The Data Roundtable
A community of data management experts![Where should data quality happen? Men working in coffee shop](https://blogs.sas.com/content/datamanagement/files/2016/05/521812291.jpg)
In my previous post I discussed the practice of putting data quality processes as close to data sources as possible. Historically this meant data quality happened during data integration in preparation for loading quality data into an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) or a master data management (MDM) hub. Nowadays, however, there’s a lot of
![IoT: How could your company benefit from real data accuracy? factory workers checking data on laptop](https://blogs.sas.com/content/datamanagement/files/2016/05/497324713.jpg)
We had just completed a four-week data quality assessment of an inside plant installation. It wasn't looking good. There were huge gaps in the data, particularly when we cross-referenced systems together. In theory, each system was meant to hold identical information of the plant equipment. But when we consolidated the
![How will the IoT affect your data management strategy? person checking a smart watch](https://blogs.sas.com/content/datamanagement/files/2016/05/267560129.jpg)
.@philsimon says that it's never too early to think about the IoT and data management.
![Characteristics of IoT data quality measuring devices on factory floor](https://blogs.sas.com/content/datamanagement/files/2016/04/482171965.jpg)
In my last post we started to look at two different Internet of Things (IoT) paradigms. The first only involved streaming automatically generated data from machines (such as sensor data). The second combined human-generated and machine-generated data, such as social media updates that are automatically augmented with geo-tag data by
![Data gone awry, Part 2: What to do when your business data deceives you. woman working late in office](https://blogs.sas.com/content/datamanagement/files/2016/04/514411509.jpg)
.@philsimon on what to do when the data breaks bad.
![The internet of things and the question of data quality driver using GPS navigation](https://blogs.sas.com/content/datamanagement/files/2016/04/295335209.jpg)
The concept of the internet of things (IoT) is used broadly to cover any organization of communication devices and methods, messages streaming from the device pool, data collected at a centralized point, and analysis used to exploit the combined data for business value. But this description hides the richness of