In the 19th century, the harnessing of electricity brought about the means to transmit signals via electrical telegraph. The term STOP was used in telegrams to mark the end of a sentence because punctuation cost extra. Therefore, a telegram requesting an end to poor data quality would literally have been sent as “Stop Poor
A master data repository can be created using the data combined from the variety of data sources. A unified, consolidated representative record can be created for each identified entity and presented by selecting the union of all source data attributes into a carefully-crafted master data model.
I gave some thought recently about the different types of informaton that hundreds of organisations must possess about me. Credit card bills, health records, mortgage payments, loans and savings, social media profiles, employment history – the list goes on. An entire personal data store is scattered across hundreds of organisations
.@philsimon on the often-hidden costs of new functionality.
Imagine a political debate between two candidates where one candidate answers every question quickly, beaming with confidence, and the other candidate answers every question slowly, and with less assertiveness in their response.
Years ago, I was at a user conference, listening to an attendee talk for 15 minutes during a break about a data quality job he had created. He had good reason to celebrate. The job had reduced the amount of work required to clean up product data within a data
In my last post I discussed aspects of data virtualization and at the end suggested that while the structural differences can be smoothed out via a typical federation/virtualization scheme, the mechanism can be enhanced to incorporate semantic consistency within the federation framework. A master data repository is often perceived to be
I cannot tell you how many times I have had customers that do not have a specific vision for their data. What I mean by this is that there is no data strategy.
At some point your organization will decide the time is right to modernize. While much of the talk will be about the challenges of modernizing service capabilities and systems, the real challenge will come from modernizing your data.
