It’s All in the Data: It was 20 Years Ago Today
This online publication, The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN.com), will celebrate its twentieth anniversary in the coming months of 2017. Twenty years is …
What Does Data Governance Mean?
Data governance is a relatively new, and very hot topic today. It comes as no surprise that there are a zillion different definitions of what data …
Can You Trust Your Data?
It’s increasingly difficult to achieve a reliable data set – and that could mean you can’t trust the information shared with the business. What’s the …
The Relationship Between Data Quality and Philosophy
I have recently gained more interest in data quality as well as philosophy, and was struck by their relationship. Data quality is the extent to which data …
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 …