Insights and Analysis for the Data-Driven Enterprise
Insights and Analysis for the Data-Driven Enterprise
Too often, in my humble opinion, those of us in IT think in a problem/solution paradigm. The line of reasoning goes something like this–our company has a business problem that can be fixed with some kind of software.
Or the IT infrastructure itself is not performing at an acceptable level and needs to be repaired or enhanced via hardware, software or some combination of both.… Read More
For those of you who didn’t make it to Melissa Data’s first webinar this morning, here’s what you missed:
Ira Whiteside, a BI architect, and Bud Walker, a product manager for Melissa Data, showed listeners how to reduce the overall total cost of ownership (TCO) of MDM, data quality, metadata, and data governance efforts through the use of Melissa Data’s Data Quality Components for Microsoft’s SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS).… Read More
I would like to begin a discussion of a pragmatic approach to creating a dynamic metadata repository (DMR), via the “Metadata Mart” approach.
Gartner’s – Michael Blechar states ” Best practices include scoping metadata management into smaller areas where governance can be more easily applied at a more abstracted level of detail in repositories which I call “metadata marts”” in his recent blog post Down With the Uber-Repository, Long Live Metadata!… Read More
Are you up to the challenge? Melissa Data is counting on it! We’re inviting companies to submit a sample of their contact database so we can analyze it to uncover data quality issues for free. The Data Quality Challenge costs nothing, and there are no commitments or strings attached at all.
Companies taking the Data Quality Challenge will receive a scorecard with the percentage of invalid, outdated, or redundant data lurking in their customer database.… Read More
