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Feb 10, 2012

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ALSO CALLED: Data Quality Control, Information Quality, Data Quality Assurance, Data Content Quality DEFINITION: Data quality is the reliability and effectiveness of data, particularly in a data warehouse. Data quality assurance (DQA) is the process of verifying the reliability and effectiveness of data. Maintaining data quality requires going through the data periodically and scrubbing it. Typically this involves updating it, standardizing it, and de-duplicating records to create a single view of the data, … Definition continues below.
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Three Keys to Better Data-driven Decisions: What You Should Know… Right Now sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: It's time for small to midsized businesses (SMBs) still using outdated business processes and systems to bring their decision-making up to speed with a centralized view of enterprise information. Read this white paper to learn how the right tools can give SMBs the accurate, timely data they need to make informed, strategic business decisions. Posted: 06 Feb 2012 \| Published: 06 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Analytic Applications Software \| Data Analytics \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Enterprise Resource Management \| Enterprise Systems \| ERP \| ERP Software \| Reporting Software \| SAP (Product)

Accelerating the Speed of Intelligence for Fast and Flexible Forecasting sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Based on interviews with CFOs and senior finance executives at six leading international companies, this report presents the strategies they are using to infuse flexibility into their planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes in order to detect and address the constantly changing market realities of today's stubbornly volatile global economy. Posted: 02 Feb 2012 \| Published: 02 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Dashboards \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Data Visualization \| Financial Management \| Financial Metrics \| Financial Reporting \| Forecast/Demand Management Software \| Forecasting, planning and budgeting software

Business Intelligence: The Definitive Guide for Midsize Organizations sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This white paper breaks down the spectrum of business intelligence (BI) tools into specific functionalities and explains how they can be practically applied by midsized organizations to improve decision-making. Read it to learn what you need to know to get started with a BI implementation. Posted: 31 Jan 2012 \| Published: 31 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Analytic Applications Software \| Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Data Quality \| Query Tools \| Reporting Software \| SMBs \| Software Implementation

The Five Pillars of SharePoint Governance sponsored by Quest Software WHITE PAPER: In this new Quest white paper, learn the five pillars of SharePoint governance, and how preparing for an ever-changing SharePoint environment ensures success. Posted: 30 Jan 2012 \| Published: 30 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Collaboration \| Content Management \| Content Management Systems \| Data Quality \| Enterprise Content Management \| Enterprise Content Management Software \| SharePoint

Data Warehousing 2.0- Modeling and Metadata Strategies for Next Generation Architectures sponsored by Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper and learn how the data warehouse, metadata and modeling environment will be transformed in the next few years — and what you need to do to leverage it for your business, the major components of DW 2.0 architectures, and key modeling and metadata management strategies for DW 2.0. Posted: 26 Jan 2012 \| Published: 26 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Modeling \| Data Quality \| Data Storage \| Data Warehouse Architectures \| Data Warehouses

Enterprise Reporting Sound Step to Performance Managements sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Using enterprise reporting, an organization can progressively address immediate reporting needs, use business intelligence (BI) capabilities to acquire greater insight, extend BI to more users and prepare a platform for the future that includes the implementation of performance management. Posted: 24 Jan 2012 \| Published: 24 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Quality \| Information Management

The Challenge of Mobile Business Intelligence: Developing a Successful Strategy for the New Mobility sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper now and learn more about the opportunities and challenges that a mobile workforce present to IT and understand the next steps you need to take to develop a successful strategy. Posted: 24 Jan 2012 \| Published: 24 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Information Management \| Mobile CRM \| Mobile Device Management

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence supports sales controlling and business management with decision-making insight sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Learn what happened when KDG Mediatech AG needed a centralized reporting solution to provide users in sales, controlling and business management with up-to-date and consistent decision making insights. Posted: 24 Jan 2012 \| Published: 24 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Data Management \| Data Management Software \| Data Quality \| Information Management

Business Analytics – Pushing Toward Relevance sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Learn how IT can improve its overall contribution to business innovation with an action-oriented business intelligence (BI) and analytics strategy. Posted: 24 Jan 2012 \| Published: 24 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Information Management \| IT Best Practices \| IT Governance \| IT Management

BI and ETL Process Management Pain Points sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: IT organizations are under increasing pressure to make sure that the data underlying business intelligence (BI) reports is both current and accurate. Learn how new, sophisticated scheduling and process automation technologies can help your organization ensure high data quality, without wasting valuable time finding and fixing issues manually. Posted: 24 Jan 2012 \| Published: 24 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Collection \| Data Management \| Data Management Software \| Data Quality \| Data Warehouse Software \| Data Warehouses \| ETL (Software)

An Alternate Perspective on how Accurate ETL and Data Integration Improves Business Intelligence (BI) sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Read this brief white paper and learn how many business intelligence (BI) teams, such those at Electronic Arts (EA), are shifting their perspective on extract, transform and load (ETL) job scheduling to an enterprise-oriented view, elevating efficiency and offering greater control and data accuracy. Posted: 20 Jan 2012 \| Published: 20 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Process Automation \| Business Process Management \| Data Integration \| Data Quality \| ETL (Software)

Station Casinos uses workload automation solution to deliver smoother audits and increase customer loyalty sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: In this brief white paper, Jeff Martin, Station Casinos’ director of business intelligence (BI), provides specific examples of the types of problems that the company wanted to solve, and offers insight into the specific job scheduling solution it selected to overcome its challenges. Posted: 20 Jan 2012 \| Published: 20 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Business Process Automation \| Business Process Automation Software \| Customer Data Integration \| Customer Data Management \| Data Quality \| Job Scheduling Software

