The Need Of The Hour – Unified Data Profiling, Integration, And Quality

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When it comes to making data usable, it is important to note that data profiling, data integration and data quality should ideally be practiced in tandem with each other but cannot be consolidated as a single practice. All three practices address related issues in data acquisition, assessment and improvement and are often conducted by the same team.

What Is Data Profiling, Data Integration And Data Quality?… Read More

Can Your Data Be Trusted?

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We think Philip Russom’s argument that data in poor condition leads to poor decision-making – is spot on. Russom, a senior manager of research at TDWI, explains “The Six C’s of Trusted Data” – that data must be complete, current, consistent, clean, compliant and collaborative.

In my last column for TDWI Experts in BI, I defined “trusted data” as:

Data that is drawn from carefully selected sources, transformed in accordance with data’s intended use, and delivered in formats and time frames that are appropriate to specific consumers of reports and other manifestations of data.… Read More