Successful Data Management needs a Data Inventory and a Data Catalog. Operating a business without these is like ordering a meal in a restaurant without a menu, where the waiter and waitresses ask the patron to choose a platter from some vegetables, meats, and fruits, that happen to be on hand. An establishment like this […]
Data Quality – A Simple Six-Step Process
We’ve all heard of the many horrors of poor data quality. Companies with millions of records with “(000)000-0000” as customer contact numbers, “99/99/99” as the date of purchase, 12 different gender values, shipping addresses with no state information, etc. The cost of “dirty data” to enterprises and organizations is real. For example, the U.S. Postal […]