ÿþ<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta name=keywords content="SOX compliance, SOX, sarbanes-oxley, sarbanes, oxley, loreto, services, techology, loreto services and technologies, arkidata, data quality management, data quality services, information quality, data integration, data manager, data migration, data transformation, data warehouse,pension data, pension data quality, pension data cleansing, pension data audit, pension data warehouse, pension data cleaning, pension data scrubbing, data scrubbing, data scrub, legacy pension data"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>Loreto Services and Technologies</title> <link href="CSS/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="script/imagerollover.js" > </script> <script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> _uacct = "UA-3540981-1"; urchinTracker(); </script> </head> <body tracingsrc="home background.jpg" tracingopacity="60"> <table width="800" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td><img src="images/topBar.jpg" width="800" height="250" alt="Loreto" /><br /> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td><img src="images/navLeft.jpg" width="125" height="49" /></td> <td><a href="index.html"><img src="images/navHome.jpg" srcover="images/navHome2.jpg" alt="Home" width="68" height="49" border="0" /></a></td> <td><a href="company.html"><img src="images/navProfile.jpg" alt="Company Profile" width="149" height="49" border="0" srcover="images/navProfile2.jpg" aalt="Company Profile" /></a></td> <td><a href="data.html"><img src="images/navQuality.jpg" alt="Data Quality" width="123" height="49" border="0" srcover="images/navQuality2.jpg" aalt="Data Quality" /></a></td> <td><a href="services.html"><img src="images/navServices.jpg" alt="Services" width="89" height="49" border="0" srcover="images/navServices2.jpg" aalt="Services" /></a></td> <td><a href="work.html"><img src="images/navWork.jpg" alt="How We Work" width="135" height="49" border="0" srcover="images/navWork2.jpg" aalt="How We Work" /></a></td> <td><a href="clients.html"><img src="images/navClients.jpg" alt="Clients" width="74" height="49" border="0" srcover="images/navClients2.jpg" aalt="Clients" /></a></td> <td><img src="images/navRight.jpg" width="37" height="49" /></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td><table width="800" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="125"><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="125" height="40" /></td> <td width="375"><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="375" height="40" /></td> <td width="52"><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="30" height="40" /></td> <td width="182"><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="180" height="40" /></td> <td width="66"><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="65" height="40" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="125" height="25" /></td> <td colspan="4" class="grayHeader">Loreto: The Acknowledged Authority on Data Quality </td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="125" height="23" /></td> <td><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="375" height="23" /></td> <td><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="30" height="23" /></td> <td><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="180" height="23" /></td> <td><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="65" height="25" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="125" height="80" /></td> <td align="left" valign="top"><table width="375" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="155" height="14" align="left" valign="bottom"><span class="purpleBullet">&bull; </span><span class="purpleHeader">Data Quality </span></td> <td width="220" align="left" valign="bottom"><span class="purpleBullet">&bull;</span><span class="purpleHeader"> Data Conversion </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25" align="left" valign="bottom"><span class="purpleBullet">&bull;</span><span class="purpleHeader"> Data Consolidation</span></td> <td align="left" valign="bottom"><span class="purpleBullet">&bull; </span><span class="purpleHeader">Customized Data Warehousing </span></td> </tr> </table> <p class="main"> Loreto Services &amp; Technologies is one of America&rsquo;s leading data-quality service providers.</p> <p class="main">Loreto and its team of data-quality experts have many years of experience on behalf of Fortune 500 companies across a wide range of industries. Loreto helps these companies integrate disparate databases, improve the usability of their data, enhance the effectiveness of their business processes, identify misdirected payments, and improve IT and outsourcing programs. </p> <p class="purpleHeader"><br /> What's New at Loreto</p> <p class="main"> Be on the lookout for future training opportunities with founder and CEO Gian Di Loreto in 2012. In particular, Gian s new course "Best Practices in Data Quality" will walk students through Loreto's methodology while exploring current software offerings from some big names in data qualily, BI and data profiling tools. Catch us in Vegas in February! <br /> <br /> For more information, contact The Data Warehousing Institute: <a href="http://www.tdwi.org/Education/Conferences/index.aspx">http://www.tdwi.org/Education/Conferences/index.aspx</a> </p> <p class="purpleHeader"><br /> Loreto in the Media</p> <p class="main"> Gian is currently working on a article for TDWI's 2011 year end newletter, discussing commercially available data quality software; what's out there and a wish list for the future of DQ software. Look back here for the link soon. </p> <p class="main"> Gian's <a href="http://tdwi.org/articles/2011/07/06/measuring-improving-data-quality.aspx">discussion</a> in this summer's TDWI online publication discussed best practices of Data Qualtiy and Data Cleansing. It was very well received and you can expect further content in this publication in the near future. </p> <p class="main"> Loreto s treatment of the many impacts of poor data quality was the featured <a href="http://www.loretotech.com/pdf/Pages_from_JCB24_4copyright.pdf">article</a> in the July/August 2008 volume of the prestigious Journal of Compensation and Benefits. In the article, CEO Gian Di Loreto addresses the costs to both a company s bottom line - as