New Research Report Explores Relationship Between Data Quality and Data Governance

Data quality is crucial to business today. Without it, business leaders can’t make confident business decisions and business analysts can’t provide reliable intelligence to the executives and managers that rely on their work. Data governance is a key enabler of data quality as organizations look to improve trust in their data. That’s what we learned […]

Data Quality Impacts on Downstream Analytics and Machine Learning Initiatives

Advanced analytics, including artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) are hot areas for investment right now, and for good reason. Organizations have access to more data than ever before, and to the extent that business leaders can draw useful insights from that information, they stand to gain significant new efficiencies and achieve a meaningful advantage […]

What Is Good Data?

Business leaders across virtually every industry are investing heavily in advanced analytics right now. There are plenty of good reasons for this: cloud analytics are becoming more and more powerful, computing costs continue to decline, and the volume and velocity of available good data continues to grow exponentially. In the rush to adopt this powerful […]

Data Integrity and Digital Transformation: 5 Strategies for Building Trust in Your Data

2,500 years ago, Greek philosopher Heraclitus made his famous statement that “the only constant in life is change.” Since then, the pace of change has accelerated dramatically, especially over the past two decades as technological innovation has shifted into high gear. Digital transformation technologies, built on a rapidly evolving cloud infrastructure, are transforming the way […]

5 Ways to Boost Your CRM

CRM data can be notoriously problematic. Personal and business information is in a constant state of flux. Customers or prospects often move to new locations, get new email addresses or phone numbers, or even change their names. Business customers might merge, rebrand, or go out of business. Briefly stated, CRM data quality decays very rapidly. […]

How Data Quality Builds Data Integrity

Data integrity is defined as data with accuracy, consistency, and context for confident decision-making. Achieving true data integrity calls for technical capabilities such as data integration, data quality management, data enrichment, and location intelligence. Together, these capabilities ensure that data provides a complete and accurate picture of reality–that is, “the truth, the whole truth, and […]

Data Quality Standards Have Evolved: Is Your Strategy Keeping Up?

Chances are, you can remember a time when one of your colleagues commented about the need to “clean up” the data in the CRM database or the ERP system. After some period, those systems always seem to accumulate duplicate records, and some portion of the data becomes obsolete. That need hasn’t gone away, but today’s […]

Cleanse, Match, and Standardize Cloud Data for Better Business Insights

IT environments have grown vastly more complex in the past few decades, as enterprises have added a multitude of new data sources, all of which may necessitate data cleansing, matching, and standardization. Mainframes now sit alongside distributed systems that incorporate ERP, CRM, specialized logistics software, custom applications, and more. Mobile technologies, clickstream analysis, social media, […]

Your BI Tools Are Only as Good as Your Business Data. Do You Trust Your Data?

We are all familiar with the old saying “garbage in, garbage out” (or “GIGO” for short). That phrase has been around since the early days of computing, but in this era of high-volume data, advanced analytics, and artificial intelligence, it takes on a much greater significance than ever before. Modern business intelligence systems can process […]

5 Reasons Data Quality Initiatives Fail

As more and more enterprises recognize the value of data analytics and data-driven decisions, the challenges associated with poor data quality have been brought to the forefront. As business leaders seek to leverage data for strategic advantage, the cost of getting it wrong is higher than ever before. Poor data quality has a direct negative […]

What Role Does Data Quality Play in Data Governance?

Executives at large enterprises have understood the value of data and data quality for years, but that awareness has been pervading an ever-broader spectrum of organizations. As the volume and velocity of data available has skyrocketed, leaders in business and public sector entities alike have realized that their accumulated data holds great potential as a […]

3 Top Benefits of Data Discovery and Cataloging

Large organizations are faced with a rapidly growing volume of data. To make matters more challenging, the velocity of that data has also increased dramatically. Businesses that can master data discovery, profiling, and cataloging will be better equipped to pinpoint anomalies, identify patterns, and draw valuable insights from the information it contains. In recent years, […]