology to reduce risk and increase time to market of their enterprise projects.
Please review the document at your leisure.
If you should have any questions please call me at (972) 383-1220.
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Evoke Data Analysis & mapping