Enterprise Data at Risk – Five Danger Signs of Data Integration
Organizations are increasingly collecting and sharing data enterprise-wide. The more databases are shared and modified to meet changing business needs, the …
Data Quality Isn’t Everything
Businesses are always looking to introduce new, innovative products and services their customers will love that will ultimately increase their bottom line. …
Bad Data’s Impact on Decision-Making
Having been around the block, we data professionals have seen many cases of data which could be construed as “imaginative.” Once such case where …
Mastering Data: An Algorithm to Clean Names
It has been a great challenge in many companies to preserve name consistency with written Latin characters in countries where the main alphabet is not Latin. …
How to Manage Null Values in Your Data Warehouse
I’m sure many business intelligence developers have experienced a customer asking why there are null values in their report and what they mean. It’s very …
Data as an Enabler of Corporate Value
Data Quality Management’s Break The accuracy and speed of execution in many corporate processes rely on the quality of the data at hand. Traditional …
A Ten-Step Plan for an Effective Data Governance Structure
Executive Summary The quality of data used in business is more important now than ever before. Accordingly, in order for organizations to deliver good business …
Data is Risky Business: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Safe Harbor
On the 6th of October the Court of Justice of the European Union (the equivalent of the United States Supreme Court) struck down Safe Harbor. Safe Harbor was …
Data Cleansing vs Data Maintenance: Which One Is Most Important?
There are always two aspects to data quality improvement. Data cleansing is the one-off process of tackling errors within the database- ensuring retrospective …
The Data Centric Revolution: Seven Warning Signs of Appliosclerosis
Of all the dangers that befall those on the journey to data centrism, by far the greatest danger is Appliosclerosis. Appliosclerosis, or as lay people know it- …