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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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Data Governance: A Business Value-Driven Approach sponsored by DataFlux Corporation WHITE PAPER: This white paper by Dr. Walid el Abed, CEO of Global Data Excellence, discusses how an effective data strategy embedded within the business strategy can turn data into a real competitive advantage, deliver short and longer term value and enable business success and sustainability. Posted: 20 Nov 2009 \| Published: 20 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Process Automation \| Business Process Management \| Business Processes \| Data Governance \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Data Stewardship \| Master Data Management

Advance Your Data Management: Reduce Cost and Risk through the effective and efficient Management of Master Data sponsored by Atos Origin WHITE PAPER: Effective and efficient management of master data within the manufacturing sector is a key factor in reducing TCO, providing accurate global spend analysis and improved reporting and decision making. Implementing SAP's Master Data Management solution into an organization enables the backbone of a complete data governance model to be established. Posted: 04 Nov 2009 \| Published: 04 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Governance \| Data Management \| Data Management Software \| Data Modeling \| Data Quality \| Database Management \| Master Data Management \| SAP (Product) \| TCO

Commodity Coding: Code It or Buy (Too Much of) It sponsored by DataFlux Corporation WHITE PAPER: This paper will present you with all the information needed to make an educated decision on whether to commodity coding is right for your organization and it will help with choosing the commodity coding that fits your company. Posted: 04 Nov 2009 \| Published: 04 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Business Process Management \| Business Process Outsourcing \| Data Governance \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Database Management \| Inventory Management \| Risk Assessment \| Risk Management

Data Migration for Project Leaders sponsored by DataFlux Corporation WHITE PAPER: This guidebook provides the answers with a series of detailed sections including essential activities such as planning, forecasting, risk management, team selection, communication and collaboration. Posted: 04 Nov 2009 \| Published: 04 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Data Management \| Data Migration \| Data Quality \| Database Management \| Database Performance Management \| Databases \| Enterprise Content Management \| Enterprise Resource Management \| ERP \| Risk Assessment \| Risk Management

A Guide to the Value of Reliable Data in Retail Banking sponsored by DataFlux Corporation WHITE PAPER: Banks need to get smarter, attract the right customers, implement customer level risk management, and implement risk adjusted customer relationship pricing and all of this is dependent on trusted data. This paper examines the impact of unreliable data on retail banks. It then defines the requirements needed to guarantee data reliability in banking. Posted: 04 Nov 2009 \| Published: 04 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Banking Industry \| Business Process Management \| Customer Data Management \| Data Governance \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Marketing \| Retail Banking Services \| Risk Assessment \| Risk Management \| Sales \| Sales and Marketing Software

A Guide to the Value of Reliable Data in Manufacturing sponsored by DataFlux Corporation WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the impact of unreliable data on manufacturing companies. It then defines the requirements needed to guarantee data reliability in manufacturing and offers a practical approach to creating and governing that data. Posted: 04 Nov 2009 \| Published: 04 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Compliance Best Practices \| Customer Service \| Data Quality \| Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) \| Manufacturing \| Manufacturing Industry Organizations \| Metadata Standards \| Risk Assessment \| Risk Management

A Guide to the Value of Reliable Data in Insurance sponsored by DataFlux Corporation WHITE PAPER: Only when data is trusted can it be used in confidence in all insurance operational and analytical process activities. This paper examines the impact of unreliable data on insurance companies. It then defines the requirements needed to guarantee data reliability in insurance and offers a practical approach to creating and governing that data. Posted: 04 Nov 2009 \| Published: 04 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Business Process Management \| Business Process Outsourcing \| Data Governance \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| ETL (Software) \| Insurance Industry \| Master Data Management \| Risk Assessment \| Risk Management

Driving Operations through Better, Faster Decision Making sponsored by SAP AG WHITE PAPER: Software can't tell you how to beat the competition, but it can determine which products and services have the greatest profit margin, who are the most productive employees, or how many pairs of socks customers buy when they purchase particular styles of shoes. Having accurate, timely data takes the guesswork out of the decision-making process. Posted: 30 Oct 2009 \| Published: 30 Oct 2009 TOPICS: CEOs \| CFOs \| Data Governance \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| IT Managers \| Productivity \| SMBs

