Data quality is critical for IT projects

In any typical IT project, most businesses focus solely on the functional design of the solution, to the exclusion of the data and how this data supports business processes, says Gary Allemann, MD at Master Data Management. However, if data quality and integration is...

Obtaining executive buy-in for data quality

In today’s information-driven business world, where business intelligence and the ability to accurately conduct predictive modelling and forecasting offers a significant competitive advantage, data quality has become a business imperative. After all, if analysis is...

Listing data quality issues aids businesses

A recent discussion linking data quality decision making to the availability heuristic – a mental shortcut that occurs when people make judgments about the probability of events in the world by the ease with which examples come to mind – shows how data quality...