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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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Beijing 2008 delivered - Ready for the next stops! sponsored by Atos Origin VIDEO: Watch this video to learn some of the steps Atos Origin took to make sure the Beijing 2208 Olympic Games were successful and learn some of the steps they are taking for future Olympic Games, including Vancouver 2010 and London 2012. Posted: 24 Nov 2009 \| Premiered: 24 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Change Management \| Configuration Management \| Data Quality \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| ITIL \| Systems Management \| Systems Management Services \| Testing

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

TSM 6 Launchpad Demo sponsored by IBM PRODUCT DEMO: This demonstration menu for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager includes an overview, expert videos, product demonstrations, and additional resources. See how this end-to-end data recovery management solution can benefit your organization. Posted: 12 Nov 2009 \| Published: 12 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Active Directory \| Backup Software \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Data Recovery \| Storage Management \| Storage Management Software

eBook: Best Practices for Implementing BI in ERP Centric Environments sponsored by IBM EBOOK: Read this e-book, which is specifically written to address the unique challenges of IT and BI professionals in ERP-centric environments. This set of articles offers best practices and strategic advice for organizations seeking to optimize business intelligence programs. Posted: 05 Nov 2009 \| Published: 05 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Business IT Alignment \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| ERP \| ERP Software \| 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

Presentation Transcript: Competing on Innovation sponsored by Sybase, Inc. PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this transcript to learn how to get all the speed, flexibility and processing power of a custom-built data warehouse. Posted: 04 Nov 2009 \| Published: 04 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Data Governance \| Data Management \| Data Management Software \| Data Quality \| Data Warehouse Software \| Data Warehouses \| Real-time Analytical Software \| Real-time Analytics

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

SAP Solutions for Small Businesses and Midsize Companies: Improve Efficiency, Grow Profitability sponsored by SAP AG EBOOK: This interactive guide presents an overview of several SAP business solutions specifically designed to help small businesses and midsize companies improve operational efficiency and grow profitability. Posted: 30 Oct 2009 \| Published: 30 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Business Management \| Data Quality \| Productivity \| SAP (Product) \| Small Businesses \| SMBs

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

Business Intelligence Solution for Web Infrastructure Open the Door to Better Decisions sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc. WEBCAST: Composed of Sun hardware systems and commercial open-source solutions Pentaho for BI and data integration, and Infobright, built on MySQL, for data warehousing, this solution comes in two customizable recommended configurations to fit your data requirements and budget -- and ease deployment. Posted: 26 Oct 2009 \| Premiered: 26 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Application Hosting \| Application Infrastructure \| Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Business Performance Management \| CRM Analytics \| Customer Data Integration \| Data Integration \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Data Warehouses \| Open Source \| Open Source Software \| Software as a Service

In-database Analytics Demystified sponsored by Sybase, Inc. PODCAST: In this podcast, listeners will hear a vendor-neutral, executive overview of in-database analytics technology from independent expert Rick Sherman. Find out how the technology works -- and how companies are leveraging it for improved operational efficiency and other business benefits. Posted: 21 Oct 2009 \| Premiered: 21 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| CRM Analytics \| Customer Data Integration \| Data Governance \| Data Integration \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Data Warehouses \| Master Data Management

Tactical Data Quality Projects Deliver Quick ROI sponsored by DataFlux Corporation PODCAST: This expert podcast offers advice for deploying and completing tactical data quality projects from Forrester's Rob Karel. Posted: 21 Oct 2009 \| Premiered: 21 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Data Auditing \| Data Collection \| Data Governance \| Data Management \| Data Modeling \| Data Modeling Languages \| Data Profiling \| Data Quality \| Design Verification \| Quality Control \| ROI

Presentation Transcript: The Power of Universal Patterns and Models for Master Data Management sponsored by Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript featuring best-selling author, Len Silverston, learn how to implement universal patterns for data modeling to improve management flexibility. Gain insight into various modeling choices to meet your organization's needs. Discover how to improve quality and reduce management costs by re-using patterns. Posted: 19 Oct 2009 \| Published: 19 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Management \| Data Modeling \| Data Modeling Languages \| Data Quality \| Databases \| Information Management \| Master Data Management

Case Study: Welch’s® Improves its Warehouse and Inventory Management Operations sponsored by TAKE Supply Chain CASE STUDY: Welch's selected the TAKE Supply Chain Gemini™ for OPM mobile software solution and Compliance Label Manager (CLM), a barcode and radio-frequency identification (RFID) label management solution to improve the speed, visibility, accuracy and control of extended manufacturing and distribution supply chains. Read on to learn more. Posted: 15 Oct 2009 \| Published: 15 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Barcode Label Software \| Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Data Quality \| Inventory Management \| Inventory Management Software \| Manufacturing \| Manufacturing Industry \| Manufacturing Software \| RFID \| Supply Chain Management \| Supply Chain Software

Informatica 9. Transform your business. Transform your world. sponsored by Informatica WEBCAST: This webcast will show you how to access and deliver relevant, trusted data to your business to drive competitive advantage. Discover how to get business and IT on the same page, make data quality issues a thing of the past and leverage SOA effectively. Posted: 15 Oct 2009 \| Premiered: 15 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Data Collection \| Data Governance \| Data Integration \| Data Management \| Data Profiling \| Data Quality \| Quality Control \| SOA \| Web Services

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

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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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