SAP® BusinessObjects™: The Preferred Business Intelligence Choice Designed for Growing Companies sponsored by SAP AG WHITE PAPER: SAP® BusinessObjects™ Edge software is the business intelligence (BI) choice of midsize companies hoping to improve business processes, discover new opportunities and edge out the competition. It includes affordable solutions addressing just about any BI requirement, like operational reporting and analysis, dashboards and visualization. Posted: 30 Oct 2009 \| Published: 30 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Business Process Management \| Dashboards \| Data Integration \| Data Quality \| Reporting Software \| SAP (Product) \| SMBs

There Is No Execution without Integration: MES Adoption Drives Performance sponsored by SAP AG WHITE PAPER: Many manufacturers today are getting caught on the wrong side of a technology adoption wave that is quickly gaining momentum. This benchmark study is a roadmap for reducing overall manufacturing costs through the utilization of manufacturing technologies. Posted: 26 Oct 2009 \| Published: 26 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Competition \| Cost Benefit Analysis \| Dashboards \| Data Quality \| ERP \| Manufacturing Execution Systems \| Manufacturing Industry \| Performance Testing

Data to Intelligence: The BI Advantage for Financial Services sponsored by SAP America Inc WHITE PAPER: Find out how leading financial enterprises are turning to sophisticated data warehousing techniques, real-time analytics, improved data quality, and intelligent metrics to find competitive advantage. Posted: 12 Oct 2009 \| Published: 12 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Application Life-Cycle Management \| Business Intelligence \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Data Warehouse Architectures \| Data Warehouses \| Financial Industry Organizations \| Financial Metrics \| Globalization

Speeding ETL Processing in Data Warehouses sponsored by Syncsort WHITE PAPER: For processing data for BI analytics and other applications, the usual go-to software products include various extract, transform, load (ETL) and data warehousing solutions. However, these products do not always provide the speed required to deliver data on time. An additional product can speed the processing of high volumes of data. Posted: 12 Oct 2009 \| Published: 12 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Collection \| Data Governance \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Quality \| Data Storage \| Data Warehouses \| Database Administration \| Database Administrators \| Database Management \| Database Performance Management \| Databases \| ETL (Software)

Solving the Challenges of Exponential Data Growth sponsored by Syncsort WHITE PAPER: This paper explores the reasons why data volumes are increasing and where bottlenecks most frequently occur. It then explains why adding more hardware isn’t a solution to these performance problems and delves into the various methods that can be used to break through the bottlenecks to speed applications. Posted: 12 Oct 2009 \| Published: 12 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Data Center Management \| Data Classification \| Data Collection \| Data Governance \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Quality \| Data Storage \| Data Warehouses \| Database Administration \| Database Management

Bloor white paper: The Importance of an Information Strategy sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: In this paper we will discuss what an Information Strategy is, why it is important, and what it takes to build one. We will also consider IBM's Information Agenda, that company's approach to assisting in the development of an Information Strategy. Posted: 05 Oct 2009 \| Published: 05 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Governance \| Data Management \| Data Migration \| Data Quality \| Master Data Management \| Risk Management \| Software

Enterprise Data Services in SOA using ODI Suite sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper will demonstrate why Data Services are a foundation requirement for enterprise SOA deployments by describing how just how valuable, and complex, business data is for the businesses that rely on it. Posted: 01 Oct 2009 \| Published: 01 Oct 2009 TOPICS: BPEL \| Data Integration \| Data Management Software \| Data Quality \| ESB \| Master Data Management \| Oracle (Product) \| SOA

How to write a RFP for Master Data Management: 10 Common Mistakes to Avoid sponsored by Siperian, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Critical master data management (MDM) functionality can be easily overlooked when request for proposals (RFPs) are narrowly focused on a single business data type. Ensure success by avoiding 10 costly mistakes when writing your RFP. Posted: 16 Sep 2009 \| Published: 16 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Customer Data Integration \| Customer Data Management \| Data Classification \| Data Governance \| Data Integration \| Data Management \| Data Modeling \| Data Quality \| Data Storage \| Master Data Management \| Request for Proposals

