Data Profiling: Pushing Metadata Boundaries

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By
Joseph Vertido
Data Quality Analyst/MVP Channel Manager

Two truths about data: Data is always changing. Data will always have problems. The two truths become one reality–bad data. Elusive by nature, bad data manifests itself in ways we wouldn’t consider and conceals itself where we least expect it. Compromised data integrity can be saved with a comprehensive understanding of the structure and contents of data.
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How to Perform ETL – Fast and Easy

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Imagine a more simplified approach to data integration – one that doesn’t
require the use of different connectors, etc. It’s all possible with expressor
Software’s latest product release – version 3.5 of its desktop ETL platform –
which will feature Melissa Data and Salesforce.com integration.

The platform will leverage the power of Melissa Data’s WebSmart services for
postal address verification, phone verification, email validation and name
parsing – from within the expressor data flow application.… Read More

Review: Contact Verification Component

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By Brian Erlich
SQL Server Magazine

Melissa Data provides mailing lists, mailing and data management software, and other products that can help companies improve the quality of their data. It now offers the Data Quality Components for SSIS, a suite of components that integrate into SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). I recently had a chance to try the company’s Contact Verification Component, which you use with custom data (also provided by Melissa Data).… Read More

The Biggest Sin is the Sin of Omission

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By Elliot King

  People of a certain age may remember the advertising campaign by an American
  television
manufacturer that asserted that “the quality goes in before the name goes on.”
  While the manufacturer ultimately went the way of all the companies who actually built
  televisions in the United States, the advertising message was compelling. A product’s ingredients count.

If information is an organization’s most important asset–and it is–the data is the critical component in its production.… Read More