The annual gathering of the electrical industry’s dataheads convened in the Arizona desert this week with a lighter turnout than previous meetings, but with an invigorated sense of the importance of synchronizing product data throughout the electrical supply chain.

Whereas last year’s meeting was a celebration of the 10th anniversary of IDEA’s formation and the formal introduction of Bob Gaylord as the industry data association’s new president, the 2009 IDEA E-Biz Forum, Sept. 22-24 in Tucson, Ariz., finds the organization deep in the process of realizing its new strategic mission.

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Thank-you from the staff of Electrical Marketing.