The Flawed Vision of Customer Data Integration – How to Get it Right the First Time sponsored by Siperian, Inc. WHITE PAPER: The initial goal of Customer Data Integration (CDI) was to create the most reliable customer data for the entire company. We now know that the golden opportunity for CDI lies within Master Data Management and the ability to uncover interactions and understand the relationships that companies have with their customers. Posted: 16 Sep 2009 \| Published: 16 Sep 2009 TOPICS: CRM \| Customer Data Integration \| Customer Data Management \| Customer Interaction Services \| Data Classification \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Quality \| Master Data Management

When Data Governance Turns Bureaucratic: How Data Governance Police Can Constrain the Value of Your Master Data Management sponsored by Siperian, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Over the past several years, most Master Data Management implementations have used a "reactive" style of data governance. Learn how "reactive" data governance falls short and why leading organizations are using a "proactive" approach -- includes case study and migration questionnaire. Posted: 16 Sep 2009 \| Published: 16 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Governance \| Data Integration \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Data Replication \| Data Storage \| Database Administration \| Master Data Management

The BI Survey 8: The World's Largest Independent BI Survey sponsored by Board International WHITE PAPER: Now in its eighth year of publication, The BI Survey by Nigel Pendse is an annual report based on the world's largest independent survey of Business Intelligence and Performance Management users. Posted: 10 Sep 2009 \| Published: 10 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Business Performance Management \| Business Performance Management Software \| Business Process Management \| Business Processes \| Customer Loyalty \| Data Quality \| Data Warehouses \| OLAP

Sybase IQ: The Economics of Business Reporting sponsored by Sybase, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Reporting is recognized as a way for companies to improve service, ensure quality, control costs, and prevent losses by empowering decision-makers throughout the organization. This paper will explain why reporting is one form of business intelligence that has become business-critical. Posted: 31 Aug 2009 \| Published: 31 Aug 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| CIOs \| Dashboards \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Data Visualization \| Decision Support Databases \| Reporting Software

Sustainability: A Green Model for Data Governance sponsored by Baseline Consulting WHITE PAPER: An effective governance program will determine what kinds of data are inputs, outputs or byproducts, and will enable the company to quickly distinguish and process data elements accordingly. Read this paper to learn more. Posted: 26 Aug 2009 \| Published: 26 Aug 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business IT Alignment \| Data Governance \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Environmental Standards \| Green Data Center \| Green Storage \| Strategic Planning

Email As Evidence: 12 Steps To Ensuring Good Evidential Quality Of Email sponsored by Mimecast WHITE PAPER: Infrastructures of potentially dozens of servers have built up around corporate email servers to provide better governance, reduced risk and improved legislative compliance - anti-virus, anti-spam, attachment handling, encryption, disclaimers, archiving and hot-standby mail servers to name a few. Posted: 06 Aug 2009 \| Published: 06 Aug 2009 TOPICS: Data Quality \| Email Archiving \| Email Management \| Email Management Software \| Email Security \| Email Server Software \| High Availability \| Regulatory Compliance \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Management

The ROI of Data Governance: Seven Ways Your Data Governance Program Can Help You Save Money sponsored by DataFlux Corporation WHITE PAPER: The following paper outlines seven ways that data governance programs can help manage costs and presents a mechanism for quantifying the return on investment (ROI) for these contributions. Posted: 24 Jul 2009 \| Published: 24 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Compliance Best Practices \| Cost Benefit Analysis \| Data Governance \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Data Stewardship \| Master Data Management \| Project Management \| ROI

Understanding Data Governance ROI: A Compliance Perspective sponsored by DataFlux Corporation WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the role of data governance programs in supporting compliance efforts, and presents an ROI formula you can use in those circumstances where it's important to quantify the value of data governance efforts. Posted: 24 Jul 2009 \| Published: 24 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Compliance Audits \| Compliance Best Practices \| Data Governance \| Data Quality \| Data Stewardship \| HIPAA Compliance \| Master Data Management \| Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Compliance \| Regulatory Compliance \| ROI \| Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

A Technical Review of Caching Technologies sponsored by Blue Coat WHITE PAPER: The goal of this white paper is to discuss the role of caching, describe in detail how object caching and byte caching works, and show how these caching technologies work together to deliver true performance differentiation. Posted: 29 Jun 2009 \| Published: 29 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Bandwidth Management \| Caching \| Data Quality \| Data Storage \| Proxy Server Hardware \| Proxy Server Software \| WAN

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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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