Leading Interactive Games Designer Accelerates Business Intelligence Program sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, Rajesh K. Gupta, Electronic Arts' senior manager of applications for business intelligence (BI) and data services, explains how EA avoids many costly problems due to timely data access. Read this now to gain insight into how EA deployed job scheduling software and what benefits it reaped by doing so. Posted: 20 Jan 2012 \| Published: 20 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Business Process Automation \| Business Process Automation Software \| Business Service Management \| Business Service Management Software \| Data Quality \| Job Scheduling Software

HP Advanced Information Services For the Vertica Analytics Platform sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Limited WHITE PAPER: This brief paper highlights how Vertica Analytics Platform has the ability to process massive amounts of data at record speeds and process information for quick access to business intelligence (BI). Posted: 05 Jan 2012 \| Published: 05 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Analytics \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Database Management \| Databases \| SQL

Oracle Procurement and Spend Analytics sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Through complete end-to-end insight into the factors that impact company performance, you can significantly reduce costs, enhance profitability, increase customer satisfaction and gain competitive advantage. Posted: 12 Dec 2011 \| Published: 12 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Governance \| Data Integration \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Quality \| Data Storage \| Data Warehouses

Oracle Exadata Storage Server X2-2 sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper and learn about the intelligent software in the Oracle Exadata Storage Server that accelerates database query processing (DQP) by offloading database query processing to the storage layer. Posted: 12 Dec 2011 \| Published: 12 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Data Analytics \| Data Integration \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Quality \| Data Storage \| Data Warehouses \| Query Tools

Oracle: Big Data for the Enterprise sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: By using the Oracle big data appliance with Oracle Exadata, enterprises can acquire, organize and analyze all their enterprise data to make the most informed decisions. Posted: 12 Dec 2011 \| Published: 12 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Data Analytics \| Data Center Management \| Data Governance \| Data Integration \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Data Storage \| Data Warehouses

Oracle Exadata Case Study: TDWI "What Works" Reprint sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This white paper presents two case studies that illustrate how Oracle Exadata increased storage capacity for data warehouses by 150%, reduced operational and database running costs by 50% and on average improved database query performance by 10 times. Posted: 12 Dec 2011 \| Published: 12 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Process Management \| Data Analytics \| Data Center Management \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Data Warehouses

All the Ingredients for Success: Data Governance, Data Quality and Master Data Management sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Improving data quality is a timeless strategy that can provide value on its own, or can be done as a first step towards something else, such as master data management (MDM). It can also be done in conjuction with MDM. This white paper explores three use cases of improving data quality. Posted: 12 Dec 2011 \| Published: 12 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Data Integration \| Data Management \| Data Management Software \| Data Quality \| Master Data Management \| Oracle (Product)

Decisions at the Speed of Light: Business Analytics & Optimization Platform in Detail and in Action sponsored by Starview Inc. WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you will gain insight into how a business analytics and optimization platform (BAOP) solution works within specific industries, including telecommunications, energy and utilities, and manufacturing. Posted: 01 Dec 2011 \| Published: 01 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Analytics \| Data Center Management \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Data Storage \| Data Warehouses \| Unstructured Data

How BAO Platforms and an Active Model Drive the Best Next Action sponsored by Starview Inc. WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you will learn the technical details of what makes an ideal business analytics and optimization platform (BAOP) work, including active optimization, active model and the need for an abstracted proprietary language that not only significantly reduces coding time, but makes management changes and ongoing simulation easier. Posted: 01 Dec 2011 \| Published: 01 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Process Management \| Data Analytics \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Data Storage \| Data Warehouses

Turning Decisions into Profit with Business Analytics & Optimization sponsored by Starview Inc. WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you'll learn about business analytics and optimization (BAO) and business analytics and optimization platforms (BAOP), and also explore how platform-centric deployments can work in multiple industries to maximize resources, mitigate waste, increase profitability, streamline operations and achieve a greener and smarter planet. Posted: 01 Dec 2011 \| Published: 01 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Analytic Applications Software \| Business Intelligence \| Business Process Management \| Data Analytics \| Data Center Management \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Data Warehouses

Realizing the benefits of FTP consolidation sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Businesses are experiencing a growing demand to move high volumes of data both internally and externally. File transfer protocol (FTP) servers are proliferating among individual departments and raising traffic levels with customers and suppliers. This white paper explains and explores the opportunity and benefits of FTP consolidation. Posted: 29 Nov 2011 \| Published: 29 Nov 2011 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Governance \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Data Warehouses \| File Transfer Protocols \| FTP \| Scalability Testing

IBM Information Management: Manage your data and control risk to develop information you can trust sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: The IBM Information Management portfolio offers a complete set of solutions designed to help you not only manage your data, but also master it. Read on to learn more about: Data management, information integration, data warehousing and more. Posted: 14 Nov 2011 \| Published: 14 Nov 2011 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Data Governance \| Data Integration \| Data Management \| Data Management Software \| Data Migration \| Data Quality

Delivering information you can trust: The benefits of leveraging IBM capabilities to deliver quality data sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: IBM InfoSphere Information Server delivers the functions required to integrate, validate, enrich and deliver trusted information for your key business initiatives. Posted: 14 Nov 2011 \| Published: 14 Nov 2011 TOPICS: Collaboration \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Data Governance \| Data Integration \| Data Management \| Data Management Software \| Data Quality

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DATA QUALITY DEFINITION (continued): … even even if it is stored in multiple disparate systems. There are many vendor applications on the market to make this job easier. Because data quality is so important from a business perspective, many large companies employ a data steward to be in charge of data quality. In spite of this, Gartner Inc. forecasted that 25% of critical data within Fortune 1000 companies would continue to be inaccurate through 2007. A Gartner study says that poor quality customer data costs U.S. business an estimated $611 billion dollars a year in postage, printing, and staff overhead.Getting started with data quality …
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