The value of data quality

Daniel Teachey
Daniel Teachey|May 31, 2013

While perusing my news feed , I was intrigued to see a blog post from IT Business Edge’s Loraine Lawson titled “Is Data Quality Worth the Cost?” For a yes/no question, this is one that screamed for an easy and confident “Yes!” That is, until I thought, “Wait, why is [...]

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Data integration: The changing nature of tools and experiences

Charlotte Crain|December 18, 2012

When I first thought about writing a blog post about data management, picking a topic was an obvious, if daunting, first step. The challenges facing both IT and business are increasing in the era of bigger, more complex and more immediate data. My experience working with organizations across a variety [...]

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Planning the MDM journey: SAS DataFlux delivers phased MDM projects

Matthew Magne
Matthew Magne|December 17, 2012

2013 is rapidly approaching and everyone is focused on change, whether it’s a shift in your current role, a New Year’s resolution or a new business plan. Similarly, organizations are looking at their master data management (MDM) strategy with an eye on the accompanying change management. There is a shift towards a [...]

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Data quality for Hadoop

Mark Troester
Mark Troester|April 3, 2012

In my previous two posts I introduced the need for data quality and big data and discussed the need for fit for purpose data quality and for stretching the limits of data quality for big data. In this final post on data quality and big data I’ll address the following: [...]

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Big data quality: Think outside the box

Mark Troester
Mark Troester|April 2, 2012

In my last post I set the stage for data quality considerations for big data. Today, I’ll cover the following big data and data quality considerations: Data quality efforts should be “fit for purpose” Extend data quality by thinking “outside the box” Data quality efforts should be “fit for purpose” [...]

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Big data quality - don't tell me, another buzzword!

Mark Troester
Mark Troester|March 30, 2012

Marketing is a big part of my job so I should be supportive of efforts to capitalize on the trend of the day. But given my background in R&D, I am dubious of marketing efforts that are not backed up by real product or solution capabilities. So, I’m a bit [...]

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Announcing SAS Data Management & Integration Technical Forum and Blog

Mark Troester
Mark Troester|February 11, 2011

Many of us in the SAS world are responsible for the data that feeds the various business intelligence, analytics and business solutions provided by SAS. We’ve been involved in data integration, data migration, data quality, ETL / ELT, data access projects that support SAS solutions or are used for other [...]

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