(PRLOG) May 9, 2011 -- Minneapolis based SoftLake Solutions hosted the April meeting of DAMA MN (Data Management International). The featured speaker was Mike Bisek, whose presentation covered, “Data Governance in the Real World.” Bisek shared his expertise in guiding companies through the process of building sustainable data governance and data management practices that solve pain and foster business growth.

SoftLake Solutions is a strategic partner for Collibra, a data governance product suite. Steven Pesklo president of SoftLake Solutions notes: Data governance is becoming more and more important in today's business environment. We are seeing a huge increase in interest in these capabilities. Companies are realizing they need to have the systems in place to know who in their organization owns and updates data, how to set up the rules and then how to check data against the rules that are set. Between legislation like Dodd-Frank, shareholders and the public at large looking to companies for more transparency, data governance is increasingly important. We saw the DAMA meeting as a great way to share our expertise and help people better understand data solutions.

The program was held at the University of St. Thomas Minneapolis and was streamed as a live webinar for those unable to attend in person. More information about DAMA MN can be found at www.dama-mn.org

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SoftLake Solutions specializes in providing Data Governance and Data Analysis software and consulting solutions for medium and large sized companies throughout North America. Our services include product and technical support assistance for the Business Intelligence product InfoZoom and Collibra's Data Governance solution. We are experts in implementing business solutions in the area of Data Governance, Business Intelligence, Data Analysis, Business Decision Making, Project Management and International Business Development. For further information: www.softlakesolutions.com.