

Data is the lifeblood of your company. Today's applications are tomorrow's legacy, but your business data needs to be available to all applications, old and new.
Too often, organizations find that their important data is only available via a legacy application. The legacy application becomes an impediment to full use and re-use of your business data.
Londata is a consultancy that specialises in data modelling and management. We value your business data resources as much as you do, and we can show you how to model and manage your data so that it is available to all of your applications, and stays available to all of your applications.
Your data won't manage itself. If you don't plan ahead, your business data assets will end up spread across an array of inconsistent models and formats, driving up the cost of achieving good use and re-use of that data.
Contact Londata today for a no-obligation discussion of your needs, and how we may be able to help you.
ISO 20022 Newsletter
The ISO 20022 RMG (Repository Management Group) has released its first newsletter, for June 2009. Londata is actively involved in the continuing development of ISO 20022, which is a methodology for constructing financial message models and generating physical message formats (e.g. XML Schemas).
UBL Online Community
OASIS has established an "online community" for UBL, the Universal Business Language. This site contains links to new and information about UBL, an XML business message standard which is increasingly used around the world, particularly in Europe.
OASIS genericode CS 1.0
The OASIS Code List Representation Technical Committee has approved version 1.0 of genericode, the XML format for interchange of code list information. For more details, see www.genericode.org
MDDL is now Open-Source
The FISD has released MDDL (Market Data Definition Language) under a FOSS (free, open-source) licence. For more details, see www.mddl.org