Loreto Services & Technologies is one of America’s leading data-quality service providers.

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.

What's New at Loreto

Be on the lookout for future training opportunities with founder and CEO Gian Di Loreto in 2010. In particular, Gian’s new courses - “Down and Dirty: Data Quality Assessment” and “Down and Dirty: Data Cleansing” – will be hands-on laboratories which take students through example-based exercises, and build practical, concrete skills. For more information, contact The Data Warehousing Institute: http://www.tdwi.org/Education/Conferences/index.aspx

Loreto in the Media

Loreto’s treatment of the many impacts of poor data quality was the featured article 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.

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 http://ebn.benefitnews.com/asset/article/399395/staying-current/waste-not-want-not.html

Read our analysis of outsourcing trends in Pension Administration – and the benefits of ‘midsourcing’ – in the article The Easy Way “Out”: Midsourcing Your Pension Fund Management, 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: Data, Data Everywhere, and None of It of Use)

Partnerships

Loreto is proud to partner with the following Business Intelligence organizations:

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 www.talend.com

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Loreto’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 ‘precipitating event’ leading to a data migration is almost certain to face critical data-degradation issues going forward.

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.