well as its employees lives and morale - when data quality problems aren t recognized and addressed systemically. </p> <p class="main"> Loreto was interviewed by Employee Benefit News, who were especially interested in the cost-effectiveness of implementing a pension data cleansing program. Read the interview at <a href="http://ebn.benefitnews.com/asset/article/399395/staying-current/waste-not-want-not.html">http://ebn.benefitnews.com/asset/article/399395/staying-current/waste-not-want-not.html</a> </p> <p class="main"> Read our analysis of outsourcing trends in Pension Administration  and the benefits of  midsourcing  in the article <a href="http://www.loretotech.com/pdf/EBPR_0707_Loreto.pdf">The Easy Way  Out : Midsourcing Your Pension Fund Management</a>, originally published in Employee Benefit Plan Review, July 2007. (Also, for an overview of the problems of bringing pension fund data analysis into the 21st Century, see our earlier article in EBPR: <a href="http://www.mcsweeneyantman.com/ebpr.pdf">Data, Data Everywhere, and None of It of Use</a>) </p> <!-- Loreto was recently interviewed by Employee Benefit News, who were especially interested in the cost-effectiveness of implementing a pension data cleansing program. Read the interview at <a href="http://ebn.benefitnews.com/asset/article/399395/staying-current/waste-not-want-not.html">http://ebn.benefitnews.com/asset/article/399395/staying-current/waste-not-want-not.html</a> </p> <p class="main"> Loreto Services and Technologies is currently partnering with The&nbsp;Data&nbsp;Warehousing&nbsp;Institute to help TDWI assess their internal data quality needs. As the premier educational institute for business intelligence and data warehousing, TDWI is  walking their own talk and setting the example to put their own business intelligence data under experienced data quality review. Loreto takes pride in this recognition of our expertise by TDWI, and looks forward helping TDWI understand their data quality and to ensure their business data is ready for future initiatives. </p> <p class="main"> Be on the lookout for future training opportunities with founder and CEO Gian Di Loreto in 2008 and 2009 - for more information, contact The Data Warehousing Institute: <a href="http://www.tdwi.org/Education/Conferences/index.aspx">http://www.tdwi.org/Education/Conferences/index.aspx</a></p> <p class="main"> Read our analysis of outsourcing trends in Pension Administration  and the benefits of  midsourcing  in the article <a href="pdf/EBPR_0707_Loreto.pdf">The Easy Way  Out : Midsourcing Your Pension Fund Management</a>, originally published in Employee&nbsp;Benefit&nbsp;Plan&nbsp;Review, July 2007. (Also, for an overview of the problems of bringing pension fund data analysis into the 21<sup>st</sup> Century, see our earlier article in EBPR: <a href="http://www.mcsweeneyantman.com/ebpr.pdf">Data, Data Everywhere, and None of It of Use</a>) </p> --> <p class="purpleHeader"><br /> <br /> Partnerships</p> <p class="main"> Loreto is proud to partner with the following Business Intelligence organizations: </p> <a name="Talend"></a> <img src="images/partner_talend_logo.jpg" alt="Consulting Partner: Talend" width="150" /> <p>Talend is the first provider of open source data integration software. After three years of intense research and development, and with solid financial backing from leading investment firms, Talend revolutionized the world of data integration when it released the first version of Talend Open Studio in 2006. Talend's solutions are used primarily for migration and integration between operational systems, as well as for ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing. Unlike proprietary, closed solutions, which can only be afforded by the largest organizations, Talend makes enterprise-class data integration solutions affordable to organizations of all sizes. To download Talend Open Studio free of charge, visit <a href="http://www.talend.com">www.talend.com</a. </p> <p class="purpleHeader"><br /> <br /> Contact Us</p> <span class="contactSpacing">630.413.4500<br /> sales &lsquo;at&rsquo; loretotech &lsquo;dot&rsquo; com<br /> 2625 W. Butterfield Rd. Suite 313E, Oak Brook, IL 60523</span></td> <td align="left" valign="top"><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="30" height="40" /></td> <td align="left" valign="top"><p class="sideBar">Loreto&rsquo;s primary focus is helping companies deal with data-quality problems. Any company that has experienced a recent merger, acquisition, technology upgrade, systems integration, outsourcing, insourcing or other &lsquo;precipitating event&rsquo; leading to a data migration is almost certain to face critical data-degradation issues going forward.</p> <p><span class="sideBar">Loreto prevents and repairs data-degradation problems by cleansing and consolidating historic data and cleansing and converting ongoing data streams. Loreto also has pioneered innovative new ways for companies to view and assess the quality of their databases, prepare for upcoming data migrations, and extract specific information by performing metadata audits and creating customized, easily accessible legacy-data warehouses. </span><br /> </p></td> <td align="left" valign="top"><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="65" height="40" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</td> <td align="left" valign="top" class="copywriteFooter">&nbsp;</td> <td align="left" valign="top" class="copywriteFooter">&nbsp;</td> <td align="left" valign="top" class="copywriteFooter">&nbsp;</td> <td align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</td> <td align="left" valign="top" class="copywriteFooter">&nbsp;</td> <td align="left" valign="top" class="copywriteFooter">&nbsp;</td> <td align="left" valign="top" class="copywriteFooter">&nbsp;</td> <td align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="125" height="30" /></td> <td align="left" valign="top" class="copywriteFooter">&nbsp;</td> <td align="left" valign="top" class="copywriteFooter">&nbsp;</td> <td align="left" valign="top" class="copywriteFooter">&nbsp;</td> <td align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</td> <td colspan="3" align="left" valign="top" class="copywriteFooter">&copy; 2009 Loreto Services and Technologies<br /> 2625 